But the global warming debate is a scam to begin with.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the UN's official group of climate change scientists, states that even if every country in the world followed the Kyoto Protocol to a 'T' for 100 years, the world would not cool off at all.
So while global warming hypocrisy is fun to point out, it really doesn't matter, since mankind's impact on climate is negligible.
But what about something more tangible, about which humans are involved?
Say, human rights law?
There, the hypocrisy from our betters is harder to stomach.
Last week, the Canadian opposition parties banded together and foiled a Conservative bill to make a 30-year-old federal human rights law apply to Canada's Aboriginal reserves.
Frankly, Canada doesn't need the Canadian Human Rights Act. Most human rights matters covered by it and provincial human rights laws can be handled in civil court (employment law already forbids firing someone without cause; landlord and tenant law already forbids kicking out a tenant without cause) or are political matters that should not be governed by laws at all.
More fun at:
http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/Levant_Ezra/2007/07/30/4379165-sun.html
[Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on August 1, 2007]
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This statement is a wonderful example of a half truth. The study stated that our climate could be set to warm by as much as 5.8ºC by 2100. Thinking that this gives you a free license to ignore climate change because we can not truly stop it is idiotic. One would hope that knowing human activity has already set us on a course to change the climate would spur us to try and at least minimize what that impact will inevitably end up being.<br />
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Check out this link for a nice summary of what the study concluded:<br />
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<a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/292/5515/192">http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/292/5515/192</a>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Levant">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Levant</a> <p>---<br>"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do."<br />
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Perception is two thirds of what we perceive reality to be.
Difficult decisions are a privilege of rank.
Being Albertan, I hear more than enough of his claptrap than other Canadians. I'm rather surprised The Sun is carrying his stuff though. Had to start his own rag, because no one else would.
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But onto the human rights question. The human rights commission is meant to be an overseer, and if you look at it for five seconds then you'd know it should be EXPANDED, not eliminated. The commission deals with only very specific things, mostly federally regulated industries. It investigates issues where other legislation falls short.
He mentions the example of Residential Tenant's Acts, which, its true, are SUPPOSED to be written with a mind to the recommendeations of human rights' acts. However, go back to my frequent example of New Brunswick, where people who live in rooming houses and lodging houses are simply NOT COVERED. In the minds of the Residential Tenants Act such people do not exist, and the abuses inflicted on them are numerous. Thanks to a lobby effort and a byelection we got the Residential Tenants Act rewritten, however, it took almost a year to include them, and while the act got Royal Assent over a year ago, it has yet to be proclaimed.
The alternative was always to go to the Human Rights Commission in New Brunswick, yet that's a problem, because you need a PERSON to argue the case and obviously if you can be thrown out of a house just for talking to the wrong people then its hard to find somebody to complain.
So Canada is a FAR way from being a lecturer about our human rights record, if anything the Commission's mandate should be radically expanded. Whole sectors of the population are marginalized due not only to lack of rights, but abuses on their rights. That is also supposedly one of their mandates, but its given short shrift.
He makes a few good points, but it's a hit piece all the same.
Ezra is nothing more than a better Canadian looking version of Anne Coulter.
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If there was ever a time for Canadians to become pushy - now is the time - for time is running out on this nation called Canada.