Canada is under attack.
At the dawn of the 21st century a new political regime has transformed Canada from global hero – once standing up for peace, people, and nature – to global criminal, plunging into war, eroding civil rights, and destroying environments.
A sustained negative public relations war is being waged against the Great White North by the green movement. At this moment in time, Canada terrifies the greens because it is no longer afraid to tell the truth about global warming, the anti-energy radicals of the green movement and the very real global demand for oil. In the process, Canada could bring down the international house of cards the greens have constructed.
In the children’s story the Emperor’s New Clothes, everything goes swimmingly for the swindlers and toadies around the Emperor until some pesky kid in the crowd shouted the obvious truth that the big man was, in fact, letting it all hang out.
Canada is that kid.
One look at its recent record is enough to see that Canada is serious:
- Canada ditched Kyoto.
- Canada is firing environmental scientists.
- Canada openly accused radical anti-energy greens of using foreign money to hijack its domestic agenda.
- Canada will change the rules for infrastructure projects when radicals interfere with new projects.
- Canada will sell its oil to China and India if the current US Administration fails to lead and approve the Keystone XL pipeline.
- Canada has signaled intent that it will not support the UN’s redistributionist $100 billion ‘climate fund’
For once, an influential western nation is pushing back against the green agenda, which forces activists to play defense, and they don’t like it.
Two things happened that changed the way Canada thinks and talks about energy. The first was the 2011 election which elevated Prime Minister Harper’s government from a minority to a majority. It took five years before the majority was won but on the journey, in 2008, the opposition imploded on a radical green agenda that was overwhelming rejected by Canadians.
The second event was the framing of Canada’s oil sands as ‘Ethical Oil’. Ezra Levant coined the term in a book about how Canada is a better choice from to buy oil for many reasons, but mostly because it’s not a stone-age thugocracy. That changed the tone of the debate forever. Stop anyone in the street and ask them if they prefer to buy oil from Canada, or Saudi Arabia. Greens hate that.
And right now, greens hate Canada for talking common sense on environmental and energy policy. Australia recently enacted a carbon tax, and its leaders expected the world to follow them. No-one has. Greens fear it will be Canada that proves to be the example followed by other nations, which is why the PR war is being waged.
Canada has a nice guy image in the world, but underneath that affable smile is a tough-as-nails attitude. Greens may be surprised, but in the end Canada will win this battle and knock them onto their collective arses. And then offer them a hand up and a Tim Horton’s.
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As a Canadian I’m proud of the Conservative Government.
O.T.
LOL – Your gonna love this!
Germany.
I think the wheels are coming of the Eco zealots bus. The great green Euro god Germany is having 2nd thoughts about renewable power. Which means the EU is now a failed Solar state, soon to be a failed Wind power state, soon to be a NO power state.
The great Der Spiegel a hot bed of socialist and warmers has posted this:
SOLAR SUBSIDY SINKHOLE
Re-Evaluating Germany’s Blind Faith in the Sun
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0%2c1518%2c809439%2c00.html#ref%3dnlint
The costs of subsidizing solar electricity have exceeded the 100-billion-euro mark in Germany, but poor results are jeopardizing the country’s transition to renewable energy. The government is struggling to come up with a new concept to promote the inefficient technology in the future.
Solar energy has gone from being the great white hope, to an impediment, to a reliable energy supply. Solar farm operators and homeowners with solar panels on their roofs collected more than €8 billion ($10.2 billion) in subsidies in 2011, but the electricity they generated made up only about 3 percent of the total power supply, and that at unpredictable times.
My studies of statistics are a distant memory now, but if I remember correctly, using 10 interdependent computer models (all with a 95% confidence rating) you would end up with a result of around a 57% confidence rating (.9x.95x.95……etc). If that’s the case then a flip of a coin would suffice in measuring the effectiveness of their assumptions and we could save valuable computer time and the need for highly paid “environmental scientists” on Government Grants.
Here in Australia we have a minority Government ruling with less than 50% of the vote and planning to impose the world’s highest “Carbon Tax” which the current Prime Minister specifically stated would not be imposed under a Government she led – why? Because without the support of the Green Party she would be out of office. Politics and power before people seems to be their policy. (Using the word “policy” in it’s loosest context).
The Government has no mandate and no support from the majority of the voters, as indicated in extensive polling, but plan to continue with this reckless tax in the knowledge that a world-wide recession is in the making – all in the name of (temporary) survival in power.
An election called now would result in a wipe-out of the Labor Party in a magnitude never before seen in this country. Bring it on!
I live in Canada and I hope it does get warmer! Here in Ottawa it was -26 this morning…
God bless you Canada.Sadly we in Australia will not see your awakening because the sh3t has really risen to the top in Canberra and we the people are to blame and getting what we deserve.Our children will pay the price for our complacency.
