A blockade south of Montreal that halted rail traffic and frayed nerves since Wednesday was abandoned late Friday after riot police arrived to enforce a court injunction.
The roughly two dozen protesters, acting in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs contesting a British Columbia natural gas pipeline, had begun dismantling the encampment earlier in the evening following discussions with police.
They took downs tents and carried items such as sleeping bags, pots, propane tanks and a wood stove to the edge of a security perimeter established earlier in the day by Longueuil municipal police.
… a day late and a billion short: Coastal GasLink’s final report has been rejected by B.C.’s Environmental Assessment Office.Construction in #Wetsuweten territory can’t proceed without this approval, and stands to be delayed by several months.
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Congratulations, Prinz Dummkopf, your Red Guards have accomplished your fondest fantasy for western Canada…. (sarcasm = off)
So the “baggage handlers” took time off from helping illegal immigrants to direct rail traffic.
Oh, swell!
The economy is ‘recovering’ as we speak, while the ‘enviro-freak department’ delivers another interminable political delay tactic…
Oh, Canuh-duhh! 🙂
Our do nothing Prime Doofus, in a do nothing land, run by do nothing bureaucrats, in a devalued deConfederating country.
Harrrummmph….
Send them buffalo chips!
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht – Commander in Chief
Army Group “True North”
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Hardee har har har….cough!
And so it goes…
Good nighty night.
Idiot could’ve done this on day one. Think of the lost revenue.
https://www.thepostmillennial.com/trudeau-admits-scheer-was-right-in-calling-for-blockades-to-end/
Really? Then why was Andy the Sheep “dispolitified”?
Prinz Blackie Sheep tried to fleece us and Andy Sheep rammed him for the phoney that he was. Now, suddenly Mr Eweniverse wants to wool Canada. Canadians need to dispolitify him at budget time for non confidence because he trashed the economy. The budget does not baaaaaalance itself, Prinz Blackie Sheep is a baaaaad guy. We need to slice and dice his baaaaad boys under his kilt!
As others have suggested, I think he is a globalist puppet. He is bent on ruining Canada. Canadians need to wake up if they want to save their country.
His Trudeau Foundation likely has a billion bucks in it by now, my bet.
We are being taken to the cleaners by a drug addict. See his eyes lately….⊙_⊙ …. like saucers and he s-p-e-a-k-s more s-l-o-w-ly now! The lisp is still there.
Did I write that?
Wincing…
My last sentence was obscene…big apologies!
Got overwhelmed by the way the P.M. acts.
Do forgive me. Ok?
Sure, fine…just blame us here in Ontario — again. Not like we have anything in common, at all.
Go, ahead: get a new country — and then get it all through B.C., which for some unknown reason, yet again, you can’t.
Not to worry, at all, we can take all of your blame — you’re good at it, and you have limited options, actually.
Nobody round here is going to forsake y’all: might be time to get over yourselves.
Fuck Ontario. How does that work for ya!!!
Mr Southern, let’s look at the advantages of Alberta leaving Canada;
a) no more whiny Albertans.
b) Canada easily meets its Paris CO2 commitments
c) Trudeau immediately gets a majority government as Parliament will lose 34 seats
d) Ontario won’t have to rely on Albertan oil, it can import foreign oil via Quebec. I’m sure Quebec will give you a good deal.
Now on the perhaps not so good side:
– BC and Toronto will be the wealthiest parts of Canada. So they will get to pay equalization. It’s only $20 billion or so.
– many Alberta residents were born outside Alberta, so we will be dual citizens; Alberta and Canada. So we’ll get to vote in Canadian elections. We’ll most likely vote conservative or NDP. So the Liberals might be out of power; forever.
Alberta separating is starting to look like a win win.
“Go, ahead: get a new country — and then get it all through B.C., which for some unknown reason, yet again, you can’t.”
How about when Alberta is a sovereign Nation we block all traffic; Trans-Canada Highway, CN Rail line, and Air Space too until Bullshit Colombia and Morontario allow us a X-Large Pipeline connection to tidewater and compensate us for the $Billions of ruin they’ve cause us with their insane Global Warming delusion?
Yeah, sovereign nations can do stuff like that. Does that work for you, Southam?
And NO, B.C. is not western Canada. It’s really just China’s eastern most canton.
“How about when Alberta is a sovereign Nation we block all traffic; Trans-Canada Highway, CN Rail line, and Air Space too until Bullshit Colombia and Morontario allow us a X-Large…’
Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you didn’t have the balls to block the transportation links during 4 years of Notley and 5 years of turdo pissing all over you, you ain’t going to have the balls to separate, let alone block anything.
You’re a real Liberal eh? Recognized that a long time ago.
You are entitled….to ….your….opinion.
We too are entitled to our free speech rights. If you were in our shoes you’d feel the same way we do.
Btw Alberta is a prettier place than Ontario and our weather is better — year round. The place is crawling with you transplants. They remove their Ontario license plates, pretty fast, once they get here to blend in.
Some of you are even nice folks, ones that don’t work for the government.
