Western Standard - March 21, 2023


Trudeau he's not working for you

Hosted by
Nigel Hannaford
Mentioned
Trudeau Linda Slobodian Blacklocks Africans Smith
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Episode Stats


Length

6 minutes

Words per minute

150.97

Word count

950

Sentence count

54

Harmful content

Toxicity

3

sentences flagged

Hate speech

6

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Summary

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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.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Some things seem too obvious, so when Blacklocks reported that Elections Canada was considering 0.95
00:00:07.500 storing some information in the cloud, which of course implies foreign servers, the first
00:00:14.000 question was not so much why, as why on earth would they do that? You ask why, when in all
00:00:24.220 humility you accept that sometimes there could be a good reason for doing what seems like
00:00:28.460 the wrong thing. Like when the Liberal government on the one hand wants to reduce Canada's carbon
00:00:33.720 emissions, but on the other hand doubles the number of carbon-emitting immigrants to this 1.00
00:00:38.100 country. It seems inconsistent. Of course, the sale of new homes might be all that's keeping
00:00:44.540 Canada's construction industry going. Certainly wouldn't be pipelines, would it? My friend and
00:00:50.780 colleague Linda Slobodian asks this in an insightful column we published on March 20th, and she
00:00:56.920 concludes that even if there is a good reason, it's still the wrong thing to do.
00:01:02.240 Common sense tells you there is no way that anything pertaining to Canadian elections could
00:01:07.820 or should or might be stored on a foreign service.
00:01:12.180 It doesn't matter how much money it would save or how secure are the servers or reliable the
00:01:17.700 people that own them. You don't even waste time talking about it.
00:01:22.920 Carbon data is a core Canadian interest. You build the system you want here and you make
00:01:28.720 sure it's done right. 1.00
00:01:32.840 But if you watch the headlines, doing the inconsistent, the inexplicable, the downright stupid is what 1.00
00:01:39.960 this Liberal government is all about. 1.00
00:01:43.640 Take fertilizer. Just for the sake of the argument, let's say that when Prime Minister Trudeau says
00:01:50.120 climate change is so important that reducing Canada's carbon emissions is the moral equivalent
00:01:56.120 of war that we believe in. We don't, of course. But just saying, what if we did? And then, in good faith,
00:02:03.960 we also accepted the logical extension of that, that to further reduce Canada's small contribution
00:02:10.280 to world carbon dioxide, prairie farmers must cut their fertilizer use. This, of course, would mean
00:02:16.680 lower yields. And if you accept the Prime Minister's premises, perhaps that's an acceptable price to pay.
00:02:25.160 But even if it was, maybe not this year?
00:02:28.280 When there's no guarantee the world's other great breadbasket in Ukraine, which feeds Africa, 0.81
00:02:35.160 will produce more than a few buns? Do it, maybe, when things get back to normal?
00:02:41.960 After all, if climate change is going to kill us all, it'll do it in the next 200 years.
00:02:46.920 Without wheat, Africans are starving now.
00:02:51.640 For the same reason, the war in Ukraine, it would have been common sense to sell natural gas to our
00:02:57.240 German-NATO allies. But there's no business case, Mr. Trudeau said.
00:03:04.200 There was a moral case. And there is a common sense case. But they didn't do it, did they?
00:03:11.480 And if you really believe carbon dioxide is the end of the world, why not help Asian countries that 1.00
00:03:17.720 depend on coal to switch to Alberta natural gas? And, by the way, in doing so, reconcile
00:03:24.920 a whole lot of indigenous aspirations in the process. Common sense, right? But apparently not
00:03:33.480 in Ottawa, where the Liberals have spent the last seven and a half years making it harder and harder
00:03:38.680 to develop clean energy in Western Canada while continuing to import the dirty kind back east from 1.00
00:03:44.040 some of the worst countries in the world. Like closer to home, it would also have been common
00:03:49.320 sense to start building new baseload electrical generation we know will actually work before
00:03:54.920 closing the coal-fired generations so that we can do what? Depend on things we know will only work
00:04:00.840 when the wind blows and the sun shines? This is like dropping your street map in the bin before you
00:04:05.960 know your new route guidance system is unfailingly accurate. Differences in the consequences. With
00:04:11.400 untested route guidance, you may end up in a blind alley, but with a governmental mismatch between
00:04:15.880 power generation and the demands of a growing population swollen by immigration means brownouts 1.00
00:04:22.280 and blackouts. Look, if it can happen in Texas, it can happen in Alberta. It can happen all over
00:04:29.080 Canada. And to that point, it was gratifying to hear Premier Smith acknowledge this at her presser on
00:04:35.240 March 21st. Meanwhile, we're stuck with the Liberal government, the response to inflation with tax
00:04:40.760 increases, to a pandemic with economy destroying lockdowns, and to a scandal surrounding electoral
00:04:47.080 interference by appointing a family friend to make discreet inquiries. To some degree, it is their faith
00:04:54.600 in their own climate change narrative that blinds them. But there is also a mentality born out of
00:05:01.160 socialization. These people do not live in the same world as the rest of us, do not face the same
00:05:07.080 personal challenges, they don't even know what milk costs, and they care about things that only people
00:05:12.440 with time on their hands can afford to pay attention to. That's what has to be the matter with the
00:05:18.600 Liberals. Otherwise, when one looks at decisions that could store Canada's electoral data offshore, and all the rest of it,
00:05:26.440 we're left asking, are these people even working for us?
00:05:34.120 For the Western Standard, I'm Nigel Haniford.
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