As he gears up for the most important political battle of a generation:
In the short time since he has been elected, there has been no shortage of voices saying that Kenney will not be able to get Alberta’s oil and gas to international markets because of the political realities in Vancouver and Montreal and Ottawa and Paris and the UN, etc.
But that’s the current ground, upon which not even the super progressive Rachel Notley could get a pipeline built. What Kenney will do, as he always does, is to shift the terrain.
If Kenny really wants to shift the ground, he needs to call the climate change fraud for what it is.
Otherwise he will be fighting his battle on enemy turf using their terminology. A sure way to lose.
My fear is Kenny is more progressive than he is conservative.
Ward, I disagree. We will get nowhere by fighting the climate change battle directly.
Alberta must restrict the supply of oil an refined products. This raises prices. Canadians will hate greedy Alberta. Too bad. Kenney’s response should be to very visibly trot out the federal government’s own reports saying the carbon tax has to be MUCH higher to “fight” climate change. Hey with cutbacks, Alberta is just giving Canadians a mild taste of what Turdeau, Jagmeet, Horgan, May et al really want.
Right now most Canadians who “support” climate change action, want someone else to pay for it. It is time to give them real skin in the game.
Respectfully disagree. Harper played footsie with climate change and all it ultimately got us was signed on to Paris accord.
The end game is control of the worlds life blood, control of our national, economic and technological sovereignty.
Trying to advance any cause while paying lip service to this fraud only helps perpetuate the fraud.
I fear Kenny is going to continue to validate climate change and try to work within that framework.
Ward has it right… until a politician is brave enough to call bullshit on the wealth redistribution globalist tax scheme known as “globull warming’, weather disruptions, climate change” then this authoritarian leftist scheme will continue. Long past time to call bullshit on the bullshit.
Carbon based organisms living on a carbon based planet trying to eliminate carbon, yep, we sure are an intelligent lot.
1000% Agree Ward. It is and has been since Maurice Strong Chaired the First World Congress in Brazil ~ 1992.
The guy convicted in the oil for food program (Iraq), and a virulent proponent of Planetary de-population.
CO 2 was CHOSEN …cause ya just can’t monetize/weaponize Solar Radiation….
Long long overdue for a politician to show some Balls and call this what it is…a concerted effort to Destroy Western Hemisphere Capitalism – Culture….as is massive in migration of Islamics and all the Social Justice BS being rammed up our collective Asses.
I agree, every word of your comment is bang on.
Hopefully Kenney can shift the terrain.
Now Notley is mouthing off about Kenney enacting bill 12. But the thing we have to remember about Notley, is that in spite of all he posturing on getting TMX built, she was playing the delay game. Delay, delay, delay.
Turdeau and Horgan are playing the same game; delay, delay, delay. There are many more lawsuits waiting in the works.
I think Kenney will change the terrain. And to all who think he is bluffing, please call the bluff.
Don’t know why people would be surprised ol’ Rach didn’t get it done. She spent her entire political life up to being elected Premier agitating against industry, not just oil.
The NDP is usually unfit to govern anywhere because they see everything through the lens of labour leaders, their masters. That naturally gives the NDP an anti industry bent due to the suicidal nature of the confrontational labour-management model in North America. Add to that the cancerous growth of public sector unions and their inherent conflict of interest in political activism and union activism resulting in attempting to, and succeeding in controlling both sides of the negotiating table. Add to that the de-secularization of government through the growth of green theocracy and you have the toxic brew that is the NDP, a one way trip into nihilism, poverty, and bankruptcy.
Very Well put John.
The day we allowed Public Servants to Unionize… the Marxists began their decades long campaign of undermining our Society.
Totally agree. And almost everyone I work with voted Dipper in the previous election based on “Not Prentice” and one debate. COMPLETELY ignored her entire career to that point, and then were suddenly shocked that she went full NDP one nanosecond after the election. And people wonder why I don’t pay attention to campaigns.
He might already have trouble inside the party:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEW8trfqGco
Oh, oh, a Tides Canada mole type in the ranks? Doesn’t smell good does it?
The night the N.D.P. got blown away, Premier-Elect Kenney said :
“And now I have a message to those foreign funded special interests who have been leading a campaign of economic sabotage against this great province.
