Voting Guide - 2021

 


This summer is showing us that the climate emergency is deathly real and we're just getting the first taste of the lash.

So, when we go to the polls this fall, here's a handy voting guide. Under no circumstances vote for any party that doesn't have a clear and convincing platform on climate change - both mitigation and adaptation. And it's entirely appropriate when weighing the competing platforms to apply a large discount factor to parties that have a demonstrated history of greenwashing, of promising much and delivering little to nothing.

If this sounds like I'm picking on the Liberals, I'm not.  After all they have been in power for the past six years and that's not my fault either. I voted Green.

It's not my fault that this government's own National Resources ministry just last week issued a report giving the Liberals a D- to F+ on its handling of the climate emergency. 

"There is abundant research indicating that current efforts to adapt are insufficient in the face of rapidly accumulating social and economic losses from current and future climate change impacts. The research also demonstrates that the window for taking action to reduce increasingly severe impacts is rapidly closing."

And it's certainly not my fault that this government has chosen, instead, to pour 12 to 16 billion on constructing an expanded pipeline to flood world markets with climate crippling high-carbon bitumen.

The sad part is how this government has gotten away with endlessly bullshitting us on everything from First Nations reconciliation to electoral reform to action on climate change. They tell us what they figure we want to hear and then ignore their solemn promises almost as soon as the votes are counted. Those lies are costing lives. They're spreading ruin through our land. They're squandering time we no longer have to waste. As the report says, "The window for taking action to reduce increasingly severe impacts is rapidly closing."

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  1. TrailblazerJuly 6, 2021 at 7:29 PM

    Perhaps the displaced residents of Lillooet will be convinced of climate change/disaster but for many of the National Post persuasion it's all false news.
    I remain amazed at the numbers of those that reject that we are the authors of our own demise.

    TB

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  2. The Disaffected LibJuly 6, 2021 at 10:34 PM

    If the progressives can't show leadership in the midst of these crises we may only deepen the left-right divide. If the Canadian public can't put Canada ahead of their political sniping we are screwed.

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