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Old 06-14-2024, 09:24 PM   #19781
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You think Farkas actually read the bill though?
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Old 06-21-2024, 08:24 AM   #19782
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The press release from the UCP on bill 59 is a fun read. It's got all the Orwellian hits, and fun name calling like "eco-extremists," "lawless government," and doing things "without apology". Good stuff!

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“The federal Liberal and NDP coalition has passed draconian legislation that will irreparably harm Canadian’s ability to hear the truth about the energy industry and Alberta’s successes in reducing global emissions.
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I thought bill 59 meant they couldn't lie, so if they aren't lying, what's the problem?

https://www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?x...B957AE15E78114
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I love how the Pathways Alliance basically pulled their content from their website due to this law lol. That's a tell.
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The ucp arent big fans of the truth
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Old 06-21-2024, 09:04 AM   #19786
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I'll allow it...under the new truth parameters its accurate
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Old 06-21-2024, 09:04 AM   #19787
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The press release from the UCP on bill 59 is a fun read. It's got all the Orwellian hits, and fun name calling like "eco-extremists," "lawless government," and doing things "without apology". Good stuff!



I thought bill 59 meant they couldn't lie, so if they aren't lying, what's the problem?

https://www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?x...B957AE15E78114
Bill 59, or the sections pertaining to this issue on climate change is a chilling piece of legislation that should be fired into the sun. Smith can go along for the ride but it’s a really bad piece of work by the liberals.

In essence, companies which are required to do esg reporting today, could actually be then charged against this legislation.

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Bill 59, or the sections pertaining to this issue on climate change is a chilling piece of legislation that should be fired into the sun. Smith can go along for the ride but it’s a really bad piece of work by the liberals.

In essence, companies which are required to do esg reporting today, could actually be then charged against this legislation.
From what I've read, it's pretty mild legislation, in that if the competition board says "that sounds like bull####, provide facts, or remove it" and then the company can remove it with no consequence. This all seems...reasonable? Or do we just welcome so much BS these days it gets scary when corporations are held to not lying to us? Maybe one day we can get governments up to the same standard.
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Old 06-21-2024, 09:14 AM   #19789
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So will the liberals prosecute themselves over the false statements related to the economic benefits of the carbon tax ?
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From what I've read, it's pretty mild legislation, in that if the competition board says "that sounds like bull####, provide facts, or remove it" and then the company can remove it with no consequence. This all seems...reasonable? Or do we just welcome so much BS these days it gets scary when corporations are held to not lying to us? Maybe one day we can get governments up to the same standard.
Except the bar for that sounds like bs is very unclear and undefined, as would be the bar for making a complaint and the penalty is a 3 percent tax on global profits. It’s yet another swing at the Canadian energy sector who provides what is today a life saving and needed commodity world wide. We are literally one of the best at what we do and yet we continue to want to harm the industry. Investment is already moving elsewhere, it makes way more sense to do carbon capture and sequestration projects in the US. Same with renewables.
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Old 06-21-2024, 09:44 AM   #19791
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Yeah the problem with C-59 is that it refers to an unknown 'internationally recognized standards', and has massive potential fines with the onus on the reporting entities to prove adherence to this unknown standard.

It is not clear what disclosure would be allowed vs illegal, so companies are not going to risk it. It will have fallout throughout the industry as banks and governments want more transparent reporting from companies but now it is unclear if they are allowed to provide it.
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Old 06-21-2024, 09:57 AM   #19792
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Old 06-21-2024, 11:31 AM   #19793
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Yeah the problem with C-59 is that it refers to an unknown 'internationally recognized standards', and has massive potential fines with the onus on the reporting entities to prove adherence to this unknown standard.

