Scott Tribe and I, your Progressive Bloggers head moderator and webmaster, have updated the Climate Clock. A kind PB affiliate (Leaping Rabbit) updated the text of Wayne Chu’s Flash code, and the new Flash file is in place so that anyone with the old clock on their blog will see the new one when they refresh their page.
The Conservatives latest bungling of the environment file is something Canadians ought to punish them for. This isn’t just a matter of not funding a government program where there are ideological differences. This is about a government’s deliberate attempts to conceal the danger of air pollution, and to keep rubbing shoulders with industries that are long overdue for regulations that put us in line with forward thinking (and acting) governments around the world. I don’t like the fact that Canada isn’t a world leader on combating energy inefficiency and air pollution, because I think we ought to be at the top of the “good list”. Is there anything more defeatist, and un-Canadian, as to say that we can’t turn our bad air quality around in less than 13 years?
Of course the Conservatives’ first bungling of the environment file was the fact that they had no “Made In Canada” plan ready from the outset of their minority government. It’s almost like they didn’t expect to win, so they had no formed policy on an area that is crucial to Canada’s future economy and health. More than half a year later, their “Made in Canada” plan was so badly received, that Rona Ambrose was turfed from her spot as Environment Minister. Now Baird is doing a worse job, if that’s possible. It’s so utterly ridiculous that the Conservative nincompoops in charge of finding a plan can’t even figure out that they can copy their homework right from the Green Plan Squared, and Canadians will be well served. The Green Party doesn’t mind if the Conservatives steal the environment portion of the plan and call it their own, so long as it gets implemented.
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On Sunday I roll out of Yorkton with the last of my things, down the #10 to Regina. I’ll probably be back to visit, since my new job (if I take the one I’m offered) has a branch office here.
So my computer(s) will be unplugged for a little while, and the blogosphere will be safe from my insights for a day or more. Then I’ll be in Saskatoon at the TLt IT Summit.
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EX-NDIP | 28-Apr-07 at 1:15 pm | Permalink
Lets face it . . . nothin they do will make you happy . . . right!
The previous regeme did nothin . . . for 9 years, you, suzuki and others we good with that.
You lefty morons just don’t get it.
Pray to the Goricle . . . he will fix all!!!
Saskboy | 28-Apr-07 at 1:44 pm | Permalink
No, if they implemented the Green Party’s environment platform that would make me happy with the Conservatives on the environment file.
Your best defense of the Conservatives is that they are as do nothing as the “Lieberals”?
P | 28-Apr-07 at 2:39 pm | Permalink
The jig is up, Saskboy.
Liberals – and let’s be clear, you are a Liberal as you are advocating the defeat of the Conservatives which necessarily means the election of Liberals – didn’t care about the environment until the Tories came to power. You gave the Liberals a free pass on Kyoto and that’s the bottom line.
Liberals didn’t care about Afghanistan human rights violations until the Conservatives came to power. You gave the Liberals a free pass on their Bush-style “war on terror” and that’s the bottom line.
It’s a common pattern. So-called “progressives” don’t give a fig about the environment or Afghan human rights or anything really as long as the Liberals are in power.
All they care about is gay marriage. Canadian progressives focused exclusively on gay marriage from 2003 to 2006 – nothing else was as important to them. This is a factually accurate assessment based on hard data. Read the archives of progressive bloggers.
Once Conservatives are elected, progressives pretend to care about progressive causes. But when Liberals are in power, torture is just tickety boo and so is global warming.
You are hurting, rather than helping, Canada. Please stop.
Dodos | 28-Apr-07 at 3:42 pm | Permalink
So P, should we just say nothing then? Is that the solution?
Tim Ebl | 28-Apr-07 at 6:09 pm | Permalink
So maybe I am missing something. We had no initiative to do anything about a problem. Now we have a step, maybe a small one, in the right direction. Instead of screaming at people, shouldn’t we encourage more steps instead of looking for a new government to start over from scratch months from now with their own tiny first step? It doesn’t matter to me who gets moving here as long as we do get moving. Slow might turn into fast, the ball will get rolling won’t it? We are talking government here, not something that moves fast!
I agree that fast would be better. I just can’t imagine it happening.
Stephen | 28-Apr-07 at 9:27 pm | Permalink
I don’t know about you Saskboy, but the Conservative trolls are look pretty desperate. The mudslinging and misleading attacks are coming fast and furious now.
But you’re right. How many re-workings of the Harper green plan is that now. Canadians keep saying not enough and they still can’t get it right.
I’d say it’s about time for an election.
Saskboy1 | 29-Apr-07 at 11:58 pm | Permalink
You said it Stephen, the desperation shows. I’m a “Liberal” because I’m not Conservative. That’s the black and white the Conservative trolls are hoping to fixate people’s minds on to achieve their objectives.
Tim, it would be nice if the Conservative’s “action” were actually there, but in a year’s time I think we’ll see no progress from them at all, and people at home, and in some non-regulated industry will be the ones making moves to become more efficient — despite the Tories footdragging on changes. We’re going to be facing an oil crisis before 2025 undeniably, so the changes they are preparing for are BARELY going to adapt in time. Considering there will be many more people, and so a higher demand for energy, I don’t think their plan shows they have a clue as to what’s in store for Canada if we don’t have something in place by the middle of the next decade at the very latest.
Tim Ebl | 30-Apr-07 at 5:43 am | Permalink
That’s probably mostly true, Saskboy. And at the same time, I have seen the liberals promise things like eliminating GST, and for some reason they were given the chance to NOT do it. I really trust that government will always do what it says. NOT.
Except, so far the conservatives are actually doing SOME of the things they said they were going to. It’s kind of amazing when a government at least kind of focuses on what they were elected to do. Some of the conservative plans were crappy before the election. After the election they went through with those crappy plans. I bet that’s damn near unheard of anywhere!
This situation we are in is global. Are there a lot of other countries that have made these massive changes out there? I don’t know of any.