Carney is a capitalist. He’s a banker. He’s pro money and doesn’t give a shit about the environment. His ideas lead to allowing any minister to exempt an organization from any law in their responsibility.
Check out section 208 of Bill C-15 which gives a minister the ability to allow any entity to ignore a law for a period of time. They could freely allow a company to ignore environmental laws for example.
Here’s the relevant part of the bill copied below, and the link to the bill on parl.ca. Scroll down a little bit to section 208. There are some things I trimmed out for brevity. This is not the whole thing, just the parts I considered most relevant.
208 Section 11 of the Act and the heading before it are replaced by the following:
#Exemptions to Encourage Innovation, Competitiveness or Economic Growth
Order
12 (1) Subject to subsections (3) and (7), a minister may, by order, for a specified validity period of not more than three years and on any terms that the minister considers appropriate, exempt an entity from the application of- (a) a provision of an Act of Parliament, except the Criminal Code, if the minister is responsible for the Act;
- (b) a provision of an instrument made under an Act of Parliament, except an instrument made under the Criminal Code, if
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- (i) the minister is responsible for the Act, or
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- (ii) the body that made the instrument is accountable, through the minister, to Parliament for the conduct of its affairs; or
- (c) a provision of an Act of Parliament, except the Criminal Code, or a provision of an instrument made under an Act of Parliament, except an instrument made under the Criminal Code, if the minister administers or enforces the provision.
Conditions
(3) A minister may make an order under subsection (1) only if the minister is of the opinion that- (a) the exemption is in the public interest;
- (b) the exemption would enable the testing of, among other things, a product, service, process, procedure or regulatory measure with the aim of facilitating the design, modification or administration of a regulatory regime to encourage innovation, competitiveness or economic growth;
- (c) the benefits associated with the exemption outweigh the risks;
- (d) sufficient resources exist, and appropriate measures will be taken, to maintain oversight of the testing, manage any risks associated with the exemption and protect public health and safety and the environment; and
- (e) a feasible implementation plan has been developed.
#Transparency and Parliamentary Oversight
Accessibility
14 (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), a minister must, as soon as feasible after making an order under section 12, make the order and the following information publicly accessible:- (a) a description of the decision-making process and a summary of the reasons for the order; and
- (b) a description of the process for providing comments or information to, or requesting information from, the minister in relation to the order.
Exception
- (2) The minister may exclude information that, in the minister’s opinion, would be inappropriate to make publicly accessible for reasons that include safety or security considerations or the protection of confidential or personal information.
Not enough action? The carbon tax had people foaming at the mouth for 5 straight years.
Meanwhile Carney’s climate policy is to ‘invest’ heavily in a technology that doesn’t work in order to offset the optics of doubling oil production.
The carbon tax was a good thing. Unfortunately Trudeau’s gov’t didn’t explain it well enough for people to know how it worked and who would receive it.
Too many just jumped on the PP bandwagon instead of looking at their account balances 4 times a year.
It’s not possible to explain the carbon tax well enough for conservatives; they don’t want to understand it
I’m not super comfortable with a lot of what he’s saying, but it would be pretty tough to make the case that “not enough action” isn’t an accurate statement.
According to new data released from Environment and Climate Change Canada, the country will fall well short of its 2030 climate goal — just halfway to its target of a 40 to 45 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions below 2005 levels.
I’m deeply skeptical that his approach is going to do any better, but I support the idea of boosting investment in clean(er) alternatives. And he did get Alberta to agree to increase their industrial carbon price.
Is the goal to upset people or to avoid a climate crisis?
The carbon tax was in place long enough to make this a fact-based assessment. Any evidence that it helped?
I would like to see a government that can be effective without people “foaming at the mouth”. If the latter is the price of being effective, I will take it.
A government built on the idea that “if other people hate what we are doing then we must be doing it right” turns Canada into the US. No thank you.
If improving the climate is the goal, that should be what we measure. Strength of opposition represents at best an unavoidable side-effect and at worst failure to focus action on the actual goal.
And then he makes carbon capture a central plank of what he’s planning to do. Deceitful snake.
That’s unfair — it’s not just carbon capture, he’s also putting lots of effort into building oil pipelines.
PP does not stand for anything. Only his own career.
Even selling out to his big business supporters is quite secondary.
To borrow a phrase from another post, having his political opponents “foaming at the mouth” is his only real metric of success. His populist playbook is based entirely on the idea that, to win the race, it does not matter at all how fast you go, as long as the other guys never finish. Obstruction and upset is the only tool he understands. His “plans” are cherry picked mimicry or polling selections. As he is neither for or against anything deeply, everything he says is “deceipt”, even when he does not explicitly intend it to be. He does not care what he is saying, only what other people think about it. If that changes, so will he.
Who brought up Poilievre?
Carney instead touted carbon capture and storage — a key condition of the Alberta agreement — as well as nuclear power generation.
What rubbish. CCUS is a fossil fuel industry scam (https://environmentaldefence.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Buyer-Beware-FFS-2022.pdf), and Carney should know it. Nuclear power generation needs to be heavily subsidized to compete with other energy sources, and of course it’s not renewable, and Carney should know that too.
Carney is governing to the right of what PP was promising.
I hope everyone feels dirty for all that strategic voting bullshit.
I hope everyone feels dirty for all that strategic voting bullshit.
I would have felt much dirtier voting for PP’s party.
And the NDP candidate in my riding was a last minute seat filler with zero political or charitable or work experience.
My best available option was to vote for the liberal candidate. Who just happened to be someone I knew from communiry volunteer activities before he ran for office.
That doesn’t sound anything like strategic voting…
