They were banking on getting Carla Beck and a kneecapped Danielle Smith.
Oil and gas producers in Canada will be required to cut greenhouse gas emissions by about one-third over the next eight years under new regulations being published today by Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault.
The regulations, still only in draft format and about two years behind schedule, could further strain relations between Ottawa and the Alberta government which recently launched a $7-million advertising campaign to “scrap the cap.”
For the Liberals, the regulations fulfil a 2021 election promise to force the energy sector to pull its weight in the fight against climate change.
“I think everyone should do their fair share,” Guilbeault said in an interview with The Canadian Press ahead of a news conference in Ottawa on Monday with Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson to outline more details of the plan.
That’s why they sat on it.
The Liberal/Democrat and NDP last line of defence, “Pay or do your fair share.” Funny that it never applies to profits.
I remember when the Trudeau Liberals, the Canadian economist party and the Canadian media kept saying that the carbon tax would be give oil and gas producers a “social license” for energy production. They were lying then about the social license and they’re lying now about “fair share”. Both are just slogans to sell economic nonsense to gullible and naive voters.
Gilbert is a criminal, put him back in jail before his actions destroy Canada.
Will the provincial Alberta Sovereignty Act and Saskatchewan First Act be able to block the Federal emissions cap legislation?
Obviously, the two prairie provinces will challenge the federal legislation in court but that takes years, which is a tactic often used by the federal government because they know the legal uncertainty stops investment. My understanding is that Alberta and Saskatchewan can use their provincial legislation to prevent the federal government’s legislation from taking effect until the case is heard by the Supreme Court.
Does anyone else understand the Alberta Sovereignty and Saskatchewan First process?
Even CTV is conceding it isn’t going to happen.
“Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has also vowed to rip up emissions cap regulations.”
And that will be the end of that. The Liberals will not even be the Official Opposition after the next election. It’s unlikely that either Wilkinson or Guilbeault will be elected MPs after the next election, so they have no political future either.
I wish I was as optimistic as you. I sincerely beleieve the Liberals will be in a majority position after the next election, by hook or by crook.
Of course, we need to hit bottom before people will be desperate enough to be willing to cut the cancer out and move on with Western Canada as a seperate entity. Crashing Alberta and Saskatchewan economies and having all the migrants clear out because there’s no money left to be made might finally do it. So tired of listening to people who come here to earn their money s#it all over the place that enables them to do so.
I think Alberta and Saskatchewan could speed up the process of getting unproductive people to move the greener pastures in other provinces. Welfare reform. I want to stress that I’m talking about people who collect benefits because they don’t want to work, not those that need a hand up to get into employment or for medical reasons cannot work.
Benefits shopping is an understood phenomenon where benefits seekers will move to countries where they can get the most and do the least. I think the same thing would happen provincially if some provinces were stricter than others about time limits and work requirements for collecting welfare. Although I doubt that Alberta and Saskatchewan would attempt welfare reform.
” I sincerely beleieve the Liberals will be in a majority position after the next election, by hook or by crook.”
Then your disengagement with reality is pretty much complete. Your belief in anything does not matter in the slightest. What only matters are the facts. And those facts include that the federal Liberals have been sinking in public support for nearly two years. This is why last week there was a mutiny among Liberal MPs wanting Justatwit to leave. This is why huge numbers of Liberal MPs and Ministers have indicated they are NOT running again.
This isn’t about optimism. It’s about paying attention to what’s actually going on.
Everyone should do their fair share. I’m with Guilbeault the minute I see Quebec declare its hydro profits and leave the equalization payment on the table. And pay back what they took from Western Canada.
Will Justin Trudeau stop flying? Nope. Thus climate change is not a problem.
Agree. Shut off the supply of everything that comes into Ottawa for the next 6 months. See how far that goes.
The world doesn’t care about low-emitting oil, it cares about – oil.
Russia is selling more oil now than they did before they attacked the Ukes and the west slapped them with an embargo.
All over Spain there are trucks distributing 30 lb canisters of butane for cooking and spot heating. Gee I wonder where that gas comes from, the diesel for trucks, cars, boats?
I’m sure the BC NDP will not be too upset, although I hope they might be able to do math since oil and gas are big contributors to BC provincial coffers. Mind you mining and forestry were once the biggest BC contributors and we know what happened there. It really bothers me that we have brain dead governments that think nothing of killing their own sources of revenue. It’s hard to imagine how stupid, or incompetent, or blinded with utopic dreams you have to be to even consider such actions which would be disastrous to jobs, wages, and lifestyle for average Canadians.
