Has he taken leave of his senses?!

Calgary's Mayor Naheed Nenshi is pushing for our city to take in thousands of Syrian refugees.  I can't remember how many thousands, but enough to be ridiculous.  If anyone should know how Calgary is suffering with the downturn -- make that "tanking" -- of oil prices, it's the mayor.  Instead he says, "Let's get this right.  Let's be sure we can support the newcomers and integrate them into the economy." 

What economy?!  Now if he'd qualified that with, "And if we can't, they can't come," that would have made sense.  But, of course, he didn't.  The problematic words are "support" and "integrate".  With more than 45,000 people laid off in this province, people are suffering.  Yet he wants to "integrate" thousands more!?  Can't be done. 

I have experience with well-meaning, delusional messes such as this.  When I was chair of a parish council in Ottawa a few years ago, we had a refugee committee which sponsored several families from Bosnia in a moving, but naïve, display of charity.  What happened?  The refugees never got off the parish dole, so I eliminated the committee and the newcomers got on with it.  Seemed a scam to me and funnily, all those who were weeping and wailing about bringing them in, didn't utter a word of protest.  Everyone was over it.

Between the bogus climate change conference in Paris, where no commitments are binding, Rachel Notley basically shutting down the oilsands and Justin Trudeau giving away the store, this province and this country are in for a rude awakening.  The hubris of people to think they can affect climate is breathtaking!  Climate change may exist, but mere humans have absolutely no affect on it one way or the other.  The planet has been warming and cooling for billions of years with no help or hindrance from us.  Just ask the dinosaurs.   

Climate change reminds me of another bogus brouhaha, Y2K.  Remember that one?  The world was going to end and everyone's money was going to poof because banks were going to fail.  Naturally, a whole lot of "consultants" and "experts" made a ton of money out of that scam and nothing happened.  (I am acquainted with the carney barker who started the-sky-is-falling Y2K hysteria and he is a very rich man today.  He even made up those catchy call letters.  No dummy he. )

This cartoon sums up the whole sorry Parisian sting and swindle:

Courtesy of The Calgary Herald