Baird Says Canada Heating Up

[jdobbin]

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/01/05/...-interview.html

He will be judged on what he brings to the table soon.

[Catchme]

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/01/05/...-interview.html

He will be judged on what he brings to the table soon.

Oh, he will be judged long before that happens, this snips from the article says it all:

In his remarks on global warming, he was following the lead of Prime Minister Harper, who at times had seemed unconvinced it is a problem, but declared this week that Canadians deserve more action on both air pollution and climate change. ..

..."It will not be difficult to do more than he did last year. Last year, he cut 90 per cent of the programs for environment and climate change. Last year, he embarrassed the country with his approach regarding Kyoto on the international stage.

And of course the NDP has already written up what he already needs to know and do, so..... viola!

[Ricki Bobbi]

Oh, he will be judged long before that happens, this snips from the article says it all:

And of course the NDP has already written up what he already needs to know and do, so..... viola!

Of course you will pre-judge him in his role. Long before he brings a plan to the table? Wtf

He's going to play a musical instrument?

[sharkman]

As soon as Baird was appointed, Dion foot soldiers began digging through his past, looking for enviro dirt on the guy. What does he drive? Has he ever voted on anything with an environment angle on it? Has he ever said anything that could be misconstrued into hate for the environment? Does he eat babies?...

The Liberals need to win on this issue because it's one of the few issues that Dion can get traction with right off the bat. Although naming your dog Kyoto seems a little unbalanced to me. The Tories are doing the right thing by making it a priority. Now they need to deliver.

[Catchme]

Oh, he will be judged long before that happens, this snips from the article says it all:

And of course the NDP has already written up what he already needs to know and do, so..... viola!

Of course you will pre-judge him in his role. Long before he brings a plan to the table? Wtf

He's going to play a musical instrument?

What he will bring to the table has already been written by the NDP, or have you forgotten that Stephen asked the NDP to assist him with bringing the Clean Air Act to something that worked? I am sure you haven't as the NDP had threatened a non-confidence motion over the nonsensical Clean Air Act.

But I am sure the CPC would like Canadians to forget just who wrote the new Clean Air Act.

The history of Baird's actions in ON with Harris preceed him and in IMO this means that Baird is not going to play well with ON environmentalists. They are going to remmber well who wrote the NEW Clean Air Act.

[Saturn]

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/01/05/...-interview.html

He will be judged on what he brings to the table soon.

Well, he didn't talk about what he will do but he apparently had a lot of time and interest in discussing what the Liberals didn't do. That's always a good sign

[Ricki Bobbi]

What he will bring to the table has already been written by the NDP, or have you forgotten that Stephen asked the NDP to assist him with bringing the Clean Air Act to something that worked?

You haven't seen what he has written. THere are new previews or ads about it anywhere.

How do you know what he will bring to the table?

You can guess, based on your own pre-conceptions and nothing else.

[Topaz]

It's not hard to tell why Baird will do as this minister. First this "court jester" will surely make fun of the libs, and if the PM says be nice to the NDP, he will only thank them for their input. He'll probably bring in many newspapers or quotes against the Libs past on the environment and say how Canada is the worse of the polluters. This fact may be true now since Alberta has been named the "worse polluter" in Canada. The US is just as bad only they bought credits overseas, something that the former minister blamed the Libs of doing. I have two questions for the new minister, since you are from Ontario, will you give Ontario the money so they can stop using the coal-burning reactors and what will you do with Alberta???

[mikedavid00]

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/01/05/...-interview.html

He will be judged on what he brings to the table soon.

I just LOVE the way how this CBC article ends. It, or course.. suprise suprise... BURY'S THE CPC! LOL!!

""I think [Liberal Leader] Stéphane Dion has clearly said he's very concerned about the issue, but people aren't going to look at what you say. They're going to look at what you do, and the Liberals' record on this is pretty bad."

(NOW HERE WE GO WITH THE CAMPAIGN AD)

Dion, in a separate Newsworld interview, (WHAT THE *^&$*&) said his own emphasis on environmental policy may have helped to push Harper to change his tone on global warming.

