Pierre Trudeau, the Club of Rome, and the Degrowth of Canada

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🗓️ 15 July 2024

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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 143 Canada is in a lot of trouble, but few of us realize how far back the trouble really began. In 1968, Canada was swept with a madness affectionately called "Trudeaumania," and a new prime minister, Pierre Trudeau, was swept into office with an interest in making major transformational changes to the Canadian circumstance. Though his ambitions were greater than what the political environment in Canada in the 1970s and 1980s could tolerate, the elder Trudeau shifted policies and government institutions strongly into the radical model championed even today by some of the most concerning outfits on the planet, including the World Economic Forum (WEF), United Nations (UN), and the infamous neo-Malthusian "Club of Rome." In fact, in this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay exposes that Pierre Trudeau worked closely with the Club of Rome (https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/full/10.3138/cjh-57-2-2021-0101/) before it officially launched and set Canada's environmental policy from its outset in line with their wicked ambitions. Join him to learn how deeply infected the Canadian Liberal Party is, and has been for fifty years, with bad Communistic ideas like "degrowth" (https://newdiscourses.com/2023/08/degrowth-wests-leap-backwards/), "sustainable development" (https://newdiscourses.com/2021/10/sustainability-tyranny-21st-century/), "inclusion" (https://newdiscourses.com/2023/11/the-fraud-of-diversity-and-inclusion/), "Net Zero" (https://newdiscourses.com/2023/05/absolute-zero-and-the-western-holodomor/), and the "well-being economy" (https://newdiscourses.com/2023/11/degrowth-distributism-well-being-economy/). References: [1] EARTH4ALL: DEEP-DIVE PAPER 17 The system within: Addressing the inner dimensions of sustainability and systems transformation: https://newdiscourses.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Earth4All_Deep_Dive_Jamie_Bristow.pdf [2] Environmental Aspirations in an Unsettled Time: Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the Club of Rome, and Canadian Environmental Politics in the 1970s: https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/full/10.3138/cjh-57-2-2021-0101 [3] Erich Jantsch's 1972 Evolutionary Ladder of Interdisciplinarity: https://newdiscourses.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/2-Part-of-Jantschs-1972-evolutionary-ladder-of-interdisciplinarity-adapted-from-.png

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0:00.0	The Hey everybody this is James Lindsey you are listening to the new discourse's
0:23.0	podcast and we're talking about Canada today I just got back from Canada I went to
0:28.7	Alberta which to date and I think probably permanently is my favorite province.
0:35.0	As it turns out, Alberta is one of the most inspiring places I've been.
0:39.0	I take a lot of heart and inspiration and enthusiasm from Alberta because Canada is in
0:45.9	trouble but the Albertans are the most awake and feisty fight back people in
0:52.2	Canada that I'm aware of and they are doing a
0:55.4	wonderful job fighting back and when you're fighting back against those kinds of
0:59.3	odds and you're getting organized and actually doing things that work instead of just
1:03.0	screaming into the void. It's very inspiring to see. And so I'm grateful for my time I
1:10.0	spent in Alberta. I got to see sort of almost the midnight sun up there.
1:15.0	It turns out that it never actually gets dark on the summer solstice.
1:18.1	Well, it does, but just barely for a couple of hours.
1:28.3	Yeah, it was a great trip and I've been watching, you know, Canada on the social media both while I was there, in which I was kind of immersed in Canadian political topics and since and I've become
1:35.8	extremely worried about a few things but this this podcast might run a little
1:40.4	bit long I want to do kind of a thorough exposure of the
1:43.2	Liberal Party of Canada in its relationship, long-standing relationship to the
1:48.6	Club of Rome, which is a big problem.
1:52.5	That is our Neo-Malthusians.
1:55.0	That is our people who want to make sure
1:57.5	that we avert disaster by massively reducing energy production
2:02.4	and consumption and in fact massively reducing energy production and consumption and in fact massively reducing population.
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