Last week I wrote about Gerald Butts and his instrumental role in the disastrous McGuinty-Wynne era Green Energy Act in Ontario. As Butts returns to Ottawa as a member of the “Task Force for Resilient Recovery”, let’s recall his time in the Trudeau PMO and the climate obsession that marks everything he touches, always leaving … Continued
The controversy surrounding Michael Moore’s new film, Planet of the Humans, grew this week when YouTube took it down due to a copyright claim. Toby Smith, a nature photographer from the UK, accused Jeff Gibbs, the film’s director, of using 4 seconds of Smith’s proprietary footage, thereby violating fair usage. In a now deleted tweet, … Continued
Gerald Butts, the former top advisor to Justin Trudeau who left government following the Jody Wilson-Raybould scandal, has returned to Ottawa. This time, he is working as a member of a new crack team task force called Resilient Recovery. The task force, made up of green industry and environmental leaders, says its goal is to … Continued
The energy industry’s weekly reminder that the federal government is actually against them came last Wednesday with the announcement of the LEEFF fund. LEEFF, or “Large Employer Emergency Financing Facility” is a COVID-19 era program that was created to provide loans to companies that can demonstrate approximately $300-million or more in annual revenues. Conditions apply. … Continued
What would life in Canada look like if September rolls around and Trudeau decides to call a snap election? According to the latest polls, he could win his majority back, and then would not need the support of any other parties to push through his agenda or approve his spending. What would that mean for … Continued
The COVID-19 pandemic has made one thing very clear: our government doesn’t seem to even contemplate affordability for Canadians. If we can stretch our minds back to the beginning of this lockdown, we will remember the Liberal government’s Emergency Bill rollout when Justin Trudeau tried to get power to tax and spend without parliamentary approval … Continued
It has been almost 3 years since the Energy East pipeline was abandoned. TransCanada cancelled the pipeline after the National Energy Board announced it would consider indirect greenhouse gas emissions in its review. The hostile and unstable regulatory environment created by Trudeau’s government drove away the Energy East pipeline as it almost drove away the … Continued
According to former Green Party leader Elizabeth May, oil and gas are dead and the sector will not be a player in the post-COVID-19 world. Of course, May is wrong. But let’s indulge her green fantasy for just a minute. Imagine that this is true and May is right. Where in May’s green paradise will … Continued
Last week, I published my review of Michael Moore’s Planet of the Humans with the title “Planet of the Humans: What Michael Moore got right.” Despite the many great things that Moore and his director Jeff Gibbs got right, I cannot give an unequivocal endorsement to this documentary. So what are the problems with Michael … Continued
Michael Moore’s new documentary has nearly 5 million views on YouTube. The film has created an uproar in the environmental community with many groups asking for it to be taken off streaming platforms. Why such an outrage from the environmentalist left? Could these demands for censorship have something to do with the film’s take-down of … Continued