Who Forced Mr. Campbell's Hand?

ThePowerOfThePeople
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So, who really convinced British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell to make a bushel full of important green promises earlier this week in the Speech from the Throne?

Was it Al Gore, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jessica McDonald, or even the evidence-based, lunatic scientists of the IPCC?

Not bloomin' likely.

For, as Paul Willcocks eloquently points out, it looks like it was us peons, the people:

VICTORIA - What do you know, this democracy thing works.

The Liberal government's discovery of climate change, and the resulting extraordinary measures promised in the throne speech, didn't happen just because the premier got a look at China's sprawling cities.

It was you.

I can't recall another issue where the public has got so far out ahead of all the political parties and governments, which are now scrambling to catch up.


Which, based on the evidence so far, is a hard thing to argue with.

But now that the spin has been spun and media herd has moved on it's time for us, the people, to do the really heavy lifting, which is to make sure Mr. Campbell, or whoever comes after him, actually keeps the promises made.

Which will take a huge amount of vigilence.

Because, quite frankly, on matters that require the enactment of real programs and/or real regulations that actually benefit the greater good (ie. things that are not based on bloviation and/or bucketfulls of resourse extraction cash) Mr. Campbell's track record so far has been sadly lacking (see: Children and Families, Ministry Of, for example).

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