In this YouTube commentary, Dennis Prager reacts to Canada’s newly announced plan to end the sale of new gasoline‑ and diesel‑powered passenger vehicles by 2035, a policy outlined by the Canadian government and its Environment Minister Stephen Guilbeault. Prager questions the practicality and motives behind the ban, raising concerns about the source and energy intensity of battery production, especially China’s dominant role in the supply chain. He likens the government’s language of “encouraging” electric vehicle adoption to left‑wing “newspeak,” arguing that it is effectively a forced mandate. Prager also critiques the reliance on climate and COVID‑19 models that he claims proved inaccurate, suggesting that such modeling underpins flawed policy decisions. Throughout, he frames the move as economically damaging to Canada, an oil‑rich nation, and portrays it as part of a broader leftist agenda that has been warning of a climate tipping point since the early 1990s.
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Canada bans gas cars. Is that correct? Am I seeing this correctly? Yeah. Canada lays out plan to phase out sales of gas-powered cars and trucks by 2035. So that's 11 years from now. New rules will effectively end sales of vehicles powered only by gasoline or diesel by 2035. This is from the CBC. Canada is lost. I'm going to have this remarkable woman from Holland on the show later. She was at the conference and so I invited her to come to L.A. and come on the show. She was just in Canada. She did a lecture tour in Canada. You'll be fascinated by her insights as a European. Well, what is going— where do these batteries come from? Is there any energy used in the making of batteries? It's an industrial process. I know, I know. It was a rhetorical question. And who is enriched by using batteries? What countries? China. Right, China. And I'm supposed to celebrate this idea based on climate models? According to the modeling, we were supposed to lock down all of our societies because of COVID The modeling turned out to be wrong and societies were damaged terribly. Most of all children, the greatest victims of leftism. Uh-huh. Let's see, what are these? What are this? Environmental Minister Stephen Guilbeault, G-U-I-L-B-E-A-U-L-T, will effectively end sales of new passenger vehicles powered only by gasoline or diesel by— in 2035. Gibeau said the electric vehicle availability standard will encourage automakers to make more battery-powered cars and trucks available in Canada. No, it doesn't encourage, it forces. Encourage is not— this is leftist newspeak. You can't do X, so I'm encouraging you not to do X. There's no mistaking it, we are at tipping point. Wow. How many years have we been at a tipping point in terms of global warming? Since 1990 at least. So 34 years next year. For 34 years we've been at a tipping point. Didn't China just experience its coldest days in many years? Did you see that? Yeah, that's right. Automakers will have the next 12 years to phase out combustion engine cars, trucks, and SUVs with the requirement by Canada, such an oil-rich country. You know how crushing this is to the Canadian economy? But we're at a tipping point.