The prime minister "received a wakeup call, maybe from me, but from all Canadians," but it remains to be seen how serious he is about it, the Liberal leader said.

"It will not be difficult to do more than he did last year. Last year, he cut 90 per cent of the programs for environment and climate change. Last year, he embarrassed the country with his approach regarding Kyoto on the international stage.

"So I hope we will see some improvement, even though it will stay far from what we really need to do … and if he is willing to improve even a bit what he did last year, this will be very positive."

[Big Blue Machine]

John Baird has the motive/drive as an experienced politican to get the job done.

[White Doors]

I just hope they continue to focus on real pollution instead of the golabl warming hysteria.

[geoffrey]

The Liberals need to win on this issue because it's one of the few issues that Dion can get traction with right off the bat. Although naming your dog Kyoto seems a little unbalanced to me. The Tories are doing the right thing by making it a priority. Now they need to deliver.

Besides Dion being the biggest environmental failure in the history of Canada?

Tough to decide. He signed an agreement with no plan, let emissions skyrocket and embarrased us all.

If Canadians vote for Dion on the environment, then really I have little faith in the system anymore. The Liberals are clearly by and far the party of environmental destruction in this country.

Vote NDP or Green if you want to. But any vote Dion gets on the environment is just grounds for a statistical represention of idiot media lapdogs in our country.

[Argus]

As soon as Baird was appointed, Dion foot soldiers began digging through his past, looking for enviro dirt on the guy. What does he drive? Has he ever voted on anything with an environment angle on it? Has he ever said anything that could be misconstrued into hate for the environment? Does he eat babies?...

The Liberals need to win on this issue because it's one of the few issues that Dion can get traction with right off the bat. Although naming your dog Kyoto seems a little unbalanced to me. The Tories are doing the right thing by making it a priority. Now they need to deliver.

Maybe they can just pretend, and then do nothing - like Dion and the Liberals did for so many years. Many of you seemed to appreciate it at the time, and hold no hard feelings for them even now.

[geoffrey]

This fact may be true now since Alberta has been named the "worse polluter" in Canada.

So the fact is only true when you can place the blame elsewhere. Please. If the rest of Canada didn't use our oil, we'd not be producing it. Alberta is just a means to everyone else's ends. Consumption is a world problem and the emissions caused by it can't be blamed soley on the producers. You'd be living in a cave without heat and without most products you use today if it weren't for oil.

The US is just as bad only they bought credits overseas, something that the former minister blamed the Libs of doing. I have two questions for the new minister, since you are from Ontario, will you give Ontario the money so they can stop using the coal-burning reactors and what will you do with Alberta???

Why give Ontario the money? What are they going to build instead? Alberta has coal plants too. Are you going to build us all brand new power! Yippiee! One day you'll realise that nuclear is passing the buck to future generations... there has never been a reasonable solution to deal with nuclear waste. Making more of it makes no sense.

What will you do with Alberta? Who knows? How much do you want to pay for gas? For plastics? To heat your house? Are you ready for a 10-15% increase in your cost of living? How's that going to affect the working poor? How is that going to affect you?

The issues are far more complex then "oh big bad Alberta makes pollution and Ontario is the innocent victim of being convinced to burn coal! Switch everything to nuclear and we'll all hold hands and dance around the glowing waste!"

[B. Max]

Canada's new environment minister, John Baird, isn't saying what he'll try to do about global warming, but he suggested in a CBC interview on Friday that weird weather has eliminated any doubts that temperatures are rising.

"I mean, I grew up here in Ottawa, lived here my entire life, and I can't remember a winter where I didn't have to use my boots," he told Heather Hiscox of CBC Newsworld. "I left the house without even a winter coat this morning. So that's obviously a huge concern."

This guy isn't smart enough to be let out of the house on his own. He sounds like one of these tree hugger crack pots who want to use everything but a thermometer to measure the temperature.

[geoffrey]

He thinks that one season of warmth represents global warming?

Does he not realise that we're talking an average increase of MAYBE a degree over a decade?

Baird really isn't the man for the job... I'll tell you that much. But sounds at least half intelligent when you compare him to the revisionists in the LPC that believe they are the environmental saviors of Canada.