The haze was not so bad over Lake Erie yesterday, but the
east coast was under an air quality alert due to the wildfires in Quebec and
Ontario. John Carter raises questions about who or what caused these
wildfires. Eco-terrorists? Canada’s deep state? From his Substack
column:
There are currently over 100 fires
raging throughout Quebec and, now, Ontario. The number goes up every time I go
to check Google, last I saw was around 160. The closest is just over 100 km
from here.
Wildfires on this scale, at the
point in the year, are in my experience unprecedented. Ten of thousands of
people in outlying communities have already been evacuated. So far about 3.5
million hectares have burned.
As you can see, not only are we on
track for the worst wildfire season on record, the temporal pattern is
completely out of step with what we normally see. In every other year, wildfire
season is mid-August, mid-July at the earliest. The beginning of June is
unheard of.
. . .
That leaves, as far as I can make
out, three broad categories of perpetrators: a foreign state actor; the
Canadian government itself; or non-state actors.
So which is it? Mr Carter leans to the Canadian government
itself, and he explains why. But he
concludes with a reasonable disclaimer:
I want to finish by emphasizing
that neither I nor anyone else I know has any proof that these wildfires are
caused by arson, or if so that this arson is the result of self-inflicted
damage by the Canadian state. That is all pure speculation based on the highly
anomalous behaviour of the wildfires (a large number starting more or less simultaneously
two months earlier than normal), along with the known policy vectors of the
current ruling class, and the demonstrated tendency of that ruling class to
‘make their own reality’, so to speak. This is the same ruling class, remember,
that blew up the NordStream pipeline and then pretended Russia did it. They’re
not above committing acts of terrorism on a vast scale if they think it will
benefit them. With the reputation they’ve made for themselves, it’s easy for
many of us - certainly for me - to believe that they would do something like
set an entire country on fire purely to spook the populace, and that is perhaps
the grimmest comment possible on the times in which we live.
Read his column here.
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