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One of the key politicians overseeing Canada’s natural resources policy crisis is Trudeau’s Natural Resources Minister, Seamus O’Regan, who flew to Alberta this week to explain that Ottawa does not have a plan to achieve the miracle of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. “Net-zero, we believe, is a marker for your ability to take this seriously,” he told the CBC’s Power and Politics. In an interview with the Calgary Herald, O’Regan announced that “You cannot get to net zero without Alberta, you cannot get to net zero without the Canadian oil and gas industry.”

And you can’t get to zero without a plan, which O’Regan admitted Ottawa does not have. “The sooner that we have a plan … the sooner that investors know what direction we’re heading in and what the rules are,” he told the CBC.

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But here’s the reality. Canada can never get to net zero — not without a miracle from a saviour who walks into Alberta and changes all the fossil fuels into carbon-free energy that can be extracted with an app via a cellphone.