00:04:00.440One survey of young people in Canada found that they see climate change as an extremely
00:04:04.440serious threat to their lives, even more of a threat than gun violence or the opioid crisis.
00:04:09.840When asked to rate the threat climate change causes to their safety, 57% of young Canadians
00:04:15.840aged 16 to 25 said it was an extremely serious threat to the safety of children.
00:04:22.440I think the most important thing, especially for young people, is to teach them critical thinking.
00:04:27.580To teach them to understand what the assumptions are behind things they're being told.
00:04:33.100There has been an explosion of political organizations attempting to influence Canadians to vote for
00:04:38.240Liberal or New Democratic politicians who oppose Canada's natural resource development.
00:04:43.580In digging deeper into these groups, however, it's clear they're rarely what they seem.
00:04:48.280Let's take a look at Lead Now, which has been extremely active in the last two federal elections.
00:04:54.420In the 2019 general election, Lead Now claims to have made 150,000 phone calls and in Greater Toronto,
00:05:03.320ran radio ads against Andrew Scheer's Conservatives.
00:05:06.840In 2015, the same group actively ran a cross-country campaign featuring none other than David Suzuki,
00:05:13.980mobilizing people to change their vote in key ridings to vote for the candidate with the greatest chance of defeating the Conservatives.
00:05:21.880They frame themselves as a progressive, not-for-profit organization that advocates for the best interests of Canadians.
00:05:29.480But in reality, this group is hell-bent on eradicating one of Canada's largest industries and the largest driver in our economy.
00:05:37.620Lead Now is a vocal opponent of the development of the Canadian oil and gas industry,
00:05:42.620including building pipelines to transport Canadian oil across the country,
00:05:47.240reducing the need for Canada to rely on the importation of foreign oil.
00:05:51.620Independent researchers have discovered, however, that they may have ulterior motives to their efforts.
00:05:57.340Far from being a grassroots movement, Lead Now is one of the lead organizations in the Rockefeller's international effort called the Tar Sands Campaign,
00:06:06.340which aims to landlock oil and natural resources from Western Canadian provinces,
00:06:11.480and in doing so, keep Canadian oil out of the global market.
00:06:15.700Another prominent environmental organization, and perhaps one of the most famous, is Greenpeace.
00:06:21.480Dr. Moore spent years building up this organization, which he now opposes.
00:06:26.080I heard about this little group that was beginning to meet in the basement of the Unitarian Church in Vancouver,
00:06:32.080called the Don't Make a Wave Committee.
00:06:34.340And I joined that group because they were planning an ocean voyage to Alaska, to Amchitka Island,
00:06:40.920to protest U.S. hydrogen bomb testing.
00:06:43.420And of course, this was the height of the Cold War, the height of the Vietnam War, and the all-out threat of nuclear war,
00:06:49.640and the emerging consciousness of the environment.
00:06:52.640And those two things came together in what became, eventually, Greenpeace.
00:06:56.640And I stayed with Greenpeace for the next 15 years.
00:06:59.640With the stated goal of ensuring the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity,
00:07:05.640Greenpeace has been known for using various tactics, some of which are illegal, to promote its environmental agenda.
00:07:11.640We saw ourselves as that little band of revolutionaries and set out in a haywire old halibut boat
00:07:18.640with Captain John Cormack for the Aleutian Islands.
00:07:21.640We never made it there, but we made Walter Cronkite's evening news in the United States
00:07:25.640when the Coast Guard crew said they agreed with what we were doing there in the U.S. military.
00:07:31.640And so it was a big story that we were doing this protest, and that was the beginning of Greenpeace.
00:07:39.640From then on, we went on to stop the French atmospheric nuclear tests in the South Pacific.
00:07:45.640Of course, we did help stop the hydrogen bomb tests in Alaska.
00:07:49.640President Nixon cancelled them just a few months after our protest.
00:07:53.640But it's fair to be skeptical about whether Greenpeace and its wider environmental movement is grounded in science.
00:08:00.640The reason I left Greenpeace, and I'd been thinking about it for quite a while, is it was kind of changing into an organization
00:08:06.640that was no longer basing its positions on good science.
00:08:09.640And it turned out that I was the only person on the international board that had any formal education in science.
00:08:16.640The rest were what I would call more or less political and social activists.
00:08:20.640A lot of organizations start out with a noble cause with volunteers and just a lot of enthusiasm,
00:08:27.640and then become successful and suddenly have a payroll to meet because people need to live and pay their rent.
00:08:33.640So fundraising becomes fairly high on the agenda.
00:08:38.640And every once in a while an organization like that degenerates into a racket pushing fake science and misinformation.
00:08:46.640And that's what happened with Greenpeace.
00:08:48.640Even if they don't have science on their side, there's no denying Greenpeace and the broader environmental movement has been successful.
00:08:55.640The emotion behind the climate change debate shows this.
00:08:58.640I really do believe that we are being fleeced here.
00:09:03.640It is using fear and guilt, like you're driving down the road in your SUV, you're afraid you're killing your grandchildren,
00:09:10.640and that makes you feel guilty and makes you open your wallet and send it,
00:09:15.640check to Greenpeace or some of the other hundreds of so-called charities that are all benefiting from this as a result of scaring the public.
00:09:23.640The climate change debate is almost entirely now in the political realm, not in the academic realm.
