Ready to Freeze in the Dark?

The Liberal Party’s Green Shift announced on June 19th marked the most aggressive anti-poverty program in 40 years. The ‘shift’ will transfer wealth from rich to poor, from the oil patch to the rest of the country, and from the coffers of big business to the pockets of low-income Canadians. Ken Boshcoff Liberal MP

A number of bloggers have pointed out that at least Boshcoff is honest.

It is time for the West (and Newfoundland and Nova Scotia) to make it very clear to the Boshcoffs and the Dions that this sort of a revenue grab will have a single consequence: the end of Canada as a nation. I am old enough to have been around for NEP I and I saw the anger first hand in British Columbia and Alberta. Now Saskatchewan will join the party.

Think Bloc Quebecois in Parliament and an activist, separatist, movement at a regional level. Paint this revenue grab “Green” is not going to work simply because “Green” is not selling as it did when Dion was elected leader of the Liberal Party.

There will be a lot of industry solutions to this problem: reducing investment, reducing production, using carbon sequestration as a weapon (goofy as it is as science, its costs can be passed right along to the silly buggers in Ontario in the form of higher oil prices). But there will also be a final recognition that there is really very little Eastern Canada can do for the New West save sanctimoniously claim to be raping us in the name of Green rather than Greed.

Bye guys, best of luck; hope you can do something about that air pollution problem - you know the real one not the CO2 BS. But of course you are…you are losing manufacturing jobs. Fast. And you will, of course, lose more as investment in the oil patch decreases because (you morons) nearly 50% of that investment ends up in Ontario. So no body will be able to say that the Eastern Bastards are not doing their bit to be green: they are actually hollowing out their economy….Bravo, but excuse us if we are not willing to hollow out ours.

Written by jay on July 12th, 2008 with 6 comments.
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#1. July 13th, 2008, at 6:36 AM.

I was wondering when the watermelons would expose themselves. Dion’s plan is a massive transfer of wealth from successful to not so successful and has nothing to do with fixing environment. He only spun it this way because he knew msm had his back. However, he made error by introducing this policy well before election and people can study his plan at their leisure.

‘Screw the west, we’ll take the rest’ still seems to be a governing principal of the Libs.

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#2. July 13th, 2008, at 10:33 AM.

Ten or fifteen years ago the notion of western separation was the province of parochial individuals with a stick up their ass. That has really changed quickly due to Dion’s green plan. A lot of people I talk to — and in two cases, have overheard in restaurants — who are saying a big “nuh-uh” to the Liberal green plan are reasonable, un-angry Albertans who never had a separatist bone in their body, but whose attitude now to Dion et al is “sorry, but that’s just not going to fly.”

Separatism was a rare and extreme position, now it’s more commonplace, simply matter-of-fact. Calm. I think it’s been slowly sinking in to a lot of people across the spectrum that the Liberals’ having no principles other than gaining power. They will happily take a crap on as many regions as would be helpful to the cause of holding Ontario and picking up just enough seats elsewhere to get them back in; unfortunately for them the provinces being robbed and raped aren’t going to just let it happen this time around.

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#3. July 13th, 2008, at 3:58 PM.

No worries.

Harper will win.

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#4. July 14th, 2008, at 7:32 AM.

Yes, it would be tragic if someone other than Ontario paid more than its fair share to maintain the Confederation.

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#5. July 14th, 2008, at 12:24 PM.

Alan, you must be referring to Alberta’s willingness to contribute far far more per capita to Tranfer Payments than Ontario, all while being underrepresented in parliament and the senate.

Right……?

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#6. July 14th, 2008, at 3:50 PM.

The west will not stand for NEP-II. Particularly when it’s being pushed by a Frenchman (Dion is a citizen of France), who can’t speak the language that’s spoken here. The natural flow of trade is north-south, we can do just fine without eastern canada. Look at the cash we’ll save just by losing Bombardier alone. The fact is we don’t need the east. Westerners are willing to split, its becoming more common every day to hear people say that they think its time to do so.

To Alan (post#4): The west has no objection to paying a fair share. What the idiot Dion is suggesting is that the Sask and Alberta should pay 40% of the Green Shi*t tax, while his spending of that money would only return 3%. That’s out and out ROBBERY. What Dion doesn’t tell Ontarians is that you will pay too. He won’t put a carbon tax on fuel, he won’t need to. The producers are going to add it to the price you pay. They will also reduce production, which will increase the price you pay. Actually, the east is in a lose-lose situation. If we leave, you will pay through the nose, if the carbon tax were to become reality, you will pay through the nose. The difference in the two is that if we leave canada, WE WIN, if we stay, we lose. Hell, between oil revenue, and gambling we probably won’t even have an income tax.

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