Can the NDP really agree to supporting the revised Clean Air Act knowing this,
..."I think the preponderance of the evidence on [climate change] is clear, that it's a real long-term challenge, but what I've said is it can't be fixed overnight. This country is headed to be 50 per cent above its Kyoto target in 2012," Stephen Harper said on CTV's Question Period. "We can't tell the Canadian population to heat its homes one-third less of the time. So we've got a major challenge and we're going to get on with it."?
I think it would an impossible sales job for Jack Layton to convince his base to go along with an environmental plan that does not reach the short-term Kyoto targets. It may well be that it would impossible to reach said targets but my sense is that people don't want to hear that.
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“people don’t want to hear that”
Layton’s people don’t want to hear that.
But the bulk of Canadians are smart enough to know that the CPC didn’t destroy the environment in less than a year, and they’re smart enough to remember that the Libs didn’t dare tell Canadians the truth about our non-compliance the way Harper now is.
Also, this will be a classic pincer move.
Harper takes the “realistic view” from the right. Balancing the countries economic well being with moderate environmental initiatives.
Layton takes the idealistic view, demanding massive action (all theorhetical),
With both parties castigating the Liberals for having gotten us here.
This is also a significant wedge issue for the libs. They’re too ideological they bleed voters to the CPC, too pragmatic and the lose to the NDP.
No compromises between the NDP and the CPC are coming, just an election.
Posted by Chester | January 8, 2007 9:42 AM
Posted on January 8, 2007 09:42
I agree with you Greg, this thing is in big trouble.
Posted by Greg | January 8, 2007 9:50 AM
Posted on January 8, 2007 09:50
I think Harper’s approach is the correct one. Is anyone actually proposing that our government should lie to us? That’s what the Liberals did.
The Liberals set up targets which they knew in advance they could not meet without enormous cost to the economic productivity of Canada. They had no intention of meeting these targets. Remember, Kyoto is not about emission control or pollution; it is a money transference scheme by the UN to get money from the West to ‘developing’ nations that are free from emission standards. These nations can pollute as much as they want with the factories they build with western money.
Harper has to tell the truth. That Kyoto is a money laundering scheme. That emissions and pollution are important and they must be dealt with by real measures not payment of fines. And these real measures are both short term (cleaning up the great lakes) and long term (building new types of factories).
A good government does not lie to the people.
Posted by ET | January 8, 2007 9:57 AM
Posted on January 8, 2007 09:57
Have I heard correctly? Dion is now claiming it was impossible for the Liberals to meet their targets because of….. wait for it…… the booming economy in Alberta? Well, this spin should work just fine. The federal Liberals benevolent concern for the welfare of Albertans is widely known and documented
Posted by Rob R | January 8, 2007 10:42 AM
Posted on January 8, 2007 10:42
Puhleeze lets drop London (North?) by election results. The good showing by the greeny party was due to malcontents swingin the vote their way. If I wanted to show my displeasure towards the guv’ment in p’wer I would put an “X” on May. THEY (the greenies)WILL NOT ELECT ONE MEMBER TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS BET YOUR HOUSE ON IT!
Posted by Diddy Wah Diddy | January 8, 2007 4:03 PM
Posted on January 8, 2007 16:03