If anyone wants some insight into the mind of our prime minister, on the subject of global warming, I would recommend reading Peter Foster, in the Financial Post today. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that our prime minister agrees that any move to regulate industry in any meaningful way is the equivalent of Marxism.
The Harper strategy is laid bare. Harper's plan is to "cater to the ignorance/alarm/hypocrisy engendered in their electorate"... "while keeping a firm hand on the nation's collective wallet". In other words, he and his "Environment" Minister, will cry and cry and cry again for the environment. They will tell us they believe something must be done to save us from catastrophe and then will work to sabotage any remedy that will include concrete, mandatory action. If Harper gets his way (and it looks like he is trying to gather a coalition of the unwilling), humanity as a collective (sorry, what a repulsive word except when it comes to tax cuts) is in trouble.
Update: The phrase "cater to the ignorance/alarm/hypocrisy engendered in their electorate" betrays a loathing of common people. It carrys with it the idea that the people are ignorant and so it is ok to treat them cruelly, because they are just stupid animals. This is the "spirit" that leads to view citizens as "sheeple". It is a malevolent cancer in conservatism and it must be expunged.
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Do you think an ever increasing population will increase greenhouse gasses? I do. I think part of the solution has to be increased education for women in developing countries, which would lower the birth rate and likely lead to overall improvements in their standard of living.
ReplyDeleteYou hit the nail on the head Harper has naught but disdain for the Canadian people.
ReplyDelete"You hit the nail on the head Harper has naught but disdain for the Canadian people."
ReplyDeleteAhh..another progressive with a 'do you love your country?' skew on the matters at hand.
Here's one.How about that PMSH actually DOES care about the average Joe, you and i, and is not prepared to sell out our country to one of the greatest ponzi schemes ever invented?
You can wear rags, walk 40 miles to work in the winter, stop entertaining, stop all travel and become a hermit, i choose not to.
"You can wear rags, walk 40 miles to work in the winter, stop entertaining, stop all travel and become a hermit, i choose not to."
ReplyDeleteYou sound like a big wimp to me. I thought you Harperites were tuff, manly, drink the blood of the stag Red Dawn style, kinda dudes, not the ohhh it's cold out, where's my scarf types.