Formerly Called Canada

By: Kris Thompson

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Length: 40 mins

Publisher's summary

Canada is a beautiful country with really kind people, but the government hasn't managed the mineral, metal, and fossil fuel rights very well under its soil for over a century. The Canadian Government, under the Trudeau Administration, has allowed a state-owned Chinese organization, called Zijin Mining Group, to acquire Neo Lithium Corporation for nearly $1 billion in 2022. This could be a bad precedent that leads to less sovereignty in Canada and, possibly, economically dangerous. I think that opening up Canada's mineral, metal, and fossil fuel industries is highly intelligent as Canada has the ability to become a world leader in this industry, improve the lives of all Canadians, expand its economy and political influence, and better its education systems leading to sustainable job growth and innovation. Still, it must be done properly. I am not opposed to partnerships with other nations or partnering with foreign organizations. Legally, however, everything should be owned by Canadians in conjunction with the proceeds directly benefiting the citizens of Canada concerning profits and job creation as well as private and public Canadian businesses. Canada has the highest amount of immigration for citizenship in the world, and it's the 11th least densely populated place on the planet. The current government has made the right commitment to renewables and set the right goals legislatively to make the nation carbon neutral by 2050. These are ambitious objectives, but as has happened in many Western nations, these benchmarks get pushed back, have been created to just appease constituents, hurt economies, can be unrealistic, and in some instances, impossible. After all, we need to breathe, and we need energy to live. I like the commitment, and I am committed to fighting climate change in a practical manner. Putting a solar farm in Northern Canada doesn't help the environment as there is a carbon footprint for the manufacturing, transporting, and installing these devices, they leech soils when damaged in natural disasters, and the area only gets direct sunlight for about 3 months a year at most. We need practical and realistic solutions to fight climate change, and Canada could be and should be a world leader in clean energy, mining, and fossil fuel extraction and refinement. The infrastructure and education required to nationalize clean commodities in Canada should have been in place decades ago, and the Canadian Government can assist these processes through investment to create a more profitable and stable mixed economy that benefits all nationals in combination with developing ecologically friendly solutions for mineral, metal, and fossil fuel mining that can be exported throughout the world through the acquisition of rights, partnerships, or sales of technologies that make this feasible Canada has a huge opportunity to impact clean energy, mining, and fossil fuel extraction and refinement through developing this sector in a manner that is more ecologically friendly than has ever been done before in human history. Countries and organizations that claim to be carbon neutral and have zero emissions are just greenwashing the public and governments as they export these processes to other nations, and when looking at the Earth as a whole, there is little benefit to its ecosystem when this is touted as a marketing tool in this manner. Canada has a real chance to maintain the beauty of its landscape, build a more robust and sustainable economic and political future, and be a world leader in renewable and clean energy. The question is whether Canada will continue to allow state-backed organizations to take over its land and jobs as it becomes a province of them, or will it make the right decision and develop the infrastructure and education systems that are needed to make Canada's practical and natural role in the global economy more environmentally friendly and innovative at a world-class level?