Boot Harper!

That's right, the Conservatives should boot Harper as he didn't win a majority. Seriously, the Conservatives will never win a majority if we keep Harper as our leader! He will be gone before the next election.

The forecast: Dion out by year's end, Harper before the next vote

But, by next year, the Liberals will have a new leader who will be much more popular than Mr. Dion. There is likely to be a deepening, American-induced recession. Circumstances for the Prime Minister will be twice as tough as they were in this campaign. Stephen Harper will take the hint, behold declining poll numbers, realize the Big Win isn't there, and step out gracefully - as a great builder of the party and as a winner. He won't make the mistake that so many do, hanging on for glory's last shot and falling in the process.

Okay, that's just too funny! Hello LAWRENCE MARTIN, give your head a shake, just because you fear PM Harper, and the Liberals fear PM Harper, does not mean that Conservatives fear PM Harper. We actually like him! That's right, Conservatives like PM Harper, and it appears that lots of people across this great country of ours, like PM Harper too. I know that's news to you, but look at the election results, and get a clue.

Liberals are trying to change the channel from Dion's sorry performance to a "get rid of Harper" campaign, too funny. Hey Liberals, maybe you should be looking at your leadership or lack thereof before you start another "stop Harper" campaign. The last one produced your worse results ever for Liberals. Might want to rethink that strategy boys.

Just shows you how clueless the Liberal party is, they think Dion is the problem, and are now searching madly for Canada's Obama. I hate to give you any help, but maybe Dion was only part of the problem.....why do I bother, Liberals get hit with the facts right between the eyes, and are obviously too stunned by the blow to see reality. Fine with me, carry one as before, it's working.......for Conservatives! HA!

Dion Compared To Obama?

Unbelievable! CTV has a non-article about why right-wing leaders do better than they should up on their site.

Check out the picture........



Need I say more?

Tale Of Two Pictures!

The Globe and Mail is in full cry against the Conservatives. Bias? No, I see no bias here. HA!

Globe and Mail picture of PM Harper and Laureen getting off the plane in BC, with the headline:

Outlook gets gloomier for Tories, polls suggest


A surprising picture at CTV, somebody was asleep at the wheel to have allowed this one through the report nothing good about PM Harper filter. Head's will roll! For a party in trouble the Conservatives sure seem to have a huge crowd of supporters. Dang I forgot to link to it, and it's now gone.


This is what they replaced it with:
Now poor Jack is the lonely one with no support. Boy, CTV is getting to be schizophrenic, they don't know who to attack, Layton or Harper.

A picture from the National Post (my favorite newspaper, since they linked to one of my posts). I really like this one, because you can actually see the smile reach PM Harper's eyes.


Finally, I'm not sure if CTV did this on purpose or not, but they showed an interview by Lloyd Robertson with PM Harper talking about the economy, followed by Dion clearly saying that the Green Shift will be implemented and slamming the Prime Minister of our country. The contrast could not be more stark. Watch Dion's smug little face, his head shake, and where have his lips gone? What an arrogant, self deluded idiot. I am tired of the media shrilling for the Liberals by supporting his misfit.

Talking with the leaders.

Is CTV worried that Dion might actually win, and their ratings will drop? Or are they worried that a carbon tax, might decrease their revenues? Not too smart of them to support higher taxes, by supporting Dion now is it? They are a business aren't they? I have no clue what CBC is up to, because I refuse to go to their site unless I absolutely have to.

Media bias? HA! Do they really think we are stupid like Green party leader May does?

Oh Goody, A Pile On!!!

Who else will he creatively confiscate his environmental plan from? First we have Steve Janke, We now hear that at a climate change conference, he reads a two year old UN report, Then we have Return of the Toryhe plagiarizes from a Climate report, in 2005, but he doesn't stop there. He appropriated one plan from Suzuki.

Jonathan Kay: Great take by Janke — who is Stéphane Dion to lecture others about plagiarism?

If that isn't enough, he appropriated his "green shift" from the real Greens, but May loves him so much, she let's him.

