Ottawa

Leon Benoit defers to the authority of Stephen Gordon

Conservative MP Leon Benoit seems to have issued a news release that uses the expertise of Stephen Gordon to bolster the case that the NDP is proposing a carbon tax.

Benoit alludes to University of Laval economist Stephen Gordon’s explanation that the “NDP is proposing a cap-and-trade model in which carbon is priced, their policy is essentially the same as a carbon tax.”

Stephen did indeed write those words that Mr. Benoit quotes. But here’s the sentence that came immediately after those words.

But then again, so was the cap-and-trade model the Conservatives offered as an alternative (sic) to the Liberals’ carbon tax.

And here is what Stephen has written about the Harper government’s regulatory approach.

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