Dion's Green Shift May Break Canada Apart

If Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion occupies 24 Sussex Drive after the next federal election and implements his carbon tax - the plundering of Alberta and Saskatchewan to benefit Ontario and Quebec - he might well have set the stage for the dissolution of Canada. Coincidently, the legal avenue for a province to separate was created by Dion himself eight years ago with the Clarity Act.

Dion's Green Shift plan would impose a carbon tax on energy producers to the tune of $16 billion per year, to be offset by other tax reductions. But a disproportionate share of the burden would fall on Alberta and Saskatchewan. In short, the cost of this tax to each family in the two prairie provinces would be a whopping $6,000 a year compared with $1,300 per family of four in the rest of the country.

Pierre Trudeau's Liberal government extracted about $100 billion in today's dollars out of Alberta when it implemented the National Energy Program in the early 1970s. One of the architects of that looting, then energy minister Marc Lalonde, said the whole idea was to transfer as much wealth as possible from Alberta's oil boom to Ontario and Quebec.

But the Trudeau Liberals were not stupid enough to say this at the time. This time around, however, the Dion Liberals freely admit this is precisely what they hope to accomplish.

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Very typical of the federal Liberals. First they turn regions against each other, fueling separatist movements from coast to coast. And then they claim that they're the only ones to keep the country together.

Is it a coincidence that both referendums in Quebec took place when Liberals were in power? While the Conservatives (the old PC party just as the current Conservatives) tried and try their best to rework the federal-provincial relationships in a manner that would take the interests of the regions into account, the Liberals just imposed their own agenda on the country - be that the National Energy Policy for Alberta or the kitchen deal to "patriate" the constitution - which Quebec refused to sign.

Last time, Liberal campaign slogan was "choose your Canada". Judging from their actions, Conservative campaign slogan should be "choose Canada". Because if Dion's Liberals take power - it's not going to be libérez-nous des libéraux, but "libérez-nous des fédéraux" from coast to coast.