Ensure federal infrastructure funding does not go to expanding highways and roads.
Or to think of it another way – “Ensure the roadside memorials across our nation continue to bloom and grow”.
h/t reader Margaret M.
Ensure federal infrastructure funding does not go to expanding highways and roads.
Or to think of it another way – “Ensure the roadside memorials across our nation continue to bloom and grow”.
h/t reader Margaret M.
Slightly off topic, but now Dion is telling us that the green shaft is not a central plank in the election platform.
My chief concern over this is what is the fate of Kyoto?
The dog, not the treaty.
Will Dion simply rename the mutt?
Or will poor Kyoto disappear?
Someone better alert PETA and the SPCA.
Run Kyoto run, save yourself!
Now there’s a compelling election argument. Where can I get my “May For PM” button?
But one observation. Having one’s car idling at stop lights or in rush-hour traffic does little for the environment.
I think SDA broke the Green Party’s website…….
ROFLMAO!!!!
Who wrote those Green Policies? Sounds like the Municipal Plan of Bedrock. Did Fred Flintstone write them?
Whoops, back up now.
That’s an easy one rabbit. Just make sure you live in Kentville NS, where it is now illegal to idle for more than three minutes.
Don’t ya just love it when they pass laws that will never be enforced?
Its officially in … the list for a new name for Dion’s dog has been narrowed down to just two choices:
Choice #1)….DODO
Choice #2)….IDUNNO
Now comes the really hard part…
Dion has to make a decision
Back to the horse and buggyy. Start a whip company, you’ll get rich.
Hmm, with the roads going downhill I guess I’ll have to look into buying a small airplane to get around.
A chicken in every pot.
Pot for all the chickens.
“Double existing funding to stimulate a massive re-investment in public transportation infrastructure in all Canadian towns and cities to make it convenient, safe, comfortable and affordable”
Hmmmm, I wonder if these rocket scientists understand that this won’t do much good for the folks living in the country and villages of this country as they try and get around on unimproved roads….
Some pot in every chicken.
Stricker:
For bad roads you really do need a hummer. Definitely wouldn’t want to be out there with a smart car. Pot holes eat those things for lunch.
The law of unintended consequences raises its ugly head.
The Chinese tried the “green program” for forty years but are now building cars on a huge scale. Guess bicycles and bamboo shoulder poles lose their appeal when there is a choice.
CO2 is the feedstock for plants. Don’t the Greens love all plants?
From the document: “Excellent public transit and efficient housing in high-density nodes along existing transit corridors will make cities livable and people-friendly.”
You don’t get a driveway, Kate. You get to live in a “high density node”, aka large apartment building, which will no doubt be a rental. The mule will be pulling the “excellent public transit” tram in which you will be a strap-hanger. Standing room only, more efficient eh?
No doubt the trams will be on time.
The Green Party’s version of the Great Leap Forward.
seems to be a serious complaint against growth. Curiously there is no mention of immigration which is were all our population growth is coming from. How very strange?
Rabbit
“For bad roads you really do need a hummer.”
I love it.
Many years ago I bought a jeep. One dark night in a downpour, on a very rough road, I was being tailgated. The guy wouldn’t get off my rear end. So purposely drove into a few deep potholes.
He soon bottomed out and I left him behind in the mud.
Lesson for Ellie May.
Poor roads will only encourage the purchase of 4WDs.
“The guy wouldn’t get off my rear end. So purposely drove into a few deep potholes.”
Also fun: Equipping winter tires and going around a corner quicker than they can.
“Curiously there is no mention of immigration”
They never make that connection, and it’s usually the same group of people yelling about growth, but favoring immigration. I seem to remember the Sierra Club in California dared to mention the environmental impact of illegal immigration, and even that linkage got screamed down.
when are these green, bike riding assholes going realize they live in canada not california.
Have you ever seen (or smelled) the streets of Calgary after the Stampede parade has passed?
(hint: lots of horses)
A very high majority of people that live in cities have their electricity, heat, and tax bills included in their rents.
It’s the same as their pay, they’re taxed at the source.
