Let the eastern bastards freeze in the dark: “Oh dear!* The people who will never vote Conservative might not vote for them if they repeal Trudeau’s energy suicide pact.”
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The Pillaging of Western Canada — Aaron Gunn
Y2Kyoto: #SKExit
If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.
Earlier this month, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said the federal government’s goal for net-zero emissions wasn’t realistic.
He doubled down on that statement Tuesday while announcing the province’s plans for electricity generation to 2035 and beyond.
“The federal government’s standards for zero emissions electrical generation by 2035 are unrealistic and unaffordable,” Moe said in a media release. “They mean SaskPower rates would more than double and we may not have enough generation to keep the lights on.
“I’m not going to let that happen.”
That which can be ignored no longer: Alberta’s wind power drops to 2 megawatts out of 3618 on Friday, the lowest level we’ve seen yet
“Let me play the tape for you”.
The prime minister is in the Queen City today, with a full slate of appearances planned to promote the federal budget. We ask Justin Trudeau about the grocery rebate, mineral rights, the future of RCMP training and more.
This is really good work by CBC Saskatchewan’s Stefani Langenegger. Give it a listen.
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Blacklocks: The Department of Industry confirms it did approve secret subsidies to Volkswagen to build a battery plant in Ontario. Managers under questioning by Conservative MP Brad Vis (Mission-Matsqui, B.C.) promised to divulge the figure to the Commons industry committee: “The number of $15 billion was being thrown around.”
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https://twitter.com/BushelsPerAcre/status/1640826844038721536
Just Transition
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Next year, Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax will rise to 14¢ per litre of gasoline, despite the hardship caused to Canadian families by the rising cost of gasoline and the runaway inflation that is itself the direct result of the Trudeau government’s orgy of spending and borrowing.
By 2030, the carbon tax will be 37¢ per litre right across the country.
Except in Quebec.
Related: “I am not a criminal”
He Admires Their Basic Dictatorship
And so do his friends.
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Economic Freedom of North America 2022 is the eighteenth edition of the Fraser Institute’s annual report. This year it measures the extent to which—in 2020, the year with the most recent available comprehensive data—the policies of individual provinces and states were supportive of economic freedom, the ability of individuals to act in the economic sphere free of undue restrictions. There are two indices: one that examines provincial/state and municipal/local governments only and another that includes federal governments as well. The former, our subnational index, is for comparison of individual jurisdictions within the same country. The latter, our all-government index, is for comparison of jurisdictions in different countries.
Full report is here. (pdf)
Related: Move Alberta to the red zone.
Good Job, Zinchuk
“Thou shalt not use coal for power generation post-2030, the federal government hath said. And it’s moving to do the same with natural gas by 2035.
“On Nov. 1, the Province of SK said, “To hell with that,” but in a more sophisticated, legal manner.”
https://t.co/ZgNdS1AZIW— Scott Moe (@PremierScottMoe) November 4, 2022
And good job, Moe.
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Let’s kick this monstrous mess to the curb and start fresh.
On Thursday morning, while catching up on the news about last weekend’s massacre on (and around) James Smith Cree Nation in northern Saskatchewan, I ran across a truly remarkable Globe and Mail headline: “Saskatchewan suspect’s case draws new scrutiny to statutory release.” I hardly knew whether to laugh or cry at this exercise in the journalistic privilege of agenda-setting. The crimes of Myles Sanderson, who died mysteriously in police custody Wednesday after stabbing 18 people and killing ten of them, ought to “draw new scrutiny” to about a hundred different things about the Canadian state and its philosophy of criminal justice. One hardly knows where to start with the list-making.
It’s short and it’s brutal. Go read it all.
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Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe has asked a former Saskatchewan Party MLA and former MP who recently was a part of the Wexit movement to co-host “in-house” meetings about increasing Saskatchewan autonomy.
Allan Kerpan — who served in opposition with the Saskatchewan Party and was also a Reform MP — and veteran SP MLA Lyle Stewart (Thunder Creek) have been chosen by Moe to lead the closed-door meetings across the province this month.
“The premier has been speaking about some sort of independence from Ottawa for quite a while in terms of the economy,” Kerpan told the CBC’s Morning Edition host Ted Deller on Monday.
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It’s a start.
Saskatchewan needs to be a nation within a nation.
When the federal government implements policies that are detrimental to our province, our government will continue to stand up for Saskatchewan people. pic.twitter.com/zysN0oOe5w
— Scott Moe (@PremierScottMoe) November 9, 2021
Scott Moe On Carbon Tax Ruling
Live now. (click the listen live button at top right)
– will bring Sask Power and SaskEnergy under provincial rule, backdated to Jan 2019
– Sask will develop own carbon tax scheme similar to NB
– will develop carbon credit/offset system in province
– will ask feds to assist in developing small modular nuclear power generation
– ask feds to provide Sask with “fair share”of funding under some federal low carbon fund
Not sure this is going to calm the get the fuck out of Canada community.
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Already in a fight to keeps it’s air traffic control tower, the Regina Airport Authority could now be facing the possibility of losing it’s “international” designation.
M.P for Regina-Wascana, Michael Kram, said a Transport Canada document he obtained listing 13 international airports, did not include either Regina or Saskatoon.
Kram says it would be very concerning from a number of standpoints for Saskatchewan airports to lose “international” status.
“It is a big concern because it will hurt our city and it’s ability to attract new businesses,” Kram said. “It will also make it more difficult for families to fly down to sunny destinations in the winter, this would make us look more like a backwater destination, instead of an international city,” he added.
Kram says the term “international” is much more than just an honorary title.
Once They’ve Purged The Pro-Lifers And Yellowvests And Climate Deniers And Wexiters And Transphobes
Everything will be big tent hunky dory again: Maybe the biggest question anyone considering entering this race should be asking is if they can handle how this party treats its own.
No, No, No.
Stay strong, Prime Minister. Hold the line.
But the Premiers didn’t create this mess. They’re just responding to legislation from the Liberals. If Trudeau wants to end this, he should moderate his bill.