Carney plans to scaremonger over wildfires at G7 summit
Sheila Gunn Reid and Lise Merle look at how Prime Minister Carney will blame wildfires on climate change to push the green agenda — and won't mention the Liberals mismanagement that fuelled the 2024 wildfire at Jasper National Park.
Prime Minister Mark Carney said climate change is a “major challenge” facing Canada and that he plans to hold a discussion on the issue of wildfires at next month's G7 summit in Alberta.
Jasper National Park, a world heritage site not far from Kananaskis, where this year's G7 meeting, was the site of a devastating wildfire in 2024 — and a source of controversy regarding the federal government's mismanagement of the situation.
On Thursday's Rebel Roundup livestream, hosts Sheila Gunn Reid and Lise Merle shared their thoughts on Carney's G7 announcement of the world leaders' wildfire discussion.
“Are they going to talk about their own negligence and park mismanagement that make the forest fires exponentially worse?” asked Lise. “About their complicity? I bet not.”
Instead, G7 leaders will likely “blame it all on climate change and how using fossil fuels are making it worse,” she said.
The failure to protect Jasper was due to years of mismanagement, Sheila said, “resulting in a fire that they could not contain because they turned away firefighters, didn't manage the pine beetle-caused fuel load in the forest because it was unsightly to mechanically clear, and they put in the wrong fire hydrants.”
Maintenance duties inside the national park fall to the federal government. Outside, it's the responsibility of the provincial government.
“That fire started in the park, raged in the park and ended once it exited the park. Why? Because of proper fire management. The forest outside of the park, managed by the provincial government and forestry companies. Inside the park, [then environment minister] Steven Guilbeault's problem,” Sheila continued.
“And yet, they're going to take the G7 and the fires from last year, and the ones from this year to, to talk about how, I don't know, they're going to carbon tax us in new and creative ways because the old creative way became so unpalatable for Canadians.”
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Fran g commented 2025-06-04 18:24:03 -0400Well put Thad -
Thad Wheeler commented 2025-05-30 16:58:09 -0400Typical pile of BS nonsense. Who or what was putting out forest fires 150 or 200 years ago? Since the end of the Second World war we have been putting out fires because we now had an aerial means to do so to reach remote regions. In our successful efforts over the decades forests have become aged and diseased. Nature would naturally clean them out with fires but we have stepped in the way. Now, dead trees and debris buildup has occurred that would never be allowed to happen by nature. Forestry officials were aware of this back in the late 70’s and early 80’s. If fires would not be allowed to burn then we would have to step in for nature and clean them up our selves. This is very expensive, so the government never followed through on the forestry management. Now the forests are tinder boxes, just waiting to ignite, and when the do, are near impossible to constrain. We are now paying the price for over 60 years of putting fire out. Conditions are now far beyond what nature left alone would allow, but let’s blame it on climate change. I witnessed a lightning strike in a forest that had burned and had been regrowing for about 15 years. The tree that was hit was destroyed, but the fire around the tree didn’t spread and self extinguished. Why? Because new growth doesn’t burn. New growth doesn’t get insect infested. The Mountain Pine Beetle burrows under the bark of old growth forests. It can’t spread in a newer one. Fires kill Mountain Pine Beetles and other sick and diseased animals. Our forests are unhealthy. They have been allowed foolishly to be preserved long past where nature would allow them, and now nature is fighting back, and it’s going to win. Climate change has nothing to do with forest fires, trying to manage nature does, and now we are paying the consequences as nature plays catch up.
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Robert Pariseau commented 2025-05-30 06:20:22 -0400Because the current Liberal cabinet is by and large the exact Liberal cabinet of the sockboy years.
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Bernhard Jatzeck commented 2025-05-29 19:45:39 -0400It appears that the current Liberal cabinet is as inept as the ones under Junior Trudeau. Mel’s completely out of her depth, once again, and, like before, doesn’t answer a question properly.
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Bruce Atchison commented 2025-05-29 19:36:55 -0400It’s poor forest management responsible for extreme wildfires. Tree huggers won’t let forest be harvested so dead trees and fallen branches pile up. But stupid people blame the fable of global warming for the government’s idiotic forestry policies.