He even steals the name "green shift" from a real business who has to sue him to get the name back!

Seriously, does this guy have an environmental plan that he hasn't stolen? Does he even understand the environmental issue, or is that why for two years he did nothing and allowed CO2 emissions to increase by over 30%. And, he's the "smart" Liberal? HA!

Oh, and let's not forget that Clarity Act.

Stephen Harper introduced Bill C-341 in 1996.
Dion introduced the Clarity Act in 2000, four years later.

Well, if you accuse your opponent of a wrong doing, you sure better not have done it yourself.

A PM With Class!

I watched both debates, and of all the sound bites and got you moments, this is the one comment that stuck in my mind all day and all night. It was the defining moment of both debates.



A classy answer from our Prime Minister. Every other leader gave a quick I like you, but... response, and went on to slam their opponent. Only PM Harper gave a positive and meaningful response, without any but. Look at his body language, and you can clearly see that he is sincere. A PM with class.

Let the opposition squawk, and chase their tails, but none of the opposition parties gave Canadians a clear reason to change the government. That is what Canadians are going to base their vote on, not got you moments. There were no got you moments. There is no reason to change this government.

The opposition states all the time that the 2% reduction of the GST is only benefiting the rich, that is an out right lie. My son is out growing his jeans faster than I can keep up, so every penny I can save means an extra penny in my son's jeans.

The English debate was clearly won by PM Harper, the opposition tried to gang up on him again, but this time he fought back, and he made his points. Duceppe was a disgrace, he couldn't keep his mouth from running off, he kept on bashing Alberta and tried to link PM Harper with Bush. This might have worked in the French debate, but the 80% of English speakers in Canada, if they are like me, thought he looked weak, and he only reinforced our distrust of Quebec here in the ROC.

I understand that Quebec is unique, my son loved his visit there, he found all Quebecer's very helpful and willing to speak English to him. Quebec is a part of our country that we want to keep, but by voting for a separatist party, they send us the message that they do not love our country. I don't care if it is a protest vote, the ROC sees it as Quebec turning it's back on Canada.

In this uncertain economy, do you really want Dion or Layton at the helm?

Free Everything For ALL!

I'm excited about the election now, we get free everything for everyone! That's right folks, everything you ever wanted is yours for the taking. It's like the looting in New Orleans during the hurricane, but it's legal, you get what you have always wanted without working for it!

$400 per child per month, up until 18 years old, yahoo, this will stop abortions. I'm in!!!

Save the planet with a small little green shift to nowhere. Don't let it bother you that nothing can replace oil yet, but what the heck, I'll feel greener. I'm in!!!



These two guys impress me with their strong leadership. I'm in!!!

Okay, I got carried away, I'm not in. Used car salesmen are just that, they try to sell you a piece of junk by promising you the wheels won't fall off, until you leave the sales lot, then you are on your own.

The opposition parties are promising you everything, including the kitchen sink. I can't keep track of the BILLIONS they have promised. I just have one question to the big spending opposition, how many taxpayers do you think there are?

Polluter pays? Dang that would be us.
Free education for all? How much would your business degree be worth if everyone can get one?
Free drugs, free childcare, free housing, free air...oops they are going to tax that. Party time, the government will provide for you no matter what. Don't want to work, no problem. Want to sit at home making babies, no problem. Need food, no problem. Want a house, no problem.

Reminds me of the song "Don't worry, be happy". It's easy to live in LALA land, it's harder to live in the real world where the government doesn't care for you from cradle to grave.

Do voters not understand that the government produces nothing, every single dollar they spend is the one they have taken out of your pocket.

Vote strategically, just say NO to the money grabbing opposition parties. Lefties reach into your pocket with one hand and give it away with the other.

Free everything for all, what's not to like!

Harper and Dion Unscripted!

This is my last attack on Dion because it's not even fun anymore. No, wait, better not let up until they are gone for good. As Dion tells us, he likes to be the underdog. So who am I to give the guy any slack. Being in fourth place in BC is bad enough, but not even being able to remember which PM did what, is sad.



