The Financial Post’s Peter Foster:
“Eco radicals have a highly flexible approach to public participation, but little or no flexibility on its allowable conclusions. When it comes to forcing a green agenda on people – say, via removing the right to object to local wind farms in Ontario — they are all in favour. When it comes to new pipelines, however, they believe in the widest possible consultation, but with only one acceptable decision: Ban them.”
Read the rest here. And whenever you read the National Post, don’t forget to stop by the FP Comment section, where you tend to find many of the best and most informative columns.
The watermelon manifesto:
– we don’t need pipelines because the oil stays in the ground everywhere in Canada. Not Saudi Arabia, not Algeria – Canada Because were a climate pariah nation who only last year increased atmospheric CO2 by gasp, .0125%.
– just tax the “rich” (the 1%, basically bankers who weren’t bailed out, other greedy capitalists, but not cool people like athletes and movie stars – or Michael Moore) way more so we can keep our cushy phoney baloney jobs.
– our superstars (Gore, Suzuki) have to jet around the world to re-educate other barbarians while you, the general polluting public, pay for our wise Gaia saving stewardship and, by sheer coincidence, Marxist philosophy.
– that will stimulate the new green economy and quadrupled energy prices will make the poor obviously better off (well maybe just purer), but finally freed from the tentacles of capitalists, the ones – you know – the ones that stopped the electric car. Ezra’s lying, he knows who they are.
– and Quebec doesn’t care if they don’t get to refine Western Canadian oil; no, they’re better than that, you’ll see.
Then I guess we just don’t need no stinking Health Care, or no stinking Jobs, or nor stinking Pensions, or no stinking Quebec Transfer Payments, or; or; or….
watermellons are an insignificant minority, ignore them
As often as the Post is referenced here I believe I just have to put a plug in for it. Reading it is great; buying a subscription is even better.
LINE NINE FINE
Ya, I have kinda gravitated to the FP since the NP has become just another liberal rag. Post Media aka canada.com are dead to me. The Calgary and Toronto Sun and canoe.ca have become my preferred legacy media sources. I no longer watch anything on CBC, CTV, Global and City, not to mention the “big three” down south of abc, nbc, cbs. I only watch Fox and Sun News. The rest is gleaned online. I have dropped out of the propaganda network.
Why is it whenever there is some screwed up far left wing agenda to push Clayton Ruby seems to be front and center? Perhaps Sun News needs to take a look deeper into not only Forest Ethics but into where the funding comes from for attacking guns,Rob Ford and now Line 9. Lawyers aren’t cheap and I doubt all this is being done pro bono.