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The result is Canada has missed out on building Canada’s single best contribution to the cause: the creation of a world-class industry of LNG export plants to stop the building of scads more coal-burning plants in developing nations. They have also missed out on other meaningful initiatives such as exporting Canada’s world-class technologies like scrubbers for factories or plants that burn fuel as well as in the field of carbon sequestration to capture and store carbon dioxide.

Instead, they ascribe to a United Nations document that Australia just pointed out doesn’t even give countries like them, that export clean LNG, “credits” for doing so. Former prime minister Stephen Harper realized this problem and objected, but Trudeau’s gang has tacitly gone along like a Boy Scout being misled by creepy Scout leaders.

It’s just plain stupid for Canada to adhere selflessly, and self-destructively, while countries like Germany preach but burn lots of notably dirty coal. The inconvenient truth is that Germany’s renewables need back-up because the sun doesn’t always shine and the wind doesn’t always blow.

Of course, it’s not too late for Trudeau’s team to redeem itself. They must fast track the LNG projects that are in various early, fragile, stages of development and push aggressively to build many more and the pipelines or ports to serve them.

That’s what the Americans have done and now have 17 on the drawing boards in addition to quite a few already built despite jumping into the business after Canada did. They are a year or two away from being the biggest exporter in the world.