Canadian Senate kills climate change bill

Just another nail!!!!

“Killing Bill C-311 shows a fundamental lack of respect for the many Canadians who care deeply about climate change. They had a right to have this bill debated properly,” Mitchell said in a news release.
NOW they want a debate?

Funny that I read a lot of AGW’er musing that democracy is the problem and that maybe it’ll take a benevolent dictatorship to save us. Now, they’re complaining “an un-elected Senate” could thwart the will of the people…

had this law been passed, our Prime Minister could have risen in the House of Commons and delivered a speech like this one . . .
In order to comply with the Bill and Kyoto, it is necessary to take some drastic measures to either reduce emissions I Canada.
Canada got hosed at Kyoto. Jean Chretien’s Liberal government signed Canada to a treaty that means we must reduce our standard of living in order to comply. This Bill further obligates Canada to reduce its economy in order to comply and because of the way the Bill is worded, our Government must achieve the drastic reductions.
I am instructing a number of government department and agencies to enact the following emergency measure so that we can comply with the will of Parliament, or at least the Liberal, NDP and Bloc Quebecois parts of parliament.
1. Immediate shutdown of all coal fired power plants in Canada. We realize that this will hit Ontario very hard – 1/3 of Ontario’s electricity is coal generated, but look on the bright side, the lack of power will also cause the shutdown of thousands of plants and factories, throwing hundreds of thousands out of work. While we are it, we’ll close down all the top ten GhG emitters, as researched by Pollution Probe, listed below:
Rank Company Name Province
1 Ontario Power Generation On
2 Transalta Utilities AB
3 Sask Power SK
4 Alberta Power Corp AB
5 Nova Scotia Power Inc NS
6 Syncrude Canada Ltd. AB
7 Suncor Energy inc. Oil Sands AB
8 EPCOR Generation Inc. AB
9 Petro-Canada AB
10 Dofasco Inc. On
2. Immediate shutdown of the entire Petroleum industry across Canada – we will need to import our oil but we are only going to import oil from countries that will sell us Kyoto Credits. Besides we won’t need gas or oil because we won’t have the money to buy these big GhG emitters.
3. Immediately ban all wood burning fireplaces, charcoal and propane BBQ’s and summer campfires. All recreational vehicles and activities are deemed frivolous and will be banned. Sorry Bombardier, you are jusr screwed. No more skidoos and water jet boats. We are investigating how to ban forest fires as well, but that has its challenges.
4. A 50 cent per litre “GhG Kyoto Credit Buying Tax. Based on recent data that we use about 45 Billion liters of gasoline every year, this new tax revenue should make up the shortfall in general tax revenues caused by the overall collapse of the Canadian economy caused by the cheap political theatrics of the NDP. It will not make up for the billions in lost income taxes the Federal and Provincial governments will not collect by the 35% contraction of our economy we need to achieve to be Kyoto compliant.
5. We will not be able to afford generous Employment Insurance support for all the laid off workers because the numbers will reach in the millions. Shutting down the oil sands alone will result in huge job losses in Alberta, but also in Quebec and Ontario, where tens of thousands of workers make the pipes, valves, machinery, trucks, tires, computers and other equipment that would have been purchased had we not put these actions in place to meet the requirements of the Bill’s Law of Unintended Consequences. Shutting down the transportation industry will also be hard on employment, but we haven’t had time yet to count how many truck drivers there are in Canada, so we can’t tell you yet how many of their jobs will be toast.
6. For the tens of thousands of workers in the Financial sector, we are aware that the mortgage and credit crisis these moves will cause will result in the devastation of your industry as well, but we expect that the Barons of Bay street will be able to salvage a few jobs scamming a few bucks in the International Carbon Credit Trading Market, or as some have come to call it, the Kyoto Hot Air Credit Socialist Money Sucking Ponzi Scheme. Hopefully you will be one of the few out of the tens of thousands Financial Sector workers who will get one of these new jobs – you might even make megatonnes of money.
7. Since there will be a huge rise in the number of corporate and personal bankruptcies, our government will be enacting new legislation to simplify the process. Simply nail a sign to the front door of your home saying “WE QUIT” or for consumer debt, place your cut up credit and bank cards in an envelope and mail them to Pablo Rodriguez. That’s all, no lawyers or courts needed
8. We will also be reducing the size of the federal government payroll by at least 50% to meet the requirement to keep the budget balanced to the new and much lower levels of Federal revenues. That should be a few hundred thousand fewer Civil Servants at the Federal Level and many, many more at the Provincial level. We understand this will devastate the economy of Ottawa, but what the Hell, the rest of Canada doesn’t care about what happens in Moonbat Land sur Rideau, so no worries. To the 250,000 or so Civil Servants who will lose their ticket to the Golden Pension Plan, tough shit.
9. We will be forced to make massive reductions to the Federal government’s transfer of Social Services & Health dollars to the provinces to fit within the new fiscal capabilities of Canada’s Federal government. We will leave it up to individual provinces to decide to close schools or hospitals, or both, or whatever. It’s a provincial responsibility, but at the very least, expect much longer waits for even basic medical service. Since Canada, in addition to using “more than our fair share of Carbon” also uses more than “our fair share of global health care”, it’s about time we cut back, suffered more, did away with excessive health care and just suffered along with the rest of the world.
Its not all bad news. Canada should be able to save a fortune in Immigration costs. We have a forecast from government experts that Canada will go to last place in the quest for skilled immigrant labour. Somehow they don’t want to come to a country with power shortages, no air conditioning, limited winter heating, no jobs a Health Care system modeled on Zimbabwe and a devastated economy. Go figure.
Mr. Speaker, let me close by thanking the Liberals, especially Mr Chretien who’s stupidity, ego and driving need to buy himself a political “good-guy” legacy got us into this mess and of course the NDP for devastating our economy and depressing our standard of living to upper third world status.
As we huddle in the cold and swelter in the summer heat, as we stare at our old car we can’t afford to drive, as we fondly remember how hard it was to get out of bed on a Monday morning to go to the job we used to have, we can take pride in being the best-est, wonderful-est, the most moral-est international goody-goody boy scout country supporting the great socialist ponzi scheme called Kyoto and proving we are doing our part to help the planet be saved.
Thank you Mr. Speaker

