“Ralph’s* going to get mauled like a puppy in a bear cage.” – John Gormley
In response to Stephane Dion’s explanation that the employment collapse in the oil, gas, potash, uranium and farming sectors that he admits will result from Liberal Party’s planned Green Shaft carbon tax will be balanced out by new research opportunities into “green technology” at the University of Regina.
He actually said that.
And that the Liberal Green Shift was necessary to submit to demands of US Congress and an incoming President Obama for “clean” oil.
He actually said that, too.
If the Harper Conservatives don’t use those quotes to hang a sign around the neck of the Liberals reading ‘Made in Washington’ Energy Policy, their political braintrust should be hauled out to Kandahar and thrown to the jihadis.
(You can pick up today’s show On Demand.)
Update: John Murney has more on Dion’s sputtering, and don’t miss Goodale Watch.
The millie is an idiot, plain and simple. Anyone who votes for this university moron is also a moron. But then again with lieberal voters being an idiot means never having to say your a moron.
“If we do this plan, Alberta and Saskatchewan will be better off 10 years from now than if we don’t do this plan.”
Offer me some proof. Show me a real economist that is willing to make predictions that far out….
And how are we going to accomplish it? Sask and Alberta together already put as much research into alternative energy sources and improving efficiency and intensity (not to mention carbon capture and carbon sequestration) as the rest of the provinces combined! But some how we are going to be doing more of that after Dion takes 5 BILLION out of our 2 provinces and their economies (40% of carbon emissions, 10% of Canadas population that get money back)
Yes that’s what the plan is going to cost (the west). 5 billion that won’t be going to more of same programs it’ll be going to the tax. and then to income tax relief. Care to tell me where the population centers are??
I did not think my opinion of Dion could get much lower, but he even talked about how Obama doesn’t like our dirty oil (takes alot of energy to extract it)…. And the way to make the oil cleaner and make the US happy is to show that we are taxing the oil coming out and giving the money to income tax.
Can anyone tell me how that cleans our oil up? anyone?
Then he talked about how the price at the pump will not change.
How, if you tax the extraction, the refining, the distribution (diesel will be carbon taxed, just not gas) will the price not go up?? Do you think Imperial Oil is going to just eat the cost? I would bet they shift alot of their operations to areas without such a tax. That will obviously help our emissions, but what will it do to the economy?
I want to see Ralphie get mauled.
I want to see Ralphie maul Dionski too.
Any bets as to whether Dion is Liberal leader by the end of the summer recess? Enemies like Ralph the gopher, Dion doesn’t need even though Dion is doing his best to make an enemy out of Ralf the gopher.
I think I get what Dion is saying… He ‘sees’ all the labourers that went out west for ‘izzy money’ signing up for university instead of getting their hands dirty.
And frankly, can anyone PLEASE tell me where this climate change /global warming is. the only change in my 51 years is that there used to be chinooks from the west, now they are from the south. They are still warm when it is freezeng cold so they are still welcome, not like a lieberal. So tax on Dion, go ahead and devastate the Alberta/ Sask. economy if you ever in your demented little mind get INTO POWER. OH yes CBC /CTV, he is not in power, got that, NOT IN POWER, yes Dion is not in power, hard for lieberals to understand, harder to find their hands being removed from the Canadian treasurys till, lieberal theives, where is the 41 million you stole!
The time has come for you people out in the west to stop threatening to seperate and actually do it. The time has come for you to organize yourselves the way the quebecois has, but don’t waste your time with any phony referendums. Go straight for the throat. Started to threaten to seperate the way they do in Quebec but back it up with a willingness to do so.
Like Johnny Cretin (not a typo)and Pierre Trudeau before him, the Nutty Professor detests all things western. Remember Cretin’s comments about how he preferred to deal with the east and Trudeau’s one finger salute to western farmers. The eastern based Liberals hate us because we refuse to knuckle under to their social engineering schemes and politically correct zealotry.
I would suggest to the Nutty professor that he tread very lightly. Unlike Quebec…Alberta, Saskatchewan and B.C. do not rely on handouts from the rest of the country. There will be no sovereignty association nonsense. If he keeps on pushing he may find the divorce comes quickly and cleanly.
Good grief, Kate. When Dion joined the First Church of Climate Change, they must have fed him some Trudeaupiates! (Trudeau + opiate).
Dirty Oil or Bloody Oil. You decide.
