56 Replies to “Time For Choosing, British Columbia”

  1. I see long coal trains rumbling across the prairies on a daily basis. We need our “fair share.”
    Perhaps they pay us the coal royalty when the train heads east. We in turn load the train going back with the homeless. Its called a symbiotic relationship. We both benefit.

  2. CC is a chameleon, waiting for her payoff.
    In the last election, she and the Liberals excoriated Comrade Tricky Dix and the Horde, for being against the pipelines.
    Now, of course, she has put ridiculous conditions on pipeline builds, in effect killing them by regulation, like a good statist will do. Just showing her Federal Liberal credentials of course.
    Yes, CC is awful, and the NDP is worse, keep that in mind.

  3. Congratulations Sask. ! For utilizing Canada’s “world class” bus system to unite the homeless with their coastal benefactors. World class.

  4. BC can do whatever they want. The Trans Mountain pipeline is under federal jurisdiction.

  5. Looks like fair trade to me.
    BC blocks Alberta and Saskatchewan exports, we send them the unemployed.
    Can’t work because of provincial overreach?
    Here is your ticket to that province.
    Next we need to teach Justin’s People French so they can go to Quebec for economic considerations.

  6. You are absolutely correct, except that our federal government is now run by idiots like Turdeau. This is NEPII on steroids.

  7. As I stated in a previous thread, this whole thing is fishy. Since the NDP have nothing to offer in the way of policy, they will slither on this minor incident not unlike maggots on a dead calf. After all, “Mediscare”, privatization and “hidden agenda” only go so far and have long outlived their usefulness as tools to frighten the liv.

  8. I’ve said it before…and this is more justification. Churchill! Even if we can’t export 6 months a year, ship from there, and screw the east (& BC). And the 3 prairie provinces can go it alone.

  9. Christy Crook – isn’t she the one the shepherded the sale of BC’s interior railroad? Somehow her brother was involved in the sale?
    What could have possibly have gone wrong? Or for that matter what could have possibly gone ‘right’ for the owners of the rail road – the citizens?

  10. Sure just about guaranteed to be a setup by Union forces.
    Carefully staged by the Media Workers Guild.
    But instead of falling for it the Saskatchewan voter should mock the reporters and tell them that this is an excellent plan.
    Encourage the presstitutes to take the bus and soak in the experience.

  11. Christie has been walking a bit softer lately since Alberta told her that there would be no Site C transmission lines crossing Alberta or electricity purchases until there was an oil pipeline to the coast. Even Notley has her limits.
    Messing with the neighbors is always fun until the push back starts.

  12. Rather than deal with the issue of racial apartheid in Canada, the SCOC and political class have strengthened it continuously. Under the Constitution, resources are under provincial jurisdiction and thanks to NDP / Lib white-guilt activism, much of the apartheid business has been happily off-loaded by the feds to BC. All new resource proposals and related changes now involve the recognition of an intentionally fuzzy form of state level sovereignty of the 1/16 or better racial purity ghetto-masters. The political class can’t deal with what they have created and therefore make the nebulous business of addressing the judicially reactivated “rights and title” (think greasing palms and employing phantom workers) a contingent responsibility of the resource sector. In reality, the political class has fueled an expectation of sovereign title over the entire nation of a conquered and racially warehoused minority of corrupt, welfare-dependent, decrepit socialist enclaves. Ironically, the Canadian Indian Reserve is a microcosm of progressive utopia but now significantly responsible for impeding virtually all development of Canada’s most naturally competitive economic sector. The resource sector is seen as a cow with multiple udders but without enough teats to satisfy all the parasites lining up for the milking.

  13. Agreed, BC politics is in such a sorry state it makes me furious.
    We have the most arrogant, corrupt, useless government in power, but the alternative is the NDP.
    It is a lose lose situation.
    I wish the democratic system could be redesigned in such a manner so as to prevent situations like this.

