100 different programs that the Liberals set up to “combat climate change” (—wink!) have been cancelled or suspended by the clear-air-breathing and clear-thinking Conservative government of Stephen Harper.
Predictably, various liberal-leftists and members of the multi-billion-dollar global taxpayer-funded environmentalist industry across our land are oozing brain poo, as a result.
Ottawa stops funding One Tonne Challenge
MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
From Saturday’s Globe and Mail
The new Conservative government in Ottawa has abruptly stopped funding groups across the country that have been promoting the One Tonne Challenge, the quirky program to persuade Canadians to do their bit to help the environment by cutting their greenhouse gas emissions.
The Conservatives are also reviewing about 100 other climate-change programs set up by the previous Liberal government.
The One Tonne Challenge is likely the best known of the dozens of federal government efforts to fight global warming. It has been heavily publicized through television ads featuring comedian Rick Mercer as pitch man for a program that urged people to drive less, turn down their thermostats and take other steps to forestall climate change.
[…] John Bennett, a spokesman for the Sierra Club of Canada, accused the new government of beginning “a campaign of stealth destruction” of the programs by allowing funding to lapse.
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