Justin Trudeau, continuing on this year's campaign theme of 'I'm better than that jerk' is warning that our chances of fighting climate change will be dead as a National Lampoon's dog if we don't return the Liberals to power.
There it is kids. Pipeline Pete is our last, best chance, our only hope, and, if we don't see that, we're toast. Those grandkids? Screw'em, they're fried.
"If we don't demonstrate that we can take real, tangible actions on the environment and continue to get the support of Canadians, no Canadian government's going to bother defending the environment anymore," Trudeau tells CBC senior writer Aaron Wherry in Promise and Peril: Justin Trudeau in Power, released this week.
"It'll be seen as an electoral loser. And I can't have that, we can't have that, we can't afford ... Canada can't afford that," Trudeau told Wherry.Is Trudeau the better bet than Scheer on the environment? Yes, no question. Should that translate into our votes? No, not at all. We're in the opening stages of a climate emergency. It's like every house from Newfoundland to British Columbia is about to catch fire. It's against that threat that the candidates are to be measured, not against each other.
Churchill spoke of emergencies when he said that "It is not enough that we do our best. Sometimes we must do what is required." That, and that alone, is the litmus test for leadership in times of emergency. On that test, both Scheer and Trudeau are dismal failures.
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What can be seen is a person talking out of both sides of his mouth. Overpaying for a pipeline that is going to dramatically increase our emissions while making us all pay a carbon tax and business gets a free ride is not "defending the environment" Tangible actions will be when the Federal Government re taxpayers have to clean up the kilometres long tarsand holding ponds once the polluters are allows them to skate.
Judging by the standard of governments in this era of "Everyday Low Taxes" it's not hard to foresee those tailing ponds and the bitumen pits being ignored. Think of it as the quarter-trillion dollar equivalent of the orphan well/fugitive emissions problem.
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