What is the author's opinion on the efficacy and transparency of Cap and Trade as a measure to address climate change?
Cap and Trade is a (corrupt) shell game designed to allow politicians to escape real scrutiny of results. There is no simple, honest, straightforward measure that tells you it is succeeding or failing in its murky and vague objectives; it is always full of uncertainties and unreliable assumptions. There is alway plenty of room for rhetoric to make it entirely opaque and we see that with the BS coming from ministers trying to explain it in this column and elsewhere. This is one of those times when I feel like I am from the stupid province and that the West got it right (outside of dumb old Saskatchewan with its "Wall" against progress) with straightforward taxes (who can try to manipulate that, but you will be decisively found out). Picking such an impenetrable method of government involvement in promoting solutions to climate change is one HUGE reason to distrust Wynne and is indicative of her manipulative nature.