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Offline Michael Hardner

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Re: Interesting news items
« Reply #15 on: September 09, 2018, 10:29:10 am »
But who says its populist emotionality? Who says it's not just common sense? Why should we give citizenship to people who aren't Canadian?  The reason to pass the law to change the rule is because the current rule makes no sense and it puts obligations on us, including financial obligations, on behalf of people who are not and should not be Canadians. Is there some emotionality in not wanting to be taken advantage of? I suppose, but curtailing the law seems entirely  logical and involves no downside to Canada I can see.

Ok, fair enough.  This is my subjectivity in action on my assessment.

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Would it make you feel better if I said my 'beliefs' about these things instead of my 'feelings' about these things? That is what I meant.

Beliefs, emotions, feelings are all valid and in fact are the basis for how we act and communicate more than rational thinking.  But they need to be recognized as separate areas even if they intersect in the end.

Our beliefs and irrationality interact with our principles and rational thinking, and words and actions come out.

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The compromise made by those who support development has already been made. It involves massive expense, environmental safety regulations native consultation, environmental assessments, public hearings and years of fitting the proposed development into the regulatory framework and ensuring all the T's are dotted and all the is are dotted.

Where is the similar compromise on the part of those with environmental concerns? Rachel Notley thought that if she did her best to appease environmentalists, going all in on CO2 reduction, inserting new environmental regulations and such, the environmentalists would cut her some slack. They didn't give her an inch. Their stand is not one iota different than it was before she and Trudeau got elected. No pipelines. Ever. Under an circumstances. For any reason. No matter the assurances and safeguards.

The compromise is that they drop objections to development, or at least enough of them do to allow the project to go forward.  As described some people will never compromise, for good or bad reasons.  Who knows why really ? Convincing them is more of a long term strategy.