the actual reason that i voted liberal in 2015 was due to the proposed green infrastructure bank, which was being presented as a subsidiary of the bank of canada and essentially as a way to print as much money as is needed to get us off the dirty energy.

there were other reasons. my local ndp candidate is a dirty fucking anti-science hippie, and i couldn't - and still won't - vote for her. i have zero tolerance for anti-vaxxers or anti-gmo types. on top of that, i found muclair's rhetoric on oil to be a hundred years out of date - he was still living in the world that trudeau's father lived in, where a strong national energy sector was a blessing to be used to fund social services (never mind the oil curse, let alone climate change). mulcair flatly sounded like he was more interested in maximizing tax revenue from oil profits than he was in shutting the tar sands down.

but, i could have voted green, or not voted at all. i did vote liberal, and the infrastructure bank was fundamental in that. if we could get a good idea or two out of it, right?

unfortunately, this idea appears to have disappeared from the mouth of trudeau, as well as from the party's literature. they've had to squirm out of a lot of broken promises; this is something they just don't talk about at all. it's as though it was never there.

nothing's changed except the urgency of action. and, in the end, my vote in 2019 will most likely reduce to what i think is a best option for carbon transition - although i must state up front that if she manages to win, she's going to have to fight the oil interests out of her own party before she can legislate against them, and i'm not particularly convinced that she would be that option, even if she did win. this is likely mostly just talk....

http://www.nationalobserver.com/2017/09/25/news/niki-ashton-has-plan-fix-trudeaus-patchwork-green-funding