The Liberals manipulate a climate report to justify handouts to Loblaws – by Terence Corcoran (Financial Post – April 10, 2019)

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Bring on what promises to be a steady blizzard of climate announcements

In a huge coincidence last week, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna leaked — to the CBC — her department’s latest official climate change report on the very same day her government’s new carbon-tax regime came into effect in four provinces.

The government-owned flagship news program, The National, sprang to attention. Host Rosemary Barton kicked off the Monday night show by cranking up the volume on “Canada’s Changing Climate Report” from Environment Canada scientists:

“Tonight a dire warning for Canada’s climate. The country is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world. According to virtually every climate scientist, climate change is already here. Temperatures have risen and are expected to keep rising with dramatic and increasingly disastrous impacts. And today we are learning that in Canada, that goes double.

A government report from Environment and Climate Change Canada, years in the making, confirms that Canada is warming at twice the rate of the rest of the world. Far from being a safe haven, Canada has been directly in the climate crosshairs. And barring drastic global action, more is coming.”

Along with CTV News and other media, the CBC fell for the media manipulation trick. They gobbled down Environment Canada’s easy-to-digest “Headline Statements” which on quick reading gave the impression that Canada had become something of a global inferno.

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