You know what this means, don't you? My commentary is falling on blind eyes, my jokes (yours) are not funny and Elections Canada has gone over to the dark side.
Boring.....
Oh Well.... There's always next week.....
Hang on... Harper met with Trinidad and Tobago today .... hey maybe we can talk about the wacky tabbacy trade.....
Oh my gawd .... so much stupidity on Parliament Hill.... so little blog space
This is a tricky question to consider: Just how soon should we jump into action ahead of a terror plot? Should we be ready to move against a suspect before we hold irrefutable proof that a plot even exists?
Or should we consider acting early enough to stop would-be suspects from considering those plans at all?
Canada’s government seems to have the answer. Yes, be ready to act the moment we have a sneaking suspicion. No, don’t bother trying to understand what would lead someone to consider an act of terror in the first place.
One day after passing a bill that will give law enforcement agencies the right to detain people suspected of terrorist connections, Prime Minister Stephen Harper again shot down idea of considering the matter on a wider scale.
Harper said the recent string of terrorist events did not make it time to “commit sociology.” That is a quote-worthy way of saying, “don’t start looking for the ‘root causes’ that lead to terrorism.”
Joe Oliver is an idiot..... the World knows it but Stephen Harper is not smart enough to realize it.
David Schindler, a internationally acclaimed scientist, from the University of Alberta says Oliver's comments about Hansen are out of line.
"Jim Hansen is well respected in the science community. He has received the Blue Planet Prize, one of the world's top awards for science. Oliver is foolish to be making the sort of remarks that he is, the Americans he is dealing with are not stupid enough to discount Hansen," he told Yahoo! Canada News in an email exchange.
"By acting like this, he is actually jeopardizing Keystone, not promoting it, and making Canada look like a country full of jerks."
Schindler — who in 2004 became an Officer of the Order of Canada — also questions Oliver's stance about the science.
"The numbers on carbon increase, and the role of the oil sands in preventing Canada from reaching any reasonable international agreement on controlling greenhouse gases speak for themselves. For example, Canada, the US and Australia all emit about 21 tonnes of CO2 per year. Thanks to the oil sands, Albertans emit 70," he said.
"No one is fooled by the focus on cuts per barrel, while the barrels of output are rising so rapidly that they overwhelm any gains made per barrel. And then there is air pollution, water pollution, water use, human rights issues with the people of Treaty 8, escalating costs caused by uncontrolled development, the issue of increasing tailing ponds. It is not only about greenhouse gases.
Well .... next week sure looks promising
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