Ontario Liberals musing About Introducing a Carbon Tax

From Canadian Free Press
Today, Jim Wilson, MPP Simcoe-Grey, warned Ontario families that there are three key indications that Dalton McGuinty will introduce a carbon tax for Ontario.

“It is time for all of us to start to get comfortable with two words: Carbon tax. Without it, all these dreams of a green tomorrow are hallucinations.” (Glen Murray, Toronto Star, May 27 2007).


“I have looked at increasing taxes in some areas. For example, I argued for moving toward more carbon taxation.” (Jack Mintz, The
Agenda With Steve Paikin, February 23, 2011).

fast forward to minute 949 in the video to hear the quote

 

How the Green Movement Gets To Kids

From Financial Post
The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute U.S.-made cartoon narrated by former Greenpeace activist Annie Leonard that bills itself as a “fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns.” It has achieved broad popularity as a teaching tool in American schools. Now it has apparently migrated to Canada. I know this because my son, who is in Grade 7, came home two weeks ago with a science assignment based entirely on the video. If this is what passes as science curriculum today, our kids are going to need help with a lot more than just financial literacy.

The cartoon format serves as a clever delivery system for a non-stop stream of outrageous leg-pullers and eyebrow-raisers. References are deceptive, misinterpreted or plain wrong. And the message is explicitly intended to make the kids watching feel ashamed of their lives and interests. (See www.storyofstuff.com.)

Leonard’s prejudices and deceptions are obvious from the first frames. Businessmen are drawn as Mr. Monopoly Moneybags with top hats (naturally) and dollar signs on their chest. Then a figure representing government suddenly morphs from a legislative building into a tank, reflecting the fact that, as Leonard claims, military spending comprises 50% of the federal U.S. budget. But wait a minute. Is that really true?
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This kind of child friendly messaging is nothing new for the green movement. I remember when I was younger the enormous popularity of captain planet a cartoon geared towards making kids more Environmentally conscious. of course now we are cultivating a generation of Greenpeace activists that are ecologically aware but can’t manage money to save their lives.

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Rendezvous with Destiny

Rendezvous with Destiny is a documentary based on the biography of president  Ronald Reagan by Craig Shirley here is an in-depth interview with the author.

This documentary  along with one produced by the History Channel puts the president’s achievements in historical context.

with the passing of time  we realized that Reagan was not just a good president but he was one of the most influential leaders of the last half of the 20th century.

 

McGuinty is a No-Show

The Ontario legislature is back in session and the spring  sitting promises to be a minor overture to the provincial election this fall. However the premier decided to take his show on the road instead of staying for what promises to be an eventful time at Queen’s Park.

From Ottawa Citizen

McGuinty’s staff say the premier would use those days to deliver a speech on his government’s accomplishments in its first seven years in office.

But longtime Queen’s Park observer David Docherty says there is some irony to the premier’s new approach. As an opposition leader, McGuinty railed against the then-Conservative government’s indifference to the legislature.

“It’s a very different kind of strategy for someone who was elected on a pledge to bring back relevance to the legislature,” said Docherty, a political-science professor at Wilfrid Laurier University. “It was McGuinty who brought in rules saying cabinet ministers had to be there 75 per cent of the time. So it’s odd now that going into an election year he’s decided not to be in the House to answer questions but would rather be on the road taking it directly to the so-called people.”

From a optics standpoint this is a bad decision, this looks like the premier does not want  to deal with the daily grind of  slings and arrows in a increasingly feisty legislative session.

Rates are Going Up

Electricity rates  are skyrocketing on March 1, now the question should be this fall can Ontario taxpayers afford this increase and are they better off now than they were four years ago.

From  Canadian press

Hydro One, the giant transmission utility that also acts as a local distribution company for about one million customers, is threatening to cut off power to people it knows are struggling to pay their bills.

“We recognize that some Ontario families are experiencing financial difficulties and having problems paying their utility bills,” wrote Hydro One’s manager of public affairs, Enza Cancilla, Jan. 27.

I admit this issue is more complex than partisan rhetoric but cutting or threatening to cut people’s power off because they can’t pay the bills is unbelievable.has Ontario now become unaffordable for a great swath of families .