Canada sure is lit, isn’t it? Everywhere you look, Canada is in chaos. Activists protest pipelines to raise awareness while not being aware of the contents of the pipeline. Burning tires scream, “save the environment!” People’s routines are disrupted to make a point but the only point being made is that the disruptors have no respect for Canadians. Blockades prevent necessary goods from reaching their intended destination and the wheels of a smoothly functioning society grind to a halt, all for the greater good.
Hundreds of thousands of Albertans and indigenous peoples are out of work and worse, stripped of their right to determine their own economic future. Investment capital is fleeing the economic winter for warmer climes. Painful economic hardship is driving a violent increase in crimes and suicides.
Why? Because Greta scolds and screams, WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE! And the Liberals agree.
Our massive energy resources have been declared climate killers, and hydrocarbons have been fingered as the culprit. Coal, oil, and gas have been indicted for attempted murder, and the Liberals are doing the hard work to protect us from their evil emissions. It isn’t easy to drag on the regulatory process for decades and then tell the company that has spent millions wooing for approval, sorry, not good enough, we prefer to dance with the bird machetes. That takes character. It requires the strength of conviction. And if that causes a few people a little hardship, well, it’s for the future we will leave our starving children.
Unsurprisingly, the gigantic rift between Central Canada and the West is widening, threatening to swallow whole our obviously flawed constitution. Yes, the country is at serious risk of splitting. Sadly, it may already be past the point of no return.
So, what is the cause of Canada’s crisis? What is the disease destroying the health of our nation? It is easy to point the finger at Justin Trudeau and the disastrous Liberal policies, but the Consequence Curve says otherwise.
Justin Trudeau Just a Symptom, Not the Disease
It’s fair to say that Canada’s sickness is the direct consequence of Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party’s governance and the cure would be to elect new lawmakers. However, what if Liberal Party policy is only a symptom of a much deadlier disease? Considering how fractured Canada is today; we might want to figure that out.
So, to do that we’ll take a walk backward along the Consequence Curve and if the concept is correct, the path it paves should take us straight to the root cause of all our problems. Then, and only then, can we excise the malignant tumour that is rapidly destroying Canada.
If Trudeau policies are the disease, then replacing the Liberals would be the cure, wouldn’t it? But, would a new government led by the NDP or Green Party be the antidote, or would they accelerate the disease into its terminal phase? If the Conservative’s were elected and enacted policies that reversed the damage being done, that too would look like a cure. However, if that medicine just addressed the symptoms, the disease would be free to spread its malignancy without anyone thinking a checkup was even needed. Sooner or later, the disease will win.
We need to make sure what the cause of the disease is, so let’s take that stroll down the Consequence Curve.
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Navigating the Consequence Curve
We begin this walk where we stand today, a fractured and angry Canada.
What caused the brutal negative consequences Canadians are enduring? Liberal Government Policy.
What caused the implementation of Liberal Government Policy? Liberal Party re-election.
What caused the Liberal Party re-election? Voters believed they were the best choice.
There we go! It’s the voter’s fault! Well, not really, but that is what the disease wants you to think. The voter’s selection of Justin Trudeau’s team is but another symptom. Let’s keep going down that curve.
What caused voters to believe the Liberal Party to be the best choice? Political knowledge and understanding.
What caused voters to develop their political knowledge and come to that understanding? The information they consumed, which provided them the dots to connect regarding Liberal policy plans and Liberal policy consequences.
We are getting close here.
Who provided the information that led to voter knowledge and understanding? The media, and education system.
It turns out that electoral consequences are symptomatic of voter belief.
Does the Consequence Curve suggest our information providers in the media are the root cause of Canada’s diseased dominion? No. It doesn’t suggest, it is the diagnosis.
The negative consequences of Justin Trudeau’s first election were quickly felt in Alberta and had we walked the Consequence Curve then; we would have still come to the same finding. The information provided that led voters to believe Justin Trudeau was the right person to lead the country is the cause.
