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Trudeau and his gang are pretty slippery - oily actually. Although they have promised (well, sort of - after all, it's a Liberal promise!) to return 90% of the revenue while the tax is $10 a ton. How about when it goes to $20 - or $50 - or as the eco-nuts would like - hundreds of dollars. Will all that go back to Canadians? Of course not - they've already said they are trying to change peoples' attitudes. Like Rogers, Bell and Cogeco - it's just a promotional program so they can sucker you in for a long term tax grab.

The increase to $15 is not "cancelled" - just delayed until October 2020 - after which increases will be tied to inflation - which will be great for workers because the minimum wage has historically been stuck on one amount for several/many years - and good for businesses because it will be predictable. Good move - makes sense. There was never anything wrong with moving the minimum wage to $15 - only the timing was wrong - should have been over 4 or 5 years. The Wynne Liberals did it a one fell swoop to simply use it as an election ploy. The crooks are gone.

Perhaps you misunderstood what I was saying. Any - and I repeat any attempt to reduce our carbon emissions by a meaningful amount in the next 12 years is pure folly.......and the IPCC "scare the bejesus out of everyone" target of reducing global emissions in half by 2030 is - as I said - insanity from the minds of lunatics. Carbon taxes, Cap & Trace, Carbon dividends - they are all useless in the context of what I presented in the topic.

To put an exclamation point on it - China is responsible for 67% of the increase in Global emissions since 2000. India is responsible for 15%. What rationale could ever maintain that Canada's attempt to reduce our emissions by 30% of our measly 2% makes any sense at all? As I - and others have stated many times - Canada could make a bigger difference by building pipelines and helping to replace coal in other parts of the world - although I admit, even that would have a relatively negligible overall effect. At this point in time - I'm sure Canadians would like to shut off buying Saudi oil..........

We need facts - we need the truth. We need rational, common sense. The UN plan to avoid Armageddon is pure folly. Any gains that can by “sucker countries” will be dwarfed by the increase in emissions by so-called “developing” countries. Any rational look at the UN target of cutting global emissions in half by 2030 is not only unachievable – it is outrageously insane – literally the thinking of madmen. In fact, emissions will grow over that period. Globally, they have already grown by 40% since 2000! It boggles the mind how the UN and our pliant media use such ambiguous terms as pollution, kilotons of carbon emissions – and yes, the term “Climate Change” itself. With Kyoto – and now Paris, many countries have made commitments that extend back to the 2005 Kyoto Agreement. Following below is a summary of statistics that show who the largest emitters are – and how successful they have been at reducing their GHG emissions. To give them an advantage, I’ve started at the year 2000. An important observation/opinion – the vast majority of any reductions are likely related to the shift away from coal – certainly this was the case in the EU – headed up by England/Ireland. China’s Climate “Plan” alone says that they will not begin to reduce emissions until 2030 including the continued building of coal-fired generation plants. India has massive plans for coal. Russia has no plan. The EU has for the most part, has converted the majority of coal-fired energy – so they are faced with diminishing returns. What do we do? Well, we’ve already wasted trillions on this scam. The move away from coal was driven more by economics than anything else – perhaps sped up by a few years – and as stated before, most emission reductions came from that transition – mostly to oil and gas. The answer is to seriously look at mitigation plans – plans which can address the troubling aspects of Climate Change but also the positive ones – and make no mistake, there are positive elements to a moderately warmer planet. We will never, ever in our lifetime achieve any meaningful reduction in global emissions – if there is a reduction at all. Take a look at the real world below, data taken from the link that I’ve provided. Here’s a list of the top emitters, as of 2016. It shows how much their emissions have increased of reduced since 2000 – and what share of the world’s total GHG emissions they emit. Total Global emissions for 2016 expressed in thousands of kilotons – 35755 Country % of Global Emissions % increase/decrease since 2000 China 29% +286% US 14% -14% India 7% +238% Russia 5% no change Japan 3.5% -2% Germany 2% -10% Canada 2% -7% Source: http://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/overview.php?v=CO2andGHG1970-2016&sort=des8

