Commentary
Victor Davis Hanson raised an alarm in a recent column about a litany of unchartered developments besetting the United States that risk becoming unimaginable. Hanson believes the traditional bedrocks of the American system are dissolving, including a stable economy, energy independence, hallowed universities, and a credible criminal justice system. Many of these damaging assaults on America’s economy and body politic have direct parallels in Canada.
Like Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s obsession since 2015, President Biden is determined to throttle his country’s immense oil and gas potential to the detriment of jobs, economic growth, funding for social programs, stable prices, personal and public indebtedness, and energy security, all of which weaken Western democracies’ ability to confront the menace from China, Russia, and Iran. It is as if our most threatening competitors are in charge of energy policy in Washington and Ottawa. They must be flabbergasted  and grateful that North America’s politicians are deliberately facilitating fossil fuel imports….