Basic intelligence?

I'm relatively new to Canada so wasn't around to witness Berman's heroism around Clayoquot Sound. But really... shocked? Did she just crawl out from under a rock? I knew about Campbell's duplicity before I even lived here. If she's sincere about her new outrage, I have to wonder about her basic grasp on political reality.

A little late Tzeporah

The below article was written 18 months ago, everything in the Tyee story above was already reported in the below link, 18 months ago!

Come on Tzeporah, you knew what Gordo was all about, the damage is done, you Tzeporah Berman and David Suzuki made it possible for Gordon Campbell to become premier, now look, Enbridge, fish farms killing salmon, Fish lake....And now you want some comfort???

Gordon Campbell had a brutal environmental record, it was public knowledge...

Your shame Tzeporah, crocodile tears, just like the tears Gordon Campbell let rip after he drove drunk in Hawaii..

Too little, too late

She needs to redeem herself, before moving on forward

I read a Tweet asking her, how will she redeem herself after supporting Gordon C., with him now lobbying for the Tar Sands. Her response was angry and she tried to take the piss out of her challenger who was a New Democrat.

The other day she Tweeted she could not make the OWS event at the Art Gallery in Vancouver, as her kids insisted on playing soccer. Truth is, she would have been left rather victimized by the crowds if they had recognized her.

Last but not least, she was recently quoted in the media as saying she might run for the NDP in the near future. That would be a feat, but as a New Democrat myself, I think she might have to change the NDP culture first.

One thing she's got is chutzpah, but even that doesn't always get you what you want!

Berman run for the NDP?

Over my dead body. I hope she runs for the BC Liberals. She shares their beliefs.

Tzeporah, thank you

Thanks.

You have to remember Gordon Campbell is not his own man but PMSH's. Which means BC values were left on the plane ride to diplomat school to be one of Captain Canada's sidekicks.

But thanks for teaching the BCNDP a lesson and rewarding the moxie of Premier Campbell to shift taxes onto carbon instead of small business. Thanks.

OccupyTyee cheering the bullying of the poor

Yes, thank you for helping produce a policy where schools spend tax dollars that could be spent on better things like helping the poor but instead have to buy carbon credits from polluting corporations.

Well done Tzeporah. The BC Liberals should give you an award.

Let's face it

Let's face it, she is doing nothing but trying to cover her butt now that she has come to the conclusion that she was played by Gordon Campbell and the BC Liberal Party. She was used like a worn out shoe and in the process lost whatever credibility she gained in her previous endeavors. She is nothing but yesterday's news and there is nothing she can say or do to change it. Once a person sells out their principles they have nothing, and she sold out big time.

Phony Outrage

I guess she's been bit by the proverbial snake in the grass... Looks good on ya Tezporah...

Corporate Lockdown

I'll give Tzeporah the benefit of the doubt that her strategy with Campbell was to probably shame him into helping the environment..."See Gordy, if you do things to protect the environment, you get people like me to make you look good!" Unfortunately, the corporations call the shots, not our politicians. In the end, Tzeporah got burned over corporate greed vesus doing the right thing to save this planet. As for Campbell, just like a snake will always crawl on his belly, so too will he lie and cheat and whore himself to the highest bidder! More reason to keep the #OccupyWallStreet movement growing! Capitialism IS the crisis!

More and more like the MSM

This article is nothing more than "greenwash" for Berman. It is sad to see the Tyee becoming more and more like the main stream media.

As for Berman, no reporting is the best reporting.

Really Tyee?

c'mon, why is Tyee reporting this?

I actually laughed out loud. Tzeporah Berman's actions and reputation, just like Gordon Campbell's, speak for themselves.

She still doesn't get it

Planning a return to Vancouver, Berman makes an effort at mending fences but she would be better off fully admitting to her own foolishness rather than suggesting that Gordon Campbell UNEXPECTEDLY took the wrong course. My gawd, what a miserable evasion of taking personal responsibility for personal choices made.

http://northerninsights.blogspot.com/search/label/Tzeporah%20Berman

Should have saved this for April Fool's day!

