Eric Nuttall: There’s a massive chasm between government policy and our energy reality

It is epically frustrating that in Canada, a country blessed with some of the most abundant energy resources in the world, the majority of the population suffers from profound energy ignorance: the lack of knowledge of how hydrocarbons are used, how critical they are to our daily lives, and the realistic timeline to replace them with a “renewable” alternative.

Right now, wherever you are, look around. Everything you see, from the computer or piece of paper that you are reading this column on, from to the desk that you sit at, to the plastic lining in the coffee cup in front of you, all are either made of, or required the use of, hydrocarbons.

Share

Harper says Canada’s climate-change policy unfairly singles out ‘certain parts of the country’

Stephen Harper is criticizing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s climate-change policy for unfairly singling out “certain parts of the country,” as the Liberal government proceeds with a hard cap on oil-and-gas emissions that are expected to particularly affect provinces such as Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Share

Sabrina Maddeaux: Freeland’s appalling demand that Air Canada CEO improve French is typical Liberal overreach

The so-called controversy over Air Canada’s CEO not knowing French despite residing in Montreal for 14 years continues to escalate in its absurdity. Last week, CEO Michael Rousseau admitted he couldn’t speak the language in front of reporters, leading to a spiral of outrage and political pandering that apparently has no end in sight.

Share

‘Radical pragmatist’? Canada’s Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault insists he can be both

Steven Guilbeault could look at the thousands of protesters gathered on the streets of Glasgow on Friday, outside the cordoned-off COP26 climate conference where he is representing Canada as the country’s new Environment Minister, and see himself.

“I was those kids,” Mr. Guilbeault said. He attended the very first such United Nations climate conference back in 1995, in Berlin, when “a gymnasium with 600 kids from around the world” served as his hotel room.

“I blockaded the doors to the Berlin meeting because we said countries hadn’t finished the job, so they couldn’t leave,” he recalled.

Share

BREAKING: Trudeau says ‘even more ambitious’ climate measures will come in future

After announcing a cap on Canada’s oil and gas sector that will see net zero emissions by 2050, and pledging to ban coal exports by 2030, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday that countries will continue to push each other to be “even more ambitious” on their fight against climate change.

Share

Carbon, Inflation And The Attack On Canada’s Middle Class

In 2018, an Ekos Research Poll reported that less than 50% of Canadians identify as members of the middle class — a steep drop from nearly 70% in 2002.

“The whole notion of a middle-class dream — I work hard, build a better mousetrap, do better than my parents, my kids do better than me, I get a house, a car, retire in comfort — that has all been shattered.”

That was then, and this is now. The Canadian middle class is shrinking. A distinction between mainstream media and Cultural Action Party theory lies in the balance. For us, the transformation is intentional. It is a systemic “hollowing out” of Canada’s middle class.

Share

Trudeau says climate action can’t wait and announces Canada ending exports of thermal coal by no later than 2030.

The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today announced Canada’s plans to support the global phase-out of thermal coal, help developing countries transition to clean fuel alternatives as quickly as possible, and reduce pollution in the oil and gas sector.

Share

BONOKOSKI: Freeland’s vanity poll not what she was expecting

Before she delivered her budget, Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland was so interested in what voters might think that she spent $53,445 on a survey to poll 34 people — eight seniors, eight Quebecers, nine parents, and seven unemployed — on what their instant reactions would be.

Share

Trudeau tells COP26 summit he will destroy Canada’s economic well being

Canada will put a cap on oil and gas sector emissions, Trudeau tells COP26 summit

Canada will impose a hard cap on emissions from the oil and gas sector, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday at the COP26 summit in Glasgow.

Calling the promise “a major commitment” that should inspire other resource-rich countries to dramatically curb their own emissions, Trudeau said Canada is prepared to limit the growth of one of the country’s largest industries to help the world hold the global average temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

“We’ll cap oil and gas sector emissions today and ensure they decrease tomorrow at a pace and scale needed to reach net-zero by 2050,” Trudeau said during his two-minute speech in front of other world leaders gathered in Scotland.

Sane people did not vote for Trudeau or for his silly “global warming” fantasy.

Share

GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau unlikely to be PM when his climate promises come due

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will don the mantle of a global warming crusader at a massive United Nations conference on climate change starting in Glasgow, Scotland, on Monday.

He signalled that at the wind-up to a G20 meeting in Rome, Italy, Sunday — a lead-in to the Glasgow summit — which produced a wishy-washy final statement on climate change that will not satisfy anyone who believes it is the existential crisis of our time.

Share