26 Replies to “Radical Environmentalists & the CBC vs. Canada”

  1. Makes you want to puke. Man Ive had it with the CBC racket.
    Really I think a government probe ought to be investigating this. If our oil sands our bring attacked economically by Foreigners why are these charity organizations still counted as charities.
    I don’t care who gives money to who. But make it honest. If your on the take let the public know. If certain parties like the Saudis are participation of the slow down of our economy as well as out of control billionaires. We should be calling a spade a spade. This is economic mischief.
    I would ask too why our own tax dollars from Alberta are used to give to these same groups who want to kill our economy.
    This is outrageous.
    Its like giving aid money to China.
    Enough of this tax cannibalism.
    These folks can talk their heads off , but lets see who’s puppets they really are.

  3. It is truly stunning to me. Ezra is virtually single handedly steering much of the national narrative in the media in this country. And he is just getting started.
    This must just tie the socialist and anti Canadian propagandists that have had a virtual monopoly on what has passed as news for decades in Canada in knots.
    The circle jerks of mutual admiration (and sneering disdain towards the likes of Ezra)on the cocktail circuit in Ottawa must be getting mighty uncomfortable right now.
    How do you continue to pretend that you are superior to a schmuck like Ezra when he and Sun are simply beating the snot out of you six ways to Sunday?
    The smears did not work and now they are having to play defence.
    One man actually practicing what journalism is supposed to be, and by doing so is exposing the utter failure of others that have been pretending to do so, and there are precious, precious few who can say they have had the balls that Ezra has shown.
    For me the Source is simply the best hour on TV period.
    And I have the feeling that Ezra is just starting to find his legs. The smug bastards (hello Mr Mansbridge et al) who have consistently buttered one anothers bread in the media in this country, really have no idea how to counter Ezra.

  4. On behalf of 13 yr old skater punks I propose to take back the word “radical”.
    Radical should be used to describe a 1080 flipside mctwist instead of mercenary activists.
    Words like “douchenozzle and f#@kwit work for me to describe these so called environmentalists.

  5. Words like “douchenozzle and f#@kwit work for me to describe these so called environmentalists.
    Oh wow, name calling sure will stop them won’t it.

  6. My gut is telling me that these same orgs used their influence during the last election.
    EC must be investigating……..right?
    They are right……
    Why do I hear crickets?

  9. What I want to know is what is the agenda of these anti oil sands people. Are they making money from, or in some way support, other oil producing countries? Are they making money from the green energy racket? Or are they just anti humanity? Do they think they are really doing to “save the planet”? Have they thought through the personal ramifications of getting what they want (going back to the stone age and staving and freezing to death in the dark)? It’s either treason, rent seeking or insanity and they must be stopped. It might come down to the need to be violently stopped before they kill us all. I can only assume they they think they might be among the lucky few that survive the famine that will accompany a world without oil.

  10. North 60 are you a grumpy old man?
    You might have missed the point
    >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    there it went, flew right passed ya
    look up radical, juxtapose with mercenary activist after looking up mercenary take a pill and call me in the morning.
    Posting what I think of people who pay others to attempt to hijack Canadian democratic due process and the people who accept payment for same in two words is my personal opinion.
    So in the language of my generation –
    “GET OFF MY D1CK”

  11. Wow!
    What could possibly be said to defend these actions by Canadian government bodies?

  12. This is a surprise to whom? This is the roll that environmentalists have been taking against all of my employers in the last 15 years. It’s nice that they have the proof of foreign funding in a form even CBC’ites can’t pooh-pooh (though I’m sure they will, anyways).

  13. You know I expect the government to make mistakes and do things that make you wonder but this is crazy and unforgivable. Harper has no choice on this any more he needs to stop this garbage immediately. And privatize the CBC and this is just another reason to do so…as well another reason I will be voting for the wild rose I may even campaign for the party.

