How to win friends and influence people.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA.

This is great comedy. It's going to be a fun summer.

You tink eets izzy come oop wit da new name, tabernac!! how me debate dat.
cheers bubba

Heh.

Dion: stuck on stupid.

No party which plans on winning an election should ever nominate a sociologist professor to lead them.

Green Shaft it is then !

These people want to form a government?! The NDP would be more competent.

I'm not really big on suing people, but if "Green Shift" (TM) were my business, I'd now be speaking with both lawyers and venture capitalists...

...VCs so that I'd have enough money to properly go after these idiots.

remember , the lieberal party is broke, and they still havent paid back the Adscam money.

meant to phone my MP on that .

Cherniak MUST have been in charge of the copyright and url check.

Oh, BTW - nice plan Iggy/Rae.

Bankrupt the Liberal brand, bury it with all its sins, and come back under a new name.

I wonder who owns the right to "Progressive Party of Canada"?

I'm sure the folks at greenshift.com, a publicly traded firm [GERS] isn't too thrilled either. Dion will have an American finger a little upset with his gnarly ambition's "finger in the eye" treatment.

Don't they have some lawyer types to look into this stuff first!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

(breathe)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHAHAHAH!

They should call it what it REALLY is:

a green weiner!

from report on Business at G&M..Green begins to fade..link to story at Bourque.Seems the biz community NOT big fans of Little Steffi's money grab,and just now on Adler,David Herle admits NOT revenue neutral.The wheels are comin' of the big red bus kiddies,and it is delicious to watch.

canadians will still vote for these stupid assholes.

"Cherniak MUST have been in charge of the copyright and url check.
Posted by: Stephen at June 23, 2008 3:13 PM "

EXCELLENT !!

I am now cleaning my keyboard

Oh, it's hilarious. Only the Liberals could do such a thing.

Here they are, trying to switch the location of 'corruption' from themselves, The Corrupt Liberals, to Canadian industries, which they define as 'Polluters who treat our environment as a garbage dump' (see their summary in their document)..and they've stolen the trademark of a registered Canadian company.

Never mind that their document is itself filled with dishonesty and open manipulation of numbers, percentages and predictions..eg, 'this approach will dramatically improve the environment'. How? There's nothing in it about new technology or enabling firms to install new technology.

It's just a money scam. Oh, and a trademark scam.
Only the Liberals, who live in the utopian intellectual and civil service isolation of Ottawa-Montreal and haven't a clue about reality.

David Herle admits NOT revenue neutral.

The hell , you say ! Why , next you'll be telling us there's something fishy about this global warming information going around !

i sincerely hope the company "Green Shift" gives the LPC a really good shaft and not necessarily green. demand that all copies of the manual be burned and then sue them for something besides money as they don't have any. LOL

sue the liberals for there entitlements. that should work.

dammit that won't work either. thats our money !!!
there has to be something.....

So this is what the brain trust at Liberal headquarters had to do.

1. Go to the Canadian Trade-marks Database here:

http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/app/cipo/trademarks/search/tmSearch.do?language=eng

2. Type "Green Shift" into the first field.

3. Hit "Search".

4. Click on the first and only entry to get this:

http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/app/cipo/trademarks/search/viewTrademark.do;jsessionid=0000tWUfjNB7gUzQPB-OEFCDlcY:1247nfca5?language=eng&fileNumber=1244652&extension=0&startingDocumentIndexOnPage=1

I posted this at "crux of the matter", I called them at about 11:00 Eastern Time.

I just called them (416-925-9665) , a very professional (young?) lady answered the phone. I mentioned to her what I have been hearing, and asked her simply right away if they were affiliated with the Liberal party, she almost "knee-jerk" shot back by saying "NO". She mentioned that they are dealing with them on the issue. Seems like a no issue to me, Liberals should "cease and dismantle" before this thing grows. I made it clear that I was an engineer who was interested in possobily doing business with them, which I am, but wanted to make sure they have no political affiliation. I honestly don't care what party someone belongs to, but when your company starts supporting getting involved in some policitical plan, I don't have the stomach for that..................THIS IS NOT THE CASE WITH THEM AT ALL. To be honest, she seemed annoyed with whole situation, I am sure I was not the only one calling about this. lol. Good luck to their company, I would sue the Liberals pants off if they copyrighted something of mine and didn't stop right away and give some practical compensation. I would do the same for the CONS or NDP, this is a non-political issue, companies get ruined for people not doing their homework.

