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#Canada: The Trudeau Government of fads. Conrad Black, National Post

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🗓️ 4 August 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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#Canada: The Trudeau Government of fads. Conrad Black, National Post
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/justin-trudeaus-great-liberal-death-wish

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This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Bachelor. Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada.

0:31.2

Justin Trudeau's government is known and pleased with being known as a liberal government.

0:37.3

What does this mean in terms of policy these last years? I welcome Conrad Black,

0:42.1

Distinguished Biographer, writing at the National Post about three fads.

0:47.3

Conrad gives me that word. Three fads that the Trudeau government has pursued that

0:54.2

unlikely to bear up in the course of history as substantive. The first fad is energy. Conrad,

1:01.7

a very good evening to you. The energy policy of a country as rich in energy as Canada is a puzzler.

1:10.4

The natural gas, the oil, the oil fields, and the bounty that God blessed Canada with.

1:17.3

It would appear now and again reading a column that the Trudeau government is ashamed of it,

1:22.4

embarrassed by it, denies it. How so? Good evening to you.

1:26.7

Yeah, good evening to you, John. Well, I guess that they would claim that they weren't embarrassed,

1:33.8

but that is how they act. I cannot explain how the powers that be in that government, including

1:43.1

and led by the Prime Minister, have convinced themselves not only that we know much more than we

1:49.0

really do know about the nature of such changes there is to the climate. I think most people

1:55.8

know a lot about meteorology. Agreed that there are changes in the climate.

2:00.0

But the government of Canada professes to know quite precisely what these changes are and what

2:07.6

causes them. In fact, that is not known, but they take their own intuitions on the matter

2:15.2

as incontrovertible and conclude that use of fossil fuels is going to generate a warming of

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