Trudeau gave the First Nations vetoes over development and the courts a mandate to support those vetoes. What has changed? Why do you think the Major Projects Office is slow-walking everything? They have to maintain the mirage that things are happening until the next election.
Serious question, how do you think the federal government should handle First Nations opposition (eg the new court challenges to Pacific Link), given the Section 35 jurisprudence as it exists today? If you were a PM with a strong majority what would you do?
Do you think Trudeau gave the courts that mandate, or rather it flows out of Section 35 of the Constitution plus the Treaties that Section 35 refers to?
The same way TMX suddenly became doable after Canada bought it from KM. Commit to serious indigenous consultations and address their complaints or do side deals to bring them onside. Instruct the RCMP to block saboteurs. Section 35 wasn't an issue once the government took over.
It would be great if the government could define whom the consultation process should involve. Is it the elected or ancestral leaders? The "Coastal First Nations" funded by Tides?
The slow part is to appoint fewer progressive judges. I don't think Canada's final consultations were significantly than their first or than KM's. The judges just decided to let it pass that time.
Alberta has already been in years-long constitutional fights, so injecting uncertainty, division and misplaced energy may as well be done now and negotiate independence. Albertans can't be fooled by Carney pretending to position Alberta for growth and opportunity. The MOU comes with unjustifiable conditions and a Carney promise is not something Alberta should take to the bank. Carney is undeniably a liar, and liars lie.
What would be economically reckless and strategically self-defeating is staying in a country that is circling the drain at "at speeds not seen in generations" and "at speeds we didn't think possible."
The timing of the announcement was blatantly political, which makes me suspect it had no other purpose and will be put in the "announce it and forget it" bin.
The pipeline was being built without taxpayer money. Trudeau's grandstanding interfered until KM gave up, which forced him to buy the project. The person now running the Major Projects Office finished building the pipeline at 4x what KM had budgeted.
TMX was the lucky one. The other 13 major O&G projects that were underway when Trudeau came into office were all cancelled.
Just imagine, Ontario's oil supply would not now be threatened by Whitner and Trump. We could have helped the Ukraine by displacing Russian energy in Europe. We could be shipping gas to Asia instead of coal.
Appreciate it when strong conservative voices speak out against separation. Looking forward to this being over. Hopefully the separatists can accept the results and either move on or move away.
Canada is not moving in the right direction in any economic, political, or legal manner of which I am aware.
Federal judges are making outrageous decisions based on made-up interpretations of laws stretched so thinly that they are unrecognizable from the original words.
The derivative Provinces and Federal Government are still accumulating uncontrollable and unsustainable levels of deficits and debt.
We still have a moribund economy shedding jobs at an alarming pace.
With the exception of the production of virtue-signally MOUs and letters of intent with major projects and trade enhancements, we are still bereft of shovels in the proverbial ground.
We have celebrated the failure to achieve a trade deal with our largest trading partner.
We have failed to heed the repeated warnings of foreign interference in our elections, in our social compact, and in the application of our laws and legislation. We have failed to adequately protect the various diaspora.
We still have the job-killing, Nation-weakening legislation & stultifying regulations in place that prevent foreign investment, natural resource exploitation, and human flourishing.
We still have permanent residents and citizens leaving at an alarming pace.
We still have a healthcare system that fails to deliver access in any reasonable manner.
We still have a Prime Minister who is ideologically committed to the unachievable and unreasonable goal of Net Zero and the extraordinarily expensive and inoperable Green Transition.
The concurrent drug addled/homeless/mental health crisis is not abating, but getting worse.
Young folks still cannot get a foot on the Canadian economic ladder.
We are still a Nation of low productivity protectionists, far from the myth of Canadians being good faith, free traders.
We still have millions of Canadians lining up at food banks, while scare Government resources are sent overseas to Countries that don’t even exist.
Our Constitutional order serves some Canadians in certain regions, at the expense of Canadians in other regions.
In spite of the many announcements to the contrary, our military preparedness, recruitment and procurement is dismally inadequate.
Our education system still indoctrinates at the expense of curious learning and discovery.
Immigration levels remain too high, and far above previous levels. We do not reward merit, nor do we set the immigrant up for success.
