Promises to spend $900 million to paper over the massive holes in his carbon tax plan.

Yesterday Canadians witnessed a remarkable event. .

Stéphane Dion actually began retreating from the central plank of his platform before an election was even called!

After a spending a full summer trying to trick Canadians into paying a permanent new tax on everything, Stéphane Dion was finally forced to concede that his Carbon Tax plan was deeply flawed.

Worse still, Mr. Dion’s desperate attempt to fill the massive holes in his plan carries a whopping price tag of $900 million.

The fact that Mr. Dion is prepared throw around almost a billion dollars in extra carbon tax cash is proof that the Dion Carbon Tax was never ‘revenue neutral’ in the first place. 

After a summer of tax tricks, Mr. Dion is now trying to pull the biggest trick of all when he tries to buy the silence of his critics with the exact same money he is taking out of their pockets through skyrocketing fuel and electricity taxes.  But Canadians will not be fooled.

Farmers, truckers and fishermen don’t want to buy new equipment, fill out complicated paperwork and jump through bureaucratic hoops for the chance to get a small slice of their own money back.  They just want to see some real leadership that recognizes how hard they work and how much they already pay.

Today Canadians are right to ask some other hard questions of Mr. Dion’s Carbon Tax.  What other details were not thought out?  Where is the rest of the fine print?  What promise will Stéphane Dion retreat from next?

It is clear that Canadians cannot trust anything in about the Dion Carbon Tax except for one point – under Stéphane Dion’s plan you will pay more for everything.