The Shining City Upon a Hill

[BillyCarpenter]

No surprise here. Trudeau and his father are both communist sympathizers.





Canada’s Trudeau, Cabinet abstain from China genocide vote




TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s House of Commons voted Monday to declare that China is committing genocide against more than 1 million Uighurs in the western Xinjiang region but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Cabinet abstained from the vote.


The non-binding motion passed 266-0 as virtually all but Trudeau and his Cabinet voted for the measure that also called on the International Olympic Committee to move the 2022 Winter Olympics from Beijing.


A senior government official said declaring something in Parliament is not going to adequately get results in China and that work with international allies and partners is needed. The official spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak publicly about the matter.


The main opposition parties supported the motion and control the majority of seats in the House of Commons. Trudeau’s Cabinet is made up of 37 Liberal lawmakers including the prime minister. There are 154 lawmakers from Trudeau’s Liberal party in the House of Commons and the rest of the Liberal lawmakers voted freely on the motion.


Liberal Foreign Minister Marc Garneau abstained like the rest of the Cabinet. He said in a statement there should be a credible international investigation in response to allegations of genocide.


“We remain deeply disturbed by horrific reports of human rights violations in Xinjiang, including the use of arbitrary detention, political re-education, forced labor, torture and forced sterilization,” Garneau said.


Opposition Conservative Party leader Erin O’Toole said he’s calling on the government to confirm the statement passed by the House of Commons and work with allies like the U.S. to push for an end to the camps and conduct by China.


“There is real suffering going on in China. There is a genocide happening,” O’Toole said. “Our values are not for sale. And Mr. Trudeau needed to send that message today and he failed.”


Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared before he left office that China’s policies against Xinjiang’s Muslims and ethnic minorities constituted crimes against humanity and genocide. His successor, Antony Blinken, reiterated the statement on his first day in office.


Researchers and rights groups estimate that since 2016, China has rounded up a million or more Uighurs and other minorities into prisons and vast indoctrination camps that the state calls training centers.


Pompeo cited widespread forced birth control and forced labor among Uighurs. The Associated Press reported last year that the Chinese government was systematically forcing sterilization and abortion on Uighur and other Muslim women and sent many to camps simply for having too many children.

[SalesServiceGuy]

Biden says US, Canada 'doubled down' on efforts to fight climate change

'Now that the United States is back in the Paris Agreement, we intend to demonstrate our leadership'


President Biden hosted his first bilateral meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday, where the pair pledged to strengthen their partnership and to address the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and a middle-class economic recovery.

Biden said the U.S. and Canada "doubled down" on efforts to fight climate change.

"Now that the United States is back in the Paris Agreement, we intend to demonstrate our leadership in order to spur other countries to raise their own ambitions," Biden said during the virtual event. "Canada and the United States are going to work in lockstep to display the seriousness of our commitment at both home and abroad."

Biden said the U.S. and Canada will launch a high-level climate ambition ministerial to align both countries’ policies and to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.

Trudeau said the top priority for the U.S. and Canada remains keeping people safe and ending the pandemic.
The Canadian leader also said he and Biden are on the "same page when it comes to standing up for the middle class" and discussed leveraging supply chains and supporting businesses to create good, well-paying jobs to help people get back on their feet.

Biden noted that his first call to a foreign leader as president was made to Trudeau.

[BillyCarpenter]

Biden says US, Canada 'doubled down' on efforts to fight climate change

Yep. Biden and Canada doubled down. Trudeau tried to convince Biden not to cancel the Keystone pipeline and Biden told him no.

As reported, Canada is a climate change hypocrite as they are one of the largest oil exporters in the world. Epic Fail. Only the sheep believe differently. You know who you are.

[BillyCarpenter]

It's difficult for the Trudeau cult (see bootlickers) to come to terms with the truth.



When it comes to climate hypocrisy, Canada's leaders have reached a new low



Americans elected Donald Trump, who insisted climate change was a hoax – so it’s no surprise that since taking office he’s been all-in for the fossil fuel industry. There’s no sense despairing; the energy is better spent fighting to remove him from office.


Canada, on the other hand, elected a government that believes the climate crisis is real and dangerous – and with good reason, since the nation’s Arctic territories give it a front-row seat to the fastest warming on Earth. Yet the country’s leaders seem likely in the next few weeks to approve a vast new tar sands mine which will pour carbon into the atmosphere through the 2060s. They know – yet they can’t bring themselves to act on the knowledge. Now that is cause for despair.



The Teck mine would be the biggest tar sands mine yet: 113 square miles of petroleum mining, located just 16 miles from the border of Wood Buffalo national park. A federal panel approved the mine despite conceding that it would likely be harmful to the environment and to the land culture of Indigenous people. These giant tar sands mines (easily visible on Google Earth) are already among the biggest scars humans have ever carved on the planet’s surface. But Canadian authorities ruled that the mine was nonetheless in the “public interest”.
Here’s how Justin Trudeau, recently re-elected as Canada’s prime minister, put it in a speech to cheering Texas oilmen a couple of years ago: “No country would find 173 billion barrels of oil in the ground and leave them there.” That is to say, Canada, which is 0.5% of the planet’s population, plans to use up nearly a third of the planet’s remaining carbon budget. Ottawa hides all this behind a series of pledges about “net-zero emissions by 2050” and so on, but they are empty promises. In the here-and-now they can’t rein themselves in. There’s oil in the ground and it must come out.
This is painfully hard to watch because it comes as the planet has supposedly reached a turning point. A series of remarkable young people (including Canadians such as Autumn Peltier) have captured the imagination of people around the world; scientists have issued ever sterner warnings; and the images of climate destruction show up in every newspaper. Canadians can see the Australian blazes on television; they should bring back memories of the devastating forest fires that forced the evacuation of Fort McMurray, in the heart of the tar sands complex, less than four years ago.