Berman is only an oportunist who craves media attention-remember the piece on her eco fashion!

How does she contain that ego?

He's just doing his job--but he's quite comfortable doing it

Campbell represents Canada and B.C. governments in Europe.

As for his earlier support for the carbon tax, he was drawn to the idea to (1) shift a portion of revenue away from progressive income taxes, which disproportionately affect his core constituency of affluent voters, onto a tax the burden of which can be more easily avoided by affluent Vancouverites than by anyone else;

(2) he wanted to split the support for the NDP (now LIberals are more worried about getting back COnservatives who were alientated in the process);

(3) WHo knows maybe he actually basked in the praise that environmentalists and economist like Mark Jaccard were showering upon him.

HUH ???

So, Berman awards Gordo with a phony baloney "award" and it's all Gordo's fault ?? Just how gullible does she think we are? Gordon Campbell was a political animal, a liar and a corrupt premier who would do anything to get elected.

Lets not forget Cortez connection!

Where Ms. Berman used to live, where Hollyhock Magnet, Joel Solomon lives, where Gregor Robertson has a place.

Joel Solomon is a big supporter of Mayor Robertson, which I believe is a good thing. But he has certain American political values and is connected to the same movers and shakers Berman is connected to.

The problem as I see it is Ms. Berman's Americanized ego and how she used it during the 2009 BC Election to criticize the BCNDP to her advantage.

American political ways are constantly knocking at our Cdn doors and resisting their negative aspects is always going to be a challenge. My naive hope, is that the politics of the NDP and Jack Layton's legacy will prevail and those American's like Solomon will join the NDP, rather than the NDP being compromised by those American ways.

To err is human.... but there is a price

Everyone makes mistakes. And she did. Methinks it was a mistake of ambition rather than ethics but I, too, have made mistakes so I will accept her claim of 'oops'. But, really, even if it was just a mistake, there is still a price that has to be paid. And, at the very least, the price should be the curtailment of her ambition for power. She can't run for anyone and still claim a shred of integrity. She should say, "I was blinded by ambition and I am now proven unworthy. Sorry. Can't run.".

Her epiphany.

It kind of reminds me of Campbell's show after he came back from Maui. It just doesn't work. She might have to undo the damage that her endorsement has done and that is nigh impossible.

shocked!

how shocking that a leopard would not change his spots...

or should that be a cheetah?

beyond cocktail environmentalism

It's hard to believe that Ms. Berman didn't see through the charade of the carbon tax - just another way to tax BC workers to subsidize not transit, but the oil and gas industry among other big corps. She and others, perhaps believing they can maintain their class privileges and an unequal economy and still have a sustainable environment, were played like a fiddle by Campbell and his backroom boys. Campbell has never, ever been about that and never will be.

And here we are too, left with cynical Run of the River projects that destroy waterhsheds and put money into a new greenwash corporate class while raising rates for everyday people.

We can all learn from this. It's no longer enough for wealthy enviros to waltz around international conference curcuits, telling people who can barely put food on the table or a roof over the head to eat organic, drive less and install efficient heaters. There will be no environmental sustainablity without economic justice.

Berman

She is not a person worthy of comment after her obvious intellectual deficit with respect to old oily Gordo. I trust this is the very last we will hear. No one rides forever on good works a generation past and since totally soiled. Look at Patrick Watson.

Definitely Faux Rage

Count me as another who doesn't believe she didn't see thru Campbell's phony green tinge. She saw, but like Oleanda said, she's a "climber" and her little award stunt with Campbell & friends has paid off very well in terms of present & future job prospects, board positions, etc.

Oh, and FishCounter, ... I'll criticize/throw the first stone ... because I believe I have done better & I know many who have done no worse!

Berman and Run of River

Her greatest environmental crime to me is her support for Campbell's give-away of 800 B.C. wilderness rivers to Private Power companies. Not only can they divert, dam and develop in pristine watersheds, they are given guaranteed contracts which force B.C.Hydro to buy power from them at crippling prices. Ms. Berman went on to become their poster child, exclaiming with starry eyed enthusiasm how this strategy was oh, so green. (she seemed to think it was okay to destroy black bear habitat to save polar bears) She knew full well most of these companies are backed by multi nationals or ex-B.C. Liberals cabinet ministers. General Electric now has the rights to develop 17 rivers flowing into Bute Inlet. I can't imagine her Cortez Island neighbours think much of her. She's an environmental nightmare with influence.

