60 Replies to “Truckers For Pipelines”

  1. Hopefully the fellows keep it up and even escalate the action and that it spreads elsewhere in Canada.

    Furthermore, after the AGW fraud carbon tax kicks in after the new year and the cost of everything people buy will go up, maybe, just maybe, people will wake up a little to the criminal government we have.

    Maybe even replicate what the French are doing.

  2. Bring it.
    Nation wide.
    Dump Trudeau and his destruction policies.
    Let’s show the f****r who he works for.

    1. He won’t take action. He’ll simply shrug it off, just like PET did 40 years ago. Prinz Dummkopf figures that he can sit back and wait until Alberta capitulates.

      1. “He’ll simply shrug it off, just like PET did 40 years ago.”

        There is one big difference: demographics. Trudeau père operated in a Canada where the total population of all four western provinces (1978: 6.5 million) just about equalled that of Québec. Trudeau fils operates in a Canada where the total population of all four western provinces (2017: 11.6 million) surpasses that of Québec by over three million. Ontario, which in 1978 had two million more in population than Québec, now has about 5.5 million more.

        So the “kingmaker” in Canada remains Ontario of course but the dynamic has changed, as we saw with the elections that brought Harper to power. Between Ontario and the western provinces, there’s far more potential electoral power outside Québec than there was in PET’s time.

        (And it is by no means certain – given the way political dynamics have been changing at the provincial level in Québec – that the Liberals can simply take that province for granted.)

        1. Yes, the population has changed, but the distribution of ridings in those respective areas has remained largely the same.

          1. Québec has 78 ridings; the four western provinces have a total of 104. Alberta alone has 42.

            A better question might be: is there any such thing as “Western Canada” in political terms?

            From what I see, there is not; just four provinces with widely varying agendas.

            In other words, four oh-so-typically-Canadian provinces!

          2. OK, so the west has more ridings. But those ridings are usually split between the Conservatives and the Dippers. Quebec, on the other hand, has a tendency to favour the Liberals.

            Which party is going to form the government?

          3. “OK, so the west has more ridings.”

            As I observed earlier, is there in fact any such thing as “Western Canada” in political terms?

    2. Bingo. Make life impossible for him just as he has made it impossible for the nation of Canada.

      60 days of this would bring down his government in a smoking ruin, And the political class would be broken, never to be returned to power.

      Bring it.

    3. Hmmmm…. a 22 km convoy of trucks (on their own time & own dime) in favour of pipelines… VS
      A rag-tag group of NDP/Suzuki style “activists” financed by Tides & others, most of whom DROVE to the protest (and cannot see the disconnect)
      Which group do ya think will have the Dauphin’s attention?
      Hint….. who gets the most CBC time?

  4. Pissing off Alberta commuters is not nearly as effective as pissing off Toronto commuters or Shutting down roads to the Ottawa parliament buildings. I’m sure that if the call went out there would be thousands of truckers that would relish the opportunity to get a little closer to the center of the problem.

    1. A trans Canada highway convoy from Alberta to Ottawa followed by a multiday protest at Parliament Hill would get their attention. Like the old ride the rail protests during the depression era. A newer version of the On-to-Ottawa trek of 1935…without the government (RCMP) violence and riot that happened in Regina, of course. The Trudeaus weren’t the first prime ministers in Ottawa to treat western Canada like dirt.

      1. To make it more inclusive, make it about Canadian energy (workers) *and* the carbon tax. Lots of big, yellow signs reading:

        Yes to Canadian Energy
        No to the Carbon Tax

        Invite all Canadians to join and have their voices heard in Ottawa. Bypass Justin’s journalists.

    1. Monsieur Trudeau are you listening

      I think we know the answer to that one, don’t we? Then again, neither did his father.

      1. I think he signed that “You’re number one with me”, from a train window in Salmon Arm.

        They should have blown the tracks when he got to the Fraser Canyon.

      1. Butts is telling Turdeau to do nothing, it’s just boys and girls playing with Tonka trucks.

        However, it is a start.

  7. No bricks thrown. No government buildings burnt down. No tar and feathers. Traffic still flowing from the left coast through Alberta unimpeded.
    Yawn! Wake me when people get serious and the fun starts.

  8. Just you wait until Andrew hears about this. The crickets will be chirping at the 72 decibel level.

    My niece and her husband from Airdrie both lost their jobs, she in Calgary and he as an industry employed oil field safety technician about a year and a half ago. Now they just lost their modest 800? sq ft row home.

      1. Waiter, where is my Omelette? I ordered it 101 years ago and still don’t have it. I would like to talk to the manager.

