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Vlad, so you prompted me to google the term "Gaian". I stumbled upon Gaian Greens. Hey dude, don't lump me in with those crazies. I have voted Green Party before, but I'm sure Elizabeth May et al are "mainstream" Greens, not this crazy bunch. Just trying to save the planet, cause it's a good idea.
Al Gore and David Suzuki are in it for the money. Elizabeth May has not given me any indication that she is anything other than a socialist zealot intent on redistributing our wealth. Fortunately she will never ever even sniff power.
Formerly I was getting ready to hold my nose and vote NDP (a Green administration arguably being much more of a proven to be costly choice to Canada's economy - compare the Ontario Liberal's Green Energy policy results).
If you hold the beliefs that I think you do, how is that even possible for you?
The crack pipe dispensing machines in Vancouver, that Mulcair apparently approves of (if I can believe my ears about Sun News Network's claim, which I haven't been able to track down on the internet or elsewhere) disturbs me though.
I can believe it and that is probably the only policy of the NDP that I can agree with. I am not sure what the average AIDS patient, or hepatitis patient costs the health care system but I suspect that if making safe cheap glass pipes available saves one person from contracting those or the many other diseases that can be contracted by sharing more dangerous home made pipes then I am for it.
While we're at it the war on drugs should be terminated immediately. We fill our jails and courts with people for doing the same thing that our politicians and celebrities do without consequence. Cue Bill "I never inhaled" Clinton, Justin "I only inhaled once" Trudeau and of course Rob "I never stopped inhaling" Ford. Even George Bush is surrounded by stories of his wild eyed days which he neither confirmed nor denied. Barack "Hoover" Obama's drug use is not just a rumour. If three two term presidents can do drugs and one of our future prime ministers can do it as well perhaps we really need to rethink this policy where some people without power can spend months or years in jail and prison for doing the same thing. If they weren't clogging our courts and jails maybe the police would have time to solve more serious crimes and there would be room in jail for the real criminals once we caught them. Do you have any idea how much it costs to house one person in a prison?
Hence, from a moral point of view, Green may be my best option, but it makes no sense economically or strategically (in hoping to hold the Libs to a minority). Even not voting for any of these four parties, if that's the scenario indeed in my riding, means letting someone else choose what they think is the least evil, rather than me being able to at least offset their vote. I think as a voter I'm going to be in a terrible quandry this time around.
In the end it doesn't matter. We get the governments that we deserve. I know that I have been a bad, bad boy but do I really deserve this mess in Ontario????
... While we're at it the war on drugs should be terminated immediately. We fill our jails and courts with people for doing the same thing that our politicians and celebrities do without consequence. Cue Bill "I never inhaled" Clinton, Justin "I only inhaled once" Trudeau and of course Rob "I never stopped inhaling" Ford. Even George Bush is surrounded by stories of his wild eyed days which he neither confirmed nor denied. Barack "Hoover" Obama's drug use is not just a rumour. If three two term presidents can do drugs and one of our future prime ministers can do it as well perhaps we really need to rethink this policy where some people without power can spend months or years in jail and prison for doing the same thing. If they weren't clogging our courts and jails maybe the police would have time to solve more serious crimes and there would be room in jail for the real criminals once we caught them. Do you have any idea how much it costs to house one person in a prison? ...
"Tom is a well known racist, and like most of them he won't admit it, possibly even to himself." - Ed Seedhouse, October 4, 2020.
Al Gore and David Suzuki are in it for the money. Elizabeth May has not given me any indication that she is anything other than a socialist zealot intent on redistributing our wealth. Fortunately she will never ever even sniff power.
Vlad, I have great respect for both Al Gore and David Suzuki. I’m sure they both get paid for their speaking engagements (just like everyone else), but that is entirely different from saying they are “in it for the money”. They have been effective voices in alerting the public to the dangers of climate change. It is because they have been such effective speakers that the climate change denial community has invested so heavily in a smear campaign to nullify their voices. Unfortunately, the smear campaign has been very successful, but history will vindicate them.
Elizabeth May is a lot closer to power than you think. I’m not saying she’ll be PM, but she was impressive as a debater in the last election. After initially being shutout of the leaders debate, public pressure got her a seat at the table. She made some very strong arguments. Your label of “socialist zealot intent on redistributing our wealth” is totally off the mark. Her primary focus (and that of the Green party) is not some far-left economic policy as you suggest, it is the environment. Their focus is “how do we amend what we have to include a responsible environmental policy”. Many of us concerned with the environment from the moderate-right and the moderate-left have found a home in the Green Party. Instead of listening to the hype, why not visit the Green party website and judge the platform for yourself.
The Green Party of Canada is unlikely to form a government anytime soon. But if they can win a few seats, influence in setting policy is a real possibility in a minority government.
Vlad, I have great respect for both Al Gore and David Suzuki. I’m sure they both get paid for their speaking engagements (just like everyone else), but that is entirely different from saying they are “in it for the money”.
