The Trudeau government cabinet wanted to rename “inflation” to be called “heat-flation” in order “to persuade Canadians to associate the rising cost of living with climate change”. [emphasis, links added]
According to Blacklocks Reporter, The Privy Council Office convened a focus group in April (taxpayer-funded, obviously) to test out the labels ‘climate-flation’ and ‘heat-flation’.
Nobody in the focus group had ever heard those terms,
“participants were informed ‘heat-flation’ is when extreme heat caused by climate change makes food and other items more expensive, and that ‘climate-flation’ was a broader term that encompassed all of the ways in which climate change can cause prices to go up including but not limited to extreme heat,”
It’s a stunning example of Orwellian “Newspeak”, where public opinion was controlled by arbitrarily redefining the meaning of words.
Let’s be super-clear: Inflation is an increase in the money supply.
In Canada, the battle against inflation consists of Jagmeet Singh, the junior partner in Canada’s Liberal/Socialist regime blaming inflation on “greedy CEOs”, while apparatchiks like Christia Freeland take victory laps for the inflation rate coming down over the last year.
By simply looking at the following two graphs – anybody with basic cognitive function can tell what’s going on: The money supply blew out in 2020 during the COVID panic, and the reduction in the inflation rate (which still means prices are going up, btw) perfectly tracks the money supply curve.
Milton Friedman said it plainly and simply many years ago:
Inflation is always and everywhere, a monetary phenomenon. It’s always and everywhere, a result of too much money, of a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than an output.
Trying to reframe inflation as something caused by climate change on the part of our government is a brazen act of monumental gaslighting.
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According to the Privy Council documents, “The idea polled badly”.
Read more at Daily Bell
Back to Orwellian doublespeak!
It’s 100% true that Western Governments’ fixation on climate change and wasting taxpayer money on a dysfunctional green energy system is causing inflation. We are not receiving more energy from the traditional energy system plus the green energy system; more money invested for the same amount of energy is inflationary.
We say “mankind” , he says peoplekind.
We say inflation, he insults us.
Let historians write his epitaph.
I see that Trudeau is playing by the standard liberal play book. If responsible for something bad, then blame it on something you don’t like. In this case Trudeau’s spending is one of the main causes of inflation, but he is blaming it on climate change and CEO’s.
I have mentioned the character “Edith Ann” (Lily Tomlin) from Laugh In before.
“No one told me that I shouldn’t paint the baby, so I did” Justin Trudeau is today’s Edith Ann. “No one told me not to destroy the Canadian economy, so I did” . He has also driven the Liberal party over a cliff. He is a self made pariah. Nice hair, fruity socks, phoney fair weather friends.
Trudeau is just another Blundering Dunderhead like Biden and Newsom