Apparently when selecting the new Liberal green that been splashed all over the party’s communications lately, they looked to their past to choose. The preferred shade of green is still the $20 bill green even in the new Liberal party.
In a recent communication sent out by the the party they firmly place the guilt card on the table in front of party members regarding today’s Kyoto-Voto. This is taken from the email sent yesterday:
“In less than 24 hours, the House of Commons will be voting on a bill that could force Stephen Harper’s minority Conservative government to follow the longstanding rules of Kyoto.
Our goal with this vote is to force the Conservative party − a group of long-standing global warming deniers in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence − to recognize that this is a global crisis that requires a global response – with Canada taking the lead. This is the vision Stéphane Dion has worked hard to promote.
But we need your help.
The Conservatives have amassed a multi-million dollar war chest which they intend to use to twist and distort the truth. Please consider a donation of $100 today and help our Liberal Team speak up for all Canadians on issues like the environment, and also ensure we are able to take our positive message door-to-door in the next election campaign.”
Kyoto offers more than just the opportunity to save the environment, in the world of the Liberals it also promises another opportunity for a guilt drive to fill their ailing bank accounts. It’s all about the (financial) environment.
Tom wrote:
Jackasses…making money off kyoto
http://www.liberal.ca/pdf/docs/HarperLetter.pdf
Posted on 14-Feb-07 at 10:40 am | Permalink
Real Conservative wrote:
So the liberals are abandoning their communist RED after all these years? What is the dippers Orange suppposed to represent anyways?
Conservatives can say that Blue is for blue skies.
;)
Posted on 14-Feb-07 at 12:19 pm | Permalink
Marc wrote:
I am not surprised. The Liberal party is so blinded by the Kyoto hysteria that they are no longer listening to logical reasoning. Instead of endorsing the Conservative Party’s plan of working with our industries to clean up our environment and reduce our emissions in a manner that does not kill the Canadian economy, the Liberals want to implement the Kyoto accord by “all means necessary” even if it means killing our economy and sending billions of our dollars to notorious polluters like China.
Posted on 14-Feb-07 at 12:20 pm | Permalink
Attila wrote:
If it passes. Harper should stand in the house and say: “Since it was a Liberal who tabled this bill, the CPC will follow the strong example set by the Liberals themselves regarding Kyoto targets. Surely this is what those who voted for this bill were after?”
Posted on 14-Feb-07 at 12:22 pm | Permalink
Kelly T Konechny wrote:
Tom, I would love to be able to produce a clear and articulate quote from Mr. Dion (as you did with the PM) but it seems clear and articulate are further down the road in his english lessons:
“Well, I think it will create an additional pressure on the government to do the right thing because the Kyoto commitment is an incentive to do the right thing, in order to have a momentum for 2012 and to go further for the environment and the economy because this is the future in which we will be. Carbon will be a constraint in the economy in which we are and Canada must be a winner in this.” - Dion (Feb 2/07) on UN Report on Climate Change
Maybe the Liberals (and specifically Dion’s) inactivity on the environment for their 13 years in government was just an extended fund-raising campaign?
Posted on 14-Feb-07 at 12:27 pm | Permalink
TangoJuliette wrote:
Item # 4.) Attila.
Bang on. I live to hear the Prime Dude quote these lines!!
Posted on 14-Feb-07 at 12:41 pm | Permalink
Anonymous wrote:
It is interesting the quibble people make over rebranding and colours. I would be interested to know how much tax dollars were spent changing all the government websites from “Canadian” red, to conservative blue. What a goddamn waste of tax payers money in order to make a point about “Canada’s new government”. Shameful
Posted on 14-Feb-07 at 1:09 pm | Permalink
Greg Farries wrote:
I can’t say for sure, but I doubt every much.
I personally can’t find many examples of the red to blue change you’re talking about.
If the websites are designed properly, and I assume they are, it would only take a few minutes to switch the colours. Cascading Style Sheets can make the process of updating hundreds/thousands of website colours ridiculously easy. And I’ve taken a look at a few gov’t websites, and they all use CSS to apply colour to the pages.
Of course, without an example, I can’t say for sure…
Posted on 14-Feb-07 at 1:32 pm | Permalink
Anonymous wrote:
Every government of Canada website went through a major transition after the first month the Conservative Government was elected. It is hard to give before and after examples since none of the old pages are still up. After the Liberal government spent millions of dollars developing a common look and feel for all government services online, and then asking all goverment of Canada departments to adhere to this common look and feel, all of this work went down the drain in order to change the common look and feel to the Prime Minister’s web page. Government websites are not inconsistant in their use of colour, their use of navigation tools, and webpage content. I also think you would be pretty shocked at the cost, actually, given the hundreds of thousands of webpages that needed to be changed very quickly. People hours are quite costly (especially over-time)given the unionization of the public service.
