Conservatives fund report showing Carbon tax will not affect economy significantly.

Far and Wide comments on this story being released by the Greens.

You see, apparently Stephen Harper went and commissioned a study to prove that Carbon taxes will kill the economy. When the report came back, he learned to his horror, that the tax will not really reduce the GDP, just shift it as it is intended to do.

On a related note, let us talk about the history that I pointed out here about how the American economy goes with politics.

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives always has such interesting ideas about what we can do other than the status quo. Their document has some interesting facts. After several attempts to get excel to create a pretty graph, I'm going to give you the table and let you take a look. I'd love it if someone had a good graphing program which they could direct me to.

The low scores are mostly conservative governments, and they remain the low scores even when you factor the time in.

We can also look at this press release from Sept. 10, 2008 which states quite simply:

Canadian productivity declines for third consecutive quarter

Harper government first in Canada to oversee negative productivity growth

OTTAWA—The Harper government has become the first elected federal administration to experience a decline in average national productivity during its entire term in office since Statistics Canada began gathering productivity data in 1961, says a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).

Now, I'm sure that everyone will ring their hands and say, "It's the economy, stupid!" To them, I say, "No, it's the policy's interaction with the economy, stupid!" Canada simply cannot stand the conservative way of doing business. If working for a living has taught me anything it is that we desperately need checks and balances inside corporations as well as imposed on the economy from the outside.