| Nom | Kirsty Duncan |
| Circonscription | Etobicoke-Centre |
| Intérêts | Highland dancing, piping (bagpipes), running, triathlons |
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Mon histoire
Kirsty Duncan is the MP for Etobicoke North, and serves on the House of Commons Standing Committee for the Environment. She is formerly: a health studies professor at the University of Toronto at Scarborough, where she taught infectious disease and women's health; and a a geography and geology professor at the University of Windsor, where she taught climate change, climatology, and meteorology. From 1992 to 1998, she planned and led an international expedition to Svalbard, Norway 500 miles form the North Pole to search for the cause of the 1918 Spanish flu, which killed 50 million people worldwide in 1918-1919. In 2003, Kirsty wrote a book about her expedition, entitled 'Hunting the 1918 Flu: One Scientist’s Search for a Killer Virus', which led her to her teaching corporate social responsibility at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. In 2008, she published a second book, 'Environment and Health: Protecting our Common Future'. Kirsty was proud to consult to Environment Canada, and honoured to serve on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an organization which won the 2007 Nobel Prize with Al Gore.Publications récentes
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Kirsty Duncan posted an update posté il y a 8 mois 1 semaine
Hello all,
Last day of constituency week, and I hope that you have all had a good week!
I thought you might be interested in a piece I did for IPOLITICS on Monday regarding cuts to three research stations–the Experimental Lakes Area, Kluane Lakes Research Station, and…[En afficher davantage]
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#ELA
I came across this today: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/closing-of-experimental-lakes-area-called-a-travesty-as-feds-move-to-dismantle-buildings/article9846568/It left me with a lot of questions.Why are they dismantling it? Have they no intention of selling it? Have they not thought about the costs of clean up versus keeping…[En afficher davantage]
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Kirsty Duncan posted an update posté il y a 4 mois 4 semaines
#environment-2
Good morning all from a snowy Toronto,
Here is a new article I wrote on climate change which was published in the Hill Times two days ago should you be interested:Sending good wishes,
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Kirsty:
An excellent article ! Good job !I hope the leadership candidates are aware of your views. I find in general they think the caring for the environment is keeping our lakes and streams clean. There is very little mention of our atmosphere and reducing our carbon PPM.
Martha Hall Finlay is pushing for sustainable oil sands development. I…[En afficher davantage]
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Kirsty: You make compelling arguments in your well considered article. Why would anyone be surprised that the HarperCons are watching the hole and not the donut? For example: The tar sands are a natural spill that pollutes irrespective of development, hence, it would be environmentally diligent to clean it up. The entrepreneurial spirit overcame…[En afficher davantage]
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Kirsty Duncan posted an update posté il y a 4 mois 4 semaines
#environment-2
Dear Michael, Ken, and Lloyd,
Hello, and thank you as always for your contributions.
I am glad you received some answers during the debate.
Lloyd, you asked what concerned citizens can do–I have a number of climate change and environment petitions you could get signatures for–if you call my office at 613 995 4702, Diana can send…[En afficher davantage]-
As I mentioned before, Deborah Coyne is the most knowledgeable candidate on Global Warming. So she gets my vote.
Now in the Vancouver debate, most candidates got on the “sustainable development” bandwagon but you could tell they had no idea what they were talking about.
One candidate was talking about mining the tar sands in a “more…[En afficher davantage]
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Kirsty: Thank you for the advice. I shall take it.
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Dear Lloyd,
Do let me know how I can be of service!
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Kirsty: You seem to be well on the way to serving effectively: I envision that you will share how you are defending our environment and I shall shall share with you my knowledge and skills such as they are to help you. Who knows, we may get a coordinated and hence, effective action if others join in. Thank you for your efforts and best wishes ….
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Kirsty Duncan posted an update posté il y a 4 mois 4 semaines
#environment
Hello all,
I promised Lloyd some ideas of how to get your voice into Parliament.
These are merely a few ideas to get you started—I am sure you will have many more.
