Canada needs to stop blaming all issues facing the environment on climate change. It is time for real solutions.

1. 2019 Election – Climate
Change - Canada
Paul Young CPA, CGA
May 19, 2019

2. Paul Young - Bio
• CPA, CGA
• Academia (PF1, FA4 and MS2)
• SME – Risk Management
• SME – Close, Consolidate and Reporting
• SME – Public Policy
• SME – Financial Solutions
• SME – Supply Chain Management
Contact information:
Paul_Young_CGA@Hotmail.com
• Paul Young has over 28+ years in areas in like
internal audit, process changes, government
policies, financial solutions, costing model and
close, consolidate and close process and risk
analytics/management.

3. Agenda
• Canadian Oil
• Air Pollution Photos
• Air Quality – Worst Countries
• Air Quality – Best Countries
• Paris Accord Climate
• Paris Accord Climate – USA withdrawal
• Drinkable Water
• Land Management
• Forest Management
• Pollution Taxes
• Government cut backs / Environment
• Clean Technology
• Blog #1 – Earth Sciences
• Other Issues
• NDP / Plan
• Unfair Carbon Pricing Models
• What’s need to happen

4. Overview
Canada needs to stop blaming all
issues facing the environment on
climate change. It is time for real
solutions.
This presentation will look at
different areas of the
environment.

5. Canadian Oil
https://globalnews.ca/news/5150252/alberta-
election-bitumen-boom-
forecast/?utm_source=globallethbridge&utm
_medium=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR3Wa1kjIQr
7x6n5Cg9S59ZT8xICv_MjuZS3h6bV2V8iaZ
2HllresMxHMh8
You can blame Notley and Trudeau for FDI
going to another jurisdiction like Texas.
https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/wh
ats-up-with-oil-energy-market-march-2019
Welland Canal – Time to look at getting
pipelines built and look at more movement
oil through the Great Lakes
https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/wh
y-is-it-hard-to-approve-pipelines-canada-
april-2019
https://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/news-
story/9213259-welland-canal-trade-corridor-
key-to-niagara-s-future-mayors/

6. Air pollution cost Canadians $36B in 2015,
causes 7,700 premature deaths a year
• http://www.canadianmanufacturing.com/manufacturing/air-pollution-cost-canadians-36b-2015-causes-7700-premature-deaths-year-194416/
OTTAWA—Air pollution
cost Canadian families
an estimated $36 billion
in 2015 due to
premature death and
illness, a new research
report says.
Canadian Manufacturing – June 1, 2017
• How many of these people smoke
cigarettes?
• Canada has some of the best air
quality in the world
• How did they determine the cost?

7. Air Pollution Photos
India
China
Los Angeles
Mexico City
Toronto

8. Air Quality Index – Worst Countries
https://www.carbonbrief.org/paris-2015-tracking-country-
climate-pledges

9. Air Quality Index – Best Countries
https://www.carbonbrief.org/paris-2015-tracking-country-
climate-pledges
• Both Canada and USA have
some of the best air quality
in the world

10. Paris Climate Accord
• https://www.carbonbrief.org/paris-2015-tracking-country-climate-pledges http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/06/what-are-the-actual-promises-and-commitments-
related-to-the-paris-agreement.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2Fadvancednano+%28nextbigfuture%29

11. USA leaves Paris Climate Accord
• http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-leaves-paris-accord-but-not-just-about-climate-change-2017-6 or https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/climate/trump-paris-climate-agreement.html?_r=0
President Trump announced on Thursday that the United States would withdraw
from the Paris climate accord, weakening efforts to combat global warming and
embracing isolationist voices in his White House who argued that the agreement
was a pernicious threat to the economy and American sovereignty.
In a speech from the Rose Garden, Mr. Trump said the landmark 2015 pact
imposed wildly unfair environmental standards on American businesses and
workers. He vowed to stand with the people of the United States against what he
called a “draconian” international deal.

12. Canada / PM Trudeau
Comments:
• Cleantech is $50B business, but losing money
• Cleantech needs raw materials, refinement,
fabrication, delivery and installation
• Canada is already carbon neutral
• Trudeau’s key member Gerald Butts was
responsible for the Green Act in Ontario.
Ontario has some highest electrical rates in
North American
• NWO is driving movement to eliminate CO2
man-made
• CO2 is not a pollutant, but foundation for life -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Smhn1gL6
Xg&t=713s

13. Air Quality
• Poor air quality countries
• Cheap dirty coal
• De-Forestation
• Carbon based economy (oil)
• Poor environment regulations for air, water and
land management
• Many countries have come along way in terms
of air quality through new regulations
• Tougher emissions control systems for cars
• Better scrubbing technology for industry
• Clean Coal
• Better management of forest (Natural Absorption
for CO2 – Greenhouse gases

