Victoria dumps untreated raw sewage into the straight of Juan de Fuca. This occasionally made for some maloderous mornings, since the ocean sometimes churned up something nasty. I've been reading the Conservative Pocket Policy guide, a sort of abridged version of the policy document. In it, intersting information on all sorts of things, like environmental issues. For a long time, I've considered the Kyoto accord thing to be ok, but I didn't really know much about it. I though that could be used to drive innovation in environmentally friendy technologies, like using algae to scrub smokestack emissions. I haven't really looked into it, but it sounds like Kyoto means that Canada will have to spend money to purchase emissions credits from other countries, because we currently pollute well over our limit. The Conservative take on this is that this money would be better spent on developing environmentally friendly technology and other methods of actually reducing emissions. Another plank of the environmental policy is to "end the dumping of raw sewage into Halifax Harbour and the Strait of Juan de Fuca." Spiffy!
I was reading the BBC this evening, because it's sometimes interesting to get a perspecitive from outside Canada. They have a survey on there on how the election will change Canada's political landscape. I would say about 80% of respondents are really terrified of a Conservative governement. Most commenters seem to be taking Liberal spin at face value, and some complain that the Conservatives don't have a plan for things like low income house, aboriginal issues, the environment, etc. They clearly haven't even bother to look at the table of contents in of the Conservative policy document. Of course, these are politicians we are talking about, so taking everything at face value isn't smart either, but at least one can get a sense of where things stand. You would think that people who are interested enough in the world to read foriegn news sites would be able to download policy documents and make an effort to get aquainted with a party that is at the very least not as corrupt as the Liberals.
