No carbon tax: Ryma - The Sudbury Star - Ontario, CA

The tax is a major component of the Green Party platform but so far none of the three major parties have publicly advocated for a carbon tax.

"Carbon tax is not on our radar," Ryma responded to a question during The Star's one-hour online interactive forum.

Climate debate needs dose of civility

"What I would challenge you to do is to put a lot of effort into trying to see whether there's a legal way of throwing our so-called leaders into jail because what they're doing is a criminal act."

- David Suzuki, February 2008.

"I want to call those deniers out into the street at high noon and shoot it out with those boneheads." - James Cameron, March 24, 2010.

Citizen Garnaut slams carbon critics over 'extreme distortion' | The Australian

He said there had been "particularly egregious distortion" regarding the lack of a national emissions trading scheme in the US, where individual states have introduced their own legislation to reduce emissions.

"There will be no carbon price nationwide . . . but there will be very strong policies of other kinds," he said. "You can have carbon constraints without carbon prices.