The Harper government is throwing in the towel on Quebec’s internationally-maligned asbestos industry now that the Parti Québécois is poised to take power and prohibit extraction of the cancer-causing mineral.
Industry Minister Christian Paradis said Canada will stop defending asbestos mining in international circles and no longer oppose adding chrysotile asbestos to the Rotterdam Convention, a global list of hazardous substances.
This report, carried in the Globe, is yet another searing commentary on the banality of evil infusing our federal 'masters.' Despite numerous past appeals to stop this indefensible export of death, the Harper government was unmoved by moral considerations and now is simply yielding to political expediency.
Definitely not something to be proud of.
Asbestos was a dead stinking horse.. it took almost a decade for Stephen Harper to resign himself to the stench and cut it from the traces. In the new energy superpower paradigm he is spewing, he and Joe Oliver and Paradis could not fight off all the shouts from the grandstands that there was a dead horse in his team of mules.
ReplyDeleteA veterinarian could have appraised him of this in seconds.. but alas Stephen has yet to have his 'come to Jesus' moment-revelation with evidence based medicine. Joe Oliver will never accept reality over Stock Market projections or pipelines .. and Paradis is more of a treatable parasite.. like having intestinal worms.
Therein lies the problem, Salamander, with this government. The reality that a moral view of the world imposes on people of conscience seems beyond their grasp.
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