Canadian Politics Today

I find the one dimensional thinking on this issue quite depressing.

Green house gases are causing climate change so we need to reduce emissions. Fair enough but it also presents a huge problem for the country's economy that the fossil fuel killers who are running around with their hair on fire won't touch with a barge pole. How do you develop and produce alternative energy sources when at the same time you are trying to kill the industry that provides over 10% of the country's GDP, over 20% of its exports and you are already running deficits? Where will the money come from to develop those technologies and keep them in Canada, rather than having our companies and universities just doing R&D for foreign corps and governments?

We can and will develop new technologies and we have some things in our favour, like stable government (with some cracks) and an educated population. So do other countries and many don't have the regulatory, constitutional and FN minefield companies have to negotiate to do business in Canada. To think we can just replace what energy contributes to this country with no problem is a stretch. I don't say it can't or won't happen but I'm not one of the Pollyanna's who think it will all magically work itself out, because I don't believe Canadians have some god given right to continue enjoying the same standard of living most of us now have.