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This article deserves a longer discussion but with time short I’ll just leave a short observation. The excesses of capitalism are being used as a rationale for transferring regulation of Canada’s resources to a UN developed regulatory framework, a vast, unelected bureaucracy to take legal precedence over private land ownership. Your right to cut down trees or make modifications to your private property will be dictated by regulations imposed by transnational organizations. This is a surrender of sovereignty on a cataclysmic scale. It may be dressed up in feel good “equity” and “environmental protection” but it’s a resource control grab. Nothing more. An affront to private property rights in alignment with WEF and UN principles. The ethos upon which it depends is revealed in the last paragraph where the author campaigns for the destruction of capitalism, “ditch neoliberalism, and kick our delusional economic system, based on infinite growth on a finite planet, to the curb.” A revolutionary statement such as this is an insight into the motivations of the author. This isn’t about “protecting the environment”, it’s about replacing private resource development with state ownership. Green Communism. The “watermelon mafia”, green on the outside and red on the inside. Seizing control of global resources under cover of environmental protection is a fight that’s eventually going to impact every one of us. Get informed.

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I'm talking about a change in worldview, Sheldon, not advocating for more government control. In fact, that's exactly why I pointed to neoliberalism and capitalism in the first place. Have you ever looked at who the partners/ members of WEF are? Every major corporate entity on the planet. Corporations -- which are the ones ultimately benefiting from neoliberal and delusional growth economics -- are behind surveillance capitalism -- also a way to make money by being able to predict our behaviour. I'm saying governments are in bed with the corporate sector. In fact, what we have now is state capitalism. I do not advocate for more state control -- I'm advocating for the public interest to prevail. You're right, this does require a much longer discussion... but this is all I can muster now. Please read some of my other pieces -- the 3-part Remote Control series for one; also the many pieces I've written about the importance of protecting civil liberties. You'll see that I'm not pushing for state ownership or more government control over our lives. In fact, I've been raising alarm bells about it. I think there are other models -- industrial capitalism and neoliberalism are not the only way.

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And BTW -- I'm very much against globalism and the attempt to take away the sovereignty of nations. So please, before you put too many more words in my mouth, please read some of my other posts over the last nearly 3 years here on Substack.

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