Catherine McKenna has lost all credibility
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Summary
The world's leading scientists and risk experts in the insurance industry know climate change is contributing to fires and floods, but Andrew Scheer and his caucus keep on pretending it's not happening, foreshadows a climate plan that won't do much for Canadians or the planet.
Transcript
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By any measuring stick, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had another bad week.
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Pundits across the country have been piling on about his drink box water bottle sort of things
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gaff at his Plastic Man news conference. Paper, like drink box water bottles sort of things.
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Tempted though I may be, I will resist the urge to jump on that pile.
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I cannot, however, let a tweet put out by the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change,
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The world's leading scientists and risk experts in the insurance industry know climate change
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is contributing to fires and floods, but Andrew Scheer and his caucus keep on pretending it's
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not happening, foreshadows a climate plan that won't do much for Canadians or the planet."
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Now I get that she's a true believer and worships at the altar of climate change, but as a Minister
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of the Crown, Canadians should expect her to be forthright and truthful with them when she
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In the first instance, the world's leading scientists do not agree, and not by a long shot, on the subject.
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In the second instance, she mentions risk experts in the insurance industry.
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Well, that's news to me, and I know many people in that industry.
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The insurance business isn't overly complicated.
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They put aside an amount of money in a reserve in anticipation of the claims they will see
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If what the Minister said was accurate, then insurance companies would be increasing their
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reserves in anticipation of additional claims as a result of extreme weather events, wildfires,
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So I checked with senior executives in five major Canadian insurance companies, including
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When asked if they were increasing their reserves or policy premiums in anticipation of additional
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claims resulting from climate change, they all responded with versions of the same thing, essentially
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saying, well, that's the first I've heard about anything like that.
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And in fact, our prices are lower than they've been in a long time.
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The Minister is either misinforming deliberately, or is being misinformed by her staff.
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Either way, she is responsible for putting out inaccurate information that misinforms Canadians.
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And the worst part is, she is doing it to prop up the government's increasingly failing
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There is no such thing, and the Minister told an untruth to Canadians.
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Remember when she said Canada is warming at twice the rate as the rest of the world?
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Within a couple of weeks, it became three times.
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Never mind the lack of logic in the statement to begin with, she couldn't even keep the story
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And it doesn't matter how loud she repeats those stories.
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