Juno News - April 10, 2020


It's more important than ever to stand up for Canadian energy

Topics
climate activism
Mentioned
Justin Trudeau COVID-19
Public Order or Public Health？ Conservative Leadership Series： Leslyn Lewis

Episode Stats


Length

3 minutes

Words per minute

185.96

Word count

611

Sentence count

27


Summary

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In this episode of the podcast, I talk about the crisis in the oil and gas sector, and how climate activists are using the crisis to further their agenda. I also talk about why it's important to remember that there's an opportunity in crisis.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 True North has just released a fantastic must-watch documentary called Calgary in Crisis,
00:00:11.620 the tragic story of Alberta's drastic decline. If you haven't seen it already, you've got to
00:00:17.020 check it out, and kudos to those at True North who put it together. Now, it's really just a
00:00:21.480 coincidence that this documentary is being released now, because it's been in the works
00:00:25.600 for a number of months, long before the coronavirus was beginning to emerge in Canada. We all know,
00:00:31.020 though, that COVID-19 has hit a lot of sectors very hard, including the oil and gas sector,
00:00:36.720 and they're really facing existential questions right now as to which companies are really going
00:00:41.340 to be able to survive all of this really awful stuff, many hardships. We know there are economic
00:00:46.460 hardships being felt all across Canada, and yes, they are being acutely felt in Calgary and Alberta,
00:00:52.900 but we, of course, know that these problems have been festering for a few years, prodded along,
00:00:57.760 exacerbated by liberal government policy and by the ideological goals of climate alarmists who
00:01:04.840 talk a big game about transitioning to a low-carbon economy and all of that. What they really mean
00:01:10.720 is let's eliminate the oil sands, let's eliminate those jobs, let's bring hardship to that sector and
00:01:16.960 to those individuals in it. Now, you would think that at a time like this, during the coronavirus,
00:01:22.020 a time of international crisis, national economic collapse, that people would be able to put their
00:01:27.680 ideological agendas behind them. Just show them. Just pause and time out just for a few months.
00:01:32.660 Apparently, no, though. Justin Trudeau was asked, are you going to pause the April 1st carbon tax
00:01:38.580 increase? And he said he wouldn't. He refused, and he went ahead with it anyway, but that's just
00:01:43.640 the small point of all of this. There are already voices out there, and I'm not just talking about
00:01:48.920 random nameless Twitter accounts, but activists, people associated with organizations such as
00:01:53.760 Greenpeace and others who are saying, now is our chance to strike. There is opportunity in crisis,
00:01:59.940 and we want to full-on bring our climate alarmism to transition the economy now. We see an opening for
00:02:06.640 all of this. And they're going to use a lot of nice words, again, talking about how, yes, we can create
00:02:11.280 some jobs out of all of this. But what they really mean is that they smell an opportunity to bring a
00:02:16.920 death knell to the oil and gas sector, to take it out once and for all. And I've been reading a
00:02:22.780 number of occasionally worded interviews and a number of news outlets with various different
00:02:27.780 activists. That is really what they are saying. That is the subtext of their language. It's really
00:02:32.600 unfortunate and shameful that we're seeing this, because when coronavirus is behind us, we're actually
00:02:37.580 going to need to look at how we get our energy, the need for domestic supplies when it comes to
00:02:42.700 medicine, when it comes to manufacturing, when it comes to the food system. All of the global supply
00:02:48.820 chain is going to be sort of challenged and questioned. A lot of our assumptions are going
00:02:53.340 to be a challenge. That includes energy, and it's going to be more important to have homegrown energy
00:02:58.400 after this than ever before. But we're also going to have to pay attention to the climate activism,
00:03:05.360 and we're going to have to say no thank you. And more and more Canadians are going to have to wake up to
00:03:09.920 just what they're doing and what they're trying to do right now, trying to use this crisis to further
00:03:16.380 their agenda.