Four major western oil companies, Exxon, Mobil, Shell, BP and Total, are about to sign US-brokered no-bid contracts with the US-installed Baghdad regime to begin exploiting Iraq’s oil fields. Saddam Hussein had kicked these firms out three decades ago when he nationalized Iraq’s foreign-owned oil industry for the benefit of Iraq’s national development. The Baghdad regime is turning back the clock.
This agreement comes as talks are continuing between the Washington and its Baghdad client regime over future US basing rights in Iraq. After some face-saving Iraqi objections, it is expected that Baghdad will sign a compact with Washington giving US forces control of Iraq and its air space in a manner very similar to Great Britain’s colonial arrangement with Iraq.
Interestingly, the same oil companies that used to exploit Iraq when it was a British colony are now returning. As former US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan recently admitted, the Iraq war was all about oil. VP Dick Cheney stated in 2003 that the invasion of Iraq was about oil, and for the sake of Israel.
Meanwhile, according to Pakistani and Indian sources, Afghanistan just signed a major deal to launch a long-planned, 1680 km long pipeline project expected to cost $ 8 billion. If completed, the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India pipeline (TAPI) will export gas and, later, oil from the Caspian Basin to Pakistan’s coast where tankers will transport it to the west.
The Caspian Basin located under the Central Asian states of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakkstan, holds an estimated 300 trillion cubic feet of gas and 100–200 billion barrels of oil. Securing the world’s last remaining known energy Eldorado is strategic priority for the western powers. China can only look on with envy.
But there are only two practical ways to get gas and oil out of landlocked Central Asia to the sea: through Iran, or through Afghanistan to Pakistan. For Washington, Iran is tabu. That leaves Pakistan, but to get there, the planned pipeline must cross western Afghanistan, including the cities of Herat and Kandahar.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis114.html
Guess what?
You’re using selective state.
There are a total of 37 oil companies from around the world that have been granted oil leases in Iraq, including five state oil corporations.
Not sure why you’ve singled out those four (unless you’re reading Eric Margolis).
Exxon Mobil – US based
Shell – headquartered in Netherlands
BP – um, British Petroleum
Total – French. Large holding by Paul Desmarais, son-in-law of Jean Chretien.
The Afghan pipeline has long been talked about and planned.
Not quite sure what your point is.
This is the NEP all over again. The West will be screwed again for another decade, but that’s okay by these Liebral SOBs. Man I hate those guys…
But don’t you folks know that if you make it MORE expensive for companies to do business in Saskatchewan and Alberta, then they will dump even MORE money into green projects in those projects to reduce the amount that they pay in Carbon taxes.
/sarc off
I wonder what the name of the economist who fed him THAT line of bullspit is. It’s a simple fact that apparently he doesn’t understand – if it’s more costly to extract oil from the ground here, then those companies will poor money into exploration in places where it is cheaper to extract – presumably places that are not bound to Kyoto targets and will not seek to reduce carbon.
As pointed out in the National Post today, none of the places that have implemented a carbon tax are better off today.
If Dion becomes Prime Minister, watch Canada meet its Kyoto targets and achieve M. Dion’s reduction targets when Alberta and Saskatchewan leave and take their 40% of “Greenhouse emissions” with them. All of a sudden, the problem is solved.
And there won’t be a language/cultural issue if the west says FU and starts negotiating with the southern neighbours.
If the eastern federal tanks (all 15 of them) start rolling westward through Manitoba the drivers will get bored due to lack of beer and turn back. Plus, Alberta’s got Cold Lake!
U of R is gonna need some more buildings I think, if it is to take up the slack from all the job losses in the patch.
I have trouble believing that Saddam Hussein was out to benefit anyone but Saddam Hussein
Please qualify “Made in Washington” with the addition of “by Douchbag Democrats”. Optional continuation phrase “Led by Blowhard Gore”
Thanks.
Meantime, someone should tell this guy that our biggest source of imported oil is Canada (17% of imports). Though Chavez does thank him and promises mucho puta if he visited Caracas. (wear protection, chollo)
“Dirty Oil or Bloody Oil. You decide.”
The Kurds have decided.
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“Iraqi Kurds Sign Oil Deals with Canadian Firms
Baghdad, 25 June 2008 (AFP)
Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region said it has signed two oil contracts with Canada’s Talisman Energy despite Baghdad’s stiff opposition to such deals before a national oil law is drawn up.
