The Hook

Tzeporah Berman......

She is in need of a face lift!

Interesting,why did she wait until today to get "angry" at Carole James?

The NDP have been against the Carbon Tax since before it came out,did she just hear about ax the tax today?

The NDP have been pushing for Cap n Trade for some time,it`s in their platform.

Here is the deal folks,Gordon Campbell is so desperate,after the national roundtable has blown away the carbon tax as ineffective,Campbell has called in the favours,Berman was one of them,the Suzuki was another.
Yes indeed,let the greens tear themselves apart,people can see right through Berman,she should of dumped the NDP last year,but last year no one would of cared,last year everyone was against the carbon tax,let me tell you this.......

People still hate the carbon tax,Campbell`s carbon tax is killing his campaign,Berman,Bill Good,Clark,Baldrey,Palmer......

Good luck boys,those internal polls are freaking the PAB out.......

Welcome Premier Carole James

Cheers-EYES WIDE OPEN

trap

I might not like Campbell, but I do admit - he is a political genius. He knew that his gas tax would be a perfect wedge issue to split the left and allow him a third term...and it just might work.
Attn: all grean-leaning NDP'ers - you might be upset at the NDP's stand on campbell's new tax, but nothing could be worse for the environment than four more years of Gordon Campbell...think before you vote.

Campbell a genius,lol

No,Campbell is in trouble with his Gas/tax---A wedge issue,NOT,Campbell is tanking because of the carbon tax.

Campbell was hated when he brought the tax in,he is still hated,he has spent the last year setting up a strategy to defend the gas tax,,,Good luck,it ain`t working,even the stupid people aren`t that stupid!

People know that gas tax is doubling in 2 months,you can`t sell that,no one is buying it,berman,your nothing but a joke......
Jaccard has been dis-credited--Suzuki has now been dis-credited--join the club Berman--
Campbell is so desperate,Bill Good today had some Americans on his show--8.30 am to 9.00 am saying that the .......

"Whole world was pulling for Gordon Campbell"
Stephanne Dion went down over carbon tax---Gordon Campbell is going down over carbon tax.......
This American from NEW YORK CITY,Bill Good had on even knew how many people Carole James had at her rally in Kamloops,and this clown said "more people wanted to see Gordon Campbell"

The spin is so obvious from CKNW,it will surely backfire!

Gateway folks, Gateway

Anything the Campbell Government proposes to save the environment is rendered moot due to Gateway which will take millions of taxpayer dollars and put it towards even greater pollution.

How come the enviros are silent on Gateway? Where is Berman's denunciation of Gateway? Suzuki's denunciation?

She was a member?

Not sure I believe that either!

As for the carbon tax, if it were a carbon tax the CEO might have a point - it isn't - and he doesn't.

It's nothing more than another money laundering scheme.

Earth to Tyee readers and Ms

Earth to Tyee readers and Ms Berman: If you want to seed authentic green policies, then the Green Party is your bet. Neither the Liberals or NDP have any credibility left to bank on this. Period, full stop. As one who has worked in the renewable energy industry for 12 years (advancing tidal current energy) and helped to start the OREG industry association promoting tidal, wave and offshore wind energy, I have contributed to GP-BC energy policy and many strategizing discussions.

Neither the NDP nor the Liberals - and no major federal party - have a renewable energy history of any merit. Trying to dress up coal as 'clean energy', over-hyping 'Hydrogen' and selling off BCs wilderness rivers as 'green energy' projects disqualifies the Liberals from any claim to being 'green'; and when the NDP held power it was much more interested in building highways and developing oil-gas infrastructure than seeding a renewable energy future. I see no reason to think it would do otherwise if it carried the day on May 12th. Carole James is an ineffective leader and certainly does not have sufficient cabinet depth or advice to serve up a plausible C & T system (a complex regulatory system that would surely morph into a ponderous multi-headed monster under the bureaucracy-loving NDippers).

Please stop deluding yourself - if you want a green energy future, the Green Party is the only authentic game in town.

Is this true?

Quote:

"She says last year B.C. New Democrats voted against cap-and-trade in the legislature"

Berman's last hurrah.

Berman is giving her last gasp of influence and it is weak. I don't think she counts for much these days. How anyone could think that Campbells'; tax on gas, home heating oil, hydro will help the environment is beyond understanding. After all the sell-offs of BC resources, all the cost overruns building more bridges and highways for cars, it is pretty clear that it has nothing to do with climate change and everything to do with politiking - exactly what she accuses James of doing. I'm no fan of James but on this she is right on the mark and everyone I talk to, and they are from all sides of the political spectrum, is in agreement.