14. India Water Pollution

15. India Air Pollution

17. UN / India and China
• http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/air-pollution-levels-up-by-8-un-report/article8642415.ece

18. Land/Water
Management
Source -
https://wle.cgiar.org/thrive/
2017/02/21/it%E2%80%99
s-hard-manage-something-
you-cannot-see-
%E2%80%93-can-we-feed-
billions-ground

19. Fresh Water
• https://top5ofanything.co
m/list/575a978e/Countri
es-with-the-Most-Fresh-
Water

20. China / Water
Source - https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/11/china-spending-100-billion-to-start-addressing-severe-water-pollution.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2Fadvancednano+%28nextbigfuture%29
China launched nearly 8,000 water clean-up projects in the first half of 2017 with a projected total
investment of 667.4 billion yuan (US$100.2 billion).
The projects were devised as part of a 2015 action plan to treat and prevent water pollution, and
covered 325 contaminated groundwater sites across the country. A total of 343 contaminated sites
had been identified, meaning that 95 per cent had drawn up plans to bring water quality up to
required standards.
Large amounts of China’s water have been rendered unusable as a result of poorly regulated
industrial expansion, overmining and the uncontrolled use of pesticides and fertilisers.

21. Water Management/Nova Scotia
Source - https://www.canadianmanufacturing.com/environment-and-safety/nova-scotia-risk-becoming-island-action-isnt-taken-municipal-leaders-warn-204477/
Nova Scotia is at risk of becoming an island within decades if action is not taken to fix the
275-year-old dikes that prevent flooding of the isthmus connecting the province to the rest
of Canada, officials warn.
Mayor David Kogon of Amherst, N.S., said sea levels are projected to rise in the Bay of
Fundy over 15 to 20 years to the point where the Isthmus of Chignecto will flood, even
without a storm surge

22. Houston / Urban Sprawl
Source - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/31/real-villains-harvey-flood-urban-sprawl
Houston’s catastrophic flood will be framed by leaders in Texas as an unforeseeable act
of God. It isn’t. Houston’s unfettered sprawl into the marshland of southeast Texas was a
conscious choice by policymakers. So was building a global city on a slowly submerging
swamp. Both were decisions that led to disaster.
Houston has quietly become our fourth largest and fastest-growing city, due in large part
to cheap housing. But the latter has come at an exorbitant cost to its safety. The swamps
and wetlands that once characterized Houston’s hinterland have been replaced with strip
malls and suburban tract homes.

23. Arable Land
Source -
http://beef2live.com/story-
countries-arable-land-world-
0-108929

24. Forest
Management
• https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/for
est-management-climate-change-practices-
around-the-world
• There needs to be integrated strategy when
managing all aspects of the environment. The
climate alarmist will never discuss all aspects,
why? Climate alarmist want to push their
agenda at all cost!
• Provincial/States/Federal governments have
slashed their forest management budgets -
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-
columbia/forest-management-could-be-
causing-more-harm-than-good-says-ubc-prof-
1.4777025

25. Forest Fires
Source -
http://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/h
a/nfdb
https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/forest-management-climate-change-practices-
around-the-world
 There needs to be integrated strategy when managing all aspects of the environment.
The climate alarmist will never discuss all aspects, why? Climate alarmist want to push
their agenda at all cost!
 Urban Planning / Forest Fires – there has been issues with poor urban planning -
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-in-wildfire-prone-bc-and-california-
urban-sprawl-and-bad-planning/
 Eco-Terrorism and poor forest management practices - https://www.vox.com/energy-
and-environment/2018/8/17/17703836/mendocino-california-wildfire-zinke-
environmental-terrorist

26. Flooding /
Policy
• Aging infrastructure - https://www.on-
sitemag.com/infrastructure/torontos-aging-
water-infrastructure-high-density-lead-to-
issues-with-flooding/1003960019/
• https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/int
ernational/2016/07/08/419498.htm - It is
time for home owners that wish to live by
water pay higher property taxes as part
building containment walls and/or updating
dykes and levies or other diversion projects.

