Canada's Sarah Palin emerges!

Canada's Sarah Palin emerges

While I understand why the opposition parties, including the Liberal Party, are trying to tie Maxime Bernier's 450-word climate change treatise in today's La Presse to Stephen Harper's inaction on the file, I'm not buying it. This is no trial balloon. Bernier is setting the groundwork to run for leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. This was all about Bernier and his political career.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/silver-powers/canadas-sarah-palin-emerges/article1480122/

Maxime Bernier has 'long history'
of climate-change denial

Maxime Bernier. The former Foreign Affairs minister is a climate-change denier from way back, Green Party Leader Elizabeth May says. And she wants Canadians to realize that the Quebec Tory MP’s views are “consistent with those of his boss.”

In a pointed letter to La Presse, Ms. May and her deputy leader, Jacques Rivard, write that Stephen Harper’s government does not believe the climate crisis is real.

She is responding to a bombshell in the Quebec newspaper today by Mr. Bernier, once a senior member of the Harper government, in which he argues there is no scientific consensus on the matter and applauds the Conservatives for taking a go-slow approach.


http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/bureau-blog/maxime-bernier-has-long-history-of-climate-change-denial/article1480179/

And here is the 'bombshell'.

Siding with skeptics, Conservative MP decries climate-change 'alarmism'

Stephen Harper’s sincerity in tackling climate change was challenged Wednesday after his former foreign affairs minister assailed what he described as alarmism over global warming.

The Prime Minister’s Office insisted Maxime Bernier was speaking strictly for himself. But opposition parties pounced on the Quebec Conservative MP’s comments to charge that the Harper government is finally showing its true colours as a climate change skeptic.

While opposition MPs depicted Bernier as doing Harper’s bidding, plenty of Tories in the blogosphere saw it as a daring break with official government policy and the first step toward staking out Mr. Bernier’s turf in a future leadership battle.

In a letter to La Presse newspaper, Mr. Bernier argued there is no scientific consensus on the matter and he applauded the Conservative government for taking a go-slow approach.


http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/siding-with-skeptics-tory-mp-decries-climate-change-alarmism/article1479747/


Is Bernier not only dumb enough to be a denier, but dumb enough to believe that Cons are going to elect him, a Quebecois, as party leader???

On an oil company board, long term. I think there is plenty of money to be made in the denial industry. It was the same with tobacco (i.e. denying the lung cancer link).

Any ex-cabinet minister can get board positions, even one as dumb as Bernier.

Some consultancy gigs, a "watching brief" a la Mulroney-Shreiber, other miscellaneous cushy positions. I think that's how the payoffs work these days.

Maybe there will even be a pasta machine in his future.

Apparently he said some time ago he'd make a better leader than Harp and intended to try for it.

Well, he'd be funnier anyway.

McKay or will it be all out war, lol. McKay thinks he owns top spot, actually thinks he has always owned it and has only let Harper borrow it for a while.

That's got to count for something.

I am going to withhold my judgment re him being another Palin until I hear the prerequisite, "also too, yabetcha, in what regard, Charlie," and having a wink, wink to compare. Without these, Bernier ain't got nothin', lol.

Goodness knows Bernier is big on the natty suits, the arm candy...and the ability to leave govt docs in his biker friend's apartment.

Quite the ego there, with nothing to back it up. ;)

And those suitcases look to be D cups.