Environment Minister Catherine McKenna is a climate criminal, but she's treated like a hero by the media and the United Nation's climate criminals. Ezra Levant explains why she's a total failure, and why she should go to jail for it.
00:00:00.000The Toronto Star says Canada's Environment Minister Catherine McKenna is one of the top five people to watch in business in 2019.
00:00:10.020Watch in business or watch if she gets near your business. It's January 8th of 2019.
00:00:15.560I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Ezra Levant Show.
00:00:24.140Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:00:27.720There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.
00:00:31.780You come here once a year with a sign and you feel morally superior.
00:00:35.120The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
00:00:45.540You know, we really haven't heard all that much from Canada's ever-present Environment Minister Catherine McKenna in 2019.
00:00:53.040Really, since the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Katowice, Poland at the beginning of December.
00:00:59.000Now, just as Canada was headed into that conference, the United Nations released a report that singled out Canada as one of the G20 countries on track to miss its emissions goals for 2020.
00:01:12.160Those emissions targets mean a reduction of emissions to 17% below the 2005 level.
00:01:21.020Now, to meet those emissions targets, it will mean a purposeful stagnation of the Canadian economy.
00:01:28.020And the United Nations report acknowledges that.
00:01:31.140They actually say that a catastrophic recession, or depression, in Canada's economy would be the only way now that Canada could meet those emissions goals.
00:01:41.720It's right here, hidden in the sixth paragraph.
00:01:45.340Canada, which represented 1.6% of global emissions in 2016, is one of the six G20 countries that, short of enduring a low-growth economics scenario, will likely miss its 2020 target of reducing emissions to 17% below the 2005 level.
00:02:20.480I've said time and time again, and you're all tired of hearing me say it, you can't make a choice between what's good for the environment and what's good for the economy.
00:02:29.080We can't shut down the oil sands tomorrow.
00:02:43.900And at the same time, that so-called climate criminal to the south of us, President Donald Trump, who drew United Nations ire for withdrawing his country from the Paris Accord, has been more successful than the moral preening Canadian government at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, while at the same time experiencing record economic growth in the economy.
00:03:07.080According to EPA data, greenhouse gas emissions, now let me preface that by saying, if you care about those sorts of things, and I don't, have declined 2.7% since Trump first took office in 2016.
00:03:20.200And at the same time, as those greenhouse gas emissions are falling in the United States, their GDP growth rate has reached 4%.
00:03:29.320The United Nations should be touting Trump as a climate hero and looking towards him for answers.
00:03:35.760Instead, he's vilified by both the media and the United Nations time and time again.
00:03:41.260And Canada's Environment Minister Catherine McKenna, by the United Nations' own measures, has worked out to be a total failure.
00:03:48.920But she continues to get treated like an angel in the media, like some sort of messianic character, who's going to save us all from our oil-addicted selves.
00:03:59.560A couple of days ago, in one of the endless listicles that we all get at the beginning of every year, the Toronto star named McKenna as their number one person to watch in business in 2019.
00:04:12.420Look at this ridiculous statement here.
00:04:16.320McKenna has the right stuff for the job.
00:04:19.800Among the most impressive delegates at the landmark Paris Climate Change Summit in 2015, McKenna helped her boss successfully press for more ambitious CO2 emission targets than the worldwide summit delegates thought possible.
00:04:38.380McKenna's not the number one person to watch in business.
00:04:41.080She's the number one person out to destroy your business.
00:04:45.560Just ask the TransCanada Pipeline Company.
00:04:49.120When Catherine McKenna and the Liberal government changed the pipeline approval rules halfway through the process,
00:04:56.240TransCanada abandoned their nation-building Energy East pipeline project that would take oil from Alberta to refineries in the east of Canada.
00:05:06.360And they reinvested in pipelines in the United States instead.
00:05:11.720McKenna is a job killer who can't even manage to parlay that into the environmental success story the U.N. says massive job losses should be.
00:05:21.580But McKenna's got the media on her side, and $600 million in a media bailout buys you a lot of spin.
00:06:37.260I wanted to touch base with you, especially because you are American,
00:06:41.240even though you're in Scandinavia right now.
00:06:43.720Bernie Sanders has been saying some crazy things about climate change.
00:06:47.460He said that we should start treating climate change like a devastating military attack.
00:06:53.640That makes me nervous, because when there are devastating military attacks, that often means an attack on the freedom of the citizens, right?
