Harper is absolutely superb at one thing.
And that is being nasty.
He reminds me very much of Newt Gingrich in this quality. Ugly.
However, as someone has said above, Dion opened himself with this with his proposed carbon tax.
A proposal which fails to recognize the revolution in petroleum pricing which has taken everyone by surprise is a poor one.
GM's Oshawa truck plant is closing because of this revolution, and it is only the first of many waves to be felt.
Car-downsizing, the end of so much urban sprawl into the cornfields, a decline in suburban real estate values, energy surcharges everywhere, re-thinking many activities and services - these and so many other events are hurling towards us at high speed.
And a technical revolution towards energy substitutes now must be said to be underway, although it may take a decade or so to see its impact.
A carbon tax is not only unnecessary, it has a history of no hard success in Europe. McGuinty - painful as it is for me to acknowledge - has made a good move with Charest in moving towards a cap-and-trade system.