  14. Hey B.C.! How does it feel to get screwed by Trudeau? Welcome to the club. Are you ready to join Alberta in separating?
    Petronas is threatening to abandon a $36B LNG project over Canada’s new climate change rules
    Malaysia’s Petronas is frustrated that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s climate-change priorities are introducing new uncertainty for its proposed $36 billion Pacific NorthWest LNG project in northern British Columbia and has threatened to walk away if it doesn’t get federal approval by March 31, according to a source close to the project.
    The project, to be located on federal lands on Lelu Island near Prince Rupert, received a largely favourable assessment from the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA) last month, was greenlighted by the British Columbia government in November, 2014, and received conditional corporate support — or a final investment decision — from Malaysia’s state-owned company and its partners in June of last year.
    But the new federal Liberal government is toughening up environmental reviews of major energy projects to regain “public trust” and as it strives to meet international commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

  15. This morning, the media Party is buzzing with stories about the two ”poe boyzz” who were sent back to BC on a free bus ticker. .
    Here’s a surveillance video that will change a lot of people’s views on how the City of Vancouver takes care of it’s homeless. Just look along the right hand side of the sidewalk.
    https://youtu.be/MVeLXWbA4Wc
    If you want a detailed account, watch ”Throught The Blue Lens,” a film that was originally produced by Vancouver City Cops. This is part 1 one of 6.
    https://youtu.be/WTH1rbTeqyg

  17. If not for statist intervention the port of Churchill would not exist!
    If Global Warming had been for real Chruchill might some century in the future become a viable alternative

  18. “I asked for a ticket and five minutes later I had it printed off and I was leaving that night,” said Neil-Curley.
    “If I could have stayed and got funded at the Lighthouse, I would have stayed.”
    Neil-Curley said he has been homeless for about five months.
    He said he’s originally from North Battleford but lived in Victoria for 15 years and has a good friend there. His plan was to find a place to stay, get jobs for himself and Roy and start a new life in B.C.

  19. Christy is not perfect and she is a Liberal through and through, but I’ll take her in a heartbeat over the NDP loons here and the white elephant nimrods of AB, central & eastern Canada, along with our greenwashing twit in Ottawa who has to be told by Obama statists are only supposed to pretend to hate oil & gas production, while taxing it to death. Anyway if you can’t find a job in Sask, what the frig are you doing in BC? They probably won’t find the free room & board to their liking, not up to the current standards of our homeless tented communities.

  20. Perfect!! Lefty’s always seem to rejoice and celebrate the minimum wage workers and those that cannot help themselves, but cannot stand to see people with middle or high income jobs. This should come as no surprise, since without the people shackled to government handouts, like a crackhead relying on his dealer, socialist governments would have no base. (and yes…the vast majority of government employees are included in this shackled bunch).
    How sad this country has become (and indeed many in the western world) that votes can be bought so easily with the stolen money of the industrious.

  21. Neighbors! Reminds me of a story of a city couple moving to a small country acreage, the neighbor, also from the city, introduced himself one day while the new owners were inspecting their new very large unfenced backyard. After the introductions, the neighbor pointed out that a small portion of their garden actually crossed the property line and they should fix and restore his land back to its natural state. While the new owner not to be pushed around decided to get the property survey and found yes the garden was indeed 1 foot across the property line but he also found that the road to the neighbors house actually crossed his land. So one sunny day, he a contractor come out and remove the shared road. Later that day the guys wife comes home from shopping and she can’t get to the house, the road is gone. She flips out, calls the husband who bombs out to house and after much screaming and yelling he is forced to shutup and put in his own road and culvert to get over the ditch. His 1 foot of weeds end up costing him over $30 Grand.
    Can’t wait till BC is stuck for oil and as Trump would say, “Now you can pay for it!”

  23. What makes you think that Manitoba will be any more reasonable than BC or Quebec, particularly under and NDP government?

  25. More nonsense. The principal obstacles are provincial objections, not federal processes. And if you’re not in the Dominion, the ROC has even less interest in granting you free passage.

