tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post6495091320136972853..comments2024-03-28T15:34:01.401-04:00Comments on Politics and its Discontents: That Was Then; This Is NowLornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15741324981120408977noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post-29044305972819823902018-04-11T18:00:00.480-04:002018-04-11T18:00:00.480-04:00I am as disappointed in Trudeau as many others are...I am as disappointed in Trudeau as many others are, Sal,. As you note here, the disparity between appearance and reality in his regime is immense.Lornehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15741324981120408977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post-31310578828174233262018-04-11T15:06:37.700-04:002018-04-11T15:06:37.700-04:00.. ergh.. talk th talk..
Trudeau is in faceplant ..... ergh.. talk th talk..<br /><br />Trudeau is in faceplant mode.. an old ski or snowboard term.. but that never deflected a politician.. ever<br /><br />The facts of pipelines to fill supertankers bound for Texas gulf coast or Asia, are meaningless.. its all about the votes.. repeat after me.. Its all all about the votes.<br /><br />And Israeli military with scoped weaponry, repeat after me<br />Its all about the votes<br /><br />8 wheeled armored vehicles with turrets and machine guns are suddenly 'just jeeps' or just transports according to a current and past Prime Minister.. so could I drive a Massey Fergusen tractor pulling a load of hay or a manure spreader through the grounds of Parliament' and spin that past police in Ottawa.. as say, a street cleaning device? I think not ..<br /><br />But thanks for the try Justin..<br />you were 'wide right'.. no super bowl for you<br />But Stupor Bowl well within reach<br />and the payoff is Canada gets Andrew Scheer<br />what a wondrous relief... ergh ..<br />the salamanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06853337802990122289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post-86801992696820314152018-04-11T14:12:33.080-04:002018-04-11T14:12:33.080-04:00Thanks for your analysis, Mound, as well as the ci...Thanks for your analysis, Mound, as well as the citations. It seems to me that when Trudeau says the twinning of Kinder Morgan is in the national interest, that national interest seems to reside in the ones he answers to, as you state: the bankers, the oil executives and the business leaders. <br /><br />The environmental future of Canada and the world, at best, seems a mere afterthought.Lornehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15741324981120408977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post-52197385859998064712018-04-11T13:00:41.240-04:002018-04-11T13:00:41.240-04:00This is one of those environmental issues that get...This is one of those environmental issues that get overwhelmed by partisan politics. Justin is placing the perceived interests of the Liberal Party of Canada ahead of the environmental security of British Columbians and the long-term interests of young Canadians and the generations that will follow them.<br /><br />The National Observer accurately described Trudeau's constituents as "business leaders, bankers and oil patch executives." Doesn't that sound just like Harper?<br /><br />That his position is corrupt is evidenced by his broken promises and his arguments that are based on outright lies. He cannot make an honest case for the Trans-Mountain pipeline. He says "the science" has been done. Environment Canada says no, it hasn't. The Royal Society of Canada says it hasn't. David Shindler and Suzuki say it hasn't. The province of British Columbia says it hasn't but, if Ottawa won't, at least let us do it.<br /><br />Conclusive proof of the catastrophe that an oil spill poses to coastal waters requires nothing more than looking to Prince William Sound, Alaska, a quarter century after the Exxon Valdez disaster. And, remember, this was kids' stuff, ordinary crude oil, not the far more dangerous bitumen.<br /><br />That's enough to invoke the "precautionary principle" which, as you'll see in the citations below, has been upheld in the Federal Court of Canada and the Supreme Court of Canada, as a norm of substantive Canadian law.<br /><br />The onus is on Trudeau, Notley, Kinder-Morgan and the Tar Sanders to prove this nightmare is safe and all we've got is their word for it. Trudeau's word is directly contradicted by his own Environment Canada - and the Royal Society. David Shindler, Alberta's renowned ecologist, contradicts Notley.<br /><br />This whole thing is built on a tissue of lies heedless of the risks it poses my province, my coast.<br /><br />Trudeau revealed how readily he will flout the law on the assisted dying issue when he felt entitled to ignore the clear ruling of the Supreme Court of Canada in the Carter case and, instead, substitute a politically bastardized version, Charter rights be damned.<br /><br />The Trudeau government insists that its constitutional powers trump provincial opposition. It's not that simple. Constitutional powers exercised lawfully may trump provincial opposition but the lawful exercise of that superior jurisdiction surely requires Ottawa to meet the onus it bears under the precautionary principle. At the very least this makes Trudeau's efforts to steamroller British Columbia on Kinder Morgan unjust and, in a democracy, it is the right of citizens to resist unjust acts that flout the law. <br /><br />In essence, Trudeau makes the case for civil disobedience. He is the author of that misfortune and it is on him if he wrecks Confederation in the process.<br /><br /><br />BC's Pipeline Vigilance is Backed By Science, Edmonton Journal, 9 Feb., 2018.<br /><br />The Precautionary Principle is the Law of Canada, the Dragun Corporation, 27 October, 2015.<br />The Precautionary Principle Recognized as a Norm of Substantive Canadian Law by Federal Court of Canada, 7 Sept., 2015<br />The Supreme Court of Canada applies the Precautionary Principle, case comment, Castonguay Blasting v. Ontario.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.com