Liberal Environment Minister Jim Bradley secretive about Mississauga gas-fired power plant

Further to this post  and  this post...

Isn't it amazing how the St.Catharines Standard's Metcalfian wrong-righters have conveniently hahaha been 'unable to find' their local Liberal buddy, MPP Jim Bradley (McGuinty's newest Environment Minister) for an interview regarding the energy messes which the Liberals cocked up with those gas-fired energy generators in Oakville and Mississauga?

It's funny how the St. Catharines Standard just can't find the time to bother asking Good Ole Liberal Jimmy about it!!

At least the Nov.5, 2011 Waterloo Record had a good editorial on this issue; too bad the embarrassing Bradleyphiles at the St.Catharines Standard haven't... umm... bothered asking their hero Jimmy about any of this... 

"LIBERALS BUNGLE NEW POWER PLANT

Whether the Ontario Liberals keep building a new power plant in Mississauga or honour their promise to kill it, they have exposed themselves as inept managers of a major public project.
Either way, they will have botched an important part of their energy policy — an area in which they are supposedly experts. And if the Greenfield South gas-fired power plant is axed, they will waste a shocking amount of money — how much they refuse to say — in a year Ontario faces a $16 billion deficit. The people of this province are owed better.
Ontarians deserve a reliable supply of electricity delivered at an economical price. What they are getting, instead, is a new power plant that continued to be built this week on the very day that Premier Dalton McGuinty recommitted himself to moving it.
What an infuriating contradiction between deeds and words. Is this yet another shattered Liberal promise — which would justifiably infuriate people in Mississauga? Or does it mean no new electricity for Ontarians with a bill of millions and millions of dollars — which would justifiably infuriate just about everyone? How crazy is this?
The alarm bells have been ringing on this one for the past six weeks ever since the government made the sudden, surprising and suspiciously quiet announcement that construction on the Greenfield South gas-fired power plant would stop, with another plant built somewhere else.
The time and place of this revelation were disturbing. It was just 12 days before the Oct. 6 provincial election and it came from four Liberal candidates in the Mississauga area, the community in which the Greenfield plant was being built and was opposed by many voters. The most prominent of these local Liberals was Mississauga South MPP Charles Sousa, a cabinet minister who was in a dead heat with Conservative challenger Geoff Janoscik.
It’s impossible to say whether the cancellation of the Greenfield plant was the reason Sousa and the three other local Liberals were re-elected. Even so, the optics are terrible and leave the Liberals open to understandable allegations that they indulged in the crudest kind of electioneering and cancelled an unpopular project to win seats. This was, after all, a decision made by the politicians, not energy ministry bureaucrats.
It’s not good enough for the premier to say construction will stop, another plant will be built and no more. If work is to end, when will it stop? And why did top Liberal politicians only conclude that the plant was a bad idea on the eve of an election? Why was this plant approved in the first place? And didn’t the Liberals commit an egregious error in giving it the go-ahead? Tell us, please.
There are other nagging questions the Liberals cannot dodge. If the Greenfield plant is axed, where will its replacement be located and when will it be ready? How will the province, in the short term at least, meet the energy needs that the Greenfield plant would have satisfied? And how would all this affect the schedule for closing Ontario’s coal-fired generating stations — noxious polluters the Liberals promised to shut down years ago?
Finally, what will this cost? Eastern Power began building the Greenfield plant in March. The walls are going up. A massive generator was delivered by truck last week. Every minute of every working day, the bill for this project is soaring, a bill taxpayers will have to cover. The opposition Conservatives claim this plant could be worth up to $400 million and a good part of it is completed. What will Eastern Power expect in compensation? And what will the public have to show for what seems an unavoidable squandering of public money — other than another Liberal government?"
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No one from the St.Catharines Standard's JimmyBoy Fanclub will ever dare to ask their Boy Jim any questions about that!!
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NHS Supervisor Kevin Smith fails to acknowledge Liberal role in creation of the HIP

The Niagara Health System's Liberal-appointed Supervisor Kevin Smith is really starting to sound annoyingly like a government apologist hack.

In his Nov.5, 2011 St.Catharines Standard letter to the editor, Smith disingenuously refers to the HIP as the "Niagara Health System's Hospital Improvement Plan", yet, Smith's politically-correct statement is far from the truth.

The NHS did not come up with this HIP all on its own, Kev.

The HIP belongs to the Liberal government, Kev - y'know: the same McGuintyite monopolists who hired ya. The Liberals created the HIP, Kev.

The Liberals demanded the HIP, and they approved the HIP, Kev.

Three successive Liberal health ministers, in fact, were quite happy with the HIP, and did nothing to stop it, Kev.

The HIP - which you, Kev, coyly emphasize was 'the NHS's' - was forced upon the NHS by McGuinty's disastrous Liberal health minister George Smitherman.

The NHS was forced to create the HIP, we were told, so that Smitherman's Liberals could save money, Kev.