So............Stephan Dion, if you are reading this "cease and dismantle"

That's how Libranos operate!!!

... and from a previous posting on SDA:

Librano$ are BAAaack!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v714/stevekog/LibranosBack.jpg

Posted by: stevekog at June 22, 2008 9:30 PM

Should have called it what it really was, the "Loony Shift".

Fred,

Glad I could be of assistance.....

It may very well be true...he IS the new media guru for that part of the world. It would be quite in line with his litany of other unresearched faux pax's.

No it couldn't be Jason Cherniak, he's to much of a idiot. It had to be Garth Turner, he been yapping about this plan for months. The laws pertain to everyone else except Garth Turner. It will be interesting to see who takes the fall for this one. If they are ever sued for this copyright infringement, you can say this plan just did the fast spin down the shifter.

Brilliant!

The copyrighted owners of 'Green Shift' will have to make an issue of this and sue to get the publicity they need to disassociate themselves with the LPC.
If they don't, they're going to lose business and credibility.

This is "priceless"! How Libranoesque!

Sue them down to their socks!

By the way, does anyone know if Bob or Steffi or Iggy have paid off their debts? No election if these debts are still outstanding. I really want to kick these guys when they are down, HARD! And, as for Elections Canada and the partisan trough-feeders at CHRC, Fire. Them. All.

Clean house Mr. Harper, or you'll start to look like a Librano yourself.

Do You Tink It's IZzy To Make A Green Shift?

Kate, that Dion guy does talk like that! Hahaha...He must be an endless source of amusement. I can't wait to see what the greenies are cooking up for us here in the US. I'll bet Gore has struck a deal with oBSama by now.

JT has a point, Mr. Harper, just disolve parliament already, who f-ing cares, I have nothing to loose. Even if the liberals win, I will move to Alberta and add fuel to the flame of a sepertist movement there. Sick of the Liberal Party of Toronto.

Now they can call it "Green Sh*t"

On a CBC news program yesterday Susan Riley a"journalist from the Ottawa Citizen " called Dion a visionary for his "Green Shift" carbon tax grab.
Quite the visionary,one who has resorted to stealing a name from a legitimate company to brand a hair brained ponzie scheme.
To paraphrase songwriter Rick Fines it seems that
"Riley needs her brain back".

Disclaimer: This site is authorized by the Federal Liberal Agency of Canada, registered agent for the Liberal Party of Canada.
It is not affiliated with Green Shift Incorporated. The following is a link to the Green Shift Incorporated website: www.greenshift.ca

It's the green shift @ . Not quite the same is it?

Dion has no more than 7 months to live on this. This is why he is rolling the dice now.

Election will happen no later than October 19 2009 by legislation.

If Dion goes they'll need the sumer of 2009 to heal wounds, prepare for election and intro leader around...traditional summer BBQ season.

This means Lib leadership convention no later than June of 2009.

Campaign for leadership will need to be AT LEAST 4 months long....which means Dion has till early February AT THE LATEST to step down. Any later and the Libs are running with him.

So that means 7 months maximum. The danger for the Cons is the Liberals will pull the switcheroo at exactly that moment and the Libs will have the new leader Rae or Iggy going into the election.

Fixed election dates are the STOOOPIDEST thing Harper ever did. It means, in a minority all of the power and none of the discipline is on the opposition side.

Harper needs to engineer his own defeat this fall...any later and he is either facing a resurgent Dion, unlikely, or a Liberal leader fresh from a convention that will be engineered to prevent what just happened.

A fall election so we can get a con majority. Need to do it before Dion injures hiself so far that he resigns.

Re: Posted by: Stephen at June 23, 2008 4:41 PM
............

