LILLEY: Trudeau declares war on Alberta yet again

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Justin Trudeau just opened a new front in his ongoing war with Alberta. Trudeau’s Liberal government announced on Monday that they will bring in a new “oil and gas greenhouse gas pollution cap.”

This is on top of the ever-increasing carbon tax, the industrial emitters regulations, and clean fuel regulations.

“Every sector of the economy in Canada should be doing its fair share when it comes to limiting our country’s greenhouse gas pollution, and that includes the oil and gas sector,” Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said Monday.

Guilbeault has often said that Canada must do more to keep up with international standards, to ensure that we are not left on the sidelines. On Monday, he boasted that Canada was the only oil and gas producing country taking such economically limiting steps.

Conservative MP Shannon Stubbs quizzed Natural Resources Minister John Wilkinson about this issue at a Commons Committee on Monday. Wilkinson laughed dismissively at the question Stubbs put to him.

Yet, when Guilbeault was asked about the idea that these regulations would be delayed, he said no one else is doing this.

“Look around the world. No other major oil and gas producer is doing what we’re doing. The United States, the United Kingdom, Norway, The Gulf states. We’re the only large oil and gas producer in the world to do this,” he said.

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The United States isn’t doing this; in fact, they have increased oil and gas production while also lowering emissions to a greater degree than Canada. That’s a feat they have accomplished without a carbon tax or a cap on oil and gas emissions.

For Trudeau, punishing those who emit is religion; he won’t budge from that position unless it could cost him votes, like the carbon tax on home heating oil in Atlantic Canada.

The reality is that Trudeau is selective on his desire to punish people for emissions based on where they live and how they vote. That’s why Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced a lawsuit over the carbon tax carve-out for home heating oil in Atlantic Canada last week.

Sure, home heating oil is used to a degree across the country, but when we are talking single digits in some parts of the country and 25% or more in regions where the Liberals are “popular” then you get the feeling there is a political aspect to this.

If there were more oil and gas plays in Atlantic Canada, Trudeau wouldn’t be moving ahead with the policy that he’s pushing now. Like his father before him, Justin Trudeau is willing to sacrifice votes in Western Canada if he can score more votes in Eastern Canada.

Trudeau is Canada’s Divider in Chief.

There isn’t a regional, ethnic or religious division that Trudeau won’t try to exploit in order to hold onto power. This is a man who would rather see us fight amongst each other than stand together in unity.

Yet, all the while, Trudeau is preaching love, harmony, inclusiveness, and speaking out against division while actively pushing division.

How else do you explain that he’s willing to enact policies that will harm one part of the country, with little environmental impact?

Trudeau’s plans won’t just hurt Canada’s oil and gas sector, they will hurt the entire Canadian economy – but not him. His plans will make life more expensive for the average family, they will lower our personal incomes.

So, the average person will feel the pain, but Trudeau will be well above it.

This man needs to be removed from office before he causes even more damage to this country.