The green movement will forever be tainted by their misguided notion that supporting Campbell is going to improve the environment. It is really hilarious if it was not so moronic.

fashion model

She isn't very articulate and grossly uninformed. She has no academic qualifications whatsoever.

She's cute and has a lovely figure.

I guess that's enough.

You are right Michael Maser

". . . if you want a green energy future, the Green Party is the only authentic game in town."

Except they have no chance of forming the next government.

Out of the Frying Pan

Ax the tax, but going to a cap and trade system is madness, especially since it has become more and more apparent that CO2 can't change climate and only responds to it. When it's warm, the oceans release CO2 and when it cools, oceans absorb it.

"It is a canon of common sense, to say nothing of science, that the more improbable a supposed occurrence, the more cogent ought to be the evidence in its favor."

-Science and the Christian Tradition, “An Episcopal Trilogy,” p. 135, T. Huxley

"Huxley addressed, a century ago, the question of how much credence we should place in extreme claims of the type that Gore, Hansen, Weaver, and others present as scientific fact.

Not much, if we are also to believe astronomer Carl Sagan, who has written, in the same vein: “Apocalyptic predictions require, to be taken seriously, higher standards of evidence than do assertions on other matters where the stakes are not as great”(7). Sagan’s comment often appears online as “extreme claims require extreme proof,” but Huxley said it first.

Among these extreme claims is Andrew Weaver’s ominous prediction of a “sixth extinction” that will wipe out “between 40 per cent and 70 per cent of the world’s species” should the global temperature rise above 3.3 degrees Celsius” (a rise that is, for Weaver, entirely humanity’s fault) (Keeping Our Cool, p. 218). He has also called for a complete ban on fossil-fuel use.(8)

Hansen warns of sea level rises of five metres in the next century, 20 metres over the next 400 years (New Scientist, July 25, 2007). And, of course, we should all be familiar with Gore’s apocalyptic predictions (New York under water soon, no Arctic ice by 2014, etc.) if we fail to follow his draconian political and economic program.

Curiously, at least so far, none-not one-of the environmentalists’ apocalyptic predictions, from Thomas Malthus to Paul Ehrlich (mass starvation in the 1970s) to Suzuki, Weaver and Gore, has come to pass."

By any standard, the claims of Gore, Weaver, Hansen, et al., are extreme. Yet we are expected to accept these extreme claims with very little public debate, scrutiny, or criticism (after all, the debate is settled and the climate scientists are the experts), and based on almost no empirical evidence (unless mathematical models are considered the equivalent of empirical evidence).

Instead, climate alarmists abandon scientific principles of evidence, fall back on the precautionary principle (if it could happen we must act as if it will happen)(10), and try to silence anyone asking for proof more convincing than the flawed predictions of computer models.
http://wattsupwiththa"t.com/2009/04/16/consensus-climate-science-what-would-thomas-huxley-say/

Maybe....

"The enviros are coming apart at the seams."

But maybe they aren't. Could the NDP be marking a mistake by alienating their long time enviro supporters?

Nahhh, of course not. Making your political tent smaller has always been a good way to win elections. Besides, the Party is Always Right.

Happy

The Carbon tax,Cap n trade,the gag law,Tilma, and I believe 4 more bills were rammed through the legislature 1 hour and 7 minutes,,,,,,,,

These bills were delayed,not debated,not brought forward until the last hour of the last day,so to say the NDP voted against them,your right.......

But that`s a Gordon Campbell goverment for you ram through bills without debate shrouded in secrecy and when the NDP vote against these bills the Liberals claim how righteous they are......

Bullshit Happy,Campbell has lined these people up in the last year,Why? because everyone hates the Gas/tax, Berman has no credibilty....
She should of complained when James launched her ax the tax campaign last year,there is no flip-flop--Berman is a paid shill,paid by Plutonic power(IMO)

Greens can FFFFFF themselves

Anyone Here Know What the NDP's REAL Carbon Tax Position Is????

http://leadthewaybc.wordpress.com/2009/04/17/robertso-repeals-support-for-premier-and-more-25-days/

Is this just more flip-flopping like the Port Mann Bridge, the retractible roof on BC Place Stadium...???

Anyone?? Anyone??

CAW

The NDP's newfound opposition to carbon taxes comes on direct orders of the Canadian Auto Workers. Most of the union factories in Canada make gas guzzlers and this would, in the CAW's opinion, cause job losses. Secondly, it is a convenient election issue for Ms James, one that that is populist.