Shall I go on?
The Line has a right to profess & promote whatever ideas it pleases, as often as it pleases, and is free to censor ideas to the contrary; it is a private platform. Keith Wilson need not apply.
But please don’t try to sell me the myth that our Country is progressing. Please don’t play the same tired ruse over and again, when it has been undeniably refuted.
I hope that after this referendum is defeated that the UCP force the separatists to form their own party. I do not believe that the hard core separatists are more than about 5% of the population. There is a larger percentage who haven't gotten over Justin Trudeau's horrible treatment of the oil and gas industry. There have always been separatists in Alberta. I think that as Justin Trudeau and Steven Guilbault recede in the distance and a new pipeline gets built that most of this separatist talk will fade away.
Time will tell,separatists are not going away. I voted to stay. Felt like spitting in the wind. I sincerely hope that we do move forward on projects,any project.
1) Alberta separatism isn't, for all intents and purposes, a real thing. 70-80% are opposed making it a fringe issue that works better as a boogeyman than as an actual movement. It's not quite 80's Satanic Panic or Trump US invasion of Canada level hallucinatory panic but it's closer to that than to a real threat. I enjoy the per-district map of separatist polling that was going around. Red for opposed, blue for support, with gradients. The entire map of Alberta is bright solid red, without exception.
2) The grievances Alberta has with the rest of the country are real, and aren't any less real than they were before Mark Carney suddenly started talking about taxpayer funded pipelines. 10 years of abuse (and an even longer history before that) doesn't go away with a change of leadership coinciding with a heavily damaging propaganda fueled election and a stolen majority government. This government is still about to criminalize hundreds of thousands of people with their ridiculous firearms ban, disproportionately Westerners, and about to set an appreciable fraction of a trillion dollars on fire in a high speed rail project that is increasingly looking like a bald faced transfer of public funds to insiders in Ontario and Quebec. To name just two of the ongoing problems.
Trudeau gave the First Nations vetoes over development and the courts a mandate to support those vetoes. What has changed? Why do you think the Major Projects Office is slow-walking everything? They have to maintain the mirage that things are happening until the next election.
Serious question, how do you think the federal government should handle First Nations opposition (eg the new court challenges to Pacific Link), given the Section 35 jurisprudence as it exists today? If you were a PM with a strong majority what would you do?
Do you think Trudeau gave the courts that mandate, or rather it flows out of Section 35 of the Constitution plus the Treaties that Section 35 refers to?
The same way TMX suddenly became doable after Canada bought it from KM. Commit to serious indigenous consultations and address their complaints or do side deals to bring them onside. Instruct the RCMP to block saboteurs. Section 35 wasn't an issue once the government took over.
It would be great if the government could define whom the consultation process should involve. Is it the elected or ancestral leaders? The "Coastal First Nations" funded by Tides?
The slow part is to appoint fewer progressive judges. I don't think Canada's final consultations were significantly than their first or than KM's. The judges just decided to let it pass that time.
Alberta has already been in years-long constitutional fights, so injecting uncertainty, division and misplaced energy may as well be done now and negotiate independence. Albertans can't be fooled by Carney pretending to position Alberta for growth and opportunity. The MOU comes with unjustifiable conditions and a Carney promise is not something Alberta should take to the bank. Carney is undeniably a liar, and liars lie.
What would be economically reckless and strategically self-defeating is staying in a country that is circling the drain at "at speeds not seen in generations" and "at speeds we didn't think possible."
The timing of the announcement was blatantly political, which makes me suspect it had no other purpose and will be put in the "announce it and forget it" bin.
I'm trying to understand where you are coming from. Please elaborate
It seems to me that Alberta is shipping way more oil today after Justin built you a pipeline then anytime during the Harper era.
The pipeline was being built without taxpayer money. Trudeau's grandstanding interfered until KM gave up, which forced him to buy the project. The person now running the Major Projects Office finished building the pipeline at 4x what KM had budgeted.
TMX was the lucky one. The other 13 major O&G projects that were underway when Trudeau came into office were all cancelled.
