Re: [A-List] Canada: Ontario energy crisis

[Macdonald Stainsby <mstainsby@xxxxxxxxx>]

That would be the ae, Chris, if those resources existed in a country
that actually owned them; these are stolen resources, they belong to the
nations upon whose lands they sit. I certainly agree that these
resources do need a change in ownership and administration form, but for
anything truly democratic, just as in Palestine the water should not be
nationalized by Israel to "put it in the hands of the people", it should
be mae the collective property of the nations where they sit.

Canadians don't need to fear, however. I am certain that these nations,
unlike Canada, will be more than willing to share in the wealth provided
by the earth, so long as their national, cultural and physical existence
isn't threatened by the rapacious consumption demands of the settler
population and the suicidal, ecocidal energy driven capitalist system
that threatens to subsume us all. Nationalization of energy resources
while living under capitalism is like drinking cyanide in a democratic
fashion. Kills you just the same, except you feel like you made a choice.

Macdonald
bar@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Of course what this right-wing rag fails to state is that before
> prvatisaztioneverything was fine, there was a constant return of earnings
> in maintaining infrastructure and ensuring supply but that all evaporated
> overnight when they sold the production company and went to market rates
> and the reqirement to earn higher profits. The result; the predictable
> brownouts, blackouts and rising costs for everyone and profits for the
> companies. He also fails to mention that the tory govt was forced to back
> off the selling of the rest of these publc assets at rockbottom prices was
> due to public protest, the same with the price freezes as the private
> comapnies had gauranted more or less cheaper prices which never appeared
> except at the beginning.
>
> The solution is the renationalizing of these essential assets and letting
> the people govern these resources.
>
> Chris
>
>
> > Ontario seeks way out of energy policy turmoil
> > By Bernard Simon in Toronto
> > Financial Times: March 7 2006
> >
> > The province of Ontario, Canada’s industrial heartland, is on the brink
> > of an energy crisis, in spite of exhaustive efforts to decide on its

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