Green Shift…Shift?
September 19, 2008 at 11:24 pm (Canadian Politics) (2008 Canadian Election, Canadian Politics, Economy, Gerry Ritz, Green Shift, Listeriosis, Politics, Stephane Dion, Stephen Harper)
Ugh.
Now, I can see why he’s tepid over continuing to have it as the central focus of his campaign during this election, especially as the Conservatives can simply point and go “Tax!”. But doing an entire about face and claiming that it’s not a central component of your platform when you’ve been promoting it so much in the last it going to be rather easily seen:
“I gather he doesn’t want to talk about the carbon tax; he doesn’t want to talk about his Green Shift anymore,” Harper said at a campaign event in Montreal. “He’s shifting his Shift.”
As a commentator on CBC news tonight mentioned, though, a more easy to run with track could possibly be by focusing on both Chretien and Martin on matters of the economy. After all, they ran up surplus after surplus (possible underreporting of the budget notwithstanding) throughout the 90s and yet now we have organizations such as the OECD warning that are growth is very likely going to be shrinking sharply. Whether or not this is due to anything Harper has implemented during his term is debatable and highly unlikely what with the financial troubles the entire world is facing, but as an election agenda it would provide a very good talking point.
Or they could just keep talking about the Argriculture Minister gaffe which doesn’t look to be going away soon, especially when you have victims speaking out and taking offense at the remarks.