27. Canada
Environmental
Ranking

28. Cost of Pollution

29. Blog –
Cost of
Pollution
• @Justin Trudeau keeps talking about CO2 being a pollutant and
it is not. There are already taxes for pollution for the better part
of 40 years. People need to stop listening Trudeau as his agenda
is not about Cdns, but Agenda 2030 -
https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/climate-change-real-
truth-facts-and-figures-april-2019
https://notrickszone.com/2019/01/07/u-s-media-bans-
scientific-dissent-claim-wildfires-floods-droughts-hurricanes-are-
human-controlled/
• https://globalnews.ca/news/5204441/united-nations-climate-
change/?utm_source=GlobalNational&utm_medium=Facebook
&fbclid=IwAR2mADA3dYz0Wg_toPOz0R6LCBnVN2FmYQs
0sDNzjXH-SOLzy7Miksstm8Y
• It never seems to amaze me how many people come out with the
doom and gloom. I have been hearing the same argument for
40+ years - https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/climate-
change-real-truth-facts-and-figures-april-2019 or costs to
consumers - . https://capforcanada.com/canadian-households-
to-pay-1100-per-year-in-carbon-
tax/?fbclid=IwAR02rsYH4ht9Gw3ESA0MsI34UeLjjnZ6sFW40
leAoqVLr0FqY56wFuJgpJc

30. Government
Cutbacks /
Environment
• Could it be the cuts in key areas along with poor urban planning makes the narrative
for the govt look good in terms pro climate change?
https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/urban-planning-issues-facing-urban-
planners-april-2019 or https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/forest-
management-practices-world-april-2019 or
https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/environment-canada-whats-next
• Lack of a flood map -
https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/ca/opinion/updated-flood-maps-coming-
to-canada-78259.aspx
• Rail and Fire - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/ontario-government-sues-
cn-rail-for-millions-in-firefighting-costs-
1.2927083?fbclid=IwAR2_hehuCPiCxUrKa16hfbVhf1JXOT-
tkwRrNNTZwPu8FFnUxgVVLYx3198
• Parks Canada - https://www.hellulandnews.com/science/2017/8/21/the-failure-of-
parks-canada
• Budget cuts – Feds - https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/federal-government-
cutting-back-on-disaster-assistance-as-floods-become-more-severe
• PQ Floods = https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/quebec-floods-
recede-but-competing-demands-fill-prevention-debate/article34981361/
• Wildfire mgmt. https://edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/alberta-premier-rachel-
notley-defends-cut-in-wildfire-budget

31. Clean Technology
• Clean Technology loses closes to $4B/year -
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/awash-in-red-ink-
canadian-clean-tech-struggling-despite-ottawa-s-
green-goals-1.729679
• FDI/Clean Technology is leaving Canada -
https://business.financialpost.com/commodities/en
ergy/lack-of-canadian-tax-competitiveness-
discourages-even-renewable-energy
• Canada generates over 80% of its power from clean
sources. LNG plants are required as backup for clean
technology -
https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/power-
generation-canada-april-2019
• Carbon tax will impact GDP -
https://ipolitics.ca/2018/04/23/pbo-says-carbon-
tax-will-knock-10-billion-off-gdp-by-2022/
• Electrical vehicle sales are only about 2% of all
vehicle sales in Canada -
https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/electrical-
vehicles-all-you-need-to-know-april-2019
• There are challenges with Clean Technology -
https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/clean-
technology-canada-april-2019

32. Blog #1 – Earth Sciences
• I am aware how the earth is constructed as well as how it is position between the moon and the sun.
• It never seems to amaze me how the UN pushes the climate agenda without disclosing all the factors that drive how climate is influence on the
planet!
• There is no correlation between CO2 and Climate. Patrick Moore was succinct with his work -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kIcFIofUHk
• Earth is made of tectonics which shift all the time - http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/04/14/scientists-find-first-evidence-that-
weather-affects-movement-of-tectonic-plates/#.XNLtNqR7lPY
• I showed in my slide deck how bad government policies have made climate change look worst on purpose as way to push their agenda. So, why
did you ignored that slide - https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/2019-election-environmental-climate-change-canada-analysis-and-
commentary (see slide 29)
• Are there issues? Yes, I have highlighted those areas that need to be address in my presentation - https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/2019-
election-environmental-climate-change-canada-analysis-and-commentary. I am all about solution that do not involved subsidies clean technology
or demonizing CO2 or come from people that pushing UN Agenda 2030 at all cost - https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/agenda-2030-
sustainable-development
• I am been around enough to see what has happen to environment for the past 50+ years like ozone level depleting (ozone layer has healed -
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/05/ozone-layer-healing-after-aerosols-un-northern-hemisphere) or I was told the coming
of the ice age (1970s) - https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/forget-global-warming-winter-is-coming--and-it-will-be-a-doozy. The
planet earth has lifecycles which you all but ignored, why? https://www.climatedepot.com/2018/08/03/greenpeace-co-founder-dr-patrick-
moore-12-invisible-eco-catastrophes-threats-of-doom-that-are-actually-fake/

33. Other issues
• Too many countries are using carbon tax/pricing to cut emission without any real success
• Government are masking green policies as they are helping the environment which in fact all
they have done is hike taxes as well as increase the cost of power generation
• Environment has many pieces to it. The focus of many governments has been to narrow
• Poor land and water management policies
• Too many governments are not taking a balance approach to both environment and the
economy.

