Thank you, Canada for trusting in me (2.Viewing)

Mark Carney sworn in as prime minister after Trudeau officially resigns​

Mark Carney sworn in as prime minister after Trudeau officially resigns

“Thank you, Canada — for trusting in me"

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I did not and do not trust you, it is a small controlled group that put you were you are and the people are yet to judge you about this.

I hope Canadians are smart enough to see through your idiotic views. When the Carbon Tax comes back in a disguised form and we cannot heat our homes we will pay for the decision to elect this man.

I am in Mexico and there is no green anything, one vehicle pollutes more than 10 of ours, where is their carbon tax?

The rest of the world does not care, let stupid Canadians pay for carbon even though our country is many times carbon negative, we absorb far more carbon than we produce.

Anyone that votes for this guy deserves what they get and even though I try not to be political, I cannot help myself, who in Canada can possibly argue that the Liberals were or are a competent government. If my kids behaved like the Liberals with their money they would all be broke for generations to come.

Carney needs to look up "Kim Campbell" on Wikipedia to see his future.

The most hilarious headline was in Ireland, where the papers proclaimed "Irish Citizen Becomes Canada's Prime Minister!"

Carney grumbled when confronted with this, and sourly replied that he was planning on renouncing his Irish citizenship. LOL

Maybe when loses the next election he can try to be PM of Australia? Just keep on truckin' Commonwealth Jack!

That is pretty arrogant, to say Thank you Canada for trusting me, when there hasn't been a federal election. He has no mandate from Canadians and can't even sit in Parliament until he wins a riding, as far as I know.

Reminds me of when Trudeau won an election with a minority government and in his victory speech thanked Canadians for giving him a "strong mandate".

I saw an analyst on BNN this morning who said Carney is from the 'Blue' Liberal side, which is more center, as opposed to Trudeau being from the "Red' leftist side. That is somewhat encouraging. He also said the new Cabinet that was sworn in today will only be around for 10 to 30 days, because when Carney returns from his Europe trip (probably to celebrate with his friends over there) he is expected to call an election. Which would be great.

We don't know much about Carney's plans yet, but it's almost impossible for him to be worse than Trudeau. And it's almost impossible that he isn't smarter than Trudeau. So he must realize the Liberal party needs to shift away from the Trudeau ways of the past 10 years if they have any hope of winning an election. He is getting rid of the carbon tax he said, but will he bring it back another way in disguise? Can he be trusted to keep his promises? They need to focus on the real issues affecting most Canadians, and focus more on Canada, instead of getting lost in fringe issues or putting too much attention on events around the globe. There is enough to deal with in Canada right now and they are a government that has to borrow more money every year to keep things running. If they were actually able to swing back closer to the kind of Liberal party that was run by Chretien/Martin, I'd be fine with that, but there are too many of the same people sticking around who were part of the lunacy in the past 10 years, so I don't know if that's possible. Might be safer to just put them in opposition for 4 years and give the Conservatives a try.

domains said:

He is getting rid of the carbon tax he said, but will he bring it back another way in disguise? Can he be trusted to keep his promises?

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Seriously? Do you have amnesia? That's exactly what Liberals do, lie and make promises to get rid of things we all despise, then just wait a bit and rename them to something else. It's quite amusing to watch the Liberals talk about this "serious problems" Canada has, acting as if some 'mystery enemy' is to blame and their party didn't openly create them all.

Carney gets even a minority government and it'll be the same crapshow as under Trudeau - high taxes, climate change globalism, problems with immigration, foreign students and temporary foreign workers pouring into the country, housing shortages, and worst of all, inflation will spike once they get another mandate and don't have to worry about an upcoming election.

Then the masks come off and it's Trudeau 2.0.

A leopard doesn't change its spots and neither do the Liberals - and their financial contributors and backers won't allow it. Everyone in politics sells out - the difference is that the Liberals sell out for foreign interest (Globalist) while the PCs sell out to Canadian interests (Nationalist). Better the devil you know than the devil you don't.

And I don't speak for anyone else, but I've had it with the Liberals pushing globalist policies (like the carbon tax, and anti-Alberta policies) just so they can get a pat on the head from Klaus Schwab and his cronies at the WEF, while clear-cutting entire forests out East to burn as (cough) biomass/biofuel.

