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Under an agreement with Ottawa, the provincial government will pay back the $1.6 billion over the next five years with no interest Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/business/b-c-to-re-adopt-pst-after-hst-fails-to-launch-1.1218072#ixzz2PBV6EYx4 So IOW as the liberals leave they leave the NDP with a crippling 1.6 billion dollar bill to pay off over 5 years which just happens to be about the term length. So they can blame the NDP for running a big deficit over the next 4 years, then claim that they've greatly lowered the deficit when they (so they hope) get back into power 4 years later.

An international conference to address famine and drought is of far more value than the right wing throwing a tantrum like spoiled little children and doing nothing to address the problem.

And under the Cons it will never happen until ice freezes over.

We already have electric vehicles. Electric trains are an excellent form of transporting heavy goods. The energy can be generated from renewable resources.

Your laws of physics at work.

Well put. Conservatives want us stuck in the 19th century in terms of transportation technology, because they can control it and use it to keep society stunted and as close to their dream of the Victorian Age as possible.

Unless you're paranoid. African leaders have more of a justification to collect some cheap ak47s at 5$ a pop for defense than Canada has to buy fighter jets at 135 million a pop which will never be used to actually defend Canadian soil and then have the gall to say that African leaders are spending too much on weapons.

Especially when the threat is non-existant. Its a good way to funnel resources down a hole just like the African dictators do that the Harper govt is hypocritically complaining about.

If there are companies who have been caught using poor practices and having massive spills such as Enbridge then they simply should not be given the contracts. In terms of the tar sands its one of the most environmentally destructive activities in the world at the moment and of course they should not be given a pipeline.

One fifth of 350,000 is much better than millions upon millions going to total waste on F35s. Even if the govt chose not to fund the UN program, that would be OK if it actually spent the money on reducing drought and famine more efficiently. Instead none of it is now going to drought and famine. That's not taking the high road, that's taking the evil road. Spending multimillions on F35s instead of this is just the same as what the Harper government is accusing African dictators of doing spending and diverting masses of public money on the military instead of aid to those who need it.

These massive destructive spills happen, because of cost-cutting practices and lack of regulation.

Millions of infections caused by 'Abstenence Education for Africans,' too.

That's true. Right Wing Conservatives do hate the UN like Hitler hated the League of Nations the UN's predecessor.

Telling people not to have sex is not education. http://prospect.org/article/how-bushs-aids-program-failing-africans

You're hallucinating I never made any comparison to the libertarian right. You're the delusional fruitcake comparing Occupy Wallstreet to Adolph Hitler.

You're a total ideologue who doesn't even understand the difference between Totalitarian Fascism and Social Democracy. Among the first to go to the camps were the Social Democrats.

Again ultimate cop-out. How dare Canada accuse the UN of wasting 350,000$ on helping drought and famine, when the Canadian Cons were going to spend millions upon millions of jets we don't need. To try to compensate themselves before the world? https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTNVYJ_L8VYl0MFFVrxpe_LFFLnUDM7hAhM_UaIEoWbM3gsdhFw https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTbsdJO4Lm4JSoI__rRhzJCgPLvx1CcaJO9OgLU9pTWgHPSRVFEww

Proud to see we're making the world a better place. (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil was working to clean up thousands of barrels of oil in Mayflower, Arkansas, after a pipeline carrying heavy Canadian crude ruptured, a major spill likely to stoke debate over transporting Canada's oil to the United States. Exxon shut the Pegasus pipeline, which can carry more than 90,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil from Pakota, Illinois, to Nederland, Texas, after the leak was discovered on Friday afternoon, the company said in a statement. Exxon, hit with a $1.7 million fine by regulators this week over a 2011 spill in the Yellowstone River, said a few thousand barrels of oil had been observed. A company spokesman confirmed the line was carrying Canadian Wabasca Heavy crude. That grade is a heavy bitumen crude diluted with lighter liquids to allow it to flow through pipelines, according to the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association (CEPA), which referred to Wabasca as "oil sands" in a report. The spill occurred as the U.S. State Department is considering the fate of the 800,000 bpd Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry crude from Canada's oil sands to the Gulf Coast. Environmentalists, concerned about the impact of developing the oil sands, have sought to block its approval. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/31/us-exxon-pipeline-spill-idUSBRE92U00220130331

Shady: George Bush's multimillion dollar abstinence programs for Africans only made AIDs worse.

