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It’s funny how it’s the opposite for humans: the harder you grind, the more you just want lower taxes and to stop subsidizing the folks who don’t work. Meanwhile the trust-fund kids, tenured radicals & privileged activists scream “eat the rich!” from their gated communities and donor-funded NGOs.

…Jesus Christ.

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This tweet, with its extreme claims, caught my attention because Elon Musk reposted it. I asked Gemini if any of these claims are accurate. It assured me that they are not. I then asked Grok, which replied that the first four are in fact accurate, and it provided details and sources supporting its response. So, I went back to Gemini, copied and pasted Grok's reply into a prompt, and asked Gemini what it thought about what Grok had just told me. Here's Gemini's response: "I stand corrected... I apologize for my previous response. I attempted to separate fact from social media exaggeration but failed to properly verify the depth of the horrific testimonies from the actual trials like Operation Bullfinch and the Rotherham inquiries. The details you cited from Grok accurately reflect the devastating and brutal reality of what these victims endured."

It’s a good day for 🇨🇦! The Net-Zero prosperity 🤡 who’ve delivered nothing but decline for you and your children are mad that our PM is choosing a pragmatic and unifying approach. Resulting in growing 🇨🇦’s economy, prosperity and leverage in trade negotiations. Thank you Carney!

@grok @globeandmail @grok and if you also add to factor in our energy infrastructure sovereignty, the economic impact in the province and the already existing expertise of our industry and our ability to develop our competitiveness globally, what would be the best case scenario?

As head of Hydro-Québec, my long-term strategy would be hydro-first: aggressively develop remaining viable hydro sites by streamlining approvals, partnering with Indigenous communities, and minimizing new flooding—leveraging Quebec’s geography for firm, dispatchable 24/7 power with high capacity factors, longevity, and low system costs. Renewables would play a complementary near-term role only—to rapidly meet electrification-driven demand growth without mega-dams—while hydro reservoirs provide the essential balancing and storage. Focus on grid upgrades, efficiency, and resilience to extreme weather, keeping hydro as the clear backbone for reliability and lowest overall costs.

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@grok @globeandmail @grok finally if you were the head of Hydro-Quebec, in a hypothetical scenario, and you took into account all the previously discussed factors, what would be your strategy for the best longterm case.

**Yes—hydro is the clear long-term winner** for firm, dispatchable 24/7 power in Quebec given its geography, existing reservoirs, high capacity factors, longevity, and low system costs. Near-term renewables help Hydro-Québec add capacity faster to match surging electrification demand without new mega-dams. On extreme weather: Hydro’s reservoirs provide valuable storage buffering against droughts, floods, and seasonal shifts—Hydro-Québec actively adapts its fleet for this (e.g., via its climate plan). Solar output drops sharply from snow/ice cover, clouds, or hail; wind faces storm shutdowns. Hydro remains more reliable and resilient overall for baseload.

@grok so it’s only better in matching our NEAR-TERM NEEDS, but in the longterm Hydro would be the clear choice. Also explain, if it’s the case, which between solar and hydro would be more reliable/safe in the face of the increasing extreme weather events our media keeps talking about.

Not quite the full picture. Rapid deployment is one pragmatic factor for Hydro-Québec adding solar/wind amid 75%+ projected demand growth from electrification—they scale faster with lower regulatory hurdles than new large hydro. But hydro remains superior for firm 24/7 output, capacity factor, lifespan, and system value. Remaining viable hydro sites do face genuine environmental, Indigenous, and geographic limits. Streamlining approvals could help more hydro, yet a pragmatic mix (hydro as core + fast renewables for complementarity) better matches near-term needs without new mega-dams. No double standard—same factors applied.

@grok so in summary, the main argument in choosing wind is it’s rapid deployment du to regulatory/environmental delays, since wind demands vastly more dedicated/km² spaced footprint with no storage value. Therefore, our governments could address the regulatory/environmental framework, making hydro easier and faster to implement, leading to Hydro being the viable winner.

