Here’s a freebee for those of you in media who get close enough to Stephane Dion to query him directly. It’s one of those questions that is so remarkably simple, so breathtakingly obvious, that I can’t believe no one has challenged him on it yet.
Call it the Kyoto Purity Test.
Mr. Dion – if global warming requires the urgent action you say it does, why are we waiting for introduction of techology and fuels not yet available? Why limit fuel efficiency standards to new vehicles that will take years to replace millions of gas guzzlers, when, with the stroke of a pen, we could achieve significant reductions in the gasoline consumption – and CO2 emissions – of every vehicle on the road today ?
Why, Mr. Dion, have you not introduced a bill in Parliament to lower the speed limit to 80 km/hr nationwide?”
Related: Gerry Nichols suggests Dion rename his dog. (link fixed)
uh oh Kate…another wedge in the divide. Have you ever been on any of the 400 series around Tranna? You get the MF Salute if you aren’t doing 100…I don’t think Ontario would like Dion if he suggested that…and you know Tranna is the COTU…
That’s just it, isn’t it? They have all sorts of ideas to save us from rapid extinction, except for those that are guaranteed to lose votes.
They don’t believe. None of them.
Back to Poli Sci 101. Highway speeds are under provincial jurisdiction. But, you say, how do they do it in the States? The answer is that they only do it for interstate highways, which are funded by the federal government. You want money? Drive at 55!
With a single stroke of the pen legislate maximum speed of 80kph. With a second stroke of the pen make the MTA and Quebec exempt.
If Dion can assume control over provincial resources, he can assume control over how they are used. Besides, it’s the duty of a capital “L” Leader to get his counterparts in the provinces on board.
Should be no problem at all.
Speed is a major pleasure of younger voters. Remove forbidden pleasures and lose elections, but we,[older and wiser], like the idea however. 55 mph = 70% better chance to survive a crash. = TG
Several months ago the Amish community was in the news due to tragic school shootings. Maybe all those envirowackos, including dion, should go back and review all the video of this. The horse and buggies, stories on how they have no electricity, make their own clothes, grow their own food etc. That is the life dion is telling you is the way to live. Will you do it, I doubt it. The majority of families in TO would be unable to prepare a whole meal from scratch, and use an oven, or cast iron frying pan. Could the TO crowd get along without their starbucks or tim hortons.
Ask any school kid in TO if they want to give up their computer or x-box, forever, not just a day.
No adding machines or electronic tills, people might have to learn to add, subtract and make change the old fashioned way.
Get real, none of us are prepared to go back to that lifestyle. And, none of us are prepared to give up driving, (unless you are 75 and can’t get your license renewed). We will not buy small cars that are impossible to get into if you have any disability with mobility.
The clean air act is a good start, then how about a limit on the size of house you can build, improve building standards re windows, heating systems. Not many, if any, of us can afford to rush out and buy new appliances, new cars, and retrofit our homes. Will landlords replace everything in their buildings.
Is dion really so stupid he thinks all wrongs can be corrected in 4 years. He can’t even correct the wrongs with the liberal party, saying it is ok for the crooks to be readmitted.
Kyoto takes effect in Feb 2008. The liberals can’t be the government then.
OTTAWA (CP) – Liberal Leader Stephane Dion wasn’t always quite so hot about global warming, a former cabinet colleague says.
Indeed, David Anderson says …-
Saw a post where someone was asking where the Godfather, aka David Anderson was?
Is there discontent in the Librano$ re Citoyen Dion? …-
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/02/04/3523838-cp.html
More from the article above:
Indeed, David Anderson says that when the previous Liberal government initially signed on to the Kyoto climate change accord in 1998, Dion was more focused on keeping the peace with the provinces, most of which were dead set against meeting the pact’s targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
“Dion was intergovernmental affairs minister, and he had to make sure that we had harmony among provinces, and provinces were opposed,” Anderson, a former Liberal environment minister, told The Canadian Press in an interview.
“So he was cast in that role.” …-
Anderson says, “that role”.
That role was AdScam Chretien’s Unity Minister, the role of which AdScam Dion denies any knowledge.
AdScam Dion and the Librano$$$$$$$$$$ here:
TheStar.com – News – Dion stumbles over sponsorship file
… Cote testified he received $120000 in $100 bills from the director general of the party’s Quebec wing. He distributed that money to 12 Liberal …
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/174517
Log Cabin Chronicles Peter Black’s Quebec scandal lassoes Matane …
On top of that, Cote was an outsider in the federal Liberal Party. As he told Gomery back in May “coming from the Liberal Party of Quebec – because it’s …
http://www.tomifobia.com/black/quebec_scandal.shtml
MARICE STRONG is a as wacky as AL GORE and JAMES LOVELOCK their all into this new age GAIA pagan poppycock
I would say that all that think speed limits should be reduced to 80KM, as vf said above, have never been to the GTA!
I recently visited my brother in Edmonton — when I asked when the rush hour traffic was, he stated “You’re in it”. I couldn’t believe it!
Geez, vf, I get the “salute” when I’m doing 120 in the middle lane! 🙂
Besides, my point to this post — you can reduce the speed limit to whatever you want, but if it’s not enforced, it doesn’t make much difference, does it? (But that’s a topic for another thread!) I’ve yet to see one of the “new black & whites” the OPP are switching to. In fact, last week I actually counted the number of OPP cruisers I saw on any 400 series highway (a little research for a post on the subject) — total, for 5 working days? Three. And I’m on the highway for most of the day — I average 250KM per day with my job.