Ken Boessenkool: Want lower, flatter taxes? Embrace the carbon tax

As a small-c conservative I favour lower taxes, flatter taxes and consumption taxes rather than higher taxes, steeply progressive taxes and income taxes. You’d not be much of a conservative if you disagreed.

Yet most Canadian big-C Conservative parties have spent the past decade or more fighting against all of these things. In fact, they have made fighting against all of these things a centrepiece of numerous election campaigns, to their detriment.