The fiasco we find ourselves living today was predicted by the Consequence Curve which states that once on a negative track, the only way to stop it is to acknowledge that the reasoning behind the policy decision was wrong and to change the policy accordingly. Otherwise, we remain on the negative consequence track and not only will things stay bad, they must get worse. And here we are, a nation on the brink.
The media’s beliefs are a fact filtering system
The media sit between the facts of the world and their consumers, though that relationship has changed with the onset of social media. This is a slight problem for the media because they are losing their power to determine the news to the Tech Giants. However, the Tech Giants have already shown their censorship bias, which strangely enough mirrors our media’s. This is a huge problem for society because the Tech Giant’s reach spans the globe and the immense power to choose the news rests in even fewer hands.
Regardless, the media’s influence on the country stems from their ability to pick and choose the facts that matter. By default, this means they also choose the facts that aren’t worthy of your consideration. And most importantly, they choose what facts you must reject, lest you become the same type of bigot they accuse those fact sources of. The vile allegations are used to intimidate people into silence and ensure you don’t come to the wrong conclusions, which would mean their beliefs may be wrong.
When they all apply the same belief filters, they will talk with one voice, speak with one tongue, and deliver one message.
This explains exactly why Canada is burdened by the disastrous consequences of Justin Trudeau’s policies. The media agrees with their reasoning and the consequences be damned.
Fortunately, the media can no longer hide the horrific destruction that litters Govzilla’s wake, and the Liberals will likely fall next election.
The danger for Canada is the media still believes what they believe, and they will continue to choose the news that fits their eye. The next government will agree and shape policy accordingly or be pressured and assailed for failing to do so.
To fix it, we must accept we’ve been misled and demand accountability. If the media refuses to give up the bias of their beliefs, then they can’t be trusted to inform Canadian’s decisions. It is that simple.
When President Trump calls the media “Fake News”, he isn’t complaining that they say mean things, he is holding them accountable for mistreating their consumers and demanding they change. He isn’t telling them what to say and not to question, he is telling them to stop deceiving the nation. He has American’s backs. We need a leader with a fraction of Trump’s gumption.
The Climate Crisis is Fake News
The results have spoken. Something isn’t right with the theories about Climate Change and the fact we remain ignorant of the science is critical to continuing the failed polices. If we don’t become more knowledgeable, then the destruction of our way of life is just beginning. The horrors that follow will haunt history.
Our ignorance on climate science can’t continue. I’m unsure whether lawsuits against the culprits are even possible, but Fake News organizations, government entities that fudge scientific data, and the IPCC itself, with its inflammatory summary reports predicting nothing but doom, are directly responsible for our condition.
The key is to counter Fake News with accurate scientific information. The media won’t do it. Our education system won’t do it. But a streamed series of debates between the Consensus and the Deniers would go a long way to putting the “crisis” in context. A best of seven series where the topics and questions for each debate are predetermined by the scientists and where the moderator’s one job is to ensure each side sticks to the agreed upon rules. No biased questions allowed. No gotchas. Game seven would have each side present its final arguments and at the end of the debate battle, an informed citizenry would be able to make accurate conclusions about the earth’s peril and vote accordingly.
“Climate Change” legislation is Canada’s crisis. We must demand accountability from our media and a debate from our political leaders.
Otherwise, we will watch our world burn but it won’t be due to global warming.
Mark Gray hails from the Kirkland Lake, Ontario area and has spent over 30 years as an Analyst/Developer in Big IT, mostly in Calgary’s Oil-And-Gas Sector. Creator of an non-partisan, analytical methodology that seeks out and identifies Bias and Deceit embedded in weaponized information.
Canada sure is lit, isn’t it? Everywhere you look, Canada is in chaos. Activists protest pipelines to raise awareness while not being aware of the contents of the pipeline. Burning tires scream, “save the environment!” People’s routines are disrupted to make a point but the only point being made is that the disruptors have no respect for Canadians. Blockades prevent necessary goods from reaching their intended destination and the wheels of a smoothly functioning society grind to a halt, all for the greater good. 
