The Copenhagen Treaty
Well, most conservatives already understand what the real agenda behind “Climate Change”, but just in case you weren’t sure its right here in the draft copy of the Copenhagen Treaty that every nation will be pushed to adopt.
38. The scheme for the new institutional arrangement under the Convention will be based on threebasic pillars: government; facilitative mechanism; and financial mechanism, and the basic organizationof which will include the following:
(a) The government will be ruled by the COP with the support of a new subsidiary body onadaptation, and of an Executive Board responsible for the management of the new fundsand the related facilitative processes and bodies. The current Convention secretariat willoperate as such, as appropriate.
(b) The Convention’s financial mechanism will include a multilateral climate change fund including five windows: (a) an Adaptation window, (b) a Compensation window, toaddress loss and damage from climate change impacts, including insurance, rehabilitation and compensatory components, (c) a Technology window; (d) a Mitigation window; and (e) a REDD window, to support a multi-phases process for positive forest incentives relating to REDD actions.
(c) The Convention’s facilitative mechanism will include: (a) work programmes for action plan; (d) an expert group on adaptation established by the subsidiary body on adaptation, and expert groups on mitigation, technologies and on monitoring, reporting and verification; and (e) an international registry for the monitoring, reporting and verification of compliance of emission reduction commitments, and the transfer of technical and financial resources from developed countries to developing countries. The secretariat will provide technical and administrative support, including a new centre for information exchange. adaptation and mitigation; (b) a long-term REDD process; (c) a short-term technology
And the trend continues…
Ouch. If these trends continue long enough this Parliament may last longer than Harper’s first one.
Canada-India part II
This Globe story is very heartening. I can’t imagine that a free trade agreement will take long between two countries that seem as eager as Canada and India right now.
CanWest enters bankruptcy; CRTC takes centre stage.
The face of Canadian media is about to change over the next four to six months, while CanWest Media is sold-off so that creditors can get their money back from the debt-ridden company. This places the CRTC in an unusual position, the sale of these properties is likely to get substantial media coverage, more than your average media sale, and the CRTC is going to play a role in who is allowed to buy the assets. Does the telecom regulator enter the 21st century and allow a bid gives a foreign group majority control? Or do we head back to the economic nationalism of the 1970s?
Personally, I think that foreign ownership restrictions need to be relaxed in Canada. I think that Canadians are secure and confident enough in their own sovereignty that they realize that foreign majority ownership of one or several media outlets doesn’t spell the end of Canadian sovereignty, just as the Free Trade Agreement didn’t in 1988.
Steyn and Levant testify in Ottawa.
As most people who closely monitor the blogosphere and Canadian politics generally probably already know, Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant testified before the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights. It was excellent testimony by both which clearly articulated why section 13 needs to be abolished, and not just have a band-aid applied to it.
Mr. Harper goes to India.
According to David Akin the Prime Minister is set to visit India from November 15-18. The travel isn’t confirmed yet, but its said to be all but done.
This is a great move. The United States isn’t inspiring great hope right now, and we’re going to need stronger trade relationships with other countries if we hope to pull out of this recession without a lot of help from the United States. With every step the Prime Minister takes on the international stage, he just becomes more and more statesmanlike.
I’ve never been prouder of Canada than I am right now, with PM Harper leading the way.
The Agenda – David Frum
A good interview where David Frum outlines whats wrong with the GOP currently. Its not a popular position to take right now, but I think that Mr. Frum will be proven right over time.
2009-10 Budget Deficit already at 18.3 billion
Wow. I think its time for the stimulus plan to have the tap turned off. Whats amazing to me is that Min. Flaherty has said that they’ve found 100 billion dollars in expenses that can be cut, but they’re waiting to see what happens with the economy. WHY?! Why not make the cuts and keep the deficit small, while stimulating the economy. Unbelievable.
I keep thinking about that saying “you have to be good to be lucky”. I’m wondering if its not the reverse. This government has been literally blessed with facing two of the most incompetent Opposition leaders in Canadian history. Is this the kind of luck that Liberals were blessed with for most of the last half century?
By the way, if you extrapolate this spending rate, and assume that economic growth remains flat (as it was in July), we’re looking at a 73 BILLION DOLLAR deficit for this fiscal year.
