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Is it fair to expect members of the Kyoto Kult to practise what they preach?

In today’s National Post, Kevin Libin uncovers a scathing exposé of hypocritical actions by so-called environmentalists and green advocates- Emissions omissions.

He cites the Kyoto high priests themselves, Suzuki and Gore, whom we all already know emit more hot air when giving speeches than most ordinary Canadians do in a lifetime.

But he also hones in on Liberal Environment critic David McGuinty, of the Flying McGuinty Brothers. (Great blog there, BTW)

Libin provides a stinging list of David’s environmental sins acquired by access to information. Just check out McGuinty’s carbon footprint! You’ll be blown away by the greenhouse gases.

Anyway, as we all know brother Dalton is having his own problems - especially lately with news leaking out of his own Environment Minister Laurel Broten’s unpopular plans to build a huge two-story garage to accommodate “one of their four vehicles, baby gear and bikes.” Neighbours are not happy due to the threat to a large nearby tree and the perceived visual impact of such a monstrosity.

Then there is the matter of those fours vehicles, which Broten defends as something her husband is entitled to, after having become a “mining town boy made good”.

Ah, so if you achieve some financial success in your life, you’re allowed to drive a bunch of fancy cars. Or maybe they’re just saving them for the boys, who should be ready to drive in around 15 years or so…

Anyway, back to the Post article. An actual Doomsday Believer is frustrated with these high-profile, so-called green advocates who make convenient exceptions for themselves:

“It’s arrogance. It’s a sense of entitlement. A lot of people in the environmental movement, and in government, are so convinced that they’re smarter than everybody else, a certain amount of behaviour just comes from that.”

What do you think? Do you feel it’s acceptable for these environmental saviours to preach one thing but do another?

If you’re rich enough to purchase carbon credits to offset your lifestyle, does that seem fair to others that are being asked to make huge personal sacrifices with cutting back on the A/C in the summer, shivering in the winter, letting their lawns go brown and taking the bus to work?

Or are such questions considered to be an act of heresy?

Ontario Government - World class smokescreen.

H/T National Newswatch.

Meanwhile, the Ontario Environment Minister is busy planning her four-car garage. Well, she’s gotta spend that raise somewhere…

Update:

Oh here’s a good one - Ontario schools to receive Gore’s ‘Truth’:

Ontario Environment Minister Laurel Broten says the former U.S. vice-president’s film will inspire students to “reduce their environment impact.”

Tides Canada Foundation director Tim Draimin says the film helps viewers think about the long-term implications of lifestyles.

Could someone please drop off a copy to Laurel? Perhaps she could play it for the kids when driving around in one of those four vehicles. I’m sure one has a DVD player.

Joel-Denis Bellevance relates a story in La Presse that suggests that the former Liberal government was keenly aware of warnings of torture in Afghanistan (H/T National Newswatch).

This is a translated version of the article, so it reads the way Stephane Dion speaks English, and is therefore somewhat difficult to follow, but well worth the effort.

Bellevance makes the point that the present government is surely to blame for a lot of confusion this week, but the Liberals may not have been lily-white in the affair themselves.

And here’s your weekend quiz courtesy of ChuckerCanuk: Am I a Liberal..?

…anyone one else is fair game.

Today’s National Post Editorial (Dear Stephane: Be a Man), highlights Stephane Dion’s outraged hysteria over the Prime Minister daring to suggest that “the opposition seems to care more about the rights of Taliban detainees than the safety of our troops in Kandahar”.

So Steffi then called Stephane Harper a ‘bully’. The Post then goes on to outline other instances when the Liberals did their own ‘bullying’:

Since last fall, the Liberals have labelled Mr. Harper a Neanderthal over his government’s cuts to the Status of Women Canada budget; implied he is racist for axing the $5-billion Kelowna agreement on native funding; claimed he is anti-democratic for “stacking” the committees that advise on judicial nominees; accused him of “undermining our Canadian values system” by eliminating funding to the left-leaning Court Challenges Program; and suggested he was homophobic for reviving the debate on same-sex marriage. They have called him a “control freak,” “Bush-lite,” “deceitful” and a practitioner of “Republican voodoo economics.”

I might add to that that the Prime Minister of Canada has even been called a “Political Whore” by a sitting Liberal MP; albeit not in the House itself. I even asked Garth if he was planning to apologize. His response was:

Of course he (Harper) completely prostituted his Reform principles. That’s fact, not character assassination. He executed himself. — Garth

So, I suppose if the accuser believes the statement to be true, then no apology is required.

And yet, we now have Post columnist Jonathan Kay, the National Post itself, and others being served libel notices over Kay’s piece about alleged Liberal backroom deals. Jonathan defended his position in the Post’s Full Comment blog back on Feb. 28.

This morning I asked Mr. Kay if he was planning to comment about this latest development, but he replied that he has “been advised not to make any statement”. However, he did thank me for my note.

