There's a lively column by the L-P's political writer in today's paper. The topic: the Saskatchewan Party government's two-faced monkeyshines on the environmental file. For those who missed the news, last week the Saskatchewan Party said it was scrapping Saskatchewan's greenhouse gas reduction targets and harmonizing with federal targets--despite campaign promises to meet the NDP's 2020 targets. (Links to the Leader-Post)
Mandryk slams the government for saying one thing during the last election campaign, then doing another. Well, duh, there's a surprise. But this news isn't what matters. What matters is Mandryk's extremely entertaining prose.
Mandryk's outrage is a little bit misplaced (then again he's writing one column, not a comprehensive position paper, so cut him some slack, Whitworth). Anyone with a working brain now realizes that conservative politicians are the worst of a really bad bunch on environmental issues.* They don't understand/have contempt for science, they don't value conservation, they ruthlessley attack their critics and they consistently resist attempts to move their countries to sustainable energy systems like solar and wind power.
Bush was a monster. Harper is a monster. And anyone surprised by this just hasn't been paying attention.
It's also problematic that these issues fall under provincial jurisdiction rather than federal. Global warming is't a regional problem and the policy ought to come from the feds.
But I'm blahblahblahing here. Go read Mandryk's column, it's good and fun.
*Don't get me started on the federal Liberals, who should be jailed for their Kyoto failures.
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A footnote to your footnote: I don't want to let the Liberals off the hook, either. But, were it not for the intellectual dishonesty of the Conservatives (whatever name they were going by at the time) the Liberals wouldn't have been able to get away with so many years of inaction on climate change. In fact, I'd go so far as to say the Conservatives and their lackeys and minions are responsible for creating an atmosphere in this country that would have made it difficult for any party to make any strides towards cutting our carbon emissions. It was their think tanks, their politicians and their pundits who for decades spread misinformation about the state of climate science and the certainty that humans are causing global warming. Sure, the liberals, until Dion, were total cowards where the environment is concerned. But the guilt of the Conservatives on this cannot be understated.
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