Friday, January 12
Why I hate Canadian electoral politics
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"Today was the second day in a row a Tory staffer has said this to me: 'No snow, no election.' The Conservatives, they both said, can't win if people in Ottawa and Toronto and southwestern Ontario can't remember snow on the ground sometime between now and the March break because it gives credence to the idea that global warming is a fact and that it is getting worse under the Tories.
"Now, a good snow between now and mid-March doesn't disprove global warming any more than a green winter proves it. Weather patterns change and have abnormalities without man's fingerprints being all over the big weather machine in the sky. And even if man is reponsible, it can hardly all be blamed on the government in power since last January. But none of that matters. Suburban middle class voters can't go skiing and will take it out on Stephen Harper's Conservatives if they don't get some quality time at the various ski resorts..."
"Today was the second day in a row a Tory staffer has said this to me: 'No snow, no election.' The Conservatives, they both said, can't win if people in Ottawa and Toronto and southwestern Ontario can't remember snow on the ground sometime between now and the March break because it gives credence to the idea that global warming is a fact and that it is getting worse under the Tories.
"Now, a good snow between now and mid-March doesn't disprove global warming any more than a green winter proves it. Weather patterns change and have abnormalities without man's fingerprints being all over the big weather machine in the sky. And even if man is reponsible, it can hardly all be blamed on the government in power since last January. But none of that matters. Suburban middle class voters can't go skiing and will take it out on Stephen Harper's Conservatives if they don't get some quality time at the various ski resorts..."