I wish people would think before they post comments like “get a new country – and then get it all through B.C., which for some unknown reason, yet again, you can’t”
These sorts of comments are really a shortcut to thinking. Im not a Wexit person at present, but we all have a breaking point, and nonsense comments like this just drive us all further to our breaking point.
To make a point that should be obvious, the country of Al-Sask/Buffalo/whatever would offer full provincial rights to either the Yukon or NWT, but of which share borders with Al-Sask, and Voila! we have ocean access. Canada could not compete with the Al-Sask offer due to the cost. (NWT would be difficult because of the costs associated with the native population, Yukon would be better) Never mind that we would also have north-south access as long as we want it. For some reason, people that want to mock Alberta can only think along closed, traditional lines. I would suspect that if this ever happens, half of BC will join Al-Sask.
To those mockers out there, please do a google search on the present EU budget deliberations now that the UK isn’t contributing. Boom!
Chuck Guy,
Interesting points. You are right that there is no guarantee that the country of Alberta could get a pipeline through BC.
But how would B.C. get petroleum products? Tanker?
There is similarly no guarantee that the port of Vancouver could get products to and from the ships that go to Vancouver.
Biggest advantage for Albertans? They keep an extra $23 billion in the province that currently goes to Ottawa for equalization, CPP, and EI.
There are international agreements to allow land-locked countries access to tidewater. There are no national agreements to allow land-locked provinces access to tidewater.
I’m not aware of any international obligations for sovereign nation A to allow sovereign nation B access across A for an easier transit. If your nation is not contiguous… well you didn’t really think that through then, did you?
Look it’s not like the feeling isn’t mutual. We all know that Toronto HATES the rest of Canada. They SEETHE at the idea there’s even a province called Alberta. Why it’s filled with rubes, hicks, red necks and oil workers.
Lotusland is the same. While I was at UBC 40 years ago, I was frequently treated by people I met there as someone who just fell off the back of the turnip truck.
How do you spell third world banana republic sh-t hole in six letters?
That would be Q-U-E-B-E-C … I only wish that particular sh!t-hole wasn’t ruling our otherwise wonderful country…!
Start with a C?—end in duh?
So if you send in the riot police to take down the blockade the protestors will leave? That’s a new game plan…
The protesters achieved their goal, and they know they can do it again without getting arrested. They don’t have to stop rail traffic forever, just long enough to get the normal folks riled. They don’t have to do it everywhere, just in jurisdictions where the authorities are slow to react.
Even the natives won’t touch them as it would validate the contention that the nonnative protesters are just a small group of foreign actors.
Their goal isn’t to get any kind of settlement or reconciliation, their goal is anarchy.
And yes, these are the sock monkeys people.
Prepare for a summer of discontent
Next time someone with a good scope and aim should put holes in their propane tanks. If they’re against fossil fuels then they should be forced to live without them.
The nightmare scenario is here: the Laurentian power-brokers will cancel the Coastal GasLink project (and the huge Kitimat gas terminal project?), and in return Central Canada gets the trains moving again. And Trudeau will pay off the Toronto-based media not to criticize their Liberal masters. Appalling, but watch it happen.
Trudeau cannot cancel Coastal Gas Link, nor the Kitimat LNG plant. They are provincial projects; no federal project approval is necessary.
Can the Trudeauites delay it? Yes. Delay it enough that Shell (the LNG plant builder) pulls out. That could happen. So David I suspect we are on the same page.
If there is no pipeline then there is no LNG plant.
True enough. One news report this morning quoted the BC Premier John Horgan as saying that “cancelation of the gas pipeline is “not on”. Having said that, Justin Trudeau’s CBC news and his Globe and Mail have floated the idea in the past few days. And Trudeau could do anything. He detests Westerners and rural blue collar workers.
Meanwhile one of Trudeau’s “independent” senators, Mary Coyle from Nova Scotia, wants the Trudeau government to deny approval to the Teck mine.
It’s a repeat of the Quebec government mantra “no to your oil, but keep sending the money”.
Quebec does not currently get Saudi oil, but Nova Scotia’s oil products are derived from Saudi oil. Guess Mary Coyle prefers the Saudi approach to life. She certainly wants to fund it.
It ain’t just rural blue collar workers.
Frankly I don’t have much time for suits.
So the civil servants at the Environmental Assessment Committee have put a hold on construction. Some one must have reported seeing a sacred tree frog hopping along a river bank a thousand miles away from the site.
“Police move in”. To do what? Its the RCMP!!! To carry their bags? To assit them crossing the street? To wipe their arses? Its not like the RCMP are going to arrest a protestor! The RCMP only arrest citizens who believe in a lawful country.
This one can’t be compared to the other blockades. It’s not on aboriginal land and it only began 2 days earlier. The timing of it makes it seem like the cops were acting on Trudeau’s “barricades must come down” statement, but they were municipal Longueuil police enforcing a Quebec court injunction, nothing to do with the feds.
