PUBLIC servants are drawing up plans to collapse 33 climate change schemes run by seven departments and eight agencies into just three bodies run by two departments under a substantial rewrite of the administration of carbon abatement schemes under the Coalition.
Coalition climate action spokesman Greg Hunt briefed public servants on the dramatic restructure of the federal climate change bureaucracy before the election was called and yesterday confirmed the Coalition was committed to proceeding with the plan.
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The Climate Change Authority, which sets emissions caps, the Climate Commission, which has conducted research into climate change, and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, which funds renewable technologies, are all slated to be abolished under the plans.
Oddly enough, I’m having a hard time pulling up mention of this development in Canadian media party coverage.
Via JoNova. (h/t Fred)
Dub it America’s “Colorado Spring”. Snatching the republic back from the hands of those bent on destroying it.
“…An Abbott government will need to legislate if it seeks to abolish the Climate Change Authority, which is proceeding with work on a draft report about emissions reductions targets that is due to be completed next month. In the wake of Labor and Greens declarations that they would oppose the abolition of carbon pricing,…”
I’ll call it a 180 when Abbot has abolished the Climate Change Authority.
All cuts are good cuts.
However, I will be much more impressed when the Abbot regime cuts TAXES instead of just budgets. Moving money and people around is nice, slapping Liberals in the face is nice, but TAX CUTS are progress.
Because you’re not free if you have no frickin money.
So the bureaucracy is already reversing direction before the government is even sworn in? Guess they know which way the wind is blowing and that it is a strong one.
PM Harper should take note.
He has being buying a relative silence from the Greenie Hysterics, paying them to be relatively quiet.
Start by freezing budgets and especially NGO grants. Then cut a little bit and the a little bit more and then . . .
Paying attention, Harper?
This is how you take action on important campaign promises. Not abandoning those who supported you and instead mimicking your foes so you can hopefully broaden your base and stay in power longer.
Harper makes a perfectly serviceable liberal.
Well, Harper WAS a big time admirer of Pierre Trudeau.
Say it isn’t so….Ontario is paying people not to use the power they produce from their solar panels? This is the province that is producing so much surplus power it’s selling it real cheap to the US.
Wonderful news – repeal of the UN climate summit edicts – now repeal the UN agenda 21 legislation done in bad faith and in breach of public trust – then prosecute the executive and administrative scum who enacted law from a foreign unelected governing body. Of course there should be charges of malicious prosecution for all the poor souls caught in so called violation of any regulations which are based on the state’s unfounded presumption of CO2 being a poison/pollutant.
Geez, how is everyone missing the important message here?
This government was elected on MONDAY. Already, they are making major changes. When Maggie Thatcher was first elected, she
brought down a budget in two weeks. That’s government in action.
Joe Clark gets elected, dithers for 9 months, finally brings in a budget – boom, defeated. L’il Stevie Harper gets elected, waits for months to bring down his budget – he was lucky the Liberals picked Dion and Iggy for the next round of fights, else he might have had the same fate.
You’re conservative, you’re unpopular, you’re going to do unpopular things – why do you wait, and give the opposition time to recuperate and reflect (and let the blood dry, as the knives have just come out) instead of acting?
We could learn a thing or two from the real conservatives out there.
Wind Concerns Ontario ran a story on it, here: http://www.freewco.blogspot.ca/2013/09/is-renewable-energy-finished-in.html
You may also be interested in a posting from today’s Montreal Gazette. Ontario has truly gone nuts. http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Ontario+idle+wind+farms/8897345/story.html
Reduced to two departments?
That would be two departments too many!
There is absolutely no need for any departments dealing with the climate.
I’ll attenuate my excitement for now.
Agree with KevinB – once elected, Conservatives should use shock and awe governing tactics to get things done fast. If only we could get a Conservative gov’t in place in Ontario to do that…
Meh. Sounds like he’s opting for more ‘efficient’ climate ‘action’ when he should be opting for no climate action no departments.
Abbott is securing future victories by, well, being useful. The carbon tax was a very unpopular one. He is getting to the root of it.
Just my quick thoughts.
KevinB, you get a bingo for that.
LAS, exactly.
In Alberta we JUST had a bloodletting of senior manager at the Health department.About frickin time.
Here’s what happened: EIGHTY (80)V.P.’s pared down to, get this… TEN (10).
We lost our air ambulance this spring and the Municipal airport (spitting distance from hospital row) is closing.
You must live in a riding that voted for the Wildrose party, eastern paul. Cuts in Alta seem ‘targeted’ from all I have heard.
KevinB I think you are being unjustly critical of PMSH. Our PM, with Lord Moncton, was one of the main reasons the Hopinhagan Agenda 21 fest failed! (the follow up to the Keyoto thingie but much worse). PMSH refused to jump on board with all the hoppin hags (including the then PM from Australia) unless All the world polluters signed (China, India, Russia…). He was presented with the dinosaur award from the enviro wackos. The world may thank Canada and our PM, sane scientists and Lord Moncton for rescuing them from slipping into the filthy bowels of world slavery. The berry Oh! drones are far from Aussie; a few feet from Canada. Geography matters.
I do congratulate all Aussies and wish their new sane, solid, steadfast PM and his M.P.s success. Good to see the of shoots of the Honorable Mr. Howard (not a coward) steering the ship of state in the Land Down Under. Cheers!
Amazingly, B.C. re-elected a Liberal gov’t because they recalled the 90’s under an NDP gov’t.
Nonetheless, the Liberals have retained their hated carbon tax and are staunch believers in ‘climate change’.
Today a paper was leaked from B.C. Hydro saying rates would rise 24% over the next two years and the Minister quickly responded that it wouldn’t be 24% – meaning that it will be a little less, for purely political reasons. No gov’t anywhere seems capable of grasping the idea of reducing budgets and departments. It’s all about the revenue and the B.C. Liberals insist on taking what they call a ‘dividend’ from B.C. Hydro that numbers in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
So the rate increase is in fact simply another form of taxes. We increase your rates and give it to the gov’t to spend…. that’s a tax, not a rate increase.
I hope that Mr. Abbot is successful in actually shrinking the size, scope and cost of gov’t for the Australians and provide a beacon of hope to conservatives everywhere.