Stern Warning!

The Green Party of Canada made front page of the Globe and Mail recently. It has risen to 11% in voter preference in Ontario, 9% nationally. With news this week that climate change will have a $7 trillion disastrous impact on the global economy -- according to the Stern Report written by former Chief Economist for the World Bank -- Canadians are waking up to the peril that our Liberal and Conservative governments are putting the future of our children and grandchildren in. This report was not from some environmentalist -- but a hard core economist. Mr. Harper wants to rip up the Kyoto Protocol while under 12 years of Liberal rule CO2 emissions rose by 25%. So our choice between the Conservatives and Liberals is horrific or terrible. We need a new way. We need to elect Elizabeth May, new leader of the Greens. Electing Elizabeth – will make ripples around the world and will really put London on the political map. Who best can represent the interests of Londoners, a leader of a political party -- or the alternatives that will end up as backbenchers?
A Liberal MP won't change the composition of the Commons. And London North Centre has never elected an NDPer. A Conservative MP won't change the balance of power in Ottawa. All the other parties won't make history -- and of course will be subject to "party discipline."
For instance, I note that climate change is not one of Mr. Harper's top five priorities. Neither is the fact that one in every two Canadians will now get cancer in their lifetimes. Neither is the decimation of fish stocks in our global oceans.
Source: lifted from Therese Hutchison, Green Party of Canada website, October 2006.