Alberta’s oil sands aren’t even close to being the world’s dirtiest

Poilievre said this week the industrial carbon tax is a costly job-killing disaster that pushes business and money out of Canada and drives up the cost of food and housing. The reporter framing the question asked whether other provinces should follow Alberta in negotiating their own deal with Carney. Heather Exner-Pirot is due back on the show. And Jim has thoughts about a single photograph of the oil sands that has cost Canada more than any carbon tax ever could. Topics covered: ► Poilievre's response in QP to a reporter asking whether other provinces should follow Alberta's carbon deal with Carney: the industrial carbon tax is a costly job-killing disaster that pushes business and money out of the country and drives up the cost of food, housing, and everything else, with Jim noting the framing of the question assumed Carney's deal was the baseline rather than asking whether the tax should exist at all ► The reporter framing problem Jim identifies: journalists consistently framing Liberal policies as fixed points that require a response from opposition, rather than asking whether the policies themselves are sound, which shapes public perception before any answer is given ► Katherine McKenna's self-defeating statement: she said publicly that if you repeat a lie enough times and have the media trumpet it, it becomes truth, which Jim argues destroyed her credibility because she openly admitted to not caring about truth but about repetition, and the media that repeated her strategy never noticed ► The oil sands photograph problem: a single photograph taken from a specific angle that makes the oil sands look like a lunar landscape, consistently used by CTV and others to disparage the industry, and Jim's argument that no amount of data, bar charts, or factual argument can defeat a powerful image, drawing parallels to Alan Kurdi, Nick Ut's Vietnam photograph, and Tiananmen Square ► The energy dependency argument for Canada specifically: Canada's climate and geography make it more energy-dependent than almost any other country on earth, burning in summer, freezing in winter, enormous distances, and 43% of Canadians cutting back on heating in the most energy-rich nation on earth, which Jim says represents a fundamental failure of government ► The Iran-US energy conflict as geopolitical validation of the argument Jim and Iain have been making: nations go to war over energy because energy is the most important strategic resource, and Canada has more of it than almost any country but has spent eleven years treating it with contempt ► Jim's desire to bring Heather Exner-Pirot back on the show in the context of the Global Energy Show in Calgary, Jon McKenzie's pipeline is unfinanceable statement, and the world coming to Canada for LNG If Canada has more natural resources per capita than almost any country on earth, why are 43% of Canadians cutting back on their heating bills? Let us know what you think in the comments. The Really Big Show: the thinking Canadian's daily briefing, independent and informed. 🔴 Live every weekday at 9AM PST 📍 Independent. Unapologetic. Canadian. 👉 Support the show: https://thereallybigshow.ca Subscribe | Share | Comment — help us grow independent Canadian media. #canadiannews #canadapolitics #canada #nowmedia #thereallybigshow #carbontax #oilsands #poilievre #heatherexnerpirot #canadaenergy