Not according to plan

One more note on the Libs' message as to why they apparently intend to vote against the NDP's Climate Change Accountability Act and its binding greenhouse gas emission reductions:

Though he supported the bill in the past, Mr. McGuinty now suggests its targets are fiscally irresponsible because there is no accompanying plan to accomplish them.

There's just one problem with McGuinty's position: it's not as if the opposition parties are lacking a plan in principle. After all, it was over two years ago that they agreed on amendments to the Cons' ineffective legislation which would have set out both targets and a legislative framework to meet them. And the main divergence among the parties since then would seem to have been eliminated now that the Libs have scrapped their carbon tax plsn.

Which means that the Libs have a choice between passing the NDP's bill and pointing to a plan which already has majority approval in Parliament as a starting point, or starting once again from scratch. And the fact that they apparently see zero progress as their preferred option should speak volumes about how seriously Canadians should take any future proposal.

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