The Smitherman-created LHIN had the final word on approving or cancelling the HIP, Kev, when it was still only a proposal; the Smitherman-created LHIN then went on to approve the HIP, Kev... yes, the Liberal-created LHIN approved the same HIP which they had forced the NHS to come up with!

Kevin Smith now says he 'regrets he has been less than clear' regarding his seeming-reluctance to revisit the HIP (a reluctance which seemed quite clear earlier: that he wasn't interested in revisiting the HIP!!)

Kevin Smith should stop with his weaselly let's-not-look-into-the -past  BS and his "Canadian Way" rhetoric.

Smith must plainly acknowledge that the Niagara HIP was the work of his employers, the McGuinty Liberals.

The HIP was created by the Liberal party of Kim Craitor and Jim Bradley.

The 'NHS's HIP' was initiated by and approved by Kim Craitor's and Jim Bradley's Liberal government.

The 'NHS's HIP' is the Liberal's HIP, Kev. Why don't the Kevin Smiths and the Kim Craitors and the Jim Diodatis get that?! (!!!)

Kevin Smith must publicly demonstrate that he fully understands that the HIP was a Liberal-government-initiated political undertaking, not a NHS-originated medical undertaking.

If Kevin Smith cannot or will not acknowledge this fact, then everything he is doing here in Niagara will be suspect.

Kevin Smith is that close to now himself becoming a part of the monopolist health-care problem.
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Shhhh... do not disturb Liberal Jim Bradley...

Can readers of the St.Catharines Standard Bradley Buttlick expect Wendy Metcalfe's Wrong-Righters to ask local Liberal MPP - and now Ontario environment minister - Jim Bradley about this?
Will the Bradley Buttlick demand answers from Bradley about whether his Liberals' promise to stop the Mississauga power plant was just another Liberal lie?

Will Metcalfe's Bradley Buttlick ask Jim Bradley to reveal the cancellation costs to taxpayers resulting from the stoppage of the Oakville power plant in Oct.2010 and  (now, possibly, possibly not...?!) the Mississauga plant in 2011?

Brad Duguid stood up in the House at Queen's Park during question period, at the time the Liberals were cancelling the Oakville plant, and stated that Ontario DID NOT need any more power!!!
Will the Standard Bradley Buttlick confirm from Jim Bradley that Duguid was correct, that Ontario doesn't need any more power?!

As the Oct.7, 2010 Toronto Star wrote:
"After insisting for several years that the plant was necessary because of plans to phase out coal-fired power plants by 2014, Premier Dalton McGuinty’s government said the picture has changed.
“When the need for this plant was first identified four years ago, there were higher demand projections for electricity in the area,” said a statement from Duguid’s office.
“Since then, changes in demand and supply…have made it clear this proposed natural gas plant is no longer required.”
The Star also reported:“Not only will the plant not be built in the GTA, it won't be built anywhere in Ontario,” said Duguid.

Note carefully that Duguid was quoted in the Star saying the power from the proposed Oakville plant was "no longer required" and, that the plant "won't be built anywhere in Ontario"!! Was Duguid just outright lying?!

Duguid's statement essentially rules out ANY future power plants in Ontario - seeing as that electricity is transmitted cross-provice as well as cross-border!!  Oakville's or Mississauga's electrical power doesn't start and stop within the confines of the city!! Or was he talking only of gas plants, but not about expensive wind and solar farms? If we do have enough power - as Duguid claimed - then why are those expensive wind/solar farms still being built?!

Note also, that at the time Duguid was saying this - Oct.2010 - the (later cancelled!) Mississauga plant was STILL on the go!! So, did Duguid's statements about the suddenly-cancelled Oakville plant include or NOT include the power contributions which the still-on-track-at-the-time Mississauga plant would provide?

If the Oakville plant's power contribution was suddenly "no longer required" in 2010 (...btw, has the Bradley Buttlick bothered to ask Jim Bradley why McGuinty's energy projections were supposedly so out of whack - in only four years!!?...) why wasn't the Mississauga plant cancelled at the same time? Was the power from both plants "no longer required",  from the beginning?!

If Ontario 'doesn't need the power' - then why was the Mississauga project allowed to continue until (conveniently for Liberal MPP Charles Sousa) just before the Oct. 2011 election??!
Was the Mississauga plant's power 'needed' (until Oct.2011!), yet, somehow, Oakville's wasn't??!!

Why wasn't Mississauga stopped earlier - at the time Oakville was - if  Duguid and his Liberals knew that Ontario did 'NOT need the power'?!
(While the Oakville plant was cancelled before its actual construction began (but after significant hard costs had already been incurred by Trans-Canada, the contractor), the Mississauga plant was already under construction when cancelled by the Liberals - right in the middle of the Oct.2011 provincial election!)

Were any 'wrongs' 'righted' here?!

Doesn't Good Ole Kyodiot Jim Bradley have anything to do with these costly Liberal energy deceptions?!

