Pleasing Your Enemies Does Not Turn Them Into Friends

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  2. It’s almost like we elected the wrong guy as leader of the party

    1. almost, heh I didn’t but someone did. Scheer is just another milquetoast liberal lite. Canada now has a carbon tax until the end of time or we go bankrupt.

  3. And that’s why I vote left. If you can’t present an actual right of centre candidate, burn it down.

    1. I share your sentiments.
      Whichever party comes out and says they will resist the climate change BS is who I vote for.
      If that’s the independent in my riding or the libreaterian so be it.

  4. This guy is 100% bang on. Screw Climate Change…nothing but a Damned wealth transfer.

    I am sick and tiredness of this appeasement on this file from Scheer. And doing so will not help the Conservative cause.

    1. Ya, time to cross the floor and wipe that grin off your face, Andy Baby.
      Funny we did not peg you as an extortionist.
      Never trusted you anyways, you are a mole. There are men, and there are MEN, real ones…

      For. GOD ‘S . SAKE. LEAVE.

      THROW. THE . GRIN. OUT. OR. START. A. LIBERTARIAN . PARTY.
      REDUCE. GOV. BY. 50 % IT. IS. TOO. BLOATED. & BUSTING.

  5. New leader will be picked in 2020 after Trudeau is re-elected.
    Next chance for conservative government is 2024 or in 6 years.
    Not news though, the article says that the CPC voted support in 2017.

  6. This is another example of why all the Conservative Party mail I receive goes straight to the garbage can.
    As time goes by, I become even more convinced that the Conservative loss was an inside job.

  8. At least they spelled his name correctly. Scheer is a child of Ottawa, born, raised in that culture, and his highest aspiration was to some day be a big wheel in politics, maybe even Prime Minister!

    The CPC is trying to portray Scheer as just one ‘a us reg’lar folks, but he isn’t, never was a member of our tribe, and never will be. Would he be a better PM than the incumbent? Of course,and I could name several dozen politicians who would do a better job, but The Conservative Saviour he is NOT.

    Scheer is a politician who saw opportunity with the CPC,and if he does win the coveted Top Job, will attend the same long weekend at Irving’s Lodge in New Brunswick as has every PM since Pierre 1, and they will give him his marching orders, which are: whatever is good for the power elite of Canada.

    And Andrew, being the fine gentleman he is, will do just as he’s told, as has every other PM. We might have all been better off if Bernier had won the CPC leadership, as Max has a streak of independence about him, but not our Andy, who will do his best to meet the expectations of the culture he was raised in, and if that means adhering to Paris/Kyoto, he’ll do his best to sell it to the masses.

  9. The reason he’s doing this is because the alternative-denouncing Paris-is risky and I hate to say likely politically untenable, especially in the long term. Opposition to Paris is associated with Trump, who is despised by normal Canadians, and young folk in particular want to see someone take the issue seriously. Coming out directly against Paris is a bad strategy in the short and long term. JJ McCullough is just projecting himself and his preferences onto the Canadian populace at large. The voters may want someone who puts the economy first, but they also want at least the pretense of science literacy.

    While I do not support Paris, it’s also clear that yes human CO2 emissions are warming the planet. That’s the data straight and simple. Scheer’s goal of lowering CO2 emissions without a carbon tax sounds ludicrous-to the uninformed. The US already did it thanks to fracking. What if Canada not only fracked, but took the chains off nuclear energy? That and the spread of 3d printing and automated driving will, I believe, reduce CO2 emissions a great deal. Solar, wind, and other ‘renewables’ need not apply.

    1. Or CO2 is increasing because the oceans are warming? Humans have likely scratched a minuscule fraction of 1% of the earth’s sequestered carbon. The earth has been warming for 20,000 years and the previous theory was that CO2 followed warming, not that warming followed CO2. Warmer seas dissolve less CO2 from the atmosphere.