The contracts were signed on Thursday by representatives of Talisman and the prime minister of the Kurdish regional government in northern Iraq, Nechirvan Barzani, his administration said late Monday in a statement.
It said a subsidiary of Talisman would acquire a 40-percent stake in the Kalar-Bawanoor block, where Calgary-based WesternZagros has a 40-percent stake. The remaining 20 percent is to go to the regional government.
WesternZagros, through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, already holds a production-sharing contract with the Kurdistan regional government.
A second Talisman subsidiary is to carry out an exploration programme under a two-year service agreement in a separate block.”
http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/32926
So Kate’s query remains. Is there any evidence that the wizards at Tory HQ are set to exploit this gift? Not to hope that the rank and file would ever be consulted by the mavens who managed all those successful campaigns in the past, but it would be nice to think someone, somewhere has come up with something beyond, “we’re screwed,” pithy a line as that is. There should more, and it should be relentless. (Witty would be great, but that’s probably asking too much.)
How delicious it is to say to a fiberal, that they take their marching orders from Washington..!!
Ohh..the gnashing of teeth, the rending of garments we will see!!..
hahahahahahaha!!..
Isn’t Dion’s comment an attempt to “interfere” in the American election?
The recent history (and likely prospects) of the University of Regina suggest that it will be weak reed on which to lean.
“Prof. Jaccard, a critic of the Liberals in the past, is a fan of the B.C. tax, calling it “the best carbon tax I have seen in the world.””
MSM is having a meltdown:
First it’s “special adviser on climate change: then , it’s “Mark Jaccard, a noted resource economist”; then, it’s “Prof. Jaccard”; and then, it’s “He is also a special adviser to the cabinet committee on climate action.”.
The “academics”, aka the intelligentsia, are the non-experts.
The expert is politician “Premier Gordon Campbell”, him with the idiot mitts.
The Fear, The FEar, The FEAr, The FEAR. Campbell has the FEARS of the Doomsday.
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“Carbon tax could be reversed, special adviser to Campbell fears
Political pressure might doom it, he says
VANCOUVE — Premier Gordon Campbell’s special adviser on climate change says he fears critical and political pressure could prompt the Liberal government to back off the province’s carbon tax.
Mark Jaccard, a noted resource economist at Simon Fraser University, made the comments in an interview yesterday shortly after he joined other academics at a news conference to argue for the tax linked to a 2.34-cent rise in gasoline prices on Canada Day. By 2012, the tax will be at seven cents a litre.
“I’ve seen politicians reverse themselves before after reading polls, so I want to see a good public discourse out there,” Prof. Jaccard said. “I would say this is not a done deal at all.”
Prof. Jaccard is a member of B.C.’s Climate Action Team, which was formed to provide feedback to the province’s plan to cut greenhouse-gas emissions one-third by 2020. He is also a special adviser to the cabinet committee on climate action.”
http://tinyurl.com/4rasym (g-m)
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So the Libranos and their apologists are psychics, Obama is the incoming President??
The Liberals are so generous with feeding the best material ever to the Conservatives for their election ads and STRAIGHT FROM THE HORSE’S MOUTH!
Poor Dion, the epitome of the Nutty Professor, the total package.
the math is izzy, halberta hand sas cat chewwan wit 10% hove de pipples will pay 40% hove da tax. when dey jobs fail dey will go to huniversity to become smart like me. – Borat Dion.
did any one see the other genius RalphG explaining that the benefits and the programs are so complex that the great unwashed just dont understand them yet.
Could the noose on tightening on Ralphy G at last?
Ralphie’s frequent appearances on Mike Duffy Live have made him appear to be a bitter, sanctimonious, blindly partisan whiner who cannot accept the fact that the voters sent his party packing three years ago.
He so often speaks using the tired opener, “the fact of the matter is….” in between interruptions of others, if not hogging most of the airtime for himself.
I would enjoy Ralphie’s smackdown whenever it comes.
Me & the wife got our Eco-bribe cheques in the mail . . $200 bucks. Woo Hoo . . . a beer budget supplement for our Dominion Day parties.
Thnx Gordo . . . for trying to bribe me with my money so you can chase the Greenie Jeanie.
How many years of global cooling has to happen before the environmental Emperor is seen to be buff nekkid ??
We are on year 11 now . . . and counting.
