Action4Canada - Eye on Calgary Video 3 - Background to Climate Emergency Declaration

00:00:00.000 Welcome to part three of the Eye on Calgary series. This video begins with a bird's eye

00:00:11.160 view of the Calgary Climate Plan document. From there we will begin a deep dive into the document

00:00:18.880 themes showing the relation to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and how these also

00:00:27.960 relate to the Calgary Housing Strategy. Let's begin. It comes from page five of their document and we'll

00:00:36.380 just read through a few of these. So I will break this down a little bit for you. This is their

00:00:41.840 mitigation plan and these are all addressed as themes within the document and then their adaptation

00:00:50.740 plan is over here. And that adaptation plan I'll address just a little bit coming up.

00:01:01.240 So that's just a general layout. I'm sorry and I have zero carbon neighborhoods addressed here.

00:01:11.100 This is the area and I will explain why I focused on and why I focused mostly in this video. And

00:01:20.020 actually water comes into play as well in their adaptation plan which we'll touch on briefly.

00:01:29.940 So just to break it down for you so you can do a screen grab, pause, grab it, screen grab here.

00:01:38.880 But their mitigation strategy at a glance because as you go through the document it's very daunting.

00:01:43.520 It's very big and yeah it sort of looks fancy but I'll break that down for you too. But here are their main themes.

00:01:51.720 Net zero homes and buildings. So when I say these are their themes, these are the areas, these are the things

00:01:57.980 that they want to do, they want to achieve within their city. All with the goal of reducing our carbon footprint,

00:02:07.100 our emissions, our greenhouse gas emissions, reducing carbon, all of every single thing within this

00:02:14.640 document is about that. So you can see what they want to do. Some things are very nefarious.

00:02:21.660 So theme two, zero carbon energy transition which is a slap in the face to

00:02:28.060 all people of Calgary and area who work in the industry, the energy industry because Canada and I

00:02:37.360 know this for a fact has some of the highest standards when it comes to energy. Zero carbon

00:02:44.960 neighborhoods, this is the area where I will focus more in this video for you. I'll explain why.

00:02:51.280 Moving on, theme four, consumption and waste. This is a big one within the United Nations document.

00:03:00.940 Reducing our consumption, C40 is all about that. And carbon removal is theme five. And theme six,

00:03:12.880 enabling actions which essentially is just, as they say, cross-sectional actions that are necessary

00:03:19.000 because something that happens in one area is going to be important for another area.

00:03:26.340 There's not a lot within theme six there. So I would like to just explain our document layout here.

00:03:40.300 So that is just, in a nutshell, the themes. But when you get into the document, you'll see something like

00:03:47.400 this. And so they do. They do take the time to explain their strategy. Sometimes it's nice to have

00:03:55.520 somebody, though, who just explains it to you. So this comes from page 22 of their document.

00:04:00.700 So essentially, they're talking timelines. How long is it going to take to implement this certain area?

00:04:07.880 Where is it within the implementation plan? Not started all the way to complete? And then how much is it

00:04:17.520 going to cost? From not much, which is under a million, to a lot, over 20 million. So let's take a look

00:04:28.060 at one of these areas that I'm not going to talk a lot about within this video. But once you have the,

00:04:37.380 you know, the layout in your mind, and you, pardon me, you can see it, you understand more when you get into

00:04:44.420 the document yourself. So this is a program pathway A, which comes from page 24. So they've also have it

00:04:53.660 color coded. So notice here, this purplish line, it corresponds with A1, A1.2, and then A2 is a sort of a

00:05:05.720 deep turquoise blue. So there it is there, it's telling you where it is in their timeline,

00:05:12.760 and they, you know, approximate cost of that. So notice that what they have, you know, these are

00:05:20.760 the benchmarks, this is what they're, you know, kind of wanting to do, some financing that might be

00:05:27.200 their incentives, what's the nudge towards doing it, and then their regulation also comes into play.

