Fueling Up The Election Train III

Hmmm! I just had a thought. Is McGinty's fiberal government refusal to deal with homegrown terrorists shutting down railway lines because he doesn't want the Election Train to get the message of incompotence, broken promises and corruption to reach the voters in Ontario.

Canada's dumbest politician
By LORRIE GOLDSTEIN

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a surprise winner for the stupidest comment ever made by a Canadian politician about the environment. We know a lot of you were expecting it would be Stephen Harper, John Baird, Stephane Dion or a member of the Alberta legislature.

But our winner is Dwight Duncan, Ontario's energy minister, who says Ontario's Liberal government won't install scrubbers on the smokestacks of its coal-fired electricity generating stations -- among Canada's, and North America's, worst emitters of air pollution and greenhouse gases.

As Duncan put it: "We're not going to spend $1.6 billion on technology that doesn't help climate change. That's just dumb."

Actually, Mr. Duncan, what you've just said is dumb. It's so dumb that whenever anyone looks up "dumb" in the dictionary, there should be a picture of you.

By announcing that Ontario will do nothing to clean up the airborne pollutants pouring out of its coal-fired generating stations, Duncan (and Premier Dalton McGuinty) have decided not to fight smog -- which we know is choking the life out of thousands of Canadians every year -- particularly seniors and children with respiratory diseases like bronchitis and asthma.

Their reason? Because the scrubbers won't remove greenhouse gases that are also a byproduct of burning coal and linked to global warming. The reason the scrubbers don't do this is the technology doesn't exist.

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