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On 2025-05-19 8:04 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> Newly elected Canadian PM Mark Carney has just announced that all companies
> who refuse to participate in his new climate agenda will be "punished".
> 
> https://twitter.com/rightanglenews/status/1924505093761536073?s=46
> 
> Canadidians can't say they weren't warned. He'll destroy your country and
> go full-blown commie over a hoax.

It was clear during the campaign that he was not going to dial back his 
obsession with climate change and net zero. Carney - or "Carnage" as 
some are calling him - spoke about building new pipelines to get our oil 
and gas to foreign markets (98% currently goes to the US which, as a 
sole market, gets it for heavily discounted prices) but this 
contradicted legislation that makes it virtually impossible to build new 
pipelines. When questioned about it in English on the West Coast, he 
swore he was open to building new pipelines. When questioned about it in 
French in Quebec, he swore he would respect Quebec's insistence that NO 
pipelines be built in or through Quebec. When this came up during one of 
the Leaders Debates, he said that pipelines would be built, as long as 
the key stakeholders didn't object, by which he meant aboriginals, 
environmentalists and Quebec. That effectively said NO NEW PIPELINES but 
most people only heard the first part of the statement and thought new 
pipelines were a possibility. In any case, he had been clear in saying 
that the No New Pipelines Act would NOT be repealed all along.

Over the years, he has repeatedly said that most of our oil and gas 
needs to stay in the ground for the sake of the planet. (Meanwhile, his 
company, Brookfield Investments, of which he is the board chairman, made 
fortunes buying pipelines in OTHER countries.)

We are well and truly screwed.

The Conservative Party did very well in the election and gained quite a 
few seats but not enough to overtake the Liberals who benefited 
enormously by the collapse of the NDP, which lost a couple of dozen 
seats, most of which went to the Liberals. (The NDP is nominally further 
left than the Liberals but under Trudeau, that difference was razor thin 
so when Trump's tariff threats stirred up the country, most NDP voters 
decided it was more important to vote for the leftist party that could 
actually hope to form a government, namely the Liberals, than to say 
with the NDP.) The Bloc Quebecois, another leftist party but focused on 
Quebec nationalism, also lost around 10 seats, mostly to the Liberals.

I suppose the lesson here is that when Canadians feel an existential 
threat like Trump, they (largely) desert the smaller parties and rally 
to either the Liberals or Conservatives, the two biggest and oldest 
parties.

-- 
Rhino