Dear Editor: Hands up anybody who wants to pay less income tax. Wow, look at that – everybody has at least one hand up; most have two! And that’s exactly what Conservative leadership candidate Michael Chong is offering Canadians with his sensible approach to tackling the huge and growing problem of climate change. How? In Mr. Chong’s plan, we all pay more for the dirty fossil fuels that are overheating our planet; this higher price bugs us and makes choosing cleaner energy a no brainer (if it wasn’t already). Then Mr. Chong takes all this revenue from higher fossil fuel prices and reduces our income taxes – the government keeps nothing (repeat NOTHING). Everybody wins, including Planet Earth and our grandkids. Oops, one exception – the biggest consumers of those Big Bad Fossil Fuels.
Liz Armstrong