Baird Saving Lake Simcoe

This story is a couple of days old, but I've gotta talk about it because John Baird (the Canadian Environment Minister) just cracks me up.

Canada's New Government taking action to clean up Lake Simcoe

Baird is in Lake Simcoe for the photo op to try and convince us all that the Tory's are all green.

Here's a quote.

"Our Government believes that clean, safe and secure water is something all Canadians should have the right to enjoy," said Minister Baird. "Today's announcement will clean up Lake Simcoe, improve water quality, and ultimately protect our precious ecosystems."

... Right!

This one is just a few weeks ago.

Environment Canada budget cuts threaten wildlife programs

Sources say the budget cuts are as follows:

The Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Network, which observes changes in ecosystems, has lost 80 per cent of its budget.

The Migratory Bird Program, which monitors the health of bird populations, has seen its budget cut by 50 per cent.

The budget for the National Wildlife Areas, a program that protects nationally significant habitats for wildlife and birds, has been slashed from $1.9 million to zero.

Did you get that? the National Wildlife Areas budget has gone from $1.9 million to zero! Holy crap!!! You see, actually monitoring what's happening out there isn't necessary. We already have all the answers, don't we? All I gotta do is look out the window.

Of course, this says nothing about our joke of a policy on Climate Change.

Canadian government's evolving climate change policy all hot air

Hey man, this is no biggie. No need for any heavy legislation or anything. Everyone will just reduce emissions voluntarily. A compact florescent here, a little bit more ethanol there and everything will be cool.

If you believe that, you are in for a rude awakening my friend. We have got to cut (not curb) our carbon emissions, period. And we have to do it soon. This is going to happen, whether we like it or not, and we can save ourselves a lot of pain (even economic pain) if we get ourselves on the boat now. The only way to do this is to make spewing carbon into the air more expensive. Carbon tax? You bet! Sorry, Alberta.

Let's face it, Baird got this job because the former environment minister, Rona Ambrose, couldn't sell this nonsense. When she said the kinda of crap that comes out of Baird's mouth, you could tell she didn't believe a word of it. Baird on the other hand could sell a drowning man a glass of water.

Hey, we all havta do what we can with the skills we gots.