That's the Liberals for you - they're burning down entire forests to fraudulently raise their 'biofuel-produced electricity' numbers, thus flooding the environment with massive amounts of carbon (far more than fossil fuels produce), and they're telling us to pay a carbon tax?

These are people who do not have our best interests at heart and we need to get rid of them, not vote in Trudeau 2.0 with a new face.

And the Liberals are even exporting our forests to foreign countries to burn and get them a pat on the head from Klaus. It pure madness:

The U.K. Is Burning Canadian Forests for Fuel

Twenty-three environmental organizations stress that the U.K. government funding the incineration of imported Canadian wood pellets threatens climate progress.

Carney’s plan to “get rid” of the carbon tax…

Any Liberal MP's who want to continue the status quo, or just rearrange it but it's still the same, must either be utterly ignorant, or willfully just want Canada to go down the toilet. To continue down the same path rather than make significant changes to address all the problems, you just have to conclude that they must want to take Canada to an even worse condition.

Case in point, the carbon tax is supposed to go up next month, right when we're in the middle of a trade war with the US with possible big hits to jobs and business, and while the Bank of Canada is lowering rates to help. At a minimum they should be restricting any new taxes or raises to existing taxes, and even start considering tax cuts to support people and business. Retaliating to the US with our own tariffs is like throwing gasoline on a fire.

DomainRecap said:

And the Liberals are even exporting our forests to foreign countries to burn and get them a pat on the head from Klaus. It pure madness:

The U.K. Is Burning Canadian Forests for Fuel

Twenty-three environmental organizations stress that the U.K. government funding the incineration of imported Canadian wood pellets threatens climate progress.

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This topic is very nuanced. No one is turning whole logs into pellets. The opportunity cost is way too high, and that’s before even factoring in logistics. I process arborist chips into mulch. If we allowed everyone to dump, our yard would reach capacity within a couple of days. Mind you, I’m based in the GTA. The wood only comes from contractors working on resi/commercial properties or small land clears (<20 acres). I can’t imagine how much wood waste a province like BC generates. You can leave it, but don’t be surprised when forests catch fire.

I would guess most forest fires in BC start in the middle of nowhere due to lightning strikes, when forest conditions are tinder dry and we get 'dry' lightning storms. We don't really get the heavy humid storms that the east gets.

mcm said:

This topic is very nuanced. No one is turning whole logs into pellets. The opportunity cost is way too high, and that’s before even factoring in logistics. I process arborist chips into mulch. If we allowed everyone to dump, our yard would reach capacity within a couple of days. Mind you, I’m based in the GTA. The wood only comes from contractors working on resi/commercial properties or small land clears (<20 acres). I can’t imagine how much wood waste a province like BC generates. You can leave it, but don’t be surprised when forests catch fire.

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There is always more to the story, but the politicians and news outlets just choose the narrative that fits their agenda. Furthermore, our short attention span society can only comprehend about the first 10 seconds of the story the see/hear. After that, they tune out and can't be bothered to figure out the rest of the story. I feel like that's the real problem we face, and its our own fault to some degree.

domains said:

I would guess most forest fires in BC start in the middle of nowhere due to lightning strikes, when forest conditions are tinder dry and we get 'dry' lightning storms. We don't really get the heavy humid storms that the east gets.

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It tends to be 50/50, natural vs human caused.

"Carney kills consumer carbon tax in first move as Prime Minister"

Canadians get final rebate in April, tax is removed effective April 1.

Carney is still talking about 'fight against climate change', guess we'll see more in days ahead.

It would have been hard for Trudeau or another long time Liberal to do this imo because they've been pumping the carbon tax for so many years now.

In BC the climate rebate only went to lower income earners, mid and higher earners never saw a dime.

Trudeau and the consumer carbon tax gone in the same week, baby steps...

mcm said:

No one is turning whole logs into pellets.

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Not sure what your terminology is going for, but they are turning WHOLE TREES into wood pellets and that's for sure and there is no question these are not from "wood production waste". That's the problem, world wide demand for (cough) "green" wood pellets is exploding and to meet demand, entire forests are being categorized as "excess" and can be cut down and then repurposed into wood pellets.

