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And racsim?
There was an associated protest by "yellow vesters" about immigration laws and how Trudeau ought to step down as PM over them.
A lot of the talking points by people following online were preeeety racist.
And racsim?
Yeah, they just want 6 figure salaries with no education or skills.It's about jobs or lack thereof.
I have. I still am a big believer that it will one day be the forefront in how we exchange value but it's incredibly hard to know what that will look like (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Facebook coin, government backed cryptos). It will still probably take several decades to play out.
Yeah, they just want 6 figure salaries with no education or skills.
It's about jobs or lack thereof.
Not at all. They want employment.
Yeah, they just want 6 figure salaries with no education or skills.
Not at all. They want employment.
I love that they hate globalism yet they want us to build a pipeline to get their oil to the global market. The best people.Sure. They also want.... Other stuff.
However there was like 60 of them on day 1 and today most of them were chilling at Tim Horton's or Bridgehead.
A lot of noise over not much. As someone had said elsewhere, First Nations walking to Ottawa get less coverage than a bunch of angry white people driving to Ottawa and asking for free gas along the way.
It is more about gutting the industry that help build our economy in the recession times. Now it has been mostly sold off to foreign companies. and where all the support industries are now farmed out of country as well.
If you look at other countries that are rich in minerals and oil, they limit what the sell-off or import, keeping the economy strong.
Canada could be a leader in clean fuels and metals production with new legislation which would benefit all the skilled labour leaving the auto industry. We could be fabricating everything here. It is pretty sad what they did to the entire industry.
This is all about the landlocking of oil in Alberta, so their only sale outlet is to the U.S. with the existing pipeline, at way below market value for oil, like $17 per barrel, because our moron PM ensured the Trans Mountain pipeline will never be functional and all other pipeline options will never be viable because of new environmental assessment garbage that tie up every plan in paperwork and approvals.
We know the PM is a granola crunching fool and wants the oilfields shut down, but so do American interests that 1) get our oil super cheap since it can't go to other markets and 2) want to keep us out of the world market so they can capitalize. See
Oil Is Reason Behind U.S. Funding Of Canadian Environmental Conservation
Meanwhile, your PM has locked in federal transfers to Quebec at about $15B for the next 5 years, as if the oil revenues remain where they used to, when the Americans needed to buy our oil and we got the world price. So Quebec stays propped up by the other provinces (and debt borrowing), jobs and revenues are way down out west, and oil in the east comes from the Saudis and support their immoral regime, instead of internally, so we lose all around. Mostly compliments of our former drama teacher who intervenes in judicial matters, again to prop up the bribing entities from his home province. Lovely.
I agree that this is definitely a cause for concern, but considering that the practice of selling off the oil sands happened under the provincial and federal watch of Ralph Klein and Stephen Harper, respectfully, I don't see how some people in Alberta are blaming Trudeau for it.
Again, agreed, but considering that the "extract as fast as possible and sell to anyone who is buying (after the US gets their percentage)" policies were again, implemented by Klein and Harper, motivated by the private oil companies that the majority of Albertans feverently wanted the Feds to keep their nose out of, I again don't see how the blame can possibly go to the current PM.
Agreed, but the current federal government is operating on a 40+ year precedent from Albertans that suggest a highly contemptupus opinion of any federal involvement in provincial infrastructure on behalf of Albertans, that has been reinforced at the polls for generations.
This kind of planning is not a switch that can be flipped on a whim. It takes a lot of planning to implement this kind of infrastructure, planning that Albertans have historically been resistant to. If Albertans want this kind of radical energy infrastructure overhaul (which pwrsonally I'm all for) even if everyone is on board as of tomorrow morning, that's like a 20-year plan that will have a slow (but steady) return on expenditure. Plus, the feds would need assurances of commitment to that plan even in the face of an oil spike in the future, etc...
Alberta has never been good at planning for the future. That's an understandable side-effect of having boom periods economically. I get it. But blaming the current government for 30+ years of "living in the now" at the expense of any kind of safety net, and depending on private industry to continue to support the people when all of a sudden it's not in their best interest to do so in the face of drastic market changes, is not the fault of the current PM or cabinet.
I'm not a Trudeau fan by any means, but I'm also not willing to stand by and let the guy be a scapegoat against accusations he clearly bears no responsibility for.
This is all about the landlocking of oil in Alberta, so their only sale outlet is to the U.S. with the existing pipeline, at way below market value for oil, like $17 per barrel, because our moron PM ensured the Trans Mountain pipeline will never be functional and all other pipeline options will never be viable because of new environmental assessment garbage that tie up every plan in paperwork and approvals.