Let's pretend, as the St.Catharines Standard Bradley Buttlick does, that Jimmy doesn't!
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Funny, isn't it, that the Bradleyites at the St.Catharines Standard Liberal Shoeshiner haven't yet asked their environment minister/footsie-buddy Liberal Jim Bradley about this Nov.2, 2011 Toronto Star story, either!!!

Way to go, you Metcalfian Right-Wronging hypocrites!!

Does Liberal Jim Bradley support the relocation of the Sousa-butt-saving Mississauga gas-powered electricity plant - especially seeing that Liberal Brad Duguid was lying to Ontarians before the last election that the gas plants WEREN'T needed??!!

You can rest assured that NO-ONE from the St.Catharines Standard will dare ask their dear friend'n'buddy Good Ole Jim Bradley about any of this!! I mean: what's Ole Jimmer gots ta do wid any o' dis stuff... right?! Hah ha ha ha !
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As of Nov.3, 2011, neither the St.Catharines Standard - nor any other Niagara newspaper, media outlet, or even blogger - has yet bothered to ask Liberal GreenFear-monger, and now McGuinty's Environment Minister, Jim Bradley, to reveal his AGW global warming evidence!! Several reporters (Doug Draper, Peter Conradi) have, though, giddily told us how that Great Hallowed Waste Of A Carbon Footprint David Suzuki has (apparently) lauded and drooled over Jim Bradley -  as if that somehow answers the questions of Bradley's still-secret 'scientific evidence' for AGW, which Jimmy must have already known over twenty years ago... but... umm... kept secret, 'cuz no-one has ever asked him about!!!

Hahahah!

Seeing that Suzuki blessed Bradley, and therefore Saint James Bradley has been now deified by GreenFear's best, the mutual admiration society must think that Suzuki's fawning legitimizes Bradley's greenshevism, and that we no longer need to ask Jimmy about his global warming fearmongering (...not that anyone bothered to ask before...)!

That Suzuki gave Bradley a big green thumbs up means that Jim Bradley doesn't have to publicly reveal his "scientific evidence" for AGW, because... after all... it's, ummm... all together now.... "all settled" y'see, so... no questions about man-made climate-change need to be answered!! It's a given!!Ya just gotta trust Ole Jimmy!!

It's perfect: Ontario's Liberal Environment Minister Jim Bradley is simply allowed to continue his climate change GreenFear-mongering, without anyone ever asking him for his AGW proof.
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And, in Apr. 2012, just after Jim Bradley's favourite GreenFear holiday - D earth Day -it was reported that Ontario's Liberal gov't. was stung with a $300 million lawsuit  over the closure of the Mississauga gas power plant.

We will wait for the St.Catharines Standard to never ask their Ole Buddy Jimmer Jim James J. J .Bradley anything about that!!

We will wait for the Standard's Metcalfian Wrong Righters to never ask Good Ole Jimmy, how 300 million might have been better spent on... oh... let's say... perhaps Grimsby's Liberal-cancelled hospital?!
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See the Star's May 31, 2012 follow up story here. Looks like saving Sousa's Liberal butt is already pegged to have cost at least 82 million dollars - all paid for by Ontario's taxpayers to keep McGuinty's incompetent Liberals in power.

...oh... by the way: where is that St.Catharines Standard in-depth story... that in-depth analysis... that in-depth interview, by the self-proclaimed Wrong-Righting St.Catharines Standard, with Ontario's Liberal Environment Minister Jim Bradley, regarding Bradley's Liberal energy fiascos??!! Still waiting!!
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See the Star's Jul.13, 2012 follow-up story here.
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Who will examine McGuinty's new environment minister Jim Bradley's years of GreenFear-mongering?

Here's some great Global-Warming GreenFear-mongering from the Oct. 19, 2011 Vancouver Sun, "Wallets will soon feel effect of climate change"; all that Metcalfe's Wrong-Righters at the St.Catharines Standard have to do is regurgitate the same kind of climate crap in Niagara, to justify Liberal Environment Minister Jim Bradley's green bolshevism. The GreenFear template is already there! Have a look at the climate fear being spread in B.C.:

"Higher costs for city water, rising home-insurance rates as sea levels rise, and programs to encourage people to leave their fossil-fuel-burning cars at home were cited Tuesday as ways that climate change is, or soon will be, hitting home for B.C. residents

