Posted AT 8:07 PM EDT on 17/06/08
Dion to promise that carbon tax won't increase price at pumps
OTTAWA — Stéphane Dion will make a “solid promise” Thursday that his new carbon-tax plan will not include an increase at the pumps, a source says.
The long-awaited “green shift plan” would be revenue neutral and deliver “substantive” tax cuts to Canadian families, the source said.
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