It ain’t a Green plan…. it’s a MEAN PLAN!!!! now that we are being clobbered by gas prices we are getting a Mean tax from Gordo thanks another Lieberal government at work. Just wait if little kermit dion gets in power we will all get to go to university and save da poler bears. NOT!
Cheers Bubba
And that the Liberal Green Shift was necessary to submit to demands of US Congress and an incoming President Obama for “clean” oil.
Nobody is an incoming President until the election has been held. Moreover, I would have thought that it was bad form, at the very least, and possibly a violation of diplomatic protocols, for an elected official to comment on another country’s pending elections.
Hey cal2,just caught Ralphie on ctv,and he appears a little more agitated than usual!I read somewhere,that he is saying that he hasn’t heard any negative feedback from his riding,but methinks his squirming tells another story.Bigger ‘blue sweep’ in the West come next election,and hopefully we won’t have to suffer thru one more appearance by ralph on the political shows!!!
For those wishing to glimpse the future after the Green Shift, go to your nearest grocery store, and stand in the produce section. The green produce that you see now will be shifted off the displays of the future.
Perhaps the empty produce sections can be leased out for safe injection sites.
Fortunately Dion and his idiots are overlooking to laws: For every action there is a reaction and the law of unintended consequences. If, as a manufacturer, it is cheaper for me to produce in China, where they don’t care about the environment and global warming, I am going to shut down my shop and move there leaving a number of Canadians out of work. But in a shrinking economy they can go to the U of S where they will be indoctrinated by left wing thinkers and all will be well —- provided they learn to drive a taxi.
Dion’s plan has NO money set aside for funding research. In any university. Or elsewhere.
He requires the full 15 million for his bribing of the citizen to vote for him.
There is no money for research. No money to develop new technology. No money for low cost loans to enable our very own Canadian factories to install whatever new technology is developed. None.
Dion needs all that money to bribe we voters. And particularly, in the East – Ontario and Quebec.
Note that Steve Janke of Angry in the Great White North has clearly shown that the data shows that there cannot be any reduction of carbon emissions in Dion’s plan. None. He requires no reduction because he requires all the tax money to fund his bribery of us.
Exactly right – what is Dion saying about the ‘incoming president Obama’? Is he doing his very own NAFTA-gate? Is he interfering in the US election? Well?
And is he just a patsy of the US govt? Is that the type of Canadian govt he plans to set up?
Ralphie is squirming.
he hasnt heard any negative feedback because his constituents have stopped talking to him.
he will receive a sizable pension, but will be one of those with no legacy. out to the dustbin of history, the ugliest possible fate for an ego politician.
Dion is further explaining his tax plan, as essentially, not taking money from ‘Canadians’. Oh no. It’s taking money from The Multinationals, who are always an Evil Other in socialist thinking.
The way he sees it, most of the big industries that emit carbon in Canada are – well, they are foreign-owned. He doesn’t explain how many and he doesn’t explain why. The reason is that Canadian taxes are so high that we haven’t developed an Investor Class in Canada and so we rely heavily on foreign investors to build our factories. We just are employees in them.
OK – so, he’s got his basic Evil Guys. The multinationals who own our industries. He plans to tax them – and give their money to Canadians. Remember, they are all, according to him, Others. They are Multinationals. Not Canadians. He ignores that the employees are all Canadian.
What will these foreign multinationals do who are polluting our skies (again, he merges emissions with pollution, which are two different things)? Why, according to Dion, they’ll INVEST!!!
They’ll invest MORE of their money (they keep it stashed in a bank in Switzerland or under their bed). They’ll invest in Clean Technology! To evade the taxes!
Terence Corcoran in the NP writes, from an interview with Dion, that Dion claims that
“The carbon tax load on energy corporations will also be less onerous for Canadians, says Mr. Dion, because much of the industry is foreign-owned. If anybody loses, he says, it might be foreign shareholders. Canadians, especially in energy-producing provinces, will benefit because firms will boost investment to avoid the carbon tax and take advantage of lower general corporate tax rates.”
Note that Dion’s isolationist economic ‘mode of thought’ ignores that what happens in the global economy will affect Canada. He is utterly indifferent to that foreign shareholder, who won’t necessarily invest money- which they don’t have because it’s all been taxed away by the Canadian govt’. They’ll pull out and go to China and India and Mexico.
Corcoran continues:
“Here’s how he sees the growth boom from taxation. “I think it’s very good for Saskatchewan and Alberta.” At the end of the day, the taxes will “attract a lot of investment [from around] the world. These companies are multinationals. If you ask them to invest in reduced emissions, they will invest in Canada…. This will happen if you tax the carbon.”
