'No Benefit' In Tories' Clean Air Act

Dear Moderator: If I made that error, I'm sorry. Plural of Tory is Tories.
Something belonging to the Tories should be Tories' ... as in Tories'
Clean Air Act.

OK! Now write that on the black board 100 times :-[

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Everybody got to deviate from the norm

Under the Kyoto Protocol members would have to provide new and additional financial resources to meet the agreed full costs incurred by developing country Parties in advancing the implementation of existing commitments including for the transfer of technology, needed by the developing country Parties to meet the agreed full incremental costs of advancing the implementation of existing commitments. This is what the USA did not like about this agreement.

Though the protocol is far from perfect it is a base (foundation) and only a base for which all parties have agreed to a be bound by where nothing had existed before.

Now Canada is back where business and industry will determine what, if, when and where regulations will exist, which is the process that had been in place and has brought us to this position now of having to react instead of being pro-active.


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Perception is two thirds of what we perceive reality to be.

Difficult decisions are a privilege of rank.

It seems that we are jumping the gun on this issue. Remember how the Liberals used to leak documents to get a feeling for public reaction? Then, when it was panned, they would quickly come up with some new but poorly thought out plan. I suspect that document was leaked for the same reasons. We should save our energy and wait for the actual documents.

According to our federal Labour Minister Jean-Pierre Blackburn, "Protecting the environment is important, but it shouldn't come at the cost of Canadian businesses."

There you go. There are benefits to some. The Clean Air Act may be smoggy but should be benefical to major corporations. Perhaps the government will come up with laws protecting major polluters. What's good for business.....etc.

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I just saw the same Blackburn quote. It is also quite enlightening to see what else he had to say. He is accusing the environmental policies of the Quebec government for the the closing of the Quebec mills and the loss of 1600 jobs because they reduced the size of logging areas. He is reported as saying: "Look what happens when you go too far on environmental questions."

I have held the suspicion for some time that the softwood lumber agreement is designed to remove control over Crown Lands from the provinces to the large softwood lumber producing multi-national corporations. By putting a 15 per cent tax on value added production for export to the U.S. market it will put pressure on the provinces to allow the multi-nationals ship the logs into the U.S. There would be pressure to comply to save a few jobs in logging (Blackburn's remarks suggest that is exactly what the new Conservative government wants).

If you can force the provinces to eliminate all environmental regulations these multi-nationals can take in much higher profits once the market rebounds and once the smaller producers are forced out of the market by recession and the agreement.

The whole Softwood Lumber Agreement is designed to consolidate the Canadian and U.S. industries in only a few hands and is totally consistent with corporatist thinking in which government and the large corporations work together to achieve corporate objectives on a North American scale as the first stage of global consolidation.

The same attitude is behind the refusal of the Canadian government to ban bottom dragging. This method of fishing, I have been told by divers, leaves the bottom of the ocean looking like a ploughed field. It destroys the habitat and the food chain within the ocean resulting in huge environmental damage. However, it is the interests of big "business" that is placed before everything else.

You are right when you say that we are jumping the gun on this issue but your next post reveals that you are probably about as optimistic as the rest of us on the Con "plan". The big picture is easily hidden from the public and a series of policy changes is all that is required to implement the insidious plans of the extremist, fundamentalist regime that has been imposed upon us.

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Everybody got to deviate from the norm

Actually, you had it as 'Torries'. I changed it to 'Torys' ', someone lese edited it again. Tory -> possessive should be Torys'. I don't think the word follows the 'y' to 'ie' rule for plurals, because it was meant as a possesive.

It doesn't matter in the long run, we know what was meant.


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"I think it's important to always carry enough technology to restart civilization, should it be necessary." Mark Tilden

Just as a gathering of (say) crows is called a murder of crows, perhaps a gathering of Tories could be called a Plural of Tories (or maybe a Terror of Tories)........

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