Environment Minister Stephen Gilbeau is a socialist environmentalist who doesn't actually care about the environment. He just cares about climate change and wants to stoke the flames of the wildfires that are destroying small towns and cities across Canada.
00:00:00.000In the least shocking news of the day, our far-left Liberal Environment Minister in Canada is deeply incompetent.
00:00:08.300He seems to not really care if large wildfires are burning down small Canadian towns and cities as long as he still gets to use the aftermath to stand and stump for climate action.
00:00:19.920And now, evidence is coming out showing that his ministry, the Ministry of Environment through Parks Canada, blocked firefighters from being able to save towns like Jasper, just told them to stand back and do nothing.
00:00:34.680Brandon Leslie, the Conservative MP for Portage Lisgar in Manitoba, put this out today, saying,
00:00:39.980Shocking testimony. 50 firefighters and 20 trucks ready to battle the flames were turned away by Minister Gilbeau's office on the ground.
00:00:48.800Liberal failures in Jasper continue to be exposed. More to come.
00:00:52.880And he put out this document underneath his statement on X, with this highlighted portion at the bottom.
00:00:58.880These are from firefighters who were giving testimony.
00:01:03.060We were informed that we were non-essential, and when the fire's risk rose again during August 2nd to 4th, with increasing fire behavior anticipated,
00:01:12.580we were lawfully ordered by Parks Canada to leave Park by 1,400 hours, 2 p.m., and then 12, which we complied with.
00:01:23.580So we had historical buildings burned down around and in Jasper, probably because the Canadian Environment Ministry didn't want firefighters getting involved to fight fires.
00:01:38.920They might try and claim that, well, they weren't wild firefighters, people specifically tasked with that job.
00:01:44.480But as wildfires start to approach Canadian towns and cities, why can local firefighters not participate in trying to save people's property?
00:01:56.320Again, Environment Minister Stephen Gilbeau does not actually really care about climate change, like he does because he's a left-wing environmentalist.
00:02:05.900But what you have to understand with left-wing environmentalists is that they care about left-wing ideology before the environment.
00:02:13.460And climate action's a great way of pushing socialism.
00:02:17.720You get to basically say that the government should have more control over the economy for environmental reasons,
00:02:23.880without really the need to be able to justify yourself other than the fact that bad things could happen
00:02:29.540if the government doesn't start taxing you on this, or take over this industry, or block this mine, or block this oil and gas project.
00:02:36.960The revolution always matters more than the actual issue that they're talking about.
00:02:43.000Stephen Gilbeau would let more force burn down as long as he gets to stump harder on climate change issues.
00:02:51.600And maybe he would regret the fact that this all happened, but again, his actions speak louder than his words.
00:02:58.820We already had reports being released that other MPs put out showing that the Liberals were being begged by their own people,
00:03:07.120by their deputy ministers, to not cancel force management tools like small controlled burns
00:03:14.420to be able to prevent large buildups of deadwood from causing mass wildfires.
00:03:20.820And Stephen Gilbeau was just considering getting rid of all of it, because he doesn't actually care.
00:03:26.140He does not believe in the concept of force management.
00:03:29.680So as a conservative, if you're ever accused of not believing in climate change,
00:03:34.180even though everyone acknowledges that the climate changes,
00:03:37.160people just disagree on how much of an impact humans can have on the actual temperature on the planet,
00:03:44.000obviously anything that goes into the atmosphere will have an impact on the temperature.
00:03:48.360If you just put up a bunch of rubber ducks around the planet,
00:03:51.100you would probably end up changing the climate in some way,
00:03:54.920because everything on the planet contributes to it.