This is because real change to reduce CO2 emissions is going to involve real changes in habits and behaviour. It is going to mean an end to driving a Ford F-350 to the mall. It is going to mean that people have to make a real choice to reduce driving, energy use and do things differently.

Anyway, the carbon tax is here to stay because the NDP is not going to win the election anyway.

Wilf

Have you read the bill?

Take a little time and read it, maybe then you'll have an idea what you're supporting and WHY it's a costly, administration heavy, farce:
http://www.leg.bc.ca/38th4th/3rd_read/gov37-3.htm

And when you're done reading that, have a look at this CP report:
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090416/national/greenhouse_gases

Wilful ignorance is sad.

This fiasco is just another

This fiasco is just another reason why the NDP will not win next month and why Carole James is not competent to be Premier. The NDP seem to be their own worst enemy at times.

Actually I think it will be good for the party if the NDP lose bad next month anyway. The party is very divided and I would say almost as many dislike Ms. James as like her, so hopefully both sides can come together and pick a competent leader this fall and win in 2013.

Looking at the last few polls the NDP will be lucky to win 20 of the 85 seats anyway and I put most of that blame on Carole James. She has divided the party, can not get the message out, does not know how to communicate with people and even turning down free air time on the largest radio station in the province shows how incompetent she really is. What politician turns down free air time on the most listened to talk show in BC??????

I don't even want to vote for her next month. I can live with her being a nitwit but I won't be voting NDP because my NDP MLA never returns calls or emails and I even asked twice in last two weeks for a lawn side and never get a reply, so why the fuck would I vote for someone who won't give me the time of day?

I will not vote Liberal or for the right wing Green Party so I am going to protest my vote to the marijuana or an Independent or just spoil my ballot.

Berman and taxes

Yesterday, I sent this to the Van. Sun.

For a person with a high profile, she seems to have little understanding of environmental problems. Does she expect the GHG's will disappear because we have a gas tax. Yes it is a gas tax, not a carbon tax. It is only on petroleum fuel we consume and use in the province. It is not on fuel we mine and export nor is it on fuels we use when we travel outside the province such as Premier Campbell flying in a private jet to China for the Olympics. If it was a carbon tax, it would also include taxes on champagne, beer and pop as they all release carbon dioxide.
This gas tax does not include fuels we export. Campbell is promising we will export more so we will have more revenue and the economy will grow. Of course if that happens, then carbon dioxide emissions will increase. Does he care? Apparently not, as he is bragging how great this economic strategy is for the province. He doesn't seem to mind that he will produce much more GHG's with his policy.
Carol James, on the other hand, say that yes you can have these fuels but you will have to pay a tax on them. In effect she is expanding the penalty for using the gases and she is co-ordinating it with her Green bonds and a plan to reduce GHG emission and other airborne pollutants.
Campbell and the BC Liberals have no plan.
Tzeporah Berman seems unaware of what the NDP are doing. At least she is making a good living defending the ROR projects.

R/man, Happy, Wilf, Luke

Hey guys, I have not seen you comments on "Libs' fibs on crime voting". How come?

Liberal veracity is the issue.

PowerUP Canada = Berman

realisticman

http://www.powerupcanada.ca

A bit of reduncancy, here, "realistic"man in as much as PowerUP Canada is Berman's new group.

Robertson and Berman

Here is a partial clipping from the Vancouver Sun of a few years ago. It seems that Berman was inspired to join the NDP by Gregor Robertson, a fellow Cortes Island resident.

Eco-activist shuns Greens for NDP: Tzeporah Berman once called by Glen Clark an 'enemy of B.C.'
Vancouver Sun
Thursday, December 9, 2004
Page: A4
Section: News
Byline: Gordon Hamilton
Source: Vancouver Sun

Tzeporah Berman, the eco-activist whose strong-arm campaigns against logging prompted former NDP premier Glen Clark to brand her an "enemy of B.C.," has left the Green Party for the New Democrats.

Saying she now sees the NDP as the only real alternative to the B.C. Liberals' forest policies, Berman jumped ship from the Green Party this year and took out an NDP membership.

...

NDP provincial secretary Gerry Scott said past experience shows that about half the Green voters are inclined towards the NDP if the party can address concerns on medicare, education, service cuts and
privatization.

He said having people like Berman in the NDP camp shows the party is returning to where it was 10 years ago when it included a broad spectrum of interest groups.

