Buzz Hargrove vs. Hippies (and opportunistic politicians).
The upcoming elections are fuelling a lot of rhetoric as politicians try to "out green" one another, Hargrove said, adding that "Politicians are running with it now because Canadians are saying it's a key issue in the upcoming election and it just infuriates me."
It infuriates me too. Not that I have a problem with the environment, but until manufacturing is regulated, little will be done as far as substantive imprpovements to the environment are concerned. We can yell at people driving SUVs all we'd like adn tax them to death (death of the auto industry that is), but the problem itself lays with industry. However, industry cannot be regulated until we have fair trade. If industry is excessively regulated in Ontario/Canada vis-a-vis other jurisdictions, they will simply pack up and move elsewhere. Thus, we first need to establish fair trade before we can target regulating industry.
It infuriates me even more that, for the most part, these so-called Green politicians are just pragmatic and couldn't give a damn about the environment. However, they 'care' only because it gets them votes.
Meanwhile, "We stand to lose 150,000 jobs in our auto industry if the insanity of this environmental movement is allowed to continue," in addition to the 333,000 jobs that have been lost in the last four years.
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Buzz should think about how his strategic voting helped tha last time. So what about Peggy Nash? He going to support the lib, Kennedy because he is a star lib.
Anyway, in reading the article, the reasoning he used sure sounded like the right wing anology. Why should we fight global warming, Canada only emits 2 % of all green house gases? I can read that stuff in right wing papers, without Buzz spouting off.
I have been all for supporting the car industry, pushing for fuel effiency, hygrid and electric, but I can't stomach Buzz anymore, and his open support of the Liberals - provincial or federal. Did he give Dalton a jacket? I have lost a lot of respect for Buzz. He can go and campaign for Bob Rae.
And when he says the stuff he says I want to do the opposite. So screw the auto sector - I'll buy my hybrid car not made in Canada. How would he like that?
Hmmm.. Jack Layton's NDP supported the revised Bill C-30 that the Tories will now refuse to being back to the Parliament for a vote. Included in that bill among all the NDP amendments that were lauded by the NDP bloggers.. was Dion's plan for a Climate Account (the 20$/ton you pay for being over the Carbon Budget).
Do you think that needlessly punished industry? And if so, and thats the NDP view, why did they vote for the amended Bill C-30 with it in there?
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