Greenhouse gas emissions are…

Greenhouse gas emissions are ruining the world we live in and everyone who inhabits this planet has a responsibility to do their part to help fix it.
We, the people individually, are for the most part consumers drawn to products that are convenient and cost effective. As consumers collectively, by choosing to buy some items and ignoring others, we have a tremendous influence over a product's success and failure. This influence can be used to drive the development and production towards products that are more environmentally sustaining and drive industry to not only remain relevant but actually prosper in a modern and very fast changing world.

Adding a carbon tax to CO2 producing products will raise the prices of such polluting products, which means that consumers will buy less of them and buy more products that are not affected by the carbon tax; in other words, we will buy products that are less polluting and thereby cheaper. This consumer driven behavior will in turn drive companies to develop and produce more environmentally friendly products and less CO2 producing products, which makes those companies more viable in the process. This should be every environmentally concerned and economically driven person's goal and therefore hopefully is also the goal of the Ontario Government.

Climate change affects us all and consumers must be allowed to play their part in contributing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Our consumer habits in Ontario and Canada must evolve towards greater environmental sustainability and it must happen quickly.

I ask the Ontario Government to reconsider its decision and embrace some form of Carbon Tax as a tool to reduce Canada's greenhouse gas emissions while at the same time driving Ontario companies towards economic prosperity and lasting relevance by developing products with a future.