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Carney Climate Plan is More of the Same

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 Mark Carney has released his climate platform for his leadership bid for the federal Liberal party of Canada, but it is just ‘more of the same,’ says Friends of Science Society in a new report by Robert Lyman.

Titled “Putting Lipstick on a Pig,” Lyman’s report reveals the devastating financial impact of current policies, denouncing Carney’s plan to impose ever more stringent regulations, to shift the unpopular consumer-facing carbon tax to a higher burden on industry. Lyman denounced Carney’s interest in adopting the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), which goes into effect in the EU this year. CBAM is a tariff on imports from countries that don’t have carbon emission abatement programs equivalent to the EU’s or Canada’s. Onerous, mandatory Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reporting is inherent in CBAM implementation.

Friends of Science Society had issued a letter to the International Sustainability Standards Board in 2022. In it, potential financial burdens and social damages for mandatory emissions reporting in the USA were summarized by Steve Soukup, author of “The Dictatorship of Woke,” as, “The SEC’s own estimates suggest that the overall cost of disclosure and compliance for public companies will rise from approximately $3.8 billion per year to over $10.2 billion—a more than 250 percent increase, based on this rule alone.”

Carney is former governor of the Bank of England and of the Bank of Canada, and past UN climate finance ‘czar.’ He favors mandatory emissions reporting. He was a principal architect of the Global Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) which intended to have the world of finance sway markets. In the US House Judiciary Committee report “Climate Control…” “the committee claims the ‘climate cartel’ is waging a ‘global war on the American way of life.'”

Curiously, in in his keynote speech at the 2021 UN Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI) China Climate Neutrality Week, Carney thanks China for the impetus for establishing the Network for Greening the Financial System and the groundwork for the mandatory emissions reporting which he now promotes.

Key banks and influential asset managers have since left GFANZ and similar organizations have disbanded as the US antitrust investigation continues.

Other Canadian commentators disapprove Carney’s climate plan. The Financial Post of Feb. 11, 2025, published an op-ed “Hiding the Costs of Net Zero doesn’t Reduce Them.” Writing in “The Hub,” energy analyst Heather Exner-Pirot is blunt about Carney’s plan – it is outdated, and the public have moved on to affordability and energy security concerns.

Far from ‘the science is settled,’ a new collection of scientific papers, posted on the Heritage Foundation’s site, demonstrate much of the alarmist rhetoric regarding climate change is vastly overstated. These papers align closely with and support the Trump administration’s current energy policy in the United States.

A new Friends of Science video “Nix Net Zero or Climate Billions will Bankrupt Canada” on the Clean Electricity Regulations released in Dec. 2024, shows that Canada would spend $690 Billion just to reduce 8% of its emissions from the electricity sector – possibly as much as $12 trillion to reduce all emissions. Canada’s annual GDP is only $2.2 trillion. Fraser Institute just released a report “Decarbonizing Canada’s Electricity Generation” on Canada’s impractical, unrealistic decarbonization goals.

Despite President Trump having pulled America out of the Paris Agreements and all other climate-related financial obligations, a group of states and cities called “America-is-all-In” vows to continue its forms of climate action, to meet Paris targets.

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Friends of Science Society is an independent group of earth, atmospheric and solar scientists, engineers, and citizens who are celebrating its 22nd year of offering climate science insights. After a thorough review of a broad spectrum of literature on climate change, Friends of Science Society has concluded that the sun is the main driver of climate change, not carbon dioxide (CO2).

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Trudeau government buys 500k bird flu vaccines to be ‘ready’ for potential ‘health threats’

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By Anthony Murdoch

Bill Gates and Dr. Anthony Fauci spent years funding research to “develop a bird flu pathogen capable of infecting humans,” as Alexis Baden-Mayer showed in an article published last year. Some of this gain-of-function research has taken place  in U.S. Department of Defense-funded biolabs in Ukraine 

The federal government under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has bought 500,000 doses of bird flu vaccines for humans to be “ready” for any future “potential health threats.” 

Canada’s Public Health Agency announced yesterday it purchased GSK’s human vaccine against avian influenza. The agency says the jabs will not be distributed to people at this point but notes that 60 percent of the doses will go to all provinces and territories with the rest going into a large federal stockpile. 

According to the Public Health Agency, the jabs are to be ready to be given to those who are considered at increased risk such as those who are in contact with animals.  

