IMMIGRATION CAUSES CLIMATE CHANGE
As readers of this Substack know, Dr. Theresa Tam has breathlessly declared that Canada is in the midst of a full blown “Climate Change Public Health Emergency”. According to Tam, this “Emergency” is caused primarily by “capitalism, ableism and heteronormativity.” In other words, the minority of able bodied, family-oriented Canadians who are left, that are still employed in privately owned businesses are a problem that has to be eliminated if we are ever to end the fluctuations in the weather that terrify those who identify as kittens or snowflakes.
On the subject of public sector employment according to the Financial Post, the number of people “employed” by all levels of government in Canada has increased by 22.3 % in the last eight years. Needless to say, government employees do not actually contribute to the overall taxbase. Governments who pay people to then simply give the government part of that money back aren’t contributing to the wealth creation that is the foundation of the modern welfare state.
What Canada’s Prime Minister Trudeau and Climate Dictator Guillbeault also refuse to speak to is how their radical open border immigration policies are undermining all of their ridiculous efforts to change the weather through punitive and economically regressive “carbon taxation” policies.
Canadians are painfully aware that Trudeau’s “Weather Tax” has doubled their home heating costs, increased their vehicle fuel costs and according to the Bank of Canada added 17% to Canadian inflation rates. All of these idiotic policies have been put in place without any acknowledgment by the witless Trudeau and Guillbeault that absent agreement by China and India to reduce carbon emissions; that even IF Canada was to reach so called “net zero” it would have no overall effect on global climate other than from the perspective of left-wing virtue signaling. This of course ignores the fact that Canada, as a country, is a massive carbon sink that absorbs far more carbon than we emit.
We can all agree that immigrants do not arrive in Canada through the carbon free waving of the Trudeau fairy wand or the application of pixie dust. They all arrive in Canada through some means of carbon fueled transportation. When they arrive here by car, plane, truck, boat or plane they all arrive with a massive carbon deficit. They all need to be kept warm, use carbon fueled transportation to get jobs or to collect welfare paid for by hard working Canadians, who then have to burn more fossil fuels to support them. According to recent reports, hundreds of thousands of Trudeau’s “immigrants” will use some form of carbon-based transportation to smuggle themselves into the United States, because the price of home heating is so high in Canada thanks to Trudeau’s “Warmth Tax” that they promptly leave Canada for points in the southern United States where more than half of your income isn’t required to pay rent or keep warm and where there isn’t a Trudeau created housing “crisis”.
Someone needs to explain to Trudeau that taking people from warm climates and allowing them to move to the coldest country on earth requires burning massive amounts of fossil fuels and energy that would otherwise NOT be required to keep these people warm.
Trudeau’s immigration policies should be decried by lefties everywhere as a climate crime of egregious proportion against a defenseless Mother Earth.
It’s also curious that Trudeau has implemented his open border immigration policies without any or adequate consultation with Canada’s indigenous citizens. Certainly, from an indigenous perspective flooding the country with immigrants from countries intolerant of their own respective indigenous cultures and who are completely ignorant of the rights, interests, and perspectives of indigenous people in Canada is not respectful. From the perspective of indigenous people in Canada, ALL outstanding land claims and treaty and aboriginal rights issues should be resolved prior to bringing in more “settlers” to occupy indigenous lands and put pressure on already strained indigenous resources. Trudeau’s complete disregard for Canada’s indigenous citizens in the context of getting their “full and informed consent” as required by the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People is reminiscent of the first “National Indigenous People’s Day” now known nationally as “Trudeau Thumb Your Nose While Flying By Private Jet Over Indigenous People to Go Surfing Day”.
Another aspect of the Trudeau open border immigration policy is the degree to which Trudeau has decreased the personal safety of Canadian Citizens and undermined our national security along with our relationship with our largest trading partner, The United States of America.
A source inside “Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada” has advised me that fully 50% of the Immigration files that cross “they/them’s” desk are “red flagged” as opposed to “green flagged”. What this means is that as many as 50% of Trudeau’s “Refugees” and open border “Immigrants” have “significant” issues with their status including significant criminal histories. These issues range from terrorist affiliations, sexual assaults, and other crimes of violence, through to other significant crimes including drug smuggling and fentanyl dealing. Notwithstanding concerns of this nature being noted on their files, automatic deportation is rarely if ever considered. Hardcore criminals and terrorists including members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) agents are admitted to Canada to raise funds and build terrorist and espionage networks. Simply ask yourself whether Trudeau’s invitation to the Chinese Red Army to train at our winter warfare training facility in Petawawa was the result of an MSS influence operation. It is also an open question as to whether terrorists of all nationalities and military age Chinese MSS agents now outnumber the effective number of trained CANADIAN combat soldiers in Canada.
The concern of many security experts is that far too many so-called Immigrants to Canada are here to raise money for foreign wars that decrease the security of Canadians abroad. Security experts are also concerned that Trudeau is either negligently or intentionally creating a base for operations in Canada that are being planned or have the potential to harm the US and Western democracies. Concerns that terrorists and other governments adverse to the US see Canada as a potential launching pad for attacks on the US could severely damage our relationship with our most important defense and economic partner. Canada’s exclusion from the AUKUS Security Pact may be the tip of the iceberg of the degree to which Canada is no longer considered a reliable ally by our most important security partners.
According to many, AI may already be on track to create massive unemployment in Canada. Bringing in millions of people who speak neither of our official languages as their first language and who have no interest in assimilating or adopting basic Canadian values such as the equality of rights for women in Canadian society at large is not a recipe for social cohesion or “peace order and good government”.
On a positive note, we can all be grateful that when hundreds of Eritreans sought to beat one another to death with sticks in Northeast Calgary, that Trudeau, at least, had them leave their AK-47’s at home.
Jeffrey R.W. Rath, B.A. (Hons.), LL.B. (Hons.)
Foothills, Alberta
November 29th, 2023