Mortgaging our children

Too much focus has been placed on climate change this election.

I am not in climate change denial, just a realist.

The world population is 7,300,000,000, and Canada makes up 37,500,000, which equates to .48% of the global population. So, no matter what we do here in Canada, unless the larger polluters buy in, we won’t make a noticeable dent in climate change.

China has a population of 1.379 billion, they are still building new coal-fired power plants. India, another big polluter has a population of 1.324 billion.

For Canadians concerned about climate change, look at your own personal carbon footprint. Do you own a boat or an RV, do you fly to vacation destinations, do you drive your kids to school or let them walk?  

Justin Trudeau justifies using two jets flying his entourage back and forth across the country, saying he purchased carbon credits for them. How does cash help clean up the CO2 emissions created by these aircraft? it doesn’t, and Trudeau is a hypocrite and probably the biggest personal C02 contributor in the country.

Government should encourage new green technology by providing tax incentives for companies that research and develop these new technologies. Collecting a carbon tax on fuel that is not invested in cleaning the environment is just a cash grab.

This is like a David Copperfield illusion where he makes an elephant disappear. He gets you to focus on one thing while he manipulates another. Trudeau is running an ad saying how this election isn’t about him, a distraction dreamt up trying to put his scandals out of the voters’ minds. 

The ethics commissioner convicted him of violating the Conflict of Interest Act twice, once for a $200,000 bribe in the form of a private family vacation and then recently for the SNC-Lavalin affair, which he fixed by firing the whistle blower. No, Mr. Trudeau, it is about you and your unethical and illegal behaviour – and it’s time for a change.

Trudeau mocks and laughingly jokes that if elected, Andrew Scheer would make cuts. Someone has to show the courage to curb the spiralling debt that Trudeau wants to add to like a drunken sailor on payday. Contrary to what Trudeau says, the budget will not balance itself, and he certainly won’t.

Making up less than half of one per cent of the global population, Canada can’t control climate change, so I’ll be using my vote to put the party in power most willing to control something we can – our spiraling debt.

I love my children and grandchildren too much to pass on this ever-increasing burden that the current government is all too willing to add to in order to bribe you into voting for them by offering goods and services we can’t afford. They are mortgaging our young generations' future. I’ll be voting Conservative.

Guy Bissonnette