I’m not a fan of the Washington Post, but here’s a story on how the earth was much, much hotter in the past than today. It’s worth a read.
https://archive.ph/WE7w4
” the world was in a much warmer state for most of the history of complex animal life.” This is shown in the first temperature plot.
Now look at the second temperature plot. The text says,
“The largest mass extinction happened 250 million years ago, when gases from volcanic eruptions – including CO₂ – raised Earth’s temperature by more than 18ºF (10ºC) in the span of about 50,000 years.”
And they show a rise in mean temperature to 83.3°F. Supposedly this temperature killed off 90% of the life on the planet.
On the same plot, note the three higher temperature spikes from 125 million to 45 million years ago. Yet somehow everything survived in the even hotter temperatures.
A graph further down the page shows the mean earth temp = 92.5°F approx 55 million years ago, along with the current mean temp of supposedly 51.8°F.
The global warming alarmists say a rise of 2°C (3.6°F) is going to burn up the planet.
How did life flourish when it was so much warmer?
Don’t worry, Danielle. Blubber Douggie will rush to your defence.
Any day now ….
#Wexit
We are not going to make it if this government stays another year…I’m hoping Trump will pressure the Turd out, just like a bad case of constipation.
Again with the infamous and unquantifiable “fair share” .
Any time someone says “fair share”, they mean “more” and more will never be “enough”
The Town in Australia Run Entirely on Renewable Energy Where a Single Storm Left the Population Without Power for Days
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/11/04/the-town-in-australia-run-entirely-on-renewable-energy-where-a-single-storm-left-the-population-without-power-for-days/
“I think everyone should do their fair share,” Guilbeault said…
Uhm…like his boss does? Should we all follow Justin’s example?
Dirtman
Has Guilbeault paid his tax arrears? At one point he owed five figures.
When Guileault lost at court to The Rebel and Ezra Levant, the judge awarded damages of $20k and that was paid for from the gov’t of Canada, not directly from Guilbeault.
I think this is a crime, but I haven’t seen any follow up on this from tier 2 Canada’s expert RCMP
“I think everyone should do their fair share,” Guilbeault said
When will the government do it’s “fair share” and reduce it’s emissions.
It can start by banning air travel for all of it’s employees, reduce the heating temperature of all it’s offices to 16 degrees C and cooling to 26 degrees C, and stop sending hundreds of people to “climate conferences”, if they want to attend they can attend on zoom.
And the Zoom can be solar powered.
All the weasels popping off about “fair share” seem reluctant to define what that actually means. Or who is paying them.
However, arbitrary royalty taxes on landowners (upstream carbon taxes on producers) are paid by the consumer. The cost of the tax is added to the cost of the product. The taxes can climb as high as the government wants and the oil producer simply adds the cost to the product. No oil producing company would ever pay a nickel of that out of profits – they’ll go out of business if they did. Which is the point.
If the royalty gets high enough then the oil producer has to cut production because it can no longer compete with sovereign jurisdictions with lower royalties and exports stop to those locations. If the royalty continues to climb to the point the consumer chooses alternates (electric cars) then they stop production altogether. Which is again, the entire point of these punitive royalty taxes.
Chattering about oil companies paying a fair share just displays the ministers profound ignorance about economics as well as their contempt for their audience.
The “fair share” concept is always a laugh.
The easiest way to cap emissions is to shut down the pipeline valves that lead to Eastern Canada.
That people can believe that one molecule of CO2 in 2500 molecules of air .04%, can bring on global catastrophe is mind blowing. We are closer to global catastrophe by plant starvation than any miniscule warming.
The ancient Aztecs used human sacrifice to appease their Sun God. I dont think that worked as well as they thought, but they tried I guess. I don’t think capping CO2 emissions is going to do much for us humans either, despite mandated sacrifices. The Aztecs were a little more “hands on” though.
30 billion worth of oil and gas off Anticosti Island….but the pepsis won’t develop it, as long as they can suck on Alberta’s tit…
Apparently “everyone” doesn’t include China or India. Imagine that. If all of Canada was wiped off the earth, the change in global temperature would not be measurable. This isn’t about CO2 or temperatures, it’s about power and control.
Yesterday, today and tomorrow.