Politicians lie.  That is what makes elections so frustrating.  When a politician says he will do something, is he lying?  The answer is usually but not always yes.  So how do you tell?  Unfortunately, the answer is that you can’t, but you can apply some statistics to help guide you.

This is what I have noticed.  If a politician promises to do something beneficial, they are likely but not necessarily lying.  If they are promising to do something destructive or remarkably stupid, they are not lying.  They will do it.

This should make it easy for voters, right?  Just don’t vote for politicians that promise to do stupid things.  I wish it were that easy, but it is not.  When politicians promise to do something stupid, they are still lying.  What they lie about are the imaginary benefits the destructive policies will produce.  That brings us to Mark Carney and Net Zero.

As for net zero, many credible scientists have debunked the notion that this goal is achievable by the 2050 target date without demolishing our economy and standard of living — if it is achievable at all.

Net zero is the most stupid and destructive policy imaginable and Mark Carney will do it.  That is why he spends so much time lying to us about how beneficial “green energy” is.  Carney says he will make Canada an energy superpower with renewable energy.  This is a lie.  His reason for doing this is also a lie.  There is no climate emergency.

The climate is changing.  That is what climate does. There has never been a period in earth’s history when climate did not change and warm periods in the past did not lead to runaway warming.

Around 1,000AD, a little delicate moss (just like the one above), lived in a spot in Antarctica which is now locked in snow and ice all year round, and considered hyper arid and perennially frozen. No one expected to find nodding thread-moss (Pohlia Nutans) on Boulder Clay Glacier.

Researchers had to drill through 11 meters of ice to find it (or what’s left of it) and managed to date it to 1,050 years before present. This puts it smack in the centre of the Medieval Warm Period, when Vikings were marauding England, showing that this part of Antarctica was warmer 1000 years ago than it is today, even though humans have poured forth 1.8 trillion tons of greenhouse gases.

At the same time as the mosses grew, there was a veritable population boom of penguins and elephant seals in the Ross Sea next door, right up until the brutal cold of the Little Ice Age wiped them out.

Canadians go to the polls tomorrow.  Many Canadians have already voted in the advanced polls, so this warning is too late for some but for those yet to vote please listen.  Mark Carney is a Liar.  You cannot have your cake and eat it too.  It is impossible to have the benefits of a modern industrial economy without the cheap reliable energy that makes it possible.

Pierre Poilievre is promising to do some very beneficial things, so it is impossible to judge whether he is lying.  Mark Carney is promising to do 1 very destructive thing so it is 100% certain that he will do it.  Carney is only lying about the horrible consequences we will suffer from his certain stupidity.  A vote for Poilievre then is a vote for an uncertain future.  It could be good, bad, or anything in between.  A vote for Carney cares much more certainty.  It will be bad; very bad.  Voting for Mark Carney is a vote for guaranteed future poverty.

Canada is in the middle of an election Campaign.  Canadians have been calling for an election for 2 years and it is no wonder why.  Canada is in terrible shape economically.  The Trudeau liberals were hiding the economic problems with increased immigration and government spending.  Both of those things make absolute GDP higher but the real measure is GDP per capita.  Is the economy growing faster than the population? That number tells a very different story about the effectiveness of liberal economics.

Overall GDP has been growing a bit the last couple of years amid a population surge driven by record immigration levels, the new Canadians having to at least buy the necessities of life. But the per-person share of GDP fell for six consecutive quarters recently in Canada

Not only has the unnecessary immigration caused a falling standard of living, it has also caused a housing crisis.  Canada is a nation of power mad Bureaucrats.  The over regulation that goes hand in hand with overactive government has made it impossible to get anything done.  The result is that Canada cannot build houses fast enough to keep up with immigration the country did not need in the first place.

Former prime minister Justin Trudeau himself admitted the Liberals mismanaged immigration. A lax federal approach toward temporary foreign workers and international students opened the doors to an unprecedented surge.

Canada desperately needs new government and they got it, sort of, when Justin Trudeau stepped down.  The Liberal Party chose Mark Carney as a new leader and Carney called an election before Canadians could figure out things have really not gotten better at all.

On Paper Mark Carney is a great candidate but the real Mark Carney is not the Mark Carney on his resume.  Mark Carney is a sleazy businessman who doesn’t pay Canadian income tax.

Despite repeated attempts to get a clear answer from Carney’s campaign, there is little clarity on where the man who claims to be “all in for Canada” pays his personal income tax.

And, who made sure the companies he ran did not pay income tax to anyone by registering them in Tax havens.

Liberal Leader Mark Carney’s former firm Brookfield has registered more than a dozen business entities to an infamous address in the Cayman Islands that former U.S. president Barack Obama once described as either “the largest building in the world or the largest tax scam in the world.”

CTV News reviewed U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings between 2015 and 2024 that show the global investment firm registered limited companies and limited partnerships to a five-storey building in the capital of the self-governing British Overseas Territory.

That building is known as Ugland House, and is home to at least 18,000 corporate entities. The Cayman Islands charges no income or corporate taxes.

