Let me first begin this story by putting it into some context. If I were to ask you what’s Canada’s contribution % wise, to worldwide greenhouse gas emissions, what would you say?

I’m thinking you’re likely to say, 15%, 10%, 5% given the constant discussion surrounding it as well as the spending of tax dollars towards reducing it!

Well would you believe it’s 1.5%, now before you accuse me of being some climate change denier, that’s not my number, it’s our federal governments according to government statistics published in August, yes folks, Canada was responsible for just 1.5 percent of worldwide GHG emissions as of 2019.

So even if we were to plunge Canada into an ice age, shutting down everything at best our sacrifice would only reduce greenhouse gas emissions by an anemic 1.5%

You would think that based on that the morons at the federal level would take a more measured approach, not so, Environment and Climate Change Moronister Steven Guilbeault is pushing ahead with new climate regulations introducing a cap on greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) impacting Canada’s oil and gas sector, regulations which are to be introduced by next year.

“We will have draft regulations maybe by the spring, at the latest in the first half of the year,” Guilbeault told The Canadian Press in an interview on Nov. 14 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, where he is attending the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP27.

“The goal is to have the complete regulations by before Christmas, which is, you know, record level time to develop regulations,” he said, noting that other climate regulations, like introducing a clean fuel standard, took over five years. I for one would like to see them balance a budget, deliver mail or answer the phone in record level time.

The federal government introduced its “Canada’s 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan” in March, stating that it aims to reduce nationwide GHG emissions by 40 to 45 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. So, let me get this math right, I’m not sure what the levels were in 2005 but according to the morons in Ottawa it was 1.5% in 2019, so now you want basically to almost cut that in half? Which is going to do what for the planet again and at what cost to Canadians?

The government’s national climate plan, introduced in December 2020, states a goal of reducing methane emissions from Canada’s oil and gas sector by at least 40 percent by 2025. I know something Ottawa could aim to reduce by 40%, which I’d be supportive of, their workforce!

The government updated that target in March and applied a 75 percent methane emissions reduction target, relative to 2012 levels, for 2030.

Ottawa further hopes to achieve countrywide net-zero GHG emissions by 2050.

The federal government has acknowledged its targets are ambitious while saying that other countries “need to be more ambitious and need to move faster.” Ambitious and government, typically words you’ll never hear uttered in the same sentence!

“With less than a decade left to achieve Canada’s 2030 target, and with countries around the world moving to a cleaner economy to attract investment and secure jobs for their citizens, more action is required,” reads the government’s 2020 climate plan, “A Healthy Environment and a Healthy Economy.”

Which countries would these be? You mean like China & India for instance?

The federal government has said that an oil and gas emissions cap would hold the sector “accountable for its emissions” and require them to adopt practices in line with Canada’s 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan.

However, Ottawa also maintains that the cap “will focus on emissions and will not be a cap on oil and gas production.”

“It will maximize opportunities to invest in decarbonizing the sector while accounting for evolving energy security considerations. And it will be designed to manage competitiveness challenges and minimize carbon leakage risks,” reads a government paper titled “Oil and gas emissions cap.”

How exactly are these companies going to achieve these targets Steven, obviously they’re going to have to invest heavily in technologies or measures allowing them to do so, some of which likely don’t even exist today. How are they going to recover this cost without passing it on the end user, you know US! Not only that but given the desire of climate alarmists such as yourselves to phase out “oil & gas” in favour of newer greener alternatives, what sane CEO would invest heavily with the hopes of never being able to recover these costs? I know that’s how you and buddies operate in Ottawa Steven, but that’s because it’s not your money and wasting tax dollars is a pastime.

Yesterday, Guilbeault also rolled out Canada’s “Global Carbon Pricing Challenge,” introduced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at last year’s UN climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland. The challenge will call on countries to “adopt pollution pricing as a central part of their climate strategies.”

“Carbon pricing works by putting a cost on the thing we don’t want—pollution,” reads an Environment Canada news release published on Nov. 14. I can tell you that’s not the only thing Canadians don’t want, Mr. Prime Minister!

Conservatives have criticized parts of the Liberals’ climate plan, particularly the planned increase of the carbon tax in March 2023, with leader Pierre Poilievre calling the government’s actions a “tax plan” that will overall fail to reduce emissions.

“The [prime minister’s] carbon tax has not hit a single, solitary emissions reduction target. It has not worked,” Poilievre said in the House on Oct. 5. Was it ever expected to? It’s Ottawa, its where good ideas go to die and bad ideas have a life of their own!