FELDSTED: Climate change is not our greatest challenge; it is the lack of competent, ethical, honest, and open governance

Federal environment minister says Canada needs 'ambitious action by all provinces, including Alberta'

Peter Zimonjic ~~ CBC News ~~ Apr 17, 2019

One day after Alberta voted in a premier who promised that his first act in office would be to repeal his province's carbon pricing plan, Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna reminded Jason Kenney that fighting climate change is as much his responsibility as it is hers.

"Politicians and leaders have a responsibility to tackle climate change," McKenna said today outside the Vancouver Aquarium, where she was promoting her government's budget decision to provide incentives for zero-emission cars.

"Our scientists issued a report that said that Canada's climate is changing at twice the global average, three times in the North," she said.

"We need to be working together to tackle the biggest challenges we face. There is probably no bigger challenge than climate change, and we need ambitious action by all provinces, including Alberta."

 

Environment Minister Catherine McKenna

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Ms McKenna cannot hold forth on what political leaders should do when her government is mired in conflict, criminality, disarray, scandal and secrecy. Climate change is not our greatest challenge; it is the lack of competent, ethical, honest and open governance. 

We face an impenetrable wall when climate change is discussed. Government ministers have made if clear they are uninterested in our views, although we are the most directly affected by climate change and government efforts to combat it.

The notion that a government can tax us into submitting to its dictates is repulsive.

It is a direct attack on democracy and our personal freedoms and rights.   

Only governments are capable of denying reality and insisting that their conclusions must be unquestioningly accepted. We have to face and adapt to the continually changing reality of the environment we inhabit.

There is delicious irony in the announcement of a ‘leaked’ government report that Canada was warming at twice the global rate on April Fools’ Day 2019.

“Canada is, on average, experiencing warming at twice the rate of the rest of the world, with Northern Canada heating up at almost three times the global average, according to a new government report.”

What the CBC and Globe and Mail failed to disclose was that the ‘double the rate’ report first surfaced November 23, 2015 at a government climate change briefing presented to Canadian premiers one week before the start of the UN climate change conference in Paris ... four and a half years ago. This is old, and unreliable, ‘news’ has been rehashed in preparation for the fall election campaign. Remember that.   

Environment Minister Catherine McKenna is unaware that we know the global warming hoax was engineered by governments giving universities substantial grants to study global warming. The deal included allowing universities to keep a portion of the grants as an administration fee. The universities provided governments with the results they wanted, to keep the grants flowing and continue to do so today.

McKenna carrying on about how her government is going to help save the world from climate change, when it can’t save itself from ethical rot and regal pretensions, reminds me of Mohammed al-Sahhaf, the Iraqi Information Minister during the Gulf War II.  While he was busy telling us on live TV that Iraq was defeating United States, American tanks were driving by in the background.

Apparently, delusion is limitless. 

John Feldsted

Political Consultant & Strategist

Winnipeg, Manitoba