Glad someone who some people listen to said it

I stopped reading Warren Kinsella’s blog a few weeks ago when he started to pan Stephane Dion’s tax shifting carbon tax proposal. I found it unbelievable that Kinsella would so blindly dismiss Dion’s proposal. I think that you have to be on board the fight against climate change if you want to call yourself an intelligent person, and Kinsella’s position on the carbon tax is similar to people who can barely come to admit that climate change is a real issue that must be confronted.

I was very happy to read this today on Jason Cherniak’s blog. I am glad that someone who gets some readership has painted Kinsella for what he is on this issue, and that is dead wrong. Kinsella, one would think, would still have some feelings for the federal Liberals, you might think that he would prefer them to the Conservatives, you might think that he would keep his mouth shut if he does not like Dion’s proposal, rather than actively work to hinder the selling of a plan which is in my view necessary to adequately fight climate change.

I used to find Kinsella to be a fun read, usually something funny, often something very insightful, but given his repeated opposition to moves by the federal Liberals, most of all his opposition to the carbon tax, I will no longer read his blog, and I have lost most of the respect and admiration that I once had for him.