Yours truly,
Kirsty
Speak with one voice. Can there be a single voice for, for example, climate change? It is powerful when you can say, x number of organizations came…[En afficher davantage] -
Kirsty Duncan posted an update posté il y a 5 mois
#environment-2
Hello, warm wishes, and HAPPY NEW YEAR one and all!
I sincerely hope that you had a beautiful holiday, and wish you health, happiness, and success for the coming year.
I owe you all an apology, as my contributions dropped off considerably as the Parliamentary term came to a close.
My New Year’s resolution is to do a better job of…[En afficher davantage]-
Kirsty:
I will go through your articles later today.
But the people who should be reading your material are the leadership candidates.
Deborah Coyne mentions a “carbon tax” as number 12 of 23 priorities.
Martha Hall Finlay just added a “price on carbon” to her platform probably in response to Stephane Dion’s presentation at Montreal. I…[En afficher davantage]
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Kirsty, i’m pretty sure you are on side for a price on carbon probably in the form of a carbon tax, but why is your buddy Justin dragging his heels on this so much? Or is this just politics? I can’t say i’m an admirer of his reticence on the issue. If he has another way of bringing down emissions he sure isn’t saying it anywhere i’m looking.…[En afficher davantage]
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Well i guess he answered that quetion in the debate. At least he is for a price on carbon of some kind
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Ms. Duncan: Thank you for your report. A quality document and most helpful references , notwithstanding, we are disappointed yet again with this government’s incredible profit priorities at the expense of life, health and our future. To add insult to injury, the lack of FN consultation of environmental structures and functions and introduction…[En afficher davantage]
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Kirsty:
I wanted to comment on your article “Climate change is speeding up — we’ve got work to do“.I think its insufficient to study how the FNs and other can adapt to the melting of the tundra etc.
According to my understanding of the science we have about 3 years left to start making significant reductions of our carbon emissions or we will…[En afficher davantage]
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Sorry Michael,
I am answering between constituency appointments–so I apologise for this being short.
Thank you for your comemnts and your interest-please understand there are eight articles on climate change alone-many discuss what is needed at the broader level. The Arctic piece focused on strictly Arctic issues, and the need for the Environment…[En afficher davantage]
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Kirsty Duncan posted an update posté il y a 8 mois 3 semaines
#environment-2
Hello all.
A quick note before I go to the House.
I thought you might be interested in the most recent piece I wrote for IPOLITICS concerning the government`s failings on climate change and ozone depletion, please…[En afficher davantage]-
Kirsty: That’s a great post in IPOLITICS. You mentioned that scientists are unsure about the effects of ice depletion. But I think most scientists are agreed about the Albedo effect whereby ice reflects the sun and water absorbs it. So the likely effect is more warming and more melting. The only question is whether we have hit the turning point…[En afficher davantage]
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I think we all know that The Harperites view environmental protection as an added cost rather than necessary for the preservation of our lands, water and air for future generations – so there is no ‘must’ about what they should be doing in their eyes.
We also know that Canadians pay lip service to the environment while judging the government’s…[En afficher davantage]
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Not likely that the average person is going to react until it hurts. The other trouble is that the average tax payer is the one everyone wants to penalize for pollution, via carbon tax etc, but it is the bottom line of the producers that need to be punished before they clean up their act and the resulting costs start being reflected in the end…[En afficher davantage]
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Donald: There is no way of penalizing the producers without penalizing the consumers.
If we tax at the well head, they pass the costs on to the consumers anyway.
The problem with taxing at the well head is the government must submit to $millions in litigation while the oil companies fight over the amount of carbon in their bitumen.
If we tax at…[En afficher davantage]-
Michael, in a way I agree with you, but I also just feel that we have to find a way of controlling the oil companies, at the well head sort of, because they have too much power, and a carbon tax at the pump would take many decades to move to alternative choices, notwithstanding that our current politics might just give the added carbon tax back to…[En afficher davantage]
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Donald: I think the carbon tax would have to be introduced with a great deal of fanfare so people would respond more quickly to the intent of the carbon tax. In fact the fanfare may be more important than the tax itself.