Some fool here said

"The thing is, if you don't test the water, you never know what temperature it is at. I think the carbon tax on gas was a good thing."

Please, spare us this simple minded claptrap. What does the carbon tax aim to achieve? It cannot be reduction of carbon put into the atmosphere because the same government encourages development of Alberta's tar sands so that unrefined dirty oil can be piped through BC's pristine wilderness and shipped to Asia to be burned with unknown regulation.

It is worth reconsidering Andrew Nikiforuk's work on the tar sands, here at The Tyee and in his book, which is discussed here:

http://northerninsights.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-on-goliath.html

Tzeporah Berman et al

Tzeporah Berman
David Suzuki
Marc Jaccard
Andrew Weaver
et al have all done their job, which was help ensure a "socialist" government didn't succeed in the last election in BC. Having been successful in that endeavour, they are now free to say what they want.

Perhaps though, they are willing to put forward a united motion to have this government impeached and/or the last election nullified.....

She's a Politician NOW

Since this was an issue 18 months ago, I find her response of surprise a complete fabrication.

People are starting to apply memory to deeds past of the politicians; and it's about damn time.

All that time in the woods, and she never applied one of the most simple rules:
You lay with flea infested dogs......

I'll cut Ms. Berman some slack

I think she jumped at the opportunity to back an initiative (the carbon tax) that seemed to be green forward. She was/is intelligent enough to understand that Campbell was using her for political purposes, in order to secure a few votes from the moderate enviros. But weighed that with the good it could do in the long run. In the same way that Bono met with Dubya.

It was a gamble and it couldn't have been easy for her. I think it would be easier on her now, if she just sat on her butt and said nothing about Campbells latest gig as a corporate whore.

She may have made a mistake, but she'd be a great addition to any NDP slate. Why do we spend energy to eat our own when there are so few talented from the left willing to stand up and go public?

Gordon Campbell Slammed by Former Backer, Eco-Activist Tzeporah

When this award was given I was more shocked than Ms. Berman could possibly be Gordo's present actions.
Greenappease has gone terribly soft over the years, and hands out this 'stuff' at the drop of a hat...
Berman should join the Green Party, where as soon as she was elected, Ms. May showed her true Con colours hidden under her cloth coat...perhaps she'll learn a thing or two about politicians..run for the NDP? I sincerely hope it never happens.

Part I

I have been patiently waiting for Tzeporah Berman or David Suzuki to speak up on the latest developments, I would settle for hearing from any of green sell outs, well Marc Jaccard, Andrew Weaver.......
Not one of you have gone public, why do I have to write what is in the heart of real Greenpeace believers, the carbon tax, it goes up another 1 cent per litre in July, it will also start to take in more money than they will pay back, Mr. Jaccard, could you explain why there are more than 200,000 vehicles on the roads in BC then there was before the carbon tax, perhaps you can explain why BC is the only Province in Canada that had an emission`s rise, Andrew Weaver, perhaps you can tell me how much you charged for the robo-calls during the last election, was it pro-bono, or was it off the books like the stunt Barinder Sall pulled?
I like to pick on Marc Jaccard, he is such an easy target, even Jaccard admits now that Gordon Campbell`s carbon tax is flawed and useless, Jaccard confesses until you completely penalize the driving public with $3 dollar per liter fuel Campbell`s carbon tax is nothing but phony greenwash, it hasn`t reduced a single emission, but the hypocrisy of the carbon tax, a massive spike in gas drilling and flaring in northern BC and yet we are insulted by an illegitimate Government inflicting a useless greenwash on us, Blair Leckstrom and Gordon Campbell are pushing the Enbridge pipeline while shoving a tiny carbon tax down our throats, sorry folks, time to remove the carbon tax, the exercise failed, it didn`t work, emissions rose, the gall to charge you and I a carbon tax while pushing to spend $5 billion dollars on a pipeline to move tar sand oil to Asia

greenmonkey

You have a point. But 99% of everyone I conversed with when the tax was implemented couldn't see how it would possibly work. So I refuse to believe that Berman could not also see that it wouldn't work. If it had been a dedicated tax, going to fund green R&D, that would have been fine. But it was dumped into general revenues by a government that had spent the province into near-penury, and needed money from every source it could conjure up.