Once branded an "eco-terrorist," for globalizing B.C.'s forestry
battles in the 1990s, Berman attributes her conversion to Gregor Robertson, the Happy Planet juice company owner and
Vancouver-Fairview NDP candidate. Berman is participating in fundraisers for Robertson, known for his environmental and social activism within the business world.

Berman was a key Greenpeace organizer in the Clayoquot Sound blockade and an anti-B.C. wood products campaign that brought both the former NDP government and the forest industry to its knees in the environmental wars.

In 2000, forest companies and the government of Ujjal Dosanjh agreed to negotiate peace after customers like Home Depot said they were tired of buying carloads of B.C. lumber with a protester
hanging off the back.

She joined the NDP, she said in an interview from Cortes Island, when she saw juice king Robertson, who also has a home on Cortes, and Claire Trevena, a pro-green hopeful in the NDP's North Island
nominating race, were a closer fit to her brand of social and environmental activism than the Green Party.

PowerUp Canada = Margaret Atwood

Another Liberal shill?

Wilfred Laurier: Do you mean Buzz Hargrove?

Wilfred Laurier
The NDP's newfound opposition to carbon taxes comes on direct orders of the Canadian Auto Workers.

Are you talking about Buzz Hargrove? Now there's a guy who really went out of his way to help the NDP!

For some time I have been wondering why the CAW bus drivers Local has been opposed to the PMH1 project. I cannot help but wonder if that isn't more of the Buzz Hargrove style of support for the NDP.

The gall of Berman

to call the NDP on political opportunism!

Opportunism is what Berman is all about!

As a previous employee and volunteer of environmental organizations (none of the orgs. who sold out to the LIbErals by the way!) Bermans and Suzuki's political actions make me puke!

Suzuki said in Campbell River (luncheon sponsored by forestry/real estate co.) he thinks we should move to a steady stae economy; yet he supports Gordon Campbell?

Suzuki opened my eyes with the Nature of Things, yet now he seems blind.

Sad really.

happy: I don't know. Do you???

PowerUp Canada = Margaret Atwood
happy
Another Liberal shill?

I don't know if Atwood is a Toronto Liberal or not, and I really don't care. What does she have to do with PowerUp Canada?

Matt Burrows over at the Straight has a new interview with Berman designed to lay to rest any suggestion she's a sellout, and giving a superficical explanation of PowerUp. I am sure you would enjoy reading it.

You should know

"What does she have to do with PowerUp Canada?"

asks Rod. Open up your own link and read for yourself. She's at the top of the list of supporters.

I was there.

For the record, Berman was not "a key Greenpeace organizer in the Clayoquot Sound blockade." The blockades at Clayoquot Sound were run on a concensus basis by the Friends of Clayoquot Sound of whom current ForestEthics campaigner Valerie Langer was a prominent member.

Greenpeace entered the picture when Midnight Oil offered to do a free concert there as their singer Peter Garrett was heading Greenpeace Australia at the time.

The Wilderness Committee, whose policy is not to engage in any illegal actitivities, including roadblocks to make their point, built trails and manned information booths.

And oh yes, the Forest Action Network who essentially consisted of the group of people who came together to put on the Midnight Oil concert, did some direct action, tree sits etc. in the Bulson.

What Berman did do was address the crowd in the morning on behalf of the Friends most of whom were barred from attended the blockades at Kennedy Lake to the conditions of their convictions of blockading the previous summer.

After she ran her course with the Friends, she was hired by Greenpeace Vancouver to work on their markets campaign which they moved toward in the face of the threats and violence and generally ugly underbelly encouraged in small towns by the timber industry with their SHARE groups. Unfortunately this strategy left local activists high and dry and did nothing to counter the timber industry's lie of forest industry sustainability but it is why groups like Greenpeace, the Suzuki Foundation, ForestEthics etc are so out of touch with the BC public.

Has everyone seen 49 Megawatt? In it Squamish locals who were at each other's throats during the timber wars of the 90s are uniformly opposed to private companies developing large scale run of river power in BC watersheds.

Berman sure is bought and paid for by the MSM though. Why she's our superstar!

What link?

happy
"What does she have to do with PowerUp Canada?"

asks Rod. Open up your own link and read for yourself. She's at the top of the list of supporters

What link? Seriously I don't know what you're talking about. I haven't put in any links to PowerUP.

Are you saying Atwood is a Liberal or not?

I Tend to Agree

"The NDP seem to be their own worst enemy at times. Actually I think it will be good for the party if the NDP lose bad next month anyways."

