• grteOPM
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    3 months ago

    Fire season is on the cusp of getting going again this year. I wonder if the tenor of the conversation will look different after summer?

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      Man, I hope fire season is mild this year. But I hope someone takes notice and does the math if it’s significant. And I suspect no one will, as these aren’t the “thinking” type as much as they are the impressionable type. I mean, there’s fingerprints all over this.

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        3 months ago

        Some of last years fires are still smouldering, and we are getting an early start this year due to the warm dry winter

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    3 months ago

    I’ll say it again: the carve-out for heating oil in Atlantic Canada was either a) deeply stupid and shortsighted because it focused everyone’s attention on the tax at the exact moment Poillevre was looking for a wedge issue that wasn’t pandering to Nazis, or b) the Liberals want to kill it anyways and sabotaging because of a a) is the most passive-aggressive, milquetoast way to do it that still gives them plausible deniabilty.

    I lean towards b) because assuming the Liberals are milquetoast, billionaire-boot-polishing cowards who sit so hard on the fence that they wear out pants is probably a safe assumption.

    Never forget, this is the LPC that, very early in their mandate, bought the Trans-Mountain Pipeline with plans to gift it back to private industry for pennies on the dollar. We can’t do electoral reform without years of committees, but we can buy a pipeline for thirty billion dollars without consulting anyone. To think they care about decarbonizing the economy is laughable, they’re just not as moustache-twirlingly evil about it as the Conservatives are.

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      3 months ago

      “The people implemented this policy say it will work” is not the compelling argument you think.