Mark Carney an unethical business man.  That is not a good starting point for a Prime Minister but the story gets even worse than that.  Carney is as dishonest as Trudeau and just as stupid.  He believes all of the stupid things that Trudeau does.  If you ignore his election tactics of suspending the hated carbon tax and look a little deeper you will find nothing has changed.  All of the Trudeau stupidity has survived the leadership change.

After enduring ten years of the far-left misrule of the vapid and eternally callow Justin Trudeau, Canada has a new prime minister, but not any new ideas or any change of direction at the top: the new boss, Mark Carney, is the same as the old boss, a shallow leftist ideologue without an original thought in his entire sorry cerebellum, which is filled instead with the usual talking points of the leftist establishment that still wields power in much of the Western world.

Carney won’t change a damn thing.  He hasn’t even changed Justin’s speech writers.  Here he is reciting all the same language that Justin used to justify censorship.

“There are many serious issues that we’re dealing with. One of them is the sea of misogyny, antisemitism, hatred, and conspiracy theories — this sort of pollution online that washes over our virtual borders from the United States… The more serious thing is when it affects how people behave in our society. 

It is the same Script from the same writers, all that changed was the actor.  Mark Carney is a terrible candidate and this election should be a cake walk for Pierre Poilievre but it is not.  Carney is leading in the polls because the liberals and their lap dog media have succeeded in making this a one issue election; “Orange man bad”.

Over-simplification, I suggest, has also led to the mistaken idea in this election that a vote for Carney is a vote against U.S. President Donald Trump. The Canadian economy has been in decline for years and Trump’s become the scapegoat.

Anti-Americanism is always just under the surface with Canadians.  So, it is not hard to scapegoat American politicians for problems caused by Canadian politicians.  It is even easier when that politician is Donald Trump.  For some strange reason Trump derangement syndrome with Canadian progressives is even stronger than it is among American Democrats.  I would say that TDS so strong that it clouds their thinking, but Canadian progressives are not prone to thinking in the first place.

Canadian’s disdain for independent thought and irrational, emotional, response to Donald trump is making it easy for the liberals.  We are 2 weeks from an election and we are not even talking about real problems.  We are completely ignoring the previous decade of incompetence and tyranny.

With an election coming in a few weeks, Canadians have been offered little more than political theatre. The two parties competing for power seem to have joined forces against an invented American enemy, allowing Canadians a distraction from the very real problems that exist in their own country. How have our memories been wiped clean so quickly?

I really can’t think of an issue in our country that was not caused by our own governments.  Canada is over governed.  High taxes, over regulation and progressive politics that place Canadian citizens at the bottom of the hierarchy are destroying our country.  But, Canadians don’t see it.  Some are just blind, others are willfully blind.  We choose to blame external actors rather than hold our own politicians accountable.

It is sad.  You can’t fix Canada without fixing Canadians and Canadians don’t want to be fixed.

Donald Trump promised to end the Ukraine war in 1 day.  That has not happened.  The reason it has not happened is that Trump needs to change perceptions.  The western world still clings to the belief that a peace deal will include a complete withdrawal of Russian Troops.  This will never happen because Putin has no reason to agree to this condition.

The west is governed by overgrown, unintelligent, children.  The difference between children and adults is that children can’t always differentiate between reality and fantasy.  Calling any deal with Russia right now a peace deal is a fantasy.  Trump might get away with calling it a peace deal but what it will really be is a conditional surrender.

Russia is winning and will ultimately take all of Ukraine if Ukraine and western leaders don’t drop their childish fantasy of defeating Russia on the battlefield.  People in the west were sold a lie.  The lie is that NATO’s advanced weapon system would crush Russia.  This turns out to be a complete fantasy.  The Ukraine war has shown that NATO’s advanced weaponry only looks good on paper and controlled tests.  It is too delicate to be used in an actual battle.

What I find shocking is how long it took us to figure this out.  To me it was apparent almost from the start of the conflict.  We flooded Ukraine with weapons, and it made no difference.  Russia methodically advanced.  The media told us Russia was losing even though every day Russia occupied more of the Ukraine.  That is why I wrote this almost 2 years ago on this blog.

Liberals have kept the Ukraine war going for months.  In the fantasy world they live in NATO is so powerful and Russia so weak there was no way that Ukraine would not prevail.  The problem with fantasy is they eventually reality will intrude.

NATO has shown itself to be a paper tiger.  All the advanced weapons we sent to the Ukraine just got more Ukrainians killed.  NATO is also quickly running out of weapons to send while Russia seems able to produce an endless supply.

The perpetual children who win elections in the west think they are strong when really, they are weak.  The west cannot defeat Russia in a protracted war and Putin knows this.  Putin is not afraid of NATO, so he has no reason to agree to any of our childish demands.  Trump is not a child.  He knows Russia has won and the latest deal he has in Front of Putin allows Russia to keep what they have already captured.

President Trump’s envoy to Ukraine has said the country could be partitioned “almost like Berlin after World War Two” as part of a peace deal.

