Disheartening, but true....
You think you can vote your way out of Canada's problems?
90 of 🇨🇦's 105 Senators are appointed by Trudeau. They serve for life (until age 75). And then there's all the woke judges that are embedded in the system.... You're not gonna vote them out either.
No matter where you look in the Canadian system, the rot is embedded so deep that it makes your head spin... and there's nothing anyone can do to reverse it.
In theory, fixing this dilemma would require re-opening the constitution to solve these obvious design flaws, but in reality that's a non-starter too. It's such a complicated process that you quickly realize that 🇨🇦's constitution was designed to frustrate attempts by "we the people" to make changes.
Read up on what happened to the Meech Lake and Charlottetown Accords - many of the changes they tried to make were awful (blatant WEF-type stuff), but the process is illuminating to understand what we would face if we wanted to make changes to this broken system - and bear in mind that those attempts at opening the constitution were led by the govt (not a citizen-led effort), and it still failed.
Even if the public was on board with changing our constitutional structure, constitutional reform would go absolutely nowhere, especially with Trudeau's judges and Senators hanging over the process, and that's before we deal with all the provincial obstacles that mirror many of the problems we face at the federal level - it's not like the federal govt could make changes to the constitution without the provinces signing off on it. Plus there's all the special interest groups that also have to sign off on constitutional changes. 😵💫
And would constitutional reform to rein in the power of the govt get enough public support to meet the required threshold? Consider all the citizens who have a vested interest in preserving the status quo at the expense of everyone else because they work for our bloated govt, or get govt contracts, subsidies, or welfare, or because they benefit in some way from protectionist regulations.
The Canadian system was designed to keep citizens at arm's length -- that's what our infamous constitutional clause "peace, order, and good governance" actually means -- it's a euphemism for a carefully controlled top-down version of "democracy" -- there's nothing "we the people" about it. The very people whose power needs to be reigned in or who benefit from the current broken system are also the gatekeepers whose approval we need to make change to the status quo. Good luck.
The idea of 🇨🇦 merging with the 🇺🇸 is a lifeline - a chance to give ourselves a constitution that actually serves the people rather than the govt. And simultaneously (as part of the conditions for joining the US), it would provide an opportunity to demand some much needed changes to the American system to rein in the relentless centralization of power going on there, in violation of their Founding Fathers's vision. Win-win.
But I doubt it will happen, partially for the same reasons why it's virtually impossible to reform the Canadian constitution, and partially because so many Canadians don't understand how the Canadian system is structured (they project what they know about the US system onto our own) and thus mistakenly think they can vote their way out of this mess by changing the Prime Minister and putting a different party in power.
... But even if we could get past all those hurdles, I wouldn't pin too much hope on Trump's offer because the Republicans might actually back out of the idea once they realize that, in view of Canada's socialist voting history (and our obsession with socialized health care), adding Canada to the United States would probably decisively tip the 🇺🇸 electoral college into the hands of the Democrats for generations. And so, the Canadian Voter might actually be the poison pill that scuttles the whole thing before it ever really gets off the ground. 🤷♂️
In other words, we're in a bit of a pickle.
But the first step in finding a solution is taking off the rose-tinted glasses and fully understanding the nature of the problems confronting us.
https://x.com/JuliusRuechel/status/1873029832478704050?
Do you like math?
Do you like making climate activists cry?
If so, this post is for you. 🫵
They advertise utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind as being “eco-friendly” energy technologies because they emit less CO₂ over their total lifecycle. Emissions is all the “greens” like to jack their sausage holsters about. But, when you point out to them just how land intensive their “green” energy technologies are, they squirm trying to justify being vehemently opposed to nuclear fission — a near-infinite, carbon-free, energy-dense electricity source — and working to destroying the landscape with massive amounts of solar cells and wind farms to save the planet.
Let's run the numbers, shall we?
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The standard nuclear reactor has a 1,000-megawatt (MW) rating. This means that each plant is, on average, installed with 1,000 MW of power capacity. A 1,000-MW nuclear facility occupies, on average, just over 1 square mile (640 acres) of land.
To figure out just how many homes a single 1,000 MW ...
Thorold Council Challenges Federation of Canadian Municipalities on Climate Program
—A Historic First
On May 28, 2024, the Thorold, Ontario City Council made history as the first municipal council in Canada to thoroughly question representatives from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) about the Partners for Climate Protection (PCP) Program—a program already adopted by over 500 municipalities across the country.
The meeting exposed glaring gaps in the program’s transparency, accountability, and scientific grounding, raising concerns that had apparently never been addressed before, despite widespread municipal participation.
The Presentation That Raised Eyebrows
Kiana Simmons, Project Officer, and Lindsay Telfer, Manager of Capacity Development at FCM’s Green Municipal Fund, presented an overview of the PCP Program. They described it as a voluntary, no-cost initiative designed to help municipalities create and implement local climate action plans.
Key claims made by the presenters included:
No Cost for Participation – Membership is free, ...
From Armstrong Economics.
Stratospheric aerosol injection is the latest proposed method to save civilization from human-induced climate change. I jokingly say that the climate change agenda believes they can simply throw money at the sky to change the weather, and I suppose there is a little truth in every “just kidding” as this method is precisely that.
Volcanoes produce clouds of sulfur dioxide, naturally injecting converted gas into the stratosphere, forming sulfate aerosols that reflect sunlight back to space. Scientists believe that this naturally occurring phenomenon can be replicated. Simply sending sulfur dioxide into the air would not work as it produces solar and terrestrial heat and would actually create a warming effect. Scientists proposed an alternative that involves diamond dust.
As explained in Life Science: “The team compared the cooling efficiency of diamond particles with that of aluminum and calcite particles using an Earth system model that simulates the full ...