Posted on 14-Feb-07 at 2:13 pm | Permalink
Anonymous wrote:
sorry, typo… government websites are NOW inconsistent…
Posted on 14-Feb-07 at 2:14 pm | Permalink
Shane Edwards wrote:
Curse those dastardly conservatives for destroying the Liberals’ grand plan of standardizing the look and feel of government websites! After all, this noble obective clearly took precedence over other priorities like… Kyoto… accountability… honesty in government… correcting western alienation… fighting separatism… doing away with the GST…
Posted on 14-Feb-07 at 7:02 pm | Permalink
Anonymous wrote:
My point is that it was a great way to through good money after bad. There was no good rationale to ask every department to change the colour of their website from Canadian red to Conservative blue when there are more important things (see Shane’s list).
Posted on 14-Feb-07 at 7:52 pm | Permalink
TangoJuliette wrote:
Dear Anon. (#12 above):
Choice example of typical Librano mis-direction and deflection.
However, if what you say is a true reflection of your thoughts and feelings, any possible future change in government will be the recipients of your very strongly worded “pre-emptive warning” for them not to try to change anything that the Conservatives have done on website design and colour up to that future date, is that right? That’d be the Liberals (or whatever they might be calling themselves later) being warned not to be “throwing good money after bad,” so to speak?
What’s your stand, and where was, and/or is, your outrage on the Liberal Shawinigate follies, Adscam crappola, the untraceable one billion dollars wasted on Kyoto, through envelopes full of cash to Russia and to Librano pals? How about the freakin’ five hundred million dollar PENALTY Canada had to pay when Crettin cancelled the helicopter contract in 1993? That’s $ 500,000,000 flippin’ Canadian tax dollars!!!! All paid by you and me. Unless, of course, you’re a connected Librano supporter, and therefore are exempt from paying taxes. Oh yeah — and how about that sweet-haert tax break and great government job for theivin’ Radwanski??
C’mon anon — get your head outta yore butt and stop trying to defend the indefensible, crooked, and ethically challenged gang of thugs and robbers, those bluddy thievin’ Libranos.
If you’re not against the thieves, you must be part of that vast army of supporters of thieves, who benefit from the Liberal robbery which had been ongoing, for far too long.
‘Nuff said. Tho if you want to push your feeble position, I’ve got a large HD of refuting facts and truths.
Should you, for whatever reason, choose NOT to remove your head from the inside of your posterior, be advised that you are certainly going to be in an enviable position to be kissin’ yore ass good-bye when the Libranos get reduced to almost invisible numbers at the next election. Note: your defense of the indefensible is truly feeble and pathetic.
ciao, chooch!
Tango Juliette.
Posted on 15-Feb-07 at 4:42 am | Permalink
TangoJuliette wrote:
Anon:
And remember this: Librano Red, IS NOT Canadian Red. It could be Bolshevik Red, or Commie Red, or George W Bush, Republican Red, but it most certainly IS NOT the Red of my Canada.
The Red of my Canada, is the Red of the Canadian Military Red Patch and Red Maple Leaf.
Not that this scenario is ever likely going to happen before Christ comes back from vacation - but, should the Liberals ever, ever, EVER return to power (”get out of the ‘time-out’ penalty box” as the like to delusionally refer to it), and should they want to re-brand any government sites and such, maybe they ought to consider something a little more appropriate and representational of their little band of merry thieves — I’d strongly suggest something slightly understated — like “stripes,” or a “ball and chain.”
Whaddaya think?
Tango Juliette
Posted on 15-Feb-07 at 4:51 am | Permalink
Baba McKensey wrote:
Global warming is bogus.
This comes from Lars Kamel’s paper which was translated into English:
Quote:
One argument which the alarmists use to back their claims, is that data from boreholes in the Antarctic ice show that temperature and CO2 correlate very well. What they don’t tell the public, however, is that correlation does not prove causation. And, in fact, the cause is precisely the opposite of what the alarmist would like you to belive. In the past couple of years, new and better analysis of the Antarctic ice data, giving a better time resolution, have shown that first temperature rises, and then carbon dioxide levels increase. It is the temperature increase which causes the increase in carbon dioxide and not the other way around. The extra CO2 could at most add a little extra warming to what is going on, but not even that is certain.
http://www.astro.uu.se/~l/noworry.htm
Posted on 14-Jun-08 at 6:56 pm | Permalink
Dave wrote:
So, those in rural Canada and/or not serviced by natural gas will get to pay way more for their heating oil. Is this a reverse version of let them freeze in the dark? Guess what is going to happen! Real rurals will switch back to or begin anew to burn wood instead - now that is a real smart way for the Libs to lower the carbon footprint!
Posted on 20-Jun-08 at 1:23 pm | Permalink