Take a good look at that tape. PM Harper is sharp, focused and seems to be having fun. Dion is confused, flops at his joke, and is extremely embarrassing.

The Conservatives are running on "united, strong and free" as their platform. The Liberals have "richer, fairer, greener" as theirs. Personally, "united, strong and free" makes me feel good about my country. "Richer, fairer and greener" makes me check to see if my wallet is still there.

Dion And Carbon Taxes.....

They better hurry up and get them implemented because the window is closing.

Sun's wind and output on extended dimmer switch

WASHINGTON -- The sun has dialled back its furnace to the lowest levels seen in the space age, new measurements from a space probe show.

But don't worry -- it's too small a difference to change life on Earth, scientists say.

Right, could it mean global cooling? No furnace, no heat.

And for the first time in about a century, the sun went for two months this summer without sunspots, said NASA solar physicist David Hathaway.

That record was broken Monday when a cluster of eight sunspots surfaced.

Sunspots are temporary regions of high magnetic activity that from Earth appear to be black splotches.

The cause for the sun's slight weakening seems to be a change in its magnetic flux, said Dave McComas of the Southwest Research Institute......

But scientists said Tuesday the sun is in "a very prolonged minimum." Typically a solar minimum lasts about a year, but this low point has gone on since the summer of 2006.

It is "like turning down the heat on a stove," said McComas, a scientist who used the Ulysses solar probe to document a significantly weaker solar wind.

Global cooling, not warming, but the faux scientists won't admit it, they might lose their funding. The media won't tell you about it because it will decrease paper sales, and make them look like idiots because they have been shrilling for the eco-nuts.

Funny, Suzuki was in Edmonton today, and my husband was at the conference, he couldn't understand why no-one was there. The bloom is frost bitten, and people are starting to understand that a carbon tax, is a tax grab by Liberal elitists and phony carbon credit companies.

What will be happening 4 years from now, during the next election? Will the Liberals be promoting a cooling tax? It has become increasingly obvious that global warming is a scam, and Canadians aren't buying it anymore. Why aren't the opposition parties YELLING about Kyoto and how the Conservatives killed it? HA, chickens. Speaking of chickens....



A cartoon leader for the Liberals. Every time he shakes his head, he reminds me of Beavis and Butthead, every time he talks about the green shift, he reminds me of Kermit.

It's not easy being green, especially if you can't get your carbon tax off the ground, to fund all your social programs. What scares me the most is that once a carbon tax is imposed on us, it will be such a money generator for the government they will never get rid of it, like the GST.

Say NO to a carbon tax.

If You Were A Vegetable...

what vegetable would you be? Here is a funny moment in PM Harper's campaign stops. Funny how only CPAC seemed to show the whole thing!

Anyways, here is a light start to your day.



So, I'm wondering, what kind of vegetable IS PM Harper. How about Dion and Layton? This should provide some amusement.

Blah, Blah, Blah, Vote For Me!

My day 3 impressions.

Oil; Alberta and Saskatchewan are going Conservative after Layton's and Dion's scheme's to hurt our economies, who else can we vote for? NDP Duncan, in Rahim Jaffer's Edmonton riding, is going to pay for Layton's oil sand slam. Sure the university groupies Duncan has surrounding her are cheering, but it's a big riding, many people living there work in the oil patch, and Rahim is very popular. Duncan is living in a lefty world at the UofA. I predict real Edmontonian's are going to show her for the THIRD time, that talking about taking their jobs away isn't a vote getter. Her only hope is getting Liberals to shift (HA) their votes to her.

Diesel; Count on all farmers, truckers, and rural people to vote Conservative. This will resonate with anyone not living in Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver. The econuts are against this, but what do they ever produce but hot air? They do nothing, you never see them in Africa planting crops, all you ever see is the econuts protesting in polar bear suits.