      2. B A
        (You making breakfast?)

        The eggs were actually cooked almost 150 years ago, because on March 20, 1869 the Hudson’s Bay Co. reluctantly, under pressure from Great Britain sold Rupert’s Land to the government of Canada for $1.5 million…and that is the tale of our goose being cooked too!

        (Does that come with, bacon, toast, coffee or loose tea?)

        P.S. Deplorable Me: what happened 101 years ago, besides the end of the Great War in Europe? Oh yes, right, that’s when the Commies took over everywhere and 1 year after the Russian Revolution! Well la Trudeau must’ve taken note, and we are so screwed that we squeak.

        Let’s Roll… Albexit!

      3. My comments, of course, were meant in sarcasm. The left believes that “sacrifices” need to be made and those “sacrifices” won’t come from the elite. If it costs people their livelihoods or, for that matter, their homes, so much the better. Those “sacrifices” will build the “just” society espoused by the state while saving Mommy Gaia.

        The left also believes that those who are sacrificed need to know their place and rejoice in their contribution to the ultimate triumph. However, I got that attitude from politicians on both sides when I was unemployed during the early 1980s.

        1. “Comments meant in sarcasm”… yes, of course.

          Seriously though, the left’s propaganda is all too much because their contribution to society is to destroy it, except for themselves. They are the ones who will be destroyed when they run out of other people’s money.

    2. Sorry about your relatives Ken. There are many hurting.

      There was a protest in Turner Valley, then the truck drivers’ rally down from Nisku was huge! How sad that it has come to this. It seems like yesterday that Stelmach was talking about $80/barrel.

      The Trudeau I and II street urchins and their worldwide communist friends have ruined thousands of lives. Hope their karma is a bitch.

  9. Ken, Andrew WAS there. If you watch the extra link, he spoke at a town hall meeting and at Ensign workplace. Nisku is right across the QE2 highway from the Edmonton Int. Airport. Traffic was so snarled that Scheer had to get out and walk across the overpass to get to the event (according to his speech). Good speech IMO.

    1. Until I see definite proof that Andy Sche(m)er organized this, I would heavily discount the importance of his appearance at a photo op near it.

      1. Scheer gets too close, Trudeau will start saying he’s inciting the ‘discord’. If the discord gets closer to separation Trudeau will start playing the sedition hand.

    2. I voted for Andrew Who in the leadership race and have regretted it ever since, mostly because he whipped his caucus to vote for the Paris Accord fraud. Cheryl Gallant was the only Conservative MP that voted against the Paris fraud. My local MP gave me some flatulent talking points.

      Yes, the media, members of the Unifor union and their Liberal media owner bosses are conspiring to ignore getting Andrew’s message, as little as it is, out to the public. Oh to be sure, I get brave emails from the Conservative Party elaborating what they will do to PM Butts if only I send more money. Sure!

      Max, who I didn’t vote for, and I think also voted for the Paris fraud, but at least has been vocal enough that the media is reporting him.

  10. No political part8could organize this. Too spontaneous. Scheer was there and later in the day in Edmonton.
    I was in the rally – not by design. It was a big deal.
    Not sure what it might accomplish but it’s got bongo’s attention. He sent his pissant energy out to Calgary to make sure we understand the talking points.

  11. No political party could organize this. Too spontaneous. Scheer was there and later in the day in Edmonton.
    I was in the rally – not by design. It was a big deal.
    Not sure what it might accomplish but it’s got bongo’s attention. He sent his pissant energy minister out to Calgary to make sure we understand the talking points.

  12. I’m really curious – is Andrew Who* really as meek, placid and inept as he looks? Or is the Canadian Press conspiring among themselves to suppress anything he says and does, to boost their next Liberal payday from a grateful ( – if he can remember – ) Sock-Boy? Is this why we never hear anything about him?

    – Because I sure ain’t voting for Shiny Potato or the NDP!

    *(The story is told. Prime Minister Joe Clark is sitting in his office, glumly contemplating his failing political fortunes. Through the open window he hears a scream – “My baby!!! My Baby!!!” coming from the bank of the Ottawa River, just outside the window; he leaps up, looks out the window and sees a frantic mother down by the water, madly waving her arms – and a small child in the river, being swept-away by the current.

    Displaying not the slightest hesitation, Joe Clark rushes out of his office, down the stairs and out the back door of the Houses of Parliament. He dashes down to the river, WALKS ACROSS THE WATER, rescues the tiny baby, WALKS BACK TO THE SHORE and returns the child to its sobbing mother. She gushes, “Oh, you HERO! You SAVED my BABY!!!”

    Headlines the next day read “Joe Clark Can’t Swim”.)

