well its coming to that....
Guardian article which describes how we have become one of the biggest obstacles in climate change advancement, which is not only to our own detriment but to the rest of the world too...
"When you think of Canada, which qualities come to mind? The world's peacekeeper, the friendly nation, a liberal counterweight to the harsher pieties of its southern neighbour, decent, civilised, fair, well-governed? Think again. This country's government is now behaving with all the sophistication of a chimpanzee's tea party. So amazingly destructive has Canada become, and so insistent have my Canadian friends been that I weigh into this fight, that I've broken my self-imposed ban on flying and come to Toronto.
So here I am, watching the astonishing spectacle of a beautiful, cultured nation turning itself into a corrupt petro-state. Canada is slipping down the development ladder, retreating from a complex, diverse economy towards dependence on a single primary resource, which happens to be the dirtiest commodity known to man. The price of this transition is the brutalisation of the country, and a government campaign against multilateralism as savage as any waged by George Bush."
the rest here
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As I was coming in to work, Parliament hill was filled with firetrucks and police cars... I read later than Greenpeace had made an intervention:
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/environnement/200912/07/01-928654-vingt-militants-de-greenpeace-arretes-a-ottawa.php
it's terrible. it proves why you should vote.
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