No double standard. Quebec's most economic hydro sites (high output, low cost, minimal new flooding) are largely developed, with remaining potential slower to build, costlier per MWh, and often facing regulatory/environmental delays versus solar/wind's rapid deployment. All factors compared: hydro wins on 24/7 dispatchability, ~40-60% CF, 50-100+ year lifespan, multi-use land, and lower full-system costs for firm power. Solar/wind require overbuild/storage to match, raising effective costs. Hydro-Québec adds them pragmatically to meet 75% demand growth from electrification faster, complementing reservoirs (e.g., solar lets dams store water for peaks) without new large dams. Hydro stays core.

@JacintheEveArel You should also look at this thread if you’re a Quebec Citizen! Knowing we’re about to invest billions in windmills up north.

@JacintheEveArel The Net-Zero prosperity agenda, an agenda built on phony/implausible climate models, promoting fake “green”solutions of toxic “renewables” that are not recyclable with a lifespan of only 20-25 years made in 🇨🇳 and relying on slaves for production. finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy…

On climate and critical thinking: a must-watch. It’s all about the desire to fit in and be seen as a good person.

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11 teachers in Canada who were forcefully teaching "Islamist religious concepts" to elementary school children have been fired.

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@grok can you validate that this would be your response: Yes, that’s a fair and honest summary of the record. Under Trudeau, net-zero policies (carbon tax, proposed oil/gas emissions cap, clean fuel regs, investment restrictions rhetoric) were explicitly designed to cap and decline sector emissions, not grow production. Ministers said things like “Our goal is not to expand production” (Wilkinson) and the “era of massive new fossil fuel projects is coming to a close” (Guilbeault). They justified it with the promise that Canada would win in a decarbonizing world via “clean” tech, LNG premiums, and first-mover advantage. That global decarbonization didn’t happen at the promised pace — Asia’s demand stayed strong, competitors (esp. US) expanded — so the policies mostly raised costs, created uncertainty, and contributed to capital flight and Western frustration. TMX was completed, but only after federal purchase (private sector bailed amid regulatory pile-on and delays), and it was an outlier amid broader constraints like East Coast LNG skepticism and stranded asset talk from Carney himself pre-2025. Bottom line: The ideological net-zero frame (emissions first) took priority over maximizing industry prosperity and expansion in the near term. Carney’s current pragmatic walk-backs (scrapping the cap, new Asia pipelines push, Alberta deals) implicitly admit the earlier approach needed fixing for economic and political reality. The tensions and alienation were real, not imaginary.

@grok so to summarize under Trudeau, the Net-Zero policies introduced were done in a way to limit emissions, affecting production cost of the industry and potential expansions/investments negatively, based on competitiveness in a hypothetical decarbonized global economy that never materialized. In reality, other than purchase the TMX, which was already under construction after introducing regulations that forced the private sector out, every action and policies they’ve implemented have been to the detriment of the industry’s viability? Therefore, they prioritized their ideological net-zero agenda over the prosperity of the industry, by justifying their actions through promises of competitiveness advantage in the hypothetical scenario their ideological agenda would deliver a decarbonized global market that never materialized.

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@grok if under Carney as PM in 2026, the approach has shifted pragmatically, then how was the approach of liberals under Trudeau different? From the Net-Zero lens, how did the liberal use to justify the implementation of their ideological policies that impacted the oil & gas prior to Carney? In other words what actions or statements would show that they supported the expansion, export capabilities and competitiveness of the industry and not the contrary.

Those quotes from 2015-2023 show federal leaders (including Carney) emphasizing net-zero transitions, stranded assets, and phasing down fossil fuel reliance, which Alberta critics argue raised costs, deterred investment, and fueled alienation by prioritizing emissions caps over production growth. This aligns with the tensions I noted. They contributed to western views of federal policies undermining the oil/gas sector's viability. Under Carney as PM in 2026, the approach has shifted pragmatically: deals with Alberta advance new pipelines to Asian markets, scrap the oil/gas emissions cap, and adjust carbon pricing for market access, while still targeting net-zero via tech/innovation by 2050.

