If so, these two guys are in for a rude awakening.
Posted on 02/09/2024 9:07:14 AM PST by george76
Bill C-372 seeks penalties up to $1,000,000 and two years in prison for promoting fossil fuels as anything less than an existential threat to humanity.
Just when you thought Canada couldn’t get any more Stalinist, an MP from the country’s far-left NDP party is calling for any speech that “promotes fossil fuels” – even truthful statements like comparing the relative emissions of natural gas to coal – to be banned and criminalized.
MP Charlie Angus, from Timmins, in northern Ontario (where the average temperature in February runs -7C to -21C) has introduced a private member’s Bill C-372 called “The Fossil Fuels Advertising Act” that would “prohibit the promotion of fossil fuels except in accordance with the provisions of the Act.”
Promotion defined as:
“a representation about a product or service by any means, whether directly or indirectly, including any communication of information about the product or service and its price and distribution, that is likely to influence and shape attitudes, beliefs and behaviours about the product or service.”
That which is not expressly permitted is forbidden…
“This enactment enacts the Fossil Fuel Advertising Act to prohibit the promotion of fossil fuels except in accordance with the provisions of the Act.“
The only public discourse that would be permitted on the matter would be literary or dramatic representations that “use or depict” fossil fuels, or “opinion or commentary” provided that in either case, the author or creator has no ties or recieves no consideration “directly or indirectly” from the fossil fuel industry.
The preamble calls climate change an “existential threat” and cites the 2023 forest fire season as a pretext.
“Whereas, in 2023, Canada experienced the worst wildfire season ever recorded as the country exceeded the largest area ever burned in a year, totaling more than 7.9 million hectares”
There is no mention that in multiple cases of throughout the 2023 forest fire season, such as the Lake Cavan fires in Quebec and the infamous Lake Barrington Fire in Nova Scotia, the cause was arson, (not “global boiling”).
“Claimed, without evidence…”
The phrase “claimed without evidence” has become a staple of the corporate media. It belies a baked-in partisanship reminiscent of late Soviet Era agitprop. This is especially noticeable if anybody to the right of Stalin dares question any precepts of technocratic socialism.
Yet Bill C-372 is replete with such claims…
Whereas air pollution caused by fossil fuels leads to millions of premature deaths globally, including tens of thousands of premature deaths in Canada alone, and is a major cause of cancer, respiratory illness, adverse pregnancy outcomes, children’s diseases and cardiovascular symptoms;
This is a faith-based statement (on par with Al Gore’s unhinged shrieking at Davos 2023 that “Climate change causes the equivalent of 600,000 Hiroshima class bombs per day!”). It also runs contrary to quantifiable data from multiple sources and studies showing that climate related fatalities have been in free-fall for over a century.
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There’s only one problem: Free Speech..
“Parliament is of the opinion that fossil fuel advertising currently deploys techniques which knowingly mislead the public and fail to disclose the health and environmental harms associated with their use, impeding informed consumer decision-making, undermining public support for effective climate action”
By “impeding informed decision-making” on the part of Canadians he probably means any criticisms of inexorably higher carbon taxes (which get unfairly applied according to the whims of political favouritism anyway) or drawing attention to ridiculous, symbolic, non-solutions like wind turbines, or forcing Canadians pay for expensive heat pumps in sub-zero climes.
Crap! Just when I was going to present a script to the Hollowoodies for a movie called “Jurassic Oilfield”
Save The Wells!
Yeah but global warming causes arson right?
NAZI’s always have a reason behind their plan.
The left is doing all it can to turn Canada into a vicious, fascist state. Their prime minister is willingly implementing their fondest desires.
“Yeah but global warming causes arson right?”
Apparently it causes severe brain damage as well.
Russia should invade them next.😂
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Yet another reason to deploy heavy artillery on the Northern border.
From his webpage:
The riding of Timmins - James Bay sits on Treaty 9 Territory and the land on which we gather is the traditional territory of Ojibwe/Chippewa, Mushkegowuk (Cree), Algonquin, and Métis Peoples.
We need our Own Homeland !
Do it Alberta while you still can.
They sure have a lot of fascists and “Nazis” up there in Canada. The Russians should invade them and “straighten them out” instead of Ukraine. Canada doesn’t really have a credible military anymore so it would be a pushover, it has better raw materials, etc.
We are. We’re not having any of it.
If Alberta really split the world would be shocked at how quickly they grew and prospered. Once they had Ottawa’s foot off their throat they would take off like a rocket.
Alberta, Sask and Southern Manitoba.
Also there is big oil and gas in the Peace River basin in North East BC
And, large parts of Western and Northern Ontario are natural resources based, adn would benefit from escaping Globohomo Rule from Toronto/Ottawa.
Don’t tell any Canadian liberals that. We’d be broke and land locked and uneducated heh.
LOL!
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