Monday, January 15, 2007

"All Political Posturing"


That's David Suzuki's assessment of the Harper government's sudden, green epiphany.

Suzuki said that he was initially optimistic about Harper's new enviromin, David Baird, "To me that was a huge step up from what the previous minister (Rona Ambrose) had really been saying. That was a very good start ... (but) when I asked Mr. Baird what was Mr. Harper's position on global warming and meeting Kyoto, ... he waffled and he went round and round and round."

The struggle to confront global warming absolutely must rise above partisan politics, " "I don't think we can make global warming and environmental issues a political issue. Otherwise parties start jockeying and saying `I am greener than them.'

"This is a fundamental issue that affects all of us regardless of whether you are right or left wing and we have got to get on with it."

2 comments:

Anonymous said...


"I don't think we can make global warming and environmental issues a political issue. Otherwise parties start jockeying and saying `I am greener than them.'"

That's rich, coming from David Suzuki. He's done more than anybody in this country to make the environment a partisan issue. Let's face it, he's criticizing the Conservatives on the environment because they're conservatives, not because of their taken on the environment.

The Mound of Sound said...

Sorry Bunny, it's put up or shut up time and that goes for the Reform Tories too. You want to get into debates about who is more partisan than who. That accomplishes nothing and it does nothing to advance the action on the issue of which we've still seen nothing tangible from the Harpies.