The "Great Reset" may be Trudeau's plan but it should not be yours
Canadian society is under attack from the left
In the 1960’s Pierre Trudeau joined Maurice Strong and George Soros in a campaign to use climate change as the rallying cry for a new world socialist order creating the “Club of Rome”. The idea was simple - if you could persuade people that climate change was a result of human activity and could only be prevented by joint action by all countries of the world, you could rally support for a post-national global government. With income and wealth inequality pervasive this new world order could address not only the threat of climate change but also play a key role in redistributing wealth and opportunity to all nations and societies. The idea of a global socialist government was not new, dating back to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels - a utopia where everyone was equal and peace and harmony prevailed.
The real objective of the Club of Rome was not lost on some world leaders.
Despite extraordinary steps taken by Lenin and Stalin in Eastern Europe, the socialist utopia did not materialize and the world saw millions of people die from starvation and state led execution, an effort that persisted until the collapse of the Soviet Union. Chairman Mao attempted a similar drive for the utopian dream in China, leading once again to millions of lives lost.
The U.N. effort to use “climate change” as the rallying cry for global wealth redistribution is evident in the words of its leaders. Quoting Timothy Wirth, then President of the U.N. Foundation: “We’ve got to ride this global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental policy.”
The lesson from these episodes of history was foreseen by Voltaire who is often cited for the words “if you can persuade people of absurdities you can make them commit atrocities”.
Driven by leadership from the successors to the Club of Rome in the United Nations, the world has seen decades of effort to persuade mankind that climate change is caused by fossil fuel emissions and that carbon dioxide is a pollutant. Since no one country can forestall global emissions, one is compelled to support a post national global government with enough power to enforce a dramatic change in world energy use to reduce emissions and replace fossil fuels with other energy sources.
Justin Trudeau, the scion of Pierre Trudeau, seized on the mania behind the “climate change” scare tactics that have emerged to seek and obtain political power as our Prime Minister, imposing policies on Canadians that vilify the oil & gas industry, tax products containing fossil fuels or their derivatives (the so-called “carbon tax”) and campaign for an aggressive effort to “transition” Canada away from the exploitation of its vast fossil fuel resources into a lemming-like rush into so-called “renewables” which so far have proven high-cost and unreliable. Hundreds of thousands of jobs have been lost in the process, and Canada’s economy burdened with national debts that now exceed a trillion dollars.
It took Canada 148 years to reach $630 billion of national debt and it took Justin Trudeau only six years to more than double that debt, all on the pretense that his Liberal government “had our backs”. Maybe we need to spend some effort watching our backs.
People with credentials in physics and mathematics are labeled “deniers” for timidly setting out the inconsistencies between the Anthropogenic Global Warming (“AGW”) theory promoted by Trudeau (and many other world leaders) and the laws of physics and chemistry. Instead, our leaders claim there is a scientific “consensus” that CO2 is the cause of climate change despite the existence of more than 60 Nobel laureates who dispute this unproven theory and luminaries like the late Freeman Dyson (a world renowned physicist), Will Happer (a distinguished Princeton University physicist) or Richard Lindzen (a top physicist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology). The fact is no consensus exists and it is no more probative to claim a consensus proves the AGW theory than to claim the beliefs of these physicists disproves it.
From the perspective of a citizen of Canada, the debate is irrelevant since certain facts are indisputable. First, Canadian emissions are inconsequential on a global scale and even if completely eliminated would be immaterial to atmospheric CO2 levels now or at any future time. Second, Canada’s energy industry is a vital part of our economy having contributed well over $650 billion to government revenues since 1960, an amount greater than the national debt before Trudeau’s election.
It should be plain and obvious that, regardless of the validity or absurdity of the AGW theory, Canada would benefit from an aggressive exploitation of its oil & gas resources which would provide the funds for a wide range of social programs that would benefit Canadians while providing the world with a reliable source of responsibly produced fossil fuels for as long as they are needed. Trudeau’s attacks on the energy industry force the economic benefits of energy demand into the treasuries of Middle East sources like Saudi Arabia whose record on human rights is not admirable.
In parallel with his attack on the energy industry, Trudeau and the Liberal party have done more to divide Canadians than to unite them, pronouncing Canada as a country plagued by “systemic racism” when most Canadians know that Canada is perhaps the most tolerant and inclusive country in existence. While there is racism in Canada, the only elements that are “systemic” comprise the Indian Act and related efforts to deprive our indigenous population of freedoms and opportunities. That will be subject of a later article.
October 12, 2021