We know the PM is a granola crunching fool and wants the oilfields shut down, but so do American interests that 1) get our oil super cheap since it can't go to other markets and 2) want to keep us out of the world market so they can capitalize. See
Oil Is Reason Behind U.S. Funding Of Canadian Environmental Conservation
Meanwhile, your PM has locked in federal transfers to Quebec at about $15B for the next 5 years, as if the oil revenues remain where they used to, when the Americans needed to buy our oil and we got the world price. So Quebec stays propped up by the other provinces (and debt borrowing), jobs and revenues are way down out west, and oil in the east comes from the Saudis and support their immoral regime, instead of internally, so we lose all around. Mostly compliments of our former drama teacher who intervenes in judicial matters, again to prop up the bribing entities from his home province. Lovely.
What new environmental assessments are the current government responsible for that held this up? From what i understand, the federal court of appeals overturned the Nation Energy board's 2013 approval because there wasn't proper consultation with indigenous groups on those lands and the environmental assessment was deemed insufficient.This is all about the landlocking of oil in Alberta, so their only sale outlet is to the U.S. with the existing pipeline, at way below market value for oil, like $17 per barrel, because our moron PM ensured the Trans Mountain pipeline will never be functional and all other pipeline options will never be viable because of new environmental assessment garbage that tie up every plan in paperwork and approvals.
We know the PM is a granola crunching fool and wants the oilfields shut down, but so do American interests that 1) get our oil super cheap since it can't go to other markets and 2) want to keep us out of the world market so they can capitalize. See
Oil Is Reason Behind U.S. Funding Of Canadian Environmental Conservation
Meanwhile, your PM has locked in federal transfers to Quebec at about $15B for the next 5 years, as if the oil revenues remain where they used to, when the Americans needed to buy our oil and we got the world price. So Quebec stays propped up by the other provinces (and debt borrowing), jobs and revenues are way down out west, and oil in the east comes from the Saudis and support their immoral regime, instead of internally, so we lose all around. Mostly compliments of our former drama teacher who intervenes in judicial matters, again to prop up the bribing entities from his home province. Lovely.
...Mostly compliments of our former drama teacher...
Partisan politics sounds so silly and American. As soon as you start spouting off people just tune you out as a ranting fool.
BC didn’t want the pipeline and got creative in shutting it down as they usually do with these things. Focus some of your weird anger over here too.
In the end we should be doing what Variable outlined, and be looking to grow semiconductor and third level manufacturing, same with lumber in BC. We should also not be looking to drain all resources in order to swell the strategic resources stockpiles of our ideological ‘opposites ’.
I voted for the Liberals for-almost-ever. I even helped my Liberal MPP get in here. My point has nothing to do with parties or politics. Maybe a little about policy, but not the parties.
I just think that it is important for us to manage our resources and our workforce. Yes, Alberta always wants to show their big cash and big pickup trucks, but I am talking more about how we could be spreading the wealth across Canada better. We could be re-tooling the automotive part manufacturing plants into valve and instrument assemblies for heavy industries. That kind of forward thinking. We could ensure all (or at least 75%) of engineering is done by Canadians. We can also ensure that we educate people on pipeline safety, and develop a reasonable criteria for mines development in the north.
Ridiculous ideological garbage is the fastest way to becoming the next Venezuela, but thanks for that. It would be nice to grow other industries, but it would also be nice if your tap provided free beer on demand. Yes BC didn't help with the pipeline, but Trudeau, who tweeted he would shut down Trans Mountain in 2014, is a tree hugger who put people out of work and built the debt in otherwise economic growth period because he doesn't care about future generations carrying the a debt, as long as things look rosy while he is in power.
Look, I've got my pile through my own industriousness, this stuff doesn't affect me, but people with good paying jobs out west are getting locked out because the environmentalists are being played like a violin by the American Rockerfellers, and idealists who believe the fuel that runs their houses and cars is evil if domestically produced somehow. It's beyond stupid, and meanwhile, the ideologists have turned Ontario into the most indebted per capita sub-district in the entire world. More interest paid annually than on healthcare, and when the lenders start to flee, it will be these kinds of decisions that leave the area broke and loaded up with dysfunctional windmills and not much else.
Federal Support to Quebec | ||||||||||
(millions of dollars) | ||||||||||
2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | ||
Equalization | 8,552 | 7,815 | 7,391 | 7,833 | 9,286 | 9,521 | 10,030 | 11,081 | 11,732 | 83,241 |