        1. Yes, there ARE other explanations.
          Data manipulation.
          Manipulation of data stations.
          Cherry picked (and ignored) date.
          Bought and paid for scienticians.
          Erasing of the Little Ice Age. I could go on and on.
          Funny thing, I agree with first portion of your post. PMSH was playing the game, much as you described, one has to at least give the appearance of doing something about it to brainwashed ecotards. No taxes ever spurred growth, the Lib and ENDP plan is just to raise more revenue to waste on pet projects, FULL STOP.
          Until Gore, Suzuki, Trudy, Lizard, Barbie, Klein, Neil, and the rest of the eco-cabal stop flying, forever, and give up their YUGE carbon footprints of multiple homes and frequent flyer points, there is nothing to worry about. Their lifestyles show this is only political, and nothing more!

          1. Nope. Those explanations don’t cut it. There’s nothing wrong enough with the data to make the warming go away.

        2. The ‘warming’ became statistically irrelevant some time ago, hence the religion was rebranded as ‘climate change’.

        3. Look idiot, the “math” don’t add up. So FO with your ignorant bullshit. And the rate of warming is not unusual.

      1. You mean peer-reviewed studies? I’ll stick with the serious experts like Judith Curry and pass on pseudo-experts and their blogs.

        1. – The fact is, the Earth has not warmed for fifteen years – ever since the end of the last solar cycle, in fact. Coincidence?

          The other fact is, nothing I or anybody else can say, will convince you that CAGW is just a massive scam to suck ever more taxes out of us since they’ve run out of other excuses – you’ll have to figger it out yourself.

          The GOOD news is, nothing you can say will convince me or anybody else, either. The BETTER news is that you will figger it out eventually – lots of others have, the CAGW cause is bleeding supporters, the subsidies are being cut as governments realise they can’t buy voters with this nonsense – or afford to keep trying – anymore, and Al Gore and David Suzuki are out there alienating supporters everyday with their arrogance and hypocrisy. Oh, and none of your models works.

          – And the BEST news? – “You can’t fix stupid, but you can vote it out.” And (again, statistically) enough Canadians will figger this out eventually to send Shiny back to drama school.

        2. Peer Reviewed MY (_i_). More Like Govt paid so called Climate Scientists whom depend upon Govt. largesse for their monthly stipend and as such will ALWAYS say, “yep, you bet it’s CO2 thats doing it..uhuh yea”.

          Funny that two of the top UN IPCC Execs have stated publicly that Climate Change is NOT about the environment, rather it is all about “..changing the worlds economic model of the past 150 years..”
          Christina Figureres
          Ottmar Edenhofer

          Although the SUN is the primary driver of Climate on Earth…it simply wasn’t conducive to “monetization”
          Soooo, enter from stage LEFT: CO2

          This is a massive Wealth Transfer Scheme: Pushing Renewables to ostensibly reduce CO2 emissions throughout the Western Hemisphere Nations, built by Crony Capitalists, Financed by Direct Subsidies (FIT), all to ensure that Westerners PAY the highest prices for electricity world wide in order to create ENERGY POVERTY – that being the goal and the Hammer.

          Population Replacement via ME and African migrants who bring little to add to our Secular Democracies but Jihad, disease & strife, being the ANVIL.

          I give you my version of….
          The Globalist Plan to implement one world Government and global marxism.
          So far they are winning…and our useless Sack of dung in the PMO is 100% all in on this….

    3. “… they also want at least the pretense of science literacy. …”

      Yes. And speaking of a pretense of science literacy, here’s an excellent example: “…it’s also clear that yes human CO2 emissions are warming the planet. That’s the data straight and simple. …”

    5. Why was there a pause while emissions climbed? Correlation does not equal causation but when you don’t even have that WTF are you left with?

  10. While the Liberals can win with NDP policy, the Conservatives cannot, yet every generation they find an unappealing short peckered guy like Stanfield, Clark, and Scheer to give it a try. They also threw in Kim Campbell for food measure. Scheer will never be elected PM.

    1. “They also threw in Kim Campbell for food measure. ”

      Sometimes typos make the statement more accurate.

      “Scheer will never be elected PM.”

