Trudeau he's not working for you
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Summary
When in all humility, you accept that sometimes there could be a good reason for doing what seems like the wrong thing, like when the Liberal government wants to reduce Canada s carbon emissions, but on the other hand doubles the number of carbon-emitting immigrants to this country, it seems inconsistent.
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Some things seem too obvious, so when Blacklocks reported that Elections Canada was considering
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storing some information in the cloud, which of course implies foreign servers, the first
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question was not so much why, as why on earth would they do that? You ask why, when in all
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humility you accept that sometimes there could be a good reason for doing what seems like
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the wrong thing. Like when the Liberal government on the one hand wants to reduce Canada's carbon
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emissions, but on the other hand doubles the number of carbon-emitting immigrants to this
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country. It seems inconsistent. Of course, the sale of new homes might be all that's keeping
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Canada's construction industry going. Certainly wouldn't be pipelines, would it? My friend and
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colleague Linda Slobodian asks this in an insightful column we published on March 20th, and she
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concludes that even if there is a good reason, it's still the wrong thing to do.
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Common sense tells you there is no way that anything pertaining to Canadian elections could
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or should or might be stored on a foreign service.
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It doesn't matter how much money it would save or how secure are the servers or reliable the
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people that own them. You don't even waste time talking about it.
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Carbon data is a core Canadian interest. You build the system you want here and you make
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But if you watch the headlines, doing the inconsistent, the inexplicable, the downright stupid is what
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Take fertilizer. Just for the sake of the argument, let's say that when Prime Minister Trudeau says
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climate change is so important that reducing Canada's carbon emissions is the moral equivalent
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of war that we believe in. We don't, of course. But just saying, what if we did? And then, in good faith,
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we also accepted the logical extension of that, that to further reduce Canada's small contribution
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to world carbon dioxide, prairie farmers must cut their fertilizer use. This, of course, would mean
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lower yields. And if you accept the Prime Minister's premises, perhaps that's an acceptable price to pay.
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When there's no guarantee the world's other great breadbasket in Ukraine, which feeds Africa,
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will produce more than a few buns? Do it, maybe, when things get back to normal?
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After all, if climate change is going to kill us all, it'll do it in the next 200 years.
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For the same reason, the war in Ukraine, it would have been common sense to sell natural gas to our
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German-NATO allies. But there's no business case, Mr. Trudeau said.
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There was a moral case. And there is a common sense case. But they didn't do it, did they?
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And if you really believe carbon dioxide is the end of the world, why not help Asian countries that
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depend on coal to switch to Alberta natural gas? And, by the way, in doing so, reconcile
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a whole lot of indigenous aspirations in the process. Common sense, right? But apparently not
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in Ottawa, where the Liberals have spent the last seven and a half years making it harder and harder
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to develop clean energy in Western Canada while continuing to import the dirty kind back east from
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some of the worst countries in the world. Like closer to home, it would also have been common
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sense to start building new baseload electrical generation we know will actually work before
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closing the coal-fired generations so that we can do what? Depend on things we know will only work
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when the wind blows and the sun shines? This is like dropping your street map in the bin before you
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know your new route guidance system is unfailingly accurate. Differences in the consequences. With
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untested route guidance, you may end up in a blind alley, but with a governmental mismatch between
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power generation and the demands of a growing population swollen by immigration means brownouts
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and blackouts. Look, if it can happen in Texas, it can happen in Alberta. It can happen all over
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Canada. And to that point, it was gratifying to hear Premier Smith acknowledge this at her presser on
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March 21st. Meanwhile, we're stuck with the Liberal government, the response to inflation with tax
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increases, to a pandemic with economy destroying lockdowns, and to a scandal surrounding electoral
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interference by appointing a family friend to make discreet inquiries. To some degree, it is their faith
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in their own climate change narrative that blinds them. But there is also a mentality born out of
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socialization. These people do not live in the same world as the rest of us, do not face the same
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personal challenges, they don't even know what milk costs, and they care about things that only people
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with time on their hands can afford to pay attention to. That's what has to be the matter with the
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Liberals. Otherwise, when one looks at decisions that could store Canada's electoral data offshore, and all the rest of it,
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