34. NDP
Plan
Source - https://www.canadianmanufacturing.com/manufacturing/ndp-unveils-parts-
of-climate-plan-in-motion-as-the-green-party-edges-closer-232535/
The pledge is one contained
in an NDP motion expected
today in the House of
Commons that will lay out
eight broad strokes of the
NDP’s climate change
platform. The motion asks
for Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau to declare “an
environment and climate
emergency” as well as
pledge to cut emissions
more deeply, eliminate
government aid to the fossil
fuel industry and cancel the
planned expansion of the
Trans Mountain pipeline.
Do you understand tax code? Oil earns an income which is subjected to tax. Oil gets deductions for CCA, Royalties, payroll
taxes, etc. So, where are these subsidies? Clean Technology gets direct subsidies. I suggest you go read what a subsidy means
and stop trying to say tax deduction are subsidies.
1. Here is the annual report - https://www.suncor.com/investor-centre/financial-reports/annual-disclosure. Show in this report where
there is direct business subsidy
2. Direct Business subsidies is when a government gives a direct grant to a business - https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/subsidy.asp
Government has given out direct subsidies to clean technology for years -
https://www.forbes.com/sites/williampentland/2018/04/29/federal-subsidies-for-solar-and-wind-fell-sharply-in-recent-years-says-
new-report/#3d6c8611fa9a and you say nothing
3. All businesses follow the ITA as part of eligibility for deduction.
4. Auditor-General has called out failed hydro subsidies - https://business.financialpost.com/opinion/the-ontario-power-systems-broken-
auditor-general
5. 100% renewable? https://globalnews.ca/news/4207036/ontario-green-party-platform-conservation/ . Canada gets 80% of their power
from clean sources. 100% would never work as it would not be affordable.
6. Tax Avoidance? Does this mean green will change the whole tax code? The party would also spend $4.1 billion over four years on
mental health services, which they say they could help pay for by improving collections and reducing tax avoidance?
7. They would also mandate 20 per cent of units in new housing builds be affordable, expand the protected land known as the Greenbelt,
and spend more money on transit. – There are systemic issues with real estate including land, permits, construction costs -
https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/real-estate-canada-march-2019
8. Old economy? “We need to skate to where the puck is going, and not where it’s been,” Leader Mike Schreiner said. “The other parties
are clinging to an old economy, but we see a better way forward – GDP is made up 30% goods producing. Goods producing jobs pay
on average 40% more than service sector - https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/canada-gdp-january-2019
9. . A centerpiece promise is a $4.2-billion program to give grants and loans to businesses and homeowners for energy conservation. –
This will do nothing if hydro rates go through the roof. There are already incentives via CCA and/or other options to business.
10. Canada oil is both ethically and environmentally more friendly that other jurisdictions around the world -
https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/2019-election-environmental-climate-change-canada-analysis-and-commentary

35. Unfair Carbon Pricing Model
• https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/completely-inconsistent-carbon-taxes-applied-unequally-between-provinces-new-report-says
• “In provinces whose carbon pricing plans have the federal government’s approval, the increase in gas prices is substantially
smaller than those under the federal tax”
• No big surprised as the Liberal pushed out the tax without any proper understanding how it would work from province to province!
• Ontario emissions have been following since 2005 due to many factors the elimination of coal generation, more fuel efficient technology
and the loss of manufacturing jobs/investment - https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/environmental-
indicators/greenhouse-gas-emissions.html
• BC emissions have been rising despite the carbon tax - https://www.energeticcity.ca/2019/01/co2-emissions-continue-to-rise-in-b-c-
despite-provincial-carbon-tax/
• Canada’s carbon tax will not fixed bad policies when it comes to forest management, land management, water management and urban
planning - https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/environment-canada-whats-next
• People are seeing the carbon tax as nothing more than a tax grab, especially as CO2 is not a pollutant -
https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/art-of-taxing-pollution-canada-environment
•

36. What’s next
• We need to stop blaming CO2 for all issues facing the environment
• We need to stop the carbon tax as it is doing nothing when it comes to
fixing other areas of the environment
• Government needs to stream its operation to put more focus on frontline
services and less focus on administration
• More audits of environmental policies including spending/outcomes
• Better assessment of risk management
• All levels of government need to start using Risk Analytics/AI as
part of managing their policies and spending
• Federal government, provinces, municipal govt and the private sector
need to work together on how best to move the environment forward
• Clearing grass by rails
• Approving pipelines
• Waste water/storm water management
• Smarter urban planning