This presentation takes a high-level of the environment including key areas of focus along with miss information that is being spread by both sides of the climate change argument.

1. Why are Politicians failing to
understand the Environment
Paul Young CPA, CGA
September 25, 2019

2. Paul Young - Bio
• CPA, CGA
• Financial Solutions
• SME – Business Process Changes
• SME – Risk Management
• SME – Close, Consolidate and Reporting
• SME – Public Policy
• SME – Financial Solutions
• SME – Supply Chain Management
• Academia – Advance Accounting, Public
Finance and Advanced Management
Systems
Contact information:
Paul_Young_CGA@Hotmail.com

3. Agenda
• High Level view of GDP
• High-level view of the environment
• Role of government
• Environmental Rankings
• Is Climate change real?
• Canadian Oil
• Mining Sector
• Hypocrisy of Pro-Climate Change
• Canada is Carbon Sink
• Taxing Pollution
• Carbon Tax impact
• Conclusion

4. Introduction
• This presentation takes a high-level of the environment including key areas of
focus along with miss information that is being spread by both sides of the
climate change argument.

5. GDP and Canada
• Too many leaders make policies for votes
• Too many leaders do not get the balance
right between the environment and the
economy
• Clean Technology -
https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoung
cga/2019-election-what-is-next-for-
clean-technology-in-canada
• Economies are very complex
• Integrated supply management
• Productivity
• Distribution channel (Hub and Spoke)
• Costing model
• Taxation
• Regulations
• Trade and FIPA
• Source -
https://www.slideshare.net/pauly
oungcga/2019-election-gdp-and-
economy-canada-june-2019

6. High-Level of the Environment
Source -
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Global_Climate_Model.png

7. Role of Government / Environment
• Set policies and regulations
• Air Quality
• Land Management
• Forest Management
• Water Management and Quality
• Sustainable mining practices

8. Environmental Rankings

9. Climate Change –
Is it Real?
You can put many scientist in a room and you
will get different answers. The science is not
settled!
Patrick Moore is bang on about
Climate Change
1. Al Gore - https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions
2. World is closer to an ice age than global warming -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPpXHX-Tu5U (This is from the 1970s)
3. Are there issues? Yes, but those have to do with countries like India or China or other
countries that continue to dump waste into the sea -
https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/climate-change-is-manmade-or-not
4. May is a hypocrite as she is OK with sewage being dump into waterways, right?
5. May is a hypocrite as she hates oil, but is ok with cruise ships coming to Victoria -
https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/is-the-green-party-of-canada-a-valid-choice-
to-govern (see slide 8) or https://www.transportenvironment.org/press/luxury-cruise-
giant-emits-10-times-more-air-pollution-sox-all-europe%E2%80%99s-cars-%E2%80%93-
study
6. Green policies are neither sound nor affordable -
https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/is-the-green-party-of-canada-a-valid-choice-
to-govern
7. Canada is a carbon sink - https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/2019-election-
forestry-sector-canada-september-2019 or
https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/june-2018/canadas-carbon-sinks-dont-mean-
we-can-ease-off-on-climate-policy/
8. Ice caps - https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-
d&q=polar+ice+caps+growing
9. People distrust science - https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/science-survey-
1.5291291
10. BC emissions have increased - https://vancouversun.com/news/politics/b-c-carbon-
pollution-rises-in-most-recent-report

10. Ethical Oil

11. Environmental, Corruption and Other rankings
@Justintrudeau who is fed information by @telfordk and @GMbutts has little or no interest in developing the natural
resources sector. Trudeau has been on record saying "Canada should be known for its resourcefulness and not its Natural
Resources"
https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/2019-election-natural-resources-development-and-sustainability-canada-september-
2019

12. Hypocrisy and Pro-Climate
Change
Elizabeth May arrested for
protesting TMX pipeline
https://www.canadaaction.ca/greenhous
e-gas-emissions-pipelines-canada

13. Canada is
carbon sink

14. Taxing in Pollution
@cathmckenna
Where has Mckenna discussed sewage being dumped?
Where has McKenna discussed the cruise ship/emissions?
Where has McKenna discussed the carbon tax on imports?
Where has Mckenna discussed the BC failures on Emissions?
https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/climate-change-is-
manmade-or-not

15. BC Gas Prices
Source -
https://www.canadianmanufacturing.com/regu
lation/b-c-government-to-consider-relief-for-
record-gas-prices-horgan-230465/ or
https://globalnews.ca/news/4092404/vancouv
er-gas-prices-kinder-morgan-pipeline/

16. Household Costs / Carbon Pricing
How so? The carbon tax would cost people an
extra $1,100 to 1,800 through higher costs.
The tax rebate would be lucky to cover 10% of
the cost. Liberals are lying as they normally do
because they do not consider the complete
past through of the carbon to consumer goods,
household expenses, etc.
https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/the-
art-of-taxing-pollution-canada-april-2019
It is the liberals that are dishonest as they
never released their carbon pricing economic
impact, why?
https://capforcanada.com/canadian-
households-to-pay-1100-per-year-in-carbon-
tax/?fbclid=IwAR02rsYH4ht9Gw3ESA0MsI34U
eLjjnZ6sFW40leAoqVLr0FqY56wFuJgpJc or
https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/the-
art-of-taxing-pollution-canada-april-2019
Or
https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/the-
art-of-taxing-pollution-canada-april-2019

17. Blog – Climate Change
Here is what I told @cathmckenna
The reality is there are many facets to the environment that need to be dealt with better policies. Trudeau only
policy is carbon tax or bust.
1. Climate and the environment - https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/2019-election-climate-change-and-the-
environment-canada or
2. Pollution Taxes - https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/art-of-taxing-pollution-canada-environment
3. Oil - https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/2019-election-oil-and-the-environment-canada-june-2019
4. Ineffectiveness of Carbon Tax - https://business.financialpost.com/opinion/terence-corcoran-ignore-trudeaus-
carbon-tax-chorus-nobel-economists-arent-backing-this-
plan?fbclid=IwAR0fP03tLfN2q52d2IohQmvvcEHdlkw6aZgpgvYdiyYB5zR2Lm3lb2jyr-Q

18. Conclusion
• There needs to be real solutions that deal with environmental issues
• Carbon taxation is regressive tax that does nothing for emissions, but does raise the cost of
living
• Politicians need to stop playing to votes and/or agendas like Agenda 2030 -
https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/2019-election-agenda-2030-canada-july-2019
• The science is not settled on climate change -
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/goldstein-feds-scrapped-100-years-of-data-on-
climate-change or https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-failed-eco-pocalyptic-
predictions
• Clean technology needs to be viable without subsidies -
https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/2019-election-what-is-next-for-clean-technology-
in-canada