00:07:02.300Like, that's usually where this stuff sort of goes.
00:07:06.080Yeah, and, you know, we're getting a lot of that kind of rhetoric from the political class,
00:07:11.340at least the left side of the political class in the United States.
00:07:15.980They're almost echoing the rhetoric exactly of Mr. Antonio Guterres, the Secretary General of the United Nations.
00:07:22.600You know, during the conference in Katowice, he stood up, and in his beginning speech, the one that kicked off the conference,
00:07:28.900he said, we need to use this climate action to transform the world, were the terms that he used.
00:07:35.400He said, we can make social changes, economic changes, environmental changes.
00:07:40.100Then, you know, a few weeks later, you had this socialist, the new socialist in the U.S. Congress,
00:07:46.020Representative Ocasio-Cortez, using the exact same language.
00:07:49.480We're going to use climate action to fundamentally transform our society, our economy.
00:07:55.060They're talking about now this new Green Deal, where the government's going to take over all these industries.
00:07:59.820And we are dealing with people here who are seizing on this issue for ideological reasons.
00:08:06.200They want to use it as a pretext to fundamentally transform our entire society, as Barack Obama put it when he was president.
00:08:13.820You know, I think Bernie Sanders is in for a bit of a rude awakening when he figures out who has all the guns in his coming climate change civil war.
00:08:24.780I think that's not going to go over the way he thinks it does.
00:08:27.620And that's another thing I wanted to touch on with you, because you did write a really great article from the conference in Poland about how the UN climate change boss does want to transform the world, really, using climate change as the vehicle to do it.
00:08:46.520Which is actually a rare bit of honesty from the United Nations, because they are saying it is not about climate change.
00:08:55.480It's not about the weather. It's not about extreme weather events.
00:08:58.780It's really a vehicle to rewrite the economic structures of the world to change from capitalism to socialism to ultimately Marxism.
00:09:07.360And we we rarely see them be this honest with us.
00:09:12.420That's right. And, you know, I think that's what people need to understand.
00:09:15.700They talk about climate and CO2 levels and global temperatures and see that.
00:09:20.020But really, what you need to see through all of this is the real agenda.
00:09:23.660And that is, as some of these guys have told us in the open to transform everything.
00:09:28.340And when they say transform, they're actually not talking about something new and unprecedented.
00:09:32.240If you look at what they're advocating, for example, if you go read the speech of Antonio Guterres when he opened up the COP24 in Poland, he is talking about a return to socialism.
00:09:42.660And, you know, we shouldn't be surprised by this.
00:09:45.320Antonio Guterres was the head of the Socialist International before becoming the head of the United Nations.
00:09:49.880For people out there who don't know the Socialist International, it is the biggest global alliance of socialist parties, Marxist parties, communist parties.
00:09:57.440Some of these are just rebranded versions of the communist parties that 30, 40 years ago were slaughtering innocent people.
00:10:05.280Right. I mean, some of these parties have the blood of millions of innocent people on their hands.
00:10:09.820And so when they talk about transforming the world and seizing control of the economy and sustainability, where they say we need to control consumption and production.
00:10:18.220So, you know, I've seen this movie before and it doesn't end well.
00:10:20.800It ends in shortages and horror and very bad things, persecution of dissidents.
00:10:28.360It's interesting. Just today, by coincidence, I had a very, very nice interview with Dr. Nils Axelmorner, who is the lead C-level reviewer for the UN IPCC back in the early 2000s.
00:11:24.020Sure, the Washington Compost and the New York Slimes are not going to break it down for you on the front page.
00:11:28.620But, you know, the last head of the UN FCCC, Cristiana Figueres, the one who opened the UN Climate Summit in Cancun with a prayer to Ixchel.
00:11:37.100She said it was the goddess of creativity.
00:11:38.660Turns out it was the goddess of war, human sacrifice and cannibalism.
00:11:42.560But anyways, she told us what's happening here in this climate process is a fundamental restructuring of the economy of the world.
00:11:50.080And that's what people need to understand, Sheila.
00:11:53.820As you were talking about, you know, just the death count from communism, it struck me that the death count from environmentalism could wander somewhere in that area over time.
00:12:06.160And when you think about denying people in the developing world, electricity, cheap, affordable, coal-fired electricity.
00:12:13.580We know that electrification is directly related to infant and maternal mortality rates in developing countries.
00:12:23.060So when we are denying those people electricity and fossil fuels, really, we're condemning them to a short, miserable, horrible life.
