{"id":7931,"date":"2012-06-04T10:32:05","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T17:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7931"},"modified":"2012-06-04T10:32:06","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T17:32:06","slug":"harpers-harlots-to-trash-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/04\/harpers-harlots-to-trash-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Harper’s Harlots to Trash Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here in the US we have always looked to our neighbors to the north with respect over the care they have demonstrated for the environment.  Sadly, that is no longer true.  The conservative (Canada’s closest thing to US Republicans) government there is parroting the policies of US Republicans and fouling their own nest the way the Republican Party is fouling ours.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"CANADAFor years, Canada<\/a> has been seen as an environmental leader on the world stage, pushing other nations to tackle acid rain, save the ozone layer and sign global treaties to protect biodiversity.<\/p>\n

Those were the old days.<\/p>\n

The government of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is rewriting the nation\u2019s environmental laws to speed the extraction and export of oil, minerals and other materials to a global market clamoring for Canada\u2019s natural resources<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government is saying, politically, we want to hitch our wagon to an economic development strategy in which natural resource extraction plays a very large part,\u201d said Brian Crowley, managing director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, a public policy think tank in Ottawa.<\/p>\n

The government has added provisions to an omnibus budget bill that would revamp the way the government reviews the environmental impact of major projects, regulates threats to fisheries<\/a> and scrutinizes the political activities of nonprofit groups<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Washington Post<\/a>><\/p>\n

It is my hope that Canada will dump Harper and his harlots, before he turns one of the world\u2019s greatest concentrations of pristine beauty into a cesspit!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here in the US we have always looked to our neighbors to the north with respect over the care they have demonstrated for the environment.  Sadly, that is no longer true.  The conservative (Canada’s closest thing to US Republicans) government there is parroting the policies of US Republicans and fouling their own nest the way […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}