Maybe if the Navy used kilometers they wouldn't crash into each other so often.Clearly, I REALLY did not want to use filthy kilometres!
Maybe if the Navy used kilometers they wouldn't crash into each other so often.Clearly, I REALLY did not want to use filthy kilometres!
I find any of the discourse around “what does he do?” or how much the PM travels pretty silly.
Not much we can do about travel. I would take issue with him burning tires in his yard or dumping waste into the Ottawa river more than bemoan his travelling.For the most part I agree. People are going to pick politicians apart for the smallest hint of a-ha!. And usually it's something silly like making a big deal when someone takes a vacation. Everyone deserves time off and the PM is busy. Politicians generally are.
Trudeau has pushed hard on climate change, oil and gas, and other travel related issues. He isn't shy about criticizing Canadians. His travel plans shouldn't be beyond reproach, especially if he's traveling for frivolous reasons.
Constant criticisms can be obnoxious but it also holds people accountable, even if just a little. Case in point Trudeau checking with the ethics commissioner before going on vacation.
Against Trudeau? No. But look at Ontario Finance Minister Rod Phillips. Posting a video of him by the fire thanking people for staying home during the holidays and covid. Mean while he was in the Caribbean- forced to resign.Not much we can do about travel.
I really don't see much different from any of the other politicians though, the sucessful ones say what they think will get them elected, the ones that stick by their standards stay back benchers or don't get elected at all.I think the problem is that he extols virtues he himself does not adhere to. Be it environmentalism, transparency, ethical conduct, feminism, inclusion; he has demonstrated those values are flexible in the face of convenience.
Part of the problem we have in this country with political skepticism is because the leaders and politicians we have in office have less integrity than politicians of yore.
All well and good we need to save the earth, however, my taking the bus will have the same affect on climate change as pissing on a forest fire. My Liberal MP, however, is more than happy to not take DuPont or Invista to task for dumping industrial run off into the Harbour... because... Jobs.
Doublethink is not very good at fostering voter confidence
Warren Kinsella thinks otherwise and provides ten reasons to back up his argument:An article about the LPC’s chances in Quebec without Trudeau.
André Pratte: Trudeau’s departure could cause problems for the Liberals in Quebec
“Will Trudeau know when the moment is right for leaving?” was the title of the analysis authored by La Presse’s Bureau Chief on Parliament Hill. In a column publish…nationalpost.com
Seems that I may not be alone in thinking he won’t run again…
KINSELLA: Will Justin Trudeau seek to cement his legacy by winning a fourth election this fall?
Author of the article: Warren Kinsella
Publishing date: Aug 07, 2022 • 3 minute read • 323 Comments
Be afraid.
Be very afraid.
Because — honestly, truthfully — election talk is starting up again in Ottawa. As in, a federal election. As in, commencing in the month of November. We know, we know. It makes no sense. Justin Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh did their Axis of Weasels deal in a smoke-free backroom, and agreed no election for another three years, give or take. So, there’s no need for an election. And no one wants an election. But notwithstanding all that, serious people are now having serious talks about one.
Stop banging your head against the wall. Get off that ledge. When you think about it, it kind of makes sense.
Here’s ten reasons why.
1. Pierre Poilievre’s weaknesses. The Liberal and NDP war rooms believe the Ottawa-area Conservative MP is going to win his party’s leadership contest. So they’ve been busily collecting material to use against Poilievre — his fondness for whackadoodle WEF conspiracy theories, his enthusiasm for bizarro Bitcoin buffoonery, his slippery stance on abortion and social issues, his enduring dislikability. And the Grits and Dippers want to use that material before it gets stale because…
2. Poilievre has one big strength: the economy. He’s been his party’s finance critic, and he’s got some Bay Street cred. More worrying, for the Liberals, is that Poilievre is starting to look like a prophet on the economic front: his criticisms of central bankers may have been right, and his laser-like focus on Trudeau’s failings fighting inflation bode well for Team Blue. Trudeau doesn’t want inflation/recession to become the ballot question. Because then he’ll lose.
