After targeting the oil and gas sector, the federal government now wants to cut emissions from fertilizer usage by 30 per cent
Toronto — always yearning to be a world-renowned city, but not in this way — has had its main airport deemed the “.” The government of a great country is buying lawn chairs for citizens stranded in endless lines waiting for passports. A democracy-minded woman from Medicine Hat is sitting in an Ottawa jail over highly technical “breach of bail’ conditions while volatile offenders wander freely outside in the summer air.
It’s not a proud time for Canadian government, of that we can all agree. And I think there’s something especially depressing about any government that in lieu of efficiently issuing citizens the document of their citizenship — the passport — instead offers as a consolation a plastic lawn chair to sit in while lined up at midnight.
Of course there is the raging inflation on top of all of this, accelerated greatly by fuel costs, the latter driving up prices in every other sector. Must we add — yes we must — the unyielding carbon tax during an inflationary spiral.All in all, not a great time for any major experiments in policy. Not a great time to tamper with any of our fundamental industries.
Why are we hitting an industry that could offer so much advantage to us, that could make Canada a real presence in the politics of the world today? Why is our government so beholden to the IPCC and Davos and the Great Reset that we manacle a great and abundant natural resource? There is no answer to this question, except the sad one that once ideology takes firm hold in the mind of a government, everything else becomes secondary.
Now with the energy industry, it has so long been hobbled, denigrated and attacked that some may, sadly, think it’s just business as usual. Everyone knows Big Oil is a villain until of course they run out of it — see Germany. But there is another industry as central, perhaps in a fundamental sense more crucial, and that is agriculture. Canadian agriculture is a great success, a success built on generations of toil, love of the land, and expertise.