" 'You cannot as a government talk about reducing GHG [green house gas] emissions unless you're prepared to talk about reducing consumption, pure and simple. That's the big question no one wants to talk about."
-- Les Leyne, quoting MLA Leonard Krog, Times Colonist, November 7, 2007, A16.

"Yes, we saw the climate changing, but what were we to do?"
-- Richard Lipsey, Globe and Mail, Oct. 10, 2007

"The Premier's new Climate Action Team isn't getting the thumbs-up from big labour. BC Federation of Labour President Jim Sinclair… is worried some of the panels recommendations could also mean job losses."
VANCOUVER/CKNW (AM 980), "Labour wants a seat at the climate table", Nov, 20 2007

"Al Gore: [quoting Upton Sinclair] ‘It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.’" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0497116/quotes

"new study for the C.D. Howe Institute… finds that the best remedy for poverty is—guess what?-- a job."
-- Margaret Wente, Globe & Mail, Nov. 6, 2007, A17

"Work, not welfare, eliminates poverty."
-- Lorne Gunter, National Post, Nov. 5, 07- A11

"We might say that GNP, technically a measure of the rate at which money is flowing through the economy, might also be described as a measure of the rate at which we are turning resources into garbage."
--David Korten, When Corporations Rule the World, 1995

"The trouble is that the world has never really seen serious social betterment without economic growth."
-- Doug Saunders, Globe and Mail, Jan. 5, 2008