The fanfare would outline how the carbon tax was intended to get us to a) conserve energy by driving a more efficient car…[En afficher davantage]
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Carbon tax may be fine if the tax collected can be well defined as to projects it will sponsor, including education, clean cars, and energy efficient buildings. There would have to be a serious tracking of the tax and where it is spent.
Electric cars in of themselves are great, but the electricity has to be produced. Even now people are taking…[En afficher davantage]
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Donald: I may not agree with you on your finer points but I agree with you on the larger point about getting the Liberal Party on board. We have Kirsty Duncan on board but the top people do not really grasp this topic. People like Justin Trudeau are unlikely to ever grasp it.
It will be interesting to see if this ever comes up at the leadership…[En afficher davantage]
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Interesting indeed, we will see if we have a truly new party, or same old.
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The situation will continue to get worse until we elect a government that understands that (1) resource development can be achieved in a way that is both environmentally and socially responsible and (2) that good environmental science cannot be turned on and off like a tap but needs to be continuously supported over the long-term in order to…[En afficher davantage]
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Harper has his head in he sand when it comes to climate change and is unlikely to alter his beliefs. Our clurrent political system almost guarantees his re-electiion. It is time for non-conservatives to put aside their egos and work together to defeat Harper at the next election. Either forma single left-of-centre partiy or run a single…[En afficher davantage]
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Gordon: The youth loo at the bird in the hand. Harper offered them day care through the mail and they took it even though the environment would take a hit.
We have to offer benefits today while caring for the environment if we want the voters to get on board.
We also have to accept that mining normally wrecks the environment, there is no nice way…[En afficher davantage]
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Hi Kirsty
I have been seeing a great deal of information being posted on the internet regarding research work that’s taking place in Alaska at a facility called HAARP. Because there is so much information from various sources and some very alarming interviews by people who seem to know what they are talking about, I am making a request for you…[En afficher davantage]
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I think Dr Garneau had something to say about that here fairly recently. Good luck with asking Kirsty to bring it up in the house, when we can’t even get the govt to schedule any debate over our investment deal with China.
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Hey Ken nice to see you still pretty active on here.
I just wanted to let you know the reason I am asking Kirsty regarding HARRP is because she recently attended a gathering of people involved in the science of induced weather manipulation. I thought she may be a bit more in tune than Marc regarding HARRP as a result.
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Did she have anything to say yet?
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still waiting lol
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Dear Robert,
Hello and warm wishes.
I apologise for the delay, as it has been a very busy week.
I am afraid that I have attended no such meeting. I do do disaster risk reduction–but that is about preparedness, response, and recovery, and does not involve weather manipulation. I will post my OP questions on DRR at the bottom of this post for…[En afficher davantage]
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Sorry for the mis perception of the seminar you recently attended Kirsty. I had really understood that it had to do with curtailing disasters caused by weather systems and what not. Which no that you explain things in detail, I now realize the misconception I had of your work.
Thanks for your post its very very informative as to what kind of…[En afficher davantage]
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In regards to HAARP. I am concerned some of the cuts and the discontinuing of certain scientific projects and or facilities may be related. Because of some of the information some of these programs provide us with. According to Dr Nick Begich the less monitoring of our atmosphere and related data collection, the less we know about why and what is…[En afficher davantage]
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Kirsty, a very informative article, thank you. Has the LPC a new policy to address this issue that we can campaign on, aside from simply criticizing the CPC, which of course is also needed? I would like to see criticisms followed by the “LPC would do this differently…..” and how.
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Chevrolet has introduced the “Volt” which can go about 60 miles on a charge. So if you are a commuter who goes nowhere on weekends, you can run the car on about $2 worth of electricity per month.
But if you occasionally want to make long trips, you have to be able to use gas, so you end up with a hybrid if you want to serve a reasonable…[En afficher davantage] -
John: We have 2 rail way lines across Canada already but the market still often prefers trucks.
I think we should see why many businesses use trucks instead of rail and get the rains eeting that need.
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The reason why industry prefers trucks, in four words: just in time delivery. Rail is suited to transporting large amounts of goods across vast distances, but to make it work for industry, the factory needs to be set up on a branch line. Then to make it worth the cost, they need to order sufficient quantities of parts/merchandise which takes up…[En afficher davantage]
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Hugh: Yes, its true that our trains today cannot compete with trucks because freight cars have to be shunted into an proper configuration, then the train drops off freight cars and picks up new ones with this shunting operation as it moves across Canada.
