1/ This announcement marks the Carney government’s official surrender to the oil and gas lobby.
By gutting carbon pricing to the point of irrelevance, it has dismantled the last federal climate measure standing. We now have a federal government that no longer even pretends to rein in big corporate polluters.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-smith-energy-announcement-mou-9.7200652
2/ Meanwhile, renewables met 100% of global demand growth for electricity last year. The rest of the world is racing ahead on clean energy, building the economy of the future. The Liberal government is taking us backwards, locking us into more pipelines, more fossil fuel dependence, and more handouts for some of the richest corporations on earth.
An industry expected to make $90 billion in profits this year alone does not need more gifts from the public.
3/ Yesterday’s release of the government’s so-called clean electricity strategy is a transparent attempt to distract from this latest capitulation to the fossil fuel industry – and it’s not even a ‘clean’ electricity strategy worthy of the name when it opens the door to more high-emission gas plants.
5/ The message to Canadians is crystal clear: the C-suite asks, and Ottawa delivers. If you're a powerful corporation, you go to the front of the line. If you’re struggling to pay rent, feed your kids, or find a family doctor, you’re told to wait.
None of these giant changes make our country more secure, independent, or stable. None of them directly address the cost of living crisis. All of them promise corporate welfare for the billionaire class, and more hardship for the 99%.
Carney's in a panic to decouple from the US. China is already the largest buyer of oil from the Trans Mountain pipeline and it will be the largest buyer from this one. Carney's fine with selling oil to genocidal China, he's already doing it. Canada's economic tie to China will become stronger. A leash needs to be strong.
Renewable energy is the best way that Canada can become truly independant. Investing in anything else is terribly shortsighted and downright brain dead.
Avi Lewis
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