3. The economy is heading into the ditch. With the exception of jobs, every key economic indicator is presently looking grim — and jobs will too, soon enough, with inflation worse than it has been for four decades. Trudeau and Co. need to get ahead of what may be the worst economic downturn since the 2008-2009 global economic crisis.
4. Besides: we may have slipped into a recession already. On Thursday, England’s central bank jacked interest rates to 1.75% — the biggest rate increase in many years. While such rate increases squeeze out inflation, they always risk tipping Western economies into recession. Which many economists quietly suggest we may be in already. Trudeau knows that recession isn’t conducive to re-election.
5. Canadians are grumpy and getting grumpier. Successive opinion polls show a growing consensus that the country is on the wrong track — and that the Trudeau Liberals are wholly incapable of governing. The ongoing chaos at airports, plus more chaos at passport and immigration offices, have made the Grits look like really bad managers. They need to change the channel, and elections are excellent channel-changers.
6. COVID isn’t going away and will soon get worse. With masking abandoned by many, cooler fall temperatures will see a resurgence of colds and flus — as well as yet more COVID-19 waves. For Trudeau, however, a COVID surge is arguably good news: it will give him the perfect environment to argue that the Tories are a seething nest of COVID-denying anti-vax conspiracy nuts. Which he will.
7. Instability is Trudeau’s friend. Putin’s ongoing war in Ukraine; Trumpist Republicans seizing power in the U.S. midterms; a return of the “freedom” convoy protests. All of those things, and more, suggest instability for Middle Canada and the world — and therefore help Trudeau. Don’t change horses mid-stream, Trudeau will say — and particularly when the world is going to Hell in a handbasket. Mixed metaphor it may be, but it may just work, too.
8. Trudeau himself. Increasingly, governing bores him — witness, for instance, his seemingly never-ending vacationeering. But one thing Trudeau loves, and does well, is electioneering. He never, ever steps back from a fight. And he thinks he can beat Poilievre. So do Liberals.
9. Minority governments are always planning for elections: they have to. As my Sun colleague Brian Lilley has noted on my Kinsellacast podcast, the Grits would be crazy not to be getting ready. Besides, they’re united — and the Conservatives are still in the midst of the nastiest, most-divisive, leadership race ever. Don’t give them time to heal and reunite.
10. And finally: an election win gives Justin Trudeau what he covets most — a legacy. He may not eke out another majority, but no Prime Minister has won four elections in a row since Sir John A. Macdonald.
Is an election likely? Maybe not. Does Justin Trudeau fear one? Definitely not.
But the rest of us should be afraid.
Very afraid.
2. Poilievre has one big strength: the economy. He’s been his party’s finance critic, and he’s got some Bay Street cred. More worrying, for the Liberals, is that Poilievre is starting to look like a prophet on the economic front: his criticisms of central bankers may have been right, and his laser-like focus on Trudeau’s failings fighting inflation bode well for Team Blue. Trudeau doesn’t want inflation/recession to become the ballot question. Because then he’ll lose.
3. The economy is heading into the ditch. With the exception of jobs, every key economic indicator is presently looking grim — and jobs will too, soon enough, with inflation worse than it has been for four decades. Trudeau and Co. need to get ahead of what may be the worst economic downturn since the 2008-2009 global economic crisis.
4. Besides: we may have slipped into a recession already. On Thursday, England’s central bank jacked interest rates to 1.75% — the biggest rate increase in many years. While such rate increases squeeze out inflation, they always risk tipping Western economies into recession. Which many economists quietly suggest we may be in already. Trudeau knows that recession isn’t conducive to re-election.
Scholz is currently in Canada to talk about energy, but not about the much-needed LNG intake that could help Germany wean itself off Russian gas.
Instead, Scholz and Prime Minister Trudeau are focussing on hydrogen technology that will take decades before it will be useful. There is little evidence that this plan, set in motion long before the Russian invasion of Ukraine changed the parameters of energy policy in Europe, has been adjusted in pace or scale.
Global sulphur shortage threatens food security and advancement of green technology, scientists warn
More intensive agriculture and the world moving away from fossil fuels in order to deal with climate change will significantly reduce the production of fossil fuels and subsequently the supply of sulphur, researchers say.
