In Canadian federal and provincial elections, and at times local, there are geographically defined regions called, ” ridings.” The victorious politician of an election represents a specific riding. A riding is essentially established in much the same fashion as an American constituency or electoral district - population seems to be the most distinguishing factor.
Nechako Lakes, located mostly in the north-central interior of the Canadian province of British Columbia is that province’s third largest riding by size – certainly not population. The largest town within the riding is Vanderhoof with a population of just under 4,500. In the 2020 general provincial election, John Rustad of the Liberal Party (L) won with 4,611 votes beating Anne Marie Sam of the New Democratic Party (NDP) who finished with a tally of 3031 votes.
In the last provincial election, the NDP was victorious but did not acquire a majority government. In a quirk of British-style elections, another party can merge or amalgamate with the winning party to establish a majority. The Liberals made such a maneuver and the NDP then began to govern. This procedure has always seemed to be, at least to me, a weakening or deterioration of a true democracy.
In this combined and connected government, John Rustad became the province’s Minister of Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation. This is an instinctive fit since a significant portion of Nechako Lakes’ population is indigenous or First Nations people. The region’s main industry would be natural resource extraction.
On August 14, 2022 Patrick Moore tweeted “No net warming in Australia for the past 10 years. And the Great Barrier Reef has more coral cover this year than ever recorded. The case for CO2 being the control knob of global temperature gets weaker every day #CelebrateCO2!!” followed by Australia’s temperature graph from the year 2013 onward. Dr. Patrick Moore was a co-founder and director of Greenpeace from 1971 until 1986 but is now a director with the CO2 Coalition.
Moore resigned from Greenpeace for, as he states, “Beginning in the mid-1980s, Greenpeace, and much of the environmental movement, made a sharp turn to the political left and began adopting extreme agendas that abandoned science and logic in favor of emotion and sensationalism”, and further stated, “The environmental movement has lost its way, favoring political correctness over factual accuracy, stooping to scare tactics to garner support. Many campaigns now waged in the name of the environment would result in increased harm to both the environment and human welfare if they were to succeed.”
I share a link to a speech by Dr. Moore where he points out, “Is it possible that most predicted catastrophes and threats of doom are based on subjects that are either invisible or remote or both so that the average person has no way of independently verifying truth by observation but must rely on activists, politicians, and media to tell them what’s true? (the future is both invisible and remote).”
Back to Nechako Lakes’ John Rustad, he shared Patrick Moore’s post about Australia. He was immediately removed from the party caucus for, as Liberal Leader Kevin Falcon claims, “a pattern of behavior that isn’t supportive of the caucus”. Falcon further says in a statement that while the party encourages a diversity of perspectives, these have to exist on a foundation of mutual respect and trust, which Rustad had breached.
Naturally, the ‘mutual respect and trust’ was not to break the progressive code of lies advocating for climate change and not opposing it, despite all of the facts contrary to the theory.
Patrick Moore shot off an open letter to Liberal Leader Kevin Falcon condemning him for his blatant political partisanship. I link that letter here. Read all the facts and truths Moore delineates. Moore includes truthful and accurate climate data in his letter and candidly states the case for human-generated climate change "gets weaker every day".