I continue to endorse Stephane Dion’s carbony green tax grab plan.
Boy am I ever glad I’m not Stephane Dion today. […]
“Just one moment please” said the polite woman who answered the phone, in response to my inquiry. Seconds later, another person picked up the phone. I repeated that I was inquiring about ‘the green shift’ and was asked “Are you calling about us or about the federal Liberal campaign?” I could tell this person was not happy.
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The answer came just as I finished stating the purpose of my call. There was no relationship, and the person I was speaking with, while very polite, was absolutely furious that this has happened. It was suggested to me that Green Shift has lost both new business and existing clients since Thursday who have been frightened off at the perception of a relationship between them and the federal Liberal Party. You can’t blame businesses for not wanting to do business with anyone affiliated with a political party, but unfortunately, this is not the case with Green Shift are they are being unfairly punished as a result of the Liberal Party’s actions.
I was told that Green Shift has worked extremely hard for 10 years to become one of the most successful vendors of green services and products only to be faced with the reality that all this work may be wiped out in a matter of days. I was told that Green Shift did a brief interview with CTV late last week but tried to keep it low key as they had not yet decided upon what the official response be. It seems today that along with a press release, a Cease and Desist notice will be issued..
More on LIberal shiftiness from Stephen Taylor…
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.
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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…..
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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