Regardless of Dion's fate, the Liberals are SOL on leadership.

If Liberals attempt to precipitate an election after the Fall'08 Throne Speech, the BQ or NDP might hold off voting no confidence and push any election into the dead of Winter .. when Dion will have to 'sell' Canadians on carbon-taxed home heating fuel oil and natural gas. Good luck ...LOL

If the Harper government is finally defeated in Spring'09, Canadians may turn against the opposition parties for not waiting until scheduled October 19th. The opposition had better have overwhelming cause for defeating the government and a premature election, or else they will be whacked by angry Canadians.

When you think of it, it may not matter when the Liberals have their election or new leader because they have urban strongholds that will forever support them even if they ran Bernardo as a candidate .. like in Toronto..!!!

I was having a pretty hectic & shitty day here at work today, Until I Read That. Jeeeezzzz that has got to be the funniest i have seen in awhile Shit these Libranos are going to be spending more time in Libel Courts then Out there Explaining Their Green Shit Plan Iam still laughing as iam trying to type this
Now will the MSM pick up on this?

Give Dion a little green hat and he could play Marvin the Martian. It is going to be a very interesting summer......

There is still no conclusive proof that CO2 immitions are contributing to GW. Why has this argument fallen completely off the rail? Is the world even warming? I think we should get tax credits for buring fossil fuels.

A successful company of 10 years is about to be destroyed because of the careless Liberals

Disclaimer: This site is authorized by the Federal Liberal Agency of Canada, registered agent for the Liberal Party of Canada.
It is not affiliated with Green Shift Incorporated. The following is a link to the Green Shift Incorporated website: www.greenshift.ca

With this disclaimer it would seem the weasel liberals knew what they were doing, and by the use of the disclaimer they thought they could get away with it. Trying to bend the rules has Garth Turner written all over it. You know the funny thing is that if they left out the disclaimer and the link to Green Shift, this matter would most likely never have come up.

Dijon says that the Liberal Party is really, really, really going to try ever so hard, really, this time, in the Fall, to push for an election.

Liberal Blogger has supply more ammunition for Green Shift to sue the liberal party.

http://redtory.blogspot.com/2008/06/doh.html

Use a companies name and make fun of it is the liberal way of life.

Hey, this is the party that took away Canadian's right to own property, right to self defense, and lately right to free speech. Check for copyright/trademark? Why?

Good luck to Green Shift with that lawsuit, eh? I'd sooner try to sue Kim Jong Il in a N. Korean court.

Someone over at Jacks put some word together and guess what

g reen
s hift
t ax

gst, and no one caught that either.
But, he did say he would raist the gst back to 7%.

Bill D. Cat :

More like Green Stiff when it comes to Alberta.

As happy as I am to see them sky dive without a parachute. This is only one battle. Its a continuing vaudeville act with these characters. I am thinking perhaps they are so out of mode in thought or the ability to create newspeak, they come off sounding like wind up dolls from the 60's. Expect a counter attack any time now. Even an ant knows when its threatened, will fight the herder to survive when its luxury is imperiled. That’s why its so important to de-normalize these Inquisitions & there acolytes at every turn.

Herb or alcohol soaked mentalities living on a stoned cloud of there own dope spun realities. They should sober up to the factual world. There are people who do honest work paying while these lay a bouts with grand ideas to pillage us all. Just continue to live in a sparkly world of make believe. I say because the more they do the stranger they become to everyone. I especially love there quaint speech patterns, that no one but insiders can fathom. Its like seeing the government issue Stepford People bureaucrats.

To hell with Dion/Liberal Cronies and his/their Green Shift Carbon Tax cash grab!
Does the Left ACTUALLY think they can control the climate?

Great post, Kate. I'm behind you on this issue, all the way!

"Do you tink it is izzy to make a green shift?". I have never given this much thought until now. I think that possibly eating lots of asparagus may be the way to go.Digesting a few crayons may do the trick,but they would be harder to digest.