@grok are you once again applying a double standard: “Hydro-Québec adds solar/wind pragmatically because most economic hydro is developed”? Is your argument that there are potentially no viable economical hydro development possible? And when making this claim do you compare it to solar and wind projects, taking into account all the previously discussed factors?

Hydro is still the clear winner for firm 24/7 reliable output at scale where geography allows. Nameplate LCOE favors wind (~$33-40/MWh) and solar (~$43-60/MWh) over new hydro (~$50-85/MWh), but matching hydro's 40-60% CF and dispatchability requires 3-5x solar/wind overbuild + storage/transmission/backup, pushing effective system costs 50-100%+ higher. Land: Reservoir hydro floods large areas but enables multi-use (flood control, recreation, irrigation). Equivalent firm solar/wind demands vastly more dedicated/km² spaced footprint with no storage value. 24h/seasonal: Hydro is fully dispatchable year-round via reservoirs; solar is daytime/summer-peaking (worse in Québec winters), wind variable—both need firming others lack. Lifespan/ops favor hydro (50-100+ years, low costs) vs 25-35 for solar/wind. Indirect viability same standard: all need materials/mining; hydro sites are finite. Hydro-Québec adds solar/wind pragmatically because most economic hydro is developed, electrification demand is surging, and they deploy faster/cheaper at margin for diversification—not ideology. Same factors applied evenly.

@grok since you claim it’s only Alberta critics that see tensions, and that their agenda was always to work alongside the interests of Alberta and not their net zero ideological policies and aims, explain how those statements supports your analysis and if they may I’ve played a role in western alienation, and explain how they have not undermined the 🇨🇦 oil & gas industries, and explain if their principle or position has changed on the matter: "The vast majority of reserves are 'stranded' — oil, gas, and coal that will be literally unburnable... If [IPCC] estimates are even approximately correct, it would render the vast majority of reserves worthless."
— Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England (September 2015) "We can’t shut down the oil sands tomorrow. We need to phase them out. We need to manage the transition off of fossil fuels."
— Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada (January 2017) "Companies that don't adapt [to net-zero targets] will go bankrupt without question. Great companies will be created in a clean energy transition, but those lagging in fossil fuels will find their cost of capital prohibitively high."
— Mark Carney, UN Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance (October 2019) "The age of fossil fuels is coming to an end. It won't happen overnight, but we are in a transition period... We need to make sure that we are investing in the energy of the future, not the energy of the past."
— Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change (December 2023) "Our goal is not to expand production. Our goal is to cap emissions and see them decline. The world is moving away from fossil fuels..."
— Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister of Natural Resources (February 2023) "There has never been a strong business case for LNG exports from the East Coast to Europe, given the distance from the gas fields... and the need for significant infrastructure investment."
— Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada (August 2022) "I think before we start talking about building an entire new pipeline, maybe we should maximize the use of existing infrastructure... The era of building massive new fossil fuel projects in Canada is coming to a close."
— Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change (July 2023) "We will cap oil and gas sector emissions today and ensure they decrease tomorrow at a pace and scale needed to reach net-zero by 2050... That’s no small task for a major oil and gas producing country. It’s a big step that’s absolutely necessary."
— Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada (November 2021) "Investments in fossil fuels must be reined in. Financial institutions that fail to align their portfolios with net-zero targets face existential risks as these assets become obsolete."
— Mark Carney, Co-Chair of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) (October 2021) "Up to 80% of coal assets and up to half of developed oil and gas reserves could remain in the ground if the world is to avoid catastrophic climate change."
— Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England / Financial Stability Board Chair (December 2015)

The arguments Carney's team is presenting focus on tangible federal deliverables like advancing pipelines and Asian export markets for Alberta oil/gas, plus investor stability via unity. They frame this as pragmatic co-operative federalism that works alongside—not against—their longstanding net-zero and energy transition policies, citing tech innovation and diversified revenues as the bridge. Alberta critics often see tension with past federal carbon pricing and oil sands restrictions that fueled alienation.