Canada fires the top environmental official pushing for action on climate change

[nam78_two]

:eyes: Yayyy...
http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2007-01-30T194822Z_01_N30344697_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-ENVIRONMENT-COL.XML&archived=False


Canada fires top environment official: report
Tue Jan 30, 2007 2:48 PM EST14

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's environment commissioner has been fired because of her outspoken calls for action to be taken on climate change, the Globe and Mail newspaper said on its Web site on Tuesday.

Johanne Gelinas works for the office of the auditor-general, which reports to Parliament rather than the government of the day. She issues an annual report on how Ottawa is handling environmental issues.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper referred to Gelinas in the House of Commons as the former commissioner, indicating she had lost her job.

A spokeswoman for Auditor-General Sheila Fraser declined to comment, saying Fraser would release a statement at 3 p.m. EST on Tuesday.

The Globe said Fraser thought Gelinas had become too much of an advocate on the issue of climate change.

In a report issued last September, Gelinas said the minority Conservative government should set firm targets to cut emissions of greenhouse gases despite its dislike of the Kyoto protocol on climate change.

She also attacked the previous Liberal government -- which was in power from 1993 to 2006 -- on the grounds that it had not done enough to fight climate change.

[redqueen]

1. Awwww, and Harper had done so much to try to appear 'greenish'.

I doubt many were fooled.

Hope not, anyway.

[nam78_two]

6. When merely accepting that the breaking of climate patterns is due to human activity

is considered 'greenish' by someone, you can get a guage of just how much actual effort you can expect from them.
Bush, Harper and Howard have been criminal in this regard...

[redqueen]

8. Didn't he have a hand in that $30M commitment to the temperate

rainforest up there?

[nam78_two]

9. Actually yeah..something like that..nt

[Shoelace]

2. the Petroleum industry shows up again as the main culprit

it never fails to amaze me. Everytime I google any name + Exxonmobil and/or petroleum industry, if that name happens to be either a climate skeptic or govt. official who's conservative bent brings to the table, all the usual ploys of said group, Big Oil shows up as a major player. Look at this re; Prime Minister Harper:

Petroleum Money Drives Conservative ClimateChange Skepticism
August 15, 2006 (excerpts)

Prime Minister Stephen Harper must come clean about who is driving his anti-Kyoto agenda, say two Liberal MPs.

Hon. John Godfrey, Liberal Environment Critic, and Mark Holland, MP for Ajax-Pickering, charge that Harper’s policies are being driven by climate change skeptics closely aligned with the Conservative Party and funded by petroleum companies.

The two were responding to a report in Saturday’s Globe and Mail outlining how Harper crony Barry Cooper was involved in channeling petroleum money to Friends of Science, an anti-Kyoto lobby group, through the University of Calgary.

Calgary-based Friends of Science is an organization of Canadian and international climate change skeptics, of which, a majority appear to have close links to the petroleum industry. The group runs advertising and produces scientifically dubious research and editorial comment questioning mainstream science on climate change, arguing that it is either not a problem or that it is not caused by human activity. In fact, just last April, Friends of Science was responsible for submitting an open letter to Prime Minister Harper (printed in the National Post), which insisted allocating funds to initiatives to mitigate climate change “would be irrational” and expressed the hope that the group could “furnish with more information on this crucially important topic.”

http://www.liberalalberta.ca/news.aspx?site=news&news=11826

Note: Fraser Institute, a right wing think tank funded by Exxonmobil.
See link for details:
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=107

I think Harper is going to get into a bit of "warming" from that firing as well - one can hope!

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. Yep. Shoot the messenger.

That solves everything.

[tom_paine]

4. Poor Canada has become "Anschlussed"

Amd I wonder if the Busheviks had any influence in stealing the Canadian election, or if the election was stolen.

Canadians vote on pen & paper, do they not? That very likely drastically educes the chance that Bush-level election stealing (only possible with computers and a very large group of morally-bankrupt nazi-lites, which the Busheviks have in spades but i am not sure such exists in Canada yet).

In either case, Canad is now behaving not like a free nation, but more like Bush's Amerika.

Poor Canada. It sucks losing your freedom especially when it's happening slow motion in front of your eyes, eh?

I don't envy you. You stand now where the mostly Evil Empire (the evil lies in the Ruling Classes much moreso than the people) was in 2001. I wonder if Harper is cooking up a little 9/11 for you like our Busheviks probably cooked ours up (or stood by and let it happen)?

In either case, the more Canada emulates Bush's Amerika, the less free you are.

[enid602]

5. Two words: tar sands

Two words: tar sands

[ftr23532]

7. K&R! n/t

[OneBlueSky]

10. people who can't or won't see climate change for what it is are idiots of the first order . . .

how can anyone with half a brain not see what's happening to the climate, the glaciers, the oceans, and every other aspect of the enviroment? . . . they're either completely stupid, or they're just in denial in order to protect their corporate sponsors . . . either way, they're big time losers . . .

[mmonk]

11. I was hoping at least one North American country could remain free.

Come on Canada. Reject the darkness.