Category: Western Separatism

I Want A New Country

Western Separatism 159 Comments

Patrick Moore;

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.

I Want A New Country

Western Separatism 51 Comments

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.

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Drill, Baby, Drill Western Separatism 61 Comments

BOE Report;

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

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Cold Dead Hands Western Separatism 57 Comments

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.

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Drill, Baby, Drill Western Separatism You Might Be A Liberal 163 Comments

Scheer climate plan would encompass more big polluters, require investments as penalty

A portion of Scheer’s plan, obtained by CBC News, would compel facilities that produce 40 kilotonnes of emissions or more per year to invest in green tech. The Trudeau government’s current rules impose emission caps on firms that emit more than 50 kilotonnes per year.
 
Scheer will outline his party’s much-anticipated environmental policy at a speech in Quebec on Wednesday. The Liberals have criticized him for taking such a long time to release a climate plan; Scheer was elected leader of the Conservative Party in May 2017. […]
 
In 2017, the 1,622 facilities monitored by Environment Canada’s GHG Reporting Program accounted for 292 megatonnes of emissions — 41 per cent of Canada’s total, according to Environment Canada. The oil and gas sector was responsible for more than a third of those emissions.
 
Mining and oil and gas have been the only sectors to increase emissions since 2005.

Coulda had Max.

Related: Limousine Liberal Catherine McKenna’s “climate emergency” hypocrisy

h/t A Canadian, Nancy Ross

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Shiny Pony Western Separatism 40 Comments

Brad Wall;

There is a great economic risk to Canada’s resource sector if Prime Minister Justin Trudeau barrels ahead with this new mess. Sadly, one gets the sense that no matter how beset the feds are with well-considered challenges to C-69 — the latest of which came so compellingly from new Alberta Premier Jason Kenney — they do not want to hear the ends of any of their critics’ sentences.
 
More serious still is what Bill C-69 and yet another parliamentary peach, Bill C-48, the B.C. tanker ban, will do to national unity if they become the law of the land.

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