Collateral damage of the Supreme Court’s decision that beer needs to be criminalized to protect milk, John Horgan gets the court’s blessing to block the pipeline.
The argument for freeing the beer was that section 121 of the constitution clearly states that goods can flow freely from one province to the next. Yet the court said that provincial laws can stop that free flow or hinder it if the laws designed to do so have as their essence and purpose, a different act such as health.
Which is what he has been saying all along. More here.
and Justin Trudeau (Canada’s Prime Minister) was in Peru talking “free-trade”.
Gotta get the price of Coke down.
Alberta needs to tax railway traffic not originating or ending in Alberta on a per ton basis – maybe $ 20 per tonne and call it a carbon tax. The tax would be gone in days. the country can’t operate railways, pipelines, airlines, and shipping with 500 municipalities making the rules.
Back when I believed in the idea of Canada, I would have fought tooth and nail against this, now… hopefully $20/tonne is enough, leave the door open to $100/tonne.
Oh and the piece of crap Constitution? Worthless. Utterly worthless.
2 things:
Both railways would adjust in a day or 2 to have all trains originate and end in either calgary or edmonton (there are few exceptions).
CP Rail is currently facing a strike from 2 unions, set to begin on Saturday, and have started cycling down some operations, so you might see the port of vancouver grind to a halt.
It also allows Alberta to restrict the flow of gas and diesel to BC.
So, shall we have a civil war in Canada? Thing is, recent polling is showing that Horgan and Dr Evil are losing the popularity war, clearly. And, if they continue their extremist, ideological ways, the BC Recall law will almost certainly result in the overturning of this regime in 12 months time, unfortunately, too late for the pipeline.
If we have a civil war I want General TwinkySocks leading the charge.. Look for the person dancing like a deranged dervish with Girly socks in your scope.
Shouldn’t that be “Twinkletoes” as he wears “Holey Socks”.
What?
Any target but that,mortar the fellows back stage, but do not shoot the court jester.
Twinkle toes believes he is competent to command, if your lead injection removed him,then some semi competent idiot would step forward.
Far better our Liberal Comrades be lead by their current genius.
So if a pipeline with fossile fuel is dangerous to BCers, and that is the defence, would BC then not have to rid itself of all such things?
massive retaliation. absolutely MASSIVE retaliation by the land locked provinces is the only sol’n.
set aside any and all diff’s and PASTE THE BEJEEZUZ out of lotusland. turn it into ‘gawd-what-hit-us?-land’.
it just takes the will to do it, severely lacking in certain circles.
I wonder what comparative proportion of BCers think the world is flat?
the really good news this episode shows what an ineffective clucking trust fund doofus is in the PMO.
Those POS mofos in Vancouver and Burnaby are living in a dream world. The massive earthquake/tsunami clock is ticking. It isn’t a question of if, but when. When the lefties laughed about Fort McMurray burning and calling it karma they sealed their own karmic fate. When the Pacific and North American plates decide to do battle, lotus land will be wiped off the map.
With our rotten luck, that area will somehow remain intact when the Big One strikes.
But it’s eastern twinks moving west who voted for this Loon.. Not BC’ers… We want the work /pipeline.
massive retaliation. absolutely MASSIVE retaliation by the land locked provinces is the only sol’n.
Where is the US navy when you need it?
Any bets that’s what the Supremos wanted all along?
The SOC is a joke. They definitely don’t live in the real world. But they believe they know what’s best for all of us deplorables. They have reinterpreted a law to suit their moralistic high ground and to maintain their warped vision of state supremacy over individual liberty. They are obviously as tribalistic and divisive as their Liberal paymasters.
This country has gone insane.
Indeed.
The enviro fools have bought totally into the doomsday scenario of their environmental disaster, tipping points, floods, fire, brimstone, apocalypse, hyperbole beyond all common sense.
This is the kind of NUT that is the problem. He doesn’t sleep at night as he worries about Bangladesh. These people are insane!
https://www.bnn.ca/planet-s-future-trumps-business-why-opentext-s-co-founder-is-speaking-out-on-trans-mountain-1.1063060
maybe he can set himself on fire!!!
I’ll donate gas and a BBQ lighter!!
Wrong. The clause in the constitution applies to goods flowing THROUGH the province. The pipeline product in the KM line will not be sold in BC. Ditto shipping beer through one province to another that does not restrict its sale.
speak about DUMB!!! Bord Bulk strikes again!