But — I asked — it’s only logical that if you carbon tax industry, you can also expect job losses and lower investment. It’s not a question he answers.
Mr. Dion put the carbon tax in the context of his corporate tax reductions and incentives for investment in new green technology. “You will see a lot of investment in these two provinces precisely because we will ask these multinational companies to invest ? to decrease their emissions and save taxes.”
That’s insane. How can he think that if you tax a multinational company, that they will react by investing MORE money? Does his govt provide low cost loans to help that company install new technology? No. Does his govt provide money for research to actually develop the new technology? No.
He uses it all to bribe voters, particularly in the East.
Dion informs us that Europe has had ‘great success with carbon taxes’. NO – IT HASN’T.
Corcoran continues: “Foreign experience with carbon taxes as economic policy is far from the unequivocal success Mr. Dion talks about. He seemed unaware of the record of job losses and uneven economic performance recorded in Europe in the wake of various environmental taxes and energy price moves.”..After more than a decade of rampant green taxation and regulation, a sort of lab test for every policy fantasy known to economists and politicians, Europe essentially ended up proving the policies really didn’t work.”
What’s Dion plan about? Tax and bribe. It has nothing to do with the environment. Nothing. It’s a plan to get him into power – and when it doesn’t work environmentally – heck, he’ll blame, oh, the Americans. Or someone. And when it is disastrous economically, he’ll blame..or, the Americans. Or someone. But the primary agenda is to bribe the voter to get him into office.
Who would you trust regarding this Green Plan…Harper the Economist, or Dion the Sociology Professor? I just can’t come up with any publicly acceptable words to describe my thoughts on Dion and this blatant plan to transfer wealth to Central Canada.
I hope Gormley leads the charge for Western separation. Its time has come.
Gosh, the University of Regina campus will end up covering half of Saskatchewan what with all those new research facilities for green technology employing a million former energy workers and farmers!
Darned clever fellows these Liberals…
I especially love Dionsky’s comment about the world price of oil being a dampener on increasing gas prices due to carbon tax on extraction and refinenement of oil Hey idiot, there is no world price on gasoline. A first year economics student would not make this mistake, unless they wanted to fail their first mid term paper. Hey professor, you just failed your first carbon tax test.
Ralphy looks like the original hick on a Saturday night, always there with lard in his hair and his ears tied back with haywire.
Ralphy has been cruising for a smack down, he’s long overdue. His desperation played out in the HOC and on the political shows or anywhere he appears is palpable. He just can’t contain his anger. Can’t be good for his health.
Alberta already has a carbon tax of $15 per tonne paid by industry. …since July 1st , 2007.
Millions have been paid in carbon taxes into this Innovation Fund which pays for R&D for energy alternatives .
We did not need Dion to big brother us or control and punish us to “do the right thing”.
He can take his Marxist nanny state elitist academic blatherings and stick them where the sun don’t shine as far as I am concerned. If Canadians are stupid enough to vote for this eccentiric radical egotistical social engineering freak then I would be at the front of the line to build that firewall around Alberta and the west.
The fact that so called “smart” media are actually applauding this tells me that Liberal slime runs deep in this country- personal gain over the country’s good.
Make s me sick.
Dion says that the reduction in corporate taxation rates will cause investments to increase in those same corporations. He says that the reduction will be from 22.12% to 14%. He’s lying.
It’s the Conservatives, in their 2007 budget, who reduced those corporate tax rates to 15% from 22.12. Got that? The Conservative 2007 budget reduced corporate tax rate from 22.12 to 15% by 2012. Four years.
Dion’s ‘tax reduction’ would be only ONE PERCENT of that. To 14%. But the Conservative 2007 budget was the one that reduced it by almost 7%. Note Dion. Yet he’s claiming credit. He doesn’t tell you that his reduction is only 1%.
Just as he claims that personal income taxes will be reduced by TEN PERCENT! Liar. His planned reduction is from 15% to 13.3%. That’s a 1.5% reduction. Not ten percent. He’s misinforming us, he’s being intellectually dishonest by his manipulation of the figures.
Oh, and the Conservative 2007 budget also allowed manufacturers to write off capital investments in machinery within a two year 50% allowance.