  14. C_Miner, it’s not a surprise to me either, and I’ve been following this for the past 20 years. When you go into any government consultation, the ENGO position is always the one favoured by the government participants irrespective of what party is in power. The reason for this is that all of this work is done and handled at the bureaucratic level.
    These are the same bureaucrats that are shovelling position papers and memoranda at the upper tiers of the ministry. You just have to look at the scale of things. For example, in the 1940s, the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Resources had a couple of hundred bureaucrats total. Today, Natural Resources Canada has tens of thousands.
    And you have a Minister who changes on average every 18 months. There’s literally no time to understand the full workings of a big department before the Minister is shuffled off somewhere else. Just to get a full handle on the scope of government bureaucracy takes a government at least a decade.
    And some Ministers are better at this than others. Why is Jason Kenney still running Immigration? Because he’s been very effective in getting full control of it very quickly. Why was Rona Ambrose dumped from Environment? Not because she’s stupid or incapable. She was removed because she simply couldn’t get control of a department which was and perhaps still is in a state of mutiny against Tory policy. Having a weak Deputy Minister made life impossible for her.
    What people do not seem to realize is that over the decades groups develop relations with various government departments and branches in a host of connections, personal and institutional. Over the years these lead to all kinds of actions and joint initiatives. Like barnacles on a ship hull these grow deeper and more complex over time. It is quite literally virtually impossible to keep track of all of the discussions and collaborations that government has with NGOs. There’s hundreds of thousands of them.
    As a ruling governing party, not only is it virtually impossible to control all of this activity, it’s virtually impossible to simply know what conversations are taking place. This was the principal reason for the lobby registry. Quite often, the leaders at the top don’t know what’s going on down below. With a weak Minister and an ineffective Deputy, you can have all kinds of things going on that are not watched or even fit into any kind of government current policy.
    The sheer size of modern government makes it so.
    And sheer size of government is not simply something that can be downsized or wished away. There are hundreds of statutes on the books as laws of Canada that require government action. That means ministries have to employ people to carry out that action. So you cannot have a meaningful bureaucratic reform until you have a legislative reform, a comprehensive look at what the law requires the government to do.
    And that takes decades.

  15. Folks,
    Remember Mr Harper is in the process of pruning the civil service in Ottawa…the saying “give them enough rope to hang themselves” also comes to mind…We’re in the middle of making huge cuts to DND and the CF right now…I can only hope that Mr Harper delineates between the departments that actually work for the betterment of Canada versus those that choose to side with foreign forces that wish to do all Canadians economic harm.

  16. minuteman, all of the above.
    cgh, hopefully PM Harper makes a start in reining this in and starting a reversal of the disease like growth of the civil service.

  17. That would be the same Rockefeller Fund started by John D. Rockefeller of Standard Oil. That was many generations ago, but you have to wonder about Fund’s motivation.
    Are they simply misguided environmentalists, or are they just taking out the opposition in a way that old John D. himself would have done? (Seriously, look up some of Standard Oil’s history, he would have been on this like a MP on a pension)

  18. I respectfully suggest that we all send our MPs and the PM an e-mail referencing Ezra’s newscast and demand that they cut those particular departments to a tenth of their current size or something to that effect. They call it “zero funding”…

  19. And the real fun is watching the headlines the next day, at CBC,nat newswatch and bourque getting shriller and shriller, kind of like a cornered rat as the shovel is in full swing, the screams of the leftie will still be echoing across Canada for some time, but the purge has started thanks to Sun news and a Conservative majority. The lies don’t work no more Toronto media party, we are not your little piss boys out here in the west, we know the truth, take your dirty Soros money invest it in Suncor or Sun news and look at the sunrise of a great time in Canada.

