May’s Very Bad Idea

A casual glance at the news might lead one to believe Green Party Leader Elizabeth May had a conversion.

She wants Canada to stop importing foreign oil, and use only Canadian oil — the very argument many Albertans have made for years.

This so closely aligns with what Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer said in Calgary on the weekend that you might think they’re suddenly allies.

But, no, May and the Conservatives are not buddies.

The no-import policy is part of her Mission: Possible scheme to make Canada a zero-emissions state by 2050.

May aligns her party with Green New Deal Democrats in the U.S., the young upstarts who want to stamp out the current American energy boom.

The Canadian Green Party policy document contains this grandiose statement:

“Mission: Possible is less about the original New Deal, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s massive public works program to lift post-Depression America out of poverty, and more about Churchill’s courageous World War II campaign to defeat fascism.

“It places Canada on something equivalent to a war footing to ensure the security of our economy, our children and their children — our future.

“It is a call for ‘all hands on deck.’”

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