NDP not as Green and Growing as they claim

Have you seen the latest taxpayer-funded propaganda campaign by the NDP to convince you about how 'green' the NDP is?

Don't believe it for a second.

An excellent critique of the NDP's 'Green and Growing' claims has been presented by the environmental organization Manitoba Wildlands. For full details, take a look at http://manitobawildlands.org/pa_commitments.htm#critique

But I will quickly mention three points:

1) The NDP are environmental slowpokes. At the rate the NDP has been going since 1999 in designating new protected areas, Manitoba Wildlands says: "it would take the province the next 50 years to actually make the decisions regarding the candidate areas for protected status which are currently in the system now."

2) The NDP are creating a smokescreen to suggest they are taking action when they are not. Manitoba Wildlands says: "New special protection and management designations" are a smokescreen designed to delay protected areas decisions; the tools to designate the "unique areas"... already exist under current legislation."

3) The NDP use lip service rather than real service. Manitoba Wildlands says: "The Manitoba government's support for the World Heritage Site nomination has been lip service only"

And I would point out that Manitoba Wildlands did not mention the NDP's dismal failure with respect to establishing a new Lowlands National Park in Manitoba.

The fact is that the only thing that's 'green and growing' under the NDP are the ever increasing algal blooms on Lake Winnipeg! While it spends all its effort and our money in trying to convince us that everything is just fine, the NDP continues to do remarkably little to help save Lake Winnipeg.