[Section 15] Does Harper think The Economist to be crazy?

It's Harper who must be crazy.

Harper's very much on record calling Dion's Green shift crazy:

"Mr. Dion's policies are, as I said, crazy. This is crazy economics. It's crazy environmental policy. " - Prime Minister Stephen Harper, June 19, 2008

And yet, what's the cover editorial of the latest issue of the Economist about? Read the conclusion for yourself (emphasis mine):

The best thing that rich-world governments can do is to encourage the alternatives by taxing carbon (even knowing that places like China and India will not) and removing subsidies that favour fossil fuels. Competition should do the rest—for the fledgling firms of the alternative-energy industry are in competition with each other as much as they are with the incumbent fossil-fuel companies. Let a hundred flowers bloom. When they have, China, too, may find some it likes the look of. Therein lies the best hope for the energy business, and the planet.

Harper, of course, knows that Dion's Green Shift plan is a reasonable idea. He's just shooting down tax shifting because if Dion can sell it, Harper will never sit in the PM's chair again.

I guess Harper must be cancelling his subscription about right now.

H/T Sober Second Thoughts.

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Posted By Mark Francis to Section 15 at 6/29/2008 09:25:00 PM