Hello TIG Staff and Members:
Thank you for the Birthday Wish. It was truly a Happy Surprise!
The following is my latest venture into the Canadian political arena on behalf of the environment. Enjoy!

Dear Joseph,

Thank you for contacting the NDP with your comments and concerns regarding sustainable development.

The NDP is committed to fighting environmental problems and to keeping sustainability at the forefront of these fights. One example is our plan for the Kyoto Protocol. Please find attached a copy of the NDP Kyoto plan, Our Kyoto plan: Sustainability within a generation, in PDF format. You can also find the NDP Kyoto plan on our website. By clicking the Kyoto icon on our home page, you will find a page titled: Our Kyoto plan: Sustainability within a generation. On the left-hand side of this page you will see the heading: Campaigns. Please click on Kyoto (in red) to access the full document.

The connotations associated with the term “sustainable development” have been numerous since the incorporation of the term in mainstream environmental and developmental thought. The NDP’s commitments to protecting the environment have not changed. You can be assured that the NDP is committed to sustaining and improving the health of the environment for its intrinsic value as well as the value of the ecosystem services it provides to humans.

Hope this is useful, thanks again for your comments. A vote for the NDP elects an NDP MP.

Wishing you all the best in the New Year,
Jack Layton and Canada's NDP
Getting results for people
Des réalisations concrètes
www.ndp.ca www.npd.ca

-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Raglione [mailto:human4us@sympatico.ca]
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 9:42 PM
To: NDP ADMIN
Subject: "sustainable development"

FIRST NAME: Joseph
LASTNAME: Raglione
E-MAIL: human4us@sympatico.ca
POSTAL CODE: H7R-3X3
PHONE: 450-627-6810

Comments:

This message was a reply sent ten minutes ago to the following Liberal minister...I suggest you use it before the Liberal's do...and yes, I am manipulating both your parties as much as is humanly possible at this time...because I am certain you will return to ignoring my suggestions and ideas once you regain power...if you regain power.

Dear John McCallum:

Your use of the words "sustainable development" creates an impression in my mind that the Liberals intend to sustain Canada's industrial development. Industrial development world wide is creating global warming. I suggest the following new catch phrase would be more apppropriate. ( Let us economically protect and enhance and sustain the natural environment, in essence placing economic value on nature, not as a commodity or as a natural resource, but as a life sustaining and life protecting shield against human species extinction.) Industrial development can also be maintained if, like a Doctor's oath, first and foremost it does no harm.That phrase might be palatable to scientists and hard working practical people across Canada. Do not harm life sustaining Mother Nature and we will reap a great abundance...otherwise, we will reap Human extinction!

Signed: Joseph Raglione:
Executive director: The World Humanitarian Peace and Ecology Movement. Affiliated with GreenPeace, The Sierra Club, the WWF, and N.G.O.'s around the world struggling towards peace and harmony with Nature.

Joseph Raglione: human4us@sympatico.ca