PartII

Am I missing something, this Government can`t have it both ways, and where is Tzeporah Berman, I haven`t seen or heard from Tzeporah since Copenhagen, Tzeporah Berman praised her mentor, presented Campbell with a self-made award, I`m not sure what the award was for, I think it was an award for the largest rise in emissions in Canada, but since then, Site C has been announced, a massive oil spill is decimating the gulf states, millions of square miles of ocean have globs of oil floating beneath the surface, well Tzeporah, wern`t you a appointed to the green energy task board, where is your press conference Tzeporah, what about Enbridge, what about Site C.....What about the carbon tax,,,,,,,,,,,,,You see folks, I`m not a big global warming guy, but I am in favour of mandating industry to clean up or pay, a non-pass through tax for polluting, where I live there is no transit or taxi service, you either drive or walk most of the day, we have no choice, build clean, fuel efficient transport, you build it we will buy it.
What about you David Suzuki, what about Enbridge, we have to fight on this side of the ledger, once it starts we can`t stop it, there are thousand reasons not to build the Enbridge pipeline, number 1, the oil already finds a home without risking the West coast, Enbridge is a back-up plan to supply oil to Asia in the event the USA decides tar sand oil is too dirty, for Tzeporah Berman and David Suzuki to remain silent on this issue could almost be considered an act of National Treason, if those two icons of a Green future can`t join hands to fight loud and proud against offshore oil n Gas and tankers, if neither of you can`t or won`t call press conferences on stopping Enbridge then leave, retire......Step down, a ecological disaster unfolding before your eyes, a demented premier hell bent on scorched earth campaign, to hell with rivers, wild Salmon, to hell with protecting our B.C. coast, you can`t remain silent, Tzeporah Berman, you can`t sit on the fence, either denounce Gordon Campbell`s energy policy or embrace, get off the silent fence, as for you David Suzuki........
You are ruining a once great organization, what kind of a gutless coward are you David Suzuki, Gordon Campbell is threatening your back yard, my back yard, we don`t own the coast, it`s not ours to risk, where is your voice, why aren`t you on CKNW.......Why aren`t you calling daily press conferences, time for you David Suzuki to publicly denounce Gordon Campbell and all proponets of Enbridge.
You David Suzuki and Tzeporah Berman are directly responsible for the election of Gordon Campbell, all the pre-election press conferences from Tzeporah and Suzuki, you have a responsibility to the world to stop Gordon Campbell, the whole world is listening, the time to talk about these projects are precisely now, let people see what can happen, strike while the iron is hot,

Part III

if Enbridge can`t be stopped with complete first Nation opposition, with a huge world push to cut emissions, with an oil disaster being played out before your eyes, there will never be a better time to stop Enbridge forever.
Join with me David Suzuki, get ready to turn on that charm Tzeporah Berman, the time is now for a joint press conference, time to use the power of the press, the time is now to publicly scold Gordon Campbell, if you aren`t up too the task, ship out, I have had enough

she is "shocked" by

she is "shocked" by Campbell's role in an "absolutely reprehensible" oil sands industry offensive that makes her "embarrassed" to be a Canadian

It's sad that people are capable of such stupidity in spite of all evidence.

The funny part remains, though, and people will go on thinking voting in our country works. Just more stupidity, I guess.

i am with Frank

i am with Frank...Berman went over to the dark side years ago. and if this new democrat has anything to do with it, she will never be nominated as a ndp candidate.

Voting does work

People don't vote in BC because the Main Stream Media has for years pounded into the publics head that the NDP is just as corrupt as the Socreds/Liberals.

