Juno News - January 22, 2024


Arsonists set Canada on fire. NOT Climate Change.


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In the Spring of 2023, Canada was experiencing one of the worst wildfire seasons in recent memory, and the Liberals were quick to blame climate change as the culprit. However, as investigations were launched into what actually caused the fires across the country, it emerged that it was arson.

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00:00:00.000 wildfires were blazing across canada last spring at an alarming rate however before any investigations
00:00:12.560 were completed into what actually caused the wildfires in the first place the liberal
00:00:17.200 establishment in this country were so confident they just knew that climate change was the culprit
00:00:23.840 year after year with climate change we're seeing more and more intense wildfires and with the
00:00:30.320 accelerating impact of climate change we very much will continue to do so moving forward part of this
00:00:36.560 is because of climate change and that we collectively certainly in canada and around
00:00:43.120 the world need to do more and accelerate the fight against climate change clear this government has not
00:00:48.240 taken the climate crisis seriously their actions show that very clearly our country is literally
00:00:54.080 on fire and this liberal government thinks that business as usual is fine prime ministers write
00:00:59.200 about this one thing climate change is real but the policies of the current government do not meet the
00:01:06.800 requirements of the moment we're in a climate emergency our eyes are burning in this place
00:01:12.320 the parliamentary ottawa bubble has been pierced by the forest fires across this country and yet in
00:01:18.960 this place the debates are inane please will the prime minister commit to canceling the trans mountain 0.73
00:01:25.680 pipeline protecting the northeastern slope of newfoundland from oil and gas development as the
00:01:31.360 wildfires were raging and as thick smoke blanketed over toronto ottawa new york and philadelphia the
00:01:37.760 legacy media and the liberal politicians had the perfect visual for them to fear monger the public
00:01:43.920 into accepting their climate change measures the only problem for canada's progressive politicians who
00:01:50.080 had this truly golden opportunity in their hands to advance their climate change agenda was that the
00:01:56.000 public was just not really buying the explanation that the media and the politicians were trying to sell
00:02:02.400 they never actually fully bought into the idea that climate change the the mysterious menacing force
00:02:09.040 of climate change was behind all of these wildfires and sure enough just like so many stories over the
00:02:15.600 past few years the legacy media and the politicians were proven wrong and the public were proven right
00:02:21.840 nova scotia police have arrested a 22 year old man for starting the province's largest ever wildfire
00:02:28.800 and a few days before that a quebec man pleaded guilty to starting 14 wildfires during the same time
00:02:34.640 huh so it really was arson after all that drop a like in the video help us out by subscribing to
00:02:39.280 the true north youtube channel and the comment question for the episode is this will we see more
00:02:44.720 arrests in the coming days linked to the 2023 wildfire season let me know your answer below and let's get
00:02:51.280 into it well committing crimes in order to advance your climate change agenda is not a foreign concept to
00:02:56.320 justin trudeau's climate change minister stephen gilbo it's one that he's quite familiar with
00:03:01.280 and it appears that's exactly what happened in nova scotia and quebec in the spring of 2023 from the
00:03:08.080 guardian last thursday nova scotia man charged with starting province's largest ever wildfire dalton
00:03:15.680 clark stewart 22 accused of lighting canada's barrington lake fire which burned for one month in 2023 the
00:03:23.360 wildfire near barrington lake caught the attention of officials in may unseasonably dry conditions and
00:03:29.360 strong winds helped it grow to 23 525 hectares shattering a five decade record and pushing nova
00:03:37.520 scotia's scarce firefighting resources to the brink at the time more than 18 000 people in nova scotia
00:03:44.720 were under an evacuation order and more than 200 structures the majority of them were homes were
00:03:50.960 destroyed by these wildfires if you recall the canadian government had to bring in firefighters
00:03:56.880 from australia and south africa to help us solve what was going on the military was deployed all
00:04:02.400 across the country to deal with these wildfires so playing political games as the legacy media and the
00:04:07.360 political class did and using this tragedy to advance their political agenda is now turning out to
