Thread by @sunnshiiny

There are times when PMJT is amazing. He certainly is in his element when answering questions in a crowd. Especially when people are asking honest questions and not loaded questions that act like land mines. I admire his skills to relate to others. It’s inspiring.

https://twitter.com/Colettestweeter/status/1454712823276134400

But I’m not sure if those who watched this caught the bombshell he announced during this Q&A session.

I imagine it will come to the forefront in a matter of days at COP26. But the writing is on the wall for the Canadian O&G industry.

PMJT announced that the ceiling of fossil fuel expansion has been reached. There will be no more expansion of the fossil fuel industry. From this point forward, O&G is in decline. Sunsetting the industry is now the goal and replacing it with green energy options.

Subsidies the industry relied upon to gouge profits from production will be phased out.

Completely in keeping with the 2015 LPC platform of removing subsidies in the medium term. After carbon pricing has been established.

documentcloud.org/documents/2448…

Five to Six years is medium term.

While climate activists continue to lobby for an immediate shut down of the industry, that is NOT possible and was never the plan. We still need to heat our homes and we still drive gas powered vehicles. We still use petrochemicals.

Until those energy needs are replaced with green energy options, O&G will continue to be extracted.

To do anything else would put lives at risk. Switching to electric vehicles will help, but we need the infrastructure in place to make the switch. Not only for exhaust emissions.

But also for emissions produced by electricity consumption. We are in transition. Moving from the ceiling that’s been reached to reduction in Fossil Fuel usage and increase in green energy.

So Kenney was basically correct.

LPC is going to shut down O&G extraction. Over a moderate length of time and slowly. While replacing energy production with green sources and maintaining jobs and the economy.

Not a nightmare, unless you’re an O&G shareholder.

Shareholders will continue to profit, but those profits will dwindle over the long term until the industry sunsets.

What may occur is stakeholders (regular Canadians) will also benefit from the use of taxes and royalties and the absence of subsidies.

Carbon is about to get more expensive. So the carbon levies and rebates will become more prevalent.

The industry will resist I expect Kenney to rally the population reliant upon O&G profits to stop the implementation of this plan.

So progressive left must back up this plan. Infighting on the left will only empower the conservatives and their oligarchical benefactors. Encouraging them to resist, deny, delude, and disinform.

NDP always wants to be in charge. Now they are.

Put your money where your mouth is Singh, Angus, Ashton. You want climate action, this is your option. Digging in your heels and demanding your policy be chosen was decided September 20, 2021.

People chose the LPC plan. Greens, same message. Get on board and support this plan.

It looks like PMJT does play 3D chess. The party has the most progressive Environment Minister, a mandate and an established plan. Stop obstructing progress.

The real work is not just in Canada. It’s getting authoritarian governments to comply with COP26 commitments. But includes providing pressure to domestic politicians (federal and provincial) to start demonstrating climate action results.

That’s how you govern. You create a plan, break down the plan into achievable steps. Then move forward.

That’s how change works when so many don’t want to change.

Climate change is here, whether we address it or not. This summer’s forest fires & record temperatures are proof.

This fall’s hurricanes will provide more proof. We are at a tipping point.

Sustained pressure by the public to implement climate action to maintain global temperature increase to 2 degrees or preferably 1.5 degrees is required. PMJT expects this pressure.

So keep it up. But recognize who is resisting. It’s not about a pipeline or subsidies. It’s about policy and the implementation of that policy.

Governing is making tough decisions in a conflict fuelled political environment.

Democracy is making compromises to get things done.

Authoritarianism is demanding action and expecting it to be adopted in full. While LPC leads the federal government, authoritarianism will not replace democracy. No matter how many land mines, false accusations and the presence of disinformation there are.

And for that I’m truly proud to be a Canadian. I’m glad people with core values of democracy continue to led this nation. Yes climate change is urgent and of the highest priority.

But we can’t compromise democracy to achieve climate goals.

That’s the difference between all party leaders and PMJT.

He and LPC will not compromise democratic principles to address climate change policy.

That provides me confidence that his other promises will be kept in the longer term.

I’m not in love with PMJT. I don’t choose a party based in rhetoric alone. Since I’m a big picture thinker, I look for the strategy behind policy, not the promises. I’m glad my faith in LPC has paid off. A great odbolan and tenacity gets the job done. Practicality wins again.

Leaders are required to be big picture thinkers (systemic, not linear thought processing).

There’s one leader who has that ability. PMJT.

Singh and May/Paul can’t even rub two sticks together to make a fire. O’Toole is a puppet. Blanchett only speaks for Quebec.

You aren’t required to like PMJT. You can dislike his less than absolute adherence to ethics (he’s a bit of a consequentialist) or dislike his smarminess when asked a question he can’t answer in the moment (personally I think this is his least attractive characteristic).

You can judge him for not perfectly rolling out reconciliation, though isn’t the whole point of reconciling any conflict learning through trial and error to find new ways to relate to one another. We are going to make mistakes learning to share land and resources of this nation?

I put no faith or trust in those who have an agenda to dismantle Canada. We have an ugly past. Show me a nation that doesn’t, including indigenous nations. But we are learning from our mistakes. And moving forward.

#IStandWithPMJT
#ISupportReconciliation
#ISupportClimateAction