I tend to agree with this but I also wonder of the NDP will learn a lesson from casting out of their tent a significant sector of their power base, ie the environmentalists. This strikes me as a very bad move. However, one thing the BC NDP is not very good at is learning from their mistakes.

The Liberals must be laughing a certain part of their anatomy off. They know how to win elections. Perhaps the NDP need to learn that, too, but I doubt they can. Dogma will always trump pragmatism at the party's core.

You're losing it Rod

Rod Smelser 1 hour ago

PowerUP Canada = Berman

realisticman

http://www.powerupcanada.ca

A bit of reduncancy, here, "realistic"man in as much as PowerUP Canada is Berman's new group.

happy: Are you serious?

You're losing it Rod
happy

PowerUP Canada = Berman
realisticman

http://www.powerupcanada.ca

I am hardly responsible for links posted by someone else and then just repeated in my reply.

Just tell me, what does Atwood have to do with PowerUp? And really, how is PowerUp placed on the spectrum of NGOs and lobbying organizations?

Wilfred Laurier: Got that one right

Wilfred Laurier
The Liberals must be laughing a certain part of their anatomy off. They know how to win elections.

I tend to agree, and in fact that's the only thing they're good at, running the government is hardly their forte. In fact, this tendency, good at the game of politics, rotten at the business of government, is the defining feature of Canadian Liberals, both nationally and here in B.C. as well.

I thougt I was serious

Man, we go in circles sometimes here. (I'm not singling you out Rod, its me and lots others too not understanding what a poster is getting at)

OK. Start over.
Since you had a link to PowerUp in your reply, and since you pointed out that Berman was involved with PowerUp, and since Berman is now being trashed here, I thought it only fair to point out that the First Lady of the Left, Ms. Atwood, was a major supporter of the same.

I'm sorry for not being clearer to start with, but it seemed we were both on the same page

Who is Margaret Atwood?

"...the First Lady of the Left, Ms. Atwood"

I thought the First Lady of the Canadian left was Audrey McLaughlin. I guess I am being too partisan.

There can sometimes be a fine line between a non-profit society and a business lobby group. Some ENGOs are truly lucrative operations that pay out fine salaries to people in superbly appointed offices, hold media sessions at first class hotels, the very best food and drink, etc., etc. The real description of what PowerUP Canada is will have to wait, as Matt Burrows piece in The Straight doesn't really answer any essential questions.

I took a brief look at the PowerUP site and saw no reference to Atwood. What is her relationship to this group?

She likes it, I guess

From the web site -

"Here is a small sampling of the people and organizations who are PoweringUP Canada:
Canada’s Association for the 45+ (CARP)
United Steelworkers
Canadian Jewish Congress
Canadian Federation of Students
Forest Products Association of Canada

Margaret Atwood
Prof. Thomas Homer-Dixon
Dr. Mark Jaccard
Dr. Andrew Weil
Stephen Bronfman
Clayton Ruby
Joseph Wong
Kashmir Dhaliwal
Kiefer Sutherland
Neve Campbell
Charles Martin Smith
Michael Ondaatje
Anne-Marie MacDonald
Evan Biddell
Moses Znaimer
Adam Kreek
Rachel McAdams

PowerUP Canada was initiated by the Ivey Foundation, the Tides Foundation, Equiterre, ForestEthics, Environmental Defence and the Pembina Institute."

PowerUp Canada

Margaret Atwood is a writer of fiction who neither lives nor votes in BC.

Neither do too many others on that list.

First lady of the left?

My God who said that?

It's utter garbage.

happy "Here is a small

happy
"Here is a small sampling of the people and organizations who are PoweringUP Canada:
Canada’s Association for the 45+ (CARP)
...
PowerUP Canada was initiated by the Ivey Foundation, the Tides Foundation, Equiterre, ForestEthics, Environmental Defence and the Pembina Institute."

Actually, I am more likely to be persuaded by Neve Campbell than Margaret Atwood.

Seriously, it's a curious list. USW and Forest Products Assn are possibilities for an association pushing certain energy projects, but why Jewish Congress? Isn't this a bit outside their normal range of interests?

The foundations mentioned in the final paragraph don't ring the same bells for me that they would for environmental insiders. I recognize one or two names, but don't really know anything about them, and without someone investigating each in turn you really don't know what to think about any NGO based on its declaratory statements.

berman

I am very disapointed with you ms berman you have done great damage to the enviro groups by your deliberate deceit and lies.please leave the comments to the real enviro groups.ps we are not stupid or a bunch of nut bars

Do Happy, Wilf Laurier, Luke Skywalker, realisticman ...

