When provincial NDP leader Andrea Horwath announced this summer that her party wanted to
reduce the HST on gasoline, I must say I raised an eyebrow. After all, the NDP is supposed to be (among many other things) an environmentally friendly party, and
conventional environmental wisdom states that high gas taxes are an effective way to reduce consumption.
Now, it's one thing to argue against that premise, and certainly many have
done just that. But to completely ignore the environmental implications of cutting an energy consumption tax and just drop it straight into the
'saving taxpayers money' file seems a little... well, un-NDPlike.
Apparently I'm not the only one who thinks so.