      That was my conviction until the India Terrorist business. That was surreal. Things have only gotten worse from there. The Economist has a story with a nice graph in it that shows the poll gap between the CPC and The Liberals. It’s been getting narrower and narrower over years. I’ve never seen a government blow so much political capital so efficiently.

      https://www.economist.com/news/americas/21740782-no-reason-liberals-be-complacent-anti-elitist-politicians-canada-are-courting

      The Liberals would do well to depose The Karate Kid and replace him with a boring blue liberal centrist. Try not to be a dick on guns, get KM built, and reign in spending.

      1. The Libs were in the wilderness until Kid Spawn showed up. They will not dump him, ever, he has to be defeated, and embarrassed to be turfed. It will be a difficult task, the CPC has to go for the throat to turf the Idiot, but based on the last campaign, I don’t hold out much hope for that strategy.
        While Scheer isn’t my first choice either, he is still better than any TruDOPE, ever. Listen to him, he is a very smart, eloquent, and engaging speaker, it surprised me that he is that good, and yes, he is adept at French as well. Better a candidate that is less than ideal, than allow your enemy to prevail (TruDOPE and his Lib minions)
        Sitting out the election gives it to Trudeau, fellas!

        1. Kid Spawn worked because Harper 1) didn’t know when the f*(ck to call time and 2) ran the worst campaign in Canadian history. Harper took the CPC out of the wilderness and put them back there. Trudeau is doing the same but faster. I really want to believe there’s a bunch of guys in suits at Liberal HQ having one of ‘those discussions’ with a bunch of possible replacements on the board.

          1. Harper was doing fine, you bought into the Liberal meme of ‘he’s been there long enough’.
            Having said that, yes, the CPC ran a horrible campaign, PMSH looked disinterested and had no passion. Another campaign that proved that nice guys finish last. And will Scheer be the next to prove that?

  11. In the long term we are screwed. It doesn’t matter who gets in power we are still going down the toilet. The only difference the party in power makes will be whether it is one flush or two.

    1. The best hope is a TRUMP , he is putting a pause on the Sky is Falling crowd, but once he leaves in 2024, even a Repub CINO that replaces him will no doubt be a Chicken Little.
      Canaderp is screwed, we are now past the point, where there are more takers than makers. I should be retired in 5 or 6 years, then I can Enjoy the Decline. I fear for my kids, but, I keep telling them, they are voting for their own financial demise, so long as they believe the BS from Trudy and the ENDP eco-warriors

    2. correct because all Canadian politicians are of the same party, the socialist party.

  12. He’s listening to expert advisers and the media, all of whom are obsessed with catastrophic anthropogenic global warming. They produce charts and polls that show the Canadian voters very concerned about CAGW *but* only if that question is asked in isolation and if questions about cost are excluded. If people are asked to rank their concerns, CAGW usually comes in dead last behind the economy, jobs, health care, education, crime, etc. If you ask people how much they’re willing to pay to to prevent CAGW, support disappears quickly when true costs of a policy are given.

    1. You mean the polling companies that guaranteed Hillary would be president now? Those polling companies? Um, why do you believe any conclusion they come to? Do you want to buy a bridge?

  13. Everyone going on like there are actually conservative politicians in Canada. HAHA. The only actual conservative people are citizens, once someone is elected any conservatism they might have had goes out the window.

    Oh, and anyone who believes that humans cause the climate to change (which it does all by itself) is not a conservative.

  14. Andrew Scheer
    A Liberal steer
    Got all dressed up in blue
    And took a stand
    On climate change
    Just like turdo la doo.

    1. I am not sure you are wrong about Andrew Scheer, but while there is hope that he will prove you are, you are doing us no good. He’s what we have for the next election, and there will be more than enough time for any disappointment then, and if it comes I promise I won’t deny any claim you make later to have told us so.

      Or Prime Minister Castreau and Cardinal Butts welcome your assistance meanwhile to discourage their opposition.

      1. “Prime Minister Castreau and Cardinal Butts welcome your assistance meanwhile to discourage their opposition.”

        If anyone’s discouraged about the opposition, it’s because of Scheer. You go ahead and cheer for him.