...realize how funny they sound when they try to explain what the NDP really should do ie. what their platform should be. It's as though they would vote for the NDP if they just moved further to the right, embraced a useless gas tax, froze the minimum wage for the next decade and approved ROR, Come on guys, you are only here because you are worried. I have not run into anyone that likes the tax. They all say we should not sell off our ROR. Even the right-wingers don't like Campbell because they know he is dishonest. That is the truth on the street.

Oil Companies Funding Enviros

According to Wikipedia, the Pembina Institute's largest donor is anonymous. They also receive funding from Shell, Suncor and Transport Canada. They specialize in global warming and corporate environmental management.

I'll say.

Interestingly enough, according to its 2008 Annual Report, Environmental Defense also gets public funding.

PowerupCanada

A few more names some might recognize from Power Up Canada:

Statement Signatories

Campbell, Kim, Former Prime Minister
Chretien, Jean, Former Prime Minister
Clark, Joe, Former Prime Minister
Dowlatabati, Hadi, University of British Columbia, Canada Research Chair in Global Change
Giroux-Bougard, Katherine, Canadian Federation of Students, National Chairperson
Klein, Naomi, Author of The Shock Doctrine
Martin, Paul, Former Prime Minister
Smith, Gordon, University of Victoria, Director, Center for Global Studies

@ Skywalker

Haha! Awesome!

Janie Jones

Best case scenario: this election could be a squeaker. If the Green Party gets 1-3 seats, it could very well hold the balance of power.

Greens

I have yet to see a seat projection that has given the Greens a shot at any seat. The Greens will split the NDP vote like they did last time. With the Green vote, the NDP could from a government. Carole said as much on her first (disjointed) day of campaigning.

Carole is on the run now. I wonder if she will regain her balance?

Just tell me. What IS PowerUp Canada???

Will someone, anyone, please tell just what IS PowerUP Canada? Is it a environmental non-profit society, or is it a business lobbying organization?

It's all very well to say they have signatures of support from Paul Martin to Prof Jaccard, but what IS this organization, really?

Meet the new boss . . .

I knew things were going to take a weird turn when Berman started flying up from SanFran to address the annual Truck Loggers Convention. But speaking of driving F30s to the mall, guess who is exempt from the carbon tax? Status Indians and Indian Bands.

 
"Under the Indian Act (Canada), sales to Status Indians or Indian bands on reserve exempt of tax. If you sell fuel to a Status Indian or an Indian band on reserve or you deliver the fuel into a receptacle located on reserve land, you should not charge carbon tax."

https://www.sbr.gov.bc.ca/documents_library/notices/Carbon_Tax_Refunds_Deputy_Collectors_Retail_Dealers.pdf

As anyone who lives in rural BC knows, brand new monster trucks still have a big market with the bands. Their members brag to the rest of us that they can afford to drive them because they have "status" and just shrug their shoulders at the mention of climate change.

Rod Smeiser: What IS PowerUp Canada????

It appears to be whatever you want it to be.

Left, when convenient. Right, when convenient. Same for Labour, Trade, Business, National Security and Environmental issues.

The best part is that this group claims to "represent" people even though present members are not currently elected into any democratic governmental position.

Funny how times have changed. I always thought that people who represented me were those that I voted for (or got elected even though they were not my choice) in school board, municipal, provincial and federal government elections.

Nowadays, people I never heard of, like Ms Berman, claims to represent me. Well, I will turn the tables. I represent the interests of Ms. Berman and her "crowd". Henceforth, we will all pay close attention to the statements made by political parties, ignore the self-serving comments by special interest groups and use our good common sense to vote for our candidate of choice in the privacy of the ballot booth.

So, as your Leader, I declare that you should all vote for the candidate that you feel best represent the interest of the province and you as an individual.

The new name for my Group

As your new Leader, I am thinking about a name.

Although not a practitioner per se, given the West Coast flavour of the group, I am tempted to call it:

TokeUp Canada

PowerUp

Rod, we all know what PowerUp is, its a way for Berman to buy things without having a real job.

I saw her husband on Global last night, looks like he was driving a new car. Environmentalism must pay pretty good these days. Or at the least "green-washing" does.

TokeUp Canada

You have a "Dr" in front of your name so you must be wise indeed in the ways of men. I just want to say thank you for representing me.

Doc

Where do I sign up?

Have you got a website?

You can represent me anytime - I'm sick of folks like Berman and Suzuki mis-representing me.