Carole James: Ego Rules the Roost

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Carole James the Dullard

This is the woman who is promising to deliver Hope & Change to British Columbians. She has also promised fresh new ideas and a new political discourse. Yet today we see her on a somewhat more familiar tack. Pathetic. Actually, beyond pathetic.

The New Religion

This afternoon, CKNW's Sean Leslie had a guest named Ian Bruce on his show (8:40). Bruce comes with the title of "climate change specialist" within David Suzuki's Foundation. He probably throws around that title to impress women at all the Commercial Street coffee shops! Makes you wonder if that title and 2 loonies buys him more than a cup of coffee?!

I was so outraged by this elitist hack that I wrote Sean a letter which he read on the air (57:15) :

Sean,

Your interview with Ian Bruce of the Suzuki Foundation was telling; not surprising, but telling.

He's yet another blind disciple of the new religion called "Environmentalism", headed by their high priest, Al Gore. His smug, belittling contempt for anyone who dares question his religion would be insulting if it weren't so laughable. No legitimate scientist would ever avoid questions and debate. Yet Bruce wouldn't directly answer one of the criticisms you cited of Al Gore's film.

Does it make me a member of the Flat Earth Society to ask the following questions:

1. If the alleged increase in temperature on Earth is primarily due to man then how come the temperature on Mars is also going up?
2. It has now been proven that if current iceberg melt rates continue that Greenland will under water in 500 to 1000 years. So why did Gore say that it would be in his lifetime? Is he the new Moses?

What's sad about all of this is that people like me would generally be onboard with reducing energy consumption if it wasn't for all of the clearly false rhetoric espoused by the Ian Bruces of the world. His insistence that Canada so quickly destroy its own economy is downright scary. If he'd like to see the opposite of peace then he better be hoping that his dreams for a bankrupt Canada, full of unemployment come true!

Robert W.


Incidentally, my last paragraph isn't empty rhetoric. I gave up my car by choice 5 years ago. Just didn't feel I needed one and still don't. BUT I'm fortunate enough to have a lifestyle where I don't need one! I work for myself at my home office so my commute is only about 15 seconds. If any environmentalist wants to compare "energy footprints" with me, they'll lose; well, except for those who have moved into a cave.

I would never tell anyone in Surrey or Langley or Maple Ridge or White Rock that they must give up their vehicle and take public transportation in ... or else they're a "bad person". What nonsense! I already feel bad for those people who have to commute 60+ minutes to work everyday. To me, there's nothing more aggravating than being stuck in traffic. Why the likes of Ian Bruce and Carole James and Stephane Dion want to make it even harder for them is absolutely beyond my wildest comprehension. Frankly, it's just cruel.

Is it possible that these environmental zealots have ever stopped for a second to consider that the rhetoric they're espousing closely resembles that used by overzealous Christian missionaries toward Natives in early Canada? True, the subjects they preach about are quite different but the "you are ignorant, we know best" mentality is strikingly identical. And sickening!

Thought For The Day

Is it possible that Carole James is, in essence, our very own John Kerry? Both are undoubtedly nice people but each is so full of nuance to lack any semblance of decisiveness. And without decisiveness, there is no real leadership.

The CDCC vs. the CDC

The Province had a scathing editorial about Carole James' recent "policy" regarding the twinning of the Port Mann bridge. This woman has a real talent for digging herself into a hole and then digging it even deeper. The fact that such holes haven't yet collapsed around her yet should be studied by civil engineering students around the world.

I'll give James the benefit of the doubt that she's a principled person (though it's not clear what principles she holds from week to week) but she's either a very naive politician or was never very good at math.

Does her new policy appeal to anyone? Absolutely. They realistically constitute less than 5% of the electorate and are affectionately known as the Commercial Drive Cappuccino Crowd - or "CDCC" for short. One must be sure not to get our CDCC confused with the more well known CDC, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

The latter group is concerned with protecting us all from harmful diseases. Our local one views 'us' as the disease, and wants to do everything they can to socially re-engineer the lifestyles of anyone who lives on the "wrong" side of the Fraser River. I can already envision the perfect political cartoon: James' face on the body of King Kong, climbing the north span of the Port Mann bridge and giving the finger to all the poor commuters coming down the hill from Surrey!

Math will matter a great deal to Ms. James come the next election. All of her MLAs in Surrey and the Fraser Valley are sure to be wiped out by an angry electorate who detest being told that they can't have the same basic transportation infrastructure as the people of Vancouver.

Walter Schulz brilliantly pulls apart James' twisted views here.