Opening up climate change to partisan equivalency
Re Is talking about Climate Change a partisan activity?, Aug. 19 Has Elections Canada lost what is left of its tiny bureaucratic mind? The warning given by officials to environmental groups that telling Canadians climate change is real would be considered partisan election activity is a new low of paranoia. I thought Stephen Harper’s damage to Elections Canada’s credibility ended with the 2015 election. Clearly not. What next? If a candidate states that the Alberta oilsands do not exist, will it be considered partisan to state otherwise?
Elections Canada should stick to its knitting and find ways to ensure that everyone is on the voter’s list. Here in my former riding of York South–Weston only 70 to 80 per cent of potential voters are actually on the list. Nothing will be done to fix that and so thousands of voters in one riding will not receive voter cards nor information about where and when to vote. Disenfranchised voters is a far more serious problem than whether climate change is partisan. Mike Sullivan, former MP for York South–Weston Let Maxine Bernier tell Canadians whose homes and cottages flooded out, or had annual forest fires encroach on towns, or residents of the North, where polar bears are losing habitat, that there is “no climate emergency” in Canada.
Bernier’s stance is sheer ignorance and goes against the initiatives taken worldwide by countless nations to combat the effects of climate change. Elections Canada adds insult to injury by opening up the climate to partisan equivalency. Polls show most Canadians want governments to address climate change damage. Diane Sullivan, Toronto Dear Brilliant Minds at Elections Canada: Have you checked with Maxime Bernier about his opinions on the following:
• the speed of light;
• the 24-hour clock;
• daylight savings time;
• the number of minutes in an hour;
• the number of hours in a day;
• the number
of provinces in Canada;
• the existence of floods;
• the number of floods in each province, if Bernier decides there are provinces;
• gravity. Lynn Hutchinson Lee, Toronto