Susequently they’re in a state of bliss with no real concept of how much these cost.
All they know is that when their rent increases, it’s because of a greedy landlord.
When you see how the large urban centres vote, by and large, this disconnect becomes apparent.
Thats why all the leftist parties have platforms with Mays type of rhetoric.
Green Party MPs will:
“Increase federal funding for pedestrian, cycle and car-sharing infrastructure in towns and cities.
Double existing funding to stimulate a massive re-investment in public transportation infrastructure in all Canadian towns and cities to make it convenient, safe, comfortable and affordable.
Make transit passes tax-deductible to encourage workers and businesses to use public transport and provide financial support to provinces that provide free public transit passes to people living below the poverty line.
Cancel all funding for specific highways and bridge expansions (like the Gateway Program in Greater Vancouver) that encourage urban sprawl, increase private vehicle use, truck transport of goods and consequently increases greenhouse gas emissions.
Ensure federal infrastructure funding does not go to expanding highways and roads.”
More city people, more lefty voters.
That FACT that Canada is almost 5000 miles wide, escapes these wizards.
I thought Greens were vegetarians. Shouldn’t that be organic tofu in every pot?
The problem with the Green Party (in my opinion) is that some of their policies actually make some sense …
For example, years ago I heard that the Railroads used far less fuel to transport goods and passengers and were (mostly) abandoned because the low cost of fuel made the price difference between railroads, trucks and airplanes not a major issue. If you make the assumption that we’re heading towards $200/Barrel oil in the future it makes sense to reinvest into the railroad in order to maintain our standard of living.
At the same time, the green party seems to focus to heavy on ideals and not enough on practical solutions which means that most of their policies are pretty bad.
Although, when you think about it, the Green party may be the best thing that happened to the Conservative party in a long time. The Green party is (probably) going to see a 4% to 10% increase in their popular vote results in this election which will (primarily) come from the Liberals and NDP supporters, which means that if the Conservatives get the exact same people to vote for them they will (potentially) end up with a majority government.
“convenient, safe, comfortable and affordable”
Please notice: No mention of “fast”
Canada is, as noted, an extremely large country.
The Green Plan reminds me of the vast ugly apartment complexes of the Kruschev era in Moscow. These are not ‘friendly’ areas and ther’s no pride of ownership. Their suggestion that you can travel everywhere, by public transit or bicyle is naive in the extreme. How about lugging your groceries and three children with you?
You cannot do without the car. Furthermore, the Greens (and Liberals) ignore that our suburban sprawl means that residences are far from work. Do we really have the economic means to insert public transit in each and every far-flung suburb? No.
Why should everyone live on a public transit line? Why shouldn’t we live on quiet, tree-lined, garden-filled sidestreets? Why do the Greens insist that we all live on the noisy, dirty main street?
Notice their emphasis on farmers. Great. But, kindly remember that Canada moves into ‘No Growth’ for approximately 6-7 months of the year. Our food has to be trucked in – all those oranges and lettuce in December require roads to travel on. And not pot-holed roads; but good roads.
NoOne- agreed, the Greens (and the Liberals) are big on utopian visions. Not very handy with practicalities.
Frankly Lizzie, it is because you are delusional and ignorant.
Quote of the day from Ottawa Sun op-ed page (09.19.08):
“I’m getting very tired of discussing my electoral prospects with national media who talk to me as though I’m delusional or ignorant” – Green party Leader Elizabeth May on the race for a seat in Central Nova.
You can’t make this stuff up.
Hilarious.
Let’s see, aunt Bea. You Have 4 to 10 percent of those polled who agree with you.
Maybe the other 90 to 96 percent think you’re delusional. Got any more pies in the window for people who won’t drive anymore.
I’ll be only too happy to trade my SUV in for a horse just as long as they’ll let me wear six-shooters and carry a lever gun.
Looks like another part of their plan is to revitalize the railroads. Goody! I always wanted to rob trains…
Bet your boots the chickens would be organic too!
May did deliver some organic pumpkins and other veggies to a farmers market couple of weeks ago.Not clear if she has her own poop fertilized garden though.