00:12:33.100But they're just a sacrifice, a stepping stone, I suppose, into rewriting how humanity governs itself.
00:12:47.780You actually talked about, you know, the New York Times and how other mainstream media is sort of failing to provide balance on this.
00:12:55.460And I stumbled across an article actually at The New American where they talk about how Meet the Press has dropped all objectivity when it comes to covering the issue of climate change.
00:13:07.800So there will be no other side of the debate because the debate is over, I suppose.
00:13:40.920This is an incredible embarrassment to science.
00:13:44.420But now all that they have left is to try to pretend like the other side of the debate doesn't exist.
00:13:49.420And, of course, this is not a sustainable long-term strategy.
00:13:51.960Even in the Soviet Union, when Stalin fell in love with the theories of Lysenko and started jailing and persecuting and torturing and terrorizing everybody who would not go along with it, the truth still came out in the end because the truth is going to come out in the end.
00:14:05.280But, you know, again, to go back to what you were saying earlier about the consequences of this, you know, it's funny if you're kind of on the outside looking at this.
00:14:12.940Oh, my goodness, what ridiculous hysteria.
00:14:15.000But when you translate it into human terms, you know, I grew up in Latin America and Africa.
00:14:19.840I've been through the slums of Sao Paulo and Cape Town and Johannesburg.
00:14:22.940These people, you know, if they're lucky, they can cook their dinner on dung or some sticks they found in a forest.
00:14:28.340It is not OK to sentence these kinds of people to live in absolute poverty because some greenie in Canada or Sweden or the United States or Norway wants to feel better about their carbon footprint.
00:14:43.420And when we start realizing that the policies these people are advocating not only aren't humanitarian, but they're devastating to the most vulnerable people in the world.
00:14:51.740And then when you realize it's all being done under the guise of climate change, which, you know, the man-made global warming hypothesis, which is a hoax, if you actually investigate and you talk to the scientists, including the UN's own scientists like Dr. Neal, Dr. Morner, then you realize we are dealing with something that is just, to quote Dr. Morner, evil.
00:15:11.380This is just absolutely nuts that humanity could have gone this far down the path.
00:15:15.600But it's no surprise that they're not willing to talk, because if they talk about this, people will very quickly, you know, if they allow both sides to be heard, people will very quickly realize who has the facts on their side.
00:15:26.080And, you know, whether there's a 97 percent of something or the other, it doesn't matter.
00:15:31.280And that's why I think they're trying to shut down the debate like this.
00:15:34.460You know, when I was in Morocco, I think that's what struck me the most.
00:15:38.620When I was there two years ago, I guess it would have been for the Climate Change Conference in Marrakesh.
00:15:43.420And it struck me the dichotomy between the two Moroccos.
00:15:48.700There was this Morocco for the elites, the global elites who flew in and flew out and where they went to this fake little UN complex.
00:16:01.340And once you get inside, it's very strange in there.
00:16:04.200It's very weird and different and separate from the rest of the city.
00:16:09.700And it struck me just the two Moroccos, the poor people who are cooking on open fires and old fashioned open air ovens on their rooftops in Morocco,
00:16:21.640who are buying their meat from butcher shops that don't have refrigeration because it's just not something they have there versus the high end selection of food for the UN delegates who are completely separate from reality in Morocco.
00:16:39.380But now that I'm thinking back, that really is an overlay for how these UN global elitists treat the rest of us.
00:16:56.080You just hit the nail on the head so perfectly.
00:16:58.840And that's what it's like at so many of these UN conferences.
00:17:01.360You know, we went to the Sustainable Development Conference down in Rio and you have these guys showing up in private jets, getting into, you know, fleets of Mercedes limousines, armored and tinted windows.
00:17:11.740And then you see the poor people digging through the trash can, seeing if they can find some crumbs outside of the conference that these elitists threw away in the garbage can.
00:17:19.540It is so grotesque to have these government bureaucrats squandering billions of dollars on themselves.
00:17:27.040And then trillions when you add in all the money they've spent on the pseudoscience, on the marketing, on the conferences, all the malinvestment that's occurred as a result of this.
00:17:35.340Because it's, you know, it's just unconscionable.
00:17:37.900And I hope, you know, the other side likes to claim that they are the humanitarians.
00:17:41.680They're the ones who want to do the right thing for people.
00:17:44.040When you actually boil this issue down, it is exactly the opposite.
