Justin Trudeau's $2.7B heat pump program is a boondoggle. Is it a good investment or a bad one? David Crayton takes a look at the problem with heat pumps, and why they don't work in Canada.
00:04:18.400Well, as Premier Scott Moe of Saskatchewan pointed out, and I've done a lot of research, when Trudeau first started trying to hawk these heat pumps, I said, something doesn't sound right about these things.
00:04:34.140Because I think these really were made for warmer climates, where the heat pump is sort of a stopgap measure in fairly moderate winters, mild winters, like, say, Florida.
00:05:54.600But this was a veritable disaster in the province of Alberta during the last cold snap.
00:06:03.940And they're going through another one right now.
00:06:05.740But they actually almost broke the electrical grid in the province because there was such a demand for power.
00:06:14.780Now, your electric car battery, if you're unfortunate or stupid enough to own an electric car, is not going to work in those kind of temperatures.
00:06:23.900So the province and the hydro companies begged people to stop using power.
00:07:35.380And they're still saying that, yes, the Earth is warming up too fast, too quickly, and we have to reduce the overall global warming by two degrees Celsius.
00:07:51.540Now, of course, this is a magic number that they are trying to create hysteria over reaching this objective.
00:07:58.140But every time we get into January, February, and the temperatures plummet, suddenly, well, it's not just about global warming.
00:08:09.140Climate change also creates any kind of climatic disaster, any kind of climatic dysfunction.
00:08:17.380And so if it's cold, it's got to be climate change.
00:08:21.660And the mainstream media immediately pumps out the articles about everybody's worried about climate change because it's getting cold now.
00:08:29.240And how did climate change affect the cold snap?
00:08:32.940And climate change is still the real issue.
00:08:36.540Not that people are going to freeze in the winter.
00:08:38.580Not that the government is so cruel it's trying to shut off the power.
00:08:42.260Not that the liberal government is so insane and so toxic.
00:08:46.160All they can talk about is climate change, and they won't talk about the needs of Canadians to heat their homes.
00:08:54.100So Trudeau thinks the heat pumps are going to work.
00:08:57.400Let me show you again this hilarious video of Justin Trudeau talking about heat pumps as being the panacea to solve Canada's home heating.
00:09:22.980They're an efficient, affordable, cleaner way to both heat and cool your home.
00:09:29.160That's why everyone's talking about that.
00:09:31.300We've been working with provinces and territories right across the country to make sure we're installing heat pumps and phasing out home heating oil.
00:09:40.760Because the fact is, it's good for the environment, but it's also good for your wallet.
00:09:46.780People who switch from heating oil to heat pumps can save on average $2,500 a year.
00:09:54.660That makes a huge difference, both for your bottom line, but also for the future that we're building for our kids.
00:10:03.740And for everybody else, we are going to work out plans so that you're not having to pay that big upfront cost to keep so many people from getting onto heat pumps.
00:10:11.440We'll look after that and we'll pay it out over the savings that you will accrue over the years to follow.
00:10:17.300This is all part of how we build a better future for everyone.
00:10:20.640Yeah, so you're going to be saving all of this money, but what Trudeau's not telling you is that maybe you'll save some money, but you're going to be freezing and your house won't be warm.
00:11:00.200There must be some magical source of power for these things.
00:11:03.520Because, I mean, otherwise, it wouldn't make sense, would it?
00:11:06.980Because if all of these people are going to be getting heat pumps and plugging them in, isn't that going to put a tremendous strain on the electricity grid?
00:11:26.680And as we all know, electricity doesn't come from nowhere.
00:11:31.280In some cases, it's produced by coal-fired plants.
00:11:34.420But if you don't have hydroelectricity, like they do in Ontario and Quebec, well, you're just out of luck because that's not considered to be clean.
00:11:49.700And as our environment minister and climate change minister, Stephen Gilboa, you know, the felon from Greenpeace who used to climb the CN Tower just for fun to produce another stunt for his environmental extremist agenda.
00:12:09.880Well, Gilboa, he's out there, of course, selling electric cars.
00:12:13.120And if you're really, really desperate, maybe you'll buy an electric car just to think you're somehow helping the environment or fighting climate change by doing so.
00:12:24.720But Gilboa has been quite clear that the only way to fight climate change, really fight climate change, is to sacrifice, is to shut the lights off in the home, turn off the gas, turn off the oil, turn off all fossil fuels, stop driving your car, stop flying anywhere, and then you're fighting climate change.
00:12:53.420I've been saying this for months, but every time we come into winter, why do we hear less from the federal government about how climate change is causing global warming?
00:13:06.600It's because it's profoundly idiotic to say that when people are worried about freezing to death.
00:13:14.980So here's Gilboa telling you that what you got to do is shut off the power, shut off the lights, and then you're fighting climate change.
00:13:21.580And here's Trudeau trying to sell you a heat pump.
00:13:26.540I just find it incredible that they think Canadians are this stupid.
00:13:33.200Now, my question is, how is the Liberal Party and how are members of the Liberal Party benefiting from the sale of heat pumps?
00:15:38.520And you can see by the escalating problems with a lack of response to freezing temperatures in this country, that's not going to work.
00:15:49.980I want to listen to former Liberal MP, Dan McTeague, who is the president of Canadians.
00:15:58.200To subsidize their building, asking them to subsidize their purchasing, asking to subsidize their infrastructure.
00:16:04.780Imagine if Henry Ford was told in 1903, when he began with the Model Ts, that the only way in which he could displace the horse and buggy with his new vehicle would be to have massive subsidies.
00:16:18.060What a distorted world we would live in today.
00:16:19.920The frank reality is that Canadians should not and not put up with what this government is promoting.
00:16:25.280Now, Dan, who used to be a Liberal MP, you know, has told me on a number of occasions, he said this on the broadcast, he could not function.
00:16:36.400He could not work in a Justin Trudeau cabinet slash caucus because he thinks Justin Trudeau is so completely off base.
00:16:45.120And he's called Stephen Gilboa a Marxist, an Anterian candidate, a useful idiot, and that's exactly what he is.
00:16:53.840So what is Dan saying here is that they honestly expect to replace fossil fuels with a solution that isn't one, but we're still going to do it.
00:17:08.320And we're going to subsidize that non-existent solution with your tax dollars, even though it's not going to work.
00:17:18.620If this is how anybody lived their life, thinking that they had a solution that wasn't one and they decided to put all of their finances into that non-existent solution, they would be bankrupt and ruined in no time at all.
00:17:34.340And that's exactly how this country is going with Trudeau's green energy policy.
00:17:39.120We cannot subsidize a solution that doesn't work, that isn't going to work.
00:18:34.340So this is a insane non-solution to a very real problem.
00:18:41.680But all you're going to get from Justin Trudeau is talk about how Canadians are fighting climate change and how they're making such a difference.
00:18:51.400And, of course, as I've said many times, Canada produces less than 5% of greenhouse gas emissions.
00:18:59.440We have a very small portion of the global carbon footprint.
00:19:04.020So even if Canada went back to the Stone Age and stopped living in a modern industrial economy,
00:19:13.320turned off the power, shut off the gas and oil, and just retreated into caves,
00:19:20.460we would have virtually no effect on the global carbon footprint.
00:19:27.160So ultimately, this is all about politics.
00:19:32.280This is all about the liberals keeping you distracted from what's really important.
00:19:38.040And, my God, there are so many things that are important that the liberals don't want to talk about, do they?