Add Bronwyn Eyre ...

to the growing list of columnists that oppose Dion's "Green Shift"

"The NEP aside, I guess we westerners are supposed to forget Dion -- a woefully ineffective federal environment minister -- once said a carbon tax was "bad policy." Now, with the scientific jury still out on whether carbon dioxide even constitutes a significant greenhouse gas, Dion wants CO2 emissions at 20 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020. This would entail removing the equivalent of the entire Canadian transportation sector (including personal vehicle use) and electronic utility sector in just over a decade."