Stephane Dion Responds to Keen Dismissal
“TORONTO – Fireworks are expected at a Commons committee Wednesday following the government’s firing of the president of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission…”
“TORONTO – Fireworks are expected at a Commons committee Wednesday following the government’s firing of the president of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission…”
Designed by Gabfire slightly modified by stageleft
Whooee! I been postin’ pretty much the selfsame comment at a few Canajun boogs thgis mornin’. I don’t you fellers to feel left out so I hope you don’t mind a little C&P.(I really am a lazyass.)
Harper promised transparency and he’s delivering. This is a transparent move to undermine an arms-length regulator. Lunn’s incompetence is transparent. Cabinet’s bully-boy schoolyard tactics are transparent. Harper’s allegiance to MDS’s bottom line is transparent. Harper’s small-minded vindictiveness is transparent.
Harper has set up the environment-vs-economy framework and now he’s made it even more clear (transparent) which side he’s on. The truth is… without a healthy environment, there can be no economy.
In real life, I’m directing an amateur theatre production of Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People.” The similarities between this issue and Ibsen’s 19th century work are striking. I’m still working on designing the printed program and promotional press release. Harper and Lunn just made that a lot easier and assured me a full house. I suppose I should be thankful.
A big troublem is that the truth is taking a backseat to political expediency and economic considerations. Harper’s minions simply deny facts and put up a smoke screen.
Dr. Stockmann and Linda Keen — fired for telling the truth. An inconvenient truth.
JB
“Harper’s minions simply deny facts and put up a smoke screen.”
Gosh. Now THAT’S a novel approach.
Transparently, embarassingly fake “Muslim” groups supporting Ezra – and the URQs applaud.
Dishonest, manipulative, or purely fictitious stories promulgated by the Anti-choice lobby – and the URQs applaud.
Slow, grinding, agonizing failure to meet objectives in Iraq and Afghanistan – and the URQs applaud.
The promulgation of an absurd, anti-scientific cosmological model sustained without evidence – and the URQs applaud.
I guess the good news is that survival, as a species or as individuals, requires acknowledgment of and response to actual events at some point. We should probably encourage them in this gradual retreat from reality.
Whooee! The gal I adore, Earth Mother Lizzie May, has a good take on this whole tawdry affair. TO Centre GPC candidate Chris Tindal has Lizzie’s email on his blog.
http://www.christindal.ca/2008/01/18/dangerous-governance/
The International Herald Tribune sez:
Remember John Snobelen’s tactic: “We needed to invent a crisis.” The Commonsense Revolutionaries in the Harper cabinet know all too well how to invent a crisis and they know how to pull the wool over the entire HoC as to the reality of the “crisis.” The Con’s are all crowing about how their decisive leadership saved lives. How many lives? Estimates seem top be rising all the time. The latest estimates I’ve heard from ConMen is “hundreds of thousands.”
Or maybe none.
JB
Hmmm. Chernobyl…or potential short term lack of isotopes available from other sources, with alternative procedures available.
Tough choice.
But the alternative isotopes are more expensive and would cut into MDS-Nordion’s profit margin. MDS’s man in Ottawa, Stephen Harper, assured they would retain their supply of cheap, government-subsidized isotopes and they were able to report to shareholders that their profits did not suffer as badly as they’d first expected.
Underneath all this was Canada signing on to the GNEP at the height of the “crisis.” That tidbit was lost in the media blitz on AECL/CNSC and Mulroney-Schreiber. Uranium producing GNEP members are required to repatriate used nuclear fuel. Sort of like food producers being treaty-bound to import all the feces created by the food exports. Except, of course, feces is not as unhealthy or unmanageable as spent nuclear fuel rods.
This manufactured crisis was very good for the Cons overall plans. It got rid of a pesky regulator who could slow down the sale of AECL. It highlighted problems at AECL causing the public to want to rid ourselves of this troublesome crown corporation. It provided a smoke screen while Harper signed Canada to an absurd international agreement without any Parliamentary debate or discussion.
No sitting party has clean hands on this. The ignorance of the 100% MP’s voting to over-ride Keen and CNSC is damning.
JB