Paul Martin's Lie of the Day #2

I've begun to wonder if Paul Martin tells the truth to anyone - his wife, his children, his friends? Imagine meeting a person who never told the truth. Would you become friends with this person? Would you go into business with this person? Would you buy a used car from this person? I wouldn't. I'd dump them faster than yesterday's news.

As impossible as it might seem, our prime liar ... errr minister, has exceeded his lie that banning guns will keep them out of the hands of criminals. If this previous one was a 6/10 on the Lie Detector scale then this new one is surely a 9/10 (we need to leave room for the gold medal 10/10 lie that surely is to come!).

Lie of the Day #2 was actually a two parter:

1. That Canada will reduce its pollution to meet its Kyoto commitments.
2. That the United States should be chastised for not signing on to the Kyoto agreement.

There are a couple of problems with what he's said:

1. Canada will NEVER be able to meet its commitments.
2. The much hated U.S. has actually reduced its pollution much more than Canada.

Don't believe me? Then read here and here ... articles from two newspapers that are usually huge supporters of the Liberal Party of Canada. But even they couldn't let this lie pass.

Here's a brief snippet from the 2nd article: Under Kyoto, we, (and all other signatories) are pledged to reduce our emission by the period 2008 to 2012 to 6 per cent less than our levels in 1990. Instead of going down, our emissions have gone up — by a whopping one-quarter (24.2 per cent), by the end of 2003.

In a nutshell, this exemplifies why I am challenged to say that I'm proud to be a Canadian these days. Honour and truth and responsibility used to be important virtues in my country. They've been replaced by dishonour, lies, and permanent victimhood amongst so many of my fellow citizens. This is why, I have little doubt, that Martin's Kyoto pronouncement will generate all kinds of increased support for him & his party in the polls. For he seems to be the perfect politician for the citizenry that constitutes the majority in Canada today.