Our local MP, Cheryl Gallant, is garnering plenty of attention on social media once again. This time, it’s for a video snippet from Gallant Night News circulating twitter. In the video, Gallant points a finger at the legalization of marijuana for some of our carbon footprint, in what she calls the Pot Paradox.
It appears the video was first posted to GNN on July 18, 2017. In the video, there’s a split screen between Gallant and Tom Harris, Executive Director International Climate Science Coalition, however the video cuts before we can hear his response to Gallant’s comments. A little digging shows, Harris and the ICSC is not in support of alternative green energy and refer to calls for awareness to climate change as the ‘climate scare’. According to the organization’s website, their mission statement includes moving the debate away from implementation of costly and ineffectual “climate control” measures. Instead, ICSC encourages assisting vulnerable peoples to adapt to climate variability. We’ve reached out to Gallant’s office for comment, but have yet to hear back.
