No amount of money, jobs or economic output will stop dry forests from burning, mass extinctions of critical species, ecosystems collapsing.

Oil is great except for that fatal flaw, the only way around the flaw is to leave oil in the ground.

We stopped using asbestos, CFCs, PCBs, and dioxins because while they were very useful but were highly toxic, just like oil. Burning more oil means more and more energy is absorbed from the sun and not radiated back into space and the unnaturally fast increase in the temperature on earth

4/ How is this the world I leave my daughter. How can my MP, my MLA and so many others demand we extract and burn every drop of oil, make as much money as possible instead of realizing burning all that oil is making the world burn and that all the money wont bring back the summers I remember.

3/ When I was growing up we didn't have AC, we opened windows and used fans. I can't imagine that today, when my daughter was an infant I got a portable AC to keep her cool because the windows needed to be shut because the air was smoky.

2/ She thinks its normal that the air is so vile she cant play outside at recess, cant go ride her bike, can't go to the playground, can't walk to corner store to get an ice cream. I grew up in the same neighbourhood and this wasn't normal when I was a kid.

I think asymmetric warfare is Canada's only option. I dont think nukes are not realistic in a reasonable time frame. Canada would have to develop nuclear weapons and the delivery systems. Even if Canada had both, it would need to protect them from an american first strike.