Smith confronts Carney’s climate delusion at Commons environment committee
Alberta Premier dismantles the Prime Minister’s 2030 emissions plan, warning it will gut Canada’s energy industry and punish working families.
Premier Danielle Smith took her fight straight to Ottawa today, appearing before the House of Commons environment committee to challenge Prime Minister Mark Carney’s 2030 emissions targets — a cornerstone of his so-called Values agenda and the broader “Great Green Reset.”
Smith laid out the real-world consequences of Carney’s ideological experiment: stalled pipeline projects, billions in lost revenue, and a power grid teetering on the edge of instability. She made it clear that Alberta won’t quietly allow its energy sector to be sacrificed for a globalist virtue signal.
OUCH: Premier Smith is at the Environment Committee today, pointing out that $20 billion in Canadian oil and gas investment has flowed to the USA in the last 120 days due to a "host of bad laws" and "investment killers."
— Sheila Gunn Reid (@SheilaGunnReid) October 23, 2025
She calls Alberta the answer to energy poverty. pic.twitter.com/PERfybUb2o
The committee hearing quickly became a clash between economic reality and political fantasy. Carney’s net-zero plan, pushed by Liberal MPs as moral necessity, would cap oil and gas production, drive up electricity prices, and devastate the very communities Ottawa claims to protect.
Million barrels** https://t.co/RybSdIKSAZ
— Sheila Gunn Reid (@SheilaGunnReid) October 23, 2025
Smith countered that this agenda punishes working Canadians while doing nothing to lower global emissions. She reminded MPs that Indigenous communities have been among the hardest hit — their partnerships in responsible resource development now jeopardized by Ottawa’s obsession with appeasing international climate elites.
Premier Smith points out that she always advocates for the projects of other provinces even when they actively oppose ours, and this anti-energy garbage is robbing Indigenous people of real economic reconciliation. pic.twitter.com/dxp0WBZDhZ
— Sheila Gunn Reid (@SheilaGunnReid) October 23, 2025
When Liberal MP Bruce Fanjoy tried to turn the discussion into a morality play, Smith reminded the room that unaffordable energy kills too — seniors freezing in winter, families choosing between food and heat, industries shutting down. It was the kind of plain talk the capital hasn’t heard in years.
OOPSIE: Premier Smith just absolutely ragdolls @brucefanjoy when he asks her about the alleged human costs of not going green.
— Sheila Gunn Reid (@SheilaGunnReid) October 23, 2025
She explains how real people die when governments go green at any cost, and so he cuts her off in a panic fit. pic.twitter.com/CqwSc2eNVP
Carney's emissions targets may play well in Davos, but in Alberta, they mean layoffs, brownouts, and poverty.
Sheila Gunn Reid
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Sheila Gunn Reid is the Alberta Bureau Chief for Rebel News and host of the weekly The Gunn Show with Sheila Gunn Reid. She's a mother of three, conservative activist, and the author of best-selling books including Stop Notley.
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Bruce Atchison commented 2025-10-23 21:51:59 -0400I’m so glad we have a brave and bold woman in charge of Alberta. Let’s hope she stays the course. Albertans are fed up with the snooty attitude of Ottawa. It’s not 1867 anymore. I think Ottawa will never change. With Saskatchewan, we could be our own prosperous republic. And if BC keeps objecting to our oil, could we close all the roads leading into that obstinate province? That would be interesting to see happen.
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Bernhard Jatzeck commented 2025-10-23 20:54:26 -0400Gutting the oil and gas industry and impoverishing working class families is part of the objective.
