Dear Mr. Dion and Mr. Layton,

We know it must be hard on you. You both want to do the right thing and cut greenhouse gas emissions as well as wean people off of ever depleting gas supplies. You both would love to be able to announce to your supporters and to Canadians that you have a real plan to deal with climate change.

You know that over 10% of Canadians have already left your parties because you failed to provide real leadership and they are looking to other growing movements to be their voice, and that more and more of your core are on the verge of switching as we have seen from the recent by-elections. Stephane, you almost lost Quadra, mainly because you were unable to give even your strongest supporters a real reason to come out and vote for you. And Jack, you must realize that while Canadians like you, you are almost on the verge of being relegated to the fourth party in popular support because you are no longer seen as "new" and socially progressive people now have another option.

I know he did not orginally favour a carbon tax and even argued with Adriane Carr about it when he was in town during the campaign.

However, after almost losing the by-election in Quadra and repeatedly having to answer to Liberals why he opposed putting a real price on carbon, it sounds more and more like Stephane Dion will come out in favour of a broad based carbon tax any day now.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080508.CARBON08/TPSto...

Yay Greens! Now where is our fair voting!

When Gordon Campbell announced that his government would be bringing in a carbon tax, a collective cheer went through the ranks of the Green Party followed by a intermittent silence. On one hand, we felt proud that our long championed tax shift was finally accepted by a governing party, and yet we knew that the carbon tax proposal was far short of what we had proposed and would be open to attacks from commuters as well as rural British Columbian if revenues were not wisely alloted.

Instead of focussing on the challenges, most of us decided to congratulate the Premier for going against political convention and having the willingness to proudly introduce a new tax.

Well it was a support of eliminating the penny, but I was trying to figure out what a change stuffed cod piece would resemble.

http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=443519