Wednesday, January 31, 2007
So Harper Called Kyoto A Socialist Scheme....
So the CBC's Conservative-Smear-Machine is making a big deal about Stephen Harper calling the Kyoto Accord "a socialist scheme to suck money out of wealth-producing nations." Now mind you, the letter was written over five years ago.
But the fact of the matter is, he was right! Kyoto is a socialist mechanism to redistribute wealth, it's clear. Developed industrial nations are put under much tighter limitations than developing nations. That in turn, gives developing nations a competitive advantage in the global market. That is wealth distribution from the rich to the poor.
Point in case is Russia. They're not tied to the same timeline as other industrialized developed nations, because they're an "economy in transition", which is a nice way of saying they have a weak economy. It's not due to a lack of technology, or resources, it's due only to decades of a mismanaged economy. And Kyoto will help them catch-up to other developed nations by giving Russia a competitive advantage over the USA, Canada, Britian, etc.
But the slant that the Liberals and CBC are taking, is that because Stephen Harper doesn't want to subsidize Russia's growth at the expense of the Canadian economy, he doesn't care about the environment.
Actually, if anything it shows that Harper is committed to responsible climate change. He is not willing to throw away billions of dollars for programs that are unproven, and benifit other nations at our expense.
The Liberals for years have been happy to sign any green-friendly document that comes their way, but did nothing to try to achieve the goals they set out for themselves. Stephen Harper has, in a year of government, done more to achieve the Liberals' environmental targets than the Liberals themselves did.
Just because he has a nasty adjective for the protocal whos targets nobody can meet, doesn't mean "he doesn't care about the environment". If he didn't care about the environment he wouldn't be plunging the billions of dollars into it that he is. Liberals complain that Harper's Green initiatives are all Liberal initiatives re-written.
Liberals seem to think that just because they had the idea, they should get the credit for putting the initiatives in place. Nope, sorry, doesn't work that way. They had twelve years in government to pass their priorities, and they did. The environment was not one of those priorities, and they failed to get the job done. Now the environment belongs to Stephen Harper.
Update [Feb 1, 10:06]: Rod Martin at The Vanguard blog hits the same subject:
But the fact of the matter is, he was right! Kyoto is a socialist mechanism to redistribute wealth, it's clear. Developed industrial nations are put under much tighter limitations than developing nations. That in turn, gives developing nations a competitive advantage in the global market. That is wealth distribution from the rich to the poor.
Point in case is Russia. They're not tied to the same timeline as other industrialized developed nations, because they're an "economy in transition", which is a nice way of saying they have a weak economy. It's not due to a lack of technology, or resources, it's due only to decades of a mismanaged economy. And Kyoto will help them catch-up to other developed nations by giving Russia a competitive advantage over the USA, Canada, Britian, etc.
But the slant that the Liberals and CBC are taking, is that because Stephen Harper doesn't want to subsidize Russia's growth at the expense of the Canadian economy, he doesn't care about the environment.
Liberal MP Mark Holland told the Canadian Press on Tuesday that the leaked letter shows that Harper isn't actually committed to climate change.
Actually, if anything it shows that Harper is committed to responsible climate change. He is not willing to throw away billions of dollars for programs that are unproven, and benifit other nations at our expense.
The Liberals for years have been happy to sign any green-friendly document that comes their way, but did nothing to try to achieve the goals they set out for themselves. Stephen Harper has, in a year of government, done more to achieve the Liberals' environmental targets than the Liberals themselves did.
Just because he has a nasty adjective for the protocal whos targets nobody can meet, doesn't mean "he doesn't care about the environment". If he didn't care about the environment he wouldn't be plunging the billions of dollars into it that he is. Liberals complain that Harper's Green initiatives are all Liberal initiatives re-written.
Liberals seem to think that just because they had the idea, they should get the credit for putting the initiatives in place. Nope, sorry, doesn't work that way. They had twelve years in government to pass their priorities, and they did. The environment was not one of those priorities, and they failed to get the job done. Now the environment belongs to Stephen Harper.
Update [Feb 1, 10:06]: Rod Martin at The Vanguard blog hits the same subject:
It’s no accident that, after stepping down as the mass-murdering dictator of the Evil Empire, Mikhail Gorbachev’s first "job" was as head of an environmental group. The eco gang is a bunch of watermelons: green on the outside and red all the way through. This doesn’t mean they’re never right, just as Communists were sometimes right about this or that as well. It just means that all their solutions boil down to taking from you and giving to the state.
Labels: Conservative Party, Liberal Party, politics, Stephen Harper, Y2Kyoto
