I think Ann Coulter is rubbing off on me. While reading one of her books I distinctly remember that the caribou populations in Alaska were growing dramatically and that they frolic next to the oil pipelines and that the warmth from the pipelines may actually make them frisky.
So while watching my recording of Question Period today, hearing Dennis Bevington, NDP MP from the Northwest Territories state that the caribou is a way of life to the north and that their way of life is disappearing.
I think what Mr. Bevington really dislikes is the fact that big oil brings big money and jobs and a cash based economy to his riding. This is a major threat to him since there is no way for the government to tax caribou. Once northerners start making money and getting taxed, they may not be so apt to vote NDP.
Keep lying to your constituents and the rest of Canada Mr. Bevington. Some of out here know the truth about the caribou.
If you can’t see the video by clicking once on the image above, try clicking on the link below.
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Based on the response, it doesn’t look like any NDP
member has done their homework.
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Sorry but I am a NWT resident and caribou hunter and the NWT herds have faced a critical decline lately.
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Alaska isn’t part of Canada. You need to do your homework 😉
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1) I never said Alaska was part of Canada.
2) The fact remains that when the Alaskan pipeline was built, the Caribou population started going up in the area.
i.e posters like ones saying “oil pipelines are to caribou what the railroad is to the buffalo” are falsehoods no one should be promoting.
For Bevington to tie the Caribou to tax breaks for large corporations is riduculous. He would better off tying it to the number of hunting tags sold.
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I just stumbled across this site, and man…are you for real? I’m not talking about the caribou thing – but you’re a big Ann Coulter fan?? What the hell, man?
You say your website stands for “deflating those that our society chooses to shower with press, praise and perfume (not to mention MONEY) for being imbeciles”. What a hypocrite! Ann Coulter gets tons of cash for being “pretty” (of course that’s debatable :P) and _controversial_. She’s a parody of American media (are you a big fan of Fox news?). It’s sad to see a Canadian (are you really Canadian?? Or did you move here from the States) of all people pandering to her words.
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Paul your argument is invalid. One premise is that Ann is arguably pretty and controversial. Another is that I deflate those who are imbeciles. And your conclusion is that I am a hypocrite. Nowhere do those two premises amount to your conclusion.
As for watching Fox, I watch CPAC, CBC (despite it’s bias) CTV and I read numerous blogs and Canadian newspapers online. I rarely watch any American news channels as I much prefer to support Canadian broadcasters thank you very much. I do watch the Daily Show. Does that blow your theory about me out of the water?
I am also a very staunch Canadian who sees that our nation is heading down the road to socialism which is a shame. If you ever are in Ottawa, feel free to drop me a line, I’d love to take you out for a beer and discuss the goings on in our country.
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Woops I didn’t mean to feed the lefties… I considered voting for Bevington to ensure the liberals didn’t get in but my hand couldn’t make the X come voting day. The NWT’s solution to the caribou problem has been to reduce resident hunters limits to two bulls and allow native hunters to continue to have unlimited access. A typically Canadian race based decision and aimed to look like action and have no real effect on the problem.
Caribou are pretty resilient and when I lived in Iqaluit they lived all around the town with no apparent ill effects except for easier access by a few idiot “hunters” who wouldn’t have bothered travelling the wilderness to get the game.
I can’t for the life of me understand how a well managed pipe line with raised sections to allow for migration would damage the caribou in any way. What has happened is that enviromentalists from the cities (read no clue) have strengthened the arguments of native politicians who want to wildly inflate the costs of development to there cultural resources so they can get the biggest possible peice of the pie.
This energy will quite likely kill the Mackenzie pipe line and many more generations of state welfare will be the result. The NDP will rejoice as it likes to pretend that the government can cut a cheque to solve any problem and evil development or wealth creation is not really needed.
Thank Christ for Alberta.
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Greg, that was a very well written commentary. I think with all the oil in the Arctic, and the minimal effect a pipeline has as it is a thin line across thousands if not millions of acres, that the hope of bringing prosperity to NWT the way Alberta has seen it and the way Newfoundland is starting to see it is desperately needed.
The rest of Canada can help by cutting those checques but the need for the NWT to reach prosperity with it’s resources will help many more Inuit and Northern Canadians reach that self actualization that is needed.
The NDP position to promote survival on the migratory caribou is simply another way of promoting the high suicide rates. NWT needs our checques to build a pipeline not a welfare line.
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Ha ha, I actually happen to live in Ottawa. Interesting. I’ll consider your proposition.
I’m curious to know what you think an ideal alternative to socialism would be. Capitalism? Please.