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Introduction
After nearly a decade of Justin Trudeau’s leadership, Canada is economically weaker, less productive, and burdened by scandal after scandal. Our per capita GDP has declined, productivity has plummeted, investment has dried up, and healthcare is in crisis.
And yet, instead of rejecting this failed vision, we are falling for a more articulate version of Trudeau—Mark Carney—a man just as arrogant and convinced of his brilliance, selling us the same environmental utopia that has never worked.
A Davos darling and former central banker, Carney is now being groomed as Canada’s next Prime Minister. His grand vision? A “green economy” that promises mythical high-paying jobs while deliberately strangling our natural resource industries—the backbone of our economy.
This is Trudeau 2.0: the same self-righteous obsession with net zero, the same corporate handouts to green cronies, and the same detachment from economic reality, but with a more polished delivery.
In his book Value(s): Building a Better World for All, Carney lays out his utopian economic ideas, presenting himself as the man who will finally make climate authoritarianism work—not because it ever has, but because he is so incredibly smart that he’ll succeed where everyone else has failed.
The problem? His vision is built on lies.
Carney’s green fantasy rests on the myth that fossil fuels can be easily replaced, that “green jobs” will be high-paying and abundant, and that Canada’s economic survival depends on leading the charge in an unwinnable global climate fight—even though our 1.4% contribution to global emissions is a rounding error compared to China’s 30%.
This is not a noble transition—it is a suicidal economic experiment where the only winners are foreign corporations, investment bankers, and the Davos elite, who will profit from government subsidies. At the same time, Canadian workers and taxpayers foot the bill.
It’s time to dismantle Carney’s green mirage, expose the net zero scam for what it is, and demand economic policies based on hard data, not political delusions.
Canada’s Economic Bedrock: Natural Resources, Not Green Dreams
First, let’s ground ourselves in reality. Solar panels or wind turbines don’t power Canada’s economy—natural resources drive it. In 2023, oil and gas alone contributed CAD 130 billion to GDP, employing 170,000 directly and supporting countless more indirectly, per Statistics Canada. Mining added CAD 58 billion, logging and forestry chipped CAD 19 billion, and agribusiness pumped CAD 88 billion annually into the system.
Together, these sectors account for roughly 25% of GDP and sustain entire regions, from Alberta’s oil patch to British Columbia’s timber towns.
Compare that to the green sector: renewable energy and clean tech barely scrape CAD 8 billion, propped up by subsidies and hype. Carney wants to throttle the former for the latter, betting our prosperity on jobs that don’t exist.
For all the rhetoric about transitioning away from resource industries, even Canada’s most heavily subsidized manufacturing sectors—automotive in Ontario and aerospace in Quebec—struggle to compete with the raw economic output of oil, gas, mining, and agribusiness. Ontario’s automotive industry remains a pillar of its economy, yet it only has over CAD 44 billion in subsidies, largely directed at electric vehicle and battery manufacturing. Despite this, the entire manufacturing sector contributes just 11.2% of Ontario’s GDP—far less than natural resources contribute nationally.
In Quebec, the aerospace sector, bolstered by government-backed loans and industrial incentives, remains highly subsidized yet contributes only CAD 28.9 billion to GDP—a fraction of what oil and gas alone generate for Canada.
Ontario and Quebec rely on massive government handouts to sustain their industries, with loans and grants keeping factories afloat.
Yet these sectors, despite all the political attention and funding, still fail to rival the economic backbone that oil, gas, mining, and agribusiness provide.
Ontario’s manufacturing sector employs just over 10% of the province’s workforce, while the aerospace sector in Quebec, despite its prominence directly and indirectly, provides only 218,000 jobs nationwide.
By contrast, Canada’s oil and gas sector alone sustains hundreds of thousands of high-paying jobs, with countless more relying on its success.
Vaclav Smil, in How the World Works (2022), dismantles the notion that we can switch to renewables or shift to green industries overnight. Fossil fuels underpin 83% of global energy—Canada’s no exception. Oil heats homes, powers trucks, and fuels exports. Carney’s vision ignores this, just as it ignores that even Canada’s most developed and heavily subsidized manufacturing industries still fail to match the strength of our natural resource economy. Betting our prosperity on an untested green transition isn’t a responsible economic plan—it’s a fantasy.
Net Zero: A PR Myth for the Gullible
Carney’s obsession hinges on net zero—a buzzword that sounds heroic but crumbles under scrutiny. Bjorn Lomborg’s False Alarm (2020) False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, hurts the Poor, and fails to fix the Planet economic critique of climate policies eviscerates it: even if Canada hit net zero tomorrow, global emissions would drop by a mere 1.4%, while China (30%) and the US (15%) continue to emit CO2. The International Energy Agency projects that the oil demand will persist past 2050, yet Carney acts as if Canada’s sacrifice will save the planet.
