As usual, Rex nails it

With apologies for the bizarre line breaks, this is Rex Murphy's eloquent take on the current "government":

"Judging by their performance on the most important files, the current bunch in Ottawa would need to hire a consultant to figure out how to get wet in a thunderstorm, and set up a task force to study how to tie their own shoes.

"Look around you. Canada is in the biggest, most persistent and
threatening crisis since — well since ever. The long-term care homes
are under a blizzard of mortality. There is heartbreak in every small
business in the country. The worry and anxiety level of most everyday
citizens — especially those not shielded by uninterrupted cheques from
provincial and federal governments, and those not serving as a member
of a legislature — is at an all-time high.

"This rich, sophisticated, technologically advanced and altruistic
country of ours is the only G7 nation raiding vaccine supplies
intended for “developing countries.” As some droll Twitter feed
offered, it’s as if the many-mansioned denizens of Toronto’s Forest
Hill were making raids on the food banks, and soaking up all the
Canadian Tire money.

"This government hoards any real details about what vaccines are here,
how many are “secured” on paper only, and what they have promised to
pay for them, as a miser hoards gold. Every press briefing on this
most important of concerns is a dance of evasion, platitude, confused
projection and sometimes just pure ignorance of what is actually the
case.

"They are the most deliberately obfuscatory, opaque,
access-of-information-allergic administration under the democratic
sun.

"One year into COVID our venerated House of Commons is a disembowelled,
non-functioning, neglected wreck. The targeted disrespect of the
absolute and central symbol and instrument of our democracy has no
parallel. No “minority” government has ever operated with the smug
insouciance and patented, virtue-perfumed arrogance towards the
Commons as the Trudeau government. This is, when we step back, their
biggest sin.

"Since 1867 no prime minister has abandoned the House of Commons and
downgraded its significance for so long a period and for such
obviously self-centred and political opportunistic reasons. It is so
much easier, so much safer, so much more convenient — to walk from the
bedroom to the one-printer office and mail in platitudes and arias of
evasion via Zoom.

"What other government has parted ways with a governor general, and to
top it off, a governor general brought in by the world’s No. 1 “male
feminist” as a role model for young women and girls? The same
male-feminist who conveniently loses all his top-performing female
ministers. Someone should do a “gender analytics” study on Justin
Trudeau’s cabinet.

"Not to worry. It has lost a finance minister over ethics charges
during the mightiest spending binge since the Big Bang. An attorney
general, the prime guardian of our rule of law, was hounded out
because she would not bend the rule of law. The most qualified and
respected woman, a doctor of medicine no less (in other words a real
doctor) could not abide staying in so carelessly unethical a cabinet.
Thus, at the very time Canada would have wished the most competent
person to deal with a once-in-a-hundred years medical emergency, Dr.
Jane Philpott is not even in the government.

 "Meantime Seamus O’Regan, the Trudeau cabinet’s favourite nomad — he

"takes up and puts down portfolios with the “greatest of ease,” leaving
no impression behind as he goes — burbles on, during a pandemic, about
planting two billion trees. Imagine, two billion. We only have about
300 billion already! Priorities I guess. Repeat after me the holy
incantation: climate change, climate change, climate change. It’s
better than a vaccine.

"We have two hostages in the tyrannical torture houses of Chinese
prisons. Those poor, suffering and tormented men must truly have been
uplifted — if any news ever reaches them — to learn that their
government, during a world pandemic, was collaborating with the
Chinese government to “jointly develop a COVID-19 vaccine.” Remember
the line from Casablanca — “Of all the gin joints in all the towns in
all the world ...” — and Insert “countries” for gin joints. Of all the
countries in all the world why did the Trudeau government pick ....
China? Incompetence can’t cover it. We need some term that speaks of
dedicated and determined, merciless and staggering wrong-headedness:
the purblind leading the purblind.

"We have had no budget in two years. We have spent more than any other
government, by far, in our history. We have no idea where all the
money has gone. The auditor general has been denied the resources to
even keep track of a portion of it. There is no coherence, or trust,
between the majority of the premiers and the prime minister. We have
been offered occasional delights, like the celebrated comic opera of
the WE brothers and the (temporary) $43-million gift to them to
administer half a billion dollars of your money.

