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CARBON TAX * Canada - A threat to Metro jobs
Atlantic director says Liberal proposal jeopardizes 10,000 Hub City jobs, will cost industry another $500M a year
Moncton,CAN -Times & Transcript/Canadaeast News Service, by DAVID SHIPLEY -8 Sept 2008: -- Despite last-minute changes, the federal Liberal Party's proposed Green Shift carbon tax could cost Metro Moncton thousands of jobs in the transportation sector and related industries, says the head of a regional trucking association... "Just in Moncton alone, the carbon tax puts 10,000 jobs in the transportation sector in jeopardy. For Atlantic Canada, we're looking at a 100,000 jobs in the transportation sector, that's all modes of transportation, in jeopardy," said Peter Nelson, executive director of the Atlantic Provinces Trucking Association... Nelson said the 10,000 jobs stem from direct employment in the trucking business, other transportation industries as well as indirect employment such as mechanics, vehicle sales representatives and administrative support...
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