“Net-Zero Tyranny”

The “just transition” legislation currently before the House of Commons Natural Resources committee mentions unions a fair bit. It also mentions what are effectively five-year plans, which was a common practice for moulding the economies of the Soviet Union and China during their darkest years.

However, outside of big-inch pipeline construction, refining, and the oilsands, there simply aren’t that many unionized companies in the oilpatch, at least in Saskatchewan. That is, next to none in the Land of Living Skies.

OTTAWA – Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says the federal government will appeal a recent Federal Court ruling that struck down a cabinet order underlying Ottawa’s ban of some single-use plastics.

The decision on Nov. 16 said Ottawa had overstepped by labelling all “plastic manufactured items” as toxic under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.

Saskatchewan has introduced a bill that would allow the province to stop collecting the federal carbon tax on natural gas starting in the new year, while also providing legal protection for its energy Crown corporation.

Introduced in the legislature on Nov. 16, The SaskEnergy (Carbon Tax Fairness for Families) Amendment Act, would appoint the provincial government as the sole registered distributor of natural gas in Saskatchewan.

Bad 24 hours for Juniors Eco-Tyranny.

OTTAWA – The Federal Court has quashed a cabinet order that listed plastic manufactured items as toxic under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.

The court says in a decision released today that it was not reasonable to say all plastic manufactured items are harmful because the category is too broad.

OTTAWA — Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault tried to quash speculation he might resign over the weakening of Canada’s carbon price regime, stating Thursday he has no intention of leaving his post.

The question of Guilbeault’s resignation was raised after the environment minister stated in recent media interviews that there will be no more exemptions to the federal carbon price as long as he remains in his job.

Scumbag.

Called it earlier today, he will simply ignore the courts when wNts to, with no repercussions.

Like a basic dictatorship

Wake up to new Canadian reality https://t.co/jHzHQpAjxO

— Alberta-Leonidas (@AlbertaLeonidas) November 16, 2023

Coming from a country that may soon choose to be led by either a cognitively challenged second-rate codger or a vengeful lunatic, one would like to look north, to Canada, for some inspiration.

This is an idea many Canadians no doubt find inspiring. A decade ago, The Globe and Mail published an essay that made the case that Canada was a better role model than the U.S. due to its approach of “mutual accommodation” — what the late Quebec premier Robert Bourassa called “one of the world’s rare and privileged countries in terms of peace, justice, liberty and standard of living.”

Aside from the cheapshot at Trump it’s not a bad article.

One of the main topics of discussion in Canada at the water cooler and around the kitchen table is the rising cost of groceries. Canadians are making their voices heard loud and clear on this topic. Politicians should be well aware by now that their constituents are having a tough time making ends meet.

Yet for over six months the federal Liberal government has been dragging its feet on implementing an effective way to bring down the price of many basic goods: taking the carbon tax off farms.

By now, the verdict is near-unanimous: the federal carbon tax is a farce. The exemption for heating oil in Atlantic Canada put a lie to the entire project: faced with declining fortunes in the East, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau blinked and chose votes over virtue. Cue the outstretched hands from the rest of the country: what about propane? what about natural gas? what about everyone who heats their house east of the Quebec-New Brunswick border?

OTTAWA — A new poll suggests most Canadians want more carbon price carve-outs, and that Ottawa’s decision to lift the levy on heating oil for more than one million households is so far not driving support towards the governing Liberals.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has pledged his government will not cave to pressure from premiers and opposition parties to keep watering down his signature climate policy by removing the carbon levy from more forms of heating fuel. In interviews with The Canadian Press and Radio-Canada, federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault has said no more exemptions will occur while he’s in the job.

The premiers of five provinces are calling for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to meet with them to discuss their request for carbon price exemptions on not just home heating oil, but all forms of home heating.

The open letter shared Saturday was signed by the premiers of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan.

In the open letter, the premiers wrote that while they are pleased that Atlantic Canada has received a carbon price exemption on home heating oil, which around 30 per cent of residents use, they believe that similar exemptions need to follow.

Several decades back, I sat (attentively) through a briefing on the Kyoto Protocol. A colleague of mine asked me what it was all about.

I told him it was an economic plan drawn up by environmentalists and doomed to failure. Boy, I was wrong.

No doubt the protocol was an economic scheme. Basically, the smart folks at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) came up with a new, global currency — carbon.

Vandals attacking Ulez cameras have run up a repair and replacement bill of up to £10 million in only six months.

The estimated total comes as Transport for London (TfL), which runs the Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez), is now being forced to hire security guards to protect engineers installing and repairing cameras and mobile Ulez camera vans.

Latest figures show that from April 1 to Oct 31 this year, the Met Police recorded 220 cameras stolen and 767 cameras damaged.

Alberta’s energy minister says Canada is being “sacrificed on the altar of anti-development” as the federal government pushes clean energy regulations despite the country’s carbon emissions only representing 1.5 percent of total global emissions.

The comments were in response to federal regulations that would see Canada achieve a net-zero electricity grid by 2035. The plan is to focus on investing in energy sources like wind and solar, smart grid, and energy storage systems.