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 Posted 5/16/2008 7:00:00 PM
Stephane Dion may be Stephane Dion's _fcksavedurl="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080516.WBwblogolitics20080516062933/WBStory/WBwblogolitics/">toughest political opponent: » June 14, 2006 — Stephane Dion on a carbon tax: "I've always been against it. I will have other ways to get there."» June 14, 2006 — Dion criticizes Michael Ignatieff: "The first sentence he said is we need to protect Alberta. And in the second sentence he said carbon tax."» May 15, 2008: Dion says Canadians willing to accept carbon tax. The Conservative ads just write themselves. _fcksavedurl="http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/columnists/story.html?id=86c8138a-e544-482f-ac78-b7baa47b4660">Lorne Gunter has much more:...when (Dion) released his campaign platform it referred to a tax on the production or consumption of fossil fuels as "simply bad policy."Also, Dion told the National Post's editorial board in November 2006 (just weeks before he was selected as Liberal leader), if he ever became prime minister he would not even consider a carbon tax, because "for Albertans it's a non-starter."He claimed in the Globe and Mail to have "always been against" a carbon tax. He had "other ways" to achieve emission reductions -- mostly investment in new energy-saving technologies and tax incentives for individuals and businesses that reduced their carbon footprints.(...) Within weeks of becoming Liberal boss, Dion rushed to Alberta to assure the Journal's editorial board, among others,...
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Posted 5/16/2008 6:00:00 PM
Following up on _fcksavedurl="http://www.am770chqr.com/Blogs/TheWorldTonight/BlogEntry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10000128">Wednesday's post on the subject of polar bears, much more reaction to highlight: Colby Cosh in today's _fcksavedurl="http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=be07de05-aca4-4cad-bb6a-d75ecbf019d4">National Post: It's also interesting that animal welfare groups are so often ready to claim that aboriginal peoples possess special insight and wildlife-stewardship abilities when it suits them, but that they will defect so readily, and so hypocritically, in a case like this one. The Inuit do not see the need for polar bear hunting to be restricted more than it already is, and they attest that the populations are mostly healthy, and have grown exponentially in the last few decades. Because American sport hunters of the polar bear are generally obliged to hire Inuit guides (doing so is legally mandatory in the Territories), an economic interest that supports their traditional way of life has been directly injured by the Interior Department's decision.
More from _fcksavedurl="http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=2e964385-7848-4b4c-a237-1b4310255b2e">Don Martin:
The "threatened" status afforded the Canadian great white is intriguing. One might not associate that alarmist term with an animal whose Arctic population has doubled to 25,000 bears in the last 40 years, with only two of the 13 pockets of population experiencing any decline and the rest enjoying a boom.Yet somehow, despite that population surge, its...
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Posted 5/15/2008 7:00:00 PM
You can hear an MP3 here of our election gag law debate this week between Gerry Nicholls and Duff Conacher. The main focus of the debate was whether Alberta needed to ban or limit election advertsing by individuals, as Premier Stelmach has suggested.
Two issues came up in the discussion that seem relevant to news coming out of BC. One was how and whether gag laws can apply in jurisdictions with fixed election dates (and therefore no declared election campaign). The other point was Duff Conacher's suggestion that only right-wingers like Gerry Nicholls and other groups like the National Citizens Coalition oppose election gag laws.
Well, on the first point, BC has fixed election dates, and BC is bringing in an election gag law:
Under provisions of Bill 42, groups other than political parties would be restricted to spending $3,000 per electoral district and $150,000 overall in the four months leading up to an election and during the election campaign itself.
As for the second point, does the BC Civil Liberties Association count as a right-wing group? The Trial Lawyers Association? How about these organizations:
BC Federation of Labour
B.C. Government and Service Employees’ Union
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