NDP Environment Minister, Shannon Phillips says that she’s not an anti-oilsands activist, but she wrote a book about activism with mega-climate activist Mike Hudema.
For those of you that don’t know who Mike Hudema is, he currently works for Greenpeace and his main focus is opposing the development of the oilsands and reliance on fossil fuels. So in other words, he’s an activist.
The book in question – “An Action a Day Keeps Global Capitalism Away” outlines 52 tried and tested actions – one for every week of the year, including actions against the oilsands and how to set up a blockade.
But that’s not all. Phillips also went to British Columbia to campaign for the NDP in 2013 where the campaign message was to oppose Northern Gateway and Transmountain pipelines.
Plus, fellow NDP members and MLA’s Rachel Notley and David Eggen are known activists that defended her in the legislature when asked about Phillips involvement in the writing of the book.
Do you believe Shannon Phillips when she says that she’s not an activist?
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According to Stats-Can, from the 2011 Census, 81% of Canadians lived in cities (“population centers”), and 19% lived in rural areas ( “The rural population for 1981 to 2011 refers to persons living outside centres with a population of 1,000 AND outside areas with 400 persons per square kilometre”) out of 33,476,688T Canadians. I’m certain this gap has widened in the interim.
This is why I refer to myself as one if the ‘disenfranchised rural minority’. City people making laws for city people – who are the vast majority – I cite the long gun registry as one example.
BC – 4,400,057 T – 86% urban – 14% rural
Alta – 3,645,257T – 83% urban – 17% rural
Ont – 12,851821T – 86% urban – 14% rural
There most definitely is a dichotomy between rural and urban people. Not just the numbers either. I mean – to generalize – that there are two ‘types’ of people – country folk and city folk, different realities, almost different planets…It is politically incorrect to suggest this difference though, let alone say it or write it.
And then you bring up that point about country folk and all their sensibilities living in urban centers – which inversely means urban liberals and their liberalism living in rural areas, and how that almost throws a wrench into the works…Those electoral maps show the truth…urban conservatives and Christians notwithstanding.
So when I hear talk of secession as a solution to the criminality of Marxist politicians and bureaucrats destroying our country, I think, yeah, if you can work it out between urban and rural areas…which would be less problematic logistically than a East-West divide.
Well, I guess they did vote for change. I wonder if that is the change they were thinking of.
3 years, 5 months, 7 days (give or take a few days)
That reminds me of something from an old TV show, Gilligan’s Island, when Mrs. Thurston Howl the Third “Lovie” said, “Oh, I have seen vegetables in their native habitat, the super market!”
The strange things that pop into my head sometimes. :)
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/11/12/rachel-notley-canadians-are-paying-for-conservatives-climate-change-failure.html
Which reports that Notley claims that Canadians are paying for the failure of former Conservative governments in Ottawa and Alberta to deal with climate change! The Alberta Environment Minister has a good mentor in her boss on how to spread the B.S. spin. No Notley, the truth is that Albertans will pay dearly for those Albertans who were dumb enough to elect you and your band of leftist ideologues!
I am soooo pissed at this government, but I am even more pissed at the people who voted for them because at least the NDP can say they are following their beliefs … misguided as they are, but the people who voted for them did so without looking at the evidence.
The evidence is right there for all to see that the NDP destroyed the BC economy when they were in office, Saskatchewan too, Manitoba as well, and Ontario, and even Nova Scotia … or was the New Brunswick. Every province the NDP governed in Canada they destroyed the economy of that province. If that wasn’t evidence enough to tell Albertans to avoid voting NDP then I don’t know what is.
Now about 80,000 direct jobs and many more spin off jobs are lost and, yes, some of that can be attributed to the low oil prices, much of it is because of the NDP policies.
Yea, yea, we are all getting what we deserve. Hear that several hundred times so far. All 1,378,633 who voted all voted for the NDP. Yup! All we Albertans deserve!
Okay. I am a little sensitive to the generalization because damn it, I did NOT vote for these NDP bastards and I do NOT deserve to have lost my job because of these bastards!
okay. I feel much better now. carry on.
Drew said, “Bravo sadly you are right, i do not know what happened to this province?”
All of my friends and their friends are Conservatives, yet I can really only talk politics with one of them and only for a short time before I see his eyes glaze over. And if I ever get to the point of explaining the situation with the Notley government, talking about doing any sort of action falls flat like a lead balloon.
I know what you mean by not being able to motivate people to do something when it seems impossible to get them to even talk about it.
Sorry Eggen, you guys were elected so that donations were not required, remember? Get to work on that, and if you are short, pull it out of your enhanced salary for achieving your Peter Principle level!
Personally, I am pulling all my standard donations to Alberta charities and am looking at other non-Alberta charities, because we have a government in touch with pixie dust, and I am not going to help bail them out. I recommend other Albertans do the same since the NDP promised sunny days even in the heart of winter. They will make it all good, after their primary charity of AUPE. No worries at all.
Even the Alberta media has turned cowardly.
I hate to say this as a displaced Albertan – but Alberta is simply getting what it asked for.
And no one is really doing much “fighting back”.