      2. Well TFB. Maybe next time they won’t rig the damn leadership race to give it to Scheer.

  15. Personally, I’d tell Canadians exactly what it would take to reach the climate goals, what the costs would be and how little it would affect the climate. (Not exact numbers, btw, these are just based on some articles I’ve read)

    For example, to meet these goals we’d need to shut down half the auto industry, petrochemical industry, oil and gas industry. Those companies would then relocate to other countries so net emissions reduction would be zero. Or we could double or triple the cost of gas for transportation and natgas for heating to see meaningful reductions in consumption. Or we could put in a $200/tonne carbon tax. This would cost x-thousand jobs and reduce GDP by y-amount equal to z-billion per year. By the year 2100, these cuts would change global warming by about .0001 Celsius.

    …or we can phase out coal and replace it with hydro, nuclear or natural gas depending on feasibility and residents preference. This will make Canada one of the cleanest electricity producers on Earth. Then we will wait and see how many other countries make any attempts to fulfill their climate change commitments because climate accords are notorious for lofty goals but non-compliance and the Paris Accord is extremely vague on goals and compliance.

    1. LC, I get it, but unfortunately, that will never work, here’s why.

      Canadians don’t want the truth, they want to believe in fantasies and the delusions of solar and wind. They would accuse you of fear mongering, and not having any faith in new technology (which doesn’t exist, but think BUZZWORDS).

      Look at the idiocy going on in BC recently. Building a dam? The only reason it really went ahead was because they can’t get protestors to stay in Ft St John, there’s not enough Starbucks there, and it’s too cold in the winter to endlessly protest.

      Nuclear? The pipeline protesters are pikers in comparison, there will never be a nuke plant in B.C., the econuts will go full terrorist themselves first. We have luddites here, who want to embrace 1700s lifestyles, with all the benefits of their IPhones and driverless cars. BC is the home of the ultimate hypocrites, eco warriors abound, wanting the best of both worlds.

      Until the SHTF, these econuts will never change their bizarre belief system. Only an economic catastrophe will change their minds, and even then, I don’t know. Any doubts, just listen to that blowhard Andrew Weaver for a few minutes, he is your typical highly educated idiot, full of wistful Greentard notions, but clueless about the economy or the damage his faith will cause.

      1. Ontario, Alberta and BC have seen their energy bills skyrocket so they might be ready to listen. Middle of the road voters might even be looking for an excuse to abandon the war on affordable, reliable energy as long as they can keep their conscience clear. Give them an honest, compelling message combined with pragmatic and effective but modest goals. Show them that they’re not alone in thinking that the current climate policies aren’t working, why they aren’t working and why they will never affect the climate in any meaningful way. All they create is unnecessary energy poverty and job losses.

        I agree that nuclear and hydro (both of which I like) are a hard sell. Natgas might be easier, especially if presented as a transition fuel until there’s an energy breakthrough. Natgas has a 50% emissions reductions compared to coal. It’s cheap, reliable and has a small physical footprint. In Sask, one 300 MW natgas plant replaces one big coal unit. Seven or eight 300MW plants would replace all coal generation with MWs to spare. It would be a relatively painless, but effective, conversion. Carbon taxes are all pain, no gain.

        For true believers: transportation is the next big carbon emitter but there will not be a conversion to electric cars with sky high electricity prices.

        1. Yes, I agree with nuclear (SALT/Thorium) technology and hydro, both should satisfy the Chicken Little crowd, Dr Patrick Watson has also spoken in favour of these. But the environs go full hysterical when nuclear is mentioned. It’s based on truth from poor practices in the US largely, on old technology, utilizing U and Pu isotopes and weapons production. Thorium is the way to go, but I suspect that there can be no rational discussions with the usual suspects, no matter how many facts are presented. The eco warrior, Greentard set just defaults to solar/wind, solar/wind repetition when confronted with ideas outside their belief system, believing that magical batteries will be our salvation. This because Tesla did it in Australia, in one isolated circumstance. We are dealing with unscientific people, that just spout ideology and jingoism, pretending to be sciency, when they don’t have a clue.
          How well has ideology worked out for Cuba and Venezuela? When will the narrow minded ecotards start to understand their policies are destructive? Maybe when Alberta turns the Taps off? One can only hope

          1. I suspect that no one is under the illusion that they can convince environmentalists using rational, logical arguments. Environmentalism is a secular religious cult complete with sin, eternal guilt and impending Armageddon. It’s the people who want to “do something” but are suffering economic pain due to expensive, ineffective climate policies that conservatives should be talking to. Modest, affordable policies that are guarenteed to actually lower CO2 emmissions. Policies that you can put a firm price on, you can calculate the emissions reduction and have a definite end point where goals are achieved.

