Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault has announced he’ll travel to China to play buddy buddy with top politicians, where he serves as the vice chair on a communist council. 

Guilbeault sits as vice chair on the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED), which consists mostly of Chinese politicians.

Guilbeault told the National Observer that he expects criticism, but said that his role on the CCICED, where he sits alongside key Communist Party figures like Ding Xuexiang and Huang Runqiu, is an important step in “solving” climate change. 

“We can’t solve climate change, you can’t solve the international biodiversity issue, without working with countries like China,” he said.

Runqiu is China’s Environment Minister, and Xuexiang is China’s Vice Premier.

“The fact that the minister (Runqiu) and I have been able to develop this good rapport is something both our countries feel is something we can build on,” Guilbeault said.

This comes after the former CN Tower Scaler Guilbeault lectured Canada’s Premiers on coal to the point of threatening them with criminal sanctions should they violate his radical timeline, despite the fact that Canada produces less than 2% of the CO2 emissions that China emits annually.

Furthermore, this follows revelations that China engaged in interference in Canadian elections to support the Liberal Party’s victory, an issue for which the Liberals declined to initiate a public inquiry.

In other words, Canada’s Climate Change Minister is cozying up to China’s coal-loving communists while threatening criminal sanctions against his own country’s Premiers, who have insisted that his net-zero timeline is as unreasonable as it is dangerous. 

Climate Ideology

Last week, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith slammed the Liberal-NDP’s climate “ideology,” claiming it naively phased out coal too early and consequently, has cost the province billions of dollars. 

By 2030, the Trudeau Liberals’ Emissions Reduction Plan would require a 42% reduction from 2019 levels of energy sector emissions such as coal.

Last week, Gérard Deltell, the Conservative Shadow Minister for Environment and Climate Change,  unleashed a scathing critique of the Trudeau government’s recent move to impose electricity regulations.