Ripped from the Headlines: What's old is new

Vincent J. Curtis

29 Nov 2015

The following was ripped from this week’s Hamilton Spectator:

“The first minister’s meeting is not expected to produce any new national target for reducing [carbon] emissions or policies for achieving it.  It is aimed more at demonstrating a new tone….”

[Canada an environmental pariah no longer.  The Hamilton Spectator, Nov 24, 2016, p A10]

“The Liberal government revealed Tuesday now it’s approaching resettlement of 25,000 Syrian refugees in the coming months, a process that’s going to take longer and cost more than originally planned.”

[Liberals push back deadline on Syrian Response.  The Hamilton Spectator, Nov 25, 2015, p A1]

“Ontario’s long-term strategy to fight climate change came Tuesday with lofty visions, scant details, and an accusation of a politically motivated release.  The strategy….offers little new information about the Liberal government’s specific goals or how it plans to achieve them….’What we are announcing today is not the chapter and verse and details of the five-year strategy, it’s not the final design features of the cap-and-trade system…’said Premier Kathleen Wynne…Wynne acknowledged Tuesday there will be some cost to consumers…’There will be programs that will support people as they go through this transition…we just haven’t designed exactly what those programs will look like…”

[Ontario roughs out climate change plan.  The Hamilton Spectator, Nov 25, 2015, pA10]

“Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attempted to make a virtue of the hottest domestic issue on his plate Wednesday, using the international stage to pitch the Liberal government’s Syrians refugee settlement plan as a shining global example.”

[Trudeau promotes ‘inclusive diversity’ while touting lift of Syrian refugees.  The Hamilton Spectator, Nov 26, 2015, p A9.]

“Ontario’s Liberal government says it is now reconsidering medical marijuana exemptions to e-cigarette rules that are so new they haven’t even technically come into effect...”

[Province reconsidering marijuana exemptions.  The Hamilton Spectator, Nov. 27, 2015, p A11]

“Quebec’s health and justice ministers are saying they will forge ahead with the province’s right-to-die legislation…”

[Province moves of right-to-die legislation.  The Hamilton Spectator, Nov 27, 2015, ]

“LCBO going to pot not a bad idea.”  The Hamilton Spectator lead editorial, Nov 27, 2015, p A14

“It’s not often a politician gets accolades for breaking an election promise, but somehow Justin Trudeau to just that…”

[Sometimes breaking a promise gets is right.  The Hamilton Spectator editorial, Nov 27, 2015.]

It didn’t take long under Trudeau the Younger for the Liberal party’s customs of incompetence and mismanagement to return and overwhelm all levels of government.  Or for a sycophantic press to re-emerge.

The business of medical marijuana will be enacted despite there being no serious scientific evidence of its benefits.  However, those who voted Liberal will be able to self-medicate themselves into oblivion as the pain of Liberal party misrule gets worse.

And those whose pain gets too much to bear shouldn’t don’t worry.  An assisted-suicide law is coming down the pike!

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