Afghanistan; Count on military members, veterans, and their families to support the Conservatives after this message from the Taliban. The only party that has been standing up for our military has been the Conservatives, with the Liberals, who actually sent us there, dragging behind them. Liberal support of the Tamal Tigers, Hezbollah, and voting down the tough security bill, one of the only times they stood up in Parliament to vote, has seriously harmed their brand.

Dion Re-branded; Please! Are we going to see him hunting moose with Sarah Palin next? It's not going to work, his image is made, just like the Liberals branded Stockwell Day way back when.

Day 3, the most exciting thing that happened was a puffin, oh and don't they hide their excrement? If that's the best that the MSM can do, sorry not buying it. No-one is going to change their vote over puffin pooh.

Maybe I can't get excited about this election because we are not the underdogs anymore. We are not clawing our way out of the 13 year wilderness and hoping to take power. Maybe it's just because I'm sitting here in Conservative country, sure of getting my MP re-elected. What I do know is that it's dangerous to think this race is a done deal. It's not, one little puffin miss-step, like beer and popcorn, could change everything.

I almost wish I could be door knocking in a close riding, just for the excitement of fighting to win. Maybe I will toddle off to Rahim's riding (right next door) to see if they need a door knocker, I love talking to lefty university students, they are like blank slates, they passionately support a cause, then forget to go and vote.

King of Obstension

Bit of a mish mash, but that's how most working people are seeing this election. Sound bites while eating supper. Most voters are still busy getting the kids to school and then getting themselves to work. No-one at work yesterday cared about the election. Not one person mentioned it. The only ones liking it are the MSM, and they are doing a shifty job of it.



Dion is a perfect example of Peter's Principle, being elevated above his level of competence. The guy is out of his depth and floundering like the cod I caught in PEI. I would feel sorry for him except he is a Liberal, and has moved that party so far to the left that Layton looks conservative! Speaking of Layton, he just told all people west of Manitoba to bug off. He wants to close down the oil sands....right, kill the whole Canadian economy because you want votes?

I like the contrast in the video between PM Harper and Dion. As a voter, who would you choose?

PM Harper Has Them Chasing Their Tails!

Well according to Duceppe and Layton, it's a go. Funny how they wanted an election, and now they don't. Where's Dion? Hiding under the bed again? HA!

Here's my take on what's going on. Agree or disagree.

The opposition has been calling for an election for months. Dion especially has been talking about Canadians wanting to go to the polls. Of course this has been all bluster and no substance, or Dion would have voted against the budget, not sat on his hands for 44 votes. Layton and Duceppe have been forcing Dion to prop up the government because they know he isn't ready to fight an election. It hasn't been the Conservatives putting Dion in this position, it's been his buddies Layton and Duceppe. Now the bluff has been called.

The Conservatives are gently getting Canadians ready for an election call, and the opposition are falling right into line. They are now up in arms because PM Harper is supposedly breaking his own law, that they all supported. They are shouting it from the roof tops, and Liberal lawyers are actually threatening to take the Conservatives to court about it. Remember, an election hasn't been called yet.

But, everyone is now thinking election. Let's blame the Prime Minister, call him a bully, complain about the money it will cost for an election, pull out all the arguments about why all of a sudden, Canadians don't want an election, tell us how Parliament is now working fine, it's not dysfunctional. HA!

PM Harper sure has them chasing their tails, the MSM included!

If an election is coming, the opposition/MSM have used up all their ammo. The Conservatives might take a small hit in the current polls for calling an election before the recommended date, but, by the time the election is called, people will be more interested in the policies presented, not who called it or why.

Start by talking about a dysfunctional Parliament, then ask to meet with the opposition leaders, have them talk about PM Harper being set on calling an election, have Dion look disrespectful for not meeting with the PM, and then convince us, if an election is coming, why waste the money on the by-elections, let's just go to the polls NOW!

Funny how the polls have changed from 80% not wanting an election, to a 50/50 split.

From CTV:



Slowly, we are being softened up for an election, by the time it actually gets called, people will shrug, and say that they knew it was coming, and it's about time!

