It's true, carbon taxes kill electoral success more effectively than even John Kerry.

The best news to come out of Stephane Dion's ignominious defeat last night is that it will be the end of the nonsensical carbon tax.

The Liberals tried to pretend the Green Shift wasn't all that important when its unpopularity tanked their polling only two weeks into the campaign.  That act of political cynicism allowed Canadians to see through the 'climate crisis' scaremonger's smoke and mirrors; if the planet was truly in peril, how could the Liberals throw the urgent and necessary green policy under the bus, just to win power?

In Spring 2009, British Columbians will go to the polls and will throw out the Liberal government that forced a carbon tax on them.  The winner of that election will be the party that promises to end the unpopular tax.  That BC election will be the final nail in the coffin of carbon taxes, in any form, in Canada.