AUGUST 22, 2022
Sulfur shortage: A potential resource crisis looming as the world decarbonises
by University College London
Trudeau Spars With Farmers on Climate Plan Risking Grain Output
Canada wants to cut fertilizer emissions, but farmers say it could result in less food
"One possibility is that the friars manured their vegetable gardens with human faeces, not unusual in the medieval period, and this may have led to repeated infection with the worms," said Mitchell.
Unintended Consequences -
A cacophony of crises has brought Olaf Scholz to the brink
The German people know tough times lie ahead – but they want action, not mere platitudes, from their chancellorwww.telegraph.co.uk
Lack of natural gas on the east coast to ship .... or to convert into Hydrogen to ship.
Global sulphur shortage threatens food security and advancement of green technology, scientists warn
More intensive agriculture and the world moving away from fossil fuels in order to deal with climate change will significantly reduce the production of fossil fuels and subsequently the supply of sulphur, researchers say.news.sky.com
Sulfur shortage: A potential resource crisis looming as the world decarbonises
A projected shortage of sulfuric acid, a crucial chemical in our modern industrial society, could stifle green technology advancement and threaten global food security, according to a new study led by UCL researchers.phys.org
Lack of Natural Gas to cleanly supply sulphur from sour gas wells. Sulphur is also harvested from oil and bitumen.
Trudeau Spars With Farmers on Climate Plan Risking Grain Output
Canada wants to cut fertilizer emissions, but farmers say it could result in less foodwww.bloomberg.com
Lack of Natural Gas to supply Anhydrous Ammonia for fertilizers.
Consequences
Germans freeze.
Everybody starves. - No nitrogen, no sulphur, no phosphorus, no carbon dioxide.
No electric cars - No sulphuric acid for batteries.
Open cast mines to dig up sulphur along with the lithium and other rare earths.
Fertilizing fields with human excrement which is rich in nitrogen and minerals - including sulphur - and worms and parasites.
Human sewage may be needed to fertilise crops as global sulphur shortage looms
Sulphur production has dwindled as a result of the global move away from fossil fuels, a new study showswww.telegraph.co.uk
And in related archaeological news
Medieval monks were 'riddled with parasites'
Research examining traces of parasites in medieval Cambridge residents suggests that monks were almost twice as likely as ordinary townspeople to have intestinal worms -- despite monasteries of the period typically having far more sanitary facilities.www.sciencedaily.com
How green is my valley?
So the next question is: How bright are Trudeau's Spinners?
How do they get the Canadian voters, the Liberal ones in particular, to follow him as he reverses course to return to the Green Revolution of the 1960s that has all but eliminated famine - due to science, genetics and hydrocarbons?
My guess is that Scholz is part of an opportunity if not a plan.
If Trudeau can convince people that Hydrogen from Natural Gas is the way of the future then maybe he can build a pipeline, and refineries, in Quebec ... and still get re-elected.
Nevermind that although the technology is proven the scale of manufacture is miniscule and storage and transportation are works in progress that may take a decade or two to solve.
Stage one would be to build a natural gas highway to the east coast and LNG terminals.
Stage 1A would be to build a Pilot Hydrogen refinery and storage facility to test technologies.
This would permit Natural Gas to be sold to the voter as a source of Hydrogen, as well as Sulphur and Anhydrous Ammonia necessary for producing food and batteries. Heck, with a bit of imagination it could also be used to produce clean CO2 to be sold to farmers to enhance their crops.
One area I am familiar with is fishmeal plants. They are plants where fish are processed into protein meals and fish oil. In the past they were called fish oil plants. The same technology was used on whales to produce whale oil for lamps and is used to produce lard and tallow for food.
With the advent of mineral oils the need for animal oils diminished. The fish oil plants were no longer profitable and the supply of cheap protein, a byproduct of the oil production, dried up as they went out of business. Those exact same plants, processing the exact same raw material, found new opportunities when the lack of protein drove the price of protein higher. They were rebranded as meal plants and oil was the byproduct. Cheap enough to burn as a fuel to manufacture the meal.