So, I'm Wondering.......

Where have all the weekly polls gone? Shouldn't all the polling companies be out in force, asking about the green shift? I'm curious, aren't they? Or are the results not being published? Call me skeptical, but the silence is deafening.

The latest poll numbers I could find were from Ipsos. Shows a tie. Funny how you can't access the actual data. Nik on the Numbers, hasn't done a poll on how we would vote, since April? You remember, his firm was the most accurate during the election, but now looking at his site, he pontificates with few numbers to back him up.

Check out his latest article, not one single number, not one. Excuse me, but don't you do surveys to find out public opinion, with some numbers?

Then we have Decima, did they forget Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba again? Just asking because I see no mention of the west, except for BC, well, I know BC is in the west, but, they are only part of the west. Did Decima include Toronto and forget Alberta, because you see, the two cancel each other out. And they talk about urban women, not rural women, why did they exclude rural women? Just asking.

So, one won't show their numbers, the next talks but has no numbers, and the third, forgets a few provinces, and rural women? Nice.

If the two parties are tied, as the polls show, why did the Liberals sit on their hands over 40 times? Why not a fall election? I love the fall, door knocking will be much more pleasant in the fall than the winter like last time. What's it going to be Dion? Here are his choices as I see them:

1. Sit on hands tell October 2009, then lose.
2. Wait for December, then maybe get booted as Liberal leader, then lose.
3. Force election in fall, then lose.
4. Call uncle, claim bankruptcy and step down, then lose.

Yikes it's not looking good for Dion!

The Time Is Now......

Or maybe later. Don Martin from the National Post seems to think: No better time than now for the Liberals He might be right, for the Liberals, but not Dion. And last time I checked Dion was still the leader of the Liberal party, so what's it going to be?

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's kickoff for his caucus retreat tonight is being advance-billed as The Dion Dare, a gauntlet he will throw down at Liberal leader Stéphane Dion's feet demanding he pull the parliamentary plug this fall or back away from his chronically empty election bluster until next year.

The Dion Dare? HA! It's the cat, playing with the rat. Conservatives are ready, it's the Liberal party that isn't. Now, I have to admit, being here in Conservative land, my view might be skewed, but we are ready to go and get our Conservative MP re-elected by over 60% again!

It's a government that seems eager to make itself very easy to defeat -- and the Official Opposition may find it very hard to resist the temptation to oblige.

Mr. Harper is expected to gloat at being handed the perfect campaign weapon with which to eviscerate the Liberals -- Mr. Dion's $15-billion carbon tax is a tough sell to an electorate that doesn't believe it will get it back, as promised, in tax rebates.

But as news of four-digit layoffs become a gloomy fixture in the headlines, and giant slabs of Arctic ice break free as an alleged result of man-made climate change, there's an alignment of economic and environmental circumstances coming together for the Liberals.

Here's where Martin gets it wrong, but don't tell the Liberals. The environment is going to take a huge beating in the next election, people only pay attention to it when the economy is good. Right now in Ontario, people are more interested in keeping their jobs than worrying about a harmless gas they can't even see. Martin should also check out the fact that Arctic ice is heavier this year and that giant slabs of Arctic ice always break off in the summer! Also believe it or not our cute little polar bears are doing just fine, eating all those baby seals!

The next Liberal gabfest is scheduled for December. That timetable squeezes Mr. Dion into a rock-hard predicament that gives his rivals considerable hope they will have him shoved out by next summer.

If he forces a fall vote, the convention will be pushed back to next spring, where he will likely be turfed by a party that will accept nothing less than a Prime Minister Dion as leadership success.

But if the campaign starts after the scheduled 2008 convention, Mr. Dion will have almost two years to rebuild a support base before his leadership is validated or revoked at the next biennial gathering of the Grits in late 2010.