00:09:29.640The climate debates have now devolved into hyper-partisan and ideological politics,
00:09:34.640with politicians, people who often don't know anything about science and they probably don't even care about it.
00:09:39.640They're the ones putting forth radical policies to appease the well-funded climate alarmist activists who have grown so powerful.
00:09:47.640The Trudeau government has benefited heavily from the activism of organizations like Lead Now and Greenpeace,
00:09:54.640who have delivered votes and resources to Trudeau and his liberals.
00:09:58.640It's no surprise that the national carbon tax was one of Justin Trudeau's premier priorities.
00:10:04.640And the Trudeau government has simultaneously helped promote the climate alarmism narrative.
00:10:10.640For example, the Trudeau government created a whole new media bailout fund just to prop up news stories on climate activism.
00:10:17.640News outlets that wrote stories with an environmentalist bend were given access to a $50 million slush fund called the Local Journalism Initiative,
00:10:27.640funded through the Department of Canadian Heritage.
00:10:30.640At the same time as propping up torqued climate reporting in the mainstream media,
00:10:35.640the Trudeau government was busy manipulating the data on climate patterns.
00:10:39.640Environment Canada purposefully erased 100 years of historical weather readings
00:10:44.640and replaced it with modeled historic data to produce dramatic weather diagrams and maps for their climate change website.
00:10:52.640Climatedata.ca was launched in August 2019 by then Environment Minister Catherine McKenna as a means to illustrate the threat of climate change.
00:11:02.640But according to an Environment Canada spokesperson, all of the data before 1949 was omitted in the graphs,
00:11:08.640despite the government having access to weather measurements, which go all the way back to 1850.
00:11:14.640The deleted data was then replaced with fabricated models which simulated past climate data, despite the existence of the historical readings.
00:11:22.640The historical data is not observed historical data, it's modeled historic data, said an Environment Canada spokesperson.
00:11:30.640This means that several important readings were omitted from the models, including the fact that Toronto was hotter in 1852 than it was in 2017,
00:11:38.640and Vancouver experienced warmer weather in 1910 than it did in 2017.
00:11:43.640It also excluded the fact that the hottest temperature ever recorded in Canada took place on September 15th, 1935.
00:11:54.640The work of the federal government and environmental groups in Canada have not limited their advocacy to within our country's borders.
00:12:01.640Just take a look at the numerous multilateral agreements and global governance initiatives that have put climate change forward as Canada's top national priority.
00:12:10.640In 2015, Canada and 194 other countries signed on to the Global Paris Climate Agreement,
00:12:17.640which aims to bring all nations together to undertake ambitious efforts to combat climate change.
00:12:23.640This agreement has been the rationale for the Liberals to pursue their aggressive environmental policies, including implementing the National Carbon Tax.
00:12:32.640While the Trudeau government deflects criticism by saying it's non-binding, the fact remains that they have chosen to use this as a launching pad for their domestic political agenda.
00:12:42.640Paris Accord critics, including former Conservative leader Andrew Scheer, have brought attention to the failure of these agreements to measurably protect the environment, believing they've only hurt the Canadian economy.
00:12:52.640This is due in part to the failure of some of the world's largest emitters to actually follow the agreement.
00:12:58.640For example, China, with nearly one fifth of the world's population, is the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide, thanks in large part to its production of coal.
00:13:07.640Their efforts to reduce emissions have been dubbed highly insufficient from climate action groups.
00:13:12.640However, the alarmists in the global community like Justin Trudeau focus only on the West and countries like Canada, whose emissions are minuscule in comparison.
00:13:22.640Despite this, the Trudeau government continues to promote and hold strongly their commitments to the Paris Accord, including supporting far-reaching environmental policies domestically.
00:13:32.640We know that the global elites like to take their private jets to Davos just to complain about oil patch workers.
00:13:38.640Similarly, the Trudeau government doesn't even practice what they preach.
00:13:42.640For instance, in 2019, the Trudeau government sent a delegation of 144 people to a UN climate conference in Spain.
00:13:51.640While the mainstream media dutifully reported that the conference was somehow a success in addressing climate change, an independent reporter showed a different side of the story.
00:14:00.640Rebel news journalist Sheila Gunn-Reed covered this conference and exposed the significant hypocrisy she observed.
00:14:07.640If you needed to be cured of the idea that the world is going to end in 12 years or two years or whatever the doomsday clock is right now.
00:14:22.640If you needed to be cured of that idea, there is no better place to do that than a United Nations climate change conference.
00:14:28.640The first year in Morocco, my team and I witnessed some of the most outrageous hypocrisy that first year.
00:14:37.640The entire climate change conference itself is really a single use plastic.
00:14:44.640On the way in every morning, you would think that it had rained, but it's Morocco, it was the desert.
00:14:51.640They were bringing in water trucks in the morning to water the ground to keep the dust down on their shoes.
00:14:59.640In Bonn, Germany, there was a hum throughout the UN facility.
00:15:44.640As a personal anecdote, I couldn't fly out the day that the conference was over.
00:15:49.640I had to stay an extra day because there are so many people advocating a low carbon lifestyle that were trying to fly out of Madrid on the day after the conference.
00:16:03.640So, I mean, if you needed to be convinced that even the people who say the world is going to end don't truly believe it,
00:16:13.640there's no better place than a UN climate change conference.
00:16:16.640Now, this might all be a bit more forgivable if they were at least interested in hearing all sides.