That was the message from a panel at the opening session of BC Hydro's 2011 Power Smart Forum speaking on how a changing climate is affecting the business environment. Business, government and residents need to begin adapting so that the province will be more resilient as climate-change effects become more obvious, panelists said.
Research and talk about climate change are no longer enough, said Deborah Harford, executive director of Adaptation to Climate Change (ACT) at Simon Fraser University. She said costs that business and service providers will face include increased effects on health, energy production, food services and population movements due to rising sea levels.
And as the effects increase, she said, insurance companies will probably start raising rates if infrastructure has not been planned and developed to adapt to climate change.
Bob Purdy of the Fraser Basin Council said issues such as climate change are complex but actions can be taken, such as reducing emissions on transportation fleets, which also saves costs.
Harford said most British Columbians probably do not understand adaptation to climate change.
"They would say, 'Do we need this?'" she said of expenditures that would meet impending changes.
Local governments are already adapting by undertaking long-term measures, she said, citing some of the initiatives at the City of Vancouver.
Peter Judd, general manager of Vancouver's engineering services, said the city has already implemented programs, like the downtown bicycle lanes, that are responses to climate change. Strategies are also underway to adapt to climateinduced changes to the city's water supply, which will likely be affected by drier summers.
Judd said drinking water will be more expensive. In a later interview, he expanded on the water issue, saying the city is prepared to require new residential housing to have water meters installed beginning Jan. 1, 2012. All that's needed is city council's final approval.
There will also be a rate structure to encourage residents to reduce their water use, he said, but added that ultimately, the need to conserve will mean water rates are going to go up.
"The thing that we have an opportunity to do here is to actually reduce the long-term costs. If we can reduce the amount of water we are using, we can put off or eliminate major expenses like raising the dams in the region," he said.
"One of the challenges that we have is that we expect to be facing hotter, drier summers and more intense storms in the winter. The response to some of those things, like water conservation and droughtresistant plants, are the kinds of responses that you need to address," said Judd.
He said the prospect of rising sea levels is one of the biggest challenges the city is struggling with now.
And the city's controversial downtown bike lanes, he said, are part of the city's climatechange strategy. They are aimed not only at today's bike commuters, but also at the next generation.
"We have to make sure there are alternatives for people who haven't started driving yet."
Judd said the city is adapting to more severe and more frequent storms by increasing the size of the storm-sewer pipes.
The primary need is to replace the old system where storm drains and sewage were combined in a single pipe, but at the same time the city is installing wider pipes dedicated solely to storm run-off, he said.
Already, the city has recorded an increase in rainfall along with more severe rainstorms."
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Scared yet of the man-made GreenFear phoniness?!
Think the above greenshevism isn't enough - how about this piece of GreenFear by Ray Grigg, Special to the Courier-Islander, August 12, 2011:

"Responsibility for reducing carbon dioxide emissions is falling to cities, municipalities and regional districts because wider efforts during the last 30 years to ameliorate the threat of global climate change are not working. Multiple negotiations sponsored by the United Nation's have been unsuccessful. Developing nations such as China, India and Brazil are determined to follow the destructive example of industrialized countries which, in turn, are reluctant to risk economic advantage by reducing their emissions.

Canada, under the Harper government, is so disconnected from climate science that it seems to live in parallel and separate universe, one that systematically obstructs reduction efforts, assiduously suppresses climate change discussions, silences climatologists, shrinks relevant federal research programs, pushes for greater oil and gas production, and abets coal exports. BC's government is only marginally better.

The situation is moving from serious to critical, according to the International Energy Agency that monitors global CO2 emissions. Emissions in 2010 broke a dubious record - 30.6 billion tonnes (Gt or gigatonnes) or 1.6 Gt over 2009's 29.0 Gt. The 5.52 per cent increase was also unprecedented, representing a nearly unbroken succession of yearly rises - the so-called "Great Recession" cut 2008's 29.3 Gt to 29.0 Gt in 2009 (Guardian Weekly, June 3/11).

Climatologists warn that we cannot exceed 2.0 C without invoking "dangerous climate change". To maintain any reasonable measure of safety, they estimate that 32.0 Gt of carbon dioxide is the maximum we can emit by 2020. However, if present trends continue, we will reach this threshold nine years early, "making it all but impossible to hold warming to a manageable degree" (Ibid.). The end of this century, therefore, could see average temperature increases of 4.0 C or more, about six times the temperature increase from the Industrial Revolution to the present. (Climatologists calculate that 32.0 Gt per year is not a safe level of emissions but the maximum before they must gradually be reduced to zero. Even during this transition we risk inducing serious climate change and destroying the marine ecology with fatal acidification.)

CO2 emissions are the key environmental force affecting almost every other corrective environmental action we undertake. We cannot restore wild salmon runs if rivers are too hot for fish and oceans are too acetic for marine life. We cannot protect endangered ecologies if temperatures rise above levels species can tolerate. We cannot sustain agriculture if the weather is too extreme for crops. We cannot cope with displaced people if hundreds of millions are fleeing rising oceans, drought, floods and unprecedented storms.

Unlike the federal and provincial governments that have been incapable of reducing CO2 emissions, cities, municipalities and regional districts are closer to the grassroots of communities. Their smaller size allows them to be more responsive and manoeuvrable, better able to initiate the many incremental reductions that can have a huge cumulative effect on total greenhouse gas emissions. Indeed, this is what many of them have already done. And given the overall severity of the emissions challenge, this should be the primary guiding principle of all local planning and development.