To the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Tides Foundation, Lead Now, the David Suziki Foundation and all of the others:
Your days of pushing around Albertans with impunity just ended.”
This is part of Premier Jason Kenney’s victory speech. He probably is working on trying to rid us from the shackles of foreign busy bodies. Sheila Gunn-Reid’s reminder will be a big help. The thing is, how will he get Ottawa and the CRA to go along in our post -national Corruptastani-Canaduh? Will we be sending our tax returns to Brussels in future? Lots to ponder.
If I were Kenny, I’d start agitating in northern BC. In British Columbia, everything outside of the lower mainland is an afterthought, and he should start finding friendly op-ed writers in towns like Prince George and Fort St John and Kitimat to begin asking the question, “would our town be better off as part of Alberta?” They have lower taxes, they’re culturally closer than they are to Vancouver/Victoria, they have the same industries, etc. And frankly, I suspect a lot of people would be interested.
Suggesting a referendum for northern BC to join Alberta would cause people to panic in Vancouver and in Ottawa. And that would be useful.
There’s been people in and around Northeast BC trying to get something going in that direction for some time. The shifting political landscape may put some wind back in the sails of that movement.
There’s been a lot of discontent in southeastern British Columbia over the years as well. Much closer connections between Fernie and environs and southwestern Alberta than to Vancouver. A lot of residents from BC have come east for medical treatment over the years; easier than trying to get down to Vancouver.
The Lower MAOland and YVR Island are the only cpl of parts of BC worthy of the BIG one IMO.
The rest I think we can safely assume would be welcome in a FREE West.
Jason Kenney needs to replace Mark Cameron immediately, and we need to push Kenney in the right direction.
Cameron is one of Canada’s leading pro-carbon tax propagandists.
Until two weeks ago, he was the executive director of Canadians for Clean Prosperity.
While working at Canadians for Clean Prosperity, Cameron even penned an op-ed for Maclean’s, attacking Doug Ford for fighting back against the federal government’s carbon tax. While Albertans were fighting through a recession made much worse by an NDP carbon tax, Cameron was scribbling out garbage like that.
https://www.therebel.media/fire-mark-cameron-carbon-tax-jason-kenney-alberta
Kenney supports the Carbon tax. He said so in the leaders debate.
Kenney announced his support for the carbon tax during the Alberta leaders debate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjb_avR2ar0 at 59:30 “We need to take the challenge of climate change seriously! That’s why the United Conservatives have proposed a levy on major emitters that would reduce carbon by about 70 megatons from our economy”
He’s playing a shell game with Albertan’s by downloading the carbon tax to Alberta’s largest employers by claiming to ‘repeal’
I have three quick anecdotes to tell, about Mr. Kenny’s intelligence and hard-work ethic as a politician:
1. Kenny was just starting his tenure as the head of the Canadian Tax Federation, and he was organizing in sleepy, non-conservative New Brunswick, during the mid-1990s I think. He wanted to organize in Fredericton, and he invited the only two card-carrying CTF members in town, this older fellow and me. The meeting went on for three hours (I was tired, but gutted the meeting out), with Jason extolling the virtues of the CTF and how it could make it big in a sleepy backwater.
2. When Kenny got elected as a Reform MP, I snailmailed him a modest study I did for a conservative think tank. He read the study, and sent me a three paragraph letter about why he liked it. From that point on, until he entered Alberta provincial politics many years later, I received a signed Christmas card from him every year. If he gave cards to me, he must have given Christmas cards out to everybody he met, and heard from, so as a smart politician he must send much time and dollars on Christmas cards. As Minister of Immigration he glad-handed many immigration leaders, and stressed how conservatism could help immigrants.
3. I heard Mr. Kenney speak at the Senate hearings on CBC News TV, and the moribund news channel gave him at least a half hour’s worth of uninterrupted time. Kenney’s strategy is to articulate, in an intelligent way, Alberta’s pro-energy view. At the hearings, Kenney was smart, often speaking his arguments off the cuff, carefully with the facts at his fingertips. After he spoke, even the left-liberal, corrupt reporters at the CBC were taken aback.