Taxme - You're not the "extreme" anymore. Maybe a bit excitable - but you're just expressing what many Canadians are starting to see. What our schools and media have failed to do is warn us how devastating socialism/Marxism/Communism has been. You only have to look at North Korea, the old USSR, East Germany and Cuba to understand. Their systems were - and are - so bad that they have to lock people in. They should teach it in schools - teach how Socialism - the Utopian attempt to make everyone equal - takes away the natural drive of the human race to better themselves - to want more for their families. Inevitably, it results in a population that says "why should I work when everything in given to me" even though that "everything" is far less than I should be able to get. It's a sick system - and inevitably, the ones in power oppress the population - to MAKE them work in all the government controlled industries.....and like all the aforementioned failed experiments - leads people to lives of unfulfilled misery - except for those in positions of privilege. Schools should teach this - the sweet smell of equality leads to the very lowest of common denominators - ruled by tyrants. With Capitalism - which has survived for over 500 years....the last burden to be thrown off is the poison of grossly, extreme individual wealth - and the solutions are well within our grasp. It's sickening to think that some people still think that Socialism is a viable alternative - in spite of the proven detritus of human misery that always leaves behind. Winston Churchill had it completely right - Capitalism is the worst - except for all the others.

With Trudeau, you can bet it's closely tied to not alienating the Arab voting block when it comes to that useless rotating seat on the UN security council. He's spending OUR money to glorify his personal standing. We're all suckers for voting for him and he's made Canada into a sucker nation - kowtowing to an unelected body of socialists that creates "guilt committees" to feed a pliant Western media.

Reefer, Reefer...........always trying to shoot the messenger........that's the Alarmist Way.... Link: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/climate/britains-met-office-welcomes-audit-by-australian-researcher-about-hadcrut-errors/news-story/c82ba88888d9eba2af9d1dca52e7fe07

$75 million......but Trudeau has no money for vets......... Link: https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/malcolm-liberals-continue-to-fund-troubled-unrwa

In Canada, we have "rationed health care" with a triage component to identify those who need critical and immediate care. The rest wait as long as necessary. There is no "pressure release valve" to the system - other than waiting. It is what it is. The false comparison of universal "free" healthcare versus private is disingenuous. Canada ranks 30th in the world (the US is #37) in healthcare effectiveness for a reason - we certainly put enough money into it. The majority of countries ahead of Canada mix in some private healthcare and THAT becomes the pressure valve. As with so many other issues, our left-leaning intelligentsia shout down and shut down any such rational discourse. While the Left constantly brays that the rich should pay "a little more", how does this square with "free" healthcare for everyone? I am so sick of this discussion (no pun intended). How about starting by sending everyone a semi-annual INVOICE of exactly what it costs for their medical care? At least then, we can start to appreciate that Healthcare is NOT free.

Perhaps this has already been posted but according to the World Health Organization (WHO), we're ranked 30th in the world - the US is #37.........the usual subjects are so arrogant and sanctimonious on this topic. Do they actually understand the term "evidence based"? Link: http://thepatientfactor.com/canadian-health-care-information/world-health-organizations-ranking-of-the-worlds-health-systems/

The proof is there if you want to see it. She had no payoff - but it's become clear that this poor woman had been undergoing therapy for more than just PTSD. The Democrats sat on the allegations for two months - knowing that a proper and full Senate investigation would have dismissed them as totally uncorroborated - and caught her in some of the more outlandish claims that she's made. They brought her forward at the last minute to do nothing but destroy Kavanaugh's reputation and in the meantime, throw Ford under the bus. Thanks to this particular disgusting group of Democrats, Ford has done more harm than good for #MeToo. Time will tell if that harm will torpedo any hopes they had for winning the House.

It shouldn't be about your lifelong contempt for Republicans. It should be about this particular issue. Americans voted for Republicans - and Trump, It was their turn to nominate a judge. Kavanaugh ran the full gauntlet of hearings but ran smack into a politically motivated last minute smear. You're entitled to disagree with his appointment - but your admitted contempt for all things Republican - in the context of this rudderless, contemptible bunch of Democrats is misplaced.

Someone has hijacked Argus's account......

Doubling down on who believes Ford as opposed to Kavanaugh. It'll be interesting to see how Independent woman vote. My guess is that the majority - being independent - will be more inclined to vote according to the facts.....so the GOP might pick up more votes than they might previously have expected. Surprisingly, the GOP have the "high road" with this whole debacle - so much so that even some Democrats might stay home out of disgust. We'll just have to wait and see how things unfold.

....and he passed every test leading up to the mostly debunked, last minute Ford accusations - accusations that fulfilled the Democrats threat to do anything and everything to block his confirmation. The withering Senate interview process could find nothing - absolutely nothing to dispute his character, jurisprudence, temperament or integrity. If I were an American - I'd want my Supreme Court judge to fight lies, bias and injustice - especially in our political system. In doing so, do I care if he did - or did not get a bit crabby when he had too many beer in college - when there has been absolutely no pattern of any of that throughout his judicial career? Absolutely not. And do I care that he was angry in disputing the charges, that he showed some tears - that he got personal in calling out the Democrats. No, I really don't - but on reflection, I'll bet Judge Kavanaugh would have liked to be a little less emotional in his rightful accusations of Democratic chicanery. Anyway - it's done.....and again - I don't really care other than I hope our Canadian processes don't end up stooping to such levels.

