Key issues. Alberta Provincial Election Debate. - Some notes
Carbon Tax and AGW
Anthropogenic Global Warming (not ‘Climate Change’ which is natural, real and has been with us since the beginning of geological history) is a gross and obvious fraud. The carbon tax places a massive impediment on Canadian trade and industry especially when dealing with an American administration that is wise enough to see it is a scam. It is a political and ideologlical agenda in support of a radical anti-human environmental cult without an ounce of scientific merit.
This cult has gone into a frenzy of hysteria as its become obvious that the Northern Hemisphere is entering a cyclical cooling phase that will likely last for several hundred years. That would be a reflection of the Mini Ice Age that gripped Europe from 1300 to 1700 (and of which we know nothing of its cause). The AGW industry uses selective evidence, demoguogery and lately the exploitive use of children to drive the debate to one based on pathos, fear mongering and sentiment and to subvert all reason and comprehensive assessment empircal evidence.
It misrepresents all weather anomolies as a function of AGW such as storms when they represent cold weather events. It simply makes up crises in polar regions. It has a slick publicity campaign fully supported by mainstream media that produces doomsday scenarios backed up by dirge like music to appeal to the lowest and most sensational of the debate.
Taxation
One of the worst proposals of the night was put out by David Khan, the Liberal leader, who proposed replacing income taxes with a uniform sales tax. This falls into the NeoLib/NeoCon obsession with replacing progressive taxation with regressive sales taxes. We need progressive income taxes that equitably shares the tax burden. Corporate taxes should be structured to encourage job creating investment.
Oil and Relations with the Feds
The key question of is NOT whether to build pipelines, but the level of refinement of the petroleum that is being shipped abroad. The issue comes down to a national policy on developing refining capacity and exporting value added product. Canada needs to invest in refineries more than it does in pipelines. Canada also needs to nationalize its petroleum resources and its primary refining industry. Unlike the Petrocan fiasco this retains the competitive, private intermediate processing, distribution, and, marketing of petroleum products.
Homosexuality
One the NDPs program to lock in and affirm transient homosexual and gender confusion into vulnerable adolescents beyond the approval of parents and the traditional religious views of some UCP candidates (notable Mark Smith, a Baptist preacher). This is the flagship cause the New Age. Something that has condemned millions to lives of morbidity, disease, futility, violence, depression, isolation, early death. Through the lie that homosexuality involves anything except sodomy and a willful rebellion against natural and supernatural law and individual responsibility.The lie that it is genetically determined and inevitable rather than willful and gratuitous.
No amount of legislation, political affirmation, ‘pride’ celebration, academic indoctrination will ever change the fundamental character of homosexuality. As an orientation it is intrinsically disordered, in practice it is a manifest evil, as an expression in faith it is a mortal sin. That is written into the moral source code of the universe by the Creator; beyond the authority of us creatures to change. Doing so will ruin lives and will disintegrate and debauch society.
The mere fact that this is even open to debate and that it forms a minority perspective is a sign of society in extreme distress. One that has lost all sense of its origins, identity, optimism, cohesion, future, and is wallowing in despair and dysfunction. Homosexuality is utterly corrosive to individuals, families and society.
A key intervention in developing healthy, family oriented sexual attitudes occurs with parents. They have a right to form those attitudes over those of an amoral and debauched political paradigm. It is unconscienable for the governmental and educational agencies to ‘determine’ a young person’s sexual orientation and ‘support’ its growth into a life of misery and loneliness. Most especially in the confused and trying circumstances of adolescence (or even pre-adolescence).
Other Issues
Proportional Representation, supported by the Liberal Party, was defeated in a referendum in BC by 62 - 38%. It has failed wherever it has been tried. Notably in Israel, which has never had a majority government. It ends up handing immense power to marginal, often one issue, fringe parties as ‘king makers’.
It hands power party hacks and petty ideologues snf away from the direct control of constituents. Preferential ballots (instant runoff) by far and away offers the fairest way to reflect the will of the majority of the voters. It most effectively returns power to the voters, and, most clearly focusses representatives responsibility to their constituents (as opposed to party operators, or, corporate benefactors).
Sum Up
It looks like the UCP is likely to win and likely the best option. I’m always suspicious of groups that call themselves Conservatives are really NeoConservatives.. laissez-faire ecomonic liberals, cultural libertarians, primarily interested in corporate welfare and obssessing about the deficit by imposing austerity. It leads to destructive policies of globalism, free trade, deregulation, privatization, regressive taxation. The last thing Alberta needs is a Reagan/Thatcher trickledowner.