I doubt even this will work.  Putin does not need to agree to anything.  If Trump can get this done, then he really is a master deal maker.  I am sure none of the other western leaders will like this deal, but children should really be seen and not heard.  Especially when it comes to war.

The list of ridiculous government spending DOGE is finding grows by the day.  I found these wasteful projects to be particularly interesting.

Over $1 million for ‘ SILOS: Structural Inequities across Layers Of Social-Context as Drivers of HIV and Substance Use’

Over $1 million for ‘Measures of structural stigmatization and discrimination for HIV research with Latine sexual and gender minorities’

Over $100,000 for ‘Monitoring Microaggressions and Adversities to Generate Interventions for Change (MMAGIC) for Black Women Living with HIV’

Over $250,000 for “Culturally-focused HIV Advancements through the Next Generation for Equity (CHANGE) Training Program”.

The studies on that list have 2 things in common;

1. They are all ridiculous.
2. And, they are all linked to HIV without having anything to do with HIV.

I have discussed this before.  This is how you manufacture a scientific consensus.  People who pursue advanced science degrees are smart enough to understand that linking their research to a trending issue increases your chance of funding.  That is how the government manipulates them.  When the government wants a consensus they hand out grants to research that pays lip service to the topic of the day.  This is exactly what fuels the scientific “consensus” on climate change.  Government agencies fund research tied to climate change even when that research really has nothing to do with climate change.

A couple of decades ago I did an intellectual exercise.  I went to the IPCC web page and clicked on the research page.  I found hundreds of papers with climate change in the title but very few papers actually about climate change.  The vast majority of the papers were studies about what might happen if the earth warms.  They made no comment on how the warming might happen but that makes no difference to the consensus sausage making.  All of the research into the possible effects of warming is counted as part of the consensus.  I mean why would someone research the effects of warming if they did not agree that the warming will happen?

Congratulations you now have a fake consensus to fool the public with.  It is sad how well this works.  If people had paid more attention in science class they would realize that “consensus” is not part of the scientific method, neither is peer review.  It does not matter how many scientists agree or disagree with anything.  All that matters is who has the right answer.  In 1933 Albert Einstein fled NAZIS Germany.  Einstein was a rare scientist who had public recognition so his defection was embarrassing for the NAZIS.  To discredit him 100 German scientists published a critique of his work called “100 Authors against Einstein”.  When asked about this “consensus” Einstein quipped “if I was wrong it would only take one”

A consensus means nothing to science but it is a powerful tool for governments.  Governments use the consensus argument to intimidate people into silence.  Anyone who questions the consensus driven narrative is easily marginalized.  They are just heretics who have no right to question all of those scientists.  The purpose is to shut down any questions about very questionable science like this.

Every ton of carbon dioxide we emit is supposedly going to cause $220 USD in losses in the future, which justifies throwing lots of money at efforts to reduce emissions — like subsidizing EVs and solar panels, and inventing cricket burgers. This is called the Social Cost of Carbon (SCC). But half of that imaginary cost was the devastation higher temperatures would theoretically wreak on agriculture — which doesn’t make sense given that plants eat CO2 for breakfast. But for years bureaucrats and scientists have been telling us the damage in crops was going to cost $102USD per ton of carbon, and investors and politicians have been feeding that into their cash registers, and it’s all wrong.

Once again thanks go out to Jo Nova for her article exposing the fraud underpinning the climate cult.

In 2014 governments wanted justification to tax carbon dioxide.  Think about that for just a moment.  The government wanted to tax air.  No one would have agreed to this if the government could not prove somehow that the air had a cost associated with it.  So, grants were given to researchers to prove how expensive Carbon dioxide induced warming could be.  Again this research was not about whether CO2 could cause dangerous warming but about the possible impacts of warming.  Why prove the cause when you can jump right to the effects.

The researchers dutifully did what they were paid to do.  They produced research that placed a high cost on CO2 largely due to lower crop yields.  According to them any warming at all caused reduced crop yields.

Anyone who knows anything about history knew that this research was fraudulent.  Crops do not fail in warm periods they fail in cold periods.  Warm periods are good for crops.  We know that because the earth has been warmer and humans prospered during those periods.  Warm periods were so good for humans that we used to call them climate optimums.

All of the research underpinning the climate hysteria is fraudulent.  Anyone who dares point out the fraud is shouted down with the consensus argument.  This will continue until the public takes the pedestal out from under scientists.  A science degree does not make someone virtuous.   Scientists are people with all the usual human fallibilities.  They can be wrong and their opinions can be bought.  A consensus can be manufactured with the proper application of money.

Science is not a thing.  It is not owned by anyone.  It is a process of discovery that cannot happen without questions.  If you are not allowed to question it, it is not science.  Anyone who shouts you down with the consensus argument is hiding the truth.  Or, they are a useful idiot unwittingly helping the government propagate lies.

There is no climate emergency.  Don’t take my word for that though.  Go out and ask your own questions.