There separatist tensions have given us more attention and effort from Ottawa than anything in my lifetime. It's honestly what Albertans have been asking for. Let's not screw it up by being naive yokels who allow Canada to take Alberta for granted again.
Derek, your Laurentian view that the TMX was a gift to Alberta ignores entirely the fact that the feds so screwed over the original owners, Kinder Morgan, that KM simply walked away. The feds then panicked and realized that they had vastly overplayed their hand and bought the existing line and the expansion project. The feds did continue the construction but in such an incompetent way as to make it a totally ridiculous disaster.
The line is now operating and, despite the (central Canadian and their claque) naysayers who predicted otherwise, is operating at full capacity.
The TMX was originally a private venture and would have been successfully built by private industry if only the feds had not chased them away.
So, your argument that "you" were generous is silly.
As to a new pipeline being approved, it has not been approved. It MIGHT be approved but we will have to see. Personally, I have my doubts about the project ever coming to fruition but that is just me.
I have campaigned for the Conservatives since the free trade election. I resigned as a director in my local constituency association last fall over the separation question. I have been told I am not a real Conservative because I don't support separation. I firmly believe this question will split the Conservatives yet again and probably hand the next election to the NDP. It is all too foolish.
I subscribe to The Line because I admire and respect the type of Canadian journalism performed by Jen and Matt.
My critique of this piece would be the following: Matt and Jen talk consistently and continuously of a Canada 🇨🇦 that “tries hard”, “don’t build good”, various and sundry expletives that, I suppose, are supposed to represent their respective commitments to purpose, and they cover many of these issues well, and in depth.
Let me list only a few: I could add many, many more.
1) foreign interference
2) uncontrollable debts and deficits
3) unacceptable approval times for projects of national interest
4) a stultifying regulatory regime
5) the inability or unwillingness to engage in interprovincial free trade
6) a bureaucratic culture that produces nothing but inertia and failure
7) a healthcare system that is a national embarrassment
8) zero productivity growth
9) next-to-zero GDP growth
10) a willingness- almost eagerness- to cling to policies that objectively harm Canadians (Supply Management, gun control nonsense, open and unconscionable antisemitism)
How many of these items have improved in the last eighteen months?
Yet, we are assured that Canada 🇨🇦 is not broken. We are encouraged to believe that Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives have made things worse.
If I were to get run over by a drunk driver, and I were to die in the back of the ambulance, Canadians would blame the ambulance driver for my death. Were he a Conservative, the persecution would be relentless.
It is not just the federal government that is broken, folks: it is the FarLeft Supreme Court of Canada, it is the somnambulistic pillow-humping eunuchs in the Senate, it is the “me, me, me Provincial fiefdoms”, and it is the lack of accountability and the overabundance of apathy in the Canadian people themselves.
Yes, Canada 🇨🇦 is broken. I respect the fact you may feel Pierre Poilievre is not the antidote; what I can’t get my head around, is the notion that anything will ever get better without substantive change.
In my opinion, without malice or ill-will, this was an extremely disappointing podcast.
There separatist tensions have given us more attention and effort from Ottawa than anything in my lifetime. It's honestly what Albertans have been asking for. Let's not screw it up by being naive yokels who allow Canada to take Alberta for granted again.
You were already bought and given an entire pipeline and a new one has been approved. Just admit nothing will ever satisfy you.
Derek, your Laurentian view that the TMX was a gift to Alberta ignores entirely the fact that the feds so screwed over the original owners, Kinder Morgan, that KM simply walked away. The feds then panicked and realized that they had vastly overplayed their hand and bought the existing line and the expansion project. The feds did continue the construction but in such an incompetent way as to make it a totally ridiculous disaster.
The line is now operating and, despite the (central Canadian and their claque) naysayers who predicted otherwise, is operating at full capacity.
The TMX was originally a private venture and would have been successfully built by private industry if only the feds had not chased them away.
So, your argument that "you" were generous is silly.
As to a new pipeline being approved, it has not been approved. It MIGHT be approved but we will have to see. Personally, I have my doubts about the project ever coming to fruition but that is just me.
Is Quebec ever satisfied?
As for pipelines, scare off private investors and bail out the project with public dollars. Not the win you think it is.
Excellent point.
That is a very desolate and unattractive assessment of our Country.
You are quite the salesman, Derek.
We steal your car and then rent you a new one, why aren't you happy?
I have campaigned for the Conservatives since the free trade election. I resigned as a director in my local constituency association last fall over the separation question. I have been told I am not a real Conservative because I don't support separation. I firmly believe this question will split the Conservatives yet again and probably hand the next election to the NDP. It is all too foolish.
I’ve been waiting for Matt Jeneroux to door knock in support of Canada…
In Edmonton? Or Victoria, BC?
I subscribe to The Line because I admire and respect the type of Canadian journalism performed by Jen and Matt.
My critique of this piece would be the following: Matt and Jen talk consistently and continuously of a Canada 🇨🇦 that “tries hard”, “don’t build good”, various and sundry expletives that, I suppose, are supposed to represent their respective commitments to purpose, and they cover many of these issues well, and in depth.
Let me list only a few: I could add many, many more.
1) foreign interference
2) uncontrollable debts and deficits
3) unacceptable approval times for projects of national interest
4) a stultifying regulatory regime
5) the inability or unwillingness to engage in interprovincial free trade
6) a bureaucratic culture that produces nothing but inertia and failure
7) a healthcare system that is a national embarrassment
8) zero productivity growth
9) next-to-zero GDP growth
10) a willingness- almost eagerness- to cling to policies that objectively harm Canadians (Supply Management, gun control nonsense, open and unconscionable antisemitism)
How many of these items have improved in the last eighteen months?
Yet, we are assured that Canada 🇨🇦 is not broken. We are encouraged to believe that Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives have made things worse.
If I were to get run over by a drunk driver, and I were to die in the back of the ambulance, Canadians would blame the ambulance driver for my death. Were he a Conservative, the persecution would be relentless.
It is not just the federal government that is broken, folks: it is the FarLeft Supreme Court of Canada, it is the somnambulistic pillow-humping eunuchs in the Senate, it is the “me, me, me Provincial fiefdoms”, and it is the lack of accountability and the overabundance of apathy in the Canadian people themselves.
Yes, Canada 🇨🇦 is broken. I respect the fact you may feel Pierre Poilievre is not the antidote; what I can’t get my head around, is the notion that anything will ever get better without substantive change.
In my opinion, without malice or ill-will, this was an extremely disappointing podcast.