  26. “Putting somebody on a bus and sending someone out of province is not a way to end homelessness in anybody’s life,” he said.
    Putting a Syrian on a plane and sending someone out of the country is not a way to end homelessness in anybody’s life,”

  27. You don’t know what you are talking about…..a project that crosses provincial or international boundaries is under federal jurisdiction. It is a federal decision. You don’t have a clue.

  28. TimR, BC’s been screwing up LNG for years with their own very onerous approval process. Now it appears that JT and his merry band of greenie crooks will finish the work. Progress Energy has made a huge investment in BC’s gas industry but they made a critical mistake – thinking that the BC and Federal Liberal Gov’ts actually wanted them investing in the first place. Harper’s Conservatives were ultimately the only friends players in the BC energy industry players had and now they’re gone.
    The blood in the streets resulting from abandoning BC’s gas resources will be epic. And the Lefties will be dancing in the middle of it. Jobs don’t matter to these moonbats, only their crackpot Earth-first idealogy.

  29. Thanks for that most disturbing video. I shall view the entire 6 part series at a later date. Like “Streets of Plenty”,it’s an eye-opener.
    The O/D guy in the doorway was thankfully resuscitated by the paramedic,and now will go into rehab where he will straighten out his life,continue his education, get a trade,a good career,and will pay taxes for the rest of his life.
    Or not.
    The cop should have just kept on walking.

  30. I don’t think anyone wants to separate right now.
    However we should understand that Canada was constituted with the express purpose of preventing provinces from restricting or holding for ransom interprovincial trade crossing their territories.
    Knowing their mindset, the poorly concealed gloating by the progressive left, the enviro-puritans, and most of the media when they see the de facto economic blockade of Alberta that now exists is understandable.
    But we should not be surprised when some Albertans eventually start to ask the next logical question.

  31. Reports I have heard are that is a much longer process than 5 minutes to be funded for a ticket. It has also been reported these guys are chronic welfare users , so if he can get a job in BC , wonderful. I strongly suspect this whole move is to apply pressure for more welfare services funding and an attempt to make the Sask party and Brad Wall look bad. I say, don’t let the door hit you in the ass as you are leaving ! P s – ithey spent 15 years in BC and they appear to be in their early twenties .

  32. He won’t have much luck finding a job here unless he has a very good trade and lots of experience.
    Seeing as the fellow is First Nations,why isn’t one of the hundreds of FN governments rushing to look after one of their own?
    Surely these gentle stewards of nature and noble warriors can find the compassion to reach out to these unfortunates,instead of forcing them to take White Man’s charity!
    Surely.

  33. Separation of powers won’t matter, bonehead. You will now be a foreign country. And they’ll make Quebec’s treatment of transit by Newfoundland look like a picnic.

  34. More stupidity. And as a foreign country, the route to China and out of the country cannot be held hostage by Quebec. Now, if you knew what you were talking about we might be able to have a reasonable discussion, but you don’t, so we can’t.
    The problems today are NOT legal ones….they are political ones.

  35. If BC was unwilling to give transit to the province of Alberta, it will be even less willing to give transit to a separate nation. So just how do you propose to move your oil out of Alberta?

  36. Moreover,
    “The problems today are NOT legal ones….they are political ones.”
    Quite so. And it’s to no one’s political advantage to give transit to Alberta’s oil. Even less so if it’s a separate nation.

  37. I strongly suspect many of the “political” problems would be solved with monetary reward . And if you quit sending 10 billion dollars a year out of Alberta you are in a much better position to pay the ransom. There is 4 directions out of Albeta. People kicked off the “gravy ” train may have an epiphany !

