{"id":2986,"date":"2011-04-25T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T18:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2986"},"modified":"2012-05-29T16:57:03","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T20:57:03","slug":"finally-someone-attacks-the-ndps-candyland-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2986","title":{"rendered":"Finally, someone attacks the NDP&#8217;s candyland platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NDP platform has been given a free ride this campaign. Luckily, there are people out there willing to put the NDP&#8217;s platform promises under scrutiny. Those people? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/news\/decision-canada\/casts+doubts+over+green+spending+promises\/4667618\/story.html#ixzz1KXzPvUGw\">The NDP<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><strong>NDP casts doubts over its own green spending promises<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 The federal New Democrats say they might not be able to pay for $3.6 billion worth of green spending initiatives that were promised in their platform for the first year of a new mandate if elected to form a government.<\/p>\n<p>The party quietly explained in a statement over the weekend that it would be forced to delay the promises, in government, if it is unable to launch a market-based system forcing polluters to pay for greenhouse gas emissions by buying credits from those that reduce emissions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We do indeed propose that revenues from pricing carbon (dioxide emissions) be put back into improving the environment \u2014 that&#8217;s how carbon use will be reduced,&#8221; the NDP said. &#8220;If revenues from pricing carbon are delayed or are lower than planned, then the investments will also be delayed or will be phased in more slowly than planned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But they have failed to identify what measures, which appear in Year 1 of their platform, would be chopped or delayed.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NDP platform has been given a free ride this campaign. Luckily, there are people out there willing to put the NDP&#8217;s platform promises under scrutiny. Those people? The NDP: NDP casts doubts over its own green spending promises OTTAWA \u2014 The federal New Democrats say they might not be able to pay for $3.6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1019,983],"tags":[1024],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3598,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions\/3598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}