I stand with Elizabeth May.
She is one of only two MPs with the backbone to face arrest in order to stand up for sustainability of life on Earth now and for our future generations.
Kinder and his buddy Morgan are Texas tycoons and not very nice people. They were executives of Enron who (if you remember) Enron cost their investors $60 billion. They don’t give a sh*t about spilling oil anywhere on the west coast or if it dribbles out of tankers all the way across the Pacific.
Cameco the former crown corporation that runs the university in Saskatoon owes, billions to Canadians in taxes because their profits go offshore. Many of these potash giants have terrible environmental and human rights reputations just as many huge corporations and their top executives have horrible histories with next to nothing for repercussions, clean up or restoration to compensate for their devastating activities.
These are international corporations in a world market Mecca of free trade zones they created for themselves. They pick and chose governments based on what they can get out of them.
Ask yourself how can these companies dodge environmental responsibilities, dump the liabilities back on the taxpayers and yet maintain such huge support from Liberals and Conservatives?
Our governments are in their pockets, so it’s pretty hard to be subjective when you’re on the payroll. Science, bribery, chemicals, genetic engineering or hollow election promises cannot fix this.
This system is not working for the people or any other life form that exists on the planet. Increasing numbers are becoming either military or climate refugees, more and more people are sleeping on the streets and falling through the yawning cracks, like being massacred in the public schools, finding war invading their own homes or just can’t get basic medical care for the sick, elderly or displaced.
We are vulnerable to forces we feel we cannot resist because of the endless drum beat that the economy, wealth and profits is the answer to everything. What about the Earth’s ability to provide the necessities of life? What about freedom from debt slavery and our shrinking ability to feed our families healthy food?
Why are we bending over backwards to get these corporations into our country? In Saskatchewan the fresh water now goes to industry. The newly minted Saskatchewan Water Security Agency SWSA now issues water rights licences. That is the right to our fresh water that supersedes human rights to that same limited water. Brad Wall did that in a little slight of hand when he changed the Sask. Watershed Authority to the SWSA.
We need conscientious, patriotic, courageous leadership with vision and we only have a hugely flawed democratic system to get us there.
We need way more Elizabeth Mays spread across the country and the world in every aspect of governance.Â