00:05:37.000 So let's look at the next page. So here we see the blue, sort of the dark turquoise blue, and let me carry

00:05:43.960 on to the next page. So actually, I'm just going to pop back. I'll pop back. So notice here now, this blue

00:05:51.580 color and this green, dark green, light green, that's happening on the next page here. So there we go. So

00:06:01.320 there's our blue, darker green, lighter green. And so I'm not going to do too much here, you can go back and

00:06:11.200 read it yourself. But it's all about the transition, right? Establish a strategy to increase the use of low

00:06:19.580 carbon building materials, and new construction and renovations and building infrastructure.

00:06:25.140 So we will, this will come up, this will come up for us again. So from there, I want to pop into,

00:06:35.820 oh, sorry, I'm gonna, let's, I'm gonna go to the next slide, because this is their adaptation plan. So

00:06:42.780 their adaptation plan, I think you can see it, that comes from page 51. So after they've talked about the

00:06:48.400 mitigation plan, and gone through everything within the document, you can see right page 51,

00:06:53.480 they start to talk about an adaptation plan. Now, adaptation is not a bad thing. If you talk to

00:07:01.760 people who, who are not climate catastrophists, they say adapting to what's happening in the environment

00:07:12.460 is a good thing to do. So it's not necessarily a bad thing to see that they have adaptation in there.

00:07:21.520 But I went and I was doing a little bit of reading, research, and here I highlighted,

00:07:28.600 according to the Global Commissions on Adaptation, so the Global Commissions again,

00:07:33.680 every dollar invested in climate adaptation will have an average six dollar return on investment.

00:07:38.600 investment. So interesting. So when they put this little number here, that means that you can go

00:07:45.820 and check out where that reference is from. So that comes at the back of this complete document,

00:07:55.100 they have an area of references. So I went and checked that out. And if I was running this

00:08:01.940 PowerPoint in a very fancy way, these would have magically appeared at different times,

00:08:08.520 these Korean grabs I did. So I went and checked it out. So 17, this is where they grabbed that 0.99

00:08:15.020 information. They grabbed it from Adapt Now, a global call for leadership on climate resilience,

00:08:23.280 World Resources Institute. So here we go again, making sure that we're in the big boys club and doing

00:08:29.860 what people in the global club do. So let's go and just check this out. And I decided not to bring

00:08:39.340 up that website, just a little less reliant on the internet at times. But I went and did a screen

00:08:46.100 grab. So this is there. If you go to the website, this is it. Such a lovely picture, isn't it? And

00:08:54.340 let's take a peek at the next one. So I thought, well, what's this all about? Let's just take a read

00:09:01.000 this Global Commission on Adaptation, because I mean, it sounds quite benign, right? It sounds really

00:09:09.560 should be a good thing. Well, who's running it? Well, this commission is led by at the time,

00:09:15.960 Ban Ki-moon, who was the eighth Secretary General of the United Nations.

00:09:20.400 Mr. Bill Gates, who is co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. And this lady, I believe

00:09:30.860 it is, who is the CEO of the World Bank, as well as all the rest that's mentioned here. So this is

00:09:38.220 not the Secretary General of the UN right now. It is a different man. And anybody familiar with

00:09:46.840 what's happening in the world, Bill Gates, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation should send off

00:09:54.380 alarm bells in your head that these are the people who are running this commission. So about this

00:10:02.380 report, again, all of the words, the word salad is always there, usually the same words, you can read

00:10:12.680 it as well as I can there. So in addition, as I was going through, I thought, well, isn't this

00:10:19.160 interesting? This is only a portion, this is a screen grab, just a portion of all the commissioners

00:10:26.140 of this. And again, one that I would like to point out, aside from the ones I already have,

00:10:33.120 Catherine McKenna, who at the time was the Minister of Environment and Climate Change

00:10:37.480 for Canada. So very interesting that, again, our tax dollars are being used to pay someone to

