From CFACT
By Peter Murphy
Canada, we’re watching you.
God keep our land glorious and free!
- From the Canadian national anthem
Oh, Canada. You’re in trouble.
And America is not far behind its northern neighbor in losing its independence and becoming an effective dictator.
Climate change policies are the main cause of the transformation from a largely free society to a less free and more tyrannical state. The Canadian government, led by longtime Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, has become a climate fanatic and is increasingly directing the behavior of its citizens in disturbing and disruptive ways.
“There is no vaccine against a polluted planet,” the prime minister said in late 2020 when he proposed raising the country’s carbon tax. They also often refer to the “climate crisis” to explain their actions.
When the planet itself is supposed to be stuck in the balance, you can rationalize almost everything, no matter how stupid, unscientific, or oppressive, starting with Mr. Trudeau conflating fake carbon with pollution, which is typical of climate obsessives in America, too. The former is essential to life itself and is present in the Earth’s atmosphere, while the latter is a nuisance that is mostly dealt with as a practical matter in the US.
Carbon emissions from man-made sources are about 1/10,000Th of the Earth’s atmosphere, and its rise has no perceptible or relevant effect on global temperatures. But these scientific facts and historical facts have been lost in the pursuit of government power and social control that Canada and the US have done.
As for pollution from particulate matter, it still exists but nowhere in the US as it was in the 1970s when the newly formed US Environmental Protection Agency implemented the Clean Air and Water Act and other landmark legislation passed by Congress. By labeling carbon as “pollution,” the EPA found a new purpose and expanded its bureaucracy and power.
But, back to the northern neighborhood.
Canada has implemented a carbon tax, banned coal-fired power plants, subsidized electric vehicles, and heavily regulated methane gas emissions from the oil and gas industry. The Trudeau government has launched a plan to achieve “net-zero” carbon emissions by 2050, meaning the carbon released into the atmosphere will be fully absorbed by planting trees, installing carbon storage facilities, and other measures, including blocking Canadian provinces from extracting energy which is mostly from tar sands.
One of the steps Prime Minister Trudeau announced earlier this year at the “Democracy Summit” in South Korea was the pledge of more than $8 million to a commission to study the link between the “decline of democracy” and climate change. Specifically, the money will be used to support climate change policy advocates in other countries, to reclaim “civil space to face the climate emergency (and) support human rights defenders working on climate and industrial issues in the global south,” the inaugural statement minister. read.
The reality is that climate policy is constantly undermining “human rights” in Canada and the US as it increasingly restricts what car you can drive, where you can live (or what can be built next to you), what you can eat. and not to eat, and how and where you can travel. Ideas that seem outlandish today are canaries in the coal mine, such as forcing high-rise, low-income apartments into suburban communities, banning fertilizers, or eliminating gas-powered cars — all in the name of saving the planet from “climate. pollution.”
We shouldn’t doubt this is a restrictive direction because would-be dictators like Justin Trudeau and President Joe Biden are constantly giving us not-so-subtle hints.
In early 2022, Canadian truckers staged a massive, days-long protest in Ottawa that was brutally broken up as Mr. Trudeau invoked the country’s Emergency Act to impose Marshall Law. These include blocking electronic donations to support truck drivers and seizing the bank accounts of protesters. (CFACT supported the protest and raised funds for the truckers.)
Shortly after the protests, Mr. Trudeau was praised by many in the European Parliament for warning against the “threat to democracy”, but his hypocrisy struck many members, who condemned him for using the “quasi-liberal boot” against the protesters who tried. to protect their rights.
Now there is Trudeau’s effort to arrest citizens who say things they oppose with the Online Harm Act, which will effectively censor speech and include empowering police and courts to use Internet speech to impose fines and arrest those the state deems disapproving. or threatening.
In the US, the censorship directed by the Biden administration is very real, even though we are governed by the Constitution’s First Amendment right to free speech.
“Freedom is not more than one generation from extinction,” said 40Th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan. “It must be fought for (and) protected.”
As the Trudeau government in Canada and the Biden government in the United States continue to implement climate policies that reach into every corner of society, censor speech, and show a willingness to seize bank accounts and arrest those who refuse, the erosion of freedom in both countries. came really fast.
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