MIXING POLITICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Today's K-W Record (pg. A9) has an Editorial written by Mike Morrice, the executive director of Sustainable Waterloo. His editorial is titled "Vote will decide direction of our energy future" and refers to a 36 page document, authored jointly by the David Suzuki Foundation and by Sustainable Waterloo Region. He refers to their online report as non partisan and as I skimmed it this morning prior to posting here, I tend to agree. Yours truly was not non partisan prior to the Municipal Election, nor will I be so now prior to tomorrow's Provincial election. MY interpretation of this report mirrors my prior knowledge and understanding of four major parties namely Green, NDP, Liberal and Progressive Conservative. Again emphasizing two things: the following is MY interpretation of their report AND this ranking of four parties is in regards to their environmental policies not business, labour, education, financial, transportation or any other policies. I really don't think this will surprise too many people. Rock bottom environmentally are the Progressive Conservatives. All three of the other parties share significant credit in differing environmental areas. Perhaps the Greens are front and centre but again it is my interpretation that the NDP and Liberals are not that far behind. Feel free to read this report and make your own conclusions at www.sustainablewaterlooregion.ca/ontarioenergy.