According to the Trudeau Liberals there is almost nothing ordinary Canadians do right. These eco-zealots have utter contempt for our way of life.
We don’t heat our homes with the right furnaces. We don’t drive the right kind of cars. Our electricity doesn’t come from the right (renewable) sources. Those of us who farm insist on using fertilizer and pesticides. We like driving holidays and are in favour of new and upgraded highways. We stubbornly refuse to buy electric vehicles. We won’t cycle to work in January. And the vast majority of us (more than two-thirds in urban areas, vastly more in rural ones) won’t take transit.
It must be so demoralizing for the Liberals to wake up every morning and realize what a nation of ungrateful cretins they are in charge of. They keep casting their pearls, especially on the environment, and we swine keep trampling them into the muck.
Now the Liberals want us to go meatless – to save the planet, of course. And if we won’t go willingly to veganism, well maybe they’ll just have to tax our beef, pork and chicken to make it impossible to afford. Dairy products and seafood, too.
You see, according to lobbyists who have the ear of Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault, and activist government officials, “animal agriculture” is one of the leading sources of carbon emissions in Canada. So if we are to combat climate change, the government must discourage, if not outright ban, meat, poultry, seafood and milk, cheese, yogurt and other dairy products.
Seriously. The Privy Council Office – the most-senior bureaucratic department in Ottawa – has been conducting research with nearly 14,000 Canadians into whether we would be prepared to go meatless to prevent climate change.
In short, we aren’t willing.
According to the study done for PCO, and reported on by Blacklock’s Reporter, exactly half of Canadians never or almost never talk about climate change with family and friends. And almost the same percentage think adapting to climate change is smarter than trying to prevent it.
Almost a third of Canadians have never gone meatless, not even for a day, while “another 12% recalled going meatless once in the last two months,” according to Blacklock’s. (Who knows, maybe that one night was pasta night rather than a conscious effort to give up meat.)
You look at these results and you realize the smug, trendy, environmental evangelists in the Trudeau government have a huge mountain to climb on meat. But don’t count out the possibility that if we don’t go along with veggie burgers and celery sticks willingly, it is not beyond them to force us.
When we proved unwilling to give up internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles in favour of EVs, the Liberals mandated an end to ICEs. All new vehicles sold in Canada in 2035 must be EVs.
Will they now try to tax meat so much that we surrender to vegetarianism? The idea of a meat tax has been kicking around Ottawa for a handful of years.
Recall that at last December’s UN climate-fest in Dubai, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that Canada would be putting a cap on emissions from cow burps and farts, and from manure. This is just a sneaky way of limiting the number of cattle in Canada and shortening the supply to drive up the price until beef is unaffordable.
Similar restrictions on emissions from dairy cattle, sheep, pigs and even shrimp have been contemplated, too.
The Liberals want us to farm without fertilizer, heat our homes without natural gas furnaces and brave Prairie and northern winters without pork chops or chicken. Have Christmas without turkey.
Try working up the initiative to go outside in -40 C Canadian weather fortified with only fava beans and lettuce cups stuffed with bulgar.
There is no limit to their sanctimony.