The state-run media is in high dudgeon (in contradistinction to simply being high) over the Conservatives’ plans to tackle pollution and such, which, when reviewing their CBC style book, looked a little crazy to them—kind of like Layton’s you’ve got to be kidding party finally acknowledging that abortion is, in fact, the most disgusting, abominable thing ever thought of by humans, which of course would be ludicrous. The CBC figured on the Conservatives dropping this ball in favor of their effort to turn Canada in “a theocratic state”, and since their green Guru Stéphane Dion, Frenchman, was elected leader of their party, were decorating the big state-run CBC cafeteria for a party. Damn those wily Conservatives.
So now the Conservatives’ plans are being rolled out, EXACTLY on schedule, EXACTLY as then-environment minister Rona Ambrose promised months ago that they would do “early in the new year”. The CBC, as if on cue, chooses to use the opportunity not to lay out the plans for us Canadians, but to compare the Conservatives’ plans with what the Liberals might have had planned, if only they were elected like they were supposed to have been; and also to secure all manner of critics in order to marginalize the plans on the basis that they are, alas, Conservatives’ plans, not Liberals’ plans. This is what passes for “fair and balanced” reporting in the liberal mainstream media in Canada today. ( I know you readers in Botswana recognize that, but this is for the information of Canadians who didn’t know there’s utterly no balance in our liberal-left agenda-driven media.)
And all of this is notwithstanding the sheer lunacy and transparent hypocrisy of the liberals and their sacred CBC, which on the one hand uses every opportunity to denounce the Conservatives for “not acting” on the environment, and then when they do (right on schedule), criticising them for acting in intellectually dishonest ways, and cynically dubbing it through nuance (as the Green Guru, Stéphane Dion, Frenchman, did in an un-nuanced way) as nothing but a cheap callous hidden agenda-like ploy to ignobly get votes at taxpayer expense. Unlike the corrupt, compassless, poll-driven Liberals, dontchaknow.
Here’s some of the state-run media’s lament, which, as you can see, has less to do with the actual story as it does with comparing it to yummy Liberals.
…one of a number of environmental initiatives that are similar to Liberal proposals, CBC News has learned.
[…] Last spring, the Conservatives cancelled the Energuide project, saying it was inefficient. In the 2005 budget, the Liberals were planning to continue and greatly expand the Energuide program, spending $225 million…
[…] Liberal policies resurrected, says critic
And all are similar to Liberal proposals in their so-called Green Budget of 2005.
Liberal environment critic David McGuinty told CBC Newsworld on Friday the Conservatives are simply “running around the country re-announcing” Liberal programs cut from the last budget.
“I’m pleased to see the government is resurrecting Liberal policies and re-announcing them,” he said. “I just wish they’d have a little bit more candor in admitting it.”
[…] In comparison, the Liberals in their 2005 budget had allocated $200 million for similar research and development.
The Liberals had also planned to spend $300 million on projects that could produce 4,500 megawatts of renewable energy over five years, compared to the Tory plan of $300 million to produce 4,000 megawatts of renewable energy over four years.
The Tories’ version of the Energuide program is expected to be a bit different than the Liberal plan. For example, sources tell CBC News that the government will not pay for the final audit of the home, which the Liberal program did.
But essentially the new version will be similar to the former Energuide program.
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