Oh, wait, Harris Decima poll says if carbon tax explained well, if Tories agree to say nothing whatsoever, but then decide to campaign on this one issue only, if warnings of Liberals like John Manley of distorting tax effects of his policy are ignored/wrong, if Canadians can actually understand Dion sales job, if we don't have economic slowdown, if no other issues come up, if fuel riots in Europe and Asia stop, if only voters from Toronto turn out ... if.

Another fantasy poll, brought to you by our illustrious MSM. Truth be told, highly unlikely to play out that way. No money to sell plan, no leader for Canadians to identify with, no chance Tories won't offer rebuttal. More likely result is poor selling job, Harper creams Dion in debate now or during election, after Harper tweaks his own plan, the one that deals with real pollution, not those corrupt industries spewing CO2, and tells industry and government they will all have to work together to develop clean fuel technology.

Maybe Harris Decima could do that poll, or even an honest one where they ask voters who they would support in general election. What's with these fantasy/theoretical/second choice crap polls that tell us nothing of real value.

The only risk that Harper runs is that the public actually feels sorry for Dion and stays home (ie Harper overplays his hand on attacking policy), except the big city voters who turn out for taxation and revenue neutral largesse. Fat chance, won't happen, IMO.

Doze pimples taked my green chiff name hoff me! Day worked voar arpurr. Hi hinfected da liprl green sheet wid mineown hayt. Foat green shiti, foat liprl.

The "Green Tax Grab Plan". Sounds apt to me, Kate.

mary T...
good one on the GST.
dion has also stated he would raise the GST up to 10% if elected.

When I see Decima/Harris on a poll, I stop reading. Generally, I can tell by the headline if they conducted the poll. It takes only a few seconds to check and then click off.

Starmucks sells coofee in whitey-only styrofoam cups. It's discrimination. SueCitySue.
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"Liberals 'Green shift' brand hits a snag
BILL CURRY
From Tuesday's Globe and Mail
June 23, 2008 at 7:53 PM EDT

OTTAWA — Stéphane Dion's cross-country tour promoting his “green shift” hit a potentially embarrassing pothole Monday as a Toronto environmentalist took legal action over what she describes as “blatantly unethical” trademark infringement.

A firm already operating as Green Shift sent a cease and desist letter Monday afternoon to the Liberal Party and the company is considering whether to sue for damages.

Jennifer Wright, who has been running the small but successful environmental consulting company for nearly 10 years, said she was heading out to a Dave Matthews concert last week when a call came in from the House of Commons.

She grabbed the phone because her company has a contract with the Parliament Hill cafeterias, providing them with products such as recycled coffee cups."
http://tinyurl.com/5l5fjb

Goes in green.....comes out brown. If they can make Green Shi*t, that'll be something!

it *almost* makes me wonder...
if the Liberal Party is willing to do this to a company plainly seen as being a supporter of a green initiative, what would they do to a non-green initiative?

what would they do, if given the power to do so again, to the energy rich west, to the auto sector, to the industrial sector, in the name of Kyoto, to appease the greens in their own party?

lately I've caught myself wishing for a Liberal majority in parliament, knowing these idiots will drop the ball so firmly and then they'll bring in some draconian program like this National Energy Program 2... and I wish this upon us, so the west will rise in indignation, and separate. For real.

then, after we impose visa restrictions on them, they can freeze in the dark.

If the comments over at ms delacourt's blog are any indication, ol' shifty may not do well at the polls. Words alone cannot express my indignation.
But the comments over there help.

http://thestar.blogs.com/politics/2008/06/pmo-pushes-ctv.html

Toronto environmentalist describes Liberals as “blatantly unethical”

It's not izzy being green, eh Dijon?

This is all a pointless sideshow.

Last I heard the CPC is playing the MMGW game too.
I don't want them stealing money from me any more than I do the greasy libs.
IMO, we are all f*cked until we get a federal option that has the gonads to out MMGW for the fraud that it is.

So far the score seems to be about...

Pro-MMGW parties - - 5

Anti-MMGW parties - 0

Intil that changes, it's only a question of WHO is f*cking us over.

he is either facing a "resurgent Dion," unlikely, or a Liberal leader fresh from a convention .....

