Buzzing the wrong way, again

Doesn't Buzz Hargrove realize that Stephane Dion is the most uninformed "environmentalist" politician with a title in Ottawa, and he would restrict or ban SUVs and large trucks, making it even harder on the auto and oil industries to survive in Canada?
Dumb Dumb Buzz. And people are following him. Sigh.

http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/CityandRegion/2007/04/14/4012922-sun.html
Sat, April 14, 2007 By MICHAEL OLIVEIRA, CP
CAW chief tells members to back Grits to save jobs
Buzz Hargrove said the greatest threat to the auto industry is a Conservative majority in Parliament.

PORT ELGIN -- The Canadian Auto Workers union targeted Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the "insanity" of the environmental movement yesterday as delegates talked strategy with an election ever looming and an Ontario provincial vote less than six months away.
Although historically linked with the New Democrats, union president Buzz Hargrove used a national meeting of delegates to recommend strategic voting to bolster the Liberals, both federally and provincially, and cautioned against the growing momentum of Harper's Conservatives in the polls.
"You'll see the real Stephen Harper, once he gets to be prime minister with a majority in the Parliament," he warned.
With politicians increasingly absorbing green policies into their platforms, Hargrove also attacked environmentalists who want the auto sector targeted to fight climate change.
The upcoming elections are fuelling a lot of rhetoric as politicians try to "out green" one another, Hargrove said.
"Politicians are running with it now because Canadians are saying it's a key issue in the upcoming election and it just infuriates me," Hargrove said.
"We stand to lose 150,000 jobs in our auto industry if the insanity of this environmental movement is allowed to continue."
Canada is only responsible for about two per cent of the world's total greenhouse gas production and shutting down the entire country would barely make an impact, Hargrove said.
Still, Hargrove said the union is supportive of the Kyoto Accord -- as long as timetables are flexible enough for industries to meet them.
Hargrove invited Ontario's Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty to deliver a speech at the conference and said he was impressed by McGuinty's recent statement that the auto industry shouldn't necessarily phase out gas guzzlers like SUVs because, realistically, they're not going away.
McGuinty, who has said the industry should instead focus on innovation and deliver a vehicle that's big and clean, didn't shy away from promoting a green agenda yesterday -- saying the auto sector can survive while appeasing environmentalists.
"We're going to make Ontario the clean-car capital of the world," McGuinty said, hinting such an initiative would be a part of his government's climate change plan, which he said would be announced in a few weeks.
While a few delegates quietly booed when the premier's name was announced, during a question-and-answer session they chose to attack Harper for not support their industry.
Jim Freeman, a General Motors assembly line worker, said he's a New Democrat at heart, and thinks little of McGuinty, but will put his political affiliations aside to keep the Conservatives out of power.
"I've been an NDPer for 30 years and I still will be (after the election), but I understand what Buzz is talking about," he said.