Several helpful options exist. First is to increase population density downtown. This concentration of people has multiple advantages, all of which are efficiencies that directly or indirectly lower CO2 emissions. Walking, biking or using public transit reduces the need for cars, long commutes from the suburbs, and the costly matter of building roads and servicing dispersed properties. As collateral benefits, city centres become more vibrant, social, interesting, healthy and safe. Public services such as schools, hospitals, libraries, water, sewage and law enforcement are easier and cheaper to provide. Think medieval towns and cities. Their efficiency has been tested and proven during the centuries before we had the energizing power of fossil fuels.

Garbage is a topical problem these days as landfill sites fill and methane escapes from existing dumps - methane is a greenhouse gas about 20-times more powerful than CO2. Burning is probably the worst option for garbage disposal because it emits CO2 and innumerable toxins. Expensive incinerators also commit communities to long-term agreements and eliminate better options as they come available. The best option is careful household streaming of garbage that can then be composted, recycled or stored. Sophisticated technologies such as anaerobic digesters and thermal depolymerization can process waste into reusable materials, thus creating useful heat, oil, gases and solids that can substitute for non-renewable resources.

The two communities of Campbell River and the Comox Valley both have problems with coal, the former with Quinsam Coal that is almost certainly polluting an important watershed, and the latter with a proposed Raven coal mine that will inevitably cause similar environmental problems if it is allowed to proceed. But the fundamental problem with coal is that it is a dirty and polluting fuel. When burned, coal emits toxic materials that compromise human health - every year coal kills 13,000 American prematurely, incurring $100 billion in health costs - and it is the major global source of carbon dioxide emissions. Coal mines are also a source of methane - whether surface or underground, they are essentially open methane wells that release large quantities of this harmful greenhouse gas. If less coal were mined, this would force up its price, thus encouraging efficiencies and cleaner alternatives.

Climatologists warn that we are reaching a critical tipping point in our misadventure with fossil fuels. If senior governments are not capable of curbing greenhouse emissions, then the responsibility for corrective measures falls to local communities and individuals. Given the evidence of all other failures, this is the place where important change must begin."
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Scared yet?!
The above kind of GreenFear crap is the same kind of GreenFear crap which Liberal Jim Bradley and his Ontario Liberals also most assuredly believe in.

We've heard this same kind of climate-change / global-warming-fear spread in Niagara, as well, by the Jim Bradleys, by the Brian McMullans, the Walt Lastewkas, the Jim Diodatis, the Stephane Dions, the Iggy Poops, the Gary Burroughes'... the same global warming fear-mongering, inevitably and predictably coupled with the same bolshevik GreenFear thuggery which is then offered - sorry, FORCED - upon the population as a supposed green "cure".

In St.Catharines, Liberal Jim Bradley has been babbling about global warming for years. The local newspapers have NEVER demanded any specific evidence from Jim Bradley to justify his "solutions" to the "problems" of  "man-made global warming".

Wendy Metcalfe, the St.Catharines Standard boss, and Mike Williscraft, the Niagara This Week chief, can maybe check their files, going back... ohh... I dunno - how about, say... twenty years (is that long enough?) - and recount for readers exactly how many interviews they have had regarding Jim Bradley and the issue of climate change /global warming; and how many times Jim Bradley had ever been publicly asked by the press to actually cite the specific AGW evidence which he (supposedly!) had, and which he has since used to justify his Liberal greenshevism.

They'll find nothing; if anything, the local Niagara press has fawned over and supported - mostly with little-to-no serious criticism - Bradley's GreenFear policies, from the beginning.

Now, in Oct.2011, that Jim Bradley, the Liberal GreenFear kyodiot, has become McGuinty's environment minister, do you think that the St.Catharines Standard's Wendy Metcalfe, or Niagara This Week's Mike Williscraft, will dare ask Jim Bradley about his specific evidence of AGW / man-made climate-change / global-warming, or whatever Jim's calling his GreenSocialism these days? Or will the Metcalfe/Williscraft gang continue to kiss Jim Bradley's Liberal ass, without question?

Since Jim Bradley was thrown out of the House in Queen's Park in October 2002, back when he was GreenFear-mongering about Kyoto, will Metcalfe or Williscraft now - in October 2011 - ask their local Niagara Liberal MPP Jim Bradley to publicly provide the SPECIFIC evidence which Bradley had at the time, extant in 2002, to support his GreenFear-mongering?

Jim Bradley has never actually provided any evidence to support his Green Fear-mongering actions. And yet, Bradley's Bootlickers in the press - a decade later - still haven't bothered to ask, either; whatever crap came out of Bradley's Liberal yap, was considered sacrosanct; whatever Liberal Jim Bradley spewed was unquestioningly considered as "it's all-settled" green gospel from Ole Jimmy, Ontario's Holy Greenness, Gaia's Protector, and Canada's Environmentalist's Saint.

The Bradley Bootlickers STILL are not asking, even though Jim Bradley is Ontario's environment minister again; and not one report has emerged from the local Niagara press compiling and investigating Bradley's so-called "scientific evidence" which influenced Bradley's GreenFear bolshevism.