Meanwhile the BC government is making Coastal GasLink “renegotiate” with the abos for 30 days and then resubmit their bid to begin construction. In other words, total surrender. So now we have the curious case where the VIRGIN Westerners bow and scrape before the Indigenous Master Race while the CHAD Easterners mercilessly crush the hated redskins.
I thought construction had started so I went looking.
https://www.projects.eao.gov.bc.ca/p/588511c4aaecd9001b825604/project-details;currentPage=1;pageSize=10;sortBy=-datePosted;ms=1582375196307
That tweet is a bit of a lie. Its a portion of the line. But certainly its a problem.
From Conrad Black:
“I wrote here before the election last October that this government was in office but not in power; that condition has steadily worsened.”
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/conrad-black-canadas-government-has-abandoned-its-responsibility-to-lead
And again, Quebec shows that it has balls, while the rest of Canada does not.
Maybe we should lay off derogatory terms frequently used on this blog to describe Quebec, and once in a lifetime look at the situation realistically?
That province has balls and does not hesitate to make demands and to follow through with their implementation. They deserve respect for their attitude and persistence, even if their ideology does not.
They wanted French everything, and they got it. Check.
They wanted the provincial gun registry, and they got it. Check.
They did not want hijabs at work, and they got it. Check.
They wanted the rail blockade to end, and they got it. Check.
The list goes on.
The rest of Canadians, take a note, will you?
All the things on that list are easy to accomplish when one has a prime minister who believes that Quebec is the only legitimate domain inside the country.
At least Quebeckers, like Myanmar Buddhists, are doing something, while no one else does.
They have a disproportionate amount of power and influence.
They are like Syria’s Alawites.
That’s because, in his view, Quebeckers are the only real Canadians.
The FLQ showed politicians what happens when you don’t give them everything they want and it’s worked ever since.
No, Quebec, the enfant terrible of the Dominion (non-DS9 one), makes demands and gets what it wants.
That’s not courage; that’s an undeserved sense of entitlement.
At least they are doing something while the rest do not. Thanks for confirming my earlier observation.
None other premier, almighty conservative Doug Ford included, bothered to lift a finger.
Enough excuses!
I don’t think you understand the animal you are dealing with.
Quebec didn’t take the lead because someone had to. As usual, it was looking out for number one.
Don’t miss Ted Morton’s piece in the National Post. Scary stuff. https://nationalpost.com/opinion/ted-morton-the-prime-ministers-dangerous-game
That was his plan all along. He delivers Canada to UN control and bingo! he get his much-coveted security council seat.
Well he, like his father hates the country and everyone not Fwench.
If your a foreign investor thinking of investing in Canada, DON’T. As for Canadians, they can expect exciting new careers serving burgers to government employees and teachers. And don’t forget to ask them if they want fries with their orders.
Proper people are “better” than fossil fuels. That’s the mantra of green theocracy. This is their theatre.
Redmonton’s socialist former mayor, Jan Reimer, was like that. Our streets were in terrible shape, but any hobo on the street had to be subsidized. As she put it, “people are more important than potholes”.
Thanks a lot for nothing.
I don’t want to see Alberta separate. I want to see all Canadians abolish the federal government. They don’t do anything that any of us need.
Exactly.
It was the CN Police enforcing the court injunction. Despite CN having to go to court to get it, the Commie Press is praising Prinz Dumbkoff for the blockade going down. This has nothing to do with the Lieberals and is just CN doing what it needs for its own best interest.
Why only in QC? Why have they done zilch in ON?
I call BS. Riot police is not CN police, or am I wrong?
The Liberal Party’s CBC had Big Chief Pam of the famous Ryerson University tribe on again a few minutes ago. She had the usual rant about “settlers” and Canada belongs to the Indians.
Watching the Rt. Hon. Trudeau’s press conference, saying time to “end the blockades”, brought me back to thinking of a supporting character in the “Braveheart” movie — Longshank’s King Edward’s sonm Prince Edward. He in the film was this effeminate homosexual, who Longshanks put in charge of the northern armies, who were fighting Braveheart and other Scots:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112573/mediaviewer/rm3371696384
At any rate, Justin Trudeau doesn’t seem like a prime minister willing to stare down the eco-radicals.
Be nice if your Braveheart analogy carried forward to the defenestration of the Prince’s Buttsbuddy
Now why would Quebec clear the tracks?
Eric Clapton has the answer.
CocainePropane.https://youtu.be/F-YOTJoKz_o
“Go, ahead: get a new country — and then get it all through B.C., which for some unknown reason, yet again, you can’t.”
That works both ways. ALL the imports from China/Asia come through the port of Vancouver.
Ever container train in Canada would occupy ALL the rail lines in B.C because they can’t get through AB.
Right now they estimate it will be MONTHS before the backlog of 40 ships sitting in Vancouver Harbor can be processed. There isn’t room in the harbor for all the ships so some are mooring off Vancouver Island.
Oh, and who do you think is going to pay all the extra freight charges ocuring hourly due to this backlog. Ya got it, the consumer. Suddenly all the “Dollar” stores in the country will the renamed the “5 Dollar” store.
Propane tanks and a wood stove. Migod these people are stupid.