Apolitical Staples

So the Tory plan, I now realize, was to hit pause on a bunch of Liberal environmental programs for 12 months, paint all of the programs blue, and then re-announce them. Some complain that the Tories just wasted a whole year, but to me, this is actually much better than what I thought their plan was.

I figured their plan was to just cancel all those environmental programs outright, and simply pretend they were never announced. (i.e. “The Liberals had no environmental plans… and as for all those Liberal environmental plans we just cancelled… hey, look at this shiny penny!!!).

I’m rather pleased that it turns out that some of these plans weren’t so much “cancelled” as “appropriated following delay”. It’s sad what passes for progress on the Environment file under the Tories, but re-introducing programs you just finished cancelling (which never actually existed remember… keep looking at the penny….) IS actually progress.

So, I applaud that. I turns out Canada is going to get an environmental policy that is a watered-down version of the Liberals plans. That sounds terrible to environmentalists, but I like to keep it in perspective. The original Tory plan didn’t even call for air quality standards to be set until 2020. Watered-down Liberal programs is mana from heaven compared to what the Tories wanted to do.

“Liberal Plans”

You don’t suppose, given an overabundant supply of evidence, that the Liberals would have been in severe dilution mode as well? The Liberals as we all know are very big on plans. It’s that whole “delivery” thing that just keeps getting in the way.

all CO2, all-the-time and storm-porn on my nightly news is causing me to lose interest.

No kidding. The other night I saw the Radio Canada news dude briefly mention that California had several nights of all-time record low temperatures. If they had been high temperatures there would’ve been a cutaway to some self-important gomer proclaiming that this is yet another “proof” of you-know-what (if not an entire mini-documentary on the subject), but all he did was flick a quick look at the camera - like a kid checking if the anyone saw him steal a pencil from another kid’s desk - and quickly launch into the next story without even pausing.

So the Tory plan, I now realize, was to hit pause on a bunch of Liberal environmental programs for 12 months, paint all of the programs blue, and then re-announce them. Some complain that the Tories just wasted a whole year, but to me, this is actually much better than what I thought their plan was.

Thank heavens - under the Tories, free markets will be crushed and the size and power of government will increase at only a marginally slower rate than they would have under the Liberals.

The world will once again be safe for bureaucrats, activists, eco-utopianists, and students pursuing degrees in all of the liberal arts and squishy science programs. And it will be a paradise for the political hacks and media pundits who make a living inventing and then pimping socialist fantasies to them.

Er, that is, assuming they have some kind of money-making machine which will replace all of the industries, investments, jobs, savings and tax revenues that will be driven out of the country to less abysmally Marxist jurisdictions. (Only a fool would think that they can get rich by selling made-in-government windmills and solar power towers. It didn’t work for subsidized nuclear reactors, trains, aeroplanes, and telephones, and those are things that people actually want.)

I too am nauseated at the political and media propaganda, and the false promotion that this is largest issue that Canadians are consumed by. Canada as a country produces 1.5- 2% of the ‘human responsible’ green house gases produced on the planet. The Alberta Oilsands emits .1% of Canada’s 1.5-2% emissions. We won’t make a dent in the climate change affects by ransacking our economy and screwing up once again Alberta’s well earned progressive era.