Juno News - Using the pandemic to push a green agenda

00:00:00.000 Back in April, the Federal Green Party of Canada sent out quite a press release that really floored

00:00:11.100 me when I saw it. They were looking at the lockdowns, which were quite new at the time,

00:00:15.120 middle of April, and they were saying, hey, this actually creates a template for a way to go about

00:00:20.660 things to combat climate change, to never go back to the old ways of living and doing things.

00:00:25.860 Their words, template, old ways, their words, not mine. I thought, wow, this is really something.

00:00:31.680 And I tried to ring the alarm bell about it. I posted it on social media. I was chatting about

00:00:35.300 it here and there. People didn't seem too bothered by it, didn't generate a lot of mainstream attention.

00:00:39.580 And in all fairness, the Green Party is not a mainstream party. They have, what, two members

00:00:43.560 of parliament, two or three, something like that. They're the fifth party, fifth place party. Not all

00:00:48.460 that relevant, not particularly in control of things. So, okay, who cares what they're saying?

00:00:53.520 But hold on a second. We're hearing more and more organizations say things just like that

00:00:58.680 closer and closer to the top. Like the United Nations and their environmental department,

00:01:05.020 which, as we know, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Catherine McKenna, Environment Minister Jonathan

00:01:09.380 Wilkinson, Stephen Guilbault, another cabinet minister, they really like what the UN is saying

00:01:14.120 and doing. And they really pledged to fulfilling a lot of the UN's climate goals, particularly,

00:01:18.820 of course, the Paris Climate Agreement. Well, take a listen to something from a report that

00:01:24.280 the UN released just the other day. And talking about the pandemic, they say it's provided insight

00:01:30.740 into how rapid lifestyle changes can be brought about by governments who must create conditions

00:01:36.200 that make lifestyle changes possible. The lockdown period in many countries may be long enough to

00:01:42.020 establish new lasting routines if supported by longer term measures and planning the recovery.

00:01:48.140 Governments have an opportunity to catalyze low carbon lifestyle changes by disrupting entrenched

00:01:54.920 practices. Wow, that's something. So these programs, the recovery, they're not just saying,

00:02:01.420 okay, we'll support individuals and businesses, give them a check every month and so forth. They're saying,

00:02:05.540 no, no, no more to entrenched practices. And again, this is not from some fringe outfit

00:02:12.200 off to the side. This is from the UN's environmental department, the very same organization that has

00:02:18.600 created things that Canada has gone on to sign on to. This is a problem. I put a request into

00:02:24.420 Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson's office, haven't heard back from him yet on, what do you feel

00:02:29.000 about all this? Are you guys soon going to be signing up to this? Extremely worrisome,

00:02:33.780 extremely problematic, if they are. And I think opposition politicians, Canadians, people all across

00:02:40.180 the country should really be saying to the government, this is a worrisome thing. Are you

00:02:45.260 planning on implementing this? Because I really hope you don't.

Juno News - December 18, 2020