It’s a PR myth, a feel-good slogan for Liberal voters, not a solution. Smil concurs in Energy and Civilization (2017) Energy and Civilization: A History of Energy Reliance: Energy transitions take decades, not election cycles. Carney’s rush ignores this, risking jobs for a gesture that changes nothing.
Exposing the Lie of Those Mythical Good High-Paying Green Jobs Canadians Are Supposed to Believe
Canada’s Prime Minister and erstwhile climate messiah Mark Carney has a vision: a green utopia where mythical, high-paying jobs sprout from the ashes of our strangled natural resource industries. In his book Value(s): Building a Better World for All, he lays out his grand plans to remake the global economy, promising Canadians a glittering future of clean energy and prosperity—all while our country, a mere 1.4% contributor to global CO2 emissions, sacrifices its economic lifeblood.
This is no noble crusade; it’s a delusional fantasy peddled by a Davos darling, out of touch with the gritty reality of Canada’s reliance on oil, gas, mining, logging, and agribusiness.
The Green Jobs Mirage: Where Are They?
Carney’s pièce de résistance is the promise of “good, high-paying green jobs.” Where? The Liberals tout battery plants and clean tech, but the numbers don’t stack up. A 2023 Ontario battery factory, subsidised with CAD 3.4 billion in taxpayer cash, promises 2,600 jobs—CAD 1.3 million per job! Compare that to oil’s 170,000 existing roles. Smil’s How the World Works warns: green jobs are often low-skill (panel installers), seasonal (construction), or niche (engineers)—not the mass, stable employment Carney imagines. Lomborg adds that renewables employ fewer per megawatt globally than fossil fuels. Canada’s green fantasy won’t replace Grande Prairie’s oil rigs with equivalent paycheques.
Corporate Handouts: Displacement, Not Development
When the government shovels cash at green firms—like billions to a battery maker—it’s not job creation; it’s job displacement. Take Stellantis-LG’s Ontario plant: foreign giants pocket Canadian tax dollars, build factories with temporary labour, then churn out batteries for export. Local jobs? A fraction of promises, often low-wage assembly roles.
Meanwhile, mining firms extracting lithium or cobalt face red tape, stunting domestic growth. Smil notes in Energy and Civilization that energy shifts distort markets—subsidies prop up unviable industries, crowding out efficient ones like oil or logging. The CAD 175 billion oil sector doesn’t need handouts to thrive; green tech does, and it’s a wealth transfer to multinationals, not Canadians.
Lomborg’s False Alarm hammers this: every subsidised green job costs CAD 170,000–CAD 340,000 annually—money siphoned from taxpayers, not creating net gains. Windsor auto workers lose shifts as EV subsidies divert funds from traditional manufacturing. Markets twist, foreign CEOs grin, and Canadian workers foot the bill.
The Davos Disconnect: Champagne and Hypocrisy
Carney’s ilk—the Davos crowd—preach from private jets, untouched by their policies’ fallout. At the World Economic Forum, they sip CAD 340-a-bottle fizz, plotting net zero whilst their portfolios bulge with fossil fuel stocks. Carney, ex-Goldman Sachs and Brookfield titan, embodies this hypocrisy—his CAD 680 million fortune cushions him from the chaos he’d unleash on Alberta roughnecks or BC loggers.
Bright Green Lies skewers this elite: their green tech investments rely on dirty mining in Congo or China, yet they lecture Canada, with its 1.4% emissions, to atone. Out of touch? They’re on another planet.
Carney’s Ten Plans: A Masterclass in Delusion
Drawing on hard-nosed sceptics like Vaclav Smil, Alex Epstein, and Bjorn Lomborg, let’s rip apart Carney’s green mirage, expose net zero as a PR sham, and reveal how his corporate handouts distort markets, displace jobs, and fatten foreign wallets—all whilst the champagne-sipping elite remain unscathed.
Let’s dissect Carney’s ten big ideas from Value(s)—each a pillar of his green fantasy—and shred them with facts.
Value-Driven Markets: Carney wants markets to price “sustainability.” Reality check: Alex Epstein’s The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels (2014) The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels economic benefits of fossil fuels show fossil fuels lifted billions from poverty—green tech can’t match that. Forcing carbon costs on firms like Suncor jacks up prices, kills jobs, and achieves little when major emitters continue their practices.
Purposeful Companies: He dreams of firms embracing net-zero voluntarily. Smil notes that 80% of manufacturing relies on fossil fuels; forcing Canadian miners or loggers to “go green” slashes competitiveness.
