Chicken Little Speaks

Goodale's latest column in the Leader Post is amazing in it's arrogance and lack of hard cold facts.

He's got all the basics down;

1. The obligatory reference to George W. Bush - "There will always be skeptics, like President George W. Bush, who simply deny every problem, but the hard evidence is compelling."

2. The liberal (small and big L) view that humans are bad and should be punished - "Is climate change real? Yes it is. It results from human activity. And it's serious."

3. The sky is falling scenario - "We see more damaging storms, droughts and floods, rapidly melting mountain glaciers, northern permafrost and polar ice-caps. Sea levels are rising, yet there are dwindling prairie water supplies. The devastation of Mountain Pine Beetles and other pests and diseases threatening agriculture and forestry. People and communities increasingly at risk."

4. The spin - "That's the "shift" -- taxing less the good things we want (like incomes, investment and innovation) leaving more money in taxpayers' pockets and boosting overall productivity, while charging something (for the first time ever) when pollution is dumped into the atmosphere."

5. The Big Lie - "When fully implemented, this proposed carbon pricing is expected to cost the average Saskatchewan household about a dollar-a-day. Simultaneously, the typical Saskatchewan family with two kids and an annual income of $60,000 would get their taxes cut by $1,350 per year (or $3.69 per day)."

6. The attack - "What about Stephen Harper's plan? Harper is proposing a punitive regulatory scheme. It would involve quasi-criminal penalties against all energy utilities, like SaskPower and SaskEnergy, the oil and gas industry, IPSCO Steel, PotashCorp, Cameco, cement companies, chemical producers and many others.

7. Identifying the real enemy - "Those who throw stones at Dion should keep a closer eye on Harper."

8. The incredible enlightenment of the Liberal Party - "We can show the world how to run a resource-based economy that is built for lasting success --one that is knowledge-intensive, environmentally sound, a magnet for world-class investment, competitive, rapidly growing and highly profitable."

Goodale has taken a page out of Barry Obama's playbook; enlightened platitudes, hand-holding and if the Liberals win the next election, all will be well with not only the world, but the universe.

Goodale's plan with destroy the Saskatchewan economy for the benefit of the Liberal Party of Canada and Goodale.

It's time to go, Ralph...