In this episode of the Big Blue Mug of Coffee, John Baldrige talks about why Canada needs to be a superpower, and why Mark Carney and the Liberal Party of Canada are the reason why it is. He also talks about the need for a "Double Standard" when it comes to dealing with climate change.
00:00:00.040Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel, 4.32 a.m. on Sunday, March the 23rd, with the big blue mug of coffee.
00:00:07.400And I hope you're having a great day. Today, an election is expected to be called.
00:00:11.800It will be the most consequential election of my lifetime, and probably yours as well.
00:00:17.280And as we get closer to the campaign, the Liberals, all of a sudden, along with Mark Carney, have changed everything they believe in.
00:00:23.880They want to make Canada a superpower after preventing it for 9 to 10 years, and making your life miserable, and making life harder.
00:00:31.500They want to open an energy and trade corridor. They've made an agreement with the premiers, and they've completely given up on their religion, which is net zero, and climate change.
00:00:41.480But they haven't, but people are buying it.
00:00:44.200They're making this about Donald Trump, and I'll say it once again, the reason we're in this situation is because of the Liberal Party of Canada.
00:00:51.060Who is Mark Carney? Well, he's gaslighting Canadians, and again, they are believing him.
00:00:57.040And it looks like the polls, at this point, have it neck and neck between the Liberals and Conservatives.
00:01:01.960Amazing, after the destruction of the last 9 to 10 years.
00:01:06.140I put this little video together. I hope you'll share it. I'm quite proud of the way it came out. I really am.
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00:01:19.640This is the last you're going to see of me. Have yourself a great day, and I hope you enjoy this short video.
00:01:25.620This will make a difference to hard-pressed Canadians, but it is part of a much bigger set of measures that this government is taking to ensure that we fight against climate change,
00:01:38.800that our companies are competitive, and the country moves forward.
00:01:42.260So it's my honor, on behalf of my colleagues, to sign this order.
00:01:45.800Now, so far, carbon prices have been applied sparingly. They've been set far too low.
00:01:56.380Single digits, on average, globally, well shorted the estimated $8,200 a ton needed by the end of this decade to keep us on track to net zero.
00:02:06.100Now, so far, carbon prices have been applied sparingly. They've been set far too low.
00:02:11.740I see myself as part of the social movement. I think those at the vanguard of the social movement might see me as being farther behind.
00:02:29.060And I've, you know, full, absolutely full credit, and I do in the book, to Greta Thunberg, who I've had the pleasure of meeting several times.
00:02:38.880And from a world of ESG, sustainability, broader conversations around, as I say, sustainability, to a relentless focus on net zero.
00:02:50.300It's called the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero for a reason.
00:02:52.700You know, the oil and gas sector in Canada produces more than a quarter of our emissions, and that's in the production and transportation of oil and gas, not the actual use of oil and gas.
00:03:02.220Gas in our cars used to heat some homes and other things.
00:03:05.900So we can't meet our ultimate objectives, which is to get to net zero emissions, which, by the way, is what we have to do to prevent the wildfires and the other climatic events from getting worse.
00:03:22.700And yet your company has invested billions of dollars in oil companies in both Brazil and the UAE to buy pipelines.
00:03:37.080You've bought billions of dollars of pipelines as a company in the last five years. Do you support those investments?
00:03:44.320Mr. Polyev, there is a global energy system, and one of the issues, I'm trying to explain a bit of how the economy works.
00:05:04.380Well, because Mark Carney's company, Brookfield, was making money off the backs of these gentlemen, and many like them.
00:05:11.440With Carney at the helm, Brookfield launched Brookfield Reinsurance, an insurance division operating out of Bermuda, free from Canadian regulations and taxes.
00:05:21.880One of the big strategic initiatives that Brookfield has taken in the last few years is to build an insurance business.
00:05:30.760In 2023, Brookfield bought Rockwood's parent company, Argo Group, for 1.1 billion U.S. dollars.
00:05:37.920Despite Carney's insistence on everyone else getting off coal, with Rockwood, he was making money by denying black lung treatments and benefits to sick coal miners and their families.
00:05:49.940We know that Mr. Carney's company abuses workers.
00:05:56.640They invested in companies that busted unions.
00:05:59.740He also, in a very tragic case, one of the insurance arm of Carney's company, Brookfield, profited by denying the insurance claims of coal miners dying from black lung.
00:06:14.540These are workers who, by breathing in dust in the ground, became extremely sick, and when they went to get the insurance that they had paid for, they were denied by Carney's, the company that does the insurance for Brookfield.
00:06:33.300They profited off that, in fact, this company lost in court, the court found that the company was wrong.
00:06:41.820Now, Mr. Carney needs to tell us is he still invested in a company that abuses workers' rights and denies coal miners and their widows the benefits that they deserve.
00:07:03.300Today, I am announcing that a common-sense, Canada-first conservative government will repeal the entire carbon tax, including the federal backstop that requires provinces impose industrial taxes.
00:07:23.620There will be no taxes on consumers, no taxes on Canadian industries.
00:07:33.300Now, so far, carbon prices have been applied sparingly, but have been set far too low.