The only way to sell it to the masses would be to promote it as the elimination of Income Taxes. Set a date (20 years?) by which point income taxes will be eliminated, and slowly ramp up the Carbon (GHG) tax while reducing income tax over the same period of time.

What? You're opposed to eliminating Income Tax?

The majority of Canadians oppose the Conservatives. It is an unfortunate bug in our system of government that the centre-left and left-wing parties that together represents well over 60% of Canadians are in opposition at the moment.

As a Canadian, I can assure you that he most certainly is the Canadian version of Don Rumsfeld. And the Prime Minister is our very own Dick Cheney. (He's not Bush, he's much smarter than that, which makes him all the more dangerous)

This is the reason I play. I recognize the virtual impossibility of winning the jackpot, but between the time I buy the ticket and the time of the draw (or whenever I get around to checking my numbers) I get significant pleasure (far more than $1 worth) imagining what I would do if I won the jackpot.

However, giving this reason for playing, perhaps the most rational course of action would be to only buy one ticket, and simply never check the numbers...

The purpose of your entire post was just to brag about your size, wasn't it

Actually, the Liberals seems to be coming around on tech issues. They just last week released a statement in support of 'net neutrality.

Provides a handy counter-example to anyone who wants to point to government as inherently inefficient. Clearly it can be efficient when it wants to be.

New great lie of history: "I'm from (wall street/mortgage broker/bank/investment firm) and I'm here to help."

So you've never heard of those no-name colleges "Columbia University" and "Harvard Law School" (where he served as president of the Harvard Law Review)?