What the government likes to say is that it's "excess wood from production" or "junk wood produced by clearing/fire prevention" but that's a fairy tale, as there is simply not enough to supply a small portion of our own demand, let alone worldwide production (of which were are one of the largest global producers).

From CBC:

From the highway just south of Prince George, B.C., you can see the logs, thousands of them, piled neatly in rows.

They were cut from trees in old growth and primary forests in the province's Interior.

This timber won't be used to build homes or furniture, or even to make paper. These logs will be ground and compressed into tiny pellets, shipped to Europe and Asia and burned to produce fuel for electricity.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/wood-pellets-bc-forests-green-energy-1.6606921

Research finds UK energy giant Drax is burning BC’s ancient forests and calling it sustainable.

Energy giant Drax, which owns seven pellet mills in BC, has received over £6 billion in environmental subsidies from the British government, because the energy it produces by burning trees is deemed to be emission-free and renewable.

As if this weren’t incredible enough, a recent report shows conclusively that Drax’s BC pellet mills are still using not only logs from primary forests (natural forests of any age that have never been logged) but also from irreplaceable old growth areas where logging is currently supposed to be deferred.

Greenwashing 101: Drax's Pellet Problem | Watershed Sentinel

There are hundreds of similar articles, and the it's not just BC, but there are horrible offenders on the East Coast, cutting down entire forests in the Eastern Canadian hinterlands so remote they hoped no one would find out. It got so bad that mills were closing down and no one had any wood to build houses with, and various news sources figured out that the wood pellet industry had pretty well taken over the wood production on the east coast, especially in Nova Scotia, which has been invaded by wood pellet producers.

Count the trees at just one wood pellet plant:

Again, this is a nuanced topic. To give you just one of a million examples, dying pine trees are being harvested from old-growth forests due to pine beetle infestations. None of those trees will be mill-grade. Which headline sounds better: 'Dead Pine Trees Cut Down' or 'Old-Growth Forests Cut Down'?

From the highway just south of Prince George, B.C., you can see the logs, thousands of them, piled neatly in rows.

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Yes, I see logs, but what type of wood are they? How can I be sure a skidder isn't just dropping thinned logs there because they can't get a grinder into the bush? Right away, too many unanswered questions. Debating such a hot topic requires more than a few biased articles provide.

Show me a freshly cut spruce or fir log being ground and I'll gladly eat my words. I know I won't have to because there's is absolutely no money in logging for pellets.

Here's an independent audit of the Meadowbank pellet plant, the one featured in that image you posted. See pages 4-6 and 17-19. As expected, all secondary feedstock consisting of salvage wood, sawmill residuals, sawdust, bark, shavings, etc.

Hey, would you look at that!

and includes fibre that is suited for biomass use, especially roadside wood and salvage wood killed by the Mountain Pine Beetle (MPB) and more recently on-going mortality from spruce bark beetles.

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I've been all over B.C. fighting wildfires and protecting structures. I can't count how many times I've been to or through Prince George. P.G. is well into the belt of Black Spruce territory. I know a lot of us refer to them as "standing matchsticks". They're thin and very low value, a soft wood and susceptible to rot and fire. While they're a cheap option for maybe fence posts, they're not durable and definitely not construction grade. Better left for chopsticks and pellets. Once you get far enough north, pretty much anywhere in Canada, black spruce is prevalent. Seeing black spruce get harvested for pellets seems good to me, especially if its reducing fire risk and gets replanted with something better.

mcm said:

Yes, I see logs, but what type of wood are they? How can I be sure a skidder isn't just dropping thinned logs there because they can't get a grinder into the bush? Right away, too many unanswered questions. Debating such a hot topic requires more than a few biased articles provide.

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Sounds like you've got a definite stake in this business, so there's no reason to continue this conversation.

DomainRecap said:

Sounds like you've got a definite stake in this business, so there's no reason to continue this conversation.

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Or... We could talk about our new prime monster that is unelected in any way shape or form. He has never held office in Canada.

Not sure if that is even constitutional.