In the name of Canadian sovereignty, it’s time for Prime Minister Mark Carney to withdraw Canada from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the UN’s Paris climate treaty.
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Carney → ’ → Change
Canadian energy policies should not be influenced, determined or implemented at the behest of the UN’s byzantine climate bureaucracy.
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policies → influence → bureaucracy
To borrow a phrase from the federal budget, let us be “masters of our destiny” on energy.
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us → borrow → energy
The ideal time for Canada to declare its independence – even though it won’t happen – would be at the annual UN global gabfest on climate change currently being held in Antalya, Turkiye from Nov. 9 to 20.
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it → declare → 20
This is the 31st annual meeting of the UN’s Conference of the Parties – known as COP 31 – where global elites fly in on private jets and urge everyone else to lower their industrial greenhouse gas emissions, and thus their standard of living, while global emissions keep rising and in 2025, were at their highest level ever.
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emissions → know → level
GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau’s failed climate policies left us captives to the U.S. oil market
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policies → fail → market
Claims Canada's crime rate is down aren’t reporting the real story
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rate → report → story
Canada still reeling from lost decade of economic opportunity under Trudeau
Canada will not meet 2030 and 2035 targets
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Canada → reel → targets
Carney has acknowledged Canada will not meet the unrealistic 2030 and 2035 targets the previous Justin Trudeau government agreed to under the 2015 UN Paris climate treaty to reduce our emissions to at least 40% below 2005 levels by 2030 and at least 45% by 2035.
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government → acknowledge → 2035
There is no logical reason for our government to maintain a bureaucracy devoted to implementing a treaty whose emission targets we are ignoring.
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we → be → targets
None of this is surprising since no Canadian government, Liberal or Conservative, has ever met a single one of the nine emission targets they have set since 1988.
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they → meet → 1988
Under Carney, Canada, in theory, remains committed to achieving the Paris treaty goal of net-zero emissions by 2050.
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Canada → remain → 2050
But given that it took 20 years to reduce our emissions to 9.5% below 2005 levels in 2025, according to a report last month by the federally-funded Canadian Climate Institute, the idea we’ll achieve net zero 24 years from now, is absurd.
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we → give → zero
The CCI says Canada’s emissions increased by 1% last year to 691 million tonnes compared to 685 million tonnes in 2024, that Canada won’t achieve its 2030 target until 2050 and in 2050 will be 460 million tonnes above net zero.
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Canada → say → zero
The latest farce is the hypocrisy of Trudeau-era environment ministers Catherine McKenna and Steven Guilbault posting on social media while attending COP 31 that Carney’s environment minister, Julie Dabrusin, misled the public by telling The Canadian Press before leaving for the UN conference that Canada remains “absolutely committed” to achieving net zero emissions by 2050.
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Canada → post → 2050
Of course Dabrusin is misleading the public, but that’s no different from how McKenna and Guilbault misled the public when they claimed the Trudeau government was on track to meet its emission targets.
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government → mislead → targets
Costing Canadian taxpayers a fortune
The failed attempt to reach those targets under the UN Paris treaty has cost Canadian taxpayers a fortune.
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attempt → cost → fortune
There are no financial, legal, or punitive penalties under the Paris treaty for a country that fails to reach its emission targets.
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that → be → targets
But there are costs that go far beyond the $14.3 billion Canada has sent to developing countries, ostensibly to help lower their emissions, since the Trudeau government came to power in 2015.
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government → be → 2015
Overall, the federal government under Trudeau committed more than $200 billion of taxpayers’ money to 149 programs administered by 13 government agencies, in a failed attempt to meet the Paris treaty targets.
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government → commit → targets
Add in $303 billion in estimated provincial and territorial spending on climate change, administered through 364 government programs and the total comes to $503 billion, or $12,000 for every Canadian, which doesn’t include municipal government spending on climate change.
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which → add → change
Carney abandoned Trudeau government’s unrealistic targets
Carney abandoned Canada’s 2030 and 2035 unrealistic targets set by the Trudeau government because his goal of making Canada an energy superpower will require emissions to go up.
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emissions → abandon → government
That alone refutes the nonsense we’ve been told by Liberal governments since 2015 that efforts to reach the Paris treaty targets would have no negative impact on the Canadian economy.
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efforts → refute → economy
Carney’s decision to cancel the consumer carbon tax, increase Canada’s oil and natural gas exports, remove the cap on emissions in the energy sector, fast-track major infrastructure projects, including the Pacific Link pipeline from Alberta to B.C., and scrapping electrical vehicle mandates will all increase Canada’s emissions.
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decision → cancel → emissions
Withdrawing from the Paris treaty would not mean Canada could not pursue the Carney government’s agenda of lowering emissions over time, nor would it be unprecedented.
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it → withdraw → time
The Stephen Harper Conservative government withdrew from the UN’s Kyoto accord – the predecessor of the Paris treaty – in 2011.
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government → withdraw → 2011
It simply means Canada would set its own energy policies, independent of the latest climate nonsense coming out of the UN.
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Canada → mean → UN
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