My blogroll complies with Canadian Content laws, and one of my Canuckistani compatriots is the Real Interrobang, who alternates between posting dispatches from Whitebreadville and aggregating quotes from the blogs and websites she frequents. If you're not checking out her "Live Journal", you're missing out on some great material.
Her most recent post involves a disturbing trend in the Harper Administration- a full-on War on Science, likened to a book burning, on behalf of the fossil fuel industry.
Book burnings have taken place throughout history, motivated by religious fanaticism, overly aggressive pastoralists, and the like. To think that modern multinational corporations, in cahoots with the democratically elected government of a civilized country, are engaged in the wholesale destruction of scientific research in order to obfuscate the environmental damage wreaked by their industry in the interest of short-term profits is monstrous.
Get the word out, this attack on science needs to be brought to the world's attention.
Yes, as a Canuckistani, it's really terrible and embarrassing, but this has been brewing a long time. What happens in the USA is echoed 5-10 years later in Canada, and Canada is in the "late Dubya" period currently.
ReplyDeleteThe people now running the Canadian government have been more or less open for *decades*, actually, that their major bugaboo is interference in the development of Alberta's oil resources. It's a huge source of resentment: Eastern and BC hippies blocking jawb creation on the Praries.
The goal of the TPP is to make things like this happen worldwide.
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The people now running the Canadian government have been more or less open for *decades*, actually, that their major bugaboo is interference in the development of Alberta's oil resources. It's a huge source of resentment: Eastern and BC hippies blocking jawb creation on the Praries.
ReplyDeleteAh, the old "Heartland" problem...
The goal of the TPP is to make things like this happen worldwide.
Depressing, any attempts to forestall the impending environmental collapse are shot down so next quarters' profits aren't impacted.
What you're calling the "heartland" problem in Canada has a different history (naturally) than it does in the USA, where the whole Civil War issue has a lot to do with it. In this case, the Prairie parts of Canada were treated for a long time as a colony of the Toronto-Montreal axis, the profits from whose resources were appropriated Panem-style by the Capital, to stretch the Hunger Games to fit 19th-century Canada.
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