The Liberals can not get rid of Dion at the December convention, they elected him, and they have no proof he would lose the election with the numbers showing the Conservatives and Liberals tied, so they are stuck with him. I suspect Liberal friendly pollsters are telling Canadians one thing (tie), and internal polls are telling a whole different story (Conservative win), but the Liberal media has now put the Liberals in a bind, they can't get rid of Dion!

That means Dion would be smart to wait until Oct 2009, by then people might have forgotten his green shaft. Only remaining question, how smart is Dion?? HA!

Not Easy Being Green!

Okay, I couldn't help comparing Dion to Kermit, I tried but I just couldn't help myself. Fife actually asked some hard questions and Dion, well, what can I say, he is either intellectually deficient, or not that smart. HA!!! Sorry, I'm bored because I don't have question period to play with anymore. Enjoy my version of Dion and his green shaft.



Lefties laugh at PM Harper for his clothes and weight (not something they can mention anymore, good job PM), maybe they should tell Dion that his mannerisms make him look like Kermit. The little head shake and pursed lips......well, sorry not working for this female. Do females base their vote on looks? NO! But, I will take this:



Over this:



Oops, wrong Dion, I meant this guy:



Dang, must be that glass of wine I had with supper, okay, I mean this guy:



Nothing against Dion, I think he's a "swell" guy, but his policies and politics stink. Plus, he has no lips, seriously, every photo shows Dion has no lips or chin, a sign of a weak person, so my Grandma told me! Thank goodness I listened to my Grandma!

Globe Morphs Another Story!

This time I didn't catch those little rascals changing stories, but they left the comments from a previous post about Dion wanting an election this fall. (If anyone finds the old story, post a link)

Dion touts tariffs on countries that are ‘free-riders'

Check out the 700+ comments, they are all about an election being called, not a tariff. The Globe pulls a fast one, changes the story, but keeps the comments from a previous article.

Dion muses about an election because his "green shaft" is going so well, the Globe prints it, then changes the story. Why did they change the story? Dion talks about a fall election, then suddenly the story is about a tariff? Talk about changing the channel when you don't like what you hear!

Meantime back at the ranch, Canoe asked this question, based on the same story the Globe had featured, "Do you want a federal election this fall?", the responses are very interesting. Start with first page (12 at this time would be the first), it will give you a true sense of how Canadians feel about an election in the fall. From the comments, it looks like about 98% do not want an election. Just a sample for those who are too lazy/busy to go to the site:

NO! and once again, Stephane Dion shows just how much he is out-of-touch with Canadians.
Tim Roberts, 2008-07-23 11:33:19

No. Prime Minister Harper is the best in many, many years!!
Inbred Fromlindsay, 2008-07-23 11:33:18

I'm with Buck, the sooner we get a tory majority the better.
Ed, 2008-07-23 11:32:56

Yes, Harper has done such a great job he should be given a majority
yogi, 2008-07-23 11:31:31

His he nuts? No way!
Bob, 2008-07-23 11:30:30

Canadians are ready for another election?? Seems to me that the liberals are still out of touch with popular sentiment. There's no way Dion or the liberal mafioso are getting my vote or that of anyone else I know. They did enough damage while they were office before. Why would we be stupid enough to set ourselves up for that again?
susanne, 2008-07-23 11:30:26

ABSOLUTELY NOT!!! I am happy with Mr. Harper, and can't STAND the sight of DION!! We haven't forgotten the MESS the Liberals left behind.....NO ,NO ,NO to and election this Fall and someone please tell Dion to quit having pipe dreams. When he was in AB, who did he talk to??? NOT voters, but university students....NO ELECTION & DEFINETELY NO DION!!!
E, 2008-07-23 11:24:57

Yes !! It's time for the Tory's to have a Majority Government !
Buck, 2008-07-23 11:22:48

dion is just desperate...desperate people do desperate things.

so my answer is NO!
k, 2008-07-23 11:20:41

You notice I didn't pick and choose, the ones I liked, I just copied some responses in a block, look at the times posted if you don't believe me. Read more of the comments, it's not pretty for Dion. Guess that's why the Globe tried to change the channel on their own site, the response to an election was anything but favorable to Dion. Slimy tactics by the Globe, make it seem that the tariff article is so popular it gets over 700 comments, when in actuality it was an article about Dion calling an election that generated all the comments.

