Standing by the docks in downtown Nanaimo, B.C., on Monday morning, Liberal MP Alexandre Mendes told Radio-Canada she came to this week's Liberal caucus retreat with a message from her constituents: "dozens and dozens" of them were "adamant" the Liberal Party needed a new leader.
Speaking later to CBC's Power & Politics, Mendes said it was hard to pinpoint a specific reason or issue to explain her constituents' feelings for the prime minister.
"It's a very generalized ... 'we're tired of his face' kind of thing," she explained.
I grew up in Saskatchewan where back in the day (60s and 70s) voting NDP was automatic.
Alan Blakeney (NDP), premier from 1971-82, brought in a resolution to add a $0.10 per litre gas tax that would go into a Heritage account (so that Sask would have some savings for the next recession/drought).
The population was pissed, so the next election they voted in Grant Devine (PC), who immediately spent every cent in the fund to fulfill his campaign promises and, by 1991, had Saskatchewan on the brink of bankruptcy.
As of 2007 Sask has had far right wing leadership in the form of the Saskatchewan Party ... a far cry from who they supported and believed in when Tommy Douglas was premier.
The NDP recently won in Manitoba, but we have a huge mess left over from the Pallister/Goerzen/Stefanson fiascos.
Look, the US is our BIG next door neighbour and if they quietly request that we continue to work the oil sands (as I suspect they have), then we will ... no matter who is PM.
Yelling about that isn't gonna change it. The only way we might see incremental change is if we vote in an NDP gov't (but I wouldn't bet on it).
I'd also like you to tell us who you will vote for instead of the Liberals.
In response to a lawsuit from environmentalists, the Biden administration is ending new leases for coal mining on federal lands in the most productive part of America's top coal producing state. Source
Canada burned 3 centuries of logging's trees in one summer.
30 Billion Trees.
Can you please provide the link for this data?
And you never answered this question ...
I'd also like you to tell us who you will vote for instead of the Liberals.
I have pinned some posts on the fires, though I cant imagine how you know anything about Canada and not know Canada burned 18 million hectares of forest last year, more than Five Million this year.
Trudeau resigning allows the Liberal Party to end oil expansion begin building new energy to replace oil and failing hydro.
The leadership contest will be good for the LPC and Canada.
Maybe even stop PP
Biden closed coal burning electrical generation during COP, 20% of US electrivity
I don't see any of the pinned posts in your post or comment history. While I agree on the urgency of addressing climate change and agree that we need to substantially increase the speed of our deployment of renewables, it's completely reasonable for someone to ask for sources.
We need MORE fact checking, not less. When someone asks me for sources, I'm THRILLED to share with them, because that is someone who is interested and thinking critically. It's someone I can have a dialogue with.
I live through the smoke every year, and have had to retrofit a ton of of air filters into my home. Believe me, I know - I live and play in the areas that are burning. But someone asking for a reference is a GOOD thing and responding dismissively doesn't sway people to better understand, it turns them off of your message.
Global warming which is turning Canada's forests into kindling, ready to burn into the roots, ready to die standing, is from heat evaporating soil and reduced rainfall.
That's the sine qua non of #climate warming. Also means that Canada is no longer Exporting Hydro Electricity to the US but is IMPORTING energy as oil fed climate warming empties dams, reduces power.
We MUST build solar wind and batteries, end subsidising oil, or we don't make it.