With an Election Looming This Should Help Make Up Your Mind


With our forests ablaze and heatwaves raking the country claiming hundreds of lives, this is inexcusable.

Since 2018, Canadian governments have spent 23 billion dollars on building and expanding pipelines.

According to the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), Canadian governments have deployed at least $23 billion to support pipelines since 2018. This is highest figure for government subsidies and supports for the fossil fuels industry ever reported, IISD said.

Nearly half of that sum — $10 billion — was earmarked after the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the IISD report states.

ISD and other environmental groups state that this rise in public financing is happening after Canada and other G20 countries pledged in 2009 to phase out "inefficient" fossil fuel subsidies.

A decade later, Canada hasn't completed one of the first steps toward fulfilling that pledge: drafting an inventory of its fossil fuel subsidies.

Sold Out - And How





Comments

  1. Bill MalcolmJuly 7, 2021 at 3:18 AM

    Well, no Libs for me. And especially no Cons, nutters to the core. The Greens are up a creek without a paddle on a bullshit run and zero hope their leader can get elected in Toronto Centre, and the NDP are wafflers, with ties to the petro provincial NDP in both BC and Alberta

    That's the problem. Not a decent party in sight to support.

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  2. TrailblazerJuly 7, 2021 at 7:42 AM


    None of the above.
    I will spoil my vote.
    It will at least be counted as such.

    TB

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  3. Northern PoVJuly 7, 2021 at 8:25 AM

    Three posts in a row about the premature election that looms ahead.
    Kind of like the 'return to school' feeling that haunted the carefree summers of yore?
    But I reject the 'I'm so depressed I won't vote for any of them' stance.

    I'm assuming the campaign goes 'as predicted' whereby Jr & Freeland could grab four years of the future so they can re-arrange the deck chairs on this sinking ship to their advantage.

    I will vote NDP this time, aiming for a minority steered by the NDP as the best possible outcome under fptp. Yes, Alberta & BC shows that greenwashing/ff development continues when the NDP achieve power. But they are generally 'pure in opposition' and making a lot of sense atm.

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  4. The Disaffected LibJuly 7, 2021 at 8:54 AM

    I does seem that, in the context of election choices, we stand at an abyss. The most compelling argument seems to be vote Liberal because they're not O'Toole's Tories. There was a time when our political parties would be embarrassed to have to fall back on that pitch. That was then, this, as if we need reminders, is now.

    I haven't voted Liberal since Ignatieff's disastrous reign. What led me to part company with the LPC after 40 years of loyalty hasn't changed. It's a party that stands for little beyond gaining and retaining power with periodic displays of concern gilding the lily. Going back to my acquaintance with federal politics - the era of Pearson v. Diefenbaker/PE Trudeau v. Stanfield - I can think of no government that can hold a candle to the J Trudeau Liberals for freely making promises they discard once the votes are counted.

    Canada, in my opinion, has been in governmental decline since Harper bumped off Martin. I so hoped Trudeau would even our political keel but he's chosen not to. He had a choice on First Nations reconciliation. He chose. He had a choice on electoral reform. He chose. He had a choice on climate change. He chose.

    Six years in power and there are no excuses left to be made for him. He is not the guy to steer Canada through these perilous times but he's all we've got and we will hand him another four years.

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  5. Northern PoVJuly 7, 2021 at 9:58 PM

    David Peterson might offer Jr some cautious advice about early election calls. Campaigns matter. Right now, its being seen as the immediate end of the big lock downs, interrupting 'my mellow' with an election call could backfire. Compromising pics and info often emerges. The Cons and Greens are imploding. How's the new GG going to figure in la belle province?

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