Guilbeault appointment to environment and climate portfolio an insult to Alberta

By Letter to the Editor on October 29, 2021.

Editor:
The appointment of Steven Guilbeault by Justin Trudeau as Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change is most assuredly a slap in the face to all Albertans.
Guilbeault, arrested at a Greenpeace demonstration against Canada’s role in climate change, is passionate and committed to his cause.
If Albertans are not as passionate and committed to their responsibly produced natural resources, then no battle can ever be won against such individuals.
Alberta premier Jason Kenney, an opportunistic carpetbagger of a federal career politician who parachuted into our province to win the UCP leadership by playing political games, has proven himself time and again a narrow-minded, dispassionate, deaf, and incompetent bumbler.
Unfortunately, his rival and NDP leader Rachel Notley is no better with her constant, obsequious kow-towing to Justin Trudeau and his “national environmental program” which is as misguided and divisive as was Pierre Elliot Trudeau’s National Energy Program.
Albertans desperately need another Peter Lougheed to lead, fight, and beat back these people again.
Mike Priaro
Calgary