Andrew Moran, the economics editor at Liberty Nation News, writes that Canada seems to be quietly revising the core tenets of its “climate change” religion.  Under a headline that bluntly announces, “Canada Admits Justin Trudeau’s Climate Agenda Was a Scam,” and a lede that asks, “Is it too little, too late for the struggling nation?” Moran analyzes a seventeen-minute YouTube video that Prime Minister Mark Carney published on June 30.

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In that video, Carney states that Canada can no longer afford to pursue the lofty “green energy” goals established by his predecessor, Justin Trudeau, which, among other directives, required Canada to cut its “greenhouse gas emissions” by nearly 50% of its 2005 levels by 2030.  (For what it’s worth, the U.S. has greatly outperformed its parasitic neighbor up North with regard to emissions reductions, even though being “green” has become a big part of Canadians’ warped self-image.)  While Carney makes it clear that he remains a climate cultist at heart, his “fireside chat” with Canadians looks like a “rally ‘round the flag” pep talk meant to encourage his fellow climate-change-communists to bite their tongues for the sake of taking on President Trump.  Calling Trudeau’s environmental edicts “expensive” and “divisive” while paying lip service to Alberta’s energy industry in a year when the province’s conservative citizens are pushing hard for secession from the United Kingdom’s pet realm in North America, Canada’s premier central-banker-turned-prime-minister grudgingly admits that his ice commune cannot survive much longer by depending upon welfare handouts and free security from the United States.

“The climate crisis is still with us, and our commitment to fighting it is absolute,” Carney assures “global warming” zealots who see the productive use of hydrocarbon molecules as mortal sins leading to eternal damnation.  “But the certainties of the world of 2015 are long gone,” Carney laments much like a welfare queen who realizes his American taxpayer-provided largesse has come to an end.  “Our neighborhood hasn’t been this hostile since Canada was founded.  The world hasn’t been this unstable geopolitically since the end of the Second World War.”

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Those are some pretty bleak statements from Canada’s banker-in-chief!  This is what I hear Carney saying: Don’t worry, “global warming” nuts!  We will continue fighting the weather with our meaningless words (which, by the way, arrive with heavy exhalations of carbon-dioxide-tainted condescension — egad!) until we have transferred all of your wealth into our bank accounts and built a mass surveillance system that tracks your every movement (in the name of “saving the planet”)!  But, for right now, the bad American president down South will no longer subsidize our vanity projects, virtue-signaling, or climate communism.  I know, it’s terrible.  Not being able to fight our imaginary enemy, the weather, as part of our mass propaganda efforts to centralize all economic activity, is disheartening.  Not being able to condition the peasants to believe that it is selfish to wish for a standard of living beyond that of a fifteenth-century serf is as unbearable as the dreadful decades when frontiersmen had to defend their lives from local indigenous peoples, whose lands we have stolen and plan to give back sometime soon…after enough Christian churches have mysteriously burned to the ground.  Even though we have no military and provide no security for the North American continent, not being able to stomp our feet and get our way feels like suffering through a global war.  Being forced to produce and export anything besides our empty rhetoric is a bit like Armageddon, dontcha know.  Anyway, we must pretend to be sane for the time being, or we might lose Alberta to the real Americans!

Canada’s “climate change” cultists are not happy.  “We’re already paying the price for that in terms of record heat, uh, record temperatures in Canada and around the world,” said one “global warming” loon who has clearly not seen any temperature recordings from the early part of the twentieth century, when daily highs often exceeded those of today.  Because Canadian citizens do not understand that Americans prop up their entire economy, they believe that carbon taxes, electric vehicle mandates, and expensive “green energy” boondoggles come with no cost.  Canada is blessed with abundant reserves of crude oil, but Canada’s brainwashed people believe that it would somehow be better for their economy if they ban new hydrocarbon projects and destroy existing oil pipelines.  Economic growth through economic suicide is the Canadian way.

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You know who acts so stupidly and selfishly?  Trust fund babies who don’t have to work because daddy has made sure that they’re taken care of for life.  For decades, America has been Canada’s daddy, and American taxpayers have subsidized Canadians’ lifestyles while asking for nothing in return.  Trade deals have allowed Canada to export most products (usually originating in China) into the United States, while restricting what U.S. producers can send up North.  Canada’s territorial defense is entirely dependent upon the benevolence of Americans who have allowed Canada to take shelter under the U.S. national security umbrella.  Canadian officials and cultural leaders demonize Americans, call us terrible names, and pretend to be gracious stewards of the environment and indispensable leaders of the “rules-based” international system.  But Canada exists only because of America’s restraint and generosity.  Canadian idiots are always talking about how they’d fight to the death if President Trump tries to conquer their country.  The president does not need to send a single soldier into an Arctic frontier filled with loud and irrelevant hippies.  The moment Canada loses the privilege of selling China’s junk in American markets, Mark Carney’s economy implodes.  America is an energy exporter these days.  We don’t need anything from communist China’s vassal state up North.

Perhaps that’s why 42% of Canadian manufacturing companies are considering moving their businesses to the United States.  A KPMG survey of Canadian producers shows that 77% of those Canadian companies considering a move plan to do so within the next two years.  Furthermore, 57% of Canadian manufacturers have paused, reduced, or cancelled capital investment projects.  Companies cited Canada’s expensive “green energy” regulations, burdensome corporate taxes, and government restrictions on capital investment as major reasons for fleeing Canada’s centrally controlled economy.  As Canada embraces a system of “climate change” communism that has more in common with China’s politburo-managed economy than with that of the United States, manufacturers are abandoning the wintry ideological prison up North that has survived only by behaving as a blood tick sucking up Americans’ charity. 

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Prime Minister Carney cannot save his failing state.  As Liberty Nation’s Andrew Moran notes, Canada’s “obsession with climate change” has been “disastrous for a nation rich in natural resources.”  “Green energy” policies have proven to be “vanity projects” that wreck economies.  “Countries keep turning to crude oil, natural gas, coal, and nuclear power to meet their energy needs.  The United States realized it.  Europe is starting to come around.  Asia always knew it.  Canada was the last nation to finally understand that oil and gas are the answer, not a windmill.”  Unfortunately for Canadian citizens, committed “global warming” fanatic Mark Carney is not capable of saving Canada’s sinking ship.  

Over at the Conservative Treehouse, Sundance says it best: Despite Canadians’ “unwillingness to accept reality,” our Northern neighbors are “economically dependent on the United States as the customer for any export.”  Without American consumers, “Canada is structurally incapable of economic growth.”

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Unfortunately, Canada is filled with America-haters whose arrogance prevents them from recognizing the fragile state of their economy.  U.S. Ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra, has tried to warn ungrateful Canadians of their folly.  Because Canada’s government controls the news media, Canadians falsely believe that they are independent and strong.  Their hubris will lead them to the painful discovery that they are dependent and weak.

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Image: Mark Carney.  Credit: Policy Exchange via Flickr, CC BY 2.0.