Canadian politics

Say it ain't so! Harper has gone green , which is good politics but questionable policy. But It is a good move, so I'll cut him some slack.

From what I've seen, the preponderance of evidence suggests this is a real and a serious problem," he said in a National Post interview yesterday. "As you know, the science has evolved several times even in the last couple of decades, but all the evidence suggests that we should take the problem seriously and start to try and act on it."

This is a new, reinvented, election-ready Stephen Harper. The skeptics and scientists who insist, with some evidence, that severe weather is not a greenhouse- gas-generated planetary scourge have lost a swayable, sympathetic political leader.

The last of the man-made climate change holdouts in the Canadian Parliament has gone green, a shift underlined by a Canadian Press report yesterday that Environment Minister Rona Ambrose will soon be replaced by the more moderate and measured Jim Prentice of Calgary.

The Tories have also renewed and renamed the national homelessness program, and are planning on announcing a $200 million plan for renewable fuel. Gee, might there be an election in the near future?

As for the Liberals, former PM Jean Chretien is back in the loop apparently, offering advice and such. Dion is doing an admirable job reaching out to almost everyone in the party and giving them important things to do. So it should be fun when they don't all say the same things, and when they overshadow the relatively unknown and uncharismatic Dion. He still looks like a soft spoken university professor to me.