Certain Canadian Leaders Need To Take A Hike

 

Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston and New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt recently apparently decided that global warming/climate change has gotten so bad that even walking in the woods could cause spontaneous conflagrations. So no hiking! Holt subsequently went on record as saying the directive to avoid walking amongst trees was not, in fact, due to the risk of more fires, but due to the risk that hikers themselves could possibly get hurt while strolling through the forest at a time when EMTs and emergency vehicles and apparatus are dedicated to fighting fires. In other words, their fellow Canadians will not be allowed to take the risk that they could get a booboo and the government wouldn’t be there to help them out. But Houston, we have a problem. (And I bet no Holts will be barred from any activity.) If everybody and everything is spread out across Canada fighting fires, you could say the same thing about fishing, playing tennis…or any other activity. What’s more, by far the most dangerous activity of all, with a 100% chance of impacting any and everyone, is breathing in the effing toxic smoke from the fires themselves. Fires with which Canada’s dedicated fire-fighting assets have been entirely unable to contain for the entirety of the summer thus far.

Are today’s Canadians this willing to allow their government to tell them they can’t walk in the effing woods? Which means they can’t walk in almost any part of Canada, except perhaps the most urban areas where help might be more quickly available or above the tree line. And, sadly, the former is now particularly dangerous due to the literally countless numbers of undocumented “guests” the country has let in, the latter because it truly is an extraordinarily harsh environment and exceedingly remote. So, perhaps Canucks should just stay in their homes and wait for the fires to burn themselves out naturally, in, say, 2032. If they (and we) are lucky.

Are Nova Scotians and New Brunswickers experiencing a bit of Déjà vu? It's almost like The Plandemic all over again, isn’t it? “Stay inside and be safe! That’s an order! Sit-up! Roll-over! Play dead!” These Maritime Canucks should tell Houston and Holt to go lay by their dishes. Or are many Canadians this docile now? This afraid?

What became of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, lumberjacks, and rough and tumble hockey players? What has become of the country that once fought valiantly in World War II and whose troops stormed Juno Beach?

Today its citizens seem unable to push back effectively against forest fires and the abusive actions of their leaders in government.

Maybe those leaders need to “take a hike.”