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They have not baked, nor will they ever, the fortune cookie worthy to receive that compacted, gnarly, choice slice of perfect condescension. It should be engraved in granite on the steps of the Ontario legislature, enclosed in glass, with the instruction: For Use Only When Every Other Excuse Has Laid Down And Died.

An addiction to greenism is never free. It hollows the political mind. And in the light of last week’s great horror over Premier Ford toying with the notwithstanding clause — the very birth-giving instrument of our sacred Charter of Rights — the green-energy saga offers yet another lesson. Its fiercest opponents, the Liberals and the NDP, saw constitutional Armageddon in Mr. Ford’s resolve to call out the clause. They were most intensely angered because he was “depriving Toronto’s municipal government” of its rights, short-circuiting democracy itself.

Where were they and their Everest-high concerns for municipal democracy when Premier Never-Too-Late stripped all municipal authorities of their capacity to protest, participate in or engage with the epidemic of windmill construction in their own communities? The Toronto Sun Lorrie Goldstein put it very clearly: “(They) deprived Ontarians of natural justice, turning neighbour against neighbour as developers quietly signed deals to lease privately-owned lands in rural communities for massive wind turbines and solar farms, with the projects then sprung on those communities as a fait accompli, in which they had no meaningful say.”

Two final points: when they people got to judge their glorious green future in an election, the Liberals were transmuted into a rump. If any politician wants to see how greenism and the famous equation of federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna works out in the real world (“the environment and the economy go hand in hand”) check out Ontario. Note those Liberal numbers, and note well too, that a Mr. Doug Ford “I am become Destroyer of Carbon Taxes” is Premier.