Let's go back even further than 2002; let's go back to 1991; the local Niagara press has never bothered to question [let alone report!] Jim Bradley's "beliefs" as reported in a July 21, 1991 Ottawa Citizen story:

Jim Bradley was Ontario's environment minister from 1985 to 1990, when the province cleaned up much of its acid rain and started enforcing pollution laws to the letter. The Liberal MPP for St. Catharines lists overpopulation, global warming, depletion of the ozone layer, discharge of persistent toxins, and deforestation of tropical and temperate forests.

In 1991, Jim Bradley listed overpopulation, global warming, deforestation, etc; are these still his priorities today, in 2011? Why hasn't anyone for Niagara - and as far as I can tell, anyone in Ontario [!] - specifically asked him?

No-one really knows what retro-environment-minister Jim Bradley's specific motivations and justifications are - or were.

The local press in his own city of St.Catharines and Niagara region has avoided asking Jim Bradley to justify his Malthusian "over population" fears and his global warming fear-mongering.


*Where; who; what specifically; which specific scientific "evidence", did Jim Bradley actually cite as justification for his "beliefs" in 1991?

*Where was Jim Bradley's publicly-cited specific scientific "evidence" for AGW in 2002??

*Where is Bradley's AGW evidence (obviously, the same evidence which Bradley must have [albeit, secretly!] already had in 1991!) today, in 2011???

When will Niagara's media moguls Wendy Metcalfe or Mike Williscraft bother to actually ask Jim Bradley - now McGuinty's environment minister in 2011 - specific questions about Bradley's decades of global warming deceptions?

Perhaps - in light of the above; in context to the above; and in context to McGuinty's appointment of Jim Bradley as Ontario's new environment minister - Niagara's press barons Metcalfe and Williscraft can bother themselves ever-so-briefly to read...

- Peter Foster's Oct.22, 2011 National Post story "A thoroughly political body", 
- and Donna Laframboise's Oct.22, 2011 National Post story  "Conspiracy of silence",
- as well as Laframboise's Oct.25, 2011 National Post story "IPCC's activist 'experts' "  (both articles excerpts from Laframboise's new book "The Delinquent Teenager")

...and then examine how Liberal MPP Jim Bradley has managed to skate his way through two+ decades of his GreenFear peddling, without any scrutiny.

Talk about a 'conspiracy of silence' at the IPCC; the same thing happened here with Jim Bradley!
There was a similar conspiracy of silence/acceptance/acquiescence right in Niagara as well; for years, Liberal Jim Bradley was aided and abetted by a fawning local press which acted more like a defense line on Bradley's team, than an inquisitive, impartial press. For years, there was never any real examination locally in Niagara regarding what Bradley was saying; what Bradley was doing;  what, if any, evidence he had... whatever Bradley said about AGW was essentially left unquestioned and politely accepted as gospel. 

It appears that the same scenario remains in Niagara in 2011 - even though Bradley is (again) now Ontario's secretive, toxic Liberal environment minister.

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Niagara press protects Liberals from healthcare scrutiny

Nice "editorial" in the St.Catharines Jim Bradley Buttlicking Standard on Oct.21, 2011 ("Hospital workers need clearer orders") by Corey Laroque, about the Doreen Wallace incident in Kim Craitor's Liberal Healthcare Kingdom in Niagara Falls - and not one word from Laroque about or from the local Liberals who control the NHS, and have done so for the last eight years!
Yep: NOTHING!
It's as if  ...you know the drill: ...as if Jim Bradley and Kim Craitor have nothing to do with their own failing Liberal health care monopolism!! And apparently, Wendy Metcalfe's wrong-righters at the Standard Bradley Brown-noser intend to keep it that way!!
The Niagara press can't bring themselves to question the local Liberal politicians in charge of Ontario's health monopoly: remember, the press lauded Craitor - Niagara's Liberal Gomer Pyle - as some kind of health care maverick/genius... yet, we just saw another incident of incompetent CraitorCare TM in the NHS - and miraculously, no Liberal has anything to do with it !
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No time for honest talk about McGuinty's Liberal health-care incompetence

Sally F. Zerker, professor emeritus and senior scholar, York University, Toronto, wrote in "Time for honest talk about health care"  (National Post, Oct.12, 2011):

"Re: What McGuinty Has Meant For Ontario, John Tory, Oct. 7.
During the recent election campaign in Ontario, I waited to hear our politicians discuss the financial crisis that is brewing as a consequence of health-care costs. Not one politician risked telling us the truth - that our universal health-care system, as currently practised, is bankrupting us.
Right now, 46¢ of every dollar of revenue goes to health care. And every year, spending on health care in Ontario increases more than revenues, such that if current trends were to continue, health care would eat up 80% of total program spending by 2030.
Yet instead of exposing this dire reality, we were enticed with offers of yet more lavish health-care services, which politicians must know we cannot afford, but which they nevertheless pretended was feasible, all in order to win the election.
Sooner, rather than later, one of only two possible outcomes will have to be chosen: deep cuts in healthcare services and/or private expenditures on medical services. It's past time for an open and honest talk on these choices."
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The 'time for honest talk' will - kind of , briefly, in a token way - return... about four years from now (in 2015, during the next Ontario election!) after McGuinty's monopolist Liberals will have had butchered Ontario's health care beyond belief for twelve continuous years; and even then, there will not be any 'honest talk' about monopolist health care - as there had not been in 2003, 2007, or just recently in 2011.