"The Liberals have given far more time and dedicated energy to the
Derek Sloan affair (whatever that was) than the cancellation of the
Keystone XL pipeline, and the emergent threat of Alberta leaving the
Confederation. (Query for serious panel discussion: Is Canada safe
from Bidenism?) Alberta groans while the Trudeau government spends
over $36 million for “stay-at-home chairs” for its civil service.

"The country is in an economic coma. The House of Commons is a movie
set. We are shamed in the international community. Contracts on COVID
are all Top Secret. There is zero reliability on any projection made
by a minister or the prime minister on where we are on vaccines and
distribution. Rideau Hall is shortly to be listed on Airbnb. Farmers
have been hit by fuel and carbon taxes. Newfoundland teeters on
bankruptcy. The West has never felt so far out of things. I could go
on.

"Is this what was meant when the rosy words were first pronounced: Canada’s back?

"To calm yourself, however, there is always this: Climate change.

"Climate change. Climate change. Two billion trees. Two billion trees.
Home chairs. Home chairs. Derek Sloan."

Here we are. Again

 Well, we're all locked up again to prevent the spread.  What a great idea.  Wait, scratch that.  You know the saying, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result."  That's what's happening everywhere except in the Maritime bubble.

How well have repeated closures worked so far?  That was a rhetorical question.  They haven't.  The problem is people are not adhering to safety, distance and mask protocols.  But wait, scratch that too because in remote, northern communities, where natives neither social distance, nor wear masks because they don't trust the White Man's medicine, natives are being rushed the vaccine regardless of age or other morbidities.  

Maybe we should all do that.  Ignore the rules and get the vaccine out-of-turn.  As I have said, this is a bizarre and futile strategy if you're courting votes because natives don't vote.  And what has anyone done for seniors trapped, isolated and perishing in long-term care homes for the 13 months?  Nothing much.  

It's all so criminal.

And here's a weird stat:  45% of Albertans think Deena Hinshaw is doing a great job on vaccines, yet only 23% think Kenney is doing well.  Wait, isn't Hinshaw the one calling the COVID shots for Kenney?  How does that make any sense?!

And here's another scoop:  No one has died of regular flu or pneumonia this year.  No one.  And it seems Prince Philip was the only person to have died of old age in the past year.  Wow!

Here's another comment on where we're at these days:  Some years ago, a white member of the Washington DC Council explained that in contracting for community infrastructure construction, the Council should not be too ‘niggardly’ in budgeting.  Well, the African Americans on Council (a majority) were enraged. The white councillor pointed out the dictionary meaning of the word, but this fact didn’t calm the enraged. In fact, they challenged the dictionary meaning, claiming there was a language racial plot of long standing in the white man’s world and the dictionary was the vehicle. Go figure!

I give up. 

Absolutely correct

 A Fairy Tale about Canada

Once upon a time in a northern Dominion called Canada, there was a thriving oil industry that provided fuel for vehicles, trains and airplanes.

There was also a large natural gas industry that kept the people warm during the long cold winters and supplied the raw material for plants that manufactured plastics, detergents, fertilizer, synthetic clothing and a great many other items needed and used by people every day.

That oil and natural gas industry employed more than a million people and its exports  were the biggest contributor to the county's international balance of payments. 

People working in the industry were proud that their operations were among the most  technically advanced and environmentally responsible in the world.

Then a report written by a scientific advisory group called the International Panel on Climate Change was published, stating that the earth was warming and carbon-dioxide emissions from burning 'fossil fuels' were the likely cause.

And so it came to be that lowering emissions of the very substance that plants need to breath in the same way as animals need oxygen, and that provides the fizz in soda drinks and the bubbles in champagne, became the world's most important environmental priority. 

Suddenly, after fueling the world's progress for centuries, oil, natural gas and coal became environmental pariahs. Eco-elves flew in from far and wide to proclaim  Canada's oil and gas industry a major contributor to global warming. 

But in the real world, the industry contributed just a small part of Canada's emissions, and Canada's emissions were only two per cent of global emissions.

Nations of the world gathered together in the magical Kingdom of Japan and promised they would reduce the use of fossil fuels.  But a decade later, fossil-fuel emissions had gone up, not down. 

