Bottom line for tomorrow:

If climate is your #1 issue, it’s fair to vote NDP or Green.

But most importantly, there are excellent reasons to vote Liberal. 1/
Mark Jaccard PhD
Jennifer Winter PhD
Katharine Hayhoe PhD
Andrew Weaver PhD
Andrew Leach PhD
Dan Woynillowizc

All are independent climate experts.

None consider the NDP/Green plans adequate to achieve their targets.
Meeting, and even bettering our Paris commitments will be very hard, and we are past the moment for wishful thinking.

It’s time for the hard policy work. The consensus is that the Liberals deliver.

As Katharine Harrison points out, the issue is trust. No surprise, obviously.
You are the voter. Your vote is precious, and this moment matters.

There are other good reasons to vote for a different party. You may think other parties have a better approach to Indigenous issues, for example.

Or you may want them to keep the Libs feet to the fire.
My issues are

CLIMATE
PANDEMIC MANAGEMENT
CHILD-CARE
INDIGENOUS INTERESTS
HOUSING

I pay attention to my riding. Is there a clear front-runner? Is there someone I really want to block?

Should I switch my vote to help decide a close call?
Yes I am a strategic voter.

Why? Because my history of tracking the CPC & UCP record of vindictive harassment and vilification of environmental activists goes back too far.

The niqab election, the playing footsie with Rebel Media.

Their record is disqualifying IMO.
So I’d probably take the most likely candidate to stop a CPC win. Unless my CPC candidate were like, Michael Chong.

And if I were in Elizabeth May’s riding, I’d vote for her, because she & the Greens should be in Parliament. Full stop.

Ie, it’s a sifting & weighing thing.
That’s pretty much all I’ve got.

Absent a really powerful counter-argument, I’ll likely stick with the climate experts.
But I certainly respect other POVs.

And I respect many people who’ll vote CPC.

The only people I don’t respect are the snakes filling people’s heads with anti-vax & white supremacist poison.

Good luck tomorrow, everyone.

May the best candidates win.

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19 Sep
The Liberals passed their carbon pricing plan in 2018, but it was only approved by the Supreme Court of Canada, where it had been fought tooth and nail, last March.

There are MANY other elements to the plan, and every one has been fought.
We are just now approaching the point at which infrastructure funding, carbon pricing, coal phaseout, methane regs, and zero emissions vehicles will have measurable impact.

It’s bizarre to see claims that nothing has been done, just because we couldn’t see results immediately
This is not any reason to be complacent or not to push hard for greater escalation of climate measures.

Am in full agreement with all. But the suggestion that the Libs have done nothing but cater to industry is just flat-out false.
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For too long it has been accepted as truism that the Liberal govt has a weak record on climate.

If you care about our climate, please read @MarkJaccard here.

Then follow up with @KHayhoe’s assessment in @Chatelaine

chatelaine.com/news/canada-el…

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Agree or disagree on the methodology, but these are conclusions shared by other climate experts.

This should be acknowledged and credited, even as climate activists push for even greater improvements.
Many have been quick with ad hominem attacks on the Liberal government, yet fail to credibly address how to achieve better results without shocking the economy.

If the response is that it’s fine to shock the economy, please show how you’ll be re-elected so the plan survives.
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2. NB Trump costume
3. Search Brazil news today
4. Search Trump aide Jason Miller today
There is in Cdn media a general trend or bias to remain inwardly focused.

In a world where major election events have links to international & US events, this doesn’t serve 🇨🇦well.
It’s easy to see the PPC links, but we should not forget that the CPC 2019 campaign manager was a Rebel Media co-founder—

Or that a Canada Proud founder ran Erin O’Toole’s leadership campaign.
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Yesterday a candidate for the PPC called for the assassination of 🇨🇦’s PM, as crowds physically assailed him.

This is not mentioned in any major outlets today.

This is a HUGE problem.
#cdnpoli
*Not mentioned on front/landing pages of
@globeandmail
@nationalpost
@cbc
@ctvnews
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Twitter has not suspended Emery’s account, though he deleted the tweet hours after he posted it.

Maxime Bernier has not suspended the candidate.

Reminder that an armed attacker drove through the gates at the PM’s home.
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We must recognize the perilous ethical position of news media in covering hate in this election.

Hate sells as much, if not more than sex.

And it’s visual.

1/
#cdnpoli
Hate spreads through visceral & vivid imagery.

This is the stock in trade of news media.

During an election, how do you cover manufactured hatred that’s visceral & vivid—ie self-promotion of extremists?

That’s also news? 2/
#cdnpoli
By merely covering events created by extremists to draw news cameras, you’re promoting them & spreading hatred destructive to democracy.

But how can you edit it out?

The medium is the message. 3/
#cdnpoli
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I first got involved in this “foreign-funding” business almost a decade ago, as an outsider to the environmental movement.

Because it was an alarming attack on science and our civil liberties.

Me from 2012: vancouverobserver.com/blogs/world/tr…
These terrible things were being said by our own government about some of the world’s pre-eminent scientific granting bodies.

Being accused of money-laundering and nurturing terrorism.

As a Canadian I found this profoundly embarrassing, but also foreboding.
All these attacks were based on rumours and innuendo.

Tides Canada was never called to any parliamentary committee to explain what it does and how it operates.

The Harper government not only allowed, it orchestrated the open vilification of environmentalists.
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