Glorious Leader Stephen Harper reduces Canadian protected lakes and rivers from 2.5 million to 162
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The Harper Government has decided that blanket protection for all bodies of water in Canada is no longer appropriate, and the 1882 Navigable Water Protection Act will be scrapped in a bill before the House of Commons set to be passed in the omnibus bill.
Replacing it will be the new Navigation Protection Act, covering 97 lakes, 62 rivers and three oceans.
Everything else: It’s open season.
The report last week from Postmedia reporter Mike de Souza, found that this is part two of a measure to change the way the federal government treats waterways in Canada. “Previous changes introduced to the same law in the last major budget legislation removed pipeline projects from its scope,” he wrote.
The original Navigable Waters Protection Act prevents anyone from any construction that may interfere with navigation of any body of water in Canada. The original purpose of the act was to prevent dams, bridges and other potential blockages to transportation popping up without the government’s knowledge or ability to do anything about it.
The new act will eliminate these protections for the vast majority of water bodies in Canada.
While the government maintains that it’s about reducing red tape for everyday Canadians who want to build small footbridges and docks at vacation properties, the opposition argues that it’s part of a systematic destruction of environmental protection across Canada.
According to the federal government, the new Navigation Protection Act will: “From an environmental perspective, our waters will continue to be protected through the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act 2012, the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, the Species at Risk Act, and the Fisheries Act.”
The government presented the list of rivers, lakes and oceans that will continue be covered under the new act as past of 443 page PDF file. But extracting the list and plotting them on a map enables everyday Canadians to see how the treatment of their favourite lakes and rivers will change.
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Well Harper....
Fuck you and your Omnibus bill. This is the same bill that will put a minimum jail sentence on small possession of marijuana.
Ugh
2015 come faster
Well we've flipped over up a chunk of Alberta, stripped much of the east coast of all old growth trees, what is left now other than to open the doors to fucking up what will most certainly be the most important natural commodity in the coming decades.
America's largest national park is no longer protected, what a dick move Harper
WHAT
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HOW STUPID DO YOU EVEN HAVE TO BE
And this is the problem with a lack of gridlock and one party having too much power.
Harper
What are you doing?
Does Canada even have a big enough population to fuck up every newly unprotected lack and river there is?
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;38756899]Does Canada even have a big enough population to fuck up every newly unprotected lack and river there is?[/QUOTE]
No, but corporations have enough money to.
I don't even live in Canada yet this pisses me off. God damn.
Omnibus bill, psh, more like ominous bill right?
Who the fuck voted this man in
[QUOTE=The golden;38756855]Can someone please hurry the fuck up and shoot this man.[/QUOTE]
Or just vote him out of office democratically in 2015 according to the constitution of our country.
But yeah, murder works too.
[QUOTE=ThatSprite;38757196]Who the fuck voted this man in[/QUOTE]
old/ old rich people
First off, nowhere in that article does it mention 2.5 million bodies of water. Secondly, this act was not about protecting these waterways from environmental hazards, it's from a time when boats were still a main form of transport, and was only about preventing structures being built that may interfere with boats navigating waterways. This will have no effect on the environmental dealings of the waterways in Canada. The only thing these waterways were protected from was some structures, they are still and will still be protected from pollution.
And really, getting shot? That is the most immature thing anyone could suggest for a politician they dislike. Just because he has a different idea about how this country should be run than you, doesn't mean he deserves to die. That's immature and disgusting, and potentially illegal.
[QUOTE=The golden;38759552]Don't really have time to sit around and wait while he is systematically killing everything us Canadians are proud of and call home.[/QUOTE]
And I really don't think the appropriate response to this is murder, seeing as we aren't a blood-stained dictatorship but a democracy.
Also, Christ, over-exaggerating much mate.
[QUOTE=DaysBefore;38756407]Ugh
2015 come faster[/QUOTE]
Harper is still going to win. I just know it. People thought he wasn't going to get majority this time around, but he did.
[thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/Stephen_Harper_by_Remy_Steinegger.jpg[/thumb] The face of a cunt
Why don't Canadians rise up in a Trudeau-esque protest against this jerk? It's not just the rivers I'm tee'd off at, it's that PLUS everything else he's screwing up. Get a whole bunch of angry Canadians to go after this scab on canada's asscheek
[QUOTE=The golden;38759552]Don't really have time to sit around and wait while he is systematically killing everything us Canadians are proud of and call home.[/QUOTE]
Could you be any more of a drama queen? It's like I'm reading the comments section of a Toronto Star web article. I don't normally throw even small personal attacks out, but you're being completely ridiculous.
I'd laugh if Canada ended up the more Conservative than the US.
[QUOTE=Mingebox;38759987]I'd laugh if Canada ended up the more Conservative than the US.[/QUOTE]
Never going to happen. As much as people over-exaggerate Harper's policies as some kind of far-right insanity, his party is still roughly comparable to the Democrats in terms of political stances. The Tories are no Tea Partiers, despite what some people seem to believe.
[QUOTE=DaCommie1;38760053]Never going to happen. As much as people over-exaggerate Harper's policies as some kind of far-right insanity, his party is still roughly comparable to the Democrats in terms of political stances. The Tories are no Tea Partiers, despite what some people seem to believe.[/QUOTE]
His policies are still shit.
[QUOTE=laserguided;38760067]His policies are still shit.[/QUOTE]
Yes, but at least he's not trying to deny Canada's secular identity and actively campaigns against women's and gay rights (no, he doesn't, hasn't since 2006 and even then it wasn't an "active" campaign, look it up for God's sake if you still believe he does), like the GOP.
Whoa what a dick, this is terrible; I hope this won't entice too many property developments around those Canadian waterways... It looks a pretty place, even though I've never been there, and it'd be a shame to lose such natural beauty to some sort of industrial monster.
Also, there will likely be many sad beavers.
[QUOTE=DaCommie1;38760109]Yes, but at least he's not trying to deny Canada's secular identity and actively campaigns against women's and gay rights (no, he doesn't, hasn't since 2006 and even then it wasn't an "active" campaign, look it up for God's sake if you still believe he does), like the GOP.[/QUOTE]
Well, the Harper government did recently remove all non-christian prison chaplains in the name of "cost cutting" when it costed almost nothing compared to the Chrstian chaplains. Theres also this:
[URL="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/despite-legal-about-face-harper-has-no-intention-of-reopening-same-sex-marriage/article1358276/"]Despite legal about-face, Harper has 'no intention' of reopening gay marriage[/URL] and afaik he cut funding by large amounts to womens rights groups.
[QUOTE=laserguided;38760136]Well, the Harper government did recently remove all non-christian prison chaplains in the name of "cost cutting" when it costed almost nothing compared to the Chrstian chaplains.[/QUOTE]
Did they actively campaign to have God added to the constitution and to teach creationism in schools, and officially recognize the teachings of Christianity as the basis for all current and future laws in Canada, making the nation a Christian country? No, but several members of the GOP have in the US.
I'm also not saying I agree with this move either, there's been a lot of dumb things done in regards to Correctional Services Canada; like shutting down even the profitable prison farms, and cutting funding to rehabilitation, work, and education programs within prisons.
[QUOTE=DaCommie1;38760189]Did they actively campaign to have God added to the constitution and to teach creationism in schools, and officially recognize the teachings of Christianity as the basis for all current and future laws in Canada, making the nation a Christian country? No, but several members of the GOP have in the US.
I'm also not saying I agree with this move either, there's been a lot of dumb things done in regards to Correctional Services Canada; like shutting down even the profitable prison farms, and cutting funding to rehabilitation, work, and education programs within prisons.[/QUOTE]
I'm not comparing him to GOP, why are you comparing him the GOP. He is clearly subtly doing everything you said he didn't. Because he has majority.
I read Glorious Leader Step... and was excepting Glorious Leader Steps Down
this is much worse
i want a refund
[QUOTE=laserguided;38760201]I'm not comparing him to GOP, why are you comparing him the GOP. He is clearly subtly doing everything you said he didn't. Because he has majority.[/QUOTE]
I can't tell if this was supposed to be sarcastic, or what, because I've seen so many ridiculous conspiracy theories out of people I don't know if they're serious or not anymore.
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