So, world leaders gathered in the French Fifth Republic to once again pledge reduction of fossil fuels. But even as world leaders announced this pledge, three dozen countries, including two with more than a third of the people in the world, continued to build hundreds of new coal-fired power plants. Coal was already the biggest source of carbon dioxide and those new plants would raise coal emissions by another 40 per cent.

That meant that, even if Canada were to disappear into stardust, its tiny share of global emissions would be replaced in a matter of months. 

Amazingly, these realities mattered not to Canada's starry-eyed prime minister, who vowed that his little northern country would set an example to the world. His paladins imposed special taxes on the users of fossil fuel, creating hardship for the people while also weakening the dominion's competitive position with its largest trading partner. 

The prime minister journeyed to the main oil and gas producing province, hoping to use his imagined charisma to convince workers worried about losing their jobs that 'phasing-out' their industry was necessary to stop global warming.

People asked the prime minister what was to replace all that fossil fuel energy?  He proclaimed that it would be 'green energy' generated by the wind and the sun. - But the people knew that the wind only blew some of the time. And that, in this northern land with little sunlight during short winter days and none on long cold nights when energy is needed most, solar was useless.   

And the government had not learned from experience in a province called Ontario, where billions of dollars spent on green energy had yielded only small amounts of very expensive and unreliable power that needed back-up fossil-fuel power plants to prevent black-outs. 

The folly of relying on green energy was undeniable, but, alas, neither the eco-elves nor  the prime minister took heed. Neither did they face the truth that trying to force down Canada's already tiny global emissions would hamstring the country's most important industry only to have its fossil-fuel production, and emissions, replaced by production from other countries. 

The prime minister and his paladins remained convinced their green dream would come true, if only they believed. So, this fairy tale of doing good for the world became a nightmare for this small northern dominion. Sadly, the rest of the world didn't even care.

****The End***** (coming soon)

 

Gwyn Morgan is the retired founding CEO of Encana

The Supreme Court has changed the constitution, unconstitutionally

 How cute, tying the acceptance of Trudeau's carbon tax to good, ole "climate change".  (You'll notice they're no longer calling global warming because it's not.)  That's how out-of-it Richard Wagner and five other judges are.  They failed to notice that section 92 of the Constitution Act of 1982 gives responsibility for resources to the provinces.  I should know because I get my info from B, one of those who held the pen, thus knows it inside out.  

So, the feds do not have the jurisdiction to impose such a tax at all.  But hey, look how well carbon pricing has done in reducing emissions!  Absolutely nothing.  It's all just a money grab, period the end. 

In all the coverage of this ruling, not one journalist I have read or heard has even mentioned section 92.  They just blather on about non-existent climate change.  (Read my previous blog to see what a hoax this is.  But millions of people are making money out of it, so it continues.)  How could the supreme court simply ignore our constitution?!  Oh, I forgot.  Wagner and Trudeau are McGill old-school-tie buds.

Case closed.

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I was glad to see someone other than I denouncing Lucki and calling for her to be removed.  Native journalist Tanya Talaga wrote a good piece in the 'Globe and Mail' the other day.  Of course she aligned her arguments with native issues, but we're on the same page on this file.  Lucki is a disgrace to the uniform.

     

Here are the facts...............

 Boy is this going to bum out Greta and Gore:

Ian Rutherford Plimer is an Australian geologist, professor emeritus of earth sciences at the University of Melbourne, professor of mining geology at the University of Adelaide, and the director of multiple mineral exploration and mining companies.   He has published 130 scientific papers, six books and edited the Encyclopedia of Geology.

Born	12 February 1946
Residence	Australia
Nationality	Australian
Fields	Earth Science , Geology, Mining Engineering
Institutions	University of New England ,University of Newcastle,University of Melbourne,University of Adelaide
Alma mater	University of New South Wales ,Macquarie University
Thesis	The pipe deposits of tungsten-molybdenum-bismuth in eastern Australia (1976)
Notable awards	Eureka Prize (1995, 2002),Centenary Medal (2003), Clarke Medal (2004)

Source. Wikipedia

 

Where Does the Carbon Dioxide Really Come From?

Professor Ian Plimer could not have said it better!
If you've read his book you will agree; this is a good summary.

