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Heck Trudeau — who arrived sporting some dapper shades akin to Tom Cruise in his Top Gun days — hasn’t grinned for cameras that widely since announcing he was booting two uppity women from his Grit caucus because they took peripheral things such as the rule of law far too seriously.

Now pointing out the shameless hypocrisy of the Hollywood elites in their endless pronouncements on how we should all reduce our carbon footprints while they sport the biggest such feet on the planet is akin to shooting fish in a barrel.

But anyone responsible for the following fatuous nonsense while owning more aircraft than some actual nations, alongside classic car and motorbike collections while swanning around in various homes that Queen Elizabeth herself would find a little too large for comfort, deserves due ridicule.

“We are in the middle of World War III, raging on every front and every person is a part of this conflict. We have to win. For our survival on this planet — it’s time to be all-in,” is how Chewbacca’s old buddy phrased it.

What a joke. This fellow’s got more Cessnas than I have pairs of dress shoes, for heaven’s sake, though to be fair, I don’t go out much these days.

But Harrison Ford isn’t the real threat to Albertans, other than any of us happening to fly planes over southern California. It’s our own prime minister’s gung-ho involvement in this event that signals future trouble.

And while avoiding the ludicrous World War III analogies, this looming battle is one in which Alberta does indeed need to be all-in.