The federal government has a new 36-member Liberal cabinet in Ottawa, which means that at any one meeting — of let’s say three hours — each minister would have a max time allotment of five minutes. Masochistic Canadians who took in even a few minutes of the 10-member chorus-line performances during the U.S. Democratic presidential debates Wednesday night will know that canvassing the views of even 10 politicians, let alone 36, in such a time allocation is an impossible task.
Wilkinson’s role within and outside cabinet will be to promote the merits of carbon reduction as a national crusade, even though most of the rest of the world is only going through the motions of changing energy consumption patterns. Also in the cabinet with Wilkinson are new ministers with environmental backgrounds, including Guilbeault, a former Greenpeace activist, and Toronto-area greenbelt advocate Deb Schulte. She has been chair of the Commons committee on the environment and sustainable development, whose last report before the election was “The Last Straw: Turning the Tide on Plastic Pollution in Canada.”
Around the world, green tech is synonymous with government subsides and grants. In 2003, when Wilkinson was CEO of QuestAir, the company received a $9.6-million “strategic investment” from Ottawa thanks to the good graces of then Liberal industry minister Allan Rock and Herb Dhaliwal, minister of natural resources. They said the grant would help Canada meet its climate change plan under the international Kyoto agreement, which later crashed and burned.
Is there a reason that you felt mocking people was an appropriate way for an ostensible newspaper to act?
cdnpoli canpoli Is the American-owned National Pest making fun of people's names again?
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Doe's Climate Ken know where is Hamilton Ont ? Or BC where all is not exactly right? Millions tones of 'coal'on export is transported across 1000 km BC via rail that is not pollutant ? Hamilton dumps millions of litres of shite ? BC is next to Alberta He knows where It is ?
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It's going to be a long 2- 4 years. Obscene amounts of $$ are going to be lost to more of this tax scam environmental b.s
Does Terence Corcoran have anything good to say about a minister taking on an extremely controversial and necessary portfolio? Or maybe we should all just bury our heads in the sand and pretend everything is normal. Cheap shot.
With any luck the Clown Show will get the boot within 18 mths
How dare you go there!!!!!!!! Just because Climate Barbie is gone doesn’t mean you get to call her replacement Ken. At least wait and see if he is also vacuous.
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