Juno News - Climate activists are still pushing their ideology

00:00:00.000 The other day a Toronto business leader drew my attention to the fact that Jerry

00:00:09.540 Butts, Justin Trudeau's former right-hand man, was singing the praises of the

00:00:13.740 International Monetary Fund promoting a hashtag green recovery, talking about how

00:00:19.320 now during the coronavirus a lot of the stimulus measures we're seeing taking

00:00:23.760 place need to do so with a green agenda in mind, supporting all these different

00:00:28.400 green initiatives and making sure to price carbon right. What does that mean, pricing

00:00:34.300 carbon right? I think that's sort of implying that carbon pricing needs to be

00:00:38.480 higher than it is right now. This business leader was very concerned that

00:00:42.440 someone so close to Justin Trudeau, previously one of the guys pretty much

00:00:46.200 calling the shots, was endorsing such a notion. I mean at any other circumstance

00:00:51.360 wouldn't we call this just crass opportunism for people to look at this

00:00:55.140 and go, now is our time to strike. And yet this is happening left, right, and

00:00:59.940 center. It's not being properly reported on, it's not being properly discussed, that

00:01:03.880 there are so many people out there in the corridors of power who are flirting with

00:01:07.680 this idea that now is their opportunity to basically fully bring in a green

00:01:12.560 agenda that decimates so many other parts of the economy. Very bad of course to the

00:01:17.620 oil and gas sector, but detrimental to manufacturing in general. It's just awful

00:01:22.640 that there are other people who are doing things right now that we would say, oh

00:01:25.520 you're trying to profiteer off of the coronavirus circumstance. Those people

00:01:29.880 are denounced, yet we see the climate evangelists, they somehow get a free pass

00:01:34.760 for all of it. This is not the right time to be doing this. This is a time when

00:01:39.640 people are putting ideologies aside. For instance, I'm someone who doesn't

00:01:43.020 particularly care for deficits. I think they're pretty darn bad. Canada is on its way

00:01:47.760 to a 200 billion dollar deficit. I remember back when I was upset when it

00:01:52.740 was a 28 billion dollar deficit. Now it's going to be close to 10 times as

00:01:57.140 much as that, but we understand the situation. We understand that now is

00:02:01.500 different. Well, I think the climate alarmists need to realize that this is a

00:02:05.460 different period as well, and there just is not time for this, and we should not

00:02:09.700 have patience for this right now. The truth is that the green agenda is going to

00:02:13.660 have to be shelved, and it's going to have to be put on the back burner. For

00:02:17.280 now, well, I think for always, but I'm not ideologically predisposed to that, but

00:02:22.440 those individuals who are, well, they need to take the high road, and they need to

00:02:26.620 just calm it, cool it, and put their agenda aside, and realize we need to work

00:02:31.380 for the common good right now, because the green agenda is not, of course, about the

00:02:35.680 common good. It's about putting a certain ideology ahead of others, and when we see

00:02:41.380 that we're talking about shutting down the oil and gas sector, getting rid of

00:02:44.500 entire fields of work, and prioritizing others, that's just not it right now.

00:02:48.960 We're supposed to be all in this together, and the recovery should be we're all in

00:02:53.640 this together as well.

Juno News - May 02, 2020