Juno News - June 19, 2019


Catherine McKenna has lost all credibility

Topics
Catherine McKenna's climate misinformation
Mentioned
Catherine McKenna Justin Trudeau Andrew Scheer
Trudeau's Minister accuses Conservatives of Islamophobia The importance of integrating immigrants

Episode Stats


Length

3 minutes

Words per minute

150.83

Word count

535

Sentence count

32

Harmful content

Hate speech

1

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Summary

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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.

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00:00:00.000 By any measuring stick, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had another bad week.
00:00:13.520 Pundits across the country have been piling on about his drink box water bottle sort of things
00:00:20.280 gaff at his Plastic Man news conference. Paper, like drink box water bottles sort of things.
00:00:27.680 Tempted though I may be, I will resist the urge to jump on that pile.
00:00:32.920 I cannot, however, let a tweet put out by the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change,
00:00:37.600 Catherine McKenna, pass without a challenge.
00:00:41.640 Last week, she said this on Twitter.
00:00:45.360 The world's leading scientists and risk experts in the insurance industry know climate change
00:00:51.120 is contributing to fires and floods, but Andrew Scheer and his caucus keep on pretending it's
00:00:56.480 not happening, foreshadows a climate plan that won't do much for Canadians or the planet." 0.66
00:01:05.240 Now I get that she's a true believer and worships at the altar of climate change, but as a Minister
00:01:11.360 of the Crown, Canadians should expect her to be forthright and truthful with them when she
00:01:16.240 speaks to them.
00:01:18.360 In the first instance, the world's leading scientists do not agree, and not by a long shot, on the subject.
00:01:24.720 In the second instance, she mentions risk experts in the insurance industry.
00:01:28.720 Well, that's news to me, and I know many people in that industry.
00:01:33.480 The insurance business isn't overly complicated.
00:01:36.480 They put aside an amount of money in a reserve in anticipation of the claims they will see
00:01:41.480 in a given time period.
00:01:43.480 If what the Minister said was accurate, then insurance companies would be increasing their
00:01:48.040 reserves in anticipation of additional claims as a result of extreme weather events, wildfires,
00:01:54.800 tornadoes, etc.
00:01:55.800 So I checked with senior executives in five major Canadian insurance companies, including
00:02:00.920 BMO, RBC, and Manulife.
00:02:04.800 When asked if they were increasing their reserves or policy premiums in anticipation of additional
00:02:10.280 claims resulting from climate change, they all responded with versions of the same thing, essentially
00:02:16.080 saying, well, that's the first I've heard about anything like that.
00:02:20.140 And in fact, our prices are lower than they've been in a long time.
00:02:24.040 So what gives?
00:02:25.400 The Minister is either misinforming deliberately, or is being misinformed by her staff.
00:02:31.220 Either way, she is responsible for putting out inaccurate information that misinforms Canadians.
00:02:36.740 And the worst part is, she is doing it to prop up the government's increasingly failing
00:02:40.620 position on their supposed climate crisis.
00:02:43.960 There is no such thing, and the Minister told an untruth to Canadians.
00:02:47.520 Well, and not for the first time, either.
00:02:50.560 Remember when she said Canada is warming at twice the rate as the rest of the world?
00:02:55.480 Within a couple of weeks, it became three times.
00:02:58.720 Never mind the lack of logic in the statement to begin with, she couldn't even keep the story
00:03:02.920 straight.
00:03:03.920 And it doesn't matter how loud she repeats those stories.
00:03:09.580 She has lost all credibility on this subject.
00:03:12.960 For True North, I'm Leo Knight.
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