This isn't true but if a lie is repeated loud and long some of the people will believe it.

I would think the Tyee and other blogs were created to tell the truth and I would hope some of those voters will come back to the polls,once they realize the MSM lies, yep lies.

I don't think Suzuki or Berman swung the election in favor of the Liberals by criticizing the NDP's policy to get rid of the carbon tax. The NDP made a mistake on that one. I would just have said the NDP would improve the tax if elected, and left it at that.

Both Berman and Suzuki have done a great deal for the environment, knocking them is just stupid.
Yes Berman made a mistake; she's young, and swimming in a sea of sharks.

The usual NDP slagging

I see it's the usual NDP partisan crowd slagging someone who had the temerity to disagree with the party. Of course everyone knows that the NDP is always right and anyone who disagrees with them is misguided or just plain evil.

Go, Tzeporah. I hope you enter politics - in any party. We need someone who can think independently, not just parrot the party schtick!

Norman Farrell seems to forget that we are all entitled to our

own opinions. Like so many in BC, he discounts anyone who disagrees with him as a fool. That gets old, fast Norman.

Most of us have made mistakes, often by following the lead of a well-spoken fanatic or a double-speaking politician. In the end, it is not what we think, nor how we feel, nor what we say that counts. The only thing that counts is what we DO.

Most folks in BC do nothing, but talk a lot[OFFENSIVE COMMENT REMOVED. -MODERATOR.]. We need a wind of change, not a change of wind. [AND HERE. -MODERATOR.]

Ha ha ha, beautiful!

This is hilarious. After trading in her cred in BC for a cushy European posting, she's found that her old pal Gordy did the exact same thing! Damn it, she gave him the award, why won't he stop following her around! How embarrassing!

Stupid woman, you profited from facilitating his training in greenwashing and then thought that you could move on to - ugh, sorry folks - greener pastures? You should know, Tzeppie, all the greenwash action is in Europe now, and you let Gordo in on the game! Did you think he was going to stop using you when it became inconvenient for you? Guess what: he's dropping your name right now. OOOGABOOGA!

And you'll never be rid of him. He is the cat, and he has come back. Prepare for some drama. His presence will infiltrate your professional life and the intelligent people in the environmental movement out yonder will begin to wonder why this earthrape lobbyist bullshit artist knows you and proclaims you to be his friend. You know how capable he is of using people, and you will be used to maximum effect. There will be a cascade of inescapable, outrageous embarrassments. Try to have a sense of humour when it happens... again and again!

In fact, it would make a great sitcom! Remember Perfect Strangers? Gordo is your Balki! Oh, Balki, with his weird ways from the forgotten motherland... except instead of a thoroughly endearing accented rogue that, in the end, teaches us a bit about ourselves by being something of a goofy, oblivious clown, you have a soulless, empty shell of a man who's sole occupation is bullshit and who has been bought and sold so many times that if he issued receipts the roll of paper used would be so long that for the pulp, we would have had to, with great irony, log the Great Bear Rainforest. I went there. Or the Gordlinger can be Kramer to your Seinfeld! Except, instead of entering the scenes of your life with goofy panache and clumsy charm, just at the right time for a hearty laugh, he'll waddle in half-lit with that phony, doughy smile and that disgusting, practiced, shameless false modesty, just at the right time to discredit and use you, completely at your expense. I'll be laughing, though! In fact, I am laughing! Oh, Gord, you did it again (audience laughs, Tzeporah throws hands to sides, palms up in resignation). That's our Gordo! We can call the show Karma.

Ha ha ha! Cackle! I love it! Please keep an eye on this developing story, Tyee! These slippery characters are hard to pin down, but when you do it, things can get very interesting!

Lawrence, you seem lost

...when it comes to voting and its usefulness (or is that uselessness) in our society.

You, that is the voter at large, start from the premise that our form of governance and all it entails is, for the most part, fine, and so you endorse it. You believe the rhetoric taught to you in school that we have a democracy and all the rest have been tried but found wanting.