00:10:52.460 find out what's happening on the global scale in regard to adaptation, and then making sure that

00:11:00.100 we put it into our climate agenda. So very interesting there. So that's just a little tidbit,

00:11:08.020 side information, a little bit of background on some of that 2050 document thus far. So now I

00:11:16.480 mentioned earlier that I spent quite a bit of time looking into theme number three. And the reason

00:11:28.220 for that is as follows. When the city of Calgary was having their quote-unquote, their meetings,

00:11:39.380 they wanted to hear from the public about their thoughts about the new bylaws zoning happening.

00:11:46.640 I did a little research because this is the document that they referenced when it came to

00:11:54.140 these, you know, the new bylaws they wanted to put in place to, you know, help to build homes for people

00:12:02.600 within Calgary. So in all of this that I am showing you here, it's nothing that I've made up. I've just

00:12:10.080 followed the links and gone down the rabbit holes. And these are the things that I have discovered.

00:12:15.420 So within that document, home is here. And you'll see I'm getting to my point here. But they say right

00:12:26.100 there on page eight of their document, home is here, that the city of Calgary's housing strategy

00:12:32.200 aligns with the city's broader strategic plans and priorities. So again, everything's intermingled,

00:12:43.480 mixed in. So within one document, they'll reference another document. And in that document,

00:12:49.560 they reference another document. And you can go down a rabbit hole and never come out, honestly.

00:12:55.140 But interestingly, I'd already been paying close attention to their climate plan and looking at it.

00:13:02.020 And so this caught my attention right away. And I will just say if anybody wants to go down any of

00:13:07.360 these rabbit holes, they will all be very interesting as well. We'll touch just briefly on the MDP plan

00:13:15.540 just a little bit later on. So these words right here come directly from the 2050 plan. And this last

00:13:27.200 sentence, pardon me, these last few words, zero carbon neighborhoods. So it comes from that area,

00:13:37.340 which is theme three of the 2050 document. So interesting. So that really was the area

00:13:45.440 I decided to spend majority of my time, although all of that 2050 document is quite nefarious.

00:13:52.800 So if we look, if we go to, okay, so this is actually pull it up for you here. Here is the zero carbon

00:14:08.920 neighborhoods. So this is on page 35 of the 2050 climate document. So they are looking at zero emission

00:14:19.980 vehicles, mode shift. So that word mode is used a lot within SDGs and focused land use planning to

00:14:32.600 prioritize zero emission city design. Well, isn't that interesting? So before we jump into that,

00:14:42.200 I would like to show you that this page, so we're going to go to this page 35 of the document, I'm just

00:14:54.160 going to pull it up for you right here. And we'll just read. So each theme looks like we're good here.

00:15:01.720 Yeah. So each theme, and I'll just point this out. Anybody who is using this is acrobat, Adobe acrobats,

00:15:12.460 and you can click this button here that is highlighted. And then you can have the pages here that you can

00:15:18.640 scroll through and click through and you can go quick finds to but put inserting your number here, which I'll

00:15:24.580 probably use here and again to show you. Okay, so the zero carbon neighborhoods, theme three. So again,

00:15:33.500 in my research, I did a lot of highlighting. So I really wanted to find out, okay, so smart city, yes,

00:15:42.300 yay, nay, what's going on here with this. So a lot of things popped up for me, but and also the land

00:15:50.320 use planning. So at the time I was looking at land use planning, what's going on there. So they talk

00:15:55.320 about land use planning a lot. Use land more efficiently to transition to a denser, more compact

00:16:02.980 city. So compact city is often used interchangeably. Dense city, compact city with smart cities.

00:16:10.840 Switching our vehicles to low carbon fuel and switch to transportation modes. Climate action and equity

00:16:18.260 considerations intersect. Interesting. And I highlighted this at the time, zero emission city design.