            “We will spend x-billion to remove y-tonnes of CO2 in z-years. Then we will evaluate our policies, see if other countries are complying with their promises and then and only then make new practical, affordable goals.”

        2. Electricity rates, based on my survey, in the four western provinces show Saskatchewan to be the highest followed by Alberta, a close second. B.C. has significantly lower power rates and the lowest of all is Manitoba. If anyone should be complaining, it is the residents of Saskatchewan.
          Folks who post here ignore the fact that the residents of Saskatchewan get screwed big time. Both with the made in Saskatchewan AGW Prairie Resilience scam and the cost of living. If you think that Moe or Wall are/were your saviors, then you are delusional. The Sask Party is the same party as the Scheer Conservatives which are Green/Blue Liberals. If you think that Wall for Prime Minister is the answer will change anything, then you have been deceived. You can’t fix stupid here or anywhere else. Stop pointing to Saskatchewan as the saviour, which it isn’t. The only difference is the color. Red, Blue, Orange, Green, or Green/Yellow.

          1. Wall gave us a $2 Billion Carbon Capture plant that doesn’t work. That may be why he got out of Dodge. His two biggest assets were that he wasn’t Roy Romanov and he wasn’t Dwain Lingenfelter.

        3. And that right there, is an example of a person who thinks pleasing your enemies will turn them in to your friends.

          LC Bennett: “Middle of the road voters might even be looking for an excuse to abandon the war on affordable, reliable energy as long as they can keep their conscience clear. ” That right there is the definition of thinking you can please your enemies and this time it will work.

          BC needs a $300,000,000,000 tax per litre/cubic metre of fuel. Just slap it on them. And stop taking their phone calls. After a million Hongcouverites have frozen and starved to death, ask them again how important protecting the climate is.

          What they want is a great leap forward; GIVE IT TO THEM. Let them experience true Maoism. And don’t let them escape. They want a carbon free world? THEY GET TO SHOW ME HOW. They get to live up to their own rules; STARTING IMMEDIATELY. No air travel, no California produce, no produce from the BC interior (that is more than 100 miles away!). It will never end, until they have to live up to their own rules. When Suzuki is forced to give up his personal private islands. When Gore has to travel by canoe to foreign destinations to give lectures. When they have to gather local dung for their cooking fires.

          Socialism, when done correctly, always has a corpse count in the millions. Let socialists have what they want.

          1. I have to agree…GIVE IT To them. Shut of the taps and anything else that does not met THEIR own standards.
            Let those BC Bastards freeze in the mist. (apologies to my many real good friends there – but whats happening is beyond BS)

            Great Leap forward indeed….perfect.!

      2. The only reason it really went ahead was because they can’t get protestors to stay in Ft St John, there’s not enough Starbucks there, and it’s too cold in the winter to endlessly protest.

        I inherited my father’s house in FSJ so I’ve been going there regularly to work on it as I settle his estate.

        There are lots of reasons why professional protesters such as Tzeporah Berman don’t go there.

        I’m not sure how many Starbucks outlets it has but there are 3 Tim Hortons with, apparently, one more slated. It does have a government liquor store, though.

        But FSJ is also in the middle of nowhere. It takes me more than 7 hours to drive there from Edmonton when the roads are good. Air connections, on the other hand, aren’t great–I’ve flown out of FSJ on the 3 airlines that go there, so I’m speaking from personal experience.

        In addition, there’s not much to do there after the stores close.

        So, if one can’t protest in complete comfort and with all conveniences available, what’s the point, eh?