If you want to immigrate to Canada stay out of British Columbia a province of Canada. It has a carbon tax thanks to and is the home of Andrew Weaver and David Suzuki. Need I say more.
The good news is that Canada has so much of the black stuff that we can try again when you’ve elected President Mitt Gingtorumperry.
Well, DB, it appears our SCOAMF wants us to buy your oil from his Chinese pals. The State Department just nixed the Keystone Pipeline “apparently” because of the route through Nebraska.
I’m with you Keith. As another Aussie who didn’t vote in the current pool of liars and professional misinterpreters, I envy our Canadian brethren who have finally secured a sensible government that won’t bow before this ridiculous Green garbage!
(And they have real Hockey! :)
Go Canada !
Or is that Oh Canada !
I think I’d like to migrate to Canada, just so I can vote for Harper. As a totally ashamed Australian, can I just say I DIDN’T VOTE FOR THE IDIOTS.
Thanks, Mr. Austin!
Francis,
That NASA report was featured in our local rag, the London Free press. I submitted the following letter to editor in response.
NASA in a press release claims massive ecological changes for Canada over the next three centuries due to man made climate change. The release states “To study the sensitivity of Earth’s ecological systems to climate change, the scientists used a computer model that predicts the type of plant community that is uniquely adapted to any climate on Earth. This model was used to simulate the future state of Earth’s natural vegetation in harmony with climate projections from 10 different global climate simulations.”
In other words, the ecological study uses a computer model which in turn depends on the output of other climate model computer simulations. Models stacked upon models!
Before we panic, note that in its “State of the Climate in 2008″ report, the NOAA said about climate computer models “The simulations rule out (at the 95% level) zero trends for intervals of 15 yr or more, suggesting that an observed absence of warming of this duration is needed to create a discrepancy with the expected present-day warming rate.” The translation is that a flat trend in global temperatures for 15 years is all that is required to say the models are incorrect. We are now approaching a 15 year trend (since 1998 El Nino) of flat global temperatures and thus also approaching the disqualification of the current global climate models.
Caveat Emptor!
Time to arrest Dr. Fruit Fly for grifting the Great Greenie Con and getting rich on selling climate change/global warming hysteria
Green is the way to go especially to Ontario’s McPremier. He has found a new way to distribute green energy— Pay the producers, a Korean company, up to 78 cents per KWh and charge the user 12c per KWh. This is called Liberal Economic policy and makes a lot of sense to some people — it has to because in Sept the voters gave the McPremier another 4 year shot at running Ontario only this time there is an catch— if his spring budget fails to pass he will have to call an election & we get another chance to throw him out.
Francis
Interesting comment from NASA. On their website you’ll also find their admission that just 6,000 years ago or so, the Arctic was ice free in many areas in summer, and further to that, the ice only showed up about 3 million years ago, and 6 million years ago there were redwood forests up there with 60 foot trees.
So “Canadians” have suffered through nasty, nasty global warming in the past and no doubt we could do so again.
I’ll bet if you asked them, most of those greens would do anything to save the planet – - except take a science course.
I suspect there are many others who are tired of being bullied by green groups that will be watching very closely how well Canada does with this.
I’m hoping they get the gold in this effort and it grows beyond Canada’s borders.
I’d also like to see a thorough Canadian federal review of the conditions for tax-free status for these green groups, and an audit of their actions. I’d be surprised if a number of them shouldn’t have their status revoked for failing to follow the rules. Average canadians get audited all the time – these groups shouldn’t expect any different treatment.
Head of nail, meet hammer.
Politically, I am middle of the road. I tend to take views from both sides of the great divide and quite enjoyed minority governments. But the green plan put forth by Dion, made me shudder. Left leaning people can’t understand that many people like me didn’t vote for harper, but against the radical green tint the liberals have aquired. The NDP has been green for a long time. Just like Quebec didn’t vote for the NDP, they voted against the Bloc.
Sorry liberal party, but the majority of Canada will not want you until you show that your representing the people of canada and not only GIA. Now we are stuck with some of the rights’ more radical ideas (eliminating the CWB, gays, abortion), because you thought everyone was a hairshirt wearing hippie. More of the world will be following out lead as the realize that the “green” vision was being grossly over-exaggerated in the media and town halls. The people of Canada are soundly behind dropping Kyoto and moving on with life. We are all seeing the cold and snow returning despite what the greens claimed, and we are not buying their claim they predicted it all along. Canadians are not stupid. Not to mention it isn’t just a comfort issue to us, we would freeze to death under the green master plan.
Delingpole recently also puts some of his (last) hopes in Canada. I hope you guys are right.
Just yesterday, Soylent Green said the Nasa (perhaps Hansen himself) said that Canada could be… one of the country the hardest hit by global warming! Not a coincidence. It seems they (the greens) now have Canada in their cross-hair.