00:16:26.180 Transform land use planning to prioritize zero emission city design. So I thought that it was interesting

00:16:33.820 that as we were going through this,

00:16:38.980 all of these meetings at city hall for everybody to have their input into whether or not

00:16:46.260 they wanted the bylaws change for how, uh, our land is, is, um, zoned that quite a long time ago,

00:16:56.780 and you'll see it is going to come up more. They were talking about changing the bylaws so that they

00:17:03.460 could use, um, and place different types of housing within well-developed areas. So I thought, well,

00:17:12.420 isn't that interesting. Mm-hmm. So with that said, and now that you've just seen this, I think it's

00:17:20.100 necessary to pull up and I'm going to get rid of this at the moment because I don't need that

00:17:27.740 because I think it's important for you to see for yourself and hear, uh, some of the wording because

00:17:37.100 it's going to pop up and it's not, and I don't want it to be like, oh, you're just making it up

00:17:43.300 about these sorts of things. So let's take a look. So if we go and, um, go to the United Nations

00:17:53.020 website, these are their 17 goals. If you're not familiar with them, you can go in and these send

00:18:00.120 you down a lot, a big, long, deep rabbit holes, but the biggest one, and actually many, many of

00:18:08.400 them relate to the city planning, but the sustainable cities, this one here, make cities and human

00:18:14.760 settlements, inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable. All of those words are used within

00:18:20.500 the 2050 document, and we can click on to get a little bit more information. So I'm going to pull

00:18:26.440 that up. Hopefully it loads. So nice. So anytime you go to one of the goals, just FYI, you're

00:18:36.440 on your main goal here. The majority of the main goals, they'll talk about related topics

00:18:42.840 and you scroll down, they have a really nice infographic, looks really pretty, and targets

00:18:52.500 and indicators pop up. So a few that I want to bring to your attention, and please trust

00:18:59.780 me, these all sound beautiful, uh, fluffy, um, beautiful and fluffy. Let's leave it at that.

00:19:08.060 But there are some nefarious, um, items that pop up along the way. So if we just, and I wanted

00:19:16.260 to show this to you so that you would know how to do it. So things like getting rid of slums, 1.00

00:19:21.040 right? Affordable housing. That sounds really great, right? Proportion of urban population

00:19:26.100 living in slums. You know, what are their indicators for success here? So that's how it

00:19:31.340 works on these big ones. They have the indicators, they have their main targets, and they have the

00:19:35.480 indicator drop-down screens here. So 11A1. So let's just scroll through. We can see some of

00:19:46.180 what their indicators are. Um, some, some of them sound really good, right? I'm going to drop this one

00:19:55.400 down. Portion of the population has convened access to public transport. Public transport. That's a big

00:20:05.680 one, my friends. Public transport. That is a big one. Um, by 2030, enhance inclusive and sustainable

00:20:14.240 urbanization and capacity for participatory integrated sustainable human settlement planning

00:20:18.860 and management in all countries. So this is the one that I really wanted you to be familiar with.

00:20:25.560 The ratio of land consumption rate to population growth rate. Hmm. Interesting. And proportion of

00:20:37.060 cities with a direct participation structure of civil society and urban planning and management

00:20:41.320 that operate regularly and democratically. Well, that one just gave me a huge laugh and I hope you

00:20:47.660 were to. Because they went through, um, the actions of it, didn't they? When they did, um, with here in Calgary,

00:20:57.080 you know, making it look like they're doing the democratic thing and hearing from the, the population

00:21:03.000 and, oh, even though more than, what was it, 80% of Calgary did not want the zoning bylaws, uh, change that

00:21:11.260 they were proposing. Didn't matter. They just went forward with it anyway. But you have to make it look,

00:21:16.460 right that you're uh participating uh in a democratic society um so there you can scroll

00:21:25.040 through um and there's a few this one here i think reducing the waste so waste is a big one too

00:21:35.000 and um they have ways to to measure it as well um lots of green spaces nothing wrong with that