“More roads don’t solve the problem, they make it worse, quickly filling up with more cars.”
Hmm, that Green Logic has a certain…je ne sais quoi:
“New housing won’t solve the world’s population problem, it just makes it worse, quickly filling up with more families.”
“More hospitals won’t solve the health-care shortage, they make it worse, quickly filling up with more sick people.”
For the first time ever, I’m actually looking forward to the debates.
Any of these greenies ever try to be a painter and use Toronto’s “excellent public transit”, they would soon run out and buy a really big old car.
Ladders are a beeatch on the subway, eh? And paint weighs 10lbs a gallon.
EBD,
Hmm, maybe the green party has some economists working on its platform.
“More oil drilling won’t solve the oil shortage, the effect of any increased supply will be negated by increased demand. $250 oil is unavoidable.”
This is what comes of the new disease that has reached epidemic proportions in Canada and the US…
Cranio-Rectal Inversion (CRI). The most common symptoms include seeing only Sh!t and having Sh!tty ideas.
The Green and Liberal Parties may be repositories for this dreaded illness. Doctors are advising people to stay at least 30 metres away from Green and Liberal candidates during the election period, when most people are susceptible to the disease.
Please send money to help us fight this scourge.
I do not know about the envirotards down in latteville, but up here in knuckledragger country they all seem to live out in the boonies.
How on earth are these leftoids going to get back and forth to their rural palaces if the roads are not maintained? It sure is going to be awful tough on their volvos and subarus.
IDIOT ENVIROTARDS!
Monsooer Dion da Fwench geeneeus as da nu doog ee es calling heem fuk-f-I-know.
Cheers Bubba
Some chicken, some pot!
This epitomizes the divorce of notional authority from real responsibility — promise whatever, given that you know you’ll never be held to account to actually deliver on any of this blather. Promise the moon. And why not? The promises are free. This exists to some extent in all political platforms, but the Greens have taken it (token it?) to new levels of absurdity — unworkable solutions for imaginary problems.
“The Green Plan reminds me of the vast ugly apartment complexes of the Kruschev era in Moscow.”
Imagery always helps with the undecided, easily manipulated vote.
Green is actually grey. And ugly.
Nice one, ET.
C’mon guys….it sounds like utopia to me.
All kidding aside, if one were to follow the Green party plan assuming they had the power to implement it….
Whoa got to get a aspirin. My head is spinning
Hey, I happen to love chicken pot pie in spite of what Pammy Anderson says.
I recently heard (ergo, hearsay evidence) that Halifax public transit ridership was up. Unfortunately, so was transit crime. From the news I gather that Calgary’s LRT system is turning into the place to get robbed and stabbed in Cow Town.
I say! Smart Growth! Well that’s original!
The only probklem is that noone knows what it is but everytime it has been tried, it has failed.
A warm planet is a happy planet 🙂
Actually Tex, transit ridership is up here in Halifax. On two routes.
The ones they added the express runs into town on, so instead of 45 minutes to travel 20 km, it is now 15.
The rest of the routes? Empty as ever.
This whole nonsense would go away if we reformed the electoral system. Proportional representation, I say!
By area!
Election one MP for every 100,000 sq. km.
Don’t laugh too hard, Lizzy might get a seat in parliament yet. It’s not reported too widely, doesn’t fit the agenda of the media, but the young Liberals are out campaigning for Lizzie in her Central Nova riding. So much for her not having any deal with the Liberals! Fibber jib.
The Greens are cranks and crackpots.
No amount of marketing will ever quite cover up the fact that they are a fringe party for political lunatics.
A warm planet is a happy planet 🙂
Yeah, one of the funniest comics I’ve seen on the subject is two old naked guys sitting on a park bench with all these voluptuous naked women strutting around and one was saying to the other: “Boy I’m sure glad I lived long enough to see global warming!”
Elizabeth M doesn’t appear to be starving by any stretch of the imagination. Seems selfish of her to wish starvation, cold and darkness on everyone else.
Hypocrite.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g0MDjrl32M