The Green Party wants to tackle all environmental problems, not just the ones on the public’s radar.

Cheers,
lance

Lance, the CAA is apparently worthless [although you'd expect Chernushenko to say so].
http://www.devonrowcliffe.ca/blog/?p=241

Why can’t we use existing written laws, you know, instead of adding more that people will never have time to read anyway. Note that I don’t count lawyers as people in this instance.

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Miss C, quite right. We’re lucky enough in Canada that the media smokescreen for the most part accepts that 4 isn’t too many to have in a debate these days [at the federal not provincial level mind you {Nova Scotia's CBC blocking the Greens from the last provincial debate is a case in point}]. The US is stuck with a lame two parties. That’s one thing I wish the movie Man of the Year could have changed, and that’s showing Americans just how exciting a multi-party debate would be.

After a year or so of yelling back and forth over whether we make Kyoto, don’t make Kyoto; listening to the daily news casts about another storm where there have always been storms; I just can’t see Cdn’s wanting to go there anymore.

“Sellin’ any green plan made by the former climate change deniers is gonna be a tuff nut t’ crack, sez I.”

Which is why it’s now in committee. :) The Government is now taking responsibility, not any particular party. It will be hard for any party to slam something that passed committee that their members were involved in.

The parties are all working to eliminate this issue. I find it a little bit funny.

Cheers,
lance

Smart enuff. Removin’ a wedge issue by adoptin’ yer opponent’s stance looks contrived, though, sorta flip-floppy an’ blowin’ whichever way the ‘pinion pools say.

The big thing you an’ I disagree on, LanceFeller, is whether the environment file’s got legs. There’s a lot of us with a gut-gnawin’ feelin’ we’re lettin’ down our grandkids an’ the bad news keeps on comin’. The GHG/globall warmin’/climate change debate’s over an’ Canajuns is lookin’ t’ see action.

It might be like yer sayin’ an’ CAA’ll satisfy enuff voters. That’d mean Jack Laydown would o’ had t’ play ball with Harpoon. I ain’t sure if that’d be a plus or a minus fer JackyBoy.

T’ my way o’ thinkin’, a compromise CAA without gettin’ back on Kyoto ain’t gonna pass muster fer most real green thinkers. Sellin’ any green plan made by the former climate change deniers is gonna be a tuff nut t’ crack, sez I.

If the green file’s got legs an’ the issue itself ain’t a wedge issue, then it boils down t’ “who you gonna trust?”. Right now, I don’t trust any of ‘em ‘cept the Greens when it comes t’ Mother Earth. I’ll be waitin’ t’ see how hard the bigass parties try t’ win over the 8% who sez they’re GPC backers.

JB

I think the Clean Air Committee is going to put enough meat on the Act that it’ll push the issue off. I mean, lets face it, the only thing the CAA is missing is CO2 stuff with stronger targets. Everything else is in there regarding boring old regular pollution.

I don’t believe that the environment file has the legs to last past the summer, it isn’t a wedge issue. Chantal Hébert said it best on CBC’s The National last night, “It’s only a wedge issue if there is a difference.”

The CPC won’t allow them to be seen as different, that’s why everyone is accusing them of looking like Liberals. They are doing it on purpose to remove the wedge issue.

Cheers,
lance

The onliest thing that can help Jack now is if — God forbid — we take a shitkickin’ in Afstan an’ lotsa Canajuns die. Afghanistan’s the onliest topic that can jump t’ the top o’ the heap in days, sez I.

With them ads an’ the playground antics in the House yesterday, it’s lookin’ more’n'more like anuther electionvote comin’ up that nobuddy wants. Did I mention that the Green Party wants fixed dates fer electionvotes?

JB