[Thanos]

You can't approach the NDP rationally on the fossil fuel issue because the entirety of their position on it is well outside any recognizable rationality, reason, or logic. Dogmatists simply do not care about what effect their policies have on other people. The left wingers don't care anymore about what would happen if they tried to destroy the oil industry any more than the right wingers cared about what happened when Ronald Reagan removed all the legal and moral restraints from the financial sector and let them do what they want and damn all the consequences. Ideologues care nothing at all about anything except their ideology. Why should they care anyway? It's not like any of them ever experience any hardship when their policies are put into action.

As has been said before, and this is the major aggravating factor in the whole issue, this is also completely poisoned by the attitude Central Canada has towards the west. Most Central Canadians, especially the left-wing ones, would rather see a Saudi tanker full of oil pull up to the Irving docks in Halifax to supply Canada's needs than have Westerners with good paying jobs provide the supply for us. That's how little they think of us and that's how much complete contempt they have for us. They're never going to change either because the resentment that drives the Central Canadian mentality is as strong as the ideologies they've given themselves over to. Linda McQuaig isn't one voice in the wilderness, she's the voice for most of them.

[uwish]

"OTTAWA -- Newly released research on Quebec's low-cost child-care system suggests children who go through it may do well academically, but have worse outcomes when it comes to health, life satisfaction and crime rates.
In a paper released Monday, a group of university researchers say that children exposed to the province's child-care system were more likely to have higher crime rates, worse health and lower levels of life satisfaction as they have aged than their counterparts in other provinces who didn't have access to the same type of system.
The new research is likely throw a political wrench into the federal election, where the New Democrats have made bringing Quebec-style child care to the rest of the country a key plank in their platform."

http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/new-study- ... -1.2573959