Trigger Warning: Praise for Chrystia Freeland

Berlin-based Canadian academic, Brian Poole, professes his love for Chrystia Freeland:

First the obvious accolades. She’s the smartest and most experienced person in Canadian politics. But also the least visible until now. Canadians will vaguely recall her role as Minister of Foreign Affairs (2017), as Deputy Prime Minister (2019), and as Finance Minister (2020) in Justin Trudeau’s government. A poor reflection of her actual intellectual stature.

The Prime Minister kept her on a short leash. He feared her acumen and her eloquence. Which means that we usually saw her standing politely behind him. Even when Trudeau visited Zelensky in Kyiv, Freeland was kept in the background, despite the fact that she speaks Zelensky’s mother tongue (Russian) fluently and his adopted language (Ukrainian) perfectly. It was painful to watch.

Update: Commenter ‘Shawn’ posted this: “Sure as hell, this appears nothing more than a WEF bait and switch. Both Freeland and Turd are both in on it playing out their parts to fool the public.” Which inspired this AI image:

Circling The Drain

Green energy is basically the equivalent of paying some people to dig holes and others to fill them in.

Before the recent publication of Miliband’s action plan, we had no real idea how he proposed to deliver his maniacal climate goals beyond some guff about creating GB Energy – a company that will not generate any energy at all but instead “invest in a new generation of renewable energy supply”. No one appears to have bothered modelling the impact on consumer bills of a green plan that, according to the National Energy System Operator (Neso), needs to raise £40 billion in investment a year, most of it from the private sector. Similarly, it has not been explained how we are to magically develop new carbon capture, storage and green hydrogen technologies within five years, or what contingency plan is in place for when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow. (Spoiler alert: gas, imported from the US at great cost, because Miliband and Co won’t allow fracking, despite it giving us the “energy security” he craves.)

 

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