Alberta GTFO?
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Or whomever controls the media, so decide what it is or isn’t. Who’s portfolio as a cabinet minister would that be?
FIRST READING: Guilbeault is now back in charge of controlling the internet — National Post
Ex-environment minister will now be supervising the implementation of the Online Streaming Act
Poilievre says Guilbeault is a threat to national unity after pipeline comments — National Post
Guilbeault said on Wednesday that Canada should maximize the use of existing pipelines before building new ones
Guilbeault throws cold water on new pipeline, says we have enough already — National Post
Carney said in an interview on Tuesday that he's willing to green light a new oil and gas pipeline if an interprovincial consensus exists
Carney cabinet 'united' on pipelines, despite contradicting Guilbeault remark: Liberal MP — Global News
After making a remark that differed to the one Canadian Identity and Culture Minister Steven Guilbeault made, Secretary of State for Rural Development Buckley Belanger ensured reporters Wednesday that Prime Minister Mark Carney’s cabinet was “all united” in regards to Canadian pipelines...
Guilbeault will be supervising the implementation of the Online Streaming Act, a 2023 law that enables the feds to impose content controls over much of the Canadian internet.
Tuesday’s cabinet shuffle retained Guilbeault in his pre-election post as minister of Canadian Identity and Culture. The position gives him oversight over the CBC, Parks Canada, the Department of Canadian Heritage and the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, among others.
At the time of Parliament’s dissolution, federal agencies had only just begun the process of applying the terms of the Online Streaming Act, but it had not yet yielded any noticeable changes to how Canadians were able to consume content from sites like Netflix or Disney+.
The Online Streaming Act effectively requires internet companies to follow the same rules on “Canadian content” as traditional TV and radio broadcasters.
It seems that incompetence is a requirement for government jobs. No wonder we're in trouble & it'll only get worse!View attachment 29156
Buddy, seriously, there’s a reason you’re moved sideways to the Cultural Porfolio & in charge of Left-Handed Quebecois or whatever…so just shut the Hell up already!
Carney also opened the door to make changes to the emissions cap on oil and gas production and to the federal legislation for reviewing projects called the Impact Assessment Act.
During the campaign Carney said he would keep the emissions cap in place.
Canada's oil and gas sector has indicated no desire to build new pipelines under the current regulatory environment and have asked for the cap and the assessment law to be repealed.
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Canada must maximize use of existing pipelines before building more, minister says — The Canadian Press
Canadian Culture Minister Steven Guilbeault said Wednesday Canada needs to maapple.news
The old environment minister needs to accept that he’s not the environment minister any longer also.
The problem is not that the Natural Resources department has been standing in the way of natural resource development in this country; the problem has been the environmental regulations that come out of the Environment Ministry. The Environment Ministry is huge now and much larger than it was 10 years ago. It has many more levers over the Canadian economy and the people in the Environment Department seem to be quite prepared to use all of them.
The fact is that we have basically, to be blunt, the kind of a standard issue, downtown Toronto, social justice activist, kind of do-gooder, NGO type person as minister (Julie Dabrusin).
“There is a long history of ‘we have to keep oil and gas in the ground and keep Alberta and Saskatchewan from growing if we’re going to save the planet’. If that’s the approach of the government, then we’re in for a very difficult couple of years.”
Lang, a former chief of staff to two Liberal defence ministers, said his first impression is that there are far too many Trudeau-era ministers in this cabinet.
“I count 11 out of 28 – about 40 per cent of this cabinet are former Trudeau-era ministers. There is no reason for that. Mr. Carney owes none of these people anything. And he had an opportunity here to really show change in this cabinet, and he chose not to,” he said. “It’s more than about optics. It’s about competence.
The last Trudeau government’s great failing was its relative lack of competence in governing. I don’t know how you improve the competence in your governing when 40 per cent of your ministers are from a government that was less than competent.”
Ivison: Carney's cabinet has too many 'downtown Toronto, urban progressives' — National Post
Columnist John Ivison and guests Eugene Lang and Ian Brodie take a deep dive into Mark Carney’s post-election cabinet shuffle
Jamie Sarkonak: Steven Guilbeault clings to the myth of peak oil — National Post
Beware net-zero activists claiming demand is about to drop
I’ve got a friend who’s closer to 90 than he’s not…& on the topic of Peak Oil, he says when he was young, the scaremongering was Peak Coal, and here we are.