PLIMER: "Okay, here's the bombshell. The volcanic eruption in Iceland. Since its first spewing of volcanic ash has, in just FOUR DAYS, NEGATED EVERY SINGLE EFFORT you have made in the past five years to control CO2 emissions on our planet - all of you.

Of course, you know about this evil carbon dioxide that we are trying to suppress - its that vital chemical compound that every plant requires to live and grow and to synthesize into oxygen for us humans and all animal life.

I know....it's very disheartening to realize that all of the carbon emission savings you have accomplished while suffering the inconvenience and expense of driving Prius hybrids, buying fabric grocery bags, sitting up 'til midnight to finish your kids "The Green Revolution" science project, throwing out all of your non-green cleaning supplies, using only two squares of toilet paper, putting a brick in your toilet tank reservoir, selling your SUV and speedboat, vacationing at home instead of abroad, nearly getting hit every day on your bicycle, replacing all of your 50 cent light bulbs with $10.00 light bulbs.....   well, all of those things you have done have all gone down the tubes in just four days.
 
The volcanic ash emitted into the Earth's atmosphere in just four days - yes, FOUR DAYS - by that volcano in Iceland which has totally erased every single effort you have made to reduce the evil beast, carbon. And there are around 200 active volcanoes on the planet spewing out this crud at any one time - EVERY DAY.

I don't really want to rain on your parade too much, but I should mention that when the volcano Mt. Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines in 1991, it spewed out more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than the entire human race had emitted in all its years on earth.

 Yes, folks, Mt. Pinatubo was active for over one year - think about it.

 Of course, I shouldn't spoil this 'touchy-feely-tree-hugging' moment and mention the effect of solar and cosmic activity and the well-recognized, 800-year global heating and cooling cycle, which keeps happening despite our completely insignificant efforts to affect climate change.

And I do wish I had a silver lining to this volcanic ash cloud, but the fact of the matter is that the bush fire season across the western USA and Australia this year alone will negate your efforts to reduce carbon in our world for the next two to three years. And it happens every year. Just remember that your government just tried to impose a whopping carbon tax on you, on the basis of the bogus 'human-caused' climate-change scenario.

 Hey, isn't it interesting how they don't mention 'Global Warming' anymore, but just "Climate Change"  - you know why?

It's because the planet has COOLED by 0.7 degrees in the past century and these global warming bull**** artists got caught with their pants down.    And, just keep in mind that you might yet be stuck with an Emissions Trading Scheme - that whopping new tax - imposed on you that will achieve absolutely nothing except make you poorer.

It won't stop any volcanoes from erupting, that's for sure.

But, hey, relax...give the world a hug and have a nice day!"

Here's what I don't get?!

 If Jonathan Vance had an affair with a woman outside his direct command, to whom he was engaged and the affair was consenual, what is the problem?!  

By that measure, so many people having consenual office affairs should be in jail -- including B because when we started dating 40 years ago, we were working together, albeit he didn't have any direct control over my career.  

Just take a look at the smash TV hit 'Mad Men' and you'll see how life used to be at the office.  In fact, when I worked for Maclean Hunter in the late sixties and early seventies, that's exactly how it was.  And boy, was it fun!  No one forced anyone to do anything; you went along because you wanted to, or you didn't.  No hard feelings anywhere in sight.

That's why I felt sorry for Jian Gomeshi, who had a consenual affair with a woman outside the workplace who apparently was in complete agreement.  I still don't get that one either, which makes me terribly old-fashioned or completely with it.  Either way, I believe in free choice regardless of what the sex police and gender lunatics have to say.  As for Gomeshi, his life and career have been destroyed and that's a shame because I loved 'Q' when he hosted it.  I don't now.

Botched and bungled

 Whatever happened to ministerial accountability?  Used to be, in the Westminster model of parliamentary democracy, a minister resigned when things f-cked up.  

Not anymore.  Now, they just appoint someone to look into what went wrong and wash their hands of the entire mess.  That's what Hadju and Tam have done with the botched vaccine rollout.  That's what Anaud has done with the procurement bungling.  

The early-warning system was just dismantled and now they're blaming lower-level bureaucrats.  It's just bullsh-t and Trudeau needs to fire people.  But he won't.