00:04:12.800 be even more disgraceful than it was at the time now the other major wildfire in nova scotia at the time
00:04:18.800 was the tantalon fire according to this guardian article the rcmp the feds dropped their arson
00:04:25.040 investigations into the tantalon fire in december however nova scotia's provincial natural resources
00:04:31.600 department have kept their investigation open and are still looking for people who might be
00:04:37.040 responsible nova scotia liberal mp sean fraser the then immigration minister at the time wasted no time
00:04:43.920 when nova scotia was battling these wildfires before getting up in the house of commons talking about
00:04:48.640 how his community is literally on fire and attacking the conservatives for not accepting
00:04:54.000 the liberal party climate change agenda i came to ottawa this morning from my home province of nova
00:04:59.920 scotia where our communities are literally on fire mr speaker the conservatives are peddling policies
00:05:05.760 that they know will increase the level of pollution that is causing these severe weather events and so
00:05:10.480 that has anything to do with the nova scotia wildfires for these guys anytime seems to be a good time
00:05:16.560 to make a political argument against your political opposition the only problem for sean fraser was that
00:05:21.040 everything he said turned out to be false all of this comes just days after a quebec man pleaded guilty
00:05:28.000 to setting 14 forest fires in the spring of 2023 brian parade 38 pleaded guilty today to 13 counts of arson
00:05:38.080 and one count of arson with disregard for human life at the courthouse in chebougamau quebec
00:05:43.440 and if you will recall it wasn't just the politicians who were enforcing the climate change narrative
00:05:49.680 the legacy media spearheaded by the cbc of course went on one of their fact-checking rampages accusing
00:05:56.480 anyone including alternative media news organizations who didn't accept that climate change was solely
00:06:01.920 responsible for these wildfires of spreading you guessed it conspiracy theories take a look at this
00:06:07.840 segment in the cbc where investigative journalist justin ling who was wrong on almost everything he
00:06:13.680 said during the freedom convoy in 2022 is wrong once again on the wildfire story in 2023 take a look at
00:06:22.240 this where he accuses rebel news of spreading conspiracy theories for reporting that arson was being
00:06:28.160 investigated as the reason for the nova scotia wildfires there's a lot of people out there who are looking at
00:06:34.000 these fires and who see an alternate explanation a lot of them point to arson right um there's some
00:06:40.320 folks out there who just don't want to accept the climate change is part of the explanations you go
00:06:44.960 higher up this sort of food chain and you see some conspiracy theorists who believe that there is a
00:06:51.360 deeper plot that there's folks out there who are using these fires to advance their climate agenda and
00:06:56.720 is this a small group of people a large group of people we're talking about hundreds of thousands
00:07:01.120 of people who are at the very least listening to and engaging with um these influencers and conspiracy
00:07:09.760 theorists um a lot of this disinformation is taking place on twitter but also alternative social
00:07:14.880 media platforms like rumble and telegram it is a significant enough group of people that we should
00:07:20.960 probably be concerned at the proliferation of some of these uh some of this misinformation on the
00:07:26.800 rebel you have this rather alarmist story that said no nova scotia rcmp blame arson for multiple
00:07:32.320 wildfires and the rebel basically pushing the idea um that there was somebody individual responsible
00:07:37.520 for all these fires they later had to correct this story as the rcmp clarified um that those fires had
00:07:42.720 nothing to do with the wildfires that arson was not responsible for the forest fires in nova scotia
00:07:47.840 hold on hold on say that one more time for me cbc i want to hear what you just said
00:07:52.640 one more time that arson was not responsible for the forest fires in nova scotia
00:07:56.800 well isn't that awkward for the cbc last year was canada's worst wildfire season on record and
00:08:02.480 today we learned who is being accused of causing one of the largest here's ctv's chris and edge
00:08:09.280 the largest wildfire in nova scotia's history officials say has been caused by a single person
00:08:15.200 now maybe the reason why the public just didn't seem to buy the climate change narrative about the
00:08:20.160 wildfires in 2023 was because despite what the media and despite what the politicians think about
00:08:26.720 canadians canadians aren't stupid they know their facts according to the government of alberta
00:08:32.080 the majority of wildfires are started by humans in fact last year over 60 of wildfires in alberta were 0.55
