You're joking, right?

 Vincent J. Curtis

17 Apr 24

In its editorial of today, “Carbon tax critics must offer solutions,” the Dog’s Nest Dispatch once again plays the role of radio station DUMB: all talk and never listen.  The editorial proposes that Prime Minister Trudeau invite the premiers to play the mug’s game with him: he’ll meet with them provided they come with “plans” that are “sound, visionary, cost-tested” for combatting “climate change.”  Since these are pre-conditions to any meeting, who gets to decide if said plans are, indeed, “sound, visionary, and cost-tested?” If they are, why meet, just adopt them, and take the credit?

 But the Dispatch’s editorial fails a more basic absurdity test, that being: why bother? Canada contributes 1.5 percent of the world’s CO2 emissions; while China, India, and the rest of Asia contribute over 60 percent, and they have no intention on slowing down their own growth of emissions.  The Dispatch knows, or ought to know, that Canada isn’t the problem and can’t be the solution; Trudeau is caught as a moral poseur, and can’t figure out a graceful way of escaping this trap of his own making.

To think that Canada can do anything about climate change is DUMB: the call letters of the Dog’s Nest Dispatch!

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