The experiment with ‘renewables’ is an excellent idea as long as those in favour of Alice in Wonderland energy policies agree to be the first to be cut or rationed when the wind doesn’t blow or the sun fails to shine, rarely of course in Canada or the UK.
If a ‘parliament’ passes such a bill then the representatives and all government institutions should be the first to suffer candles and cold showers.

Sorry, I think I’ve now answered my own question by realising that it was the opposition’s bill rather than the government’s (my initial joy made me skim rather than read properly). In that case, even if there were an equivalent of the Parliament Act in Canada it would be used only after the majority government’s defeat.

This may well be the first time Canadian history that the Senate has done something useful.

Now it is time for the rest of the world to step up to the plate and end this imaginary and ill conceived never proven threat of global warming caused by manmade greenhouse gases. There are much bigger world isssues that need our financial support.

Paul Westhaver says:
November 17, 2010 at 12:10 pm
Perhaps it has something to do with the north magnetic pole leaving Canada and going to Russia….:-)

I’m a member of the People’s Republic of Canada. This Senate vote is nothing short of amazing in this country where every single news outlet is pro-AGW except for the National Post (which hardly anyone reads in Quebec). I’m trying to understand how it happened, but the details are few.

Here’s another nail!!
NZ climate change minister Nick Smith has just announced postponement of the agricultural tax as part of the ETS. The tax was going to be introduced in 1014.
One of a number of reason Nick Smith gives; we would be the only country in the world with such a tax and that would make our farmers less competitive in the international market.
Oh my giddy aunt, a politician representing a Gumment saying something sensible.
Have you got it yet Mr Obama?

I love the smell of dead climate change bills in the morning.