In reaction to a scathing economic analysis of the BC NDP climate change plan, the partyโs environment critic, Shane Simpson, is making the ridiculous claim that the author is somehow misguided in hisย findings.
Released on Friday, the economic analysis by renowned Simon Fraser University economist Dr. Marc Jaccard finds that the NDPโs climate plan could lead to 60,000 direct and indirect job losses byย 2020.
According to a Province news article this weekend, NDP environment critic Shane Simpson claimedย that:
โHe [Jaccard] has been a critic of ours (the NDP) and I donโt believe Mr. Jaccard has an independent view onย this.โ
Itโs insulting to an academic like Jacaard to be accused of dishonesty and being in collusion with government. What makes it even worse is that Simpson fails to mention that Jaccard has also been an advisor to previous NDP governmentโs – so much for his conspiracyย theory.
On the very first page of Jaccardโs analysis itย states:
โProfessor at Simon Fraser University specializing in sustainable energy modeling and policy, Dr. Jaccard has been appointed by NDP, Conservative and Liberal governments to energy-environment policy advisory and decision making positions over the past two decades. The BC NDP government of the 1990s appointed him to chair the BC Utilities Commission (1992-1997), the Electricity Market Review (1995), the Public Inquiry into Gasoline Pricing (1996), and the Task Force on Electricity Market Reform (1997).โ (myย emphasis)
The election campaign here in BC hasnโt even begun and the NDP are already spinning hard to put lipstick on their โaxe the taxโ pig. Check back on DeSmogBlog for our analysis and coverage of the 2009 BCย Election.
