The problem with Canada is that too many people care. If all of the losers just stopped trying to win elections, we’d save so much money every four years. There’s no way to convince the winning voters that they shouldn’t vote for MPs who are in parties that promise to end child poverty and First Nations poverty within 10 years, and make no realistic attempts to do so during their short terms. The ones who just don’t bother to vote because it’s hopeless, have the right idea.
Stephen Harper understands that “Our ambitions for our country will not be fulfilled, fully realized, until the day when our First peoples fully share the benefits of this country.” Fortunately for him, his voters don’t care that Chretien said the same things, with the same lack of results and sincerity.
This demotivational speech has been brought to you by:
Jean Chretien
Paul Martin
and
Stephen Harper
and the number 12%.
Fifteen years ago [as of 2009], the Canadian government resolved to eliminate child poverty by the year 2000. Nine years later, nothing has changed. The rate of child poverty has remained at 12 per cent for two decades now, according to Statistics Canada.
Bonus info:
If the Conservatives’ child poverty delayed plan sounds familiar, it is. Rising greenhouse gases [with no concrete plan in 2007 even] are going the same place child poverty is: NOWHERE BUT UP.
A Strong and Stable Conservative Majority isn’t looking so hot now, is it “winners”?
“If the Conservatives’ child poverty delayed plan sounds familiar, it is. Rising greenhouse gases [with no concrete plan in 2007 even] are going the same place child poverty is: NOWHERE BUT UP.”
Oops, you’ve opened a can of worms this time Saskboy.
It’s the lefty environmentalists like you who have been clamoring for a cap or tax on carbon emissions to save the world from utter climate disaster. The greenie’s carbon pricing plans are designed to increase the cost of carbon, thereby forcing everyone to reduce carbon consumption. But carbon costs are in included in the cost of everything. So if you increase the price of carbon you increase the cost of everything, that includes food, books, clothing, housing, schooling, everything.
Increasing the cost of everything raises the poverty line. Raising the cost of everything is the last thing poor people need. This is almost the definition of the poverty line. So when you talk about a party in power which increases the poverty line I think you had better look yourself in the mirror there Saskboy.
I get the feeling you didn’t have a clue that raising the cost of carbon would raise the cost of everything. Where have you been?
You’re the one with a clue Klem. You can’t see the result of your destructive motives even now, let alone 10 years down the line.
Um…..what the heck did that comment mean?…
It means you can’t see the harm in air pollution and routinely argue for more of it, not realizing the expense it creates down the road is insurmountable to more than just the poor.
Aha..and you can’t see the harm in kicking poor people around and routinely argue for more of it.
What have you got against poor people anyway?
He’s saying that it’s getting worse not better, Klem. He has nothing in particular about poor people, he’s just saying he’s heard those promises before and yet, nothing has been done to actually address it and fix it.
[THE FOLLOWING IS SPAM, PROBABLY GENERATED FROM REAL BLOGGERS COMMENTS ON POSTS ELSEWHERE ON THE WWW. IT'S LEFT HERE AS AN AMUSING DEMONSTRATION OF SOMEONE AS COHERENT AS CLIMATE CHANGE DENIERS.]
I agree with PM not indexing health transfers to age. Don’t want to encourage immigrant-hostile policies like Japan and to a lesser extent, Germany. Leads to stagflation I assume. I’m also realizing on GHGs the mistakes of the left are much more visible than the corporatism on the Right. People would rather have a 20% known and discounted inefficiency on the side of say, oil tax cuts (free pollution is inefficient), than lose 15% to carbon trading leakage or whatever. So if we started as a green economy it might be greens overrepresented.
My mentally ill ex punched me after a (non-initiated) gangsta punched me a few times and pulled a knife on me. Punching was fun like hockey but the knife needs a mandatory sentence instead of for weed plants; I almost had to slit his eNRGetic throat before folded the knife in 1/2 in his hands.
For the Indian Reserve issue of efficient gov, an educated population is key. Maybe cellphone internet, rural weekly newspapers like Morden Times except on IR, community centres debates and info sessions; these could all be subsidized.
My peat moss carbon sequester research is running into diminishing returns. The carbon sequestered ROI increase for every year a good demo project has been demonstrated. Might be able to dump logs or future GMO-ed lignin-heavy (carbohydrates decompose, not lignin as much) trees in a trench dug out of peat moss. Cover with acrotelm and measure methane and CO2 emissions/bubbles.
The weakling would learn from jail.
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