It is all in the marketing.
Trudeau is a sock puppet for the Liberals, of course.
My guess is that they're throwing a 'hydrogen bone' to the (insanely green focused) German public as a way to excuse the massive uptick in Canadian hydrocarbon imports that will be required to help them survive without Russian supplies.
Two minor points:Except that it is the German Green party that is calling for pragmatism
Their leader has been one of the loudest voices calling for Germany to ship weapons to Ukraine, support sanctions, keep nuclear power plants open, reopen domestic gas fields with fracking and even reopen coal plants to get Germany through the winter(s) without Russian gas.
And Scholz is less popular than Trudeau and Biden and may be on his way out. The Green position has the support of about 70% of the German population.
Justin and Jacinda are increasingly fading along with Scholz.
If there is a hydrogen bone being thrown I suspect it is being thrown to Canada's Liberal greens.
Ukraine, Climate, and Priorities | National Review
To classify Germany’s Greens as climate-change ‘deniers’ would be difficult, so the party’s reaction to the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been telling.www.nationalreview.comGermany’s nuclear opposition wavers as energy crunch fears rise
Green politicians are softening their stance but the party remains divided.www.politico.euGermany's Greens embrace coal
That German politicians spoke of ‘blackmail’, ‘neo-imperialism’ and even a ‘declaration of economic war’ when confronted with Germany’s energy dependency on Russia may hardly seem surprising. But those words weren’t uttered recently, nor were they about the Russian president. They were said two...unherd.comDie Lage am Morgen: War's das mit Gas aus Russland?
Aus Russland fließt (vorerst) kein Gas mehr. Annalena Baerbock beendet eine turbulente Reise. Und in Wimbledon fehlte ein Gast. Das ist die Lage am Montag.www.spiegel.de
Germans are nothing if not pragmatic. They have their principles. They also have their savings and a penchant for lots of comfort food.
Two minor points:
1. I don't think @daftandbarmy was talking about Germany's The Green PartyTM. I don't mean to say you didn't get that, since you did subsequently use the formula ''Canada's Liberal greens''. I'm just unsure what meaning you're assigning to ''green/greens''.
2. I wouldn't pay much for German pragmatism. They replaced nuclear with coal. And came up with Wunderwaffen.
Two minor points:
1. I don't think @daftandbarmy was talking about Germany's The Green PartyTM. I don't mean to say you didn't get that, since you did subsequently use the formula ''Canada's Liberal greens''. I'm just unsure what meaning you're assigning to ''green/greens''.
2. I wouldn't pay much for German pragmatism. They replaced nuclear with coal. And came up with Wunderwaffen.
If Trudeau can convince people that Hydrogen from Natural Gas is the way of the future then maybe he can build a pipeline, and refineries, in Quebec ... and still get re-elected.
“You know all those loud mouthed bags of human feces, a.k.a. the Jewish White Supremacists; when we liberate Palestine and they have to go back to where they come from, they will return to being low voiced bitches of thier (sic) Christian/Secular White Supremacist Masters.”
“Colin Powell, the Jamaican house-slave of the Empire who extinguished the lives of millions of people with his lies, died a painful death unable to breath (sic). If there was any good that came from this pandemic, it would be his death on the birthday of the prophet of Islam,”
“I have a motto: Life is too short for shoes with laces, or for entertaining Jewish White Supremacists with anything but a bullet to the head.”
“lol, I think Frogs have much less IQ than 77, and French is an ugly language.”
This is funny.
Feds cut funding for anti-racism project over 'vile' tweets
Liberals hire some racist guy for an anti-racism project. $133K
Racist guy makes racist comments and gets fired.
Surprised Pikachu face Diversity Minister Ahmed Hussen "calls on CMAC, an organization claiming to fight racism and hate in Canada to answer to how they came to hire Laith Marouf, and how they plan on rectifying the situation given the nature of his antisemitic and xenophobic comments.”
Diversity Minister Ahmed Hussen doesn't realize CMAC is apparently operated by 2 people, Mr Racist and his wife.
Some gem quotes from the anti-racisim organization that the government hired.