In the end, you vote endorsing your desire to steer society in this direction or that; but you aren't so concerned that your desire be reached (food and shelter for everyone, but one obvious and shameful example), leaving that to the government of the day. And it never comes, not until people voting with their actions -- not marking a useless piece of state-printed paper which absolves them of real accountability -- force the government to react to an uprising.

Yes, I am putting words into your mouth because that is exactly what your actions say. Of course it is the weakest sort of deference of one's thinking imaginable considering what is at stake, but that is not the sort of matter registering on your radar.

Voting in our country is the systematic enslavement of oneself. But when the question about being truly free, about directing ones life as a man/woman and not a farm animal does not get engaged, its easy to plod on un-thinking and believing the lies of the state. And, thus, it becomes considered 'sound thinking' and a 'civic duty*' to back such folly as voting.

It's actually worse than folly. It's the force that true democracy has to relentlessly rise up against in our country to get anything of importance done. For the worthless vote has intoxicated the voter, put the voter to sleep for another 5 years, slumbering peacefully thinking he/she has already done his/her part. The vote does not put a wrench into the machination of abusive government, it actually oils the chain and cogs.

I am not going to quarrel about the matter. It is not the sort of thing one can convey to another without some serious discussion. But it does involve a deeper understanding about affairs of state and humanity than most are willing to look toward.

As Howard Zinn stated, and others through time in other ways, "Our problem is not with civil disobedience. Our problem is with civil obedience".

And what can be more obedient than peacefully voting for another second-rate thinker leading The Party with the objective of preserving the state over humanity at any cost?

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* when one speaks of duty, they speak of one being dutifully served. They speak of slaves and masters, and intend on being the master. (a twist on Ayn Rand)

Berman's (and the others')

Berman's (and the others') praise of Campbell for the carbon tax was vastly overdone.

A carbon tax is necessary. But Cambell's tax was deficient from the start, as it didn't even tax carbon produced by some major polluters, a fact that Berman, Suzuki, Weaver and Berman conveniently ignored this at the time that they put their names behind the Liberals.

Not that they NDP has any defense for opposing the tax for the sake of opposing it. Let's hope the new leadership has more intellectual depth and will take a more constructive approach to issues.

frank2, where does your intellectual depth stop?

"A carbon tax is necessary"?

Like water and food is necessary, or necessary within a capitalist economy that has evolved into fascism? Or something else?

Can you clarify exactly what you mean please?

frank2 , I must make it clear, I am not questioning

your intellect, just posing a few questions about how far intellectually does the necessity of a carbon tax go. I hope you understand.

about that carbon tax...

I've said from the beginning that the carbon tax is another way to punish the 99%. Which member of the 1% has to curb gas use, or even feels the pinch of having to get to work or ferry kids around the suburbs without adequate transit?

And even the CCPA has come to that thought:
check this link:
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/newsroom/news-releases/be-fair-bc%E2%80%99s-carbon-tax-needs-work

Is the carbon tax also 'necessary' on tax-funded schools and hospitals? Give me a break - I'm sure the bright and powerful out there could think of some other helpful way to have old creaky schools to become more emission-friendly. In the meantime, it's a claw-back and further cut to education.

It takes a lot of guts to admit you are wrong and apologize.

Clearly Berman is not there yet. If this were an interview with a certain radio station that once employed a perky BC Liberal mouthpiece then perhaps she might tell herself that she really believed the Campbell government earnestly gave a damn about the environment in any sense other than selling out wholesale. And no one would question her.

But to do this interview with the Tyee? Maybe she really is completely naive. I would prefer to think that she is stunningly naive than that she thinks us all fools. She continues to demonstrate some pretty disturbing hypocrisy.

An apology is real and it starts to make things right. It starts with: I was wrong about... and I am sorry.

Berman isn't the only one...

So Gordon Campbell got religion on global warming. It was a great act convincing enviros he was sincere and it helped him win the election. He obviously did a great sales job, but now he's wearing different shoes and has lost his global warming religion.

We still have his nasty carbon neutrality policy, which sucks money out of public health and education to help fund industrial energy efficiency projects. Pretty lousy deal! Write Christie and your MLA and complain!!

Berman isn't the only one...

