I didn’t think I’d write about politics in this blog. Just shows you what I know.
But this was just too tantalizing. I think the Conservatives just handed the next election to Justin Trudeau’s Liberals.
At their virtual policy convention last weekend, in addition to the headline in the Guardian newspaper (above), the headline read from the CBC:
Conservative delegates reject adding 'climate change is real' to the policy book
When I think of virtual reality, I think of make-believe worlds. I know most events are being held virtually, via the internet these days. But the event itself is real. In the Conservatives’ case, the convention actually took place. I think they took the meaning of virtual as ‘not real’. It was real. So perhaps the delegates to the convention were just taking the event in the literal sense; that their convention wasn’t real, therefore their policy changes weren’t real and by extension, nothing is real. This made it simple for them to vote that climate change isn’t real.
That all follows, doesn’t it?
I guess the record storm in Texas a month ago wasn’t real.
I suppose the floods in Sydney aren’t real with 20,000 people evacuated from the rising flood waters. And that's two crisis affecting thousands in Australia and millions in Texas in just in the last few weeks.
But I suppose I could also blame 5G and Bill Gates for Covid-19. Why not? There’s lots of information on the web about those two theories. But then I heard an interview with Bill Gates. He said he’s just not that interested in where I shop, so he's not motivated to create something like Covid-19 to be able to inject a tracking chip into each of us. As far as 5G causing Covid-19, I haven't seen any empirical proof either way. I'll give the technology the benefit of the doubt and choose to not believe the claims it caused Covid-19.
Really. How do these things even get started?
The last federal election was essentially fought on two fronts: 1) Andrew Scheer thinking he could be a populist conservative leader and 2) the dislike of the populist Doug Ford in the 905. It didn’t seem to matter what Justin Trudeau said. He just had to keep repeating the names Andrew Scheer and Doug Ford to win the election.
There was another, at the time, very important thing on the mind of Canadians. Climate change. It was second to health care in issues determining how people would vote.
Doug Ford killed electric car purchase incentives. He also wants to shrink the Greenbelt. Erin O’Toole can’t get the federal Conservatives to adopt a policy recognizing climate change as real, let alone propose any action on how to deal with it.
Every politician worth their salt knows they can't monkey around with health care. Especially with the fiasco in long term care facilities across the country. And you'd better have a climate crisis policy, otherwise you're missing out on two issues that constitute 64% of what people care about.
Justin Trudeau hasn’t had many nights of good sleep since the start of the pandemic. But I imagine he’s resting just a little bit better with the Conservatives doing everything they can to hand him the next election.
I'll leave you with another ho-hum spectacular sunset.
Spring sunset in Mono