And, the Conservative 2007 budget increase the lifetime capital gains exemption for small business from 500,000 to 750,000. The first increase in nearly TWENTY years.
So much for the Liberals.
Dion lives in a fictional seminar world, a world totally alienated from reality, from real people working in non-govt funded jobs. Remember, Dion has only worked in the safe havens of tenured, pensioned, automatic promotion govt jobs (academic, political). He has no experience of business, no experience of capitalist competition, no experience of meeting a payroll, no experience of dealing with customers. No experience of foreign competition. None.
He lives in a purely fictional world, where, when he says that IF you tax the Evil People, the multinationals who OWN our industries, THEN, they will invest lots and lots of money to prevent those taxes.
It never occurs to him that those same shareholders won’t invest lots and lots of money. They’ll simply pull up and invest lots and lots of money in China, India, Mexico and elsewhere.
It never occurs to Dion that his smooth statement that the ‘University of Regina’ will get lots of money for research to develop the new technology, doesn’t examine where that lots and lots of money will come from.
His plan has NO investment for research. So, who is funding all this presumed future research? He doesn’t know and after all, its HIS Seminar.
Dion lives in the fictional isolate world of the seminar room. He has no clue about reality.
This is not just an east-west hosing it is an urban-country hosing.
Canada has grown strong on its resource based industries: fishing and agriculture, forestry, oil and gas and mining. All of these resource commodities support our standard of living and support our urban lifestyle.
So our city dwelling environmentalists are actually electing to starve themselves without agriculture, freeze themselves without energy and expose themselves without shelter provided by mining and forestry.
The green movement is more than just biting the hand that feeds them and you. They are in fact choosing to exterminate themselves.
Dion is the gift that keeps on giving. Prediction: less than 10 LPC seats west of the lakehead.
Dion’s Green shift is,of course, nonsense and worse than that,it is destructive nonsense.
Dion is the Mad Hatter.
Talking to some folks I was amazed at how many believe it is a good idea. They have not considered the implications of this plan.
I hope that the CPC war-room is up to the job of deflating this balloon and not with cartoons either. (I’m thinking 30 sec. TV ads near news times)
My belief is that the greatest task is to sway the well-intentioned voters who might fall for Dion’s plan. This will be difficult with the MSM syncophants drooling at the prospects of a lib return and actively pumping Dion’s plan along with abetting the scandal du jour tactics we have seen.
I wonder what we can do to help in this battle?
Your thoughts?
Somewhere out there,Rae is smiling and iggy is smirking. This summers BBQ tour will be a slow roasting of the absent-minded professor and his sidekick Garth. There is not a chance in Hell that the deficiencies in this green shift were overlooked. The next wave of liberal power has set Dion up for a big fall,and strapped the problem child to his back.
You gotta know exactly how much support Dion has within the Lieberal ranks when he has to resort to having Garth Turncoat toadying around with him.
Dopey McCallum has written a column or two about the great idea Dion’s Shaft is, he’s not the brightest beyond his own mind. Iggy pop is off setting us straight on immigration, no credibility there, they voted for the Conservative Bill, what’s to sell?
Buffalo Bob is busy sucking up to the folks in and around Tronna and planning his strategy for the next leadership. He’s got THE POWER behind him. Iggy’s sort of flying on his own.
As a card carrying Harper Conservative, I’m not terribly impressed with the Conservative carbon emissions reduction plan, which is aimed at 35 major emiters, mostly in Alta. and Sask. Coal, oil and gas, potash, and manufacturing. It does however spread the pain more evenly. The Liberal plan is NEP heavy not lite. It hammers everyone but rewards the indigent and single moms. I also would not count on the U.S. doing much as legisation has to pass congress, senate and Pres.
A Strategic Counsel poll by Globe and Mail has gone horribly wrong for Dion.
I sure the earlier pre-written headline of “Global Warming Fears Boost Dion Green Plan: Poll” hit the circular file with a dismal plot.
As for Goodale, I am sure all the good people in Saskatchewan will enjoy their Lib free status after the next election.
We don’t need to break Canada up in a ‘divorce’ over Dion’s wild-eyed plan. What we need is a trial separation. Manitoba and West get Stephen Harper as PM and the Conservatives in power and Kenora and East get Stephan Dion and the Liberals. After four years, we see who is better off and reconcile under the most successful party. Shouldn’t politics be based on common sense?
My favorite Dionism:
“Da plan will ave much for rearal Canadians.”