My point is that the Conservatives on the SDA board, and the left-libs, ought not to sell Mr. Kenney short. He is tough, articulate and hard-working.
David
Great post.
Kenney’s done more in 4 days than Red did in 4 years.
The only way to give all of Canada a taste is to close in the valves on the oil going east and west. Give them a taste of 3-4 dollars a litre gasoline. Leave them shut until BC has to hire coal burning Chinese oil tankers and bust the Tanker Ban off BC. Ontario gets 400000 Barrels per day of Alberta oil. Quebec gets 55% of their oil from Alberta. Hurt them and keep hurting them until Alberta gets an east a west and a south pipeline and that rail line to Anchorage Alaska that an Alberta business man is building right now. It is legal and was already done by Lougheed in the 1980’s. Lougheed also won in the SCOC both times over these matters.
He also told the Senate Committee that if he does not get Alberta oil and gas to market, to expect Alberta Separatism.
You can not run a country the size of Canada from the center. Canada was set up as a very decentralized country and beginning under PET he began a heavy hand of central control and using Federal Money to intrude heavily into Provincial and Municipal Jurisdiction with the power of the purse..
And the GET of PET, Justin Trudeau is even worse. The country is being torn apart.
Alberta needs to get out and very quickly. Separatism in Canada began with Trudeau and his policies. The GET of PET is even worse.
Read up on Andrew Petter of SFU University a Constitutional Scholar of note, who after careful review says that Ottawa is acting Unconstitutionally by forcing spending in areas of Provincial Jurisdiction. This Federal Spending Power is completely outside of the BNA ACT. It began during the WW2, were the Provinces helped out by making deals called Tax Renting agreements. Whereby they would forego their Constitutional Jurisdiction during the War and made agreements with Ottawa to allow Ottawa to collect tax’s belonging to the Province and use them in the War effort. After the War these powers were never reclaimed by the Provinces and Ottawa usurped this right. And began vote buying on a grand scale with all the new found loot.
“Andrew Petter Federalism And The Myth Of The Federal Spending Power” Ottawa has since expanded this plan greatly in to every Provincial and even Municipal Jurisdiction.
That is what has to be reclaimed by Alberta and by Kenney. That means get out of the Federal UI scam, the CPP scam, the Extortion Tax or Equalization scheme, get rid of the RCMP etc. etc.
Even better get Alberta to hell out of the Canadian Gulag.
I agree with Ward on the Fraud of Anthropogenic Climate change, time to call the fraud for what it is!!!! I think he will blow up some rock but it is time to form a Western Country!! Jason Kenny , Scott Moe, and Brian Pallister “Buffalo At The Gates”
Alberta is in a war that it must win. The sooner that all Albertans come to this realization the better.
From Pierre Trudeau’s NEP to Justin Trudeau’s TMX Albertans have been under the thumb of the Laurentian elites for generations. And unless Albertans are finally ready to standup for their economy, their territory, their community and their way of life they will remain little more than vassals of the Laurentian elites for generations to come.
The number of Albertans who support an Alberta separate from Canada must rise from 50% to somewhere around 75%. The Laurentian elites and the rest of Canada must be shown in no small way that Albertans will no longer be the rump of Confederation, always paying but not receiving.
The time has come to either stand up for what you believe in or to shut up and accept the dictates of the Laurentian elites. Your future awaits. What will you do?
All it took was a determined 3% to create the United States of America. And the Tyranny of Britain against the 13 Colonies, Pales compared to what is happening in Alberta today. A population of less than 4 million has paid in 1 Trillion dollars to Ottawa which has been used for vote buying and lining their pockets in the east. And all pleas of the hard working and decent folk of Alberta are laughed at and mocked openly. Kenney needs to write that UDI same as the 13 Colonies and use it as a hammer. Either Ottawa and the ROC will Treat Fairly or Drop the Hammer the UDI and walk away. Create the Republic of Alberta in one stroke. By the Peoples Hand, Of the Peoples Hand and For the People. No More GULAG OF CANADA.
Here is the link to Andrew Petter and his article. A vey long PDF scholarly Constitutional Essay. Andrew Petter FEDERALISM AND THE MYTH OF THE FEDERAL SPENDING .. Link does not work but search it up and you can read it for free.
