If most of the voting population of Red Deer is like me (and they are as voter turnout demonstrates this), they find local politics rather boring. With the upcoming election, however, I think that whoever should decide to run for mayor or council would be well advised to pay attention to the dirty facts. It is my firm belief that whoever pays attention will greatly enhance their chances of being elected mayor and city council.
A motion by Dianne Wyntjes and seconded by Cindy Jefferies was supported by Buck Buchanan, Paul Harris, Lynne Mulder, Chris Stephan, Frank Wong, Tara Veer and Mayor Morris Flewwelling. As you can see, no one rejected the motion. The motion was due to the consideration of a report from the Environmental Services Department dated Oct. 3, 2011, and it was regarding Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Plan.
As a result of the motion, the City of Red Deer has joined ICLEI (International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives). ICLEI was founded in 1990 at the United Nations. We all know what the United Nations’ goal is global governance with all nations submitting to it, including the United States of America.
In 1992, there was the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro and the result of that conference gave us Agenda 21 (21 for the 21st century). Agenda 21 is no conspiracy and it is openly being implemented and promoted nationwide. It strongly promotes euthanasia, eugenics, the reduction of private property and yes those cursed bike lanes. Anyone can see those bike lanes are just a very small part of the much larger Agenda 21. Twenty-nine cities in Canada and a long list of American cities have joined ICLEI.
There is, however, a growing resistance to ICLEI and Agenda 21 and the whole globalist agenda, especially now with the UN small arms treaty being adopted by the Obama administration and being fought vigorously by patriotic Americans not willing to allow their second amendment right to be infringed. What the heck do guns have to do with it? Agenda 21 is all about rights and the reduction of them.
The voters will soon have the right to elect someone else and kick out incumbents who go with the flow.
If city council does not wake up, they may find themselves being kicked out of office on a wholesale level.
We all want clean water and air, but cannot sacrifice a robust economy over stupid one-size-fits-all solutions. Good ideas do not need to come from central planning and global governance.
I was born and raised here and am sick and tired of pinkos running the show.
The roads are a mess because of the knee-jerk reaction to public outrage over the bike lanes and who pays for it? All of us who pay taxes.
We have way more important things that need taken care of like replacing old asbestos concrete water mains and repairing roads plagued with potholes and cracks that are a menace to all vehicles, just to name a couple.
And can we please stop the Ghosts project?
When Moses got mad about the golden calf, it was because the people had made a graven image. Do we really want to see the wrath of God hit our still somewhat beautiful (minus the bike lanes) city?
So do any of you on city council wish to revisit your past decisions? I think you all should because if you do not do so (soon) and publicly renounce and reverse the position you have made, others will rise up and challenge you in your bid for reelection. This I have no doubt will happen.
Dump the ICLEI membership and stop thinking globally and acting locally. The locals put you in power, not the UN.
Bruce Harvey
Red Deer