In response to the defeat of the Climate Change Accountability Act (Bill C-311) in the Senate, Graham Saul, Executive Director of Climate Action Network Canada said the following:
"Stephen Harper has done what he always promised never to do: use unelected officials to counter the will of Parliament and the Canadian public. The Climate Change Accountability Act had won the support of a majority of Members of Parliament, not once but twice, at a time when the majority of Canadians are demanding stronger action on climate change in Canada. Despite this, government Senators voted the bill down before even taking the time to debate or consider it. This both irresponsible and unprecedented. This reckless approach to climate change must stop. Global warming is an urgent problem that requires urgent solutions. As we head into the UN climate talks in Cancun later this month, it is unacceptable that Canada's only climate change legislation has been defeated after years of majority support from our elected members of parliament and their constituents."
Climate Action Network Canada's blog
Climate Action Network Canada - Réseau action climat Canada is a nation-wide coalition of more than 75 environmental, faith, development, labour, aboriginal, health, and youth organizations committed to making action on climate change by Canada a reality.
Fire them!
And yet there will always be those who cling to the ridiculous idea that the road to climate and social justice runs through Parliament.
These protectors of the capitalist system will never vote for anything that would put an end to their plunder of the planet and the exploitation and misery of the masses.
Only direct action can achieve this goal.
"Only direct action can achieve this goal"
Well said. It's the only way.
oh right, re-useable plastic bags are goona do it do you think?
How exactly would a plastic bag be useful in overthrowing the rule of the capitalist class and installing democratic rule by the workers and farmers?
they are not useful, that's the point - doh?!
it has been nearly a week now since Marjory LeBreton & Anne Cools whacked C-311 and I have seen no indication that anyone cares a button or a fig (... we don't care a button! we don't care a fig! In a Sieve we'll go to sea!) for it beyond a bit of useless whingeing & hand-wringing by the muggles at the Green Party & NDP & COC (a-and of course Saul Graham, one of the CAN heavy hitters who agrees with Doug Saunders that 'Teenage girls can change the world')
there were thousands of people in Dundas Square over the 'great prorogue robbery' but if I were living downstairs from this I would still be waiting for the other shoe to drop
do we not already have government by the workers and farmers? of the 50% of the k-k-concupiscent k-k-complacent k-k-Canadian electorate who vote, are not the majority workers in some sense? do you really think that some worn out ideology or other has anything to do with this?
only the resident goosebump over at the National Post has got it right (for once): Senate reflects Will of the People / http://opinion.financialpost.com/2010/11/18/lawrence-solomon-on-climate-...
and to whoever it was above who said "Well said. It's the only way." ... meh ...
Gawd! this interface is TRUELY TERRIBLE! (when she was good she was very very good but when she was bad she was HORRID!) every time I come here I resolve never to return, ai ai ai! que merda!
Graham Saul didn't say re-usable plastic bags are the answer to climate change, and neither did I. You were the one who made that sarcastic suggestion. Just whom did you think you were mocking, when you made that alleged "point"?
You really believe that's who's running this country?
Well at least we agree on something.
OED gives me "TRUELY, form of truly" - don't you even have a dictionary? or or ... maybe you have one but you don't use it, is that it? that would be very k-k-Canadian of you :-) ... mind you, not every single last word is in there, sometimes one comes along like 'refudiate' that is so good you just want to find a reason to use it every day, say, in reference to statistics on the turnout at k-k-Canadian elections? or the moribund left
if my sarcasm were misplaced we would be in the middle of something that would make the walk down Yonge Street from Dundas Square this spring look like the teddy bear's picnic, we are not, Q.E.D. (the 'People's Assembly on Climate Justice' that CAN is planning for December 4 notwithstanding)
some people say 'the road to hell is paved with good intentions' which is (for me) somewhat lame in this case, so for the hand-wringers and such like listed above, try this - if wishes were horses beggars would ride.
and finally M. Spector, if it had been me who noticed that we do in fact agree on something, I would have tried to use it for the good somehow, say, as an objective correlative that might serve as a bridge of some kind, but there you go eh?
here, this is more like it: New report reveals Canadian efforts to kill climate change policies in other countries
http://www.climateactionnetwork.ca/e/news/2010/release/index.php?WEBYEP_...
and the report itself is here: THE TAR SANDS' LONG SHADOW: Canada's Campaign to Kill Climate Policies Outside Our Borders
http://www.climateactionnetwork.ca/e/publications/can-tar-sands-long-sha...
I don't mind eating my words, if Saul Graham & CAN have done the work to get this out then good on him - now, where are the rest of them?