Both of those individuals are hypocrites and are in it for the money as are most of the people who are warning us about the supposed dangers of climate change. They warn us, the great unwashed of the danger of carbon dioxide emissions and yet they themselves have much more in common with the 1% who emit more carbon dioxide than 100 normal people or perhaps even 1000 normal people. David Suzuki didn't make it to the launch of his namesake school in Windsor because they couldn't afford the $15,000 that he asked as an appearance fee. Suzuki asks children to break their piggy banks and send him the money because Santa, the elves and reindeer are about to drown. In Australia Suzuki took questions from the audience unlike in North America and it became apparent that he didn't know some very basic things about climate change research and even disparaged the data gathered by his normal allies because he didn't know that it came from his buddies. He came off as senile.
Al Gore warns us of rising sea levels and buys a large house on the water (only one of his many houses). He leaves all the lights on in his mansions. He flies private jets at every opportunity as did most of the people who go to all of these climate change conferences. Did any of them consider jet pooling or maybe flying commercial airlines in order to cut down on emissions. Even better they could attend electronically or hold the meetings online like the CFC does. Belatedly Gore made some noises about buying carbon credits what he doesn't mention is that he stands to make billions if he can get the laws he is lobbying for passed. He has already made hundreds of millions from his efforts. Follow the money where it leads you.
Green energy is largely a scheme to funnel money from the public's pockets into the pockets of individuals and companies that are friends of the government and in turn divert a small percentage of our money into the hands of politicians who will then sit on the boards of these companies after they leave politics and make even more money.
They have been effective voices in alerting the public to the dangers of climate change.
They have been effective in manufacturing alleged dangers of climate change regardless of what the science really says. Claiming that sea levels are going to rise precipitously in the relatively short term and then buying beachfront property shows us what Al Gore really believes.
It is because they have been such effective speakers that the climate change denial community has invested so heavily in a smear campaign to nullify their voices. Unfortunately, the smear campaign has been very successful, but history will vindicate them.
I don't believe that history will vindicate them. I believe we are experiencing some natural variations in climate and in fact if the computer models with their cooked inputs and their flawed projections were correct we wouldn't have had this 16 year plateau in average temperatures.
Elizabeth May is a lot closer to power than you think. I’m not saying she’ll be PM, but she was impressive as a debater in the last election.
She was shrill. That is not the same thing as being a good debater. She is a fringe candidate who wastes our time.
After initially being shutout of the leaders debate, public pressure got her a seat at the table. She made some very strong arguments. Your label of “socialist zealot intent on redistributing our wealth” is totally off the mark. Her primary focus (and that of the Green party) is not some far-left economic policy as you suggest, it is the environment. Their focus is “how do we amend what we have to include a responsible environmental policy”.
If that were true the focus would be on pollution and not carbon dioxide a naturally occurring component of our atmosphere. If the green party were really green then I might be more sympathetic to their activities as we all want to live in a cleaner environment.
Many of us concerned with the environment from the moderate-right and the moderate-left have found a home in the Green Party. Instead of listening to the hype, why not visit the Green party website and judge the platform for yourself.
The Green Party of Canada is unlikely to form a government anytime soon. But if they can win a few seats, influence in setting policy is a real possibility in a minority government.
They had better do it now because as the true costs of their agenda become manifest (see Ontario) their window is rapidly closing.
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100% agree with this comment. They can't even keep drugs out of prisons.
If they kept drugs out of prisons the prisoners might be able to kick their addictions. There is a huge industry of lawyers, judges, police who all have a vested interest in having a dysfunctional system which continues to function inefficiently and allows all involved to collect significant salaries while accomplishing nothing.
More treatment centres would be one thing to help deal with the drug abuse problem. Somewhat similar to the idea behind John School. Could do the same for out-of-control alcohol abuse, say when DUI occurs. The answer is surely not to forever look the other way regarding such 'sins'. As an average citizen, I don't look forward to encountering more often on the street used syringes, used crackpipes or even used condoms, as has already happened a lot in my own city of Ottawa. I don't even really want to chance innocently inhaling the fumes of yet more people's joints, if marijuana is legalized. Is it not complex enough socially that one means of getting artificially 'happy' (alcohol) is legal?
Regarding Mulroney, he may indeed be the worst case of probable corruption historically. The Liberals have been in power a lot more often since Confederation, however, and their known/probable level of corruption historically might be compared somehow with the PCs/Cons' average level historically. It would make for an interesting task for a historian.
Regarding why I would even consider voting NDP, I believe I gave my rationale. Not saying I've finally decided yet whether it's 'sound' IMO. If I'm stuck with the same choices as I was last time in my riding, like I wrote it's going to be a dilemma for me. One thing is clear to me, that I won't vote Liberal. Trudeau is being managed by the same sort of person who influenced the Ontario Liberal's Green Energy policy. Plus there has not been much of a housecleaning of the party since the Sponsorship Scandal (let alone what has happened with their own Senators, corruption-wise).
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I know you don't believe in polls, Gary, but they do often have currency. I knew you'd want to know about this one - will stir your commitment to get that $ 20 saved up in advance!!
Re: Federal NDP & Quebec: Canada - Next Federal Gov't?
That's an opinion article.
If there is one takeaway from the Quebec election it's how fast support can change from one political party to the other. How pocket book considerations can have more effect that politically ideological considerations.
It's my belief the rest of Canada could care less if Quebec separates.
There's quite a spectacle going on in Quebec these days. It goes directly to lack of religious freedom. Harassing a religious minority by going after the children. I think the PQ lost a lot of support over that.
They are chasing one religious sect all over the world to try to force them back. Good advertising for Canada.
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