May 17, 2010, while speaking in Calgary, Alberta:
“It’s not just a public relations problem. It’s a real problem,” Ignatieff added. “I don’t want to run against the oilsands . . . we have to hang together as a country and clean up the oilsands.”
January 15, 2010, while speaking to students in Vancouver:
“Let’s understand something about the Tar Sands. I was just about to say something before the demonstration started. One of the key things about politics, one of the key things about Canada, is that we can’t pick and choose which facts we like. The Tar Sands are a fact of our national lives. We have one of the largest proven carbon oil reserves in the world. The question is, what do we do to make it sustainable?”
By the time he gets back to Toronto, they’ll probably be the Tar Sands again.
I don’t want to spend too much time on the man with a -26 approval rating tonight, but I do want to point out that he did open his mouth again today, and what came out is pretty much to be expected:
“This is the life of an Opposition leader … my adversaries have done a number on me and that’s politics,” he said.
By contrast, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, he said, has an easier job by hiding behind “scripted” answers.
“When people ask me a straight question, I’ll try to give you a straight answer,” said Ignatieff.
There you have it, folks. The job of Prime Minister is easier than the Leader of the Official Opposition.
So not only is Ignatieff “just visiting,” he’s also pining for an easier desk job?
Well he’d better start “scripting” his answers too, because his off the cuff ones are killing him.
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“sustainable” What does this mean?
“my adversaries have done a number on me and that’s politics,” he said.”
And there you have it, a man that can never take responsibility for his own arrogant and personally spoken gaffes.
What a wimp!
“sustainable” What does this mean?
dillon, that’s Iffy speak for federal take over by constitution,
legislate and prosecute the hell out of the industry by the powers given the feds in the constitution.
To explain,
last year, Iffy sent his gang + constitutional lawyers into the enviro committee,
the committee targeted…the oilsands, specifically, water quality and the oilsands.
The constitutional lawyers were there to give opinion on Alberta’s jurisdiction and to tell the committee that the Fed govt has a ‘constitutional duty to regulate toxic pollution, prosecute leaking tailings ponds and implement legislation to reduce acid rain from oil sands operations’…
To find out what Iffy has in mind for the oilsands, check with:
http://www.ndp.ca/press/harper-s-choices-2010-conservatives-gut-environmental-protection
How can a finite resource be “sustainable” ? Obviously we are eventually going to run out of the oil in the oilsands.. That adjective is normally used in reference to wind and solar energy.
Anyway, it looks like Iggy is getting sloppy in how he strings together boilerplate Liberal bromides. Is the visiting dilettante getting bored with his temporary diversion into Canadian politics ?
It kinda sounds like Brad Wall came home with a committment from China to invest in the yet to be developed oilsands in Saskatchewan!!
Go Brad Go!
He is not the only one; he is trying to do what the other liberals do best say anything-go home- and the media will handle the rest by, re-decorating their/his statements.
Each Liberal have a style of their own. Look at Mark Holland who said on Charles Adler show. that the liberals will ‘shut’ down the oilsands.
Charles Adler ran that tape for wks. remember that one.
The Chinese have been investing hugely in the oil sands and their development already.
I guess they missed the National Geographic pictorial on how evil the oilsands are.l