Now wouldn’t it be nice if trains had freight cars with independent power such that the…[En afficher davantage]
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Kirsty Duncan posted an update posté il y a 9 mois
#environment-2
Good Saturday morning everyone.
Michael, I am glad you found the articles on climate change–if any of you are interested, you can google my name and IPOLITICS, and see what I write concerning the environment.
Michael, thank you for your profound concern re climate change; I share this deep concern, as this is the most pressing…[En afficher davantage]-
Hi Kristy: I truly am glad to read that you are active in informing people regarding the seriousness of this issue. The lake that I live on is classified as tidal water so I am especially worried about the threat of rising ocean levels.
I believe that the town of Truro, Nova Scotia is exceptionally vulnerable because the Bay of Fundy has a…[En afficher davantage]
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Hi Kirsty – It was great meeting you Friday night at the Red Tie Gala – loved your talk – please keep it up – we need to let Canadians know that it is in their power to do the things needed to help slow down global climate change. Ray
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Ray, Kristy, after I came back to Nova Scotia from Ecuador I went through a process where I looked and looked and researched all of the major political parties. Although my dad and mom and grandfather and older brother always wanted to vote Liberal if given even a half reasonable reason to do so…..still I had to look around before picking a…[En afficher davantage]
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Hi Kristy: I think we need to deal with the ever increasing population on our planet. No one is talking about curbing population increase which is the lead cause of climate change as far as I am concerned. I know the topic is not very unpopular, but that is reality.
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I admit that I may well be guilty of political and intellectual cowardice but I am convinced the such a paradigm shift in green technology is theoretically possible that this earth could fairly easily accommodate double its 7 billion population IF PEOPLE and industry WERE GIVEN truly green technology to work with????!!!!
I have to admit that I…[En afficher davantage]
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Dennis & Kristy:
Dennis I may not fully comprehend what you are talking about fuel cell technology which presumably will help use less resources.
I for one attiibute cancer with over population as we try to cope with producing food that is cheap but in depleted soil. Soil for instance that lacks in selenium concentrations inour daily bread as an…[En afficher davantage]
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Great article Keshav. I had never previously read about the link between high blood pressure and our resistance to insulin!
Dr. Mercola:
“High blood pressure is typically related to your body developing resistance to insulin. As your insulin level rises, your blood pressure rises. Most physicians – even cardiologists – do not understand the…[En afficher davantage]-
Wow, I had always thought that fructose was a better sugar than glucose, because I assumed that fructose was made from fruit!!!!
“According to Dr. Johnson, there is one major factor linking ALL of the health problems listed above: high dietary fructose. While sugar (sucrose) is a major source of fructose, it may not be quite as bad as high…[En afficher davantage]
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Dennis: I have thought of living out my remaining years in Vilacamba. It is a nice area, but as you can see as more of people go there and settle eventually the soil is likely to get exhausted due to agriculture. There is no renewal of minerals in the soil once depleted. That is what has happened in north Aemrica, in additon to use of fertilizers…[En afficher davantage]
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Creating and transporting the hydrogen necessary to fuel 50% of today’s vehicles would create more greenhouse gases than those vehicles do today. In addition, ships and aircraft cannot use hydrogen.
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Follow this article back through the links and you may find yourself having much more hope for the future of hydrogen as an alternative to oil.
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Keshav – thank you for having the courage to raise this – the problem lies with the major organized religions which continue to promote population growth. How does one change what comes out of the mouths of the religious leaders – who are supposed to represent the moral high ground?
