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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
No, of course not but I’m not the one imposing rules on everyone else. If I were, I would at least feign an attempt at it, otherwise the stupidity of the exercise would be too obvious for me to live with such instructions to the masses while at the same time gorging on my own selfish tastes and preferences. What kind of leader does this? A ####ty one.
Eliminating travel is super simple. For example the flight to Calgary for 6 hours to appear at a Stampede breakfast could extremely easily be eliminated with some tweets and or posts regarding support for the Stampede, Liberal MP he was supporting or whatever the hell he was trying to even accomplish. Boom, right there, one trip and thousands of miles eliminated. But on the whole COVID has obviously taught us that video conferences are easily doable and capable of communicating efficiently, so nothing is stopping him from having so many of his meetings this way.
The reality is, and you know it, that the reason he flies all over the place if for the exclusive personal benefit of campaigning basically. It does not really do much for the country when not leading to any kind of election and serves very little purpose. Hell I’d even rather defend his right to fly to Costa Rica and have a vacation I think he is absolutely entitled to, than fly around and photoshoot for no apparent reason?
The banning of single use plastics is part of Trudeaus brand and legacy as Prime Minister and is part and parcel with his fight against climate change. It’s one more item on his list of things he can claim he did to support the environment when in reality we know he actually did very little. If he wanted to achieve good things for climate change for example, he would wildly support Canadian oil and gas and agriculture practices and brag about them on the world stage in hopes of widespread adoption. He would try to coerce the modernizing BRIC nations to buy more Canadian and use more Canadian energy to reduce per capita emissions worldwide. He would follow through on his tree planting promises or enact thousands of other policies that actually make a difference. And yes, absolutely, he would lead by example to the best of his ability- not set year over year records of increasing flight mileage or make short stop flights easily commutable by car (if needed at all which is extremely dubious).
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You’re not the one imposing rules on everyone else because that’s not your job, but you should recognise that it is part of Trudeau’s. And if this is something that is important to you, whether he makes the rules or does them himself should have zero influence on whether you do them.
Is acting in a climate conscious way important to you? Is being a climate leader?
Would you say being able to use single-use plastics is more important to you than making personal changes for the benefit of the climate? Or do you think the ban is a good thing from an isolated standpoint (ignoring the other things that could be done or aren’t being done).
On the other side of it, should we ban all business air travel?