Vancouver Secrets

Vancouver Liberal Convention – Green Shift Green Lighted

The Liberals don’t really want to get elected:

1) Continuing on with the legacy of Stephan “head shot” Dion, the Liberals at the Vancouver convention decided they too will tax the hell out of Canadians that drive, heat their homes, have lights and buy food:

Stephane Dion’s “green shift” legacy lived on today, as Liberals voted in favour of an environmental policy that could in future include a carbon tax.

The climate change resolution adapted by the party at its biennial convention includes “establishing a carbon tax, a cap and trade system, or a combination of both.” The resolution also includes “hard limits” on green house gas emissions.

The resolution also commits Canada to a 25% to 40% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, and an 80% reduction by 2050.

During the Fall, 2008 federal election, then-Liberal leader Dion proposed as his key platform plank a policy that would “shift” taxes to carbon emissions while reducing them elsewhere. The Liberals’ “green shift” was rejected by voters, however, as the party slid from 103 to 77 seats in the House of Commons.

Speakers at the convention did not seem concerned about reintroducing carbon pricing. Dion himself repeated his view in a speech Friday night that a Liberal government must put a price on carbon.

A second resolution also suggested taxation could be used as an incentive to persuade people to pollute less.

2) Expand the reach of the “Human Rights Commission” – the most embarrassing thing Canada has ever created:

Convention delegates also approved a resolution to make the Canadian Human Rights Commission accountable to the House of Commons and expand its reach to include discrimination based on citizenship status and socio-economic class.

“We strongly encourage the Liberals to vote in favour of this resolution, which will give legislative strength to the Canadian Human Rights Commission, which is in the great Liberal tradition,” said the delegate introducing the motion.

But there was considerable debate over the implications the resolution might have.

“There is an aspect of this resolution that absolutely terrifies me,” said an Ontario delegate.

“We have had over the last few months a demonstration of an abuse of power by the human rights commission. This resolution would actually add to the probability that the human rights commission would continue to abuse its power,” he said.

The vote for the resolution passed 223 in favour to 185 against.

The Human Rights Commission actually takes away human rights, and should be abolished. Let’s hope Canadians learn more about the abuses this group of fascists has foisted on Canadians, and recognize it as “the great Liberal tradition”.

The also passed the same feel good resolutions that they, and the NDP, pass every time:

Support for reducing child poverty, implementing a national child care plan and declaring water a human right.

Great stuff from a party that hopes to lead Canada one day.