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Seeing as Canadian population growth is a product of immigration not the birth rate (which is approx. 1.7 children per female) in Canada, I would argue that Canada is already contributing towards reducing global population growth. Two projection scenarios proposed by the UN regarding global population growth even suggest that global population…[En afficher davantage]
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Jonathan: Yes, immigration to Canada is hardly a neglible speck in the international growth of population. But I do see growth all around me. Cities grow with time and pave over agricultural land. Look at north of Steeles Ave in Toronto. When I came to Canada it was prime agricultural land. Now it is paved over with wall to wall housing. We lost…[En afficher davantage]
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The comments
about over-population being our main problem is right on the mark. All other solutions are band-aids compared to the urgent need to reduce our population. Fewer people means fewer resources consumed, fewer toxic emissions, lower impact on agricultural land….One could go on. Unfortunately. none of the major religions have…[En afficher davantage] -
Right on, one can connect almost all of our health, economic, and social problems with population growth. I have noted in many of my postings that I consider the need for growth as a key fallacy issue with our political system, and as long as we accept immigration from countries who have religious ideals that promote growth we are contributing to…[En afficher davantage]
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Kirsty Duncan posted an update posté il y a 8 mois 3 semaines
#environment-2
Hello all,
Finally back to TO.
Thank you for your postings, and I am glad you liked the piece.
There is a war on science–cut the scientists,cut the monitoring, muzzle the scientists.
We have lost PEARL this year, and may lose Kluane and ELA in the future; why would a government cut important research stations? ELA requires just…[En afficher davantage]-
Fascist governments try to silence the scientists and the artists; anyone concerned enough to stand up for truth or justice really. Like a member commented about environmental legislation being viewed only as unnecessary cost of doing business, things like accuracy of information or the wants and needs of the common person have no utility to the…[En afficher davantage]
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Kirsty Duncan posted an update posté il y a 9 mois
#environment-2
Hello all,
Inspiring to see such engaged people!
Dennis, sorry having difficulty posting by your comment.
Arctic sea ice keeps the polar regions cool and helps moderate global climate.
As sea ice melts in the summer, it exposes the dark ocean surface. Instead of reflecting most of the sunlight, the ocean absorbs 90 percent of the…[En afficher davantage]-
So, humans need to adjust to the potential of more habitable land to the north? On the other hand there will be masses of floods, changing the shapes of our continents.
On the whole, Canadians above the 49th parallel may be in a fairly stable region (re:safety)?
The global repercussions are beyond the imagination of regular folks like us! (And…[En afficher davantage]-
Hi Catharine: You are right Canada’s climate may benefit in some ways from Global Warming but the big issue is Extreme Weather which already a problem with record flooding in Manitoba and British Columbia; and very dry weather in Ontario.
But overall the Liberal Party has been pretty luke warm on the subject of Global Warming. I don’t think…[En afficher davantage]
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Kirsty Duncan posted an update posté il y a 8 mois 4 semaines
Dear Catharine,
Thank you for raising, like Ray, the importance of climate change.
Canadians should also demand to know why the government continually fails to meaningfully address the threat of climate change, which is serious, urgent and growing.
Nine of the 10 warmest years in the modern meteorological record have occurred since the year 2000.…[En afficher davantage]-
Kirsty: It is remarkable that we never hear from Bob Rae on this topic. I am afraid we will have to hope that the NDP take on this issue because even though you are sincerely interested, I don’t think the Liberal Party cares very much.
Putting it another way. We have about 4 years to start reducing our global emissions. I am afraid that the…[En afficher davantage]
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The Liberal Party cares very deeply about climate change.
And while many still focus on the causes and on reducing emissions, true leaders are now mostly concerned with adaptation plans to cope with the inevitable negative consequences of industry, labour, ignorance and spite, let alone ineffectual governance.
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David:
Global Warming was not a big issue in the last election with Michael Ignatieff. We had some statements in the back of our material about “Cap and Trade” which would never get off the ground. It was not a primary issue.
I believe we need a Carbon Tax at the retail end to get people off fossil fuels and onto wind, solar, nuclear and bio…[En afficher davantage]-
Electing Liberals is the current approach to that.
If ur wanting something more effective than that then there is always ’time eternal’ with a side-plate of faith. : )
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David: I hear more from Thomas Mulcair acting against the Northern Gateway Pipeline then I do from Bob Rae.
Voters can’t be asked to vote Liberal because someone tells then to ”believe”.