Excellent, well reasoned and researched response. You really show your depth of knowledge on your response.
Trudeau puts up a Canadian closed for business sign.
The premiers, with SCoC acquiescence, close their provinces to inter-provincial trade.
Is that why the only job segment growing right now is government? Coincidence; not.
Liberal values eh? Their whim and regulation goes from party values to government values.
To leftist statists, there is no distinction, especially at its most decadent identist phase.
The party is the power, er government. How long will it be before one party ballots because others are morally unfit due to their worst instincts. Most of it is of course, unconscious bias (ie not a shred of evidence to present).
And we wonder why progressivism always resorts to authoritarianism and totalitarianism to assure their political power.
Well Alberta and Saskatchewan do not want BC to contribute to green house gasses, therefore they can stop pipe-lining gasoline, diesel fuel and aviation fuel to contribute “carbon footprint” to their atmosphere, they should stop sending it. After all, it is to save the planet. … The Notley Dictator Party (NDP) of Alberta will be doing BC a great favor.
This would also mean that the “Notley Dictator Party (NDP) of Alberta Carbon Tax” can be dropped …. since it did not work as intended. Notley and tRUDEau are finished in Alberta and perhaps Saskatchewan.
The investors in the pipeline didn’t want money – they just wanted to build the pipeline. Looks like tRUDEau and the LIEberals will get their dream to slow down the oil sands.
This also means that BC will have to build a pipeline from NE of BC to a port. Strange how that works.
Those SOC mofos work in Ottawa and their court overlooks K Bec. I bet NOT ONE of them hasn’t brought some alcohol across the provincial border, one way or the other. Hypocrites wearing robes should be ignored.
No Paddy, the SOBs should be pushed over the edge of the hill and down into the Ottawa River. i have said for a long time that the SCOC must be abolished and the senate resrtuctured to represent the voters. No one can name one of the SCOC ‘Justices” let alone all 9.
The University of Alberta, in its never-ending campaign to weasel money out of the alumni, never fails to remind us that Madame Chief Justice Beverly McLaughlin is a fellow graduate. Uh, no thanks and especially so after this.
and, it is, apparently, giving Dr Fruit-Fly (David Suzuki) an honorary degree.
Alberta and SK should petition to join the US. More individual freedom, unfettered access to an appreciative market and BC can ponder its isolation.
If a group wants to start a political party dedicated to joining the US, I will buy the first membership and, if needed, run in an election even though I’m too old. A couple of conditions would be guaranteeing unlimited saltwater access for our oil. and no federal ownership of public land other than post offices and military bases. Anything more and they pay fair market value.
The Supreme Court ruling was a disappointment; to echo what has been said a million times before: we should worry about internal free trade before we start fretting over the international variety.
Provincial parochialism is the biggest threat to Confederation.
A more interesting question, has anyone importing it from the US been charged in the same way, if the answer is no, then why not?
You cannot import beer in bulk from US without permission from the Province in question.
“A more interesting question, has anyone importing it from the US been charged in the same way, if the answer is no, then why not?”
False analogy. You are talking about the movement of goods between sovereign states, not internal trade within a single sovereign state.
‘If’ Alberta and Saskatchewan separated, and cut deals for export to the USA, without any transfer payments and our own tax rate, we would only have to sell half as much oil to maintain the same level of services and quality of life as we have now. Isn’t that reduction in emissions a good idea? Won’t that help ‘Save the World?’ Can’t we all get behind that idea, ‘for the children’?
Have some fun signing the petition -supporting- Horgan
I didn’t see Hugh G Rection on the list, but he could end up on the list……
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSex_-HOkzY9AgsV1njaVgp4FiK_eIEqo0k-5mX8249R1y4ueQ/viewform?fbzx=-8076834613857192000
Serious question: What would happen if AB literally “turns off the taps” and stops all hydrocarbons into BC? Turn it off now, just before the summer driving season and keep them off all winter long.
Yah, hit the voters that keep voting these A$$holes in
As a BC resident, I support turning the taps off. Maybe destroying the coming tourist season is required, as many of those signing the petition are latte liberals that do whale tours and other eco-tours, running their boats on that evil gasoline.
