Justin Time For The Holidays: Doubling Down On The Carbon Cult

“Why North American Electric Vehicle Mandates Are Destined To Fail “ Toronto Star headline 19/12/23

On a recent Canada Talks chat with Matt Gurney on SiriusXM, we discussed the latest Liberal Party stink bomb of no gas-powered cars in Canada by 2035. Convicted felon Steven Guilbeault came back from his COP 2023 pep rally to announce that 12 years from now all vehicles must be either electric or hybrid. 

Faced with polls showing the CPC winning as many as 220 seats in the next election this effusion of Green coercion (driven by Liberal polling) is sheer prattle. First, by 2035 Guilbeault and his boss Skippy will be living in some post-modern Europe under sinecure from the EU and WEF. Their Malthusian enthusiasms today are thus irrelevant. (#PMJT has informed his Quebec followers that he and his NDP slappies are taking his mandate to 2025.)

Second, all the inducements to buy electric have been  met with studied indifference by Trudeau’s voters. The only people who see electric as the future are politicians and those on their payroll. Despite massive rebates manufacturers are sprinting away from the EV market.

Then there’s the idea that within two years’ time 20 per cent of all cars sold in Canada have to be zero emissions. How’s that going to work? To do so, Canada currently needs the additional equivalent of 35 Darlington-sized nuclear reactors @ $1.5 T.  Are they going to force buyers to accept plug-ins?

No wonder Alberta premier Danielle Smith says, “it’s bananas. It’s not achievable.” There’s no way hers or other provinces can generate enough electricity by 2026 to charge hundreds of thousands of electric vehicles every day — not to mention the vast challenge of building charging stations on every corner of the province.

@EnvironmentCa data show @S_Guilbeault claim that gasoline car ban "will help Canadians with the cost of living" is 100% untrue. Net costs to drivers run to billions. Guilbeault & Co. have no practical knowledge of the auto industry other than stroking huge cheques for battery factories that are irrelevant before they’re built. His Euro buddies want this, and that’s enough for him.

Matt and Usual Suspects were agreed on one thing. No amount of common sense or economic theory is going to bring the Devoted Ones back from the ledge. They’re currently running an wildly expensive national advertising campaign insisting that there IS a Canadian climate crisis and only they can solve the non-existent emergency. 

For many Millennials, however, this hard sell makes perfect sense. In America the current denial cult is the death-wish fantasy Be Like Palestine. “In a recent poll, 51% of Americans between the ages of 18-24 expressed their belief that the Israelis should be forced to abandon their country and give it to Hamas.” Young people who can’t identify the infamous river or the sea are all-in on colonizer guilt.

As we wrote in September, stubborn resistance to facts or reason is now a hallmark of the Woke Left. “People find it hard to change their ways— particularly when they’ve defended them publicly for years. The New Left’s ironclad resistance  to reason and debate is a feature, not a glitch. How to reach them in a friendly, inclusive manner?

Good luck. The Right’s challenge is thinking these people will respond to shame or being corrected. Can't be done. Won't be done. They're like Japanese soldiers fighting WW II on a deserted island 25 years after armistice. They'll die repeating the Donald Trump Bleach meme to themselves.

“It was the same for the #RussiaHoax, #FinePeopleHoax, #Russianhookers and now Hillary Clinton’s “real war on truth, facts, and reason”. These liberal road-tested canards persists to this day… 

The latest cult cleansing is Biden’s patently false denial of any contact with son Hunter Biden’s shakedown scheme. The denial occupies first position beside #climateemergency on search engines and nightly newscasts. Famously, 51 former security directors and officials claimed, without evidence, that Hunter’s infamous laptop was Russian disinformation. Case closed, said MSNBC. 

No wonder so many consumers of legacy media ican blithely claim there is no substance to any of the Hunter stories documented by the competition and chronicled on his own hard drive. 

The Canadian equivalent of denial culture came with the magic “cure-all” vaccines. Rather than publicly confront the Truckers Convoy on the refusal to take Covid-19 vaccines (which are now accepted as being flawed ), Trudeau hid in the Rideau Cottage calling truckers “an insult to science”. To make sure they never got a chance to question him he sent the cops after them, arrested them, suspended their civil liberties and finances and subjected them to show trials. 

And he was supported by the purchased Canadian media which vilified the protesters— for lack of armed insurrection or rioting— for staying too long in their protest. Many promoted false stories of arson and foreign financing of the convoy.”

There has been no apology or even clarification of this deliberate lying and dissembling from media. Instead they pump out more misrepresentation to their target demographic. No wonder the public is confused if facts drift away from the tightly controlled narratives of CBC, MSNBC, CNN or Toronto Star. Their “facts” don’t match up with what they discover outside the bubble. 

Guilbeault and his boss Trudeau are masters of doubling down in the face of fallacious whoppers. Their legacy will be long-lasting. In September we remarked on a story from former BMO CEO Tony Comper. He recalled the press conference to announce a merger between two Japanese automobile corporations. Everything was going swimmingly until someone at the presser asked how long would it be before the two corporate cultures fully merged?

One of the CEOs replied without hesitation. “Forty-three years.”

Forty-three years? Why forty-three years? he was asked.

“Because that’s how long it will be until the executives who made this deal are all dead.”  

Make no mistake. “Everyone we don’t like must disappear” is the goal of this exercise. When their collective memory is snuffed , the real work can begin on their futures spent using other people’s money to change the world. 

Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster  A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada's top television sports broadcaster, he’s a regular contributor to Sirius XM Canada Talks Ch. 167. Inexact Science: The Six Most Compelling Draft Years In NHL History, his new book with his son Evan, was voted the seventh-best professional hockey book of all time by bookauthority.org . His 2004 book Money Players was voted sixth best on the same list, and is available via brucedowbigginbooks.ca.