'Canada' proves, once again it is absolutely, 100% full of shit on climate change.

Bearing witness to these unfathomable, change-it-all moments; the very makeup of the planet we inhabit crumbling in real time makes my cheeks hot with anger. Just think about these obtuse politicians skimming over this news as if it were any other news of the day. Buy another pipeline after breakfast. Sign another agreement to rollback environmental monitoring after lunch. Break some more promises to Indigenous communities throughout the day. Stay on schedule boys.

If we were kids and had been playing a game called “Just-don’t-break-this-[insert any object]” there would have been some sort of parental/guardian-type person preventing us from smashing said object repeatedly on the ground. And I think that many of us held the belief that that’s what politicians were there for, or that that’s what the law was there for. But, it’s exactly that naive sense of order that watched as settlers (like children) hurled that *thing* off a cliff amidst encouraging cheers from our “accountable” boomer guardians and politician-types.

When the government says that building more tarsands pipelines or fracking more LNG is how to pay for climate change - they’re counting on us to think like kids. Their entire sham of an operation is reliant on public perception and a “shhhhh-let's-not-talk-about-state-sanctioned-theft-of-land, just-keep-saying-Canadians-are-super-nice.” approach to accountability.

But, we do see the connections. We see that ‘Canada’ not only made it legal, but has made it an economic imperative to destroy land and the biosphere that we all need in order to survive. Arthur Manuel explains that; because this land was acquired through theft, the state is using stolen goods as their line of credit. So, when the feds and their industry cronies spout nonsense about capital gains and returns - let’s turn our backs on them by supporting ongoing Indigenous-led resistance to destructive Canadian industrial projects like TransMountain Pipeline Expansion (TMX) Coastal GasLink and Site C. With our money, with our bodies - we stand up.

I am sick of these foolish, greedy men trying to steer our fate.
We are smarter than they are, and we will win.