Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe came out of a meeting with Prime Minster Justin Trudeau “disappointed” with what he says is a lack of commitment to address Western needs.
“We have provided some options for [Trudeau] to support the people of the province and today I did not hear a commitment to moving forward on those items,” said Moe.
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe will be on John Gormley Live momentarily. Listen in here.
“Withdrawing from CPP is a provincial right. It can be exercised without constitutional or legal challenge.”
(h/t Steve from Rockwood)
Encana Corp., one of Canada’s oldest and largest energy companies, is moving its corporate headquarters from Calgary to the United States.
The company, which is also changing its name to Ovintiv Inc., said Thursday that having a U.S. address will expose it to increasingly larger pools of investment in U.S. index funds and passively managed accounts, as well as better align it with its U.S. peers.
Update.
Thank you. And now I can’t help but wonder if there might have been something more fulsome and from a minister or the PM if a similar sized aeronautics company in Quebec announced it was moving its HQ to the US https://t.co/H8hkSCiMup
— Brad Wall (@BradWall306) October 31, 2019
I believe I said it first.
Trudeau has put a Quebec environmental extremist MP in charge of outreach to Alberta and Saskatchewan.
They just can't control themselves, even for 24 hours.
They hate you. Never forget that.https://t.co/sh7IzUb5oM
— Ezra Levant 🍁 (@ezralevant) October 24, 2019
@PremierScottMoe – The Trudeau Carbon Tax costs one Saskatchewan farmer $5495.18 last month. I can guarantee his rebate won’t cover this extra cost.
Sunny days, friends. Sunny days.
I want a new country.
Canada appears headed for a train wreck due to the widening chasm on energy, climate and finance policy between Alberta and Ottawa. It is possible that no combination of voting outcomes in the October 21 federal election can prevent the breakup of the federation.
Canada has been described as “a road from Ottawa to Montreal and back again”, a blunt reference to the fact that when Ontario and Quebec agree on something, the rest of us are chopped liver. This has given rise over the years to the angst known as western alienation. It has presently reached a boiling point like no other time in our history.
Just as planned: B.C.’s top court orders review of Trans Mountain Pipeline’s environmental assessment
After the National Energy Board reviewed the project for a second time, the federal government approved the pipeline expansion again.
The Appeal Court says in its decision released today that in light of changes to the original report of the energy board when it reconsidered the project, provincial approval also needs to be reconsidered.
The Conservative Party’s obsession with winning seats in Quebec despite an abundance of evidence suggesting it is neither plausible nor necessary, is one of the great handicaps of Canadian politics. https://t.co/mn9zVCYc2a
— J.J. McCullough (@JJ_McCullough) September 9, 2019
As expected: Court allows six Trans Mountain appeals focusing on Indigenous consultation
When alone with friends: “The overall [carbon tax] approach will be reviewed in 2022 to ensure that it is effective and to confirm future price increases”
I want a new country.
Open the escape hatch, Jason.
Sending a message to Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, Premier François Legault said that Quebec has a right to equalization payments and won't agree to overhauling the system https://t.co/xTtiAL5ukB#polQC #cdnpoli #ableg pic.twitter.com/lVPKM9c0vF
— Montreal Gazette (@mtlgazette) August 18, 2019
In 2018 alone, according to detailed information I recently requested from Statistics Canada, the value of crude oil imported into the country was nearly $20 billion. Considering that the oil business is one of the most job-rich parts of the economy, this amounts to exporting a lot of high-paying domestic jobs to foreign places.
It’s true there are some complications to the picture that are sometimes lost in the rush judgement, such as the fact even with pipelines to the Atlantic, it would not be simple to replace the lighter grades of oil coming in to Saint John, New Brunswick by tanker.
Complications aside, the inflow is an irritant to those who see made-in-Canada petroleum under sustained attack inside of Canada, including by our own politicians, while imported fuels are able to dodge nearly all of the barriers our own products face. This is what torques the irritation to rage – the fact that the vast majority of our fossil fuel imports fail to meet the same environmental, social or economic standards that beleaguered Canadian energy must.
It turns out that crude oil is not the only fossil fuel product this applies to.
h/t rockyt
Family endures heavily-armed RCMP takedown on Alberta farm
“I’m a guy with a young family. I teach piano for a living, I’m not a drug-dealing thug,” the 29-year-old told Postmedia on Wednesday.
“I thought they were going to kill my wife, my kids and I. Every time I close my eyes, I see a gun pointed at my head.”
In a statement from RCMP, which said they will provide “no further commentary” on the incident, the force said the tactics used were in response to the seriousness of the complaint.
h/t to Larry, who has more to say.
This isn’t the first such incident. It won’t be the last. If the mother, father and two toddlers were killed. Then there might be an apology and officers reassigned. But just as Premier Jason Kenny refuses to address the High River incident. This will be smoothed over and the RCMP and Crown Prosecutor’s will go to every length to get a conviction on anything, no matter how small to justify this SWAT team raid.
A few years ago, a pest control officer for the Town of Foam Lake came very close to being shot be an RCMP officer. How many cases don’t make the news ? That is a state secret ! Gun control is just one of the federal gov’t. steps for removing “settlers” from rural Canada, and, I’d argue, bringing into effect P.M. Justin Trudeau’s stated goal of making Canada, the first post nation-state.
David DeWolfe’s cell phone video here.
As I remarked a couple of weeks ago in Ontario, as I contemplated the giant maple tree under which we were camped, “If it wasn’t for the leaf on the Canadian flag, I wouldn’t be able to tell you what kind of tree this is.”
