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Originally Posted by furbe
...Poster "Whatnext" actually mentioned that he expects our Prime Minister and Premier to represent us. That's the funniest joke I've heard all year. At this moment, our federal government is over there fighting tooth and nail against the environmental movement, and would rather protect the status quo than taking initiative and leadership on the subject.
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Perhaps the PM is more realistic than Mayor Moonbeam. And if you're not keen on Harper, our beloved Gordon Campbell ushered in N. America's first carbon tax, surely giving him the best of green credentials. Who exactly is Gregor preaching to at Copenhagen?
And then there's this stat he trotted out:
Robertson's main goal is to attract eco-friendly businesses to Vancouver, but he also says Vancouver has proven a city can 'go green' and cut greenhouse gas emissions while still creating jobs. He says Vancouver has reduced emissions to 1990s levels, while still seeing a 27 per cent increase in population and 18 per cent increase in jobs and employment.
A bit disingenuous, as that could easily be explained by Vancouver turfing out (higher paying) manufacturing and primary industry jobs to the suburbs and replacing them with (lower paying ) service industry jobs. And if we've had a 27% increase in population, but only an 18% increase in jobs, that's 9% who are driving somewhere else to work.
I wonder how many other industries (ie. shipping) are wondering nervously what costs will be added to their business by Mayor Moonbeam.