Climate Disclosure: Mandatory carbon reporting drives accountability, says Carney. Lomborg’s False Alarm counters: it’s a bureaucratic nightmare costing firms billions, with negligible climate impact. Canadian oil workers pay the price in lost wages.
Carbon Pricing: Carney’s industrial carbon tax replaces the consumer one—same old sting. Epstein notes fossil fuels’ efficiency trumps renewables; taxing them distorts markets, displaces jobs, and hikes living costs. Canada’s 1.4% emissions shrink doesn’t justify this.
Green Infrastructure: Billions for wind farms and EV chargers. Smil highlights that renewables need costly, unreliable, mineral-intensive backup grids and batteries. Jobs are temporary construction roles, not stable positions like those in oil.
Nature-Based Solutions: Plant trees to save the world. Bright Green Lies debunks this: industrial-scale reforestation gobbles land, displaces farmers, and barely dents CO2. Agribusiness, a significant GDP contributor, gets squeezed for a photo-op.
Inclusive Transition: Retrain oil workers for green jobs. Lomborg scoffs: most green roles pay less than oil jobs. Retraining’s a pipe dream; Fort McMurray won’t become a solar hub overnight.
Global Cooperation: Carney wants Canada to lead climate talks. Smil’s realism: with 1.4% emissions, we’re a rounding error. Major emitters like Russia and Saudi Arabia will fill any market gaps.
Resilient Systems: Build a “shock-proof” green economy. Epstein’s data shows fossil fuels’ reliability; renewables falter in storms or cold snaps. Canada’s grid can’t rely on wind when blizzards hit.
Carney’s plans collapse under their weight—utopian fluff meets cold, hard facts.
But Carney is killing it on the vibe voter index, and we might find out too late.
Conclusion: A Fantasy Built on Lies
Carney’s green gospel is a lie wrapped in moral smugness. Canada’s economy—reliant on natural resources—can’t pivot to a green mirage without catastrophic loss. Net zero is a PR stunt; our 1.4% emissions don’t warrant self-flagellation. His plans are a house of cards—dismantled by data and reality. The high-paying green jobs are phantoms; subsidies displace jobs, enriching foreigners.
The elite cheer, insulated from the wreckage, as Carney strangles our natural resources for a climate crusade that changes nothing globally. Canadians deserve the truth, not this messianic fantasy—let’s protect what works. Don’t vote on a vibe; vote in your best interests. Carney will hurt you unless you work for a subsidized clean tech company or are bureaucrats. Don’t vote on a vibe. Canada did that with Trudeau’s Sunny Ways, and it’s looking mighty cloudy these days.
Additionally, Never Taught in school, unknown to the masses, ignored by the eastern elite, the unelected tenured bureaucrats, the Liberals and most politicians; —OIL, NATURAL GAS, and COAL, known broadly as hydrocarbons, provide the four pillars of modern civilization.
#1 Fertilizer nitrogen, NH3, as well as sulphur, without which 4.5 billion people would starve.
#2 Concrete; lack of which would mean no basements, large buildings, overpasses, bridges, airport runways and terminals, lane dividers on highways, ad infinitum. . .
#3 steel; no high-rise buildings, bridges, ships, highway transport trucks, cars, engines, wheels, brakes drums and on and on. . .
#4 plastic; medical tubing like IV bags, and the like, food packaging (prevents contamination such as botulism, salmonella etc) electronics, etc, etc, etc
With that, oil and natural gas provides fuel for transport, heat for homes, and electricity for lights.
Civilization is inexorably linked to hydrocarbons and what they provide. Again to reiterate: A fact ignored by education, mass media, LIBERALS, politicians in general, bureaucrats, and the general public.
Like the essay Paul.
Additionally, Never Taught in school, unknown to the masses, ignored by the eastern elite, the unelected tenured bureaucrats, the Liberals and most politicians; —OIL, NATURAL GAS, and COAL, known broadly as hydrocarbons, provide the four pillars of modern civilization.
#1 Fertilizer nitrogen, NH3, as well as sulphur, without which 4.5 billion people would starve.
#2 Concrete; lack of which would mean no basements, large buildings, overpasses, bridges, airport runways and terminals, lane dividers on highways, ad infinitum. . .
#3 steel; no high-rise buildings, bridges, ships, highway transport trucks, cars, engines, wheels, brakes drums and on and on. . .
#4 plastic; medical tubing like IV bags, and the like, food packaging (prevents contamination such as botulism, salmonella etc) electronics, etc, etc, etc
With that, oil and natural gas provides fuel for transport, heat for homes, and electricity for lights.
Civilization is inexorably linked to hydrocarbons and what they provide. Again to reiterate: A fact ignored by education, mass media, LIBERALS, politicians in general, bureaucrats, and the general public.