This is now an economic war. The beer decision gives Notley the right to cut the taps off. Wangcouver and its latte environmentalists need a hard dose of reality.
Can you see the headlines? “HIGHEST GAS PRICES IN NORTH AMERICA IN VANCOUVER”. Goodbye tourist season, the Americans will stay away, that’s for sure. All of a sudden my own holidays look a lot better south of the border too.
Vancouver already HAS the HIGHEST GAS PRICES IN NORTH AMERICA – if the pipe line does not go ahead the price of gas will go a LOT more.
“There will be no one happier with the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision on the Comeau case about taking beer across provincial boundaries that B.C.’s NDP Premier John Horgan.”
Nope. Small potatoes will be ecstatic over this. The pipeline will be shut down and he has someone to blame. Should win the next election because of that.
I’m only mildly interested in legal shenanigans like taxing traffic to and from BC. It might work, but direct action is better. See, I’ve learned from the leftists.
I’d like 1500 Alberta drivers to park their cars in the driving lanes of the Trans-Canada and Crowsnest highways at the BC border on May 5th 2018 starting at 8AM. Maybe another 1500 at each of the nearest to the border level crossings of the CNR and CPR. Bring BBQ’s and soft drinks, park for 12 hours and go home. A tail-gate party.
Let’s give those BC assholes a real Alberta Cinco de Fuck-Off-O. Then again a week later. And so on.
The cops might give you a ticket, but won’t if you claim you’re a Muslim or a Native.
Six of those supremes were appointed by Harper if I heard correctly. Another product of Harper’s failed legacy.
Gord Tulk raises a good point up above.
no, gord misses the real point, just as you showed you do. The real point is giving provinces sway over legal issue that are the federals gov’ts area
Sale of goods within a province ARE provincial jurisdiction.
Good point.
If only philosopher kings Martin and Ignatieff were in charge, things would have been much better, ie “more” conservative.
Give your head a shake, hopefully without injury.
The stupid Boy Trudeau and his controller, Ideologue Butts, have royally screwed Canada, now a nation of parts, unable to do anything without the OK of the Tides Foundation and the UN. Puke.
Whats all the yodelling?
We all knew Canada is not a country, the Supremes just made it official.
So can I get a total refund on the income taxes I paid last year?
It got moved across provincial lines right quick.
Ruperts Land is back , or we could just call it BOB.
BC,Alberta,Saskatchewan,Manitoba and Rural Ontario
Guess we need Salt water access at Northern BC and Churchill.
Freshwater starting at Thunder Bay.
But apart from the Fruits and Nuts on the coast BC is with us, the industrious citizens of BC have been stripped of logging,fishing and mining and farming is under threat from the indoctrinated vegans.
Same with Ontario, give Toronto to itself..let them freeload from themselves.
In fact make Toronto and Vancouver sanctuary cities.. safe havens for our parasitic overlords.
For a productive,forward acting nation has no need of strangling regulation nor the bureaucrats who flourish with it.
Madame Guillotine shall be our new flag.
Sorry, you’re stuck with Vancouver Island. Our greenies are harmless with Ma May leading their rumpled crew.
Oh look, the Canadian Constitution is not worth the parchment it’s printed on? Shock, surprise!
Does anyone still remember that it was Trudeau The Elder who got this thing repatriated? Should we be outraged at this point that it is revealed as worthless BS the same as everything else touched by that man?
“The letter, signed by hundreds of business leaders, argues industries including tech, tourism and construction create more jobs than the oil, gas, and mining sectors combined.”
Amazing how many of those ‘businesses’ are tattoo parlours and yoga shops. And of course those major conglomerates of Salt Spring Island are well represented too. Not that I’d use them anyway, but at least there’s now a checklist of businesses to avoid.
And even if ‘tech, tourism and construction create more jobs’, why is it an either/or situation? Only stupidity says reject the other opportunities. Yeah, those tourism jobs are all great six figure opportunities don’cha know.
We no longer need to have elections. Unelected judges make the law with regard to everything, who can buy and sell what, who can transport what and where. Shut the parliament down, it is no longer needed, 12 communists now run the country.
Correction, old white guy, only 9 commies. And as I have said before, no one on the street can name even one of them. And they absolutely RULE US!
yes, nine. the old brain did a hiccup, thinking courts, 12 on a jury, nine justices on scoc.
So blocking freight from the west to the east is now legal right!