The Ontario Provincial Conservative Party are having a leadership contest - they need a leader as the last two people have been totally clueless and the one before while he talked of change did a lot less than he is given credit for. While in general I have no interest in any of the Conservative parties there is at least one interesting person in this race - predicably they are not getting much support: even from the people that know better.

This I sent to the National Post this morning. It was published, with some rather heavy handed editing.

It's a sad commentary on the state of the libertarian idea in Canada when the National Post won't back the better ideas (Hillier's) simply because they won't trust people to understand the same idea they already know is best. Dare I say almost sounds like implicit support of the "Nanny State", let's save the people from thier dumbness?
John Tory was wrong in proposing the expansion of the bad idea idea of funding segregated education. This was not a mistake in strategy or
communication: the people understood it was a bad idea. Voters very correctly did not vote for a bad idea despite their widespread distaste for McGuinty. The people did "get it": half of them are above average intelligence ya know!
That bad idea from a past election would not likely be confused with good ideas as Randy Hillier is proposing. With respect the HRC many people understand free speech and they would vote for it given the choice. Sadly the National Post is not alone on this confusion and we will likely get the choice only of dumb and dumberer as leaders once more from the 2 major parties next election . I consider McQuinty is the dumb part of that choice since it is dumberer for an opposition to offer no opposition and expect to be elected against an incumbent.

Suzuki is at it again, repeating silly uninformed opinion as fact. This guy is dangerous and will kill more people than any climate change will in his lifetime. I was suprised to see this one actually printed, normally Suzuki is above suspicion.

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David Suzuki once more repeats unsubstantiated opinions as if they are fact. The opinion is "Climate Change is the biggest global health threat we face".
In fact no-one is dying from climate change and even the publishers of the report say this is something that "may" happen. The next ice age may kill people but cooling is not a political focus since there is no fame and fortune to be had from protesting minor variations in climate as there has been with the global warming industry. There are real and massive health problems such as: AIDs, malaria, malnutrition, risk of pandemic and obesity. Each of these kills millions of people each and every year. That is well documented: fact. Worse there are many voters who believe these confusions about the impact of climate change and we are now diverting trillions of dollars into ill advised schemes that only serve to enrich those most powerful: while money is diverted from helping with the real problems that are killing millions of the poor.
He now talks of climate change as opposed to global warming. This is in line with the current science but I note he has not explained why the change in terminology. The new terminology required because the scientific measurements are that the earth has been cooling for almost a decade now: despite the steady increase in carbon dioxide emissions and in contrast to the predictions of every climate model based only on green house gases. This is the great truth people getting their fame and fortune from global warming scares are doing their best to avoid facing; that it is a political opinion not a scientific issue.