Federal New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton stressed the importance of fighting climate change in his address to the provincial NDP convention.
In a scrum with reporters after the speech my Public Eye colleague Sean Holman asked him why.
“The climate change crisis is the largest crisis faced by the global community,” said Layton. “All other leaders seem to realize it and they're trying to bring their countries into an advanced position. Our prime minister [Stephen Harper] still has his foot on the brakes and his head in the tar sands.”
The Tyee reported yesterday that people including former MLA David Cubberley felt provincial leader Carole James should have spoke more about climate change in her speech.
Shane Simpson, the NDP MLA for Vancouver-Hastings and a former environment critic for the party, argued that James may not have used the right “buzz words” in her speech, but that the convention, including James' speech, has largely focussed on the links between the environment and the economy.
Asked what role the provinces can play, Layton said, “The provinces have enormous possibilities. Many provinces are taking far more actions than the federal government.” His focus is on holding Harper to account, he said.
Layton also spoke at length about his party's opposition the the HST, saying it's the wrong time to introduce a new tax.
Andrew MacLeod is The Tyee’s Legislative Bureau Chief in Victoria. Reach him here.
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max von smartt
2 years ago
weapon of mass taxation
the global warming gig has played itself out
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16326
MichaelT
2 years ago
yeah that's what I'm thinking
the wrong caboose to attach to themselves...after being worried about the Fed Libs copying the CPC on crime (idiots) and maybe the HST I was going 90% to the NDP but being attached to a collosal fruad is not going to help.
It just looks like the skeptics were right - a global religion decrying the west as 'Bad" and in need of atonement by destroying their systems of wealth.
Repeatus if still happening: fix it webmaster don't blame the users nor their months old and previously working browser on your system.
max von smartt
2 years ago
i spy with my little eye
a spook trolling to divert attention from the issue, and to not so subtly intimidate urs truly.
MichaelT
2 years ago
that's right the guy with 2
that's right the guy with 2 years College Science and 3 years University Science just wants to see the facts unvarnished has got to be a troll.
ATTENTION MARXISTS HATING THE WEST AND WANTING TO HATE ON EVERYONE ELSE:
Before Gore's film, I was the guy emailing colleagues showing them the ice sheets falling away.
The fact that data was held back, that solar flares led to Mars and Venus warming, these inconvenient facts are left out of your hate-based ideology.
Insanity and a massive wealth transfer is all this is about apparently.
The Earth will get on with itself.
Just show me the facts.
Listen CRU averaged Months to determine warming patterns HOWEVER refuses to release the data that created these averages.
AS the only scientist here I can tell you that Statistics is a major tool of every science on the planet. As well, Months are a human construct, not part of nature.
Why not show the daily temperatures? Perhaps a few shenanigans with the "averaging" - was a mean used? Average based upon?? 30 31 28 29 day months?
This is not science what they have done and definitely opens them up to serious questions and doubts.
Dr Alexander
2 years ago
This is what I consider the greatest irony
A week ago, calling somebody a "Climate Change Denier" was considered to be an epithet.
Today, it is something to be called with pride.
Just as an aside.
Anyone notice how quiet it has gotten around here on these issues?
At any rate, the real problem is that, as a result of them completely buying into and still maintaining the myth of Carbon Trading, Layton, May and Iggy are making Harper look good.
By the way, May is going to be on a Munk Debate that will be webcasted. I should be worth a watch. The subject is climate change.
http://www.munkdebates.com/
max von smartt
2 years ago
lies n politics
problem is may, iggy and layton are damn politicians (liars) and lawyers (liars) not scientists; suzuki knows all about fruit flies and reads scripts like the governator of kalifornia. harper could look good if he shut down the tar sands. but his hair is always so perfect it must be a fake poly toupee unlike his big gut.