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Brian Pratt of Saskatoon writes:

Ralph Goodale pronounced on July 20 that “Climate change is real. It has done damage already, including here in Saskatchewan. It will do much more unless we are serious about addressing it … time is running short.”

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I’m sure the assembled notables at the Canadian Club recalled immediately almost the same comment made by Leonardo DiCaprio when he experienced his first chinook in Calgary during filming of The Revenant. Or maybe Al Gore and others foreseeing the coming apocalypse, which has yet to arrive.

It is a pity the audience was too polite to demand examples of impending climate disaster, especially of the persuasion the Liberal carbon tax promises to alleviate.

We all know the Land of Living Skies has varied and dramatic weather, as well as, over the long term, decadal cycles of wetter and drier superimposed on the ups and downs of the post-Little Ice Age warming trend. Readers — and Ralph himself, if he cares for the truth — can check Environment Canada weather station data, paid for by the taxpayer I might add.

Kudos, then, to Brad Trost who had it right in his essay in the Vancouver Sun last December. He is, after all, scientifically literate. The Liberals should not be allowed to get away with this nonsense as a cynical ruse to impose more taxation.