TIMG: Once again bullshit: You completely ignored the points I made. Whether he was opposed to laissez faire capitalism at the beginning or not, that doesn't make him left wing, in fact it just makes him further right, that he was for a totalitarian capitalism, as opposed to laissez faire (one again initially, later on he changed his stance on that to a policy of adopting laissez faire capitalism). Now you've made me actually find Speer's book and dig up quote: “The creative force not only shapes but also takes what it has shaped under its wing and directs it. This is what we generally mean by such phrases as private capital or private property or private possessions. Therefore the future will not belong, as the Communist holds, to the communist ideals of equality, but on the contrary, the farther humanity moves along the road of evolution the more individualized achievements will be, from which it follows that the direction of what has been achieved will best be carried out by those who are themselves responsible for the achievements… The basis for all real higher development, indeed for the further development of all mankind[will therefore be found], in the encouragement of private initiative. When this war has been decided by our victory, the private initiative of the German economy will enjoy the greatest era in its history. Think of all the creative work that will have to be done then! Don’t imagine that all I shall do is set up a few state construction departments or a few state economic departments…. And when the great era of German peacetime business has dawned again, then I shall have only one interest, to put the greatest geniuses in German business to work…. I am grateful to you that you have helped me to meet our [wartime] tasks. But as the expression of my highest gratitutde I want you to leave here with the assurance that I shall show my gratitude again and again and that no German will say that I harmed my own program. That is when I tell you that after this war German business will experience its greatest boom, perhaps of all times, then you must take these words as a promise that will one day be redeemed. There is no doubt that if we were to lose this war, German private business would not survive. Rather, with the destruction of the entire German people, business would naturally be wiped out also. Not only because our enemies do not want German competition – this is a superficial view- but because fundamental matters are involved. We are involved in a struggle which will decide between two points of view: Either humanity will be thrown back several thousand years to a primitive condition, with mass production directed exclusively by the state, or humanity will continue to develop through the furthering of private initiative.” - Adolph Hitler’s address to the industrialists 1944 quoted from Albert Speer’s: “Inside the Third Reich.” The Nazi party came into power on anti-left sentiment, frustration at the Socialist Weimar Republic. The far right wing organizations which sought to violently eliminate the left wing socialists of the Weimar Republic were the Sturbateilung (SA) and the Freikorps both of which Hitler was involved with. The Nazi Party under Hitler were never anything resembling socialism, that was merely rhetoric. In fact they were staunch opponents of Socialism and Socialists were the first to end up in the camps. Now learn some history before you make a bigger fool of yourself on this one. What you hear on FOXNEWs is not history. Depending on wikipedia isn't helping your argument either. When Hitler came into power in 1933 he had a minority of votes (which of course he called a mandate like some other people no names). In order to gain power Hitler formed a coalition with the the Conservative Party headed by Von Papen who was Hitler's Vice. His Coalition was a right wing coalition, the original "Unite the Right!" He received power through the far right Hindenburg which the far right revanchists idolized for his role on the eastern front during the 1st world war.

Right Wing Conservatives hate the UN like Hitler hated the League of Nations. International Progress gets in the way of their petty self-centered myopic and solipsistic greed and avarice.

The conservatives aren't spending it on either. They are simply doing nothing about the famine and drought which they play a major role in increasing through their mad environmental policies.

I pay taxes and am perfectly willing to have my tax dollars go towards helping against famine. It would be a far better spending of tax payer's money than for new F35 fighters costing hundreds of millions!!!!! "A recent study commissioned by twenty governments concluded that almost 400,000 are dying each year now from the effects of Climate Change. A disproportionate number of those are in the regions that are suffering most from drought and desertification. Canada has just become the only country to withdraw from UN efforts to relieve this problem. Effectively, the present government is saying let them die: we have a deficit that is more important than human life. To save $350,000 dollars! Not that much more than Harper's salary! This is one more helping of the fodder to the contempt that Canada is earning in the world after its repeated sabotaging of International conferences to address the issue of Climate: and to being the only country in the world to withdraw from Kyoto. Action on Climate within Canada is a farce, federally, and a pretext. If it were not for the concern of a few provinces Canada would, by actual measurement, be the worst performing country in the world in mitigation efforts. Is there no end to the cynical callousness of the "Harper (sic) government? Apart from the domestic malaise that is being inflicted by the CPC, can Canada afford the continuation of the International embarrassment?"