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Why Is Canada On This Useless, Damaging Net-Zero Crusade?

by Rex Murphy
January 20, 2022, 8:31 AM
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canada pipeline signageSometimes the best questions are the ones not being asked.

In the Canadian political arena, there are a couple or more in that category.

I’ll go to the biggest one right off the bat: Why and how has the “goal” of getting to net-zero emissions become such a doctrine?

Another way of phrasing the same question is: What’s so wrong, what’s so defective in our current energy system that the Liberal government has pledged, as its absolute priority, to replace it?

Having a secure and tested energy system is a very big deal for any nation, but having a secure and tested energy supply is the quintessential necessity for a vast northern country — really vast — that is also the home of a wealthy, modern economy.

A subsidiary question is: Does the government of a Confederation have the right, the legislative competence to declare the central industry of one of the provinces within that Confederation outmoded?

And on that premise make it a national policy to destroy the economic well-being of that province?

And on that question, if one steps back just a minute, is it not amazing, incredible even, that shutting down the industrial base of an entire province is declared as the Number one priority, one laden with moral as well as political content by those in Ottawa who have elevated it to national policy — and this is accepted as normal or acceptable or yes, even noble in the context of “our fight against global warming?”

Is it really acceptable in our Confederation to single out one province to bear the majority weight and economic devastation of this “fight?”

The real and overriding question, however, is why does Canada, or more accurately, why does the government of Canada profess we have a “duty” to the world to work toward eradicating the energy supply and system that we already have, that has mostly served us well, that has brought fortune and security to the nation?

Why is the energy future of Canada under the ethos and edicts of the United Nations’ IPCC?

What is this world we have a “duty” towards? Should we ransack our current energy platform because we have a duty to — say, Russia?

Or, more tellingly, does Canada have a moral obligation to shut down the oilsands, antagonize all of Alberta (and jeopardize the national economy with its futuristic visions of a “great transition”), because we have a “duty” towards China?

Were we to ask the leaders of the great country of India, who are very much not on side with this same IPCC, whether Canada has an obligation, a “duty” to Delhi to shut down Fort McMurray, they would probably throw up their hands in astonishment that the question is even being put to them.

This “duty” that I insist on keeping in quotation marks, as far as I can tell is one self-declared and self-imposed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and flows from his obsessive conviction that he — along with previous adviser Gerry Butts, climate crusader/previous environment minister Catherine McKenna, and previous Greenpeace activist/current environment minister Steven Guilbeault — must be a “leader” in the holy war against global warming.

On substance, Canada can do nothing substantial about global warming. Canceling the economy of Calgary will not stop the disappearance of the glaciers, lower the sea levels off the Maldives, or rescue one skinny polar bear off a well-photographed ice-floe.

You may have noticed Canada has stalled its economy for over two years and has likely seen the immiseration of thousands of small businesses, restaurants, and services.

We have also piled on gargantuan deficits and debt — they are both at historic levels. We are seeing wealth-destroying inflation at levels unseen since the early ’90s. We’re still in this mismanaged and liberty-choking COVID crisis playing havoc with the economy.

So there is another not-much-asked question: Is the current state of Canada one in which the government, by fiat, with the assent of every political party, should conduct the greatest re-engineering of the fundamentals of the nation’s most essential and fundamental industry?

The summary question is: Why are we on this useless, damaging crusade? I know it’s very much in opposition to the current liturgy to put the question, but why does Canada have any special or even routine obligation to the “world” — or more precisely the mandarins who gather in Paris and Rio and Glasgow — to wreck our working economy in pursuit of some wild notion that this country can function on a forest of windmills (parts from China) and glazed hectares of solar panels?

The global-warming obsession of this current government is the most absurd and senseless fixation of any government since Sir John A. set us up as a country.

The greatest part of that absurdity is how easily all bend to it, all speak the pious words of “net-zero” as if they were summoning a genie, as our deluded leaders prate in foreign capitals about the brave new world they are about to call into being.

The same leaders who can’t manage a payroll system, dig a few wells and provide clean water, who shut down Parliament but party abroad with maskless faces laughing at jokes — of which I suspect we are the butt.

They do not have the intellectual competence to engineer this “transition.” As a minority government, they do not have the mandate either.

Yet witness the ease with which the press, academia, and all who might be regarded as “thought leaders” — a dubious category at the best of times, but dismal at the present — are all abundantly and fervidly on board.

Canada has no “duty” to the world in this farcical pursuit of “net-zero” and we will gravely injure our county if we don’t desist.

And, once again I caution, we will drive a wedge in Confederation if a policy that treats Alberta as a scapegoat and forces it to carry the burden of an Ottawa obsession, is not abandoned.

Conclusion: Canada should take itself out of all international agreements on global warming.

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Comments 5

  1. Sonnyhill says:
    4 years ago

    Net Zero is not possible in Canada, with a population of 38 million and an immigration rate of 300,000+ per year . At that rate, renewables are falling behind, as a percentage of our energy needs. Why such a high rate of immigration? Grow the economy!
    Why grow the economy? In order to increase employment , tax revenue and service our ballooning debt! Especially after the Wuhan virus spending spree.
    There is an alternate route more likely to succeed. Cheap domestic energy. Cheap dependable energy would increase foreign investment, reduce inflation and the need for higher interest rates. Just like China and India are doing for their people.
    Rex Murphy mentioned the obvious : Canada is a northern nation. Intermittent heating is not an option.

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  2. Guy Liardet says:
    4 years ago

    With the UK’s Global Warming Policy Forum, I believe that ‘decarbonisation’ will bring an unparalleled economic calamity. To the profit of China of course. Taking bets that CO2 will continue to rise at 2ppm a year for the foreseeable future.

    Reply
  3. John Raw says:
    4 years ago

    This is by far the best summary of the suicidal policy that our stupid government seems determined to lead us into……for absolutely no measurable effect on the climate! A crime against the Canadian poeple!

    Reply
  4. Spurwing Plover says:
    4 years ago

    Net-Zero is 0 common Sense its all based upon Junk Science and Politics just like Global Warming/Climate Change is

    Reply
  5. Donald Cross says:
    4 years ago

    Canada also has another problem: The leader of the Conservative Party is no better and will also sell out to the alarmists if he gets in power. Where are all those old dictators who can lead without being two-faced or sell-outs ??

    Reply

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