“Net-Zero Tyranny”

Here lies Canada’s carbon price, which exited our earthly realm on March 31, 2025.

Mark Carney, mere hours after becoming Prime Minister, signed the death certificate in front of TV cameras he had summoned to witness the act. In that final moment, the carbon price was surrounded by many ministers who had spent years defending it in increasingly half-hearted tones. At its deathbed, they were silent.

The policy is survived by the thriving political career of the flexible and pragmatic Mr. Carney, and by that of a wistful and slightly too effective Pierre Poilievre. It was predeceased by Justin Trudeau’s political career.

It won’t be dead until a stake is driven through its heart.

After years of being misled by false claims from Canada’s Liberal government that its targets to reduce industrial greenhouse gas emissions to address climate change were achievable, we can no longer trust it.

And so it begins. Environmentalists and Indigenous groups have launched the first protests and legal actions threatening conventional energy production since Mark Carney became prime minister.

A few small protests have been held in Ontario and Quebec and a lawsuit was filed by nine First Nations this summer in response to Bill C-5 (the Building Canada Act). And environmentalists have filed suit for an injunction to reverse the Government of Saskatchewan’s decision to operate its coal-fired electrical power stations beyond the federal government’s 2030 shutdown deadline.

Whether he’s pressuring Ukraine for backpay or speculating about Greenland’s riches, when Donald Trump mentions critical minerals, he’s ultimately concerned with one thing and one thing only: defence.

According to the United States Geological Survey’s (USGS) definition of a “critical mineral,” that makes perfect sense. In concert with the USGS, the US government is clearly focused on how vulnerable supply chains of critical minerals affect their national security.

Canada’s economy is sputtering and it will continue to under Liberal rule. Carney’s administration is as economically reckless as Trudeau’s was and for the same reason. Carney’s net-zero obsession is overwhelming his pragmatism when it comes to policy reforms. He can’t allow himself to support any policy that may clash with his green vision for the world thus he dithers and offers double-speak while industries continue to decline.

(Incognito)

Prime Minister Mark Carney has the opportunity to craft a climate policy that makes sense to Canadian taxpayers – versus the political insanity of the Justin Trudeau era – but the question is whether he is ultimately a pragmatist or an ideologue.

Prior to becoming PM, Carney was definitely an ideologue on climate change.

I don’t trust Carney.