Center-right.........

Here's an interview with Harper about his book. Always good to hear his perspective - whether you agree with him or not. He's a thinker.... Link:

The ABA supported him as a professional organization. This petition involves personal choice.......do you think the "Democrats" could motivate law professors from proven left-leaning academia? Sure....and you can bet they did.

Let's see if these whiners actually get out and vote - or whether most is just staged outrage.....we'll know soon enough.

"Just ahead of a new report from the IPCC, dubbed SR#15 about to be released today, we have this bombshell- a detailed audit shows the surface temperature data is unfit for purpose. The first ever audit of the world’s most important temperature data set (HadCRUT4) has found it to be so riddled with errors and “freakishly improbable data” that it is effectively useless." HadCRUT4 is the primary global temperature dataset used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to make its dramatic claims about “man-made global warming”. It’s also the dataset at the center of “ClimateGate” from 2009, managed by the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at East Anglia University. The audit finds more than 70 areas of concern about data quality and accuracy. But according to an analysis by Australian researcher John McLean it’s far too sloppy to be taken seriously even by climate scientists, let alone a body as influential as the IPCC or by the governments of the world. Main points: The Hadley data is one of the most cited, most important databases for climate modeling, and thus for policies involving billions of dollars. McLean found freakishly improbable data, and systematic adjustment errors , large gaps where there is no data, location errors, Fahrenheit temperatures reported as Celsius, and spelling errors. Almost no quality control checks have been done: outliers that are obvious mistakes have not been corrected – one town in Columbia spent three months in 1978 at an average daily temperature of over 80 degrees C. One town in Romania stepped out from summer in 1953 straight into a month of Spring at minus 46°C. These are supposedly “average” temperatures for a full month at a time. St Kitts, a Caribbean island, was recorded at 0°C for a whole month, and twice! Temperatures for the entire Southern Hemisphere in 1850 and for the next three years are calculated from just one site in Indonesia and some random ships. Sea surface temperatures represent 70% of the Earth’s surface, but some measurements come from ships which are logged at locations 100km inland. Others are in harbors which are hardly representative of the open ocean. When a thermometer is relocated to a new site, the adjustment assumes that the old site was always built up and “heated” by concrete and buildings. In reality, the artificial warming probably crept in slowly. By correcting for buildings that likely didn’t exist in 1880, old records are artificially cooled. Adjustments for a few site changes can create a whole century of artificial warming trends. Details of the worst outliers For April, June and July of 1978 Apto Uto (Colombia, ID:800890) had an average monthly temperature of 81.5°C, 83.4°C and 83.4°C respectively. The monthly mean temperature in September 1953 at Paltinis, Romania is reported as -46.4 °C (in other years the September average was about 11.5°C). At Golden Rock Airport, on the island of St Kitts in the Caribbean, mean monthly temperatures for December in 1981 and 1984 are reported as 0.0°C. But from 1971 to 1990 the average in all the other years was 26.0°C. More Here: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/10/07/bombshell-audit-of-global-warming-data-finds-it-riddled-with-errors/ And Here: http://joannenova.com.au/2018/10/first-audit-of-global-temperature-data-finds-freezing-tropical-islands-boiling-towns-boats-on-land/

Oh c'mon argus......I think a bit of senility might be wending it's way toward you........

Hillary and Bill are starting a North American speaking tour that includes Toronto. Do you think the "Me-Too" crowd will be holding frantic demonstrations against Oily Bill - a proven serial sex assaulter who used his position to assault, if not rape vulnerable women? Do you think we'll hear a peep from them? What do you think HIS teenage years would have looked like if he was put under the microscope.

Just take a flight pretty well anywhere in North America and see how clean and beautiful everything is - and it gives perspective to how big the world is - and the folly that humans can actually control the climate by a CO2 control knob. Sure there are a few big cities along the way but man, the rest is gorgeous. It was that way 100 years ago and it will be that way 100 years from now. From Kyoto to Paris - the "schemes" have always centered around redistribution of wealth - from those who have it, to those who don't.....and it was important to do it quickly before the scam unraveled and the Road to Armageddon failed to materialize. In the meantime, the world will warm and cool as it pleases with us mere mortals chipping in a bit of CO2 to help "green" the world.