        1. Yes BA, I spent the better part of 3 years in FSJ after the boom in the mid 80s, and the one thing I found, was the national sport there was drinking, once the stores were closed. A lot of those there were like me, from somewhere else, working their first “real” job (my own experience questions the real part, but it was technically).
          The thing about FSJ, is that if some real professional protestors did show up for Site C, the locals would not be friendly, no rooms to rent, flat tires all the time, and a very unfriendly time for every eco-warrior that did show.
          I’m sure we have a lot of common ground in our travels BA. Looking forward to a summer drive thru there soon with the RV, always loved that country in the summer, but had no long term illusions about staying permanently either. No offence.

          1. I agree with your assessment of the local population. Most of the people that I’ve met there, particularly now that I go back there more frequently, tend to be conservative. A lot of local businesses are depending on Site C going ahead.

            There are, however, a few dedicated locals who are opposed to it. I’m not entirely surprised at that as I crossed paths with a few lefties while I was growing up there.

            For example, while I was in high school there, my Grade 11 English teacher was a hard-core commie and his course was little more than an attempt at indoctrination. He graded people on how well they parroted the Party line. He left at the same time I graduated.

            I started my university studies in the early 1970s, coming back to work at the nearby oil refinery during my undergrad summers. After I finished my B. Sc., I moved away for good, returning to visit once in a while.

  16. Joe Who Two was Ottawashed from birth. Can’t help himself.

    What else is on offer? Who else can I vote for?

    1. True, however, we see that 35% solid support is quite willing to follow him over the cliff and follow no matter what. This crowd is the over 55 female set, who swooned over daddy dearest, and now relive their youth with Spawn. They will not be swayed from their delusion. Don’t forget the stoner crowd, and all the hyphenated groups that Trudy and his minions endlessly pander to, the muzzies, sikhs, terrorists, gays, trannies, every identity group you can name, its Liberal 101.
      The Libs don’t care about anyone living outside of the major centres.

    2. This is politics and you need to fight dirty. Kick them when they’re down to take them out completely. At this point it’s Scheer who? And at this rate it’ll be the same come election time. The guy is a literal ghost and completely unable to get on the news. Completely useless and ineffective. He should resign now and save us the loss.

      1. Wf Buckley rightly said select the most Conservative candidate with the most conservative platform that CAN WIN.

        Scheer and the cpc are just about right on that edict.

        Far too many people in the US and Canada and elsewhere have been fooled by the election of trump. He beat the worst dem candidate since McGovern (and arguably all time)

        Far too often the result has been nomination of far right candidates that get thumped.

        Don’t be fooled.

  18. It would hilarious if Scheer’s plan is “all the solar output data shows the planet’s not going to warm even close to 2 degrees, and human activity doesn’t meaningfully affect global temperatures, so the comprehensive climate plan is to do nothing about CO2, scrap all green energy schemes, and let industry get back to making cheap power.”

  19. Contrary to what these politicians and a great many Canadians believe we are not living in Utopia. There is not one place in Canada that has an annual average temperature of above 15 degrees C. Let that sink in for a moment and think about it. 15 degrees Celsius, roughly three degrees cooler than the average household thermostat is set for our winter months. Averaged out Canadians are heating their homes twelve months of the year. Heat is a staple of life. We are swallowing the Global Warming Catastrophe pushed by all politicians that if we adopt a Carbon Tax we will arrest a naturally occurring phenomena, which incidentally can only be shown to be beneficial to all Canadians. Until Canadians wake up to reality we are destined to be escorted into a state of continual penury by so called leaders that don’t understand or care that the first order of government is to protect the society that elects it, not to save the world on their behalf.

  20. Wyndance Golf Course was to open today but has been delayed due to snow. That’s right, snow in Uxbridge. Hey, its only almost May, should warm up soon, maybe.

  21. I don’t like Sheer either. But he pretty much has to continue to peddle the C02 drivel….without it he knocks himself down a notch or too with the stupid who would otherwise vote Turdeau or those who will jump to Trudeau due to Jugmeet-ism…..and he’s gonna need some of their votes.

    1. “But he pretty much has to continue to peddle the C02 drivel….”

      Well, he does now – because he’s committed himself and his Party. But he had a choice to show that he had honesty and guts, and he decided to go the other route. And by doing so, he becomes just another greasy, lyin’ politician like turdo ladoo, Singh, and May.