A resurgent Dion.
Resurgent....

Hm-m-m-m, I really cannot picture what that would look like. A professeur with a beanie? Or a grad cap? Or a green fedora, ala Erol Flinn, ROBIN HOOD?
Help me please.

All this commotion won't be bad for the owners of the greenshift company, they're getting tons of very expensive advertising for nuttin'. They could really work it to their advantage if they're imaginative.

Baby Garth says "goo" and "blob".
As progressive/socialists say, it's a Shifty Baby step forward.
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"Liberals go positive with idyllic carbon tax ads
James Cowan, National Post "

"CanadaScreen grab from the Liberals' "Green Shift" ad."

""We think Stéphane Dion is more articulate than a blob of goo," he [Turner] said, referrng[sic] to the much-maligned Tory oil stain."
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=608609
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At NP: Wright says:
""What I'm most upset about is the idea that we're not about a political affiliation," she said. "It's been 10 years of working on the program, of developing this whole Green Shift and the integrity behind the name .... I just want them [the Liberals] to get off of our name."
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=608618

maryt...thanks for the reminder
GST, and Green Shift Tax...PMSH was right on it.
We used to call the GST the "Gouge and Screw Tax"

The Great Dizoo...what a dumb dumb.

I smell a rename the "Green Shift" competition...(some of the following are aformentioned in other posts or blogs)

"Greed Shift"
"Greed Shaft"
"Green Shaft"
"Green Shiv"
"Green Sh*t"

...help me out here people!

CBCpravda has decided not to notice that Dion and the Libs are being sued.

they have gone into full Khadr support. ignoring that he killed a medic not a combat soldier.

the faster we can rid ourselves of Khadr and the horrid family that spawned him the better. maybe a nice ham supper send off.

I'm looking for either free or by "donation" only BBQ's for the libs or ndp's in the lower mainland. I'll support them in the best way I know how. Events with free parking preferred!!!!!

Green Shi*t works for me.
Zero respect from the LPC for trademark law or the intelligence of Canadians. And yet they still poll in the 30's. I have to wonder if universal suffrage is a mistake. I am expected to pass a test to drive a car, why not to vote?

PS, where is the 40 million bucks the LPC stole from taxpayers, Mr. Dion?

That's pretty awesome.

I'd check that logic Dana... Conservatives aren't always in power and the progressives would take away your voice at the first opportunity.

Da Green Shift Plan . . . how it works.

Shift da green from sheeples wallets to the big banks for [safe?] keeping.

Banks are so happy to get fresh cash to cover BIG card fraud and sub-prime losses they promise Dion, Rae and Iggy lotsa election financing.

Dion could be knee deep in green shift if voters ever wake up to green scheme.

Not likely, so lately Dion is all smiles.
==============

Today we all got a $100 *carbon* gift cheque from BC*s finance minister, Carole Taylor.

The note in the envelope said we should buy flouro bulbs or insulation, but my friend bought a carton of smokes $70 and a $30 fish and chip dinner.

My $100 goes to the next gasoline bill.

Hope Carole keeps smiling. = TG

I think they should get the "F" out of “Green shift”, and they will have the perfect name for several reasons:
1. The Liberals are full of it
2. The Puffin is their national symbol and you know what they try to do with their.....
3. They were known as the Grits which sounds like.....
4. Their ideas/policies stink like a truck load of.....

= = = = = = = = = = =

Remember:

"It's not easy being Green ...." Kermit the Frog

They even insult Kermit ... shame!

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I do have a question or two:

Will Dion tax those who "exercise" more because they exhale more carbon than a couch potato?

Will Dion put a carbon tax on soft drinks … “carbonated” water?

Dana: PS, where is the 40 million bucks the LPC stole from taxpayers, Mr. Dion?

They have to get back into government to steal more taxpayer money before they pay it back. That's the liberal way.

Is a royalty on Provincial resources even constitutional?

Green Shift for Dummies.

http://www.torontosun.com/Comment/Cartoon/2008/06/24/tab.jpg