00:21:43.420 at all and then they got their indicators um support positive economic and social environmental

00:21:51.160 links between urban peri-urban or rural areas by strengthening national and regional development

00:21:56.220 planning this one will come up too and there's an indicator of that and then by 2020 substantially

00:22:06.500 increase the number of cities human settlements adopting and implementing integrated policies

00:22:11.380 and plans towards inclusion resource efficiency mitigation adaptation to climate change

00:22:17.720 resilience to disasters and develop and implement in line with the sende framework for disaster

00:22:22.980 reduction risk holistic disaster risk management at all levels well um and then there's some

00:22:31.000 indicators for that so again you can scroll through if you want take some time uh to go through

00:22:39.520 but some of these i'm going to remind you and say did you remember seeing this before um so those are

00:22:47.180 some of the some of the big ones there sustainable cities and communities and interestingly enough

00:22:54.080 sustainable transport so i wanted to point this out to you too because um this is big because transport

00:23:02.820 and sustainable cities go hand in hand so i'm just gonna see if i can click sometimes it acts up okay looks

00:23:12.980 like it's going to let me so this is a related goal to um cities so there's a big blurb because it is um

00:23:23.160 not a main goal it doesn't have that drop down for indicators but notice here this this one i could have done a screen grab for you

00:23:34.460 um i won't read it all but the importance of transport for climate action is further recognized under the

00:23:41.500 un fccc that's the united nations framework on climate conference on climate change i think i have one of my c's wrong

00:23:52.560 but that's the united nations again and this un fccc united nations framework convention on climate change

00:23:59.940 that's what it is this one here is the main one that the whole world uses for um deciding their climate policies

00:24:10.140 uh the transport sector will be playing a particular important role in the achievement of the paris agreement

00:24:16.080 given the fact close to a quarter of energy related global greenhouse gas emissions g uh

00:24:23.300 greenhouse global greenhouse gas emissions that's multiple come from transport and these emissions

00:24:29.980 are projected to grow substantially in the years to come so notice as well

00:24:36.940 um aren't we lucky the sustainable transport day at the sdg pavilion is happening and notice

00:24:47.260 they've decided 20 26 to 2035 or is the decade of sustainable transport so transport is a big big one

00:24:57.020 when it comes to cities and implementing their plans and we will look at that we will take a look

00:25:06.360 so i've done that let's go back to our document i'm going to get rid of this so again that those are

00:25:14.000 the sdgs and i'll be talking about them again so zero carbon neighborhoods because as you can see

00:25:21.140 the video we have gotten to you know we're getting close to an hour and we're just sort of still doing

00:25:28.480 some of the background um but i want to show you the actual document um pathway fng so i'm going to see

00:25:37.800 i'm going to bring it up here and you can go through a little bit more on your own but zero carbon

00:25:46.940 neighborhood so again it's getting rid of uh vehicles making it harder and harder for people to drive

00:25:54.220 getting people to shift their mode of transport and then using the city design to prioritize

00:26:03.520 these zero emissions and so again you can go through and when i was um doing some background on this

00:26:12.360 um ev ready that are residential buildings right are ev ready um establish zero emission transportation

00:26:22.560 zones now people who are not familiar with these words right here well let me just explain and share

00:26:30.800 with you in just a moment here just what that is um work with the province to implement road pricing

00:26:42.120 tools that address the direct user pay cost of travel and create community mobility hubs for charging

00:26:52.060 our evs also for mode shift program pathway g um develop a travel demand management strategy

00:27:04.160 um these are just some of the things that i'd highlighted you can see there's much more there

00:27:09.960 um as well expand investment primary transit that is the green line folks that is the green line that

00:27:19.220 has been a complete uh debacle um you'll you for those who are unaware public transport is big it's huge in

00:27:30.140 this green uh the green global cabal uh getting rid of vehicles more public transport and city designing

