Why is Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a worse threat to Alberta than his father, the late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau?Because while the latter Trudeau wanted to make Alberta a servant of central Canada, the current Trudeau wants to destroy the fossil fuels energy sector and impoverish Alberta; to leave it fighting for its life. .Trudeau hasn’t called his plan for Alberta the National Energy Program (NEP) #2 but that’s exactly what it is. His environment minister is a former Greenpeace activist, Steven Guilbeault. .As we learned in July, Trudeau expects the oil and gas industry to be largely responsible for achieving the federal government's insane and fanatical goal of reducing emissions by 40% by 2030, even though the sector is only responsible for a quarter of these emissions. The Liberal government wants to use a modified carbon pricing system, or an industry-specific cap-and-trade system, to establish this artificial ceiling for the fossil fuels industry. .Trudeau is deadly serious about this and will be prepared to fight to the death over it. .In the 1980s, Pierre Trudeau fought over energy policy with then-Alberta premier Peter Lougheed, a man who seemed born to fight for Alberta’s oil and mineral rights. Trudeau’s fight with Alberta was all about money. He expected Alberta to offer the rest of the country a “made in Canada” price for oil that amounted to the sort of subsidized cost of oil that bankrupted Venezuela. You can’t pay the oil industry outrageously low prices for crude and expect them to continue to find and extract petroleum from the ground. The industry will go broke. .Trudeau lost his fight with Lougheed largely because the facts were against him, but Justin Trudeau isn’t interested in facts and his war with Alberta isn’t primary about money. It’s about “fight climate change.”.It’s about ideology. .Trudeau is a true fanatic in the war against climate change and he wants to destroy the fossil fuel industry in Canada. .Why else would he say there was “no business case” for selling liquid natural gas to Germany? He lost Canada billions in dollars of LNG sales, but for Trudeau it wasn’t about the money, it was about climate change and fossil fuels are evil to this prime minister. .He is creating a looming food crisis in Canada because he's making fertilizer so cost-prohibitive for farms to purchase they are unable to use it on their crops. The reason? There is nitrogen in fertilizer and nitrogen is the latest ingredient of infamy that contributes to greenhouse gas emissions. Former Conservative Agriculture minister Gerry Ritz told me all about it in an interview for the Western Standard. .In Trudeau, we may well be dealing with a madman. .But there is one economic benefit that Trudeau can see in the destruction of oil and gas and that’s through creating a market for Quebec hydroelectric power as columnist Dave Staples noted this week. The SNC-Lavalin scandal was all about how Trudeau was apparently willing to save the construction company from any legal problems in order to save Quebec jobs and Liberal votes in the province. .But what about potential oil industry jobs in Quebec. This is worth asking because for there have been rumours over the last decade Quebec is sitting on a huge quantity of oil, just waiting to be discovered. Why wouldn’t Trudeau want Quebec to benefit from that potential boom? .The reason is Quebec declared itself the first jurisdiction in the world to ban all oil and gas exploration. So if the oil is there, Quebec won’t be selling it. .Alberta Premier Danielle Smith was right in passing the Alberta Sovereignty Act and from not running from any fight with Trudeau, who senses an opportunity to wage a great crusade to “fight climate change.”He is dangerously energized by both ideological certainty and economic drive — and he won't allow the truth or facts to interfere with his inquisition.
Why is Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a worse threat to Alberta than his father, the late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau?Because while the latter Trudeau wanted to make Alberta a servant of central Canada, the current Trudeau wants to destroy the fossil fuels energy sector and impoverish Alberta; to leave it fighting for its life. .Trudeau hasn’t called his plan for Alberta the National Energy Program (NEP) #2 but that’s exactly what it is. His environment minister is a former Greenpeace activist, Steven Guilbeault. .As we learned in July, Trudeau expects the oil and gas industry to be largely responsible for achieving the federal government's insane and fanatical goal of reducing emissions by 40% by 2030, even though the sector is only responsible for a quarter of these emissions. The Liberal government wants to use a modified carbon pricing system, or an industry-specific cap-and-trade system, to establish this artificial ceiling for the fossil fuels industry. .Trudeau is deadly serious about this and will be prepared to fight to the death over it. .In the 1980s, Pierre Trudeau fought over energy policy with then-Alberta premier Peter Lougheed, a man who seemed born to fight for Alberta’s oil and mineral rights. Trudeau’s fight with Alberta was all about money. He expected Alberta to offer the rest of the country a “made in Canada” price for oil that amounted to the sort of subsidized cost of oil that bankrupted Venezuela. You can’t pay the oil industry outrageously low prices for crude and expect them to continue to find and extract petroleum from the ground. The industry will go broke. .Trudeau lost his fight with Lougheed largely because the facts were against him, but Justin Trudeau isn’t interested in facts and his war with Alberta isn’t primary about money. It’s about “fight climate change.”.It’s about ideology. .Trudeau is a true fanatic in the war against climate change and he wants to destroy the fossil fuel industry in Canada. .Why else would he say there was “no business case” for selling liquid natural gas to Germany? He lost Canada billions in dollars of LNG sales, but for Trudeau it wasn’t about the money, it was about climate change and fossil fuels are evil to this prime minister. .He is creating a looming food crisis in Canada because he's making fertilizer so cost-prohibitive for farms to purchase they are unable to use it on their crops. The reason? There is nitrogen in fertilizer and nitrogen is the latest ingredient of infamy that contributes to greenhouse gas emissions. Former Conservative Agriculture minister Gerry Ritz told me all about it in an interview for the Western Standard. .In Trudeau, we may well be dealing with a madman. .But there is one economic benefit that Trudeau can see in the destruction of oil and gas and that’s through creating a market for Quebec hydroelectric power as columnist Dave Staples noted this week. The SNC-Lavalin scandal was all about how Trudeau was apparently willing to save the construction company from any legal problems in order to save Quebec jobs and Liberal votes in the province. .But what about potential oil industry jobs in Quebec. This is worth asking because for there have been rumours over the last decade Quebec is sitting on a huge quantity of oil, just waiting to be discovered. Why wouldn’t Trudeau want Quebec to benefit from that potential boom? .The reason is Quebec declared itself the first jurisdiction in the world to ban all oil and gas exploration. So if the oil is there, Quebec won’t be selling it. .Alberta Premier Danielle Smith was right in passing the Alberta Sovereignty Act and from not running from any fight with Trudeau, who senses an opportunity to wage a great crusade to “fight climate change.”He is dangerously energized by both ideological certainty and economic drive — and he won't allow the truth or facts to interfere with his inquisition.
