Former Liberal MP Dan McTeague, who now is the head of Canadians for Affordable Energy, blasted the “insanity” of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s costly “climate change” agenda in a recent interview.
“There seems to be no push back to the insanity of suggesting that somehow, Canada’s responsible for weather conditions somewhere else in the world,” McTeague stated in an interview last week with the Western Standard. “Nothing could be further from the truth.”
As at least 10,000 delegates and observers from more than 190 countries gather in Montreal for the Convention of the Parties’ biodiversity summit this week, it’s difficult not to be dreary about the summit’s prospects for reversing the alarming trends that continue to push the earth’s animal and plant species over extinction’s cliff edge.
The Department of Energy under President Joe Biden is touting a $200 million grant it gave to a lithium battery company that would help the United States grow its domestic sources of green energy, even though it “primarily” operates in China, according to a report.
The Environment Department is now conducting research into the cost of owning an electric vehicle, according to federal documents, a year after mandating 100 percent electric car sales in the country by 2035.
A document titled “Total Cost of Ownership for Light Duty Vehicles in Canada,” [pdf] posted on the Government of Canada website on Dec. 2, 2022, said, “Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) is seeking information on the current and projected total cost of light duty vehicle (LDV) ownership in Canada.”
… Citing worldwide critical minerals reserves data from the U.S. Geological Survey, the authors point out that Canada is a bit player in lithium, cobalt, copper, graphite and nickel, all of which are used in low-carbon energy, such as electric vehicle batteries. Reserves are minerals in the ground whose economic viability has been proven.
The stark reality of Canada’s weak standing in critical minerals goes against the rhetoric often espoused by federal and provincial politicians, who have claimed that Canada is a critical minerals powerhouse.
Tulipmania is an apt comparison to our own Green-Scam mania, but it especially applies to the Big Lie about “electric vehicles.”
The only good green jobs being created belong to those charged with handing out tax payer dollars to unsustainable “green” industries.
How many ICE cars and trucks are on the road in Canada currently, privately owned and commercial?
Do you think we have or will have the energy infrastructure required to replace all of those vehicles with EV’s?
It’s not even close and my bet is we never will.
Someone will have to do without a private vehicle.
In fact a lot of someone’s will have to do without.
Those someone’s will be you and I.
And that’s considered a feature not a bug.
Canada leads calls to protect 30% of Earth as Cop15 opens in Montreal
Conserving 30% of Earth for nature would be equivalent to the 1.5C climate target, Canada’s environment minister has said, as senior UN figures warn action on nature loss at Cop15 this month is key to helping solve the biodiversity and climate crises.
Steven Guilbeault, a former environmental activist who is now Canada’s climate minister, said that agreeing to conserve nearly a third of the planet by the end of the decade is a key aim for his country at the biodiversity summit, which is being held in Montreal over the next two weeks.
A General Motors plant in Ingersoll, Ont., has been converted into an assembly line for electric delivery vans, making it the first full-scale electric vehicle-making facility in Canada.
The first BrightDrop Zevo 600 rolled off the line at the CAMI plant on Monday, marking the reopening of the facility that was temporarily shuttered in May in order to retool itself from making internal combustion engines into one that builds electric vehicles.
EV’s are the new tulip bulbs.
With the new year approaching, expect a deluge of reminders by the Trudeau government and the environmental movement that Canada is now the highest per capita emitter of greenhouse gases in the world.
The federal government refers to this all the time as it attempts to pound Canadians into submission when it comes to quietly accepting carbon pricing — meaning higher costs for consumers on almost everything to “save the planet.”
Next year, Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax will rise to 14¢ per litre of gasoline, despite the hardship caused to Canadian families by the rising cost of gasoline and the runaway inflation that is itself the direct result of the Trudeau government’s orgy of spending and borrowing.
Volkswagen is recalling 3,759 of its electric Audi vehicles from the Canadian market due to possible risk of crash.
Transport Canada said in a recall notice Saturday that on some of the vehicles “if you spill liquid on the rear seat, the gateway control module could be damaged.”
By depriving communities of wealth, ill-conceived climate-change proposals will lead to worse health outcomes.
It’s often said that members of Generation Z are clueless, and the signs that these young people held at the November COP27 conference are evidence of that proposition. They fail to see the big picture. Let’s accept, for the moment, the premise of their advocacy: that human activities produce greenhouse gases (GHGs) such as carbon dioxide, which give rise to atmospheric warming, and thus to some degree of disruption and damage. Even so, as these health-care professionals should know, any cure should not be worse than the disease—but that’s precisely what we see in many proposed remedies for climate change.
Canada’s ambassador to the European Union has voiced concern with proposed EU rules to curb deforestation.
A November letter from Ailish Campbell said the rules add “burdensome” requirements and will hurt trade between Canada and the EU.
The EU regulation aims to limit the trade of products linked to deforestation worldwide.
Climate campaigners have called Canada’s resistance to the rules “shocking”.
And …
Biden hosts Macron amid friction over US climate law
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presidents Joe Biden and Emmanuel Macron are celebrating the longstanding U.S.-French relationship — but these are friends with differences. The French president is using his visit to Washington to sharply criticize aspects of the U.S. president’s signature climate law as a bad deal for Europe.
It would appear that “climate” legislation is being weaponized to prevent foreign competition in domestic markets.
That’s the indictment handed up by COP27.
Three weeks ago, I warned you, dear reader, that the “climate summit” getting underway at the chic Egyptian seaside resort of Sharm El-Sheikh was up to no good. But the 12-day-long 27th Conference of the Parties—a U.N.-sponsored moveable feast dominated by fearmongering socialist globalists—exceeded even my low expectations.
The COP27 summiteers indicted America and other wealthy nations for crimes against the climate, and imposed fines in the interest of “climate justice.”
Tesla Motors Canada is asking for more federal subsidies in order to install charging stations “within a reasonable distance” for its electric car customers, says the company’s submission to a parliamentary committee. The proposal, however, means Canadian taxpayers will have to subsidize the installations.
“Approximately 10 million Canadians or about one quarter of all Canadian residents live in multi-unit dwellings including apartments and condominiums,” wrote Tesla management in a submission to the Standing Committee on Finance, obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter.
So what will happen to all those city Condo dwellers?
It’s likely not practical to refit underground parking spaces to accommodate individual charging stations for each resident.
Do you really want to have to walk or as is more likely take a bus to get to your unattended car?
Electric cars are the come-on of the green-scam.
The end is nigh. We know this because the United Nations has said so — again.
In its Emissions Gap Report 2022, the UN Environment Programme alarmingly declares that “only an urgent system-wide transformation can avoid climate disaster.” Policies currently in place, the report says, will result in global temperatures rising to 2.8 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
