The National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, an organization mandated to explore new opportunities to integrate environmental conservation and economic development, recommends in its interim report a carbon tax to encourage the reduction of green house gasses.

This recommendation follows simillar ones made by Mark Jaccard (C.D. Howe Institute), Don Drummond (chieft economist, TD Bank), the magazine The Economist, The Conference Board of Canada and many others. In effect, the study made by Mr. Jaccard demonstrated that such a tax would be benefit to the economy on the long term.

The Green Party of Canada is the only political party with the foresight and courage to call for such a tax. This initiative would be part of tax shifting: less payroll tax and income tax and a new tax on carbon. The end result is more jobs, more income and less pollution.

In effect, we believe that an economy which is ecologicaly sustainable is a healthy economy. We have been studying how to align ecological and economic goals together. We have the solutions for the challenges of the 21st century.

If you wish to see more jobs and less pollution, consider donating to the Green Party of Canada.

An article on Live Journal uses a house as a metaphor to describe the situation from the point of view of First Nation people. A reasonably good thread follows. Note that the strange family from out of town is our ancestors, the European colonialists.

‘They ask: “Why are you so angry?”
You realize, with a sense of horror, that they really have no idea.’