00:17:48.240The scientists who have looked at this and are speaking out, the people who are calling, you know, even the people who agree with the theory and have called out the fraud.
00:17:56.040People like Bjorn Lundberg in Copenhagen, who's run the U.N.'s own numbers, even if you believe the U.N.'s theory, you're going to condemn people to poverty to make basically no difference whatsoever on the climate.
00:18:07.960You realize that this is it's gone so far past the point of insanity.
00:18:11.780And it really is about dividing the world up into two separate classes.
00:18:15.620There's them and then there's all the rest of us.
00:18:17.940Right. And they fly in on private jets and they lecture us about how we need to ride our bicycle.
00:18:22.800It's it's so obscene. And I just I you know, I wish we could show it to people in the Western world because all they see is the you know, the carefully packaged photographs from the the fake news.
00:18:33.700And, you know, they see all the speeches from the diplomats.
00:18:36.380We just want to make the world a better place. But they don't see what's really going on there.
00:18:40.480And, you know, that's why I value what you guys do so much.
00:18:42.900And, you know, all the alternative media out there that's trying to get out the real story.
00:18:46.960And I think, fortunately, that's why the alternative media is growing so much.
00:18:49.700People have realized they're not going to get the truth, whether on climate or anything else from the from the fake media.
00:18:55.160And so now people are looking for alternatives. And I think that's a very good thing.
00:18:59.660We've got a lot of work still to do. But I do think, especially in the United States, people have woken up.
00:19:04.000You know, our president ran on a platform of, hey, the manmade global warming theory is a hoax.
00:19:08.160And he won. Right. So people are clearly waking up. And that's a very good thing.
00:19:12.140Well, and, you know, to touch on President Trump, greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, if you care about those sorts of things, are actually going down, I suppose, in no small part due to our friend fracking.
00:19:28.480But if you care about those things, it is possible to move forward and and reduce greenhouse gas emissions without hobbling the economy.
00:19:36.260But I think hobbling the economy is part of the plan for that introduction of socialism.
00:19:44.040You were talking about sort of showing the other side of these conferences when we were in Morocco.
00:19:50.520Some of our most popular videos that we did when we were there was showing just how fossil fuel dependent these conferences are, despite their claims to the contrary.
00:20:05.520In Morocco, I don't know if you were in the press room there, but I came home from Morocco with a bad cold because they had the air conditioning up so high in the desert
00:20:18.020that I was wearing a sweater and my nose ran the whole time and that was just to keep the journalists comfortable.
00:20:24.720They would water the desert every morning to keep the dust off the fancy people's expensive shoes before they came in to these conferences where they would then tell everybody that, you know,
00:20:39.760you only should shower every other day and flush your toilet every couple of times that you use it to save water.
00:20:46.140In the meantime, they're literally, literally watering the desert in a place where water is really a commodity for the poor.
00:20:54.700And those were some of our most popular journalistic pieces when we were there because people want to see that side.
00:21:02.500They don't want to see the polished lies.
00:22:16.000And, in fact, our Senate looked into this as well.
00:22:17.900The U.S. Senate, we have a committee there, the Environment and Public Works Committee.
00:22:22.260They came out with a brilliant report, I think it was in 2014, where they described what they called the Billionaires Club.
00:22:29.900And they identified all these different billionaires, you know, extremely wealthy people who had almost created the green movement.
00:22:38.160They were funding a bunch of activists who probably were totally clueless to go out there and demand less freedom, less money, more globalism.
00:22:45.300And when you realize that, you know, these are people who have everything, these people were born with a silver spoon in their mouth,
00:22:51.040and they want to take away the ability of a poor person to even heat up their own food or stay warm in the winter.
00:23:01.780You know, I'm so glad to hear an American journalist touch on just how meddlesome and horrible the Rockefeller Foundation is.
00:23:10.060They have had a campaign directed at Canada's oil patch for at least 10 years.
00:23:17.580Likewise with the American Foundation, the Tides Foundation, they have been funding Canadian environmentalists on the ground to block Canadian pipelines to tidewater.
00:23:29.580Because as you know, the price differential between Canadian oil versus West Texas Intermediate is sometimes around $50 a barrel.
00:23:38.600Canadians are losing millions of dollars a day on our oil because we can't get it to export markets.
00:23:45.920The United States is our only customer.
00:23:48.100And this is the kind of foreign collusion that should drive people crazy.