So Gordon Campbell got religion on global warming. It was a great act convincing enviros he was sincere and it helped him win the election. He obviously did a great sales job, but now he's wearing different shoes and has lost his global warming religion.

We still have his nasty carbon neutrality policy, which sucks money out of public health and education to help fund industrial energy efficiency projects. Pretty lousy deal! Write Christie and your MLA and complain!!

Berman Polarized Environmental Movement: Understatement

Ms. Berman more than polarized BC's environmental movement. And along the way, she 'inspired' one of BC's most courageous activists Ingmar Lee to take action.

http://www.ingmarlee.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=133:why-i-climbed-the-flagpole-at-the-bc-legislature

hmmmm

"Now Berman, who last year became a lead climate change campaigner for Greenpeace International, told The Tyee in a free-swinging phone interview that she is "shocked" by Campbell's role in an "absolutely reprehensible" oil sands industry offensive that makes her "embarrassed" to be a Canadian."

What! You mean just now she is feeling embarrassed? I'm surprised she wasn't feeling this when she presented the polarizing prize to Campbell in Copenhagen.

Always thought she was more into self-promotion. During one of her infamous "campaigns" she was videotaped talking with an aboriginal leader (kitasoo) and was told she was not helping matters and her presence in their territory was not welcome. That didn't deter her though. Watch this:

http://archives.cbc.ca/environment/environmental_protection/topics/679-3924/

The claim that Glen Clark in 1997 called Berman an "enemy of the people" is just not true. And the claim that he directed this at Greenpeace is not true. This is revisionism. Clark labelled environmentalists, not just faux and self-aggrandizing environmentalist Berman. Protests to protect the New Denver/Silverton drinking water source from logging triggered Clark's infamous "enemies of BC".

pwlg, I like it

... Protests to protect the New Denver/Silverton drinking water source from logging triggered Clark's infamous "enemies of BC".

How very Margaret Thatcher of Clark, relating to when she called the mine workers in Britain enemies of the state. This was the crisis that gave rise to Britain's implementation of Hayek's neoliberal fiscal policies (although Grenada obviously played a role in making Thatcher, the Iron Lady -- oh how our leaders like to be War Presidents and War PMs).

Regardless, when teachers or environmentalists or the labour movement can be called 'enemy of the state', we know we have a huge problem on our hands with state usurping power from the people.

Corruption

And what are the people going to do about it?
Voters could vote in leaders who promise transparency and a accountable government.
Campbell was going to clean up BC government up as well as Harper who is into passing a major crime bill leaving politicians off the list. Yet a corrupt politician has the ability to do more harm than good to affect people in their daily lives and their future prospects and the environments where they live. How about the dirtest oil on the planet as I am listening to the CTV news, something to make you proud.

Campbell is good for a laugh

Did you see the video as Campbell starts off the day on his new job in London with a sex demonstration of the oil sands? A young couple strips to their undies and starts rubbing themselves provocativly with the dirty oil.
The horror on Campbells face would have been better reserved for the oil sands horror but was good for a cuckle no less.

No Surprise

Not even sure why I'm commenting, other than to concur with most of what's said here. Tzeporah bought everything that greasy bespectacled salesman was selling, hook, line an sinker.

When she looks down at the dead corpse of BC Hydro, and our wild salmon runs, and sees the final results of Campbell's disaster capitalism gambit, maybe she'll finally feel guilty, and help us oppose the privately funded dam north of Pavilion.

BC Schools funding Encana

Encana and BC's Pacific Carbon Trust have a new deal by which the Trust is purchasing carbon offsets from Encana.

"...the deal represents a massive transfer of public money from British Columbian schools, hospitals and taxpayers to an already profitable private gas company.

"It essentially takes offset payments from schools and hospitals and gives them to industrial emitters," said New Democratic Party environment critic Rob Fleming. "To think we're going to drive private sector innovation by transferring money from schools, hospitals and public sector organizations is absurd."

http://northerninsights.blogspot.com/2011/09/schools-help-fund-encanas-foreign.html

The silence from David Suzuki is deafening

DropinBucket got it right; Suzuki no longer a natural world hero!