Conservatives’ Carbon Tax Ads Affect BC’s Liberals

I’ll admit, when I first saw the news breaking on the ads, it never occurred to me that anyone could confuse Stephane Dion with Gordon Campbell.  I still think the odds are slim, but there probably be a lot of British Columbians who start to question the wisdom of the Campbell Liberals’ grand plan of a carbon tax to solve all of BC’s greenhouse woes.  I mean, once the reality sets in that a carbon tax, even one that doesn’t affect pump prices directly (though Campbell’s does - 2.5 cents to start, rising year over year) will drive up the cost of everything - absolutely everything - the popularity of the government may begin to take hits.

Of course, you’d think that the powerful cannabis lobby would start fighting against this carbon tax, now that cold weather has started damaging the weed.  But then again the same eco-freaks that are fighting so hard to stave off any sort of economic or industrial growth in the province are - and I don’t think it’s a stretch to say this - uniformly pot-smokers.  Will they be as ecologically interested when they can’t get stoned anymore?