From Stephen Taylor:
As some of you may know, I, along with Tasha Kheiriddin and Greg Staples armed ourselves with video cameras and stalked the halls of the Liberal Party leadership convention in December looking for interesting people to talk to and fun moments to catch on tape.
Steve Janke has the post of the day (already featured on Bourque, National Newswatch and Rutherford) about John Duffy's hypocritical position on climate change. Duffy is co-founder of the website www.climateliberal.ca and was pushing the issue of climate change at the convention. As Steve Janke brilliantly points out today, Duffy's position is... um... unsustainable as the former Paul Martin confidante was a lobbyist for the Bromine Science and Environmental Forum (a front for the bromine producing industry) where he worked to keep bromine off of Environment Canada's list of toxic chemicals. Bromine is "the most effective heat trapping greenhouse gases of all" according to Environment Canada.
And, now... watch the following video that Tasha was able to shoot for Blogging Tories during the Liberal convention.
And with Stephen's permission, I've linked the video here:
I literally burst out in laughter when Duffy says, "Hello, Steve Janke!"
Weird how the world works. John Duffy meets up with a Blogging Tory, and the first name that pops out of his mouth is mine. Well, I guess my blog has had some measure of success even if that unidentified fellow thinks it's trash. But the real irony is that John Duffy uses his time on camera to burble on about environment after mentioning me by name. Then a few weeks later, I write my article about John Duffy's links to what environmentalists would categorize as major polluters..
That was in December. In December, John Duffy was still working for the Bromine Science and Environmental Forum, an industry front group dedicated to making sure that bromines are not heavily regulated, even though bromine compounds are considered a particularly harmful ozone depleting material as well as a greenhouse gas.
Just what sort of environmentalist does that? Even if he is just a recent convert, he could at least own up to what damage he has done through his Liberal Party lobbying.
I wonder what John Duffy would say about me to a camera today? Maybe he would tell me to "Repent!"
Repent? For what? I didn't create ClimateLiberal.ca and wear a pin at the Liberal Convention while still lobbying for the bromine industry.