As for peak oil, Guilbeault was also very likely wrong. For years, activists have claimed that the highest volumes of oil consumption were just over the horizon, only to be proven wrong time and time again. Just like how the deadline on COVID restrictions of “two weeks to flatten the curve” was stretched to two years, the impending decline of oil constantly moved farther and farther out.
If it was known that one could truly be built in a timely manner with minimal red tape, for the national good, without being cancelled, it would be happening right now.
“(Experts) are telling us that probably by 2028, 2029, demand for oil will peak globally and it will also peak in Canada,” Guilbeault told reporters in Ottawa, when asked about whether pipelines will continue to be a source of friction between Alberta and the federal government.
I recall hearing that in the 70s. Or maybe that was peak supply. Brought to you by the people that think the Arctic Ocean has been ice free for 12 years now.
I recall hearing that in the 70s. Or maybe that was peak supply. Brought to you by the people that think the Arctic Ocean has been ice free for 12 years now.
When I was crushing gravel a decade ago, accidentally finding coal seams in south east Saskatchewan was a common occurrence and a pain in the ass. I, to this day, could lead someone to coal deposits that are relatively untouched except by accident.
I’m assuming the same might be said about the oil industry, and the peak “whatever isn’t taking it into account:
1) what really can replace it?
2) technological advancements to increase the productivity of existing finds…
Hopefully someday something comes along to replace oil or nuclear as clean and consistent and affordable solutions for energy production, but that day isn’t today and nothing currently exists to fill that role.
Until then, we can’t cut off our nose to spite our face. I also remember the first time I heard about global warming in the early ‘70’s and was told that in 50 years we could be growing oranges in Saskatchewan. That 50 years later is today.
How do we educate the “Steven Guilbeault’s” in the world to this fact then?
Assumably they already realize this, but have other motivations. Steven Guilbeault, the Trudeau-era cabinet minister who played a significant role as environment minister in blocking pipelines and other critical infrastructure construction, is back as the Minister of Canadian Culture and Identity.
Guilbeault wasted no time in contradicting his new boss, announcing that no new pipelines should be built in Canada despite Carney’s assurance that his government would oversee new construction. We do not yet know if Carney will take his minister to the woodshed over this seeming insubordination.
It’s a mystery why Carney would want his government to be associated with these Trudeau-era dinosaurs.
If they want to live like the Flinstones, supply all the nonferrous hammers and chisels they need to build and live in Bedrock.
The issue is they don’t, but they want the rest of us to live that way (or to live that way also). How do we educate that that’s isn’t an acceptable situation?
They need a physical Bedrock to see what life is like without. Even the Amish rely on hydrocarbons so even that isn't enough of an example.
Bell: Danielle Smith and Alberta give Mark Carney an offer he shouldn't refuse — Calgary Herald
In a five-page letter, Premier Smith makes her big push to Prime Minister Carney for a west coast pipeline and dumping all Liberal anti-oil policies, in advance of possible June 2 fireworks when Carney and the premiers meet
Smith again says the Carney government must “move very quickly to strike down regulations and restrictive policies.”
In the end, Smith tells the prime minister Alberta has a team ready to negotiate on a deal. She asks Carney to appoint his team. She will be asking the same of B.C. Premier David Eby, since the pipeline would go through B.C.
The premier says Liberal policies in the last decade have resulted in “tens of billions in lost royalties that could have been invested in the health, education, infrastructure and social services Albertans and Canadians need.”
She reminds Carney: “Prime Minister, Canada needs a strong Alberta.”
Now the ball is in Carney’s court and the stakes have never been higher. Does this make Danielle Smith the bad guy in this situation?
Maybe Alberta and Texas could get together and form the Republic of Whiny-Ass Little Cowards Who Take Their Marbles and Go Home.
Meh, probably not. RW-ALCWTTMGH doesn't really scan.
How 'bout "Westernesse?"
Meh, probably not. RW-ALCWTTMGH doesn't really scan.
How 'bout "Westernesse?"
you've been reading your Tolkien book again.
the Dúnedain, also known as the Númenóreans, who are the descendants of the Númenóreans who escaped the destruction of their island kingdom of Númenor
They are the Men of Westernesse, as are the Albertans and the Texans. Or so they like to tell themselves.
Of course, real men wouldn't have allowed their kingdom to be destroyed in the first place.