Drivel: Freeland calls for economic restart to be "green."

Vincent J. Curtis

7 Sept 20

With head shaking like a schoolmarm lecturing an unruly class, new finance minister Chrystia Freeland said, “The restart of our economy needs to be green.”

Minister Freeland is smart enough to know that her statement is patent drivel.  Let’s assume for the moment that she isn’t an environmentalist wacko, what would be the purpose of uttering this item of patent drivel?  She must be trolling supporters of the government who need cheering and don’t realize that her statement is drivel.  Maybe it’s a warning to all and sundry that criticism of her efforts to restart the economy will be met with fierce and woke retaliation.  Like accusing the Conservative opposition of hating the planet and trying to kill people - that kind of cancellation culture woke.

Maybe, Minister Freeland’s feet never touch the ground, and she thinks an economic restart can be green.  In that case, an example of what she means by a green restart would be helpful in understanding what she actually means.  An economic restart is an abstraction, not a physical entity and so can’t bear physical characteristics such a colour; and if by green she means environmentally friendly, then what is it about a restart that could be environmentally friendly?  Is green a code word for not assisting in the restarting of Alberta’s economy?  The green lies in what is restarted, not the restart per se, and her confusing restart with what is restarted is where the drivel originates 

Maybe Freeland is a true-believer environmentalist wacko, and sincerely believes that her drivel can be realized.  The trouble is, economies are too complex for central planning, and trying to restart one part of the economy while suppressing another is almost bound to fail once government subsidies are removed.

Minister Freeland’s bizarre piece of drivel might hearten depressed Liberal supporters, but causes only suspicion and wonder in those in contact with reality.

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