Earth Equity News

Canadian Elections: October 14. By Sean McKibbon, CEP News (CA), October 3, 2008. "The Canadian economy dominated the English language federal election debate Thursday night [which took place as the vise-presidential candidates debates in the U.S.] as Prime Minister Stephen Harper defended his party's record from a four-on-one onslaught of criticism from opposition leaders. Harper pledged never to raise taxes, touted his party's previous tax cuts as an effort to shelter the Canadian economy from the gathering storm in the U.S. and argued that only the Conservatives could be trusted not to push the federal budget into deficit... Harper's opponents adopted a strongly interventionist tone, arguing 'laissez faire' economic policies had been disastrous both in Canada and the U.S. and that stronger regulation of financial markets are needed as well as more government involvement in shoring up Canadian industry... Liberal leader Stephane Dion said... said his Greenshift plan to cut corporate and personal income taxes and tax pollution would not only address climate change problems but move the economy into the future and create 'green jobs'...Green Party leader Elizabeth May said her party would also impose a tax on carbon emissions, but she promised deeper income tax cuts than the Liberal plan... Unlike the Green and Liberal parties, New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton advocated a cap and trade system for combating air pollution emissions."