Touted Climate Emergency Seems Deceitful and Undemocratic

Jyoti Gondek has now been sworn in as Calgary’s first female mayor. A week earlier, less than 24 hours after winning the mayoral race, Gondek gave her first post-election talk-radio interview to Ryan Jespersen, mostly involving a series of softball questions. He asked her the obligatory woke questions about her gender and skin colour. Toward the end, he asked what her “top priority” and “first order of business” would be. What would she “sink her teeth into” upon arrival? Punctuating the question with more immediacy, Jespersen sought to hear about “the first thing that would come across [her] desk.”

It is worth while to transcribe verbatim her response for content as well as for attitude.

“We [Calgary city councillors] have had a chance to declare a climate emergency for years. We have had various documents presented to us as a council and I think we have had more than enough time to review them. So let’s get serious, let’s declare this, and let’s start going after the capital that we w…