Commentary
Waving the maple leaf flag around with a lot of Demosthenean hyperbole about defending Canada from imminent American aggression—all electoral campaigning a sophisticated electorate would have seen through—Mark Carney won on a platform that is still officially committed to escalation of Justin Trudeau’s outright declaration of war on the petroleum industry.
The result is that the polls indicate that approximately 30 percent of Albertans would vote to secede from Canada now. This number might presumably decline if Carney, who has been a net-zero emissions champion for decades and partially transformed the Bank of England into a formally dressed flying column of the old Greenpeace movement, reads the polls carefully and informs the climatological faction in his entourage that the climate war they all dreamed of is coming, but not now….