He hasn’t immediately gone to a UDI, so I can safely say Kenney is doomed to fail on pipelines. Horgan, Trudeau, they break laws to win, they pick which laws to enforce, and who to let go… Kenney is over matched in this fight.
He is just another moron who is “better than that”, and is guaranteed to lose because he won’t go as far, and farther, than his opponents.
I always get exercised with folks with no Geological background (especially politicians) expounding on “climate change” and Carbon….meaning CARBON DIOXIDE the lying manipulators, and calling it “pollution”. I’ll point out that there are Geologists who promote this fraud for various reasons, but they are out to lunch on the subject. I’m a Geologist, by the way.
Rather than argue with these fraud artists, because that is what they really are, ask them “What level of CO2 do they desire this Planet to maintain?”, assuming that we humans can control the level of CO2. Is it 200 ppm, 250 ppm, or the current 400 ppm (arguably disastrous to humankind if you believe the Geo Hucksters of today). We must lower it to “save the Planet”. Really? What happens to life on Earth at 200 or 250 ppm CO2? Look it up. It isn’t favorable to life as we know it. I’m quite comfortable at 400 ppm and if it goes higer, well we can produce more greenery to feed people than we can at 250 ppm, and that is a fact. Look it up.
Green houses routinely grow plant stuff at levels of 1000 ppm CO2 or higher, humans are not affected by working in environments sustaining these levels and Science has defined that animals are not affected in the least with CO2 levels attaining up to 1900 ppm CO2: https://www.quora.com/How-was-the-climate-during-the-Triassic-Jurassic-and-the-Cretaceous-periods …….high CO2 levels in the past rise when temperatures rise, closer to the equator, but CO2 levels are easily absorbed in cold water regions. I think it’s balanced to a point depending on where land masses reside, but there are plenty of other factors to affect this reasoning. The Earth is “dynamic”, not static, so that can be a real problem modeling “ideal” CO2 concentrations for any Geological Period, or it’s land mass locations.
The CO2 levels take quite a while to change dramatically and the way humans are going, I doubt that “we” will be around long enough in Geological time to witness the really big changes. We do not control the processes, despite some folks spouting off that we can. Do the math. Not ever going to happen. The Laws of Physics rule.
Don’t fight the Laws of Physics, because you really don’t know what the end point will be.
Good comment..!!
PO’d….
Wake up in the AM, and what is it warming the air…??
The fucking SUN, the one and for the past 4.3 Billions, the only driver of Climate on the Planet.
Anything else is “weapons grade” bullshit..and an easy road for the Marxists to destroy the Economic Engine that gave freedom to Billions – Capitalism
To be fair to Kenney he has been Prime Minister/Premier of Alberta since Tues. Listen to him here at http://www.cpac.ca in his own words without msm spin. He is speaking to the Senate on Bill C69. He will immediately take it to SCOC. He says how Alberta would have never signed the Constitution Act 1982 if they knew the GET of PET Justin Trudeau would try this Bill C 69. He talks of over 50% of Albertans want Independence. He refers to Lougheed winning in the SCOC in 1982 on this very subject of Alberta’s exclusive jurisdiction. He address’s the Foreign Interference in Alberta and Canada. http://www.cpac.ca/en/programs/in-committee-from-the-senate-of-canada/episodes/65982332
I’m in complete agreement with Ward and Sean M above.
The greatest tangle politicians like Kenney, Scheer, and Ford face is one of their own making. By lacking the balls and honesty to speak out against the apocalyptic AGW / Climate Change narrative spouted by the eco-parasites and our compliant press, they have all painted themselves into multiple corners.
I really hope I’m wrong, but I fear that Kenney will be much like Ontario’s Great Yellow Hope, Double-cross Doug Ford. Their types have played the game for generations: campaign as a champion of the little guys and girls in Pumphandle Ontario or Dead Moose Alberta, throw a couple of baubles in their direction once elected, then utterly screw them with legislation designed to please and appease the rabid green parasites and urban bunny-cuddlers.
