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Brian White
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posted 19 September 2008 04:33 PM      Profile for Brian White   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
I got This in email today.
Dear Friend of Sierra Club BC,

"This month, the federal government reneged on a signed contract with Sierra Club BC. Without warning or cause, Federal Environment Minister John Baird revoked a $100,000 grant for our popular CERCles program that helps British Columbians reduce their carbon footprints. Two stories in the Globe and Mail pointed to the political nature of the unfair decision to terminate the funding contract for Sierra Carbon Emission Reduction Clubs (CERCles), signed by the federal government on May 16".
and this link
http://www.sierraclub.bc.ca/quick-links/media-centre/media-clips/grant-cut-called-vengeful-act-by-baird
You might have to put the link together again.
I Hope canadians do the right thing and get rid of these conservative crooks.
Brian

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M. Spector
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posted 19 September 2008 04:38 PM      Profile for M. Spector   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
What will they be like with a majority? They've had a virtual majority for the past two years, with the support of the Liberals.

Think more of the same.


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It's Me D
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posted 19 September 2008 05:26 PM      Profile for It's Me D     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
Perhaps the Sierra club shouldn't have played politics if it didn't want to be hit back in return... Just saying it is hardly a politically neutral organization.
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Frustrated Mess
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posted 19 September 2008 05:35 PM      Profile for Frustrated Mess   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
And nor should it be. Advocacy organizations unable to confront governments are not advocacy organizations. The whole purpose of funding advocacy, rather environmental, women, or others, is precisely to ensure those voices contribute to the public debate.

The Conservative government has displayed, and continues to display, a petty vindictiveness that undermines Canadian democracy.

Understand this: Harper will take Canada down a road most Canadians will not want to travel and at the end of it will be a nation far different than the one we have now.


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It's Me D
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posted 19 September 2008 05:38 PM      Profile for It's Me D     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
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Understand this: Harper will take Canada down a road most Canadians will not want to travel and at the end of it will be a nation far different than the one we have now.

Sure, that is a given for the Cons, and the Libs, and the Greens for that matter.

I think advocacy groups should advocate for their cause, as opposed to advocating directly for the political party they feel (mistakenly in this case) will best serve their cause.


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Lord Palmerston
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posted 19 September 2008 06:37 PM      Profile for Lord Palmerston     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
quote:
Originally posted by Frustrated Mess:
Understand this: Harper will take Canada down a road most Canadians will not want to travel and at the end of it will be a nation far different than the one we have now.

As M. Spector correctly points out, we're on that road now.


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Frustrated Mess
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posted 19 September 2008 07:16 PM      Profile for Frustrated Mess   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
quote:
Sure, that is a given for the Cons, and the Libs, and the Greens for that matter.

Oh, really? Why do you say that?

quote:

I think advocacy groups should advocate for their cause, as opposed to advocating directly for the political party they feel (mistakenly in this case) will best serve their cause.

Ah, so you would agree it was right to pull funding from women's groups that often were staffed and/or represented by NDP supporters?

You would agree with Harper's government style that dollars should be doled out only to groups and organizations that are ideologically compatible with themselves? Is that right? Because if the NDP was elected you would support pulling funding, from, say, the court challenges program as possibly those funds could be used to challenge the right to private health care and the right to own guns, right?


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