Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Never Let A Good Crisis Go to Waste

In a real country, the leader would offer whatever resources and personnel needed to deal with a disaster, both man-made and natural.

He would stay out of the way.

He would not grandstand or make speeches. He would have the good grace not to.

But Canada and the US cannot be considered real countries with these morons running things into the ground:

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The moron (who believes that Facebook, like protesting for social change, is harmful to democracy, quite unlike stomping grandmothers with horses, freezing bank accounts and letting Chinese agents oppress dissidents on Canadian soil) is still blaming Facebook for withholding news links no one wants while they run from disasters possibly caused by arson:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took aim at Facebook parent company Meta on Monday, saying the company’s move to remove news from its website is “putting corporate profits ahead of people’s safety.”

The Liberal government and Meta have been in a standoff this summer since the government passed C-18, legislation that requires companies like Facebook and Google to strike revenue-sharing deals with news publishers. Postmedia, the owner of the National Post, supports the legislation.

 

Oh, Justin:


 

 

Also - in case we wondered where Climate Barbie has been this whole time:

“Conservative politicians want to fight about a price on carbon pollution?” posted McKenna, now chair of UN Net Zero. “You want to make it free to pollute while Canadians pay with their lives threatened, homes destroyed, and their communities obliterated? So, what are you going to do? You are the arsonists.”

 

This Catherine McKenna:

Trudeau Minister Catherine McKenna has accepted that she needs to "do a better job of explaining" where billions of taxpayer dollars went.

McKenna is the Liberal Infrastructure Minister. Under her watch, $187.8 billion was pledged towards infrastructure over the course of 12 years. Auditors, however, can not find where a significant amount of this money went.

 

 

Yes, Barbie. Now - about that: 

Canada’s capacity to prevent wildfires has been shrinking for decades because of budget cuts, a loss of some of the country’s forest service staff, and onerous rules for fire prevention, turning some of its forests into a tinderbox.

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Amid hundreds of wildfires in recent months, Royal Canadian Mounted Police have arrested arsonists in Nova Scotia, Yukon, British Columbia, and Alberta.

One Alberta resident, John Cook, was charged with 10 counts of arson after setting a string of wildfires in and around Cold Lake, a hamlet near Edmonton, local reports say. In addition to damaging vehicles and structures, Cook was charged with setting a fire at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Cherry Grove.

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Critics have also blamed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for repeatedly invoking climate change, saying that the warming conditions do not relieve the country of its duty to conduct certain preventative measures to manage its dense forests, such as forest thinning, brush removal, and small, controlled burns.

More than 400 wildfires are currently burning in Canada, including more than 239 that are deemed to be “out of control,” Canadian Federal Minister of Emergency Preparedness Bill Blair told reporters Wednesday. So far, the fires have torched 9.4 million acres in Canada — and are burning at a rate of roughly 15 times the 10-year average.




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