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My comment to the Liberal Party of Canada budget suggestions

 CANCEL Trans Mountain Expansion and provide disincentives to current tar sands production,  now, easily meet climate goals ahead of schedule,  and put the billions into a comprehensive green transition, which will be cost neutral, partly because of thousands annually  fewer cases pollution morbidity and mortality ( https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2018/11/21/100-Per-Cent-Clean-Energy-Possible/?utm_source=weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=261118    ). Of course the money should also fund a  robust education and training transition to the enormous task of retrofitting structures to current energy standards,  to the  rooftops for distributed solar, to the hilltops for distributed small scale wind, away from the disgraceful , internationally abhorred wastelands of the tar sands on indigenous lands,  so Canadians in every region no longer have to choose between contributing to climate disaster doing somewhat risky (health and injury) w...