Mighty Ottawa at the bat! Strikes out again.
With $billions of Canadian tax dollars to spend each year, why can’t the Climate Change Governmental Complex (CCGC) even get to first base?
OOPS, he failed again!
Setting targets is a lot easier than hitting them. Ottawa’s Emissions Reduction Plan is long on policies and programs but short on what needs to actually happen. A series of analyses available on the C.D. Howe Institute website, including details on all the assumptions behind the calculation, suggests the 2030 reduction will be, at best, only 158 MT – only a little over halfway to Ottawa’s target.
After decades of failure to meet it's own emissions targets, Ottawa should fire itself for lack of performance. The boondoggle I call the Climate Change Governmental Complex must cease to exist along with any taxation associated with it. Canadians can make far better use of such tax savings than Justin Trudeau - our political equivalent of Casey at the bat.
In baseball, Mighty Casey would have been sent to the minors. In federal politics, Justin Trudeau should be sent anywhere that keeps him far away from incurring any further politigenic harm. Perhaps operating a lemonade stand would be appropriate?
I appreciate what you are saying Gene. Politicans are not integrous. Hawkins says the same thing. Interestingly, he suggests a solution in his book TRUTH VS. FALSEHOOD - a solution that dates back to Greek times. He recognizes that politicians are unable to be integrous. He suggests that a "confluence of wise, seasoned, experienced, brilliant, accomplished, balanced, proven, gracious, sagacious, educated, good-will statemen (cal.430) rather than politicians (cal.190) be added to governmental structures. They would be mentor, advisor, mature, objective, well-rounded, well-spoken, successful, top level, self-fulfilled, and beyond the desire for gain, whether personal, political, or financial. This is the level of high-calibration experts of their own domains who are beyond neediness and who serve others by simply being who they are and feeling fulfilled by offering and sharing their wisdom." pp. 353-354 I know this sounds pie-in-the-sky - however, if it were attempted in one jurisdiction it could spread to others. With such a structure, war and totalitarianism would be avoidable. The question is where to find such individuals with a willingness to learn how to tell truth from falsehood using a proven method recently discovered by Hawkins himself.