Jack Layton will protect Canada's claim to the North by making it cold
NDP leader Jack Layton will protect Canada's claim to sovereignty in the Far North by making sure it stays cold.
No, I don't know what one has to do with the other either.
NDP Leader Jack Layton departs this morning for a four-day tour to meet ordinary Canadians in the Arctic. An NDP delegation will travel to five arctic communities, meeting with political and community leaders, participating in traditional feasts and seeing first hand the challenges and opportunities facing the North.
“The Prime Minister’s focus on military solutions for Arctic sovereignty is too narrow” said Layton. “The NDP knows that to protect our northern sovereignty means addressing social, economic, and environmental concerns,” said Layton. “The growing prosperity gap, being felt by average individuals and by the communities in which they live needs to be addressed once and for all.”
Also on Layton’s agenda is climate change. “We can’t proclaim sovereignty over our Arctic waters if those same waters are not protected from climate change,” said Layton.
But I thought climate change is what kick-started the Arctic sovereignty gabfest in the first place. If the planet is warming, and the ice caps are melting, then previously inaccessible areas are now open for economically viable exploitation.
If Jack Layton's plan to crush the Canadian economy and so eliminate a fraction of a percent of the total global output of carbon dioxide succeeds in tipping the balance and so causes the Earth to dramatically cool down, the ice returns and the Russians and the Danes and the Americans will all beat a hasty retreat to warmer spots south. Under those circumstances, Canada could proclaim sovereignty over the moon for all that it mattered.
An economically destitute Canada would not be able to maintain sovereignty over Saskatoon if affluent foreigners were to come and start buying up Canada at firesale prices.
Nice try at linking the two, Jack, but sovereignty has nothing to do with global warming. And if you do want to connect the two, I don't think the linkage is going to be quite what you think it is.
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Jack must be really desperate, the Arctic is represented by only three seats in the H of C.
"The NDP knows that to protect our northern sovereignty means addressing social, economic, and environmental concerns,”
What does that mean? Would the NDP build factories on Baffin Island, maybe an auto assembly plant in Nunavut?
No, the perennial fourth place party will continue to spout nonsense, proving why they are an economic disaster wherever they form government.
Posted by: dmorris at August 29, 2007 02:47 PM
He'll make it "cold" to Dippers by just being himself and opening his yap.
Posted by: at August 29, 2007 03:28 PM
...make the North cold?
But but but, what about the Polar Bears? Won't they freeze to death?
And what about the penguins nesting up at Baffin Island, where will they go?
Posted by: tomax7 at August 29, 2007 03:31 PM
He station his ditzy wife up there...That'll send a mega-chill through out the entire region.
Posted by: zilla at August 29, 2007 04:32 PM
the quotes contain all that needs to be said about taliban Jacks ratings.
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Posted by: missing link at August 29, 2007 08:02 PM
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Posted by: missing link at August 29, 2007 08:03 PM
yes you do. He will force canada to reduce GHG emissions by 0.1%, thereby reducing the temperature of the arctic by 10 degrees by next year, thus ensuring it won't become a hotspot of exploration by the russians. Get it? NDP math.
Posted by: Guy at August 29, 2007 08:33 PM
Do you really want to have a claim in the north? It's nothing but mud and mosquitoes in the summer and ice and blizzards in the winter.
Better to let some other idiot government waste billions of dollars of their people's money getting all "sovereign" on the arctic - and if they ever succeed in scratching any oil or valuable rocks out of the mud and ice you can always buy their production at a discount on the open market when they get into a debt or currency crisis.
An economically destitute Canada would not be able to maintain sovereignty over Saskatoon if affluent foreigners were to come and start buying up Canada at firesale prices.
Ironically, it's the fact that so many Canadians are obsessed with sovereignty over other people's property and so unconcerned with sovereignty over their own property (starting with their wallet), which will lead inexorably to a national fire sale.
Posted by: at August 29, 2007 08:33 PM
Jack is just trying to catch up to his nemesis, Elizabeth May and her Greenies who are polling ever closer to his NDP.
Whether they warm up to him in the North is of no consequence when he's getting the chill across the Country.
He'll look cute in his mukluks blabbering on while chowing down on whale blubber.
Posted by: Libby at August 30, 2007 07:23 AM
Obviously, the above unknown poster is perfectly willing to surrender Arctic sovereignty to the Russians, and to have them develop its resources, and to live with the resulting pollution. North America's record on the environment, while not perfect, is positively pristine compared to Russia's.
Posted by: Brian in Calgary at August 30, 2007 01:13 PM
 
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