Offer the chance of a lifetime for the likes of Justin Trudeau, Kathleen Wynne, Rachel Notley and John Tory to fleece taxpayers like sheep in the spring
With just a soupcon more of its traditional insensitivity, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), ended its ruefully named “Conference of the Parties 21” (COP21) in Paris on Saturday. I’m sure COP21 was indeed a conference of parties, wild parties, featuring only the best of everything for everyone there. Oysters, pate d’foie gras, Dom Perignon, Courvoisier, hmmm.
After spending nearly two weeks (and gazillions of dollars) at Le Bourget, just, a few miles northeast of Paris, one can only imagine the debaucheries that must have led to the gout & hangovers, which in turn led to the aching heads and blurred vision at the morning conclaves, which furthermore led to the “Agreement” the IPCC has so jubilantly touted.
Yes, friends, some 50,000 “delegates” from 196 countries spent two weeks wining and dining themselves, all on the hapless taxpayers’ dollars. Take a wild guess which country had the largest delegation at a whopping 383 delegates? Was it China? Was it India? Was it the US? No, friends it was… wait for it—CANADA! But we’ll talk about that in a minute.
No nation that signed on to this “Agreement” is actually planning to adhere to its terms, as it would surely be harmful to any national economy, given the exceptionally weak recovery from the Global Recession over the past seven year and the idiotic binding and non-binding commitments.
If all the nations that signed on actually abided by the “Agreement,” then a worldwide recession would ensue creating immediate and very disruptive consequences. So wisely, everyone is going to go home put the “Agreement” in his or her underwear drawer, where it belongs and forget about it.
Well, not exactly everyone. One country is taking this whole global warming, sorry climate change thing very seriously: Canada, speaking of which! So it looks as if all levels of government in Canada are solemnly planning to single-handed reduce the content of earth’s atmospheric carbon levels. They hope to achieve this by lowering Canada’s share of global atmospheric carbon (now at 1.6% of the world’s total vs. US’s 15.9% and China’s 28.3%).
But sometimes things aren’t what they appear to be. For anyone at any level of government to truly believe that Canada can make one iota of difference in the so-called ‘war on carbon’ must then also believe that the ‘war on drugs’ and the ‘war on poverty’ have been decisively won. Much more likely, this “Agreement” offers a golden opportunity for creating new ‘green revenue streams’ for governments to ‘invest’ in infrastructure. And the taxpayers will be happy to pony up because the rubes actually believe they can make a difference.
The old saw, attributed to Lenin or Goebbels, take your pick that if a lie is told often enough it becomes the truth has really been proven in Canada. And our Dear Leaders from Ottawa, the Provinces and several municipalities are licking their chops as they prepare the various monetarily driven carbon reduction regimes. Carbon credits, Cap n’ Trade, fuel taxes, carbon surcharges, flatulence fees, etc. all will become government cash cows resulting in higher costs for everything, while governments maintain the myth of revenue neutrality. But then, we all know that it’s All together now, “to save the planet.”
This will enable us to continue feeling that magnificent smugness for which Canadians are so well known. And it will offer the chance of a lifetime for the likes of Justin Trudeau, Kathleen Wynne, Rachel Notley and John Tory to fleece taxpayers like sheep in the spring.
Now if only the 195 other countries would fall in line…
Klaus Rohrich is senior columnist for Canada Free Press. Klaus also writes topical articles for numerous magazines. He has a regular column on RetirementHomes and is currently working on his first book dealing with the toxicity of liberalism. His work has been featured on the Drudge Report, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, among others. He lives and works in a small town outside of Toronto.
With just a soupcon more of its traditional insensitivity, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), ended its ruefully named “Conference of the Parties 21” (COP21) in Paris on Saturday. I’m sure COP21 was indeed a conference of parties, wild parties, featuring only the best of everything for everyone there. Oysters, pate d’foie gras, Dom Perignon, Courvoisier, hmmm.
After spending nearly two weeks (and gazillions of dollars) at Le Bourget, just, a few miles northeast of Paris, one can only imagine the debaucheries that must have led to the gout & hangovers, which in turn led to the aching heads and blurred vision at the morning conclaves, which furthermore led to the “Agreement” the IPCC has so jubilantly touted.
