Juno News - Justin Trudeau's crazy talk at COP26

00:00:00.000 We need to talk about the fact that a couple things Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said at

00:00:09.520 the latest COP26 Glasgow climate change gabfest are just outright crazy talk and we need to

00:00:17.520 acknowledge that. So one, he gets up there and he says we need to talk about bringing in a global

00:00:23.900 carbon tax. Two, he gets up and says he is proposing to introduce a hard cap on oil and

00:00:32.100 gas sector emissions here in Canada. Now those were things that are major departures from the

00:00:38.840 current conversation. What we talk about in Canada right now is well what's the sort of carbon tax

00:00:43.760 needed? What level should it be at? And a lot of people still agree as I do that there does not

00:00:48.640 need to be a carbon tax at all in Canada. That's kind of where the conversation is at. That's sort

00:00:53.100 of the normal parameters of discussion. And then Trudeau just steps forward and doesn't do this

00:00:58.480 in Canada of course. Does this abroad with his climate buddies and he says we're going to bring

00:01:03.440 in these things that are really major enhancements to put it mildly of where the conversation has

00:01:10.200 been at. And a lot of people are just not blinking. It's just considered background noise. Now I haven't

00:01:16.620 followed COP26 all that much. The sort of details of what everyone else is saying because you know

00:01:21.320 because I have a life and because it's incredibly tedious to actually watch these things. Joe Biden

00:01:25.800 fell asleep during them. I don't blame him. I would fall asleep watching them as well. I'm not sure

00:01:30.740 where what Justin Trudeau said actually fits in the realm of like other crazy talk that's going on

00:01:36.140 there. But it does seem like he certainly upped the ante. And that's not cool. I mean this stuff is a

00:01:43.060 real stretch. Hard cap on oil and gas sector emissions. I mean these are the sorts of things that

00:01:47.760 you would expect say Stephen Gobeau to have said when he was being taken away by police when

00:01:52.700 he was being arrested for his Greenpeace stunts. You know they're dragging him away to the cop car

00:01:56.800 and he's going hard cap, hard cap, global carbon tax. And they're like oh that's just you know

00:02:00.440 some activist being arrested. You know take it all with a grain of salt. This is what our own prime

00:02:05.000 minister is just cavalierly saying. I mean these are things that if we're going to go down those roads

00:02:11.040 and we should not. I do not believe so. They should be discussed quite a lot in great detail

00:02:17.280 among us as a community. Among Canadians. You know voters here and citizens, taxpayers here. It isn't

00:02:24.040 something that Trudeau should just show up, get on the plane, go hang out with these other climate

00:02:28.220 people and just be like oh hey guys by the way I'm doing this in Canada. And they all applaud and you

00:02:31.940 move on. And you're like what? No. These are massive things to be doing. Things that are going to be

00:02:37.840 pretty disastrous to our economy, to the global economy. And of course the whole question of

00:02:43.520 whether or not these are actually the things that are needed to bring about good green initiatives.

00:02:47.920 Because there's a whole lot of private individuals, industry, putting a lot of R&D into this that

00:02:53.100 are actually making the real changes for climate initiatives. They have nothing to do with what

00:02:58.340 government's doing. So it's kind of frustrating, troubling, just downright weird that Trudeau is

00:03:03.580 actually saying these extreme things right now over at this climate conference. So I think people

00:03:08.920 should pause and go what exactly is going on? What's the kind of stuff that they're breaking down

00:03:14.980 there? I've previously said we have to stop taking these climate conferences seriously. The only

00:03:20.080 problem with that of course is the attendees, well they, are taking it seriously. And that should

00:03:25.580 make us pretty worried.

Juno News - November 06, 2021