00:27:38.320 it's all about getting people close to the public transport and then again identifying opportunities

00:27:44.220 repurpose existing lanes have you noticed it's getting harder and harder to drive your vehicle

00:27:49.840 in certain areas that is by design my friends and additional pricing structures um again so there's

00:27:58.320 that nudge let's just nudge people so it's just a little bit more inconvenient um to get around the city

00:28:06.360 because if we do that then we will be reducing our greenhouse gas emissions

00:28:11.360 well my friends um let me just pop over here i'm gonna just get rid of that for a minute

00:28:19.620 uh i'm gonna pull this up so one of the things just popping out popping in but when i went and

00:28:28.340 checked out their documents so you clicked on a link and took you somewhere else and you clicked and you

00:28:32.860 clicked and you clicked on the rabbit hole you found a document for this um decade of sustainable

00:28:39.140 transport and again um you can read through the document it's lengthy um but encourage national

00:28:49.240 regional and global plans policies and programs on transportation mobility to take into the counts

00:28:54.180 of needs women girls persons with disabilities older persons those in vulnerable situations well

00:28:59.040 that sounds very lovely doesn't it um emphasize the contribution of low emission energy efficient

00:29:06.180 quality reliable sustainable resilient modes of transport to climate change mitigation and adaptation

00:29:12.020 and the achievement of the sdg goals as well as the importance of long-term strategies

00:29:18.160 and multi-stakeholder partnership in delivering such sustainable modes of transportation

00:29:23.040 well isn't that interesting it's too bad that uh reliable doesn't really fit into the ev world yet

00:29:32.180 does it so again that comes from um the sustainable transport and if you recall um maybe i'll just pull it up

00:29:43.540 if you recall if i go back here um i said this is coming up this is gonna come up this right here

00:29:50.160 zero establish zero emission transportation zones not yet started but they're looking at it right

00:29:58.160 so if you think that that's nah that's pie in the sky stuff right there um think again my friends

00:30:06.820 um this has been underway in london since 2003 so it is not new they have what's called a congestion

00:30:15.560 charge and you can go on and you can check it out um and look at the fees but just lately i did this

00:30:25.300 little research on my own and it's 15 year olds to go into the congestion zone of london which maybe

00:30:32.800 i'll bring up for you here and interesting i listened to this news group and they reported in may

00:30:41.140 that the u.s embassy in london was refusing to pay its 18.5 million dollar congestion fee

00:30:50.240 they were claiming that they had diplomatic immunity from that so it's a thing my friends 0.96

00:30:59.400 it's a thing so let's just i'm gonna see if i can bring it up for you so i am sad that they got rid

00:31:06.420 of that lovely picture of the train i'm glad i did a screen grab of that uh back when so this is

00:31:12.200 transport of london and you can find out all kinds of things the tube i believe they call it they're

00:31:18.720 uh underground um what's happening the delays etc but if you go over here we can check out the

00:31:26.260 congestion charge there so um let's just see so this is the congestion charge it is euros which we know

00:31:39.760 uh is a little bit more in canadian dollars uh this much as a daily charge if you want to go into

00:31:47.500 the congestion charge zone from seven to five monday to friday and 12 to eight saturday sunday and

00:31:54.500 holidays oh how dare you if you want to go in at those times you got to pay and if your vehicle

00:32:02.060 does not meet the ultra low emission zone standards you have to pay that fee as well

00:32:08.900 so interesting so you can go and find out more about all these different charges but where does

00:32:15.660 this cover let me see i think we can go in here let's just check out charging zone okay pay to drive

00:32:23.980 in london all kinds of things and aha so here we go we have a little uh map so this here okay if you

00:32:34.820 click on zones aha so this is the congestion charge zone and i believe that this is the area where the

00:32:44.560 eye of london is for example uh that's like the big looks like a ferris wheel it's a very very busy

00:32:52.620 tourist area and then i also have with ultra low emission zone so where's that

