Here’s another instance in which the liberals’ media could be a little more forthcoming about their experts; and for that matter, where we could all use a little more, um, openness from the liberal media’s experts, in this case, Mark Jaccard.
Hi Joel
Another CTV expert – this time a “prominent resource economist”. If you haven’t read the article (Tory attack on carbon tax is dishonest: economist).
A quote from the article by Mark Jaccard of Simon Fraser University where he says:
“The Conservatives—and I say this with great sadness because I don’t care which political party is in power—but if we’re going to do anything about climate change, we’re going to have to be honest with people,” Marc Jaccard of Simon Fraser University told CTV.ca on Tuesday.
Doesn’t care which political party is in power? We’re going to have to be honest with people? How does CTV find these fair and balanced guys??
Shocker, but a quick google search and lo and behold….according to SFU News Online at the following link:
http://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/Stories/sfunews11290702.shtml
Mark Jaccard of SFU is “a special advisor to B.C. premier Gordon Campbell’s new 22-member “climate action team” mandated to help the province achieve a one-third cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. The climate action team is tasked with meeting the government goals set out in the recently introduced Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets Act, which the premier has touted as the most aggressive legislation of its kind in North America.”
Hmmm, no Liberal ties there? Probably no agenda either? Guess CTV or Mark forgot to disclose that fact..
regards
Greig, Neepawa Manitoba
It’s an article about competing political messages. And the expert’s disgust with one party’s message. Just the one.
The CTV.ca article focuses on Jaccard’s supposed “disgust” over the Conservatives’ alleged “dishonesty”; this “disgust” being the result of the 
Conservatives’ attack ads against the stupendous, yet to be explained, Dion/Liberal “tax everything” plan —a plan which they haven’t bothered to detail as yet, leaving us guessing as to what it’s about (besides taxing everything, the way liberals always tax everything in sight).
But “This is just totally dishonest,” Jaccard told CTV.ca.
Aside from just mentioning his book, in which he advocates a carbon tax (hey!), and among his other stellar attributes, I think it would have been worth it for CTV.ca to mention that Jaccard was on the U.N’s virulent “man-made global warming” theory-promoting Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (1993 to 1996). To not include that information could be seen as just “totally dishonest”.
I’m sure Jaccard would agree.
His claims of “dishonesty” are something of an inconsistency in thinking —or at least in fully identifying the dishonest. A CBC.ca review of his book, “Hot Air – Meeting Canada’s Climate Change Challenge”, contains this information:
Under the Kyoto Protocol. Canada is obligated to cut our greenhouse gas emissions, by the year 2012, to below what they were in 1990, as a first step toward fighting global warming. But we’re on track to miss that target by a huge margin. By that 2012 deadline, our emissions are predicted be 30% higher than they were in 1990. According to a new book by Dr. Mark Jaccard, from the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University, that’s because our Kyoto commitment was almost impossible to achieve to begin with, and governments made no effective efforts to accomplish it in any case.
But it’s the Conservatives who are “dishonest”? Seems to me—even without reading Jaccard’s book —the Liberals signed us up to one of the biggest farces in recent Canadian history, with almost no intention—and scarcely a hint of a solid plan—to act in order to abide by the ridiculous anti-Canadian Kyoto agreement that they committed us to. Until after they lost the election, that is. That’s the very definition of dishonest.
Again, I’m sure Jaccard would agree.
And Jaccard might have mentioned all that, since we’re all about the political messaging in this article.
According to the CTV article. he claims his Conservative ad campaign “disgust” is based on the fact that…
“… We won’t get our emissions down if there isn’t a price on them and that’s just the truth.”
But the CTV article follows that up with this:
“Every one of those ads should say, ‘Oh and by the way, your income taxes are going down if (the Liberals) do put in that tax,’ but it’s not there.”
Well (behavior modification by the state aside), if it’s incumbent upon the Conservatives to include that Liberal policy-affirming information with every ad, then every single article which uses Jaccard as an expert should point all the above things out. I’m sure Jaccard would agree.
An intellectually honest debate about all the big issues of the day remains illusive in this country.
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