It is not clear what disclosure would be allowed vs illegal, so companies are not going to risk it. It will have fallout throughout the industry as banks and governments want more transparent reporting from companies but now it is unclear if they are allowed to provide it.
There's a lot of uncertainty in how things can be interpreted. A lot of research organizations supporting studies on greenhouse gas reduction technologies have pulled down their websites too until there is clarity - even if they are confident in their positions no one wants the expense and hassle of being the first case in the courts.
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Old 06-21-2024, 11:56 AM   #19794
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So has anybody been imprisoned over pronouns yet, or was that just a bunch of hysteria?

I'll admit I have not read deeply into this issue, but on the surface I think it is an excellent idea. It's time to start pushing back on this descent into disinformation idiocracy. Whether this is the best place to start I don't know, but it does not seem unreasonable to me.

We already have laws related to deceptive marketing, but I suspect enforcement is consumer driven, which does not apply very well to some of this.


If companies are rushing to take down information, that suggests to me that there is likely a lot of snake oil out there. While it would be a burden to deal with, there would also be no better marketing than to successfully defend yourself against this - especially as one of the first cases. I would be excited - not scared by this (if I were legitimate).
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So has anybody been imprisoned over pronouns yet, or was that just a bunch of hysteria?

I'll admit I have not read deeply into this issue, but on the surface I think it is an excellent idea. It's time to start pushing back on this descent into disinformation idiocracy. Whether this is the best place to start I don't know, but it does not seem unreasonable to me.

We already have laws related to deceptive marketing, but I suspect enforcement is consumer driven, which does not apply very well to some of this.


If companies are rushing to take down information, that suggests to me that there is likely a lot of snake oil out there. While it would be a burden to deal with, there would also be no better marketing than to successfully defend yourself against this - especially as one of the first cases. I would be excited - not scared by this (if I were legitimate).
That’s not always the case that there was so much disinformation out there, it can be, and is in this case that the legislation was written with such a bias and open end that nobody is really sure where the ground is now.

Believe it or not there are good companies out there, trying to do good work in emissions reduction who don’t know what they are able to say right now. That’s a bad state to be in and the Feds caused this.
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That’s not always the case that there was so much disinformation out there, it can be, and is in this case that the legislation was written with such a bias and open end that nobody is really sure where the ground is now.

Believe it or not there are good companies out there, trying to do good work in emissions reduction who don’t know what they are able to say right now. That’s a bad state to be in and the Feds caused this.
How so?

Why don't we look at it in context, and tell me how it differs from the rest of 74.01:

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I wonder if companies panicked and removed all of their marketing when 74.01 (b) was initially introduced? Or did they just make sure the claims they weren't marketing were not total BS? Or if they had marketing statements that were 'technically true' but you know - not really honestly true in good faith - did they simply go ahead and adjust those statements or had *fine text caveats?


And those penalties are nothing new...they've already applied to the other subsections of 74.01

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Totally reasonable to assume that the bolded won't apply, and it'll be straight to millions in penalties. Because that totally must have happened a lot with the other paragraphs under 74.01 and I'm sure some folks will chime in with numerous examples. Please. I looked at couldn't find them.

But actually there is zero reason to believe that good faith behaviour that happens to not absolutely nail a 100% perfectly honestly and technically true standard will feel any more repercussions than Honey Nut Cheerios currently get for telling me how good they are for my heart. Which is nothing. Or maybe someday they'll be forced to change it to "not as bad for your heart as the other #### we sell with even more sugar"
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So it's OK to have a provincially funded propaganda department to deceive us, but not OK to have Federal laws in place to protect us from the deception?
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So it's OK to have a provincially funded propaganda department to deceive us, but not OK to have Federal laws in place to protect us from the deception?
No, both examples we are talking about are bad in my opinion.
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No, both examples we are talking about are bad in my opinion.
How so? Can you explain why you think it is biased and unreasonable?


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It is the exact same language as the consumer product paragraph. Perhaps you can cite examples where that has gone wrong?
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C-59 is only going to result in less transparency regarding ESG. No company, O&G or otherwise, is going to say anything about ESG publicly.
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