We must have an up front plan as to what we are going to do about it.-
Teams upon teams need to be prepared to clean up the mess during production and after when most of the spills will occur. Wildlife relocation efforts and adaptation engineering should also occur if for some reason they decide to actually build these imbecilic ideas. : /
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David: The more critical aspect of the Northern Gateway is its impact on Global Warming. Even if they don’t spill one drop, China will put that carbon into the air. I don’t see this issue being raised by the Liberal Party.
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With respect David, it sounds like you’ve never even st foot on the central and north coast of BC. It is a fearsome place in the winter months and some years in the summer too. By enbridges own admission the skim and boom method the propose to deal with any spill will not work in waves of more than 1′. It’s a joke. If there is a major spill on…[En afficher davantage]
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Kirsty, I have posted on this issue often enough and Michael has more eloquently then I, said similar things. I have asked several times, where is the real position of the liberal party on the Northern Gateway pipeline, tar sands, increasing production to sell to countries that will as Michael says, pump tons of pollutants into land sea and air…[En afficher davantage]
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Kirsty Duncan posted an update posté il y a 8 mois 4 semaines
#environment
Hello folks,
A short note before QP.
Thank you for your lively discussions.
Let me speak to our party`s position on climate change, and for Bob speaking up on the issue–even leading off with climate change in QP.
Under Mr. Dion, our party had the Green Plan, which would have got us 80% of the way to meeting our Kyoto targets…[En afficher davantage]-
Keep up the good fight Kirsty. You don’t have to convince ALL of the conservatives, even some leaning our way would be a major embarrassment for the govt, no? Do you have a good source for our previous green plan? And do we have or are currently putting together another green plan.
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Kirsty Duncan posted an update posté il y a 8 mois 4 semaines
#environment-2
Hello and warm wishes everyone.
I hope that you have had a beautiful Sunday.
I want to thank everyone for their time and effort they put in in contributing to the discussion–your ideas are appreciated and heard.
Because I am having difficulty posting (my computer is sometimes challenging), please forgive a summary response.
Ray, I…[En afficher davantage]-
Kirsty,
Being our environmental expert, I value your thoughts on the following proposal derived largely from the following article:
The Climate Threat We Can Beat
What It Is and How to Deal With It
By David G. Victor, Charles F. Kennel, Veerabhadran Ramanathan
Foreign Affairs May/June 2012The following quote outlines the articles general…[En afficher davantage]
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Kirsty Duncan posted an update posté il y a 9 mois 1 semaine
#environment-2
Hello everyone, and I so hope you have had a wonderful summer!
It is a week before we go back to the House, and I am interested in what is top of mind for you. Is it big questions about energy and the environment? Protecting our oceans? Prioritizing clean water? Cleaning up the air? Restoring our ecosystems? Ensuring environmental…[En afficher davantage]-
What most interests me is how we can turn environmental issues into economic opportunities. For instance, what we could be doing to strengthen the good work the LPO has been doing to create a clean energy industry in Ontario. Critics complain we’re subsidizing our power and selling the excess at a loss, but that means that unlike in 2003 when we…[En afficher davantage]
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A quick addendum. Critics of any environmental action on our part (i.e. participation in Kyoto targets) quickly point out that even if we reduced our emmissions, it means nothing as the US continues to consume oil, and China and India start consuming ever more themselves. That is why any environmental policy we promote needs to some how be…[En afficher davantage]
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Dear Hugh,
Yes, recognising the economic opportunities absolutely needs to be talked about more–for example, the economic opportunities of climate change.
I have mentioned this before–Canada missed a real opportunity with the economic stimulus–we invested $3 B in green infrastructure vs the US’s investment of $112 B and China’s $221 B. Who…[En afficher davantage] -
Hugh: I totally agree with you.
Ontario has gone down the solar path with enormous FITs not found anywhere else in the world.
I know that nuclear is not popular but to me it is the least of evils. The Liberals lost Rural Ontario in the last election because they don’t like driving past wind mills.
