{"id":13986,"date":"2015-10-31T07:24:38","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T12:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13986"},"modified":"2015-10-31T07:24:38","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T12:24:38","slug":"canadian-election-a-study-in-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13986","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Election: A Study in Values"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.climateaccess.org\/blog\/canadian-election-study-values\" target=\"_blank\">Canadian Election: A Study in Values<\/a><\/h3>\n<h1 class=\"title\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"imagecache imagecache-main_width_size imagecache-default imagecache-main_width_size_default\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.climateaccess.org\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/main_width_size\/Trudeau_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"465\" height=\"260\" \/><\/h1>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Those who work on climate change were both chuffed and chagrined by its role in Canada\u2019s federal election campaign, which peaked last week with the victory of Liberal leader Justin Trudeau and defeat of Conservative incumbent Stephen Harper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe environment\u201d \u2013 a catch-all concept that often encompasses concern about climate change \u2013 consistently ranked close to economy and healthcare on voters&#8217; list of top priorities. Oilsands and climate change issues took up nearly a quarter of the first leaders debate, commanding more than\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/greenpolicyprof.org\/wordpress\/?p=1096\" target=\"_blank\">twice the airtime<\/a>\u00a0they did in 2011. Several media outlets ran editorials calling on all parties to take a strong stance on reducing GHG emissions or put a price on carbon. To quote professor and commentator\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/greenpolicyprof.org\/wordpress\/?p=1096\" target=\"_blank\">George Hoberg<\/a>, \u201cenergy and environmental issues have become central to Canadian electoral politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite all of this, climate change didn\u2019t have a significant impact on the election\u2019s outcome. Fundamentally this was a campaign about values where action on global warming was bundled into a broader set of aspirations and ideas that Canadians said yes to last Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The election of Canada\u2019s new prime minister is an important case study in the powerful potential of values-based messaging. Where the Conservative campaign sought to preserve the status quo and motivate voters with threats of an unstable or unsafe future, the Liberal campaign (and to a different extent, the New Democrats) mobilized Canadians with a vision of change centred on honesty, inclusion and fairness.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the timing couldn\u2019t have been better. Much has been said about why Canadians\u2019 were ready to bid farewell to one of their longer-standing leaders \u2013 corruption, fiscal mismanagement, deepening degrees of intolerance and an overt contempt for basic democratic principles being among them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian Election: A Study in Values Those who work on climate change were both chuffed and chagrined by its role in Canada\u2019s federal election campaign, which peaked last week with the victory of Liberal leader Justin Trudeau and defeat of Conservative incumbent Stephen Harper. \u201cThe environment\u201d \u2013 a catch-all concept that often encompasses concern about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[103,7902,10365,141,4169,3540,749],"class_list":["post-13986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-canada","tag-canadian-federal-election","tag-climate-access","tag-climate-change","tag-justin-trudeau","tag-oilsands","tag-stephen-harper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13987,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13986\/revisions\/13987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}