Justin Trudeau: The Speech He Never Gave

Note from Steve:

I didn’t vote for Trudeau. He’s made some mistakes. But, he cares about people and he cares about Canada… maybe more than the other political leaders

Let’s be clear that the chief culprit behind high energy costs is record profiteering by fossil fuel companies, not carbon pricing. The independent governor of the Bank of Canada, Tiff Macklem, says carbon pricing has added just under one-sixth of 1% to the inflation rate, and that’s before factoring in the quarterly rebate. Energy prices are going through the roof because they’ve been driven up by Vladimir Putin’s brutal war in Ukraine. Oil and gas companies have been only too happy to pass those gains on to their shareholders. That largely explains the higher bills you’ve been paying for energy, and for food and other essentials whose price is influenced by energy costs.

‘Big Lie’ Propaganda

But you wouldn’t know any of that if you tuned in to the Leader of the Opposition’s “Axe the Tax” rallies—except, of course, for the ones that had to be cancelled last summer because of local wildfires. Or if you listened to the “big lie” propaganda coming from provinces like Alberta, where Premier Danielle Smith is pitching the preposterous threat that you’ll freeze in the dark if we move to decarbonize Canada’s electricity grids by 2035—a necessary, forward-looking step that we fully intend to take.

Ask yourself this: Why would any national government want any region or any household to freeze in the dark? By what logic, and to what end? If that were really our nefarious hidden agenda, why would we have set up a carbon price rebate that benefits households in Alberta and Saskatchewan more than in any other province?

And if Premier Smith were really out to protect her province and ensure its economic prosperity, why would she steadfastly dismiss solar, wind, and storage technologies that are practical, ready for prime time, and less expensive in Alberta than a new gas plant built today? In a province that was leading the country in renewable energy deployment before she introduced a seven-month project moratorium that rural mayors didn’t particularly want, imperilling business activity worth $33 billion and 24,000 jobs in communities desperate to diversify their economies?|Read more https://open.substack.com/pub/energymixweekender/p/justin-trudeau-the-speech-he-never?r=9kvzk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web| open.substack.com/pub/energymi…

#abpoli #cdnpoli #energy #carbonTax #trudeau #poilievre #smith