{"id":350,"date":"2008-09-18T14:40:07","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T19:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/election08.cusjc.ca\/?p=350"},"modified":"2009-04-24T07:58:41","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T12:58:41","slug":"corrections-and-carbon-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/?p=350","title":{"rendered":"Corrections and carbon tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Christopher Waddell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s just something about carbon taxes that seems to attract corrections. Here&#8217;s today&#8217;s Toronto Star:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The word &#8220;taxes&#8221; was omitted from a Sept. 13 article about the Green Party. The sentence should have read: She (Elizabeth May) spoke passionately about reducing greenhouse gases, described the challenge as a huge economic opportunity for alternative energy sources, and argued the party&#8217;s proposal for a &#8220;carbon tax&#8221; would be offset by cuts to income and payroll taxes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><em>Christopher Waddell is associate director of the school and a former Globe and Mail Ottawa bureau chief, former CBC-TV parliamentary bureau chief and election night executive producer for CBC TV News.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Waddell There&#8217;s just something about carbon taxes that seems to attract corrections. Here&#8217;s today&#8217;s Toronto Star: &#8220;The word &#8220;taxes&#8221; was omitted from a Sept. 13 article about the Green Party. The sentence should have read: She (Elizabeth May) spoke passionately about reducing greenhouse gases, described the challenge as a huge economic opportunity for alternative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election2008","category-election-2008-media-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":729,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}