Transparency within all our government’s decision making seems to be lacking

BY STEVEN KASZAB

Stephen Lecce wants to create partnerships across Canada tying into the massive discontent of the public and many of their public officials towards and regarding the green initiatives of the Federal Government.

The Green Carbon Tax is targeted by most provincial governments as economically suppressive and publicly unwanted. This movement continues to grow even when government officials gather together for the good of the nation like they did last week in Alberta. Rather it became a place where provincial officials ganged up against federal officials’ proposals regarding the energy portfolio. This happening in Alberta is not a coincidence but planned well in advance. Many of Canada’s energy rich provinces want an end to federal regulations and meddling in their provincial policy making. A continental movement towards greater state and provincial powers is reaching a climatic level, as some provinces see Quebec doing whatever it sees fit to do while all other provinces must toe the line of cooperation led by Ottawa.

The next Canadian election will have as an essential topic and platform provincial rights, energy and economic rights. The US election has these exact issues to deal with. While the federal government attempts to encourage universal policies in various portfolios, the regional governments demand for more legislative power and influence within their own territories. What is good for one region may well be unfavorable in another.

Minister Lecce and Ontario’s Ford government are placing all their eggs in one basket, the nuclear-hydro energy basket, promoting the distribution and establishment of small scale nuclear and hydro generation throughout Ontario and Canada as their own green energy plan. Forces of the progressive left and green activism will face off with all who purport that nuclear fission in Canada can be safe and the preferred green energy panacea. Works for corporate Canada, but the public has a long memory when nuclear power is concerned.

The industries safety, rods distribution and recycling, heavy water disposal, lack of trained personnel in the field all make the public shiver with distrust and historic confusion. Is nuclear power safe? Are the Conservatives closely tied to the nuclear sector in some way? Will hydroelectric power continue to rule Ontario’s Energy map? Conservatives like to deregulate these days and their preference in whom they could work with places the corporate world over the expertise of the public sector. Will climate change allow us to continue to rely upon hydroelectricity?

The main reason politicians gather as they did in Alberta was to publicly promote themselves, and to talk in secret about their agendas. Do you remember ever voting for the proliferation of nuclear power in Canada? Transparency within all our government’s decision making seems to be lacking, while the politician continues to spend taxpayers’ money willy-nilly.