Grow up Globe, you are supposed to be a paper that represents Canadians, not just Liberals. Make Liberal Gloria Galloway put a tag at the end of any article admitting that she is married to Liberal Dion's top Liberal adviser. Clean up your act, maybe then you might get some ad revenues coming in to save your paper.

So After All The Lawsuits And Bad Jokes...

I took a drive, and got some fresh air, snapped a few pictures (Yes, those are buffalo!).

I'm tired of Alberta being made out to be the big bad polluter, that is ruining our children's lives. Seriously, I'm sick of it.

I know it sells well in Ontario and Quebec for the Liberals, but people in Alberta are hard working, caring, and generous. We are also conservators, we like our land, rivers, and air to be clean. Farmers are the best conservators of our land, they make their living off of it, why would they kill it? In fact most Albertan's I know have a deep connection to the land, not the concrete like in Toronto.

Years ago, we drove across Canada to PEI, with 3 dogs. We stopped by rivers and let the dogs drink that water in every province we visited except Ontario and Quebec. We would not let our dogs drink the brown, smelly river water, it was disgusting.
Manufacturing has killed rivers and lakes in Ontario, but Alberta oil sands are now the big bad polluters? We are "easy" targets for ignorant Canadians, who will blindly believe "big oil" with their "big profits" are responsible for all their problems. Bet most central Canadians don't even know that they get their "blood" oil from Arab countries, not from safe, secure, freedom loving, Alberta.

Dion came here and told us we were disgraceful. That went over well. NOT! He has said nothing about our 4 BILLION dollar plan to capture carbon and expand transportation. He's too busy deploring a lawsuit against his party. Environmentalists have also been silent, except to say, carbon capture might not work. Wait until we decide to build a nuclear plant up north, that should get them going.

So, how many smog days has Toronto had so far this year? Is Lake Erie still a "dead" lake? Just thinking, maybe Ontario and Quebec should get their own provinces in order before they slag Alberta. I really hate that the Liberals with their NEP II plan, have started the east/west argument again, it's disgusting.

Oh, and those pictures? I lied, they aren't from around Edmonton, although they could be, nope, they are from reclaimed land by Syncrude, up there at the nasty oil sands. But, Dion wouldn't know that, he never went there.

Update: Hello and Welcome to all of Kate's SDA readers. Thanks Kate!

Alberta Gives The Finger To Dion!

Well, not really, we are too polite for that, not like Trudeau.

If 4 billion in new technology and transportation funding doesn't shut Dion up, nothing will! Problem is, his green shaft would still tax every barrel of oil we produce. His plan doesn't even try to reduce CO2, it will tax all energy industries no matter what they do to reduce emissions. Don't think you are exempt either. The enviroweenies hate this plan as well, listen to the last bit of this video.



4 billion that could go to health care, instead the environmentalists have forced governments and industry to spend money on air. Do not doubt that the enviroweenies will NEVER, ever, be happy, it will NEVER be enough, and the media is pushing this issue as hard as they can, I wonder why? Newspapers are big polluters, all those chemicals, ink, and paper. Oh right, CO2 is pollution, not smog or "dirty" lakes.

The Pembina Institute’s Dan Woynillowicz called it a “clear sign the government is taking climate change seriously,” but he qualified that by noting the province should invest more heavily in renewable energies like wind power, which doesn’t ravage land as much as oil sands or coal mining.

However, not all were impressed. Both Sierra Club and the NDP said Alberta taxpayers shouldn't have to help companies lower their greenhouse-gas emissions with subsidies for carbon capture.

This would be funny if they didn't really mean it! No taxpayer help for new technology? The technology you have been screaming for? You guys are starting to look like women who want a divorce, and all the guys money as well. Pathetic.

