"Trudeau Has Effectively Said 'Screw You' To The Milennials Who Brought Him To Office"
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Overall, Trudeau's statements represent “a set of messages that appear to be at odds — on one hand, espousing the merits of pricing carbon to combat global warming, and on the other, supporting fossil fuel pipelines such as Keystone XL and the $6.8-billion Trans Mountain expansion,” the Globe and Mail noted. “He says they go hand in hand.”
Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers President Tim McMillan said global competitiveness is his industry’s most important issue, but didn’t take issue with Trudeau’s analysis. “We have to do that in a way that balances environmental performance and the economy, and that sometimes takes difficult, thoughtful decisions,” he told the Globe. The comment fed Gilchrist’s headline argument at DeSmog Canada that Trudeau’s “new pipeline talking point” comes “straight from the oil industry.”
But Trudeau may yet pay a political price for trying to play both sides on energy and pipelines. At The Tyee, Geoff Dembicki warns the PM is wrong if he thinks he can increase fossil production and keep faith with the youth voters who elected his government. “Trudeau has effectively said ‘screw you’ to the generation of millennials who brought him to office,” and “for the rest of his time in office, we won’t let him forget it.” “Don’t misunderstand our anger. This isn’t just some idealistic outburst. If you’re in your 30s or younger, you have a much different relationship to climate change than our leaders. Unlike them, you could be alive to see the sea level rise that swallows every coastal city on the planet.”
Dembicki addresses the argument that the pipeline approvals were the political price of building consensus for a national climate plan. At National Observer, for example, Sandy Garossino made the case that Kinder Morgan isn’t the hill for the climate and energy community to die on. “It’s time to count our blessings and take one for the team,” she wrote. “Let Kinder Morgan pass.” “The problem with this argument is that it ignores scientific reality,” according to Dembicki, citing a study in the journal Nature. “The acceleration of oilsands that Trudeau is enabling would make it hard — if not impossible — to keep global temperature rise below the relatively safe threshold of 2°C.”
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http://www.nationalobserver.com/2017/01/04/opinion/trudeau-risks-youth-vote-two-faced-energy-policy
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Anyone who expected him not to behave like one was smoking unicorn dung.
When he got elected I was happy that a quasi-hipster had booted that can of grey fascist stodge aka Little Stevie Harper in the nuts, but I have never expected him to be anything but a pol with a cool image.
Another case of hope and change, again...
Oops, did I use my outside voice for that? 