NOW Toronto: We owe it to the world....time to vote (Stephen) Harper off the planet

[marmar]

News Feature
We owe it to the world
We’ve barely survived the last 30 days - time to vote Harper off the planet
By ALICE KLEIN

It's not just about us any more. The next election must defeat the Tories. We owe it to the world.

It is no overstatement to say that in the last month alone, Stephen Harper's assumption of the powers of a majority-House PM has literally laid waste to the future health of both this country and the planet.

With Mike Harris henchmen Jim Flaherty and John Baird unbelievably still in the political picture and by his side, Harper has afflicted Canada with a full-on common non-sense revolution - all in just 30 days.

On the planetary front, the capper is of course Canada's new role as apostle of global atmospheric annihilation at the UN's Climate Change Conference in Bali this week (December 3-14). Baird's twisted appropriation of the word "sustainability" as in "economic sustainability" is positively Orwellian.

Yes, we need to safeguard Canada's economic well-being, but the whole point of the global climate change discussion is that our current economic ways are simply not serving that end, even in the near long term.

The global scientific community has made the options very clear. The planet isn't waiting around for our leaders or for us.

The great irony is that, unlike so many other places in the world, Canada has incredible economic resources in the form of a surprisingly resilient national economy and a federal tax revenue surplus to support an economically benign transformation.

We also have political capital in the form of an environmentally aware and concerned majority of citizens anxious to see our collective resources used to make it happen.. ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2007-12-13/news_feature.php

[tom_paine]

1. Beware Canada, Harper is a Bushie and will use CIA-Bushie voter supression and stuffing

tactics to remain in control.

Canada and Mexico are both as much at risk as the Sudentenland and Austria were from the Bushies dearest friends and allies, the Nazis.

Beware, Canada! Bushies NEVER leave without attempting some totalitarian evil.

I wish you better luck than we Americans have had against our Bushie Arch-Criminals.

You are going to need it, espcially if your liberals, like our liberals, cannot fathom the botomless evil and sophisticated tactics of the Bushies, Nazis, and all the rest of the Pinochet types, whether they be more violent or less violent than their archetypes.