Climate Science
• What will you do to ensure that Canada’s climate scientists receive enough funding to research climate change?
• Will you support a dedicated funding stream for climate science?
• How will you ensure that government decisions are based on the data gathered by climate scientists?
Making Science Accessible
• How will your government ensure that Canadians have access to science research?
• How will your government make federally funded research available to the public?
Health Care
• How might Canada’s health care system be supported and strengthened?
• What will you do to ensure that Canadians have access to reliable information about evidence-based healthcare?
Evidence-based decision making
• How will you know that the evidence your decision-making is based on is sound?
• How will you help Canadians to better understand the difference between fact (science) and opinion?
Science Integrity
• What confidentiality requirements will your party place on Canada’s science program?
• How will your party strengthen Canada’s recently implemented Science Integrity Policies?
Canada’s Chief Science Advisor
• How will you support the work of Canada’s Chief Science Advisor?
• What will your party to support a coordinated national science strategy?
Having sent e-mail inquiries focused on strengthening and expanding Health Care to the riding candidates of what I regard as the four major parties, I have not received any response from the two front runners and pleas for donations to their political campaigns from the two others.
My questions concerned with expanding Health Care to “above the shoulders”, i.e. eyesight, hearing and dental work, were ignored.
So much for the candidates’ concern about their voters’ concerns. It tells me more about this election than I actually wanted to know…
As an interesting aside: The candidate of the so-called “Popular Party” denies without blushing that we have a climate crisis. And I do agree with him – because we don’t have a crisis – we have a bloody disaster! I can only hope that this ignorant gentleman has a house in Constance Bay that will be washed away in the flood coming next spring.
PPC platform on climate change;
Issue
The Liberal government is spending billions of dollars at home and abroad to fight global warming—or “climate change” as it is now called to account for every natural weather event and its opposite.
In order to lower greenhouse gas emissions, it has imposed taxes and countless regulations, it subsidizes inefficient and costly “green technology,” and it is blocking the development of oil resources crucial to our prosperity.
It is an undisputed fact that the world’s climate has always changed and will continue to change. Until twelve thousand years ago, much of Canada was under ice, and it is thanks to natural climate change that we can live here today.
There is however no scientific consensus on the theory that CO2 produced by human activity is causing dangerous global warming today or will in the future, and that the world is facing environmental catastrophes unless these emissions are drastically reduced. Many renowned scientists continue to challenge this theory.
The policy debate about global warming is not grounded on science anymore. It has been hijacked by proponents of big government who are using crude propaganda techniques to impose their views. They publicly ridicule and harass anyone who expresses doubt. They make exaggerated claims to scare people. They even manipulate school children, getting them to pressure their parents and to demonstrate in the streets.
Facts
Climate change alarmism is based on flawed models that have consistently failed at correctly predicting the future. None of the cataclysmic predictions that have been made about the climate since the 1970s have come true. No new ice age. No steady warming in direct relation with increases in CO2 levels. No disappearance of polar ice caps. No exceptional rise in ocean levels. No abnormal increase in catastrophic weather events. No widespread crop failure and famine.
In fact, CO2 is beneficial for agriculture and there has recently been a measurable “greening” of the world in part thanks to higher levels. Despite what global warming propaganda claims, CO2 is not a pollutant. It is an essential ingredient for life on Earth and needed for plant growth.
Our Plan
Given the uncertainties over the scientific basis of global warming, and the certainties about the huge costs of measures designed to fight it, there is no compelling reason to jeopardize our prosperity with more government interventions.
A People’s Party government will:
Withdraw from the Paris Accord and abandon unrealistic greenhouse gas emission reduction targets.
Stop sending billions of dollars to developing countries to help them reduce their emissions.
Abolish the Liberal government’s carbon tax and leave it to provincial governments to adopt programs to reduce emissions if they want to.
Abolish subsidies for green technology and let private players develop profitable and efficient alternatives.
Invest in adaptation strategies if problems arise as a result of any natural climate change.
Prioritize implementing practical solutions to make Canada’s air, water and soil cleaner, including bringing clean drinking water to remote First Nations communities.
Several large groups with direct or indirect concern for the environment has polled all the parties about their environmental platforms. You can find their answers here: https://election2019envirosurvey.ca/summary/?fbclid=IwAR2ZqLiEyU-4FbpCqsQ0-80yEAXJ8tgLRubRAoe7L_mTJxhZ1d-f_L-W7qU
I have 2 questions for the advisor:
1. Has the field of biology discovered a third mammalian gamete other than the spermatozoa and the ova that combine in reproduction?
2. Has the field of biology discovered a “in-between” mammalian gamete, between spermatozoa and ova that combine in reproduction?
Allow me to answer: NO.
Science in Canada is as horribly partisan as “anti-science” activists claim it is.
If SCIENCE wants to regain its lost respectability in Canada, it needs to stop being partisan.