00:32:59.500 uh-huh so in canada and i think most places in the world we do have this now that your vehicle

00:33:07.200 has to meet a certain standard of emissions and if it doesn't and you go into the blue zone you have

00:33:15.240 to pay for that and then if you go even further into the red zone you have to pay more so it is all

00:33:22.760 there my friends it's um it's not it's not uh new it's been around in london for a long long time

00:33:31.540 and i actually wanted to i'm not sure if i can

00:33:34.900 and other cities are taking a look at this so here in north america this comes from june

00:33:48.820 and reuters reported on this as did other outlets this is one i saved but the uh mayor there was

00:34:02.080 looking at putting in the congestion pricing there as well so you can go on and you can find that as

00:34:11.720 well for yourself but yes um looking at using a congestion fee uh 15 us dollars um for vehicles

00:34:25.620 that would drive into manhattan uh south of 60th street so whatever happens in europe eventually makes

00:34:36.800 its way over here to north america so that was in june and uh the governor there kathy hochel

00:34:45.460 said no we are not going to do this uh people are facing very high prices uh in the cost of living

00:34:55.400 we do not want to add uh to their burden but give it some time i will bring you to this next one here

00:35:05.640 and this as reported by the epoch times very recently um basically they have changed their mind

00:35:16.680 and they are going to implement it now and again you can go on and find this many different um outlets

00:35:27.200 carried it um but the dear and wonderful governor said she is giving the people of new york a break

00:35:38.580 people who come to visit new york they will get a break because instead of paying 15 they will now

00:35:47.560 only have to pay nine dollars to go uh into manhattan isn't that so wonderful of her that is what you call 1.00

00:35:56.780 gas lighting so you can go ahead and uh find that for yourself just by doing a search

00:36:04.460 and reading up on it a little bit more so yes north america is looking at it and that is something

00:36:12.180 that comes right out of the united nations playbook um absolutely to um reduce greenhouse gas emissions

00:36:20.840 using the whole uh congestion theme but on one hand we see this happening that congestion fees are

00:36:30.920 being implemented but then we have some other good news um articles this one here um see if i can bring

00:36:39.900 it up for you here we go as reported um by true north and other outlets as well but that toronto is looking

00:36:54.120 at getting rid of its bike lanes and again you can go on and read more about this but essentially

00:37:03.240 um these bike lanes they have um uh the total kilometers have skyrocketed in the last few years

00:37:14.220 and what they're finding is that it's not actually helping with congestion in fact it's making things

00:37:20.320 worse by having all of these bike lanes that go right along the main um corridors that vehicles use

00:37:29.340 um and it's not helping the situation in fact it's making it worse so they're actually looking at taking

00:37:37.160 out uh these bike lanes so some interesting um things happening uh in north america uh and around the world

00:37:48.440 in regard to the implementation of many of these green agenda plans good news is that there are people

00:37:58.720 fighting back on this and uh these folks here fighting back against these charges uh when the elections were

00:38:08.980 on and you may have seen and we're not advocating any of this but in in uh over there in the uk

00:38:17.060 they have what's called blade runners who go out at night and they cut down these poles that uh are

00:38:26.860 taking you know pictures of people's license plates and um they're using spray foam over them cutting them

00:38:35.960 down and they're called blade runners we're not advocating but know that it is real and people are pushing

00:38:42.560 back in the world on this thank you for watching part three of the eye on calgary series please join us

00:38:54.200 for part four where we will do a deeper dive into the theme of zero carbon neighborhoods and specifically

00:39:00.940 the land use planning as well as the municipal development plan and the calgary transit plan

00:39:08.800 and finally we'll take a look at some of the smart technology as well as the freedom of information

00:39:15.260 that we learned from the city thank you god bless you and god bless canada

00:39:22.800 you

Action4Canada - December 13, 2024

Eye on Calgary Video 3 - Background to Climate Emergency Declaration

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