Kick Alberta out of Confederation – Please!

Vincent J. Curtis

1 June 23

RE: Will Alberta endanger climate goals? Hamilton Spectator editorial. 1 June 23.

It never occurs to the Spectator to ask, first, are those goals worth anything?  Canada isn’t meeting its goal of 2 percent of GDP for NATO, but the Spec doesn’t care about that.  Canada’s climate goals are practically meaningless, and nothing would change if Canada simply ignored them.

Canada is responsible for 1.6 percent of world CO2 emissions, while China, India, and Russia together are responsible for half of global emissions.  They don’t care about CO2; and Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin aren’t going to follow any moral example set by international fool Justin Trudeau.  Canada isn’t part of the problem, and so can’t be part of the solution.

Natural gas fired electrical generation provides 95 percent of Alberta’s electricity.  The Chinese unreliables, wind and solar, are particularly unsuited to Alberta because of prairie dust, persistent snow cover, great lack of sunlight in winter, and lack of wind.  (And dangerously high winds when they do blow.)

Alberta would be a great candidate for the next generation of nuclear power generation, but the Federal government has shown no interest in that.  Given the Federal governments proclamations about fertilizer and cattle flatulence, a paranoid conspiracy theorist could get the impression that Justin Trudeau is out to screw up Alberta because it never votes Liberal.  (Alberta’s three main economic sectors are oil & gas, agriculture, and cattle ranching.)

Ottawa and its “climate goals” can go to hell.  If Alberta is a problem child, then – please! – kick us out of Confederation.

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