    1. *(The story is told. Prime Minister Joe Clark is sitting in his office, glumly contemplating his failing political fortunes. Through the open window he hears a scream – “My baby!!! My Baby!!!” coming from the bank of the Ottawa River, just outside the window; he leaps up, looks out the window and sees a frantic mother down by the water, madly waving her arms – and a small child in the river, being swept-away by the current.

      Displaying not the slightest hesitation, Joe Clark rushes out of his office, down the stairs and out the back door of the Houses of Parliament. He dashes down to the river, WALKS ACROSS THE WATER, rescues the tiny baby, WALKS BACK TO THE SHORE and returns the child to its sobbing mother. She gushes, “Oh, you HERO! You SAVED my BABY!!!”

      Headlines the next day read “Joe Clark Can’t Swim”.)

      This really just says it all about the CBC doesn’t it?

  13. Hurray!

    About time!

    Now plug the T-C highway tight for as long as it takes…and the Legislature.

  14. I think it would be more effective if we made trucking illegal in the provinces of Quebec, Ontario, and BC.

    If protesters can stop pipelines, why don’t oil companies simply stop selling product to the areas that these protesters live?

    Why not shut off the heat for the houses of parliament? They passed the laws, make them lead by example; show the rest of us how to live carbon free. No more motorcades. No more flights. No more central heating.

    If there is no social acceptance for pipelines in Quebec, why aren’t Shell and BP and all the rest selling them diesel at $300 a liter?

    If the law can be selectively applied, then people can selectively obey laws. All the oil companies have to do is truly collude to price fix.

    There just isn’t any will though, is there.

  15. This trucker protest is really great and I applaud the men and women driving those rigs for at least trying.

    But, (poor grammar) too many years, in fact a couple of decades, of media bashing the oil (tar) sands and US foundation money, posing as Canadian charities, pouring in as Eco propaganda and brainwashing and to buy Liberal and NDP politicians have done their work. The eastern population of Canada and in Hongcouver, other than a few people here and there, does not give a rat’s a*s if the economies of Alberta and Saskatchewan totally collapse and the energy industry disappears.

    Why buy and use Canadian oil when you can pretend that you are green by using thug oil from Saudi Arabia and communist oil from Venezuela.

    1. The eastern population of Canada and in Hongcouver, other than a few people here and there, does not give a rat’s a*s if the economies of Alberta and Saskatchewan totally collapse and the energy industry disappears.

      That attitude isn’t new. When I moved from Calgary to Vancouver to start grad studies at UBC nearly 40 years ago, the Lotuslanders looked down on me with scorn and contempt because not only was I from Alberta, I had worked in the oil industry.

      Yet, many of those same Lotuslanders wouldn’t have hesitated to fill up the tanks of their cars and drive to Whistler to go skiing. In their minds, there was good petroleum and bad petroleum.

      Good petroleum was what allowed them their care-free Lotusland life. The gasoline and diesel just magically appeared at the pumps, coming out of nowhere. No exploration, no drilling, no pipelines, and no refining required. Mommy Gaia was happy.

      Bad petroleum existed only in Alberta and, to a lesser extent, Saskatchewan. Bad petroleum required having to violate Mommy Gaia in order to not only find it, but extract and process it. Bad petroleum had to, in the Lotusland mind, stay in the ground then, now, and forever. If Alberta and Saskatchewan went belly up because of that, so much the better. That left more room for the Lotuslanders at the Whistler ski lifts as there wouldn’t be as many pesky prairie bumpkins waiting in line.

      Oh, and Lotuslanders also don’t believe in hydro dams and transmission lines. They aren’t necessary because electricity magically comes out of the wall socket.

      1. Gasoline comes from gas stations, not oil stations, so there is no need for oil development.

        Such is the result of an arts degree. sarc.

      2. generalizations wont help. No doubt some of the residents of BC are a little light in the loafers and don’t seem to have a grip on everyday reality. A generation of listening to Dr. Fruitfly guy (Suzuki if you cant keep up) will have that affect on some.
        No worries man, some of us still know how to cut down a tree. But I cant help but notice that Alberta has an NDP government. I guess BC isn’t the only province cursed with the left sickness. Saskatewan just came out of a full generation of NDP government. Its a bit smug to suggest they suddenly are the guiding light.
        Get ready for the fight, first stop Alberta, its time to rebuild the firewall. BC just rejected Proportional Representation, there is hope. Next stop Ottowa, time to put another Trudeau out of work.

    1. Why stop at racism? You name the *phobia and the truckers will, most assuredly, be portrayed as being guilty of it. I’m sure that M-103 will be revised to include them.

  17. Maybe a few of the trucks could accidentally but regularly get stalled on railroad tracks in front of trains hauling anything but grain. Whose attention would that get?

