Why is Canada inviting fossil fuel lobbyists to COP27? | Ricochet: here are eight known fossil fuel lobbyists in Canada’s official party
delegation to COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. In fact, the number is
up a record-breaking 25 per cent from last year — more than 600 are
fossil fuel lobbyists and executives.

Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, drew
ire from delegates when photos were snapped of senior vice president of
RBC, John Stackhouse (Canada’s largest investor in fossil fuels) and
Suncor Vice President of Sustainability (one of the largest crude oil
companies on the planet), Jon Mitchell, standing in the Canada Pavilion.

After years of back-to-back human rights atrocities and environmental
disaster in so-called Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s proud
declarative “Canada is back” to climate negotiations ahead of COP21 in
Paris, feels like a fever dream.

From the militarized invasion of Wet’suwet’en, to the recent drilling under their sacred river, to the approval of the Bay Du Nord oil project, and mass federal investments into the science fiction technology carbon capture and storage (CCUS) to prolong fossil fuel extraction as long as possible, the phrase “Canada is back-sliding,” feels more on the mark.

‘Freedom Convoy’ had to be removed to avoid major economic damage: officials – National | Globalnews.ca:

The ‘Freedom Convoy’
blockades at major border crossings across the country had to be
removed quickly in order to avoid serious, long-term damage to Canada’s
economy, finance department officials said Thursday.

The demonstration against COVID-19
public health measures in February saw major ports of entry in Ontario
and Alberta blockaded, resulting in a daily trade loss of “around $56
million per day,” finance officials told the Public Order Emergency Commission in an interview, according to a summary.

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Every day the protests continued, the financial hit Canada’s
economy took compounded, warned Michael Sabia, deputy minister of the
department of finance.

“Whatever we could do, we wanted to do
quickly because doing it quickly meant shortening duration — and
shortening duration meant avoiding the worst economic consequences that
we were concerned about,” Sabia said as he testified before the
Emergencies Act inquiry.