The province and its oil industry have been under attack at home and abroad for producing "dirty oil" – a reference to the large amount of greenhouse gases generated by energy-intensive oil sands extraction.

The image has resulted in a flurry of anti oil sands strategies in recent months by various levels of government in the United States that could shrink the market for Canadian crude.

In Canada, the latest attempt to penalize the oil sands industry came from Liberal Leader Stephane Dion, whose carbon tax plan would collect money from producers and redistribute it mostly in Eastern Canada.

You know what? Alberta can sell their "dirty" oil to China and India, no skin off our noses. By the way, how can the east justify their use of "blood" oil from Arab states?

Dion is no environmentalist, like Suzuki, he's a cheap snake oil salesman. I expect Dion, and environmentalists to come out in praise of Alberta's new initiatives. If they don't, then we really know that it's all about wealth redistribution, not the environment.

Is He Gone Yet??

Dion has been stinking up Alberta with his green shaft for too long, it's about time he left us, so we can go back to reality. Albertan's are polite by nature, but our patience can wear a little thin when some goof from Quebec comes here and proceeds to tell us what we should think.

Meddling Dion got off lightly

For four long and glorious days Public Enemy No. 1 waltzes around Alberta.

He's allowed to promote his devious plan to suck $15 billion a year out of the country's "700 large final emitters" - a large number of whom form our hydrocarbon economy heartland.

And nobody lays a glove on him.

...Dion says his big number is $15 billion a year. And he makes the preposterous claim that it will be "revenue neutral" because he will send it all out the door in a myriad of income tax tweaks.

It's designed to impress the above-mentioned soccer moms, who will see those bad Alberta oilsands and power plants punished. Plus, they'll have a little more left on their paycheques to spend on ME.

This Liberal urge to punish Albertans always seems to be lurking under the surface.

That is, until one of those 416 Liberal MPs brought it bubbling to the top last week when Garth Turner praised his great leader for taking it to those "self-aggrandizing, hostile, me-first, greedy macho, selfish and balkanizing" Quebec separatists.

"I guess he can do it again in Alberta," Turner sneered on his blog.

"Did I go too far?" Garbage Mouth Garth wondered later.

Not at all. You finally levelled with Albertans.

.....So I get to pose THE QUESTION: how big is the Alberta haircut?

"It's very difficult to do," Dion answered, adding something about taxing at the "wholesale" level rather than the "production" level.

But how you determine if a wholesale kilowatt of power is wind, coal or dam juice baffles me.

He did admit that " emissions are more concentrated in some provinces than others. Alberta is one of them."

Kinda had that figured already.

"We cannot come to an exact number," Dion insisted.

Dion didn't get the hostile reception he expected from Albertan's, from what I can see, he was pretty much ignored. So how brave was he? Not brave enough to appear on the David Rutherford show. Not brave enough to take questions from reporters at city hall. He appeared before Liberal party members in Calgary, at a youth rally against the oilsands in Edmonton, and one town hall meeting filled with hard core lefties, where adults prompted a little 8 year old to ask a pre-arranged question. Now that's brave!

Now he can go back east, and talk about his "success" in talking down to those nasty Albertan's who make all that "easy" money. Could you keep him there? Thanks.

Fun With Jane!

Jane Taber pretty much gets beat up (figuratively speaking) and Fife scores one against Campbell. Why don't the Liberal MSM understand that they look stupid shilling for the Dion shaft tax? Do they seriously think we are that stupid? Well you decide:



From the sounds of it Dion is going to exempt BC and Quebec because they already have carbon taxes. I suspect that Dion is talking to Danny in Newfoundland and McGuinty must have been offered something he can't refuse, because he is on board all of a sudden.

Guess that leaves Alberta and Saskatchewan to carry the burden for Canada. Nice idea if people were as stupid as the Liberals think they are, but Dion is no Chretien, the right is united, and the separatists are close to non-existent. Whole new ball game Dion, and you have already struck out, you just don't know it. Running around the bases endlessly, just gets you sore feet.