Here are some of the Jim Bradley Boosters, seen in an Oct.1, 2011 St.Catharines Standard ad, who can be thanked for supporting this kind of  head-in-the-sand  Liberalism:

Health-care disaster in Niagara: from broken Liberal HIP, to broken patient hip

Finally, the St.Catharines Standard, on Oct.20, 2011, bothered to report on the Doreen Wallace incident:

"Hospital staff should not have called an ambulance to deal with an 82-year-old Niagara Falls woman who broke her hip after falling near the main entrance of Greater Niagara General Hospital Oct. 8, says Niagara Health System supervisor Kevin Smith.

"Ambulances don't do inside-hospital transfers," said Smith.
He said Doreen Wallace's injury should have prompted a staffer to call what hospital workers refer to as a code blue, which would have immediately deployed a team of medical staff to the situation.
While hospital staff attended to Wallace, who was visiting her ailing husband at GNGH, the woman's family said they were told an ambulance would have to be called to assist.
The family claimed Wallace laid on the floor for 28 minutes before being admitted to the emergency department.
Speaking at a press conference at the NHS' Niagara-on-the-Lake site Wednesday, Smith said he's asked the hospital system to make sure every staffer knows what to do if this kind of thing happens again.
"I've asked the Niagara Health System personnel to ensure that we have a very, very, very clear process across our multiple sites so that everyone understands what we do when we see a patient in distress inside our facility," he said.
Smith was repeatedly asked why a patient inside a hospital was told to call an ambulance — a decision that seems surprising given the controversy generated by two similar incidents in recent months.
"I wish I had a better answer for you in terms of how did it happen again, particularly inside the building."
In July, Coun. Joyce Morocco's husband John went into the hospital seeking help for his barely conscious wife, who was in the parking lot. He said he was told to call an ambulance.
In April, Charlie Poisson, the boyfriend of Jennifer James, who died five days after she was admitted to GNGH, told The Niagara Falls Review he brought James by car to the hospital. Upon arrival, he ran into the main front doors and down the hall to the emergency department. He said he was told paramedics would be dispatched.

After about three to five minutes, when no paramedics came, they brought James in by a wheelchair and she received care. Poisson said he was told that the "policy was that we have to call an ambulance."

He was later told by doctors James had suffered a catastrophic heart event.
Smith suggested the failure on the hospital's part to learn from the two previous incidents is a management issue.
"Errors happen, but the fact the error has occurred on more than one occasion without correction concerns us deeply about process and structure and communication and accountability."
The supervisor said three hospital workers responded to Wallace in less than a minute. They included a nurse who was on her break, a security guard, and a housekeeper. At some point in those first few minutes, 911 was called from a hospital phone, with Smith adding it was not yet clear who made the call or who suggested the call be made.
Smith also said he wouldn't consider terminating anybody until staffers complete an internal review.
"I don't believe in a hanging judge, I want to have all the information."
Health Minister Deb Matthews called Wallace's incident a "very regrettable situation."
In an email to The Review, Matthews credited Smith, who she recently appointed supervisor, for responding quickly and requesting a review of the incident.
"I hope the findings of that review help ensure that what happened to Doreen Wallace doesn't happen again," said Matthews.
Neither Wallace, or members of her family, could be reached for comment Wednesday.
Wayne Pine Sr., who calls Wallace a friend of the family, decided to protest alone outside GNGH in the rain Wednesday morning. For about two hours, the Niagara Falls resident waved signs that called for the NHS to be abolished and for more local control over hospital decision making, as well as "justice for Doreen and all residents."
"I've lost total trust and respect in (the NHS)," said Pine. "What happened to Doreen was disgusting and ridiculous."
Pine said he is a retired paramedic who worked with the ambulance service in Dunnville. He said he also worked at GNGH as a certified nursing orderly.
"(Doreen) is a very kind-hearted person. Her husband, who passed away, was a (Second World War) veteran," he said. "If that was (Premier) Dalton McGuinty who fell like that, do you think he'd have to wait half an hour?
"And the more ambulances tied up at the hospital means less are out on the roads.""
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Funny how the Liberal appointed NHS supervisor, Kevin Smith, is now saying that this unnamed hospital staffer was wrong in not helping Wallace when she fell and broke her hip inside the GNGH.
Let's note several items:

First off - notice that in the above story by reporter Ray Spiteri, NO LIBERALS were mentioned, nor asked to comment, on this incident!! Isn't that precious?!

