Trudeau climate plan for the applause, not accomplishment

Vincent J. Curtis

1 April 22

RE: A Good Climate Plan, Will it work? Spectator editorial 1 April 2022.

It’s amazing to me how an immature fool like Justin Trudeau can continually trick hard-boiled and cynical newspaper editors, but he does.

The purpose of Trudeau’s climate plan is to gain applause, which the Spectator gave him.  The fact that the goals are unattainable are written throughout the editorial, but somehow that Trudeau is setting unattainable goals for other people, not him, to accomplish escapes notice.  That Trudeau likely will not be in power to pick up the pieces when this plan fails, and therefore pays no price for failure, escapes attention.  That Trudeau is setting up to blame those dastardly Albertans for spoiling his plan goes unnoticed.  The Spectator is not sensitive to the fact that those dastardly Albertans have the counter-incentive of not destroying their economy.  Lastly, no reporter or editor has been enterprising enough to confronted Mr. Trudeau with the facts of 1.5 percent, of COP26, and of India and China and asked for a reasoned reply to the question ‘why?’, and not accepting his usual brush-off.

Mr. Trudeau is big on setting goals for others to accomplish.  A worthy goal of a government is to balance the budget.  Let’s see if Mr. Trudeau can accomplish that worthy goal that’s entirely within his power to accomplish in the time he has set for others to reduce CO2 output by forty percent.

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