Lost me somewhere.
But dont explain. I think its like explaining a joke.
By the way, two days later, and I dont think any Mulcair has said boo about Mulcair's climate change policy foray. When I saw your name pop up, that occured to me before I read the post.
Maybe this is a dumb question, the kind techno Luddites are prone to... but
The BC NDP Convention live stream is still inactive. Does it just leap into action for the stated 4:30 start of the Town Hall?
Maybe this is a dumb question, the kind techno Luddites are prone to... but
The BC NDP Convention live stream is still inactive. Does it just leap into action for the stated 4:30 start of the Town Hall?
Yes. It only goes live for a few scheduled events.
Malcolm, the issue is not who would want to retire after one term - its about who would want to retire after less than one year!
Granted - although I've never been convinced that a leader elected from outside caucus necessarily needs to get elected immediately. Certainly the best favour the SNDP ever did for Grant Devine was defeating him in the Estevan byelection - which kept him out of the Legislature and out in the countryside for the next two years. In 2009, I was advocating that Ryan Meili not seek an immediate byelection in the event he won the leadership.
By the way, two days later, and I dont think any Mulcair has said boo about Mulcair's climate change policy foray. When I saw your name pop up, that occured to me before I read the post.
What do YOU think of Mulcair's climate change proposal?
The crux of it would seem to be this:
"It would apply the 'polluter-pay' principle not just to the 700 largest industrial emitters but to all major sources of greenhouse gases."
Certainly bold, I would say. It leaves the details up to the party to hash out over the next four years from what I can see, but it builds on party policy while going substaintially further than previous plans--plans that were criticized for the appearence that they implied that only the Big Bad Boogeymen would have to be included.
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Politics/20111209/ndp-leadership-candidate-tho...
I dont know where you get the idea- even that it is implied- that the 'details' are up to the party to be worked out over the next 4 years.
This article and all the others I saw referred to Mulcair releasing his plan. Since they all said it, they got that from somewhere. What we've seen so far is not a plan- its an indication of a direction to be taken. [Reminder here that when Topp made his initial sketch out of the direction to go on taxation, around here it was scoffed at as being something sketched out on the back of an envelope.] I said then about Topp, and about Mulaciar's offering now that they are[were] setting the stage for more to follow.
But I dont think that is more to follow sometime in the next 4 years.
It has been postponed until (after) 5 pm...
As far as I'm concerned, if Mulcair proposed no change to the NDP's existing climate change policy; but "merely" commited to pushing it off the shelf and into prominence- that would be plenty significant to me.
What the man likes or preferrs means beans in itself.
The existing policy is perfectly good. I'm sure the content could use a tune-up. But thats cart before the horse to not first make sure we are going to be serious about it.
Should have known that the Town Hall being embedded in the Convention program meant that a substantially late start was guaranteed.
Should have known that the Town Hall being embedded in the Convention program meant that a substantially late start was guaranteed.
Looks like they are just doing the warm-up speeches. link
Closing for length.