  38. When you look at the idiocy from SJWs Kerry Jang of Van, and Mayor Mugwump (Lisa Helps) of Victoria, the stupidity is stunning.
    Both of them are guilty of sucking and blowing at the same time. They are the biggest moonbats when it comes to providing all kinds of poverty pimp industry to exist and be funded, yet when the lazy, stupid, drunk laggards turn up in BC, its a horrible thing, for them. Yet Christy comes across as the benevolent one, go figure!
    IF YOU BUILD IT THEY WILL COME.
    Its a surprise we dont have thousands here yet, to eat for free, live for free, and carry on their boulevard parties in downtown Victoria. There’s enough of that already, but no doubt, lots of room for their lazy native bruddas to come on down.
    Jang and Helps should be ashamed of themselves and their rampant stupidity.

  39. I agree with you; it’s always all about money. However, being in a separate country, as some here wish to be, will simply drive up the price.

  40. OK, you made your point. Several times it appears. You seem handy at exposing people’s bad ideas on this problem & take them to task over it, got some ideas on what might work to solve the problem?
    I’ve got a question for you. Which province do you live & work in? Might put things a bit more in context on what you post here.

  41. I saw an interesting graphic during a news segment on TransCanada. They are looking to acquire Columbia Pipeline for $10 billion (ish). Columbia has several pipelines in the US northeast. But the graphic suggested Columbia also has a pipeline direct to the US southern coast (where Keystone would have ended up).
    Interesting if TransCanada is able to buy the pipeline corridor to ship Alberta oil sands to US coastal refineries instead of trying to build it. No B.C., no Quebec.

  42. Except you seem to be missing the point….which is that the Pacific NorthWest LNG plant that is being planned in BC is ALSO starting to feel the heavy weight of Quebec politicians.
    March 8, 2016, Vancouver Sun
    “CALGARY – Malaysia’s Petronas is frustrated that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s climate-change priorities are introducing new uncertainty for its proposed $36 billion Pacific NorthWest LNG project in northern British Columbia and has threatened to walk away if it doesn’t get federal approval by March 31, according to a source close to the project.”
    Actually, I always wondered why Alberta didn’t oppose all LNG projects in B.C. as a tool to twist arms.
    Try to keep up.

  43. As mentioned above we have another entry for the “You must be a Liberal” file. If you get your knickers in a twist because Saskatchewan sends two welfare recipients back to British Columbia, but you see no problem in importing 25,000 welfare recipients from Syria, then you must be a Liberal.

  46. It’s a negotiation. Simply, BC names its terms to let pipelines through. It’s a bad sign generally when politicians start shouting in public. They and their constituents get dug into positions where it’s impossible to abandon. So the question becomes, how much value of the product is Alberta willing to give up to BC to get BC’s support. If BC’s price is too high, no pipeline, and the oil keeps moving by trains, a decision BC would have cause to regret in the future, as Lac Megantic demonstrated for the fools in Quebec.
    Rule 1 of negotiations is that nothing ever gets successfully negotiated in public. If the two sides are shouting at each other for all the world to hear, then it’s already failed.
    Rule 2, make sure all the directly interested parties are included. That means the 1st nations. If they’re not on side, it’s dead in the water. So you have to get them onside. Again, the question is how much do they want.
    Rule 3, start communicating the project and its benefits by every medium available from the get-go, not only starting after it’s run into trouble.
    Some of these rules may seem unfair or unjust, particularly in Rule 2. It looks like a shakedown, and it is. That’s life, and it has been so forever. Like it or not, the neighboring provinces have the power to destroy, legally, any pipeline project in Alberta’s interest. What Alberta has to do is make it not in their interest to do so.

  47. Nice work John,
    I’ve not heard it said better 😉
    Mind you, plenty of FNs are not involved in the racket, and are going their own (capitalist/democratic) way
    Niall from Winnipeg

  49. So instead of trying to get our oil across provincial boundaries to get to tidewater, you want us to try to get the oil across an international boundary instead? Without Saskatchewan and Manitoba going along with Alberta (to get us access to the port of Churchill) or without BC going along with Alberta, the province of Alberta remains landlocked.

  50. I’ve stopped following a few Lieberal friends on FB.
    So much nicer to read now. I recommend doing this.

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