How About Another Round Of (Hypocritical) Harperisms?

That's right - enjoy.

Want more? How about trying this one for size (emphasis added):

Harper wants joint Canada-U.S. policies on energy, ecology

Canada will propose a series of common environmental standards and energy-development plans to new U.S. President Barack Obama beyond a North American cap-and-trade system for greenhouse-gas emissions, government sources say.

The Harper government is planning to propose the harmonization of goals for using bio-fuels such as ethanol, fuel-efficiency standards for cars, and targets for so-called "low-carbon" power plants - which, over time, might push the United States into buying more Canadian hydro to replace its dirtier coal-generated power.

The government will argue that "a cap and trade system will be insufficient alone to get the job done," a source said.

As the Harper Conservatives seek to tie energy security to a greenhouse-gas deal, they will also ask the U.S. to set a joint strategy for developing pipelines that will bring natural gas from Alaska and Canada's North to markets in the U.S.

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It is aimed at ensuring that by joining the same system to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, Canadian industry, including Alberta's oil sands, will not be hit by export tariffs or restrictions proposed by some U.S. lawmakers.

Environment Minister Jim Prentice is expected to flesh out the Canadian proposals in coming weeks, including in a speech today in Toronto. Sources say the Harper government also wants the U.S. to work jointly on energy plans to expand electricity transmission and link North America's East and West grids.

And Canada wants to co-ordinate gas-pipeline strategy, in part because it wants to ensure that plans to build the Mackenzie Valley pipeline from the Beaufort Sea through the Northwest Territories are not competing with a plan to develop a pipeline from Alaska through the Yukon and B.C.

Ottawa wants the more advanced Mackenzie Valley project to go first - Mr. Prentice said yesterday that the government has offered to pay an unspecified portion of the costs - but Mr. Obama has promised to develop the Alaskan pipeline.

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More important (...) is ensuring that Mr. Obama's pledge to reduce dependency on oil from the Middle East and Venezuela does not discriminate against Canadian products - so that even if oil sands projects face higher costs because of their greater emissions, they do not face punitive rules.

Same old (double-talking) harperisms ... and same old dishonest (non)environmental song.

Which is ever galling, especially in light of this:

In Canada, a Push for Obama-style Green Stimulus
PM to get plan backed by 850,000 group members

A new proposal for a sweeping green economic stimulus plan is landing with a loud thump on Prime Minister Stephen Harper's desk days before he unveils his federal budget.

Why a loud thump? The proposal for a Green Economy Action Fund is backed by unions, environmental organizations and other Canadian civil society groups with a combined membership of over 850,000 people.

The plan calls for federal investments and low-interest loans to stimulate the green economy and catalyze provincial action. Dollars would flow to retrofit buildings, ramp up renewable energy, expand public transit and support clean-tech manufacturing.

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Environmentalist Tzeporah Berman says Canada risks being left behind by a United States committed to greening its economy under the leadership of new president Barack Obama, to be sworn into office today.

"Across the country today people are going to be glued to their screens watching the Obama inauguration and the question that I have is how do we create the scale of change that we're seeing in the United States in Canada?" said Berman, who is executive director of PowerUp Canada, the climate change advocacy group that spearheaded the plan.

"I think that if this government were to put forward a proposal for a green economic stimulus that was as far reaching as what the Obama administration is proposing, we would see similar engagement and excitement from Canadians across this country," Berman told The Tyee.

You want to be best pal with President Obama, Mr. Prime Minister? Or do you want to further our subservience to the U.S.?

You better get your act together, sir.

(And yes - acquiescing to any requests that Canada extends its mission in Afghanistan beyond 2011 just won't cut it)

You once pledged adherence to competence, Mr. Prime Minister - and so far, you have been found severely wanting - and then some.

How about walking the walk for a change, eh?

Enough with your harperisms, your double-talk, your primitive-thinking/backward ideology-driven, mendacious hypocrisy and overall incompetence.

Oh - and have a nice day.