[Section 15] Who's afraid of Elizabeth May? And, is she reading my blog?

The Conservatives, that's who.

Going further than my previous post, Elizabeth May knocks the ball out of the park refuting the Conservative's latest nasty press release:

...the second release from the Alliance Conservative Republican Party of Canada this week. This one was low even by Harper standards. At least I was in good company. This release attacked me as well as one of my heroes, Senator Romeo Dallaire, and two Liberal MPs who happen to be friends of mine, Garth Turner and John Godfrey.

The drive by smear of my reputation attacked my love of country. It claimed I had said Canada had the worst government on earth. The Harper lackeys claimed this showed "shocking ignorance of the deplorable human rights situations faced by other people around the world." I am quite well aware of shocking human rights situations. We held a press conference last week decrying the human rights abuses of the government of Colombia and urging that Canada not proceed with a new trade pact with Colombia. What I said at the Global Greens Congress in Sao Paulo (and anyone can see it on YouTube was part of a speech on climate change, setting out the response of governments around the world to the climate crisis:

"I am ashamed to admit that the Canadian government is now the worst in the world."

At this point, thanks to Prime Minister Harper's repudiation of the Kyoto Protocol, his government's fraudulent climate plan and his zeal for ever-expanding operations in the Athabasca tar sands, our government is the worst in the world. We are the only nation among over 165 that have signed and ratified the Kyoto Protocol to have an official government policy violating our international commitments. We are now under investigation by the United Nations for violating rudimentary reporting requirements.

What is galling about being attacked is that I believe Canadians are the most blessed people on earth, living in a beautiful and wealthy country, one that prizes community and shared well-being. I am fiercely loyal to Canada and regard receiving the honour of being an Officer of the Order of Canada as the greatest of all honours. (By the way, none of the other leaders have received the Order of Canada). Having received it, I stand on guard for Canada. So the gall of these nasty little minions in issuing a press release attacking my love of country began to raise my ire.

May goes on to quote the same Harper speech from 1997 that Mike from Rational Reasons pointed to in my previous post's comments, just above Jim Bobby's comment that he was going to get in touch with May over this...

Hey! Wait a minute...

Anyway, May thinks she's under attack because she's viewed as a risk. After all, she is running against Peter MacKay next election, and is a threat to his seat.

Will the Minister of Defense lose his seat to the first Green to ever make it to Parliament? I hope so...

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Posted By Mark Francis to Section 15 at 5/16/2008 05:16:00 PM