The Liberal-friendly St.Catharines Standard has purposefully avoided asking Liberal hacks Jim Bradley or Kim Craitor any questions about this, in the same way they had hidden these Liberal hacks from scrutiny in the past.

There is no convenient 'harris' anymore, unfortunately, for the Standard, for Kimmy'n'Jimmy, and for the yellow-shirted-socialists to blame: there is only their dreamy, unaccountable, perverted, failing Tommy Douglasonian health monopolism.

Let's all remember, there is NO LONGER A BOARD OF DIRECTORS left to blame at the NHS - this monopoly is being SOLELY run by none other than Kevin Smith, and the Liberal-controlled LHIN, and therefore, McGuinty's Liberal cabinet.

We all remember how the NDP socialists and the Standard loved to dump on Debbie Sevenpifer, while pretending that Liberal scumbags Jim Bradley and Kim Craitor had nothin' to do with running the health care monopoly!

Why the f*ck isn't Kevin Smith being held responsible for the Wallace incident?

He's now 'the MAN'; he's now the manager of 'management issues'; he's to blame!

Smith is Bradley's and Craitor's [and Deb Matthews'] sock-puppet at the NHS!

If NHS staff didn't know the procedures, then Smith is now to blame; 'Supervisor' Smith should have supervised the staff, and ensured they knew the procedures; ensured that they were/are competent and trained for the challenges of their job. Why is Smith saying only now that he will 'ask to ensure that the process is clear'?  What else doesn't this cozy union-infected monopolist self-serving health cabal at the NHS 'know'?

Do these monopolist f*cks think that healthcare is some kind of f*cking joke; that however and whenever they f*ck up, that however many patients they harm, that Jim Bradley, Craitor, or some union hack (not to mention the Liberal-infected Niagara press) will cover for them (while finding a 'harris' to blame, naturally) and that they simply can go on their merry way without any accountability? 

Why isn't anyone asking if Smith is doing his job?

Is this supervisor, two-months into the job, already failing in his responsibilities? Are we just now learning that the supervisor is not up to speed and not solely in control of the NHS?

Was / is Smith competent to solely supervise the NHS, in the first place??

We were led to believe that somehow there would be changes at the NHS, but all we see are the same old monopolist excuses, and the same old monopolist unaccountability.

Why aren't Craitor and Bradley demanding that their boy Kev get his shit together? It's telling how Deb Matthews coyly credits (ie, circles the wagons around) her appointee Smith for being so-on-the-ball with this!
[...Can ya imagine if this had been under Harris' watch?! The Standard's wrong-righters and Deb Matthews and Good Ole Jimmy himself would be sputtering with indignance and rage! But now...  feh... this is only a mere misunderstanding..!]
It's telling also that the Standard and Niagara Falls Review can quickly conjure up people who've 'lost trust and respect for the NHS' - yet, there's hardly anyone that they can find who has lost trust and repect for
- the Liberals who created this Mess in the NHS;
- for the Liberals who created the HIP to 'save money;
- for the Liberals who created the LHIN - which OVERSEES the NHS!!
Funny that the NHS is the narrative in Niagara's media, but not the Liberals who (through their LHIN proxy) control the NHS!

Why aren't Wendy Metcalfe's laughable, pathetic wrong-righters over at the Standard Bradley Buttlicker also asking Craitor and Bradley and Jim Diodati, btw, about where all the ambulances were in Niagara Falls that day, seeing that the only one available had to come from St.Catharines? What was that all about? Aren't there enough ambulances available in Niagara Falls, keeping in mind all the tourists which are also there? Maybe an ambulance should have been called from the States.

Why isn't anyone asking Niagara Falls mayor, and Liberal hack, Jim Diodati why he hasn't yet issued a public warning to visiting tourists - never mind to the locals - about the dangers of the Liberal-run health care monopoly in Niagara Falls?

Why isn't the St.Catharines Standard asking Jim Bradley how his Liberal-instigated HIP (the HIP was created not by the NHS, but by McGuinty's Liberals) factored in Wallace's broken hip?

Why isn't the St.Catharines Standard asking Ontario's Safety Minister at the time - that would be Good Ole Jim Bradley - about why patients aren't safe in Ontario's Liberal-liar-controlled monopoly-run hospitals!?

Where's that in depth coverage by the St.Catharines Bradleyphile Standard examining the secretive LHIN's role in this incident? Why hadn't the LHIN - after all these years as a McGuinty shill - ensured that the NHS staff were competent enough to know their own internal procedures?! Did the LHIN even know anything about this - if  not, why not?!

Why isn't the St.Catharines Standard Liberal Shoeshiner asking McGuinty why he lied about conducting a province-wide LHIN review?!

You can trust that the St.Catharines Bradley Bootlicking Standard won't be holding any Liberal, or any Liberal institution, to account.

It's all about dutifully cleaning Bradley's Liberal laundry, and coddling Liberal incompetency.
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