The only rational response would be to immediately stop the expansion of new fossil fuel projects. It’s true that we can’t get off oil and gas immediately; for the moment, oil wells continue to pump. But the Teck Frontier proposal is predicated on the idea that we’ll still need vast quantities of oil in 2066, when Greta Thunberg is about to hit retirement age. If an alcoholic assured you he was taking his condition very seriously, but also laying in a 40-year store of bourbon, you’d be entitled to doubt his sincerity, or at least to note his confusion. Oil has addled the Canadian ability to do basic math: more does not equal less, and 2066 is not any time soon. An emergency means you act now.
In fairness, Canada has company here. For every territory making a sincere effort to kick fossil fuels (California, Scotland) there are other capitals just as paralyzed as Ottawa. Australia’s fires creep ever closer to the seat of government in Canberra, yet the prime minister, Scott Morrison, can’t seem to imagine any future for his nation other than mining more coal. Australia and Canada are both rich nations, their people highly educated, but they seem unable to control the zombie momentum of fossil fuels.
There’s obviously something hideous about watching the Trumps and the Putins of the world gleefully shred our future. But it’s disturbing in a different way to watch leaders pretend to care – a kind of gaslighting that can reduce you to numb nihilism. Trudeau, for all his charms, doesn’t get to have it both ways: if you can’t bring yourself to stop a brand-new tar sands mine then you’re not a climate leader.

• Bill McKibben is an author and Schumann distinguished scholar in environmental studies at Middlebury College, Vermont. His most recent book is Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?

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[BillyCarpenter]

This really gave me a good laugh. When Trudeau was asked about oil in the ground, here was his repsonse:



“No country would find 173 billion barrels of oil in the ground and leave them there.”


Hey, I agree. No use letting all that lovely oil go unused. Drill baby drill....says Trudeau.

[SalesServiceGuy]

It's difficult for the Trudeau cult (see bootlickers) to come to terms with the truth.



When it comes to climate hypocrisy, Canada's leaders have reached a new low





Americans elected Donald Trump, who insisted climate change was a hoax – so it’s no surprise that since taking office he’s been all-in for the fossil fuel industry. There’s no sense despairing; the energy is better spent fighting to remove him from office.


Canada, on the other hand, elected a government that believes the climate crisis is real and dangerous – and with good reason, since the nation’s Arctic territories give it a front-row seat to the fastest warming on Earth. Yet the country’s leaders seem likely in the next few weeks to approve a vast new tar sands mine which will pour carbon into the atmosphere through the 2060s. They know – yet they can’t bring themselves to act on the knowledge. Now that is cause for despair.



The Teck mine would be the biggest tar sands mine yet: 113 square miles of petroleum mining, located just 16 miles from the border of Wood Buffalo national park. A federal panel approved the mine despite conceding that it would likely be harmful to the environment and to the land culture of Indigenous people. These giant tar sands mines (easily visible on Google Earth) are already among the biggest scars humans have ever carved on the planet’s surface. But Canadian authorities ruled that the mine was nonetheless in the “public interest”.

.... more disinformation. The article quoted is over a year old. The Teck mine was never granted final regulatory approval to proceed.

Now that Teck Frontier is dead, is there a future for Canada'''s oilsands? | CBC News

[SalesServiceGuy]

This really gave me a good laugh. When Trudeau was asked about oil in the ground, here was his repsonse:



“No country would find 173 billion barrels of oil in the ground and leave them there.”


Hey, I agree. No use letting all that lovely oil go unused. Drill baby drill....says Trudeau.

... more disinformation. This quote is from four years ago. Times have changed. Canada has signed the Paris Climate Accord.

[SalesServiceGuy]

No surprise here. Trudeau and his father are both communist sympathizers.





Canada’s Trudeau, Cabinet abstain from China genocide vote






TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s House of Commons voted Monday to declare that China is committing genocide against more than 1 million Uighurs in the western Xinjiang region but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Cabinet abstained from the vote.


The non-binding motion passed 266-0 as virtually all but Trudeau and his Cabinet voted for the measure that also called on the International Olympic Committee to move the 2022 Winter Olympics from Beijing.

... the non binding vote was tabled by Canada's opposition party. The vote had no effect other than to receive a stern rebuke from the Chinese gov't at a time when Canada's relationship with China is at a low point.

The Canadian gov't, in effect, got what it wanted via unofficial channels. A strong statement, noticed around the world, condemning China's human rights abuses. In other words, "well played".

[BillyCarpenter]

... more disinformation. This quote is from four years ago. Times have changed. Canada has signed the Paris Climate Accord.

Was that before or after Trudeau tried to convince Biden to not shut down Keystone pipeline? Also, do you have to pay union dues to be part of Bootlickers International?

[copier addict]

Was that before or after Trudeau tried to convince Biden to not shut down Keystone pipeline? Also, do you have to pay union dues to be part of Bootlickers International?

Well, since you started the bootlickers union, why don't you tell us what the dues are to be on your knees for donny boy.