This has been an unusually stressful week on the climate/environment front. Don’t worry, it’ll be back at full bore on Monday morning but at least there’s the weekend (I hope) to chill out. The week began with anxious wondering if Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party would table a motion for a
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The Disaffected Lib: What Yesterday Meant to Me
Since that first time I heard Greta Thunberg, I sensed that something wonderful might be about to happen. Eventually she inspired a resistance. The school children’s revolt and then Extinction Rebellion – children and adults saying there no longer could be, nor would be, tolerance of the status quo. As
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: BRITAIN WINS! Parliament Declares Climate National Emergency
From CNN: Lawmakers in the UK Parliament have declared “an environment and climate emergency,” making it the first country in the world to do so, according to the opposition Labour Party. The motion was called by Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. WE DID IT! Thanks to pressure from the Labour
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: $4.5 Billion? Try $20 Billion.
What a fitting legacy for a double dealing prime minister, a pipeline fiasco. He may not like it but Justin Trudeau’s name will forever be tied to a bitumen tube. Dick Hatfield had his Bricklin. Brian Peckford had his cucumber farm. Justin Trudeau blows them both out of the water
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Enron’s Patsy. How Kinder Morgan Played Trudeau and Canada for Suckers.
Steve Kean knows how to play hardball from his days as senior vice president of government affairs with the long defunct Enron corporation. Now, on behalf of the son of Enron, Kinder Morgan, Kean is using those skills to roll Justin Trudeau, Bill Morneau and the people of Canada. The
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: No Takers for Pipeline? What’s the Surprise in That?
To hear Bill Morneau tell it, potential buyers would be falling all over each other to take over Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline. Apparently not. There is no queue. Nothing on the horizon. There are many reasons for investor indifference. Kinder Morgan says it has orders for two-thirds of the
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: A Venture Capitalist on Why Kinder Morgan’s Pipeline and the Tar Sands Make No Sense.
The CEO of Chrysalix Venture Capital says “let’s get honest about the outlook for the Alberta oil sands and Trans Mountain.” In Wal van Lierop’s opinion, neither makes any financial sense any longer. In other words, Trudeau and Morneau appear to be leading Canada into a huge economic blunder. If
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: At Last, An Ally. Merci, Quebec.
Let’s hit bully boy Justin where it hurts, in his home province of Quebec, where the government has come out swinging in support of British Columbia. The first and, to date, only province that has rallied to our side. Quebec politicians are speaking out against Ottawa’s intention to override British
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Neil Macdonald on Trudeau’s Betrayal of the Canadian People
Political cowardice is something we’re getting used to from our federal Liberal government. Justin Trudeau may have a lovely smile but very, very weak knees. When it comes to taking bold steps demanded of true vision, he’s usually a no-show. Can you say “electoral reform”? I know Justin cannot. Then
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Money + Politics = Support for Democracy
At least that’s what finance minister, Bill Morneau, says whether he believes it or not. Finance Minister Bill Morneau is continuing to defend his fundraising activities, arguing that people who attend political fundraisers are supporting the democratic process and keeping good people in politics. “What’s happening at those fundraisers is,
Continue readingMichal Rozworski: The great rentier give-away
With today’s fiscal update, the Trudeau government has really shown itself to be at the forefront of global left neoliberalism. Taking nearly all his cues from his business-dominated Advisory Council on Economic Growth, the Finance Minister announced a new Canada Infrastructure Bank as the centerpiece of the fiscal update and the Liberal’s economic
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