Addictions

Vincent J. Curtis

1 Apr 24

 

RE: Our banks are addicted to oil. Op-ed by Senator Rosa Galvez. The Hamilton Spectator 1 Apr 24.

Banks are “addicted” to oil? Are newspapers, then, “addicted” to readership? To advertising? To paper?  Aren’t the Canadian public “addicted” to oil inasmuch as modern life would be impossible bur for gasoline, diesel, lubricants, and natural gas?

And what is this climate “crisis” of which Senator Galvez writes? What crisis? What is the empirical evidence of a climate “crisis”?  Southern Ontario enjoys a mild winter, and this is the unmistakeable sign that something bad is happening? We’ve heard about impending climate disasters waiting just around the corner for getting on to forty years now; and by every empirical measure, things are getting better, not calamitously worse.

Senator Galvez evidently has her addiction too, and hers to popular nonsense.  But if, because of their peculiar addictions, the Feds attack one of Alberta’s principal industries and employers, the oil and gas sector; they’re going to create an existential crisis, for Canada.

Why should Alberta stay in confederation when the Federal government is trying to destroy its economy?

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