Serve Us, Not The U.S.!
(Updated below)
Dixit Environment Minister Baird:
Added to Baird's propaganda/disinformation service for the Bush administration are reports that Prime Minister Harper is poised to join President Bush in scuttling or watering down any statement on climate change from the G8 summit of next month. In fact, the (neo)con games played so far by the Harper government on Climate Change (including their proposed fuzzy Kyoto-Ultra Light plan) have been such that Canada's actual position on the G8 climate declaration remains a mystery to the rest of the world.
To this effect, Minister Baird refused to comment on this controversy, instead inanely mumbling empty words about Canada's leadership on Climate Change and acting as a bridge between the U.S. and the Europeans partners of G8 on the issue.
I suppose he and P.M. Harper (a.k.a. Mini Leader) are too busy following in the footsteps of BushCo, if not actually emulating The Leader, to notice that Canada has lost a significant amount of credibility with regards to Climate Change already.
Consequently, when I witness Baird's disassembling in obvious attempts at defending the indefensible tract record of the Bush administration on Climate Change, coupled with our Mini Leader evidently planning to extend the Afghan mission of Canadian troops (beyond their scheduled 02/2009 pull out) seemingly in order to relieve The Leader from redeploying U.S. troops back to Afghanistan so he can keep them in Iraq, and with the Mini Leader's openness for a greater integration of Canada with the U.S., I find myself actually wondering the following:
Is the Harper government in the service of the Bush administration or of Canada?
With federal elections possibly (hopefully) coming soon, I suggest that we make use of this opportunity-to-come to boot Harper and his neocons out of government so that they may understand once and for all that they were supposed to serve us, not the U.S. ...
Addendum: Here and here are other/different takes on Minister Baird's disassembling.
Update: 05/28/2007 - More takes on Minister Baird's lies and incompetence can be found at My Blahg here and here.
Dixit Environment Minister Baird:
"The United States has done more to reduce greenhouse gas emissions than Canada did under the previous Liberal government."How "right" he is - why, the Clear Skies Act of 2003 (and the 2005 proposed revised version) of the Bush Administration resulted in the gradual increase of carbon dioxide emissions since its passage into law. That is not taking into account the policy of the Bush administration to systematically censor, or even rewrite, the scientific facts on Climate Change. Nonetheless, the Bush administration in March of this year had no choice but to admit that emissions by the U.S. of gases that contribute to global warming will grow nearly as fast through the next decade as they did the previous decade.
Added to Baird's propaganda/disinformation service for the Bush administration are reports that Prime Minister Harper is poised to join President Bush in scuttling or watering down any statement on climate change from the G8 summit of next month. In fact, the (neo)con games played so far by the Harper government on Climate Change (including their proposed fuzzy Kyoto-Ultra Light plan) have been such that Canada's actual position on the G8 climate declaration remains a mystery to the rest of the world.
To this effect, Minister Baird refused to comment on this controversy, instead inanely mumbling empty words about Canada's leadership on Climate Change and acting as a bridge between the U.S. and the Europeans partners of G8 on the issue.
I suppose he and P.M. Harper (a.k.a. Mini Leader) are too busy following in the footsteps of BushCo, if not actually emulating The Leader, to notice that Canada has lost a significant amount of credibility with regards to Climate Change already.
Consequently, when I witness Baird's disassembling in obvious attempts at defending the indefensible tract record of the Bush administration on Climate Change, coupled with our Mini Leader evidently planning to extend the Afghan mission of Canadian troops (beyond their scheduled 02/2009 pull out) seemingly in order to relieve The Leader from redeploying U.S. troops back to Afghanistan so he can keep them in Iraq, and with the Mini Leader's openness for a greater integration of Canada with the U.S., I find myself actually wondering the following:
Is the Harper government in the service of the Bush administration or of Canada?
With federal elections possibly (hopefully) coming soon, I suggest that we make use of this opportunity-to-come to boot Harper and his neocons out of government so that they may understand once and for all that they were supposed to serve us, not the U.S. ...
Addendum: Here and here are other/different takes on Minister Baird's disassembling.
Update: 05/28/2007 - More takes on Minister Baird's lies and incompetence can be found at My Blahg here and here.
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