Last week, the United Kingdom did something all too rare: it chose leadership by backing science and prioritizing public safety. The Labour government announced it would ban new oil and gas licences in the North Sea, strengthen a windfall tax and accelerate phasing out of fossil-fuel subsidies.
These are not symbolic gestures. They are an acknowledgment that the global energy system is shifting and that mature economies must shift with it.
Under the United Kingdom’s Communist-Islamist alliance energy impoverishment is a feature not a bug.
Besides Carney is at best playing a long game, he wants Canada desperately poor as well.