Just imagine, Ontario's oil supply would not now be threatened by Whitner and Trump. We could have helped the Ukraine by displacing Russian energy in Europe. We could be shipping gas to Asia instead of coal.
Justin built a pipeline after he made it impossible for a private company to do it. And it was a replacement. At 3 times the cost
Appreciate it when strong conservative voices speak out against separation. Looking forward to this being over. Hopefully the separatists can accept the results and either move on or move away.
I have not yet read the article.
Canada is not moving in the right direction in any economic, political, or legal manner of which I am aware.
Federal judges are making outrageous decisions based on made-up interpretations of laws stretched so thinly that they are unrecognizable from the original words.
The derivative Provinces and Federal Government are still accumulating uncontrollable and unsustainable levels of deficits and debt.
We still have a moribund economy shedding jobs at an alarming pace.
With the exception of the production of virtue-signally MOUs and letters of intent with major projects and trade enhancements, we are still bereft of shovels in the proverbial ground.
We have celebrated the failure to achieve a trade deal with our largest trading partner.
We have failed to heed the repeated warnings of foreign interference in our elections, in our social compact, and in the application of our laws and legislation. We have failed to adequately protect the various diaspora.
We still have the job-killing, Nation-weakening legislation & stultifying regulations in place that prevent foreign investment, natural resource exploitation, and human flourishing.
We still have permanent residents and citizens leaving at an alarming pace.
We still have a healthcare system that fails to deliver access in any reasonable manner.
We still have a Prime Minister who is ideologically committed to the unachievable and unreasonable goal of Net Zero and the extraordinarily expensive and inoperable Green Transition.
The concurrent drug addled/homeless/mental health crisis is not abating, but getting worse.
Young folks still cannot get a foot on the Canadian economic ladder.
We are still a Nation of low productivity protectionists, far from the myth of Canadians being good faith, free traders.
We still have millions of Canadians lining up at food banks, while scare Government resources are sent overseas to Countries that don’t even exist.
Our Constitutional order serves some Canadians in certain regions, at the expense of Canadians in other regions.
In spite of the many announcements to the contrary, our military preparedness, recruitment and procurement is dismally inadequate.
Our education system still indoctrinates at the expense of curious learning and discovery.
Immigration levels remain too high, and far above previous levels. We do not reward merit, nor do we set the immigrant up for success.
Shall I go on?
The Line has a right to profess & promote whatever ideas it pleases, as often as it pleases, and is free to censor ideas to the contrary; it is a private platform. Keith Wilson need not apply.
But please don’t try to sell me the myth that our Country is progressing. Please don’t play the same tired ruse over and again, when it has been undeniably refuted.
I hope that after this referendum is defeated that the UCP force the separatists to form their own party. I do not believe that the hard core separatists are more than about 5% of the population. There is a larger percentage who haven't gotten over Justin Trudeau's horrible treatment of the oil and gas industry. There have always been separatists in Alberta. I think that as Justin Trudeau and Steven Guilbault recede in the distance and a new pipeline gets built that most of this separatist talk will fade away.
Time will tell,separatists are not going away. I voted to stay. Felt like spitting in the wind. I sincerely hope that we do move forward on projects,any project.
1) Alberta separatism isn't, for all intents and purposes, a real thing. 70-80% are opposed making it a fringe issue that works better as a boogeyman than as an actual movement. It's not quite 80's Satanic Panic or Trump US invasion of Canada level hallucinatory panic but it's closer to that than to a real threat. I enjoy the per-district map of separatist polling that was going around. Red for opposed, blue for support, with gradients. The entire map of Alberta is bright solid red, without exception.
2) The grievances Alberta has with the rest of the country are real, and aren't any less real than they were before Mark Carney suddenly started talking about taxpayer funded pipelines. 10 years of abuse (and an even longer history before that) doesn't go away with a change of leadership coinciding with a heavily damaging propaganda fueled election and a stolen majority government. This government is still about to criminalize hundreds of thousands of people with their ridiculous firearms ban, disproportionately Westerners, and about to set an appreciable fraction of a trillion dollars on fire in a high speed rail project that is increasingly looking like a bald faced transfer of public funds to insiders in Ontario and Quebec. To name just two of the ongoing problems.