GOVERNMENT FULL OF HOT AIR...
Oh its a Clean Air ... ACT all right.
So the only thing to really focus on here is exactly what just about every globe and mail columnist has stated since Tuesday. An air quality and climate change plan that WILL spend years in consultations, provide no new programs or regulations and focus only on reducing Canada's long term greenhouse gas intensity is no plan at all. Its a bloody disgrace.
Reducing the intensity of emissions per unit of GDP will almost certainly lead to a signficant rise in emissions provided the economy continues to do well. What we need is a real plan to meet our Kyoto commitments, and if, because of the bungling of both les rouges et les bleues this isn't possible, at least a strong plan to reduce in absolute terms the amount of greenhouse gasses and air pollutants in this country tied as close as possible to Kyoto (it is afterall a legally binding international treaty like the Geneva conventions and the law of the sea). Further a strong plan that sets short, medium and long term absolute reduction targest with a focus on energy efficiency, technology, and behavioural changes (ie. anti-idling) is what is needed.
On another matter, John Baird was an ass when we was a mike harris butt boy and he's still an ass now. As of a few days ago he killed funding for a light rail program ottawa (the city and federal government) had already approved. Baird is now directly interfering with the will of an elected council and councillors and citizens who originally opposed the mayor's push for light rail are now moving behind him because of their opposition to Baird's petty political interference.
Honestly... I don't want him fired. I hope Harper appoints more guys like Baird because by the time the next election rolls around even bob rae will look good by comparison.
The Conservatives need to go. They should never have been elected, but they really need to go. They are bad for our global image, they are bad for the country and they are bad for individual Canadians.
Cheers,
P
Oh its a Clean Air ... ACT all right.
So the only thing to really focus on here is exactly what just about every globe and mail columnist has stated since Tuesday. An air quality and climate change plan that WILL spend years in consultations, provide no new programs or regulations and focus only on reducing Canada's long term greenhouse gas intensity is no plan at all. Its a bloody disgrace.
Reducing the intensity of emissions per unit of GDP will almost certainly lead to a signficant rise in emissions provided the economy continues to do well. What we need is a real plan to meet our Kyoto commitments, and if, because of the bungling of both les rouges et les bleues this isn't possible, at least a strong plan to reduce in absolute terms the amount of greenhouse gasses and air pollutants in this country tied as close as possible to Kyoto (it is afterall a legally binding international treaty like the Geneva conventions and the law of the sea). Further a strong plan that sets short, medium and long term absolute reduction targest with a focus on energy efficiency, technology, and behavioural changes (ie. anti-idling) is what is needed.
On another matter, John Baird was an ass when we was a mike harris butt boy and he's still an ass now. As of a few days ago he killed funding for a light rail program ottawa (the city and federal government) had already approved. Baird is now directly interfering with the will of an elected council and councillors and citizens who originally opposed the mayor's push for light rail are now moving behind him because of their opposition to Baird's petty political interference.
Honestly... I don't want him fired. I hope Harper appoints more guys like Baird because by the time the next election rolls around even bob rae will look good by comparison.
The Conservatives need to go. They should never have been elected, but they really need to go. They are bad for our global image, they are bad for the country and they are bad for individual Canadians.
Cheers,
P
posted by Patrick at
9:25 AM
2 Comments:
Here here! Down with Harper and his klan.
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Jason Billingham, at 6:50 PM
On a related note, here's a great line from a CBC News story about a new slightly-smaller SUV from Ford:
'Analysts say Ford has been playing catch-up for years and is trying to turn things around with the Oakville plant. "What Ford is trying to do is get positioned to where the market is going to be, a little bit like Wayne Gretzky, skating to where to puck is going to be," said auto analyst Joseph D'Cruz of the Rotman School of Management.'
I thought Gretzky was shilling for Ford, not the other way around. The Rotman School of Management? Bwahahahahahahahahaha you suck!
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Anonymous, at 11:27 PM
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