00:08:39.120 human caused we all need to do our part in reducing the number of these entirely preventable
00:08:43.840 fires now that 60 percent number by the government of alberta might actually be understated because
00:08:50.000 according to the united states national park service close to 85 percent of all wildfires are
00:08:56.800 caused by humans now in june the canadian interagency forest fire center published this graph
00:09:03.040 showing that the vast majority of wildfires in 2023 up until that point were human caused and that same
00:09:10.080 federal department found that in 2022 the year before in nova scotia the overwhelming majority of
00:09:16.560 wildfires were either intentionally set by arsonists or they were set because of land clearing and check
00:09:23.200 this out according to the most up-to-date data from the national forestry database 2020 saw the fewest
00:09:31.360 wildfires recorded in at least the previous 40 years how's that for climate change huh and you know
00:09:38.720 what else happened in 2020 nobody left their homes for an entire year because we were all forced to stay
00:09:45.120 inside due to the pandemic but of course because elizabeth may's eyes were burning in ottawa we have
00:09:51.600 to cancel the new pipeline projects being built vancouver island was also hit by several devastating
00:09:56.960 wildfires in june last year but according to jade richardson the fire information officer at the coastal
00:10:03.840 fire center all 46 vancouver island wildfires up until that point were human caused none were naturally caused
00:10:12.480 now that the narrative that climate change magically set all these forests ablaze across canada in june of
00:10:18.400 2023 seems to be falling apart trudeau's climate change minister stephen gilbo seems to be feeling
00:10:24.480 the heat in an act of comedic denial stephen gilbo took to twitter two days ago to attack the alberta
00:10:31.360 provincial government for not taking climate change seriously after the worst wildfire season on record
00:10:37.760 after a summer of the worst wildfires on record it couldn't be more clear that addressing the
00:10:42.480 climate change crisis and building a stronger economy of the future requires an all hands on
00:10:47.680 deck effort but it's clear some would prefer to chart a more reckless course instead of spreading
00:10:52.880 misinformation i think canadians would prefer to see danielle smith and polyev actually coming forward
00:10:58.560 with concrete policies that get to the heart of people's concerns about ensuring a stronger healthier and
00:11:04.640 more secure future the narrative is falling apart on these liberals arsonists have pleaded guilty to
00:11:10.800 setting wildfires off in quebec and an arrest was just made in nova scotia canadians just don't buy
00:11:16.960 this nonsense anymore albertans were told to limit their electricity use during the coldest day in the winter
00:11:22.960 because the government shut down coal plants the federal government wants to mandate that all new
00:11:27.920 vehicles sold by 2035 are electric cars canadians who are already stretched too thin are having to pay
00:11:34.320 carbon taxes just to stay warm during the winter and now the federal government in their infinite
00:11:39.840 wisdom in their quest to solve climate change wants to charge bagel shops and pizzerias who use
00:11:46.240 wood-fired ovens for air pollution i guess if we all just drove electric vehicles cooked on electric
00:11:52.320 stove tops shut down those evil pizzerias and bagel shops who use wood-fired ovens we just wouldn't be 1.00
00:11:58.880 seeing wildfires anymore because of course climate change is the culprit and this is going to solve
00:12:04.640 climate change gilbo is getting absolutely ratioed here by the canadian public 2.8 thousand replies to
00:12:10.720 only 718 likes jordan peterson dunked on gilbo here with 6.3 thousand likes in his own quote tweet
00:12:17.840 how about that arson buddy but don't let the now evident facts stop you from terrorizing your would-be
00:12:23.600 slaves viva fry as well with 3.4 thousand likes on his quote tweet repeat a lie often enough and people 0.99
00:12:30.480 will believe it well only dumb liberals will believe it and dishonest liberals will continue to repeat it 0.99
00:12:36.000 congrats gilbo you are a dishonest liberal although those terms are pretty much synonymous at this point 0.99
00:12:41.760 in time and here's dan mcteague the gas price wizard you've chosen to ignore the fact that most forest
00:12:47.520 fires this summer were human induced either through carelessness or set deliberately you also contend
00:12:52.720 that carbon taxes reduce greenhouse gases and that most get back more than they pay is it your aim
00:12:58.160 to lie about everything it kind of appears that that is the case isn't it all right everyone that's
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