Local candidates discuss how to pay for promises
22 September 2011
Green party candidate Rob Strang said his is the only party that has a plan for balancing the budget in the coming term.
“Debt is going to kill us,” he declared.
The plan of combat it, he said, includes not lowering corporate tax rates (he said they’re already low) and not subsidizing energy costs. He said that in the long-term, the only way to control energy costs is to control consumption. He also called for raising the levy on aggregates.
Strang agreed the nuclear cost overruns were a problem, pointing out they were some 2.5 times projections.
He charged the Conservatives and Liberals still advocate investing in nuclear, also pointing out the PCs under former premier Ernie Eves capped electricity costs. He re-iterated his point that capping energy costs is folly.