    2. Well, I am not, under any circumstance, voting for anyone who peddles the CO2 drivel. So, when Liberal Lite fails again, you double down again. Good lick with that.

      You don’t want social conservatives? OK.
      You want to peddle CO2 drivel to try to get socialists? OK,.
      You think 99.9% evil is better than 100% evil? Yeah, driving off that cliff at only 49 km/h is SO MUCH BETTER than going the full 100 KM/h.

      How about, just one time, you try someone WHO IS GOING TO TURN AWAY FROM DRIVING OVER THE CLIFF. What’s that? Better to keep heading toward the cliff because the CBC says your guy is “electable”? How has that worked so far.

  22. The Conservatives are a tax and spend party. Not as annoyingly so as the filthy Liberals and they certainly don’t have a smug, self-righteous stink about them the way the Liberals do, but they don’t give a shit about anything but power and their asshole party. Anyone who thinks taxation solves “global warming” is sub-moronic stain.

    1. Harper cut taxes and reduced discretionary spending and got Canada back on track faster than any other g20 nation

        1. He did not. Go look it up. Apart from the temporary stimulus in 08 that was part of a g20 agreement (that he and cpc lobbied to cut taxes rather than increase spending to stimulate the global economy) the cpc consistently cut discretionary spending

  23. The PC’s could make significant progress simply by changing the language of the discussion. Instead of allowing the activists to talk about emissions reductions in te3rms of ‘tonnes’ they could talk about the impact of emissions on global temperatures measured in DEGREES C.

    This would force Canadians to understand that our TOTAL emissions from ALL sources warm up the globe annually by 0.001 degrees C, or roughly one degree per thousand years. The relationship is approximately 0.0000000000017 Degrees C / tonne.

    Bjorn Lomborg famously calculated that Germans will spend U.S. $110 BILLION on solar subsidies to defer global warming by 37 hours at the end of the century. That’s an insanely poor return on investment. Is this the best possible use of taxpayer Euros?

    Pointing out how ineffectual the efforts are totally avoids the sterile arguments about how much warming is anthropogenic.

  24. I would like to see some cost/benefit analysis applied to the CPC plan. Not that CC Barbie and Jr have any done any, but meeting some hypothetical goals set in Paris, would seem to be unreachable in Canada without drastic reductions in GDP and significant changes in lifestyles; like heating homes or driving to work, and transporting food and consumer goods.
    Never mentioned, but incompatible is increasing immigration by +300,000 people yearly and reducing carbon emissions overall. All newcomers eat, live in heated homes and consume goods all delivered by diesel powered transport. Some attention, discussion of the two goals would be interesting, I have never heard any so far.

  25. The only certainty in climate “science” is that within a geologic time frame, we are currently in an inter-glacial period. We are either warming or cooling as we eventually slip back into another 100,000 or more years of glaciation, burying Canada once again under a few kilometers of ice. It is ridiculous that Canadians should feel compelled to pretend that government policies aimed at satisfying foreign ENGO-inspired circle jerks making energy more expensive and unreliable will have any real impact on that reality but within the whorehouse of politics, that is also likely the reality. Decades of pimping ignorance and hysteria has led to a structural green theocracy compelling all (successful) politicians to become “believers”. I detest Conservative me-too-ism but in a country relatively devoid of conservatism, it’s the mindless middle that determine outcomes in elections. Scheer personifies the lessor of the evils candidate meaning he has next to no inspiring attributes. The rate of decline may slow but if he were to be successful, the decline will continue.

  26. A couple of things come to mind…back in the late 60,s early 70,s we were told that a mini ice age was coming soon , then big Al and his buddy Fruit fly decided that they could convince everyone that if we gave all our money to them we could change the weather because we are gulable. They started with Global warming… that soon wore off and it became Man made global warming…still not satisfied with the results it became climate change and we had to be taxed to death to save the world and help change the climate…it is still not working but we still keep hoping it will. Unfortunately doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome is a sign of insanity…but we continue to soldier on!!!!!
    Andrew Sheer is becoming a big disappointment he IS NOT A Conservative but Liberal lite!! I was convinced by some one who I thought was a friend and knew what was going on I think he is regretting his decision as well.I should have backed Max B. I will vote who ever stands up to this global warming BS or if nothing else hold my nose with both hands and vote PC just to get rid of this mental illness that is running the country right now….Steve O

  27. After reading this I e-mailed Scheer,

    Dear Andrew,

    I just donated more money to the PC party. Besides that, I have been a member of the federal PC party as well as the Ontario Provincial chapter. I am not a scientist but a retired mechanical technologist. I also have four college diplomas (Dutch) in chemical process technology and organic chemistry. That alone would put me above Bill Nye, the entertainer.

