Going green, it appears, is trendy again.
Brian Mulroney, perhaps the most despised PM ever, has recently been rewarded the mantle of most enviro-friendly PM ever. To his credit, he did mutter something in his speech about 'being the best of a bad lot...'
Brian Mulroney's old policy advisor, the Cape Breton environmentalist Elizabeth May, is now running for the leadership of the federal Green Party.
Stephane Dion is trying to rebrand the federal Liberal party as a political vehicle that is actually enviro-friendly - never mind that the outgoing government's rhetoric on Kyoto had a rather pungent odour of we-talk-so-we-don't-have-to-act.
In New Brunswick, the environment has suddenly been promoted to the top 5 of provincial government priorities. Sorry, licence plate motto enthusiasts, your crusade will have to wait 'till next year.
Even Vanity Fair, the glossy magazine devoted to consumerism and gossip, has come out with an inaugural GREEN issue. (ADBUSTERS, eat your heart out. Internet-inventor Al Gore is demurely sitting at the feet of Julia Roberts on the cover..)
So why, can anyone tell me, has Ottawa gutted Energuide, and left Elizabeth Weir to advertise Efficiency NB programs that are now about as effective as NB Power's energy advisors service?
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