00:23:54.440This is worse than any sort of so-called Russian collusion that may or may not exist.
00:27:00.420And, you know, when you start listening, when you start picking up on these little cues, a whole bunch of the U.N. climate people have praised communist China.
00:27:09.120Cristiano Figueres, who we talked about earlier, said China is doing it right on climate policies.
00:27:14.640And in Copenhagen, I was actually at the U.N. climate summit where the Chinese delegation said, hey, our one child policy has resulted in 300 million fewer births.
00:27:23.560If you add this much CO2 emissions per human, you can see that we've drastically reduced our CO2 emissions by cutting the population.
00:27:30.400And all I could think to myself was, yeah, how many forced abortions did you do to get those numbers?
00:27:41.800And I hope people will realize that these people are not your friend and they will go to extreme lengths to bring your life, your family, your freedom under their control.
00:27:51.560That's, you know, it's really disgusting when you think about somebody doing the math on aborted babies and their lifelong CO2 emissions.
00:29:04.820So this attitude that humans are a disease or they're a cancer on the world and that the U.N. is going to save us from this scourge of humans, you know, it just flies in the face of everything that we see.
00:29:17.780You know, if you have kids, that's awesome.
00:29:20.100And, you know, it gets me really upset, Sheila, to have this kind of attitude funded by our taxes, permeating our school books and our governance.
00:29:30.240It's so grotesque when you realize it and they act like we have a population crisis.
00:29:53.020You know, and I really wish if that were the case, like you pointed out earlier, the environmentalists would follow their own dogma when it comes to having children and then just sort of make themselves obsolete.
00:30:05.760But as you pointed out, they love to have lots of kids in Canada here.
00:30:10.900One of our most notable environmentalist hypocrites, David Suzuki.
00:30:16.180He's a creation of the state broadcaster, to be honest with you.
00:30:19.180He's got five kids and a pile of houses.
00:30:32.520Alex, I feel like I've taken up a lot of your time today, but I wanted to ask you what you're working on next at The New American, if you want to give us a sneak peek of what's going on for you.
00:30:58.740Our next one is actually an expose of the government's education system.
00:31:02.880It's probably just as relevant to Canada as it is to the United States.
00:31:05.880We're going to be showing the sexualization of the children, the indoctrination of the children.
00:31:10.180We're going to expose why there is an illiteracy crisis in the United States that has resulted in, according to the government's own numbers, half of American children cannot read.
00:31:57.380And everybody is going to be very receptive to you.
00:32:01.080So education is one of those things here in Alberta, where I live, that has been under attack.
00:32:08.020I would describe what happened in Alberta here to my American friends as imagine if Elizabeth Warren somehow got control of Texas.
00:32:19.420That's what happened here in a fluke election.
00:32:23.320And we've been living with the destruction both to our oil patch and our education system over the last three years.
00:32:30.480And I've said it time and time again, I think the most devastating attack is to our education system because it is rewriting the culture of the province.
00:32:39.420And it is giving us children who will be unable to work our way out of the financial crisis that is being left here for us.
00:32:49.220So if that's the conference, I'm very excited.
00:32:52.360And I think you're going to have a great time in beautiful Calgary.
00:34:24.900I like to highlight them when I get the reins to the show.
00:34:28.280Now, yesterday, I did an access to information investigation into the true facts surrounding Justin Trudeau's expensive sauna fiasco at his summer cottage at Harrington Lake.
00:34:39.360Now, originally, the installation of his self-purchased sauna would cost the taxpayer $65,000.
00:34:47.680Because Trudeau wanted it installed in one location for the winter and then moved to a separate location where it would permanently rest in the spring.
00:34:56.040That massive bill would include wiring this thing twice, landscaping twice, clearing trees, reclaiming the old location, and then building a new deck and structure to house his sauna.
00:35:13.180And the CDC and the PMO reported it as the prime minister choosing the cheaper option just to leave his expensive sauna in the first location and not ding taxpayers with that expensive bill.
00:35:26.560But I dug down and found out it had absolutely nothing to do with Justin Trudeau being struck with a fit of fiscal conservatism.
00:35:34.620The second location was in the floodplain of the lake.
00:35:38.820So Trudeau's expensive sauna couldn't be moved there.
00:35:41.720Not once did anyone express concerns about the costs of doing all this.
00:35:46.920It was just that the lake could flood and ruin the electrical sauna at some point.
00:35:54.080And in the comments for that story, Roland Terrence wrote,