I think we should also be looking at using…[En afficher davantage]
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For me it has to be about the changes around environmental reviews, and how an earth provinces are supposed to take on the role that the federal govt used to in cases where the responsibility crossed over provincial boundaries or involved federally regulated waterways – as in NG. If i remember correctly the feds are still supposed to conduct…[En afficher davantage]
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I am extremely worried about the fact that the ice on Greenland seems to be reflecting much less solar heat back out into space than it usually does!
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Thanks Kirsty, I have added your articles to our Riding Microsite, in the ”Be Informed” series under the Issues menu item: http://lkm.liberal.ca/issues/informed-environment/
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Kirsty Duncan posted an update posté il y a 9 mois
#environment-2
Hello all.
The first week back in the House has been extremely busy,and I hope you had a very good week.
A week ago, we celebrated the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Montreal Protocol, while the government has gutted ozone science at Environment Canada.
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Kirsty:
Thanks for your notes and also the links to your other articles. All excellent.I happen to be overwhelmingly concerned about Global Warming and I know you share this concern. If we were to turn this into action plans, I would recommend 2 things:
1) Introduction of a carbon tax
2) Elimination of all fossil fuel subsidies.I know the…[En afficher davantage]
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Kirsty Duncan posted an update posté il y a 9 mois 1 semaine
#environment-2
Hello everyone!
Ken, glad you had a good summer.
I so hope I am not missing your posts–there seems to be a new thread.
If you are interested, I have a new piece out in IPOLITICS today on the government’s performance on the environment over the last…[En afficher davantage]-
This is a very important issue that needs to be addressed.
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Kirsty Duncan posted an update posté il y a 9 mois 1 semaine
Dear Ken,
I apologise–was having difficulty posting below, so have had to go to the top here.
Btw, it is lovely to hear from you–I hope you and your family had a good summer.
Ken, you raise important questions–I will paste from my dissenting report re the omnibus budget implementation bill.
Yours truly,
Kirsty“After a mere 16 hours to…[En afficher davantage]
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Thx Kirsty. Yes my family had a lovely summer touring through the Stikine, the Cassier highway and out to the Island. Got to ask a number of people what they thought about the NG in particular – opinion seems split,but lots of folks are definitely not happy with Harper’s approach to the environment.
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http://northword.ca/june-2012/green-mining
Came across this story while passing through. It’s unbeleivable that this sort of thing is still being proposed in important watersheds like this, or that a green alternative is so blatantly disregarded by the mining industry. It seems to me this is only a taste of what we can expect if we allow the…[En afficher davantage]
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Kirsty Duncan posted an update posté il y a 11 mois
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Good evening everyone, and I hope you are managing in the heat.
I have a new article regarding climate change in IPOLITICS today: “Extreme weather hits hard, costs taxpayers billions”.
If you are interested, you can read the article at:…[En afficher davantage]-
Great article Kristy….its extremely easy to comprehend and repeatedly drives home the incompetent environmental attitudes the Harper Government continues to hold on to.
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Kirsty Duncan posted an update posté il y a 11 mois 1 semaine
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Hello everyone.
I have had difficulty responding individually to Jerry’s and Robert’s comments–so please forgive this general response.
Jerry, I will look forward to your call–and Robert, if there is aything you wish to further discuss, you are always welcome to call my office at 416 747 6003.
Robert, thank you for sharing a…[En afficher davantage]-
Great. Thanks. Are you related to Dwight Duncan?
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Kirsty Duncan posted an update posté il y a 1 année
Dear all,
I promise this is the last posting–this one is from my last week’s column in IPOLITICS on democracy and the environment.
As always, I look forward to your thoughts, and promsie the two-way dialogue as soon as I can catch my breath!
Yours very truly,
KirstyCanadians Speak Out for Democracy and the Environment
The Canadian Association…[En afficher davantage]
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Kirsty Duncan posted an update posté il y a 1 année
Dear friends and colleagues,
Please find below my statement in the House for BLACKOUTSPEAKOUT:
Mr. Speaker, our world-renowned natural heritage is being imperilled by a government that is destroying 50 years of safeguards through Bill C-38 and Economic Action Plan 2012 – namely, severely cutting the budget to Environment Canada, gutting…[En afficher davantage] - En afficher d'avantage
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