Yesterday the Rebel Media revealed that Kenney has just hired a notorious piece of green slime named Mark Cameron as Deputy Minister of policy co-ordination . As Sheila Gunn-Ried noted, “While working at Canadians for Clean Prosperity, Cameron even penned an op-ed for Maclean’s, attacking Doug Ford for fighting back against the federal government’s carbon tax. While Albertans were fighting through a recession made much worse by an NDP carbon tax, Cameron was scribbling out garbage like that.”
And here in Ontario Double-cross Doug has increased the mandatory corn-sourced ethanol component in gasoline; gone back on his word to cancel all the wind turbine projects; and has appealed a court ruling that had put some long-overdue restraints on Ontario’s out-of-control OSPCA.
Temperature stations near parking lots can read 0.47 degrees C above real values.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/05/03/big-news-verified-by-noaa-poor-weather-station-siting-leads-to-artificial-long-term-warming/
Kenney can get construction started on Transmountain within weeks if he has his staff start vetting candidates to head an Alberta Royal Commission to Inquire into the Buffalo Chronicles’s stated and implied allegations of corruption affecting this project.
I don’t know how much truth there is to any of these allegations:
1 – some native leaders were paid off by the Bank of Montreal and/or SNC-lavalin to allow the pipeline, but then band leadership changed and the new arrivals wanted more.
2 – Trudeau et al paid $4.5 billion for a $2 billion asset to prevent Kinder-Morgan blowing the whistle in reporting losses on the project to their shareholders.
3 – key federal liberals were involved throughout the process
etc.
The liberals cannot afford exposure, so if any of these are as much as half true starting a talent search to head the inquiry will force them to act.
Today there was an analysis (op-ed) that Kenny needs Trudeau to battle with. I would argue it is exactly the opposite. Even if Trans mountain is approved it will immediately face legal challenges that will not be defended. I agree it is long past the time man made climate change needs to be challenged , but no mainstream politician has the courage. The only way out of this mess is not necessarily separation , but separation if necessary.
“is to shift the terrain”
bingo. major bullseye.
our favorite westerner gets it, sums up all the politicking, money chasing etc in one sentence.
I’m not worried about Mark Cameron.
It’s window dressing. Kenney wont manage like notley – he controls the message.
Da liddle thief said all the right things and the governed exactly the way he wanted. Signed onto Kyoto and then never gave it a another thought.
Alberta is far ahead of the pack when it comes to ‘climate change’. We’ve got lots of wins to point to. I think the UCP will carry on with getting the economy moving and when climate change rears its head Kenney will say, ” Yes we agree, next question please. “
BC elected politicians who wanted higher gasoline prices, which would reduce gasoline consumption in B.C. Kenney will give them what they wanted.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/canada/alberta-s-turn-off-taps-law-makes-gas-price-jumps-and-shortages-real-1.4406641
I can just see an Alberta lawyer at the May 7, initial hearing on BC’s opposition to bill 12. “Your Honor, premier Horgan campaigned on higher gas prices and reducing gasoline consumption. He’s enacted legislation banning sales of gasoline powered cars as of 2040. If Alberta reduces gasoline flow to B.C., Alberta is just helping Horgan keep his election promises. “
The reality is that the party is over. The imbalance of power in this country is it’s undoing. Kevin, while being probably the most pessimistic, is also the most correct. Unless there are changes in representation it’s all but over. The senate is garbage. A retirement home, lottery win for political cronies, that does nothing to balance the regional inadequacies. The provincial transfer payment scheme that permanently disenfranchises Alberta and eternally rewards Quebec. Quebec receiving 25% of the seats regardless of their population, PEI getting four seats for only a 100,000 people, the SCOC appointments, the retardedness of using metric, against our largest trading partner who doesn’t, when every person in the country tells you their height, weight, house dimensions, material sizes, distances, house lot size, or lifting abilities in standard measurements. The forced multiculturalism, the forced speech, the forced thought, rogue tribunals, eastern media bias, government bribing of media, the federal seizure of provincial rights, persecution of gun owners, Christians, and anyone who sweated to build this country. The removal of the first PM of Canada from money, because he was a Conservative, and on and on it goes. Without an equal voice, weight and power, the west will leave because at some point, the abused, can no longer wait.