Nice day for a walk..
What does it matter if Michael Ignatieff comes from Russian nobility?
What does it matter if someone seeking to be the Prime Minister of our Country is an elitist, without a true connection to the average Canadian?
Well, perhaps to see what utopian liberal ideas might bring us, what the ideas of people living in major cities without any connection with their rural neighbors bring - look to plans in Europe.
Perhaps, to see the future, look to the European Union today. On Monday the European Commission announced plans to ban personal automobiles using gasoline in European cities. It further announced ending low-cost air fair in Europe, seeking to force at least 50% of all travel over 186 miles to take place by rail.
All in an effort to reduce global warming.
While we see, first hand, the risk of moving electrical generation from carbon-generating facilities to nuclear energy in Japan, they embark on plans which would increase reliance on nuclear electrical generation.
Because people still need to get around. They need to move themselves from one place to another.
And if it isn't in conventional gas powered vehicles, it will be in electric vehicles.
And that means increased reliance on nuclear energy, unless they are going to continue to rely upon coal powered generation - which we know they hate.
According to the U.S. Energy and Information Administration forcasting expansion of nuclear power in the world, "Electricity generation from nuclear power increases from about 2.6 trillion kilowatthours in 2007 to 4.5 trillion kilowatthours in 2035, as concerns about rising fossil fuel prices, energy security, and greenhouse gas emissions support the development of new nuclear generation capacity."
Almost a doubling of reliance on nuclear energy.
Europe, in particular, will lead the way in seeking to expand use of nuclear power to generate electricity.
This is the new liberal utopia. It's worked out pretty well in Japan, hasn't it?
And reliance on mass transit is fine if you need to travel from London to Paris. But not everyone lives in major cities. Some people live on farms and in small towns. So, forget driving your S.U.V. in the middle of January from Saskatoon to Calgary. You see, some brilliant liberal environmentalist from downtown Toronto or Montreal will decide that there is no reason to have a personally owned vehicle capable of driving through a January snow-storm in Alberta or Saskatchewan.
Oh, sure, VIA Rail is a wonderful service - if you live in Southern Ontario or Quebec, where the rest of Canada gets to pay for commuter rail service for the privileged of Toronto and Montreal. There are six departures every day from Toronto to Montreal.
But if you want to jump on a train from Saskatoon to Calgary - you can't do it.
Ever.
There is no passenger rail service from the largest city in Saskatchewan to the largest city in Alberta.
Oh, all of Canada pays for VIA Rail, we just don't all GET VIA Rail.
So.
Get out your walking shoes.
Because the liberals don't want you to be able to fly or drive - and how that impacts you if you happen not to be an liberal urban elitist doesn't really matter.
THIS is why it matters who leads our country. Ignoring that Michael Ignatieff wasn't being honest when portraying his roots in poverty, which limited him to attending a prestigious private school as a child. The fact of his privileged upbringing, his lack of connection with ALL Canadians, leaves us open for urban visions of liberal utopia that you will get to pay for, from you wallet, and with the soles of your boots.
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