Juno News - November 06, 2021Justin Trudeau's crazy talk at COP26
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Justin Trudeau's comments at the Glasgow climate change gabfest are nothing short of crazy talk, and we need to take it with a grain of salt. I've previously said we have to stop taking these climate change conferences seriously, and I think we're getting there.
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We need to talk about the fact that a couple things Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said at
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the latest COP26 Glasgow climate change gabfest are just outright crazy talk and we need to
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acknowledge that. So one, he gets up there and he says we need to talk about bringing in a global
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carbon tax. Two, he gets up and says he is proposing to introduce a hard cap on oil and
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gas sector emissions here in Canada. Now those were things that are major departures from the
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current conversation. What we talk about in Canada right now is well what's the sort of carbon tax
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needed? What level should it be at? And a lot of people still agree as I do that there does not
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need to be a carbon tax at all in Canada. That's kind of where the conversation is at. That's sort
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of the normal parameters of discussion. And then Trudeau just steps forward and doesn't do this
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in Canada of course. Does this abroad with his climate buddies and he says we're going to bring
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in these things that are really major enhancements to put it mildly of where the conversation has
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been at. And a lot of people are just not blinking. It's just considered background noise. Now I haven't
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followed COP26 all that much. The sort of details of what everyone else is saying because you know
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because I have a life and because it's incredibly tedious to actually watch these things. Joe Biden
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fell asleep during them. I don't blame him. I would fall asleep watching them as well. I'm not sure
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where what Justin Trudeau said actually fits in the realm of like other crazy talk that's going on
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there. But it does seem like he certainly upped the ante. And that's not cool. I mean this stuff is a
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real stretch. Hard cap on oil and gas sector emissions. I mean these are the sorts of things that
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you would expect say Stephen Gobeau to have said when he was being taken away by police when
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he was being arrested for his Greenpeace stunts. You know they're dragging him away to the cop car
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and he's going hard cap, hard cap, global carbon tax. And they're like oh that's just you know
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some activist being arrested. You know take it all with a grain of salt. This is what our own prime
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minister is just cavalierly saying. I mean these are things that if we're going to go down those roads
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and we should not. I do not believe so. They should be discussed quite a lot in great detail
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among us as a community. Among Canadians. You know voters here and citizens, taxpayers here. It isn't
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something that Trudeau should just show up, get on the plane, go hang out with these other climate
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people and just be like oh hey guys by the way I'm doing this in Canada. And they all applaud and you
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move on. And you're like what? No. These are massive things to be doing. Things that are going to be
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pretty disastrous to our economy, to the global economy. And of course the whole question of
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whether or not these are actually the things that are needed to bring about good green initiatives.
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Because there's a whole lot of private individuals, industry, putting a lot of R&D into this that
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are actually making the real changes for climate initiatives. They have nothing to do with what
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government's doing. So it's kind of frustrating, troubling, just downright weird that Trudeau is
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actually saying these extreme things right now over at this climate conference. So I think people
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should pause and go what exactly is going on? What's the kind of stuff that they're breaking down
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there? I've previously said we have to stop taking these climate conferences seriously. The only
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problem with that of course is the attendees, well they, are taking it seriously. And that should