Voters Choice - Canada's Environmental Conundrum

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There’s one question for Canadians as the Amazon burns; will we wake up? And I mean a giant zeitgeist collective consciousness wake up. There’s a federal election in October, so what better time. Our planet is at the 11th hour. Here’s where our political parties stand on the climate and environmental crisis:

Conservatives – the party most likely to form an alternative government:

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Liberal Party – A plan that’s 21 years out of date. They followed the previous Conservative government’s lame CO2 emissions target, are doing more to ram another pipeline to the west coast than Conservatives ever did, and now, with some irony,  I recall Justin Trudeau’s Canada is a country of the rule of law finger wagging at British Columbia blocking the afore mentioned pipeline. The PM’s social license went missing in the post.

NDP – The “Socialists” are fracking their way to extinction in British Columbia, continuing the previous provincial government’s boondoggle of a Site C dam construction by ignoring and spinning a commissioned independent report, that well, anyone with half a brain cell would reach a conclusion we should pull the plug and eat the costs, not triple them!  Then there was the former NDP government in Alberta and their vitriol towards their NDP counterparts in British Columbia for blocking that oilsands pipeline.

It’s important to see what political parties do when they hold the reins of power, because you can’t make this shit up.

So what about the one federal party that hasn’t help power (at least provincially)? 

Green Party – Fighting cell phone bills. 

Yup. A recent email from GPHQ let me know how Canadians pay amongst the highest cell phone bills in the world — and they’ll fight for us.  It’s true but it doesn’t take much searching/asking to find alternatives to the big carriers. I did this three months ago and now pay $25 for:

• 500 unlimited minutes during peak weekdays across Canada (all other times are free), 

• Unlimited text & dick pic messaging.

• 1GB of data, albeit at 3G but makes no difference from what I can tell.  As long as you don’t use data heavy apps (like Facebook) or endless streaming on the fly, 1GB is fine. There’s something called wifi. 

 There are options. The problem is any savings will be swallowed up by rent increases. Affordable housing should be election issue #2 as landlords gobble up every bit of freed up income.

Apologies if you thought this blog was going to delve into environmental policies but, this in truth, is where we’re at in Canada.