    1. Western oil producers trying to make ends meet on $12 oil, shipping by rail. Doen’t hurt Eastern Canadians at all, maybe only BC. I don’t have a fight with BC outside of the Lower Mainland, most other BC’ers hate them just as much. Gas get’s too expensive in the LM, they head to the US and buy cheaper from the same oil companies and the fuel they buy is from where….western Canada mostly, some Alaskan crude. There is NO US sourced pipeline to Seattle, only the spur Trans Mountain that runs to Vancouver. The Seattle refiners supply jet fuel mostly to Vancouver International, barged no less so “spills” aren’t a concern like with pipelines. Go figure.
      Most of Vancouver’s fuel supplies come down TM, as batch loads to Deep Cove and a small bit of refining for the local market. Most of the exported stuff is loaded into tankers to US ports of call, these boats are too small to make foreign shipping pay for the two week trip to Shanghai or any other port on the other side of the Pacific. Finished product has a “shelf life” so having it “age” in some tanker crossing the Pacific isn’t ideal.

  18. So I watched the “National ” last night just to see how it was covered . It warranted about a ten second clip from Nisku. It was about the tenth in line after some trivial story ( for the life of me I can’t remember what it was about even though I was paying attention so I could pass it on). I like what they are doing but the state owned media ( which all msm is now owned by either money or regulations) will subvert it . After Trudeau wins the next election ( remember it’s who counts the votes not who votes and believe me this is worrying them ) we will be faced with moving the protest to the major Eastern cities or separation. I vote separation. In the mean time get ready for more taxes, higher interest and increased regulatory impediments. They are going to try and starve us into submission.

  19. Redd has been silent throughout this process. She talked tough going to the premiers meeting with bongo and once she got there she folded.

    Same thing with these protests. Not a peep.

    The ndp have the carbon tax, strict regs, they opposed northern gateway. Their record speaks for itself – they hate oil and gas. Redd is completely simpatico with bongo.

    I think they are realizing the gig is up. I expect to see resignations among the ranks starting in the new year. They wont want to fight the election. It wouldn’t surprise me to see Redd lose her seat.

    1. It wouldn’t surprise me to see Redd lose her seat.

      Not likely. Her riding is right next to the U of A. All those leftist profs who live in it will probably re-elect her.

  20. Enough whining. Notley needs to dust off the old Firewall Letter and start implementing some of its recommendations. It’s tailor made for her. We know the NDP like to create more government. Well, this is the time and the place to build the bureaucracy. In order of importance: 1) Set up a revenue collection agency to receive all tax money paid in Alberta and then kick out the Canada Revenue Agency. 2) Establish a made-in-Alberta Pension to replace federal benefits. 3) Convert the Alberta Sheriffs Branch to a police force to replace the RCMP.

    I don’t like the NDP, but if Notley did this, I’d help raise the money to build a statue of her to be set at the steps of the AB leg.

  21. Think the ndp would get anything right in the firewall?
    Redd has expanded the government. The drivers license testers are now govt employees. Same thing with the private medical labs. There must be others.
    I wont be contributing to the erection of a statue.

    1. “The drivers license testers are now govt employees. ”

      They should have never been anything else. They had territorial monopolies and the more they flunked competent drivers, the more money they made. Rates of failing drivers got obscene.

  22. One should treat Justin as one would treat Kim Fatty in North Korea. Sure, the convoys are politically damaging but Pierre’s little fruit-loop has a capacity for antipathy. Make sure that Justin has no fuel for his jets, no take-outs for Sussex Drive, no ability to accept Chinese funds and no rest for the month-long Christmas holiday. Make him come to work at 5 PM on Christmas Eve.

    THAT will get his attention. Let his bribed press try explaining away the tantrums and ravings then.

    1. You have the right idea in that you are thinking about how to create leverage with Ottawa. That’s what the Firewall Letter was all about, creating leverage. btw You can be serious about creating this leverage, or you can spend your time, as fundamentally unserious people, whinging about who gives drivers exams and blood tests, like those above.

  23. Every additional cost,tax,regulation that now flows from Ottawa makes separation that much easier,for so many decry the “Cost of separation”.

    I guess they are not working,or they would know the “cost” is already 50% of their income.
    Had Enough Yet?
    Or the USA Taxed Enough Already.

    And changing the federal government will change nothing.
    Remember Comrade Flaretty?
    Finance Minister of our “Conservative Party”..”Private industry workers have FAILED to set aside enough funds for their own retirements”.

    Pretty damn rich from a person fronting an organization that has stolen 1/3 of every private citizens wealth for decades,devalued savings at every opportunity and undermined every civic value that created this civilization, all while throwing our hard earned wealth to the winds of “welfare”.
    We have a society that rewards the useless and demeans the useful.
    Is Canada even a country?

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