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Politicians always have lots to say about wildfires, except when arson charges laid
Toronto Sun ^ | 8/9/2023 | Joe Warmington

Posted on 09/09/2023 10:57:15 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan

There was no social media post on X from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about this little piece of news.

Same goes from Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault or former Environment Minister Catherine McKenna.

But police in Quebec have charged a man with arson for several allegedly deliberately set fires in northern Quebec in what was a major criminal investigation that could be the stuff of movies.

It’s an inconvenient truth that is not getting as much attention as plumes of smoke that filled the air and skylines of major cities like New York, Montreal and Toronto in June.

“We’re seeing more and more of these fires because of climate change,” Trudeau posted on June 7. “These fires are affecting everyday routines, lives and livelihoods, and our air quality. We’ll keep working – here at home and with partners around the world – to tackle climate change and address its impacts.”

But now Quebec police have charged a 37-year-old man with arson in connection with what the CBC reports as “numerous forest fires that burned earlier this summer in the province’s north.”

Brian Paré, of Chibougamau, 700 km north of Montreal, was booked in court Thursday and will be held until a bail hearing scheduled for Monday. It will be interesting to see if he has the same kind of difficultly gaining bail as Tamara Lich did for her alleged mischief connected to the Ottawa Freedom Convoy.

Catching Paré was no easy task. Sûreté du Québec Sgt. Hugues Beaulieu told CBC detectives received help from “behaviour analysis experts, criminal profilers and forensic psychologists” and after “investigating for several weeks, members of the SQ’s major crimes unit were able to nab the man.”

The CBC reports the accused “allegedly set fire to a fishing cabin on May 31 and to forests in the area between July 8 and Sept. 5” in an area that saw more than 7,500 people evacuated.

All of this has not been tested in court. These allegations do not account for every blaze in what has been a very bad year for forest fires. It all has to be proven in court. Environmental activists don’t have that burden when these use forest or wildfires to push their climate change agenda which includes bringing in expensive new carbon taxes.

The arson charge in northern Quebec is not the sole criminal indictment related to this summer. Police in Nova Scotia, Ontario, Alberta, Manitoba, British Columbia and Northwest Territories have suspects before the courts charged with allegedly deliberately starting fires. While some of those cases are dismissed as being within the city limits and not related, some have been in or near forests and green spaces.

The same philosophy that these arsons could not have started forest fires is not applied that somehow climate change has started them. What this does show is there are allegedly people who will start fires on purpose and there are others who may do it through carelessness.

None of this seems to matter to those who want to bring in strict climate change measures that cost and affect average people but still fly around the world on jets themselves.

And they use every fire as a political wedge to push their story.

“The scale of these extreme weather events are unknown to our country,” Guilbeault shared to X in August. “It us an urgent signal that we must act on the climate crises.”

And don’t forget about McKenna’s famous post to X – which has since been deleted – in which she wrote, “Conservative politicians want to fight about price on a carbon pollution” and “want to make it free to pollute while Canadians pay with their lives threatened, homes destroyed and their communities obliterated … you are the arsonists.”

People like Trudeau, McKenna and Guilbeault often have lots to say when disaster strikes. But on people being arrested on arson charges, they have yet to comment.


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1 posted on 09/09/2023 10:57:15 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Insurance companies may exclude coverage for wildland fires, while the government and media protect ecoterrorists who start them. Getting angry yet?


2 posted on 09/09/2023 11:08:16 AM PDT by Spok (Unconditional promises must be honored unconditionally.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

3 posted on 09/09/2023 11:08:43 AM PDT by Bounced2X (Boomer - I survived childhood with no bike helmet.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan
Yeah, when there is no clear cause they just say "climate change, climate change, climate change. Oh, and climate change".

But when it's directly caused by someone, they change their tune to "white supremacy".
4 posted on 09/09/2023 11:15:34 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Right Wing Vegan

This is what you get when “carbon” is deemed to be a pollutant.

We have a “zero smoke” or “zero emissions” policy (air quality) in North America that ignores reality regardless of how the fires begin. It can burn with low intensity if we properly manage fuels such as grasses and/or forests with controlled burns or it can burn catastrophically regardless of how it starts, but it WILL burn and produce smoke (carbon).

The “greens” have hijacked common-sense with horrible consequences.


5 posted on 09/09/2023 11:20:02 AM PDT by volunbeer (We are living 2nd Thessalonians)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Here in the Black Hills of South Dakota we had a rash of forest fires from a arsonist.
It was a woman and they could never catch her.
She cut off kitchen match heads and stuffed them into a cigarette.
Put the tobacco back in.
She would light the cigarette, throw int into a bunch of grass, ride away on her motorcycle.
She would be miles away when the match heads ignited


6 posted on 09/09/2023 11:30:45 AM PDT by South Dakota (Patriotism is the new terrorism )
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To: Spok

Insurance companies may exclude coverage for wildland fires, while the government and media protect ecoterrorists who start them. Getting angry yet?

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Whenever discussing wildfires in public(I live in Oregon)

I always start the conversation with:

A guy told me he saw a long haired guy 22-35 years old running from the scene, wearing a save the earth t-shirt, while carrying a 5 gallon red gas can & a box of matches.

When confronted he said he was a fire fighter and “we’re all in this together.”


7 posted on 09/09/2023 11:45:27 AM PDT by unclebankster ( Globalism is the last refuge scoundrel)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

The Climate Cult Arsonist Army


8 posted on 09/09/2023 11:46:14 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Don’t discount Trudeau hired people to start fires.


9 posted on 09/09/2023 11:48:15 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: Right Wing Vegan

What I saw in Alaska many moons ago. The natives would set forest fires in order to get on the fire fighting crews. They make some heap big summer money, and it can last them all year in their villages.

You hop into a light airplane, fly over the forest, and toss out a few plastic gallon jugs of flaming kerosene. Jugs that milk comes in. The Canadian injuns are doing the same. Kerosene Molotov cocktails.

My thoughts at least.


10 posted on 09/09/2023 11:56:57 AM PDT by dennisw (Never attribute to incompetence & stupidity, that which is adequately explained by malice)
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Same as the big Democrat city police and hack prosecutors never charge blacks and minorities with illegal gun possession. This gets tossed out as part of a plea deal or bargained down to nearly nothing.


11 posted on 09/09/2023 12:00:54 PM PDT by dennisw (Never attribute to incompetence & stupidity, that which is adequately explained by malice)
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12 posted on 09/09/2023 12:07:00 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (=uran)
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btt


13 posted on 09/09/2023 1:58:56 PM PDT by GailA (Constitution vs evil Treasonous political Apparatchiks, Constitutional Conservative.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

It is the socialists that are starting the forest fires.
Others are burning the cities.
All planned.


14 posted on 09/10/2023 2:18:28 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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