British Columbia's facing a tough decision: Pay CO2 taxes or fund health care benefits.
The Lower Mainland's health authorities will have to dig more than $4 million a year out of their already stretched budgets to pay B.C.'s carbon tax and offset their carbon footprints.
Critics say the payments mean the government's strategy to fight climate change will further exacerbate a crisis in health funding.
"You have public hospitals cutting services to pay a tax that goes to another 100 per cent government-owned agency," NDP health critic Adrian Dix said.
"That just doesn't make sense."
LOL - no kidding.
[see Canadians paying for CO2 offsets with health benefits at evangelicalecologist.com]