    This is not a threat but rather a promise, if you support any form of carbon tax, buying in the global warming hoax, you will lose my support. I personally can come up with at least a couple of dozen counter arguments but again I am not a scientist. Please, contact Dr Tim Ball, he is much more qualified than I am and above all a Canadian specialist on the topic.

  28. Sheerer is very much ill equipped to be a leader of conservatives.
    Could work for Conservatives that are yer basic socialist Liberals.

    The guy has so much ammunition against the current airhead, it is mind boggling that he is playing dead.

    Using intellect is not his main force, if there is any force at all.
    Any of the conservative women in the current parliament could destroy the airhead without generating any sweat what so ever.

    Who is it that made this sweetheart, leader of the Conservative party?

  29. I’ll never vote for anyone who supports the carbon tax or anything like it. Might as well stay home and save the gas.

    1. You have a choice. You can choose which EVIL PARTY will govern Canada. There are no other possible choices.

  30. Why, why, why. At a time each and every time Trudeau opens his mouth he sounds like a ski lift operator, would he wade into this.

    1. Scheer’s campaign staff must be made up of the experts who ran the last election campaign for the Mayor of Fergus, Ontario,or Elbow, Saskatchewan. Yes, Scheer would be better off shutting the fu, instead of bailing in on this at this time. Trudeau has one of Obama’s team on board, maybe Scheer to look for some outside help from Hillary Clinton’s winning team.

  31. Well Andrew, you just a big mistake, if your busy being a traitor to Canada like Mcain and Millie puffball Romney, were to American conservative voters, and handing a second term to the “special needs PM Juthty”, like they both did stateside, my monetary contributions yearly, to your party, are done! There is no Easter Bunny, there is no Santa Clause, there is no Tooth Fairy, but there are way to many politicians who think we the voters, are stupid enough to believe in the greatest hoax perpetrated on the world, (climate globull warming change) ,since the tulip bulb scam. You have a chance, but the window is closing sir.

  33. I thought one of the major points behind the creation of the new federal Conservative party was to get rid of CINO’s like this.
    Where the hell did this freak come from anyway? He just seemed to pop up out of nowhere. He’s the party leader? WTF!!!!
    I think that deer caught in the headlights look he has is genuine.

  34. Hey. I am not the one who maintains party membership no matter what. I am not the one who donates to the party no matter what. Scheer is giving you exactly what you deserve in a leader. Maybe look in the mirror instead of moaning impotently in internet chat forums.

  35. How hard is it to achieve a target established on a premise that is fabricated out of thin air?
    Even ol Chretch tried but failed to get credit for the boreal forest.
    Perhaps it’s just a matter of telling the luddites that it nullifies any so-called emission Canada has statistically created.

  36. Paris Accord —–Anthropogenic Climate Change is a fraud! Andrew addressed this ! What’s up with his worrying about it now!!!! The Liberals have broken Canada’s back, maybe just maybe, the Conservatives should lead the right way!! Call out the Paris accord for what it is B.S.!

  37. sooooo basically, whut we get with the CPD is a delayed* carbon tax.

    * (opinion based on 50+ years of watching Cdn politishuns clucking and clucking and lying and committing all manner of cronyism, countless financial scandals at EVERY point on the spectrum, etc etc)

    good to know. yo, mr scheer, get yerself some BALLS.

    is there a backup plan somewhere?

  38. Cut government and stop squandering. Stop gouging Canadians. Mr Andrew Scheer is one big colossal mistake. He should cross the floor if he feels like a Liberal today.

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