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FELDSTED -- The propaganda principles of the late 1930s still work with a small segment of the population, but as PT Barnum observed, you can only fool some of the people all of the time


Most of us wish Environment Minister Catherine McKenna would take her climate change drum and put it where it might smart a bit.

The unending false propaganda spewed by McKenna and her government is degrading and insulting. We are capable of independent research to discover climate change truths.

Environment Minister Catherine McKenna
What Ms McKenna contends is untrue and unsupported by independent critical analysis.

There is nothing virtuous about parroting an international organization that adopted the hypothesis that suspected global warming was caused by the industrial revolution and set about creating science that would support that hypothesis.

Creating the science was not difficult.

Sponsoring governments bought the science through grants to universities to ‘study’ the hypothesis and report an outcome. To sweeten the bribe, universities were allowed to skim off a portion of the grants for administrative costs.

The results predictably supported the hypothesis; not doing so would have ended further grants and studies. The subterfuge had fallout that has rocked the scientific community for decades. Authors of the original studies knew that they had fudged the results. In order to protect themselves and their reputations, they formed a coalition to defend their work and set upon any scientist who dared to question their findings. Reputable scientists were demeaned, defamed, ostracized and driven out of the scientific community to protect the original group.

It has been a dark time for science.

Fortunately, a core of ethical and honest scientists refused to be censured and silenced. They have been joined by others and the real truth is emerging.

We do not know what causes climate change and resultant heating or cooling of the earth. The odds of atmospheric carbon dioxide causing climate change are too small for serious consideration. There are other major factors none of which have been seriously studied. The reason is stupidly simple – admitting that there could be other factors at play did not fit the government agenda.

Virtue signalling and symbolism cannot replace dealing with the responsibilities this government was elected to discharge. If we want dancing, we will hire a theatre company and get a professional performance.

If we want a government that dictates to us, we can move to any one of two dozen nations with partial democracies. We don’t need to turn Canada into one of them.     

McKenna is playing to a reducing crowd of easily-led people. The propaganda principles of the late 1930s still work with a small segment of the population, but as P.T. Barnum observed, you can only fool some of the people all of the time.

McKenna believes that we can all be fooled all the time and refuses to accept the greater wisdom of the public. It is not the public that requires a sharp change in attitude and behaviour.  


John Feldsted
Political Consultant & Strategist
Winnipeg, Manitoba
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