The Big Red Liberal Machine is worried, folks. They are demoralized by their glaring mistake in electing a ‘whimp’ as a leader and by polls showing rising support for the CPC.

- And just like a cornered animal, the LPC is lashing out in anger and fear.

I am emerging from my self-imposed ‘reading retreat’ because I just couldn’t let this pass.

Apparently there were rallies in major cities across Canada yesterday, calling for peace in the “War on Terra”. (Can you believe it?)

Anyway, the rallies were supposed to be non-partisan, but many politicians seized the opportunity to push for Kyoto compliance (Post - “Tories Knocked at Kyoto Rally“):

Chief organizer Brennan Louw said he intended the event to be non-partisan; however, local federal politicians took the opportunity to court voters and to challenge the record of Prime Minster Stephen Harper.

“I say to Mr. Harper: You have no right to take Canada out of the Kyoto Protocol. That’s Canada’s signature on that document - that’s not you’re signature,” said NDP Leader Jack Layton. “We must send that message to Stephen Harper.”

Licia Corbella is quickly becoming one of my favourite columnists. Today she gives it to David Suzuki and his Kyoto Kult followers (Mean and Not So Green).

Apparently Corbella received hundreds of emails from enraged Suzuki fans, when she had the audacity to point out in a previous column that the Canadian High Priest of Environmental Shlock, along with his American counterpart Al Gore, doesn’t exactly walk the talk - and when he does talk, the results are often more ‘blue’ than green.

Corbella goes on to explain how she is green without the vulgarity and hypcrisy. But her explanation will likely fall on deaf lemming-ears.

Because just as in traditional religion, if you’re a believer that’s all you need - faith. Science and logic are not required.

Licia Corbella nails it in this morning’s Calgary Sun (A Storm Warning)- The current gas shortage in Ontario is a dress rehearsal for a terrorist attack on oil refineries and national transportation systems.

Corbella brilliantly weaves various themes of Liberal hypocrisy, wilful blindness, environmentalism and terror threat, to create a chilling picture emphasizing just how vulnerable we really are.

I also wonder if the fallout from the gas shortage had anything to do with Stephane Dion’s recent epiphany regarding the anti-scab bill.

So much is happening in response to the Jonathan Kay article, it’s hard to keep up.

Many thanks to reader Biff for the tip in the previous post regarding Kay’s response to the Deal Deniers. I am presently trying to piece this altogether.

In addition, National Newswatch has just posted a Globe story, Leadership Losers Draw Liberal Salaries:

Gerard Kennedy and Martha Hall Findlay are receiving salaries from the Liberal Party to help prepare for the coming election, but how much they earn is being kept secret.

The lack of transparency is causing concern among some Liberals and leading to speculation that private deals were made because Mr. Kennedy and Ms. Hall Findlay were the two leadership candidates who dropped off the ballot early and threw significant support behind Stéphane Dion. The secrecy is also driving speculation among some Liberals that Ms. Hall Findlay and Mr. Kennedy are earning big salaries.

This is all starting to unravel in a most curious manner of allegations countered with self-righteous indignation and denials.

Stay tuned. And please weigh in with your own perspective.

You might have missed it if you blinked, but CTV has disclosed the real secret Liberal agenda behind last night’s vote against extending the anti-terror measures. It wasn’t about upholding civil liberties at all:

Todd Russell, a Liberal MP for the riding of Labrador, said that “any time you take a bully on and push him back, that’s a victory. (Prime Minister Stephen Harper) is a bully, and he got what’s coming to him tonight.”

Playing partisan games with Canadian lives. And they call Harper ’scary’.

Maureen Basnicki, whose husband Ken was one of 24 Canadians killed in Manhattan’s twin towers, has according to Michael Ignatieff simply been participating in a ’sideshow’:

Ignatieff said while he sympathized with terror victims, their appearance during the debate over whether to renew the powers is “just a sideshow.”

“The issue here is not whether we have or have not met with victims of 9/11. Every member of our caucus feels the grief and horror that those victims went through.”

After the vote, Basnicki, on behalf of the Canadian Coalition Against Terror, said she was “very, very disappointed” in the outcome, and angered by Ignatieff’s comment.

“Sideshow? I was a victim of terrorism. My husband was murdered.

“I don’t like to be a victim of politics.”

(Alberta Ardvark has also picked up on this Toronto Star article.)

So, I guess it’s fine for some Liberals to cast aspersions at grieving Canadian citizens; seek to diminish their pain and question their motives.

However, if a Conservative MP even makes a general comment that is substantiated by solid investigative journalism, then self-righteous Liberals are allowed to publicly demand apologies.

Another Liberal entitlement, I suppose.

Oh, yeah, and by the way Ms. Basnicki, didn’t you know that TIMES HAVE CHANGED???

Get with the program.