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Michael Ignatieff is shaking his head.
Megatonnes of money? Did a high school student write that line?

Posted on January 16, 2007 | Permalink

Comments (4)

Alan:

IS that line in that story? I don’t see it.

Posted by Alan | January 16, 2007 10:04 AM

Posted on January 16, 2007 10:04

Shabbadoo:

I didn’t see it in the CTV article either, but CBC still has the quote:

“Yes, Canada will cut megatonnes of emissions, but we will also make megatonnes of money,” he told a joint breakfast meeting of the Toronto Board of Trade and the Economic Club of Toronto.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/01/16/dion-toronto.html

Posted by Shabbadoo | January 16, 2007 11:58 AM

Posted on January 16, 2007 11:58

markpeters.ca:

Greg, check out the wording and political twisting of this poll by Decima:

"Decima Research asked people to choose between two hypothetical election promises — a $1,000 Conservative tax break for every household and a $1,000 Liberal break limited to households that took pro-environment action.

Fifty-one per cent of respondents said they would prefer the Liberal promise versus 28 per cent who preferred the Conservative pledge, say the survey results provided to The Canadian Press. Twenty-one per cent were unsure."

Source

Readers have to get halfway down the article before they pump into some semblance of truth: “The Conservatives have avoided any linkage between tax policy and environmental reform.”

Un.Believ.Able.

Posted by markpeters.ca | January 16, 2007 1:02 PM

Posted on January 16, 2007 13:02

Rob:

Greg, that was a turn of phrase.

Posted by Rob | January 16, 2007 1:49 PM

Posted on January 16, 2007 13:49