As of now, the Public Health Agency says the risk of a bird flu outbreak in the general public is low, however, on November 9, Canada reported its first domestic human case of the bird flu.  

As reported by LifeSiteNews, Dr. Peter McCullough, a highly published cardiologist, has said gain-of-function research is a likely explanation for a “jump” in bird flu animal-to-human cases, alluding to the fact that it has historically only been detected in animals. He called for a shutdown of U.S. gain-of-function labs and warned that animal culling and bird flu vaccines would only create “more resistant strains.” 

Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, who is a strong proponent of the COVID shots, said that by buying the bird flu jabs, “we are enhancing our capacity to protect people in Canada and respond rapidly to emerging public health challenges.” 

When it comes to the bird flu, recently, Dr. Robert Malone, a virologist and pioneer-turned-critic of mRNA technology, said U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is having high-level discussions about distributing bird flu mRNA “vaccines.” 

Malone pointed out that Dr. Gerald Parker, DVM, who was recently appointed the White House Pandemic czar, is a “big fan” of Peter Hotez, a radical pro-vaccine scientist who has claimed that anti-vaccine activism is a “major killing force globally.” 

Dr. Joseph Mercola also pointed out in 2022 that Bill Gates and Dr. Anthony Fauci have spent years funding research to “develop a bird flu pathogen capable of infecting humans,” as Alexis Baden-Mayer showed in an article published last year. Some of this gain-of-function research has taken place  in U.S. Department of Defense-funded biolabs in Ukraine.  

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Mark Carney has history of supporting CBDCs, endorsed Freedom Convoy crackdown

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By Anthony Murdoch

Carney also said last week that he is willing to use all government powers, including “emergency powers,” to enforce his energy plan if elected prime minister.   

World Economic Forum-linked Liberal Party leadership frontrunner Mark Carney has a history of supporting central bank digital currencies, and in 2022 supported “choking off the money” donated to the Freedom Convoy.

In his 2021 book Value(s), Carney said that the “future of money” is a “central bank stablecoin, known as a central bank digital currency or CBDC.” 

He noted in his book that such a currency would be similar to current cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, but without the private nature afforded to it by its decentralization.   

“It is simply untenable in democracies that the core of the monetary system could be based on forms of electronic private money whose creators control large blocks of the currency, like Bitcoin,” he wrote. “Cryptocurrencies are not the future of money.”

Carney noted that a CBDC, if “properly designed,” could serve “all the functions to which private cryptocurrencies and stablecoins aspire while addressing the fundamental legal and governance issues that will, in time, undermine those alternatives.” 

Expanding on his worldview in relation to CBDCs, Carney suggested that “fear” can be taken advantage of to shape the future of money.

“With fear on the march, people were willing to surrender to Hobbes’ ‘Leviathan’ such basic rights as the freedom to leave their homes,” he wrote. “And so it is with money. People will support the delegation to independent central banks of the tough decisions that are necessary to maintain the value of money provided the authorities deliver monetary and financial stability.” 

Some Canadians are alarmed by the prospect of CBDCs, a fear that only worsened after the Liberals under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau froze hundreds of bank accounts it deemed were importantly linked to the 2022 Freedom Convoy. 

During the Freedom Convoy, Carney wrote in an op-ed for the Globe and Mail, “Those who are still helping to extend this occupation must be identified and punished to the full force of the law,” adding that “Drawing the line means choking off the money that financed this occupation.” 

In addition to his comments on CBDCs, Carney has a history of promoting anti-life and anti-family agendas, including abortion and LGBT-related  efforts. He has also previously endorsed the carbon tax and even criticized Trudeau when the tax was exempted from home heating oil to reduce costs for some Canadians.  

Carney also said last week that he is willing to use all government powers, including “emergency powers,” to enforce his energy plan if elected prime minister.   

The Liberal Party of Canada will choose its next leader, who will automatically become prime minister, on March 9, after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that he plans to step down as Liberal Party leader once a new leader has been chosen.     

In contrast to Carney, Poilievre has promised that if he is elected prime minister, he would stop any implementation of a “digital currency” or a compulsory “digital ID” system.   

When it comes to a digital Canadian dollar, the Bank of Canada found that Canadians are very wary of a government-backed digital currency, concluding that a “significant number” of citizens would resist the implementation of such a system.  

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