  20. Ken, absolutely.
    If Harper does nothing else in a decade except rein in the bureaucracy, it will be 10 years very well spent. But as I said, a lot of it exists because of statutory requirements, so there’s a lot of legislation that has to be overhauled as well.
    Now you see why a majority government is an absolute necessity for all this.
    Favill, the problem is that there are lots of people out there who have very different views than you and I regarding “betterment of Canada”.
    That’s why there’s all the arguments; that’s why there’s this immense plethora of government bureaucratic tasks. Over the past half century, the net effect has been to try to make government all things to all people. I for one would argue that cuts to DND are probably the wrong thing, as inevitably this will happen at the cutting edge and not the Ottawa HQ where it needs to happen.
    And across the board cuts don’t work either. A large part of Environment Canada’s mandate is things like the national weather monitoring system. You can’t simply chop 90% of the budget. That always produces major failures in critical systems. You have to slice it by specific programs, and that takes time, a lot of time to do the analysis right. What we want is effective goverment doing those things we want it do to, not a collapsed government that does nothing right.

  21. The biggest mistake that Mulroney made was he didn’t clean house in the federal civil service. The place is infested with Liberal sycophants who are only too happy to make life miserable for any government that is to the right of Karl Marx.
    Not only does the government have to cut the federal civil service in a big way, it must do so with a keen eye to watching out for those Liberal plants.

  22. Joey, he started to. That’s what Erik Neilsen’s commission was all about when he was Deputy PM. But Cabinet rejected a lot of his recommendations and never implemented others. Remember, Mulroney was heavily dependent upon a truckload of Quebec ministers who were separatists in origin and again so later (Lucien Bouchard, for example.)

  23. “The cheques are gonna stop. Bet. On. It.”
    I wouldn’t bet that the cheques will STOP,the Conservatives seem to be seguing into Liberal-Lite territory lately. They started off with a “bang” but maybe the constant harping by the United Army of the Left is taking it’s toll.
    CBC: not a word of censure against them,in fact Minister Moore has recently defended them against SUN-TV.
    Long Gun Registry: still in limbo.It was supposed to be tabled for third reading in the House this past Monday,but has been delayed again,and not a word as to why or when.
    CWB: monopoly ended,but the Marketing Boards that cost us consumers so much in extra food bills,not a word.
    The NG pipeline: allowed to be mired in hearings that will delay the project for years.
    Indian Affairs: they held a “summit”,but what was decided? More pandering to the Chiefs?
    Preston Manning once said that any new government has to fire all the top civil servants as soon as they get into power. He was right. The Conservatives are undoubtedly being sabotaged from within by the senior CS,but Harper can and should order them to stop all anti-Canadian economy funding, which Ezra has just exposed for everyone to see.
    Ezra Levant does more positive work for Canada in fifteen minutes than all the environment groups and CBC together. I’d suggest him for the Order of Canada,but I respect him too much to see him in that pc group.
    The evidence is there now,Mr.Harper,it’s up to you to do something about it.

  24. The CBC should not be sold intact. It needs to be parted-out with no transfers of its existing staff otherwise the ideological toxicity would accompany the hardware.
    Having fought the Green Priests my entire adult life, there is no news there but I’m sure many people are getting a rude awakening. Good work Ezra!
    The watermelon-state theocracy is alive and well. Ezra has just started to put a little light on it.

  25. Harper is not stupid. He knows who’s p*ssing in his cornflakes and the list is growing. I would expect some real shakeups next year if my guess is right and he feels the mainstream Canadian is on his side. Still feeling out the mood in the general public with one eye on maintaining a majority. No rush.

  26. Great work, Ezra. You sound in a way like Glenn Beck, but far more composed and reasoned in discussing this insane state of affairs. How wonderful it is to have someone reveal the truth in such pointed and intelligent commentary. If you want fiction, look to the CBC and the CTV. If you want the facts, its Sun News TV.
    Here’s a tip for you. Ever wonder why there are no jobs available in the government employment office amidst the hundreds of thousands of government jobs in existence? Because government does not advertise them, save to their own employees first. For entry level jobs, the government only advertises on a short term contract, which allows them to avoid going public. That way the relatives and friends of the fortunate employees are able to see and apply for positions the public never sees.
    They will advertise senior management positions, but only to generate resumes and interviews to meet the numbers demanded. But no outsider will ever get the job. That person was selected long ago and is probably already working in the position. Its just to fulfill the departmental demands for an honest, or rather bogus, search.
    Regards,
    Gary Marshall

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