Former PM Stephen Harper is standing up for Alberta and Saskatchewan as Justin Trudeau’s climate agenda aims to obliterate the oil and gas industry.
“I made it a habit not to go to war with provinces,” Harper said while speaking to the Canada West Foundation virtually.
As the Globe and Mail reported Tuesday, Harper continued by comparing his and Trudeau’s governments without naming names, arguing that singling out Provinces that didn’t vote for you is “inexcusable.”
“Obviously, the way some things are being handled today — where certain parts of the country are singled out in ways that others aren’t — I think is really inexcusable,” said Harper.
“Frankly, I don’t see that happening in other parts of the world.”
He further illustrated how the current government is singling out Alberta and Saskatchewan, saying that it would be like him arguing that the government needs to cripple Montreal’s aerospace industry to lower global emissions.
Harper also critiqued the lofty ambitions of environmentalists, saying that all of their green solutions depend on “technological developments that simply have not occurred yet.”
In other words, they are fictional solutions or the effectiveness and sustainability of such oil and gas alternatives are vastly overstated and exaggerated.
“When it comes to Canada, international investors simply do not believe that this country can get it done. They just don’t believe it,” said Harper.
Harper’s criticism comes in the wake of Trudeau’s commitments that he pronounced at the COP26 Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, where he promised to reduce emissions by 40 to 45 per cent compared to 2005 levels in less than ten years.
Additionally, and more insanely, he claims that he will cap oil and gas sector emissions to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 — a direct threat to the prosperity of Alberta.
This video will go down in history as Trudeau's official invitation for Alberta to leave the country. pic.twitter.com/zqicvsxyaf
— Keean Bexte (@TheRealKeean) November 1, 2021
“That’s no small task for a major oil and gas producing country,” Trudeau said while speaking in front of globalists at the UN.
“It’s a big step; that’s absolutely necessary.”
