Kelly McParland: How decades of Liberal indifference created Danielle Smith

Ron in Regina

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As I said before, she knows no tariffs are coming and kept her word on staying quiet. She spent two days at Mar-a-Lago. 40+ hours more than any other Canadian politician.

Get some boxers, panties seem to bunch up on you.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says U.S. tariffs are "an unjustifiable economic attack on Canadians and Albertans" that represent a clear breach of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico free trade agreement.

"These tariffs will hurt the American people, driving up costs for fuel, food, vehicles, housing and many other products," Smith said in a statement Tuesday.

"They will also cost hundreds of thousands of American and Canadian jobs. This policy is both foolish and a failure in every regard."

U.S. tariffs came into effect Tuesday morning — 25 per cent on most Canadian goods, but 10 per cent on oil and gas products.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau immediately announced retaliatory tariffs on $30 billion worth of American goods.
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In her statement, Smith said Alberta "fully supports the federal response." She said she will meet with her cabinet Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss Alberta's response. Details will be announced Wednesday, she said.

Earlier Tuesday, Smith was interviewed on CNBC about the tariffs.

"To see this escalation is so disappointing, so damaging initially to American consumers and American businesses who buy Canadian goods and raw materials," Smith told the U.S. cable news channel.

Americans and Canadians alike will feel the effects of the tariffs, Smith said.

"No one wins a tariff war," she said.

"I don't know why the president is behaving this way because it's illegal. We're going to challenge it and we would like to get back to negotiating some of the pressure points on that."
On Tuesday, Smith said Canada's premiers are standing united and will consider other retaliatory measures, such as replacing American goods with other sources within Canada and Mexico.

"We don't want to get there," she said on CNBC. "I mean, we don't want to escalate, we don't want to retaliate, but we have no choice but to have an equal and proportionate response."

She said Americans need to understand that Canada is its best customer. "We buy more goods and services from you than anyone else in the world."

The tariffs means Canadians will just start buying less from the U.S., she said.

"It doesn't make sense to treat your biggest customer this way."
 

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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says U.S. tariffs are "an unjustifiable economic attack on Canadians and Albertans" that represent a clear breach of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico free trade agreement.

"These tariffs will hurt the American people, driving up costs for fuel, food, vehicles, housing and many other products," Smith said in a statement Tuesday.

"They will also cost hundreds of thousands of American and Canadian jobs. This policy is both foolish and a failure in every regard."

U.S. tariffs came into effect Tuesday morning — 25 per cent on most Canadian goods, but 10 per cent on oil and gas products.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau immediately announced retaliatory tariffs on $30 billion worth of American goods.
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In her statement, Smith said Alberta "fully supports the federal response." She said she will meet with her cabinet Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss Alberta's response. Details will be announced Wednesday, she said.

Earlier Tuesday, Smith was interviewed on CNBC about the tariffs.

"To see this escalation is so disappointing, so damaging initially to American consumers and American businesses who buy Canadian goods and raw materials," Smith told the U.S. cable news channel.

Americans and Canadians alike will feel the effects of the tariffs, Smith said.

"No one wins a tariff war," she said.

"I don't know why the president is behaving this way because it's illegal. We're going to challenge it and we would like to get back to negotiating some of the pressure points on that."
On Tuesday, Smith said Canada's premiers are standing united and will consider other retaliatory measures, such as replacing American goods with other sources within Canada and Mexico.

"We don't want to get there," she said on CNBC. "I mean, we don't want to escalate, we don't want to retaliate, but we have no choice but to have an equal and proportionate response."

She said Americans need to understand that Canada is its best customer. "We buy more goods and services from you than anyone else in the world."

The tariffs means Canadians will just start buying less from the U.S., she said.

"It doesn't make sense to treat your biggest customer this way."
Yet they are all negotiating behind the scenes . This dispute will end with everyone holding their hands high going look at me .
 
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Ron in Regina

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“Looking at you, Quebec!!”

Tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump have resulted in a “sea change” of support among premiers and territorial leaders for pipelines, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says, including a potential “Energy East 2.0.″

Until the United States comes “back to reality,” Ms. Smith said, Canada should focus its efforts and financial means on building multiple oil and gas pipelines to all coasts, to dramatically increase the amount of fossil fuels sold to Asia and Europe. And she believes there is a spirit of collaboration among premiers and territorial leaders to get construction under way as quickly as possible.
What company’s gonna roll those dice? Knowing that start to finish might be more than four years and the liberals might come into power again? In an interview on Wednesday, federal (Liberal) Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson poured some cold water on Energy East calls, saying he has not heard serious private-sector proposals for its revival, and that the long period required to build it would not address energy-security concerns about Eastern Canada’s reliance on U.S. oil while Mr. Trump is in office.

There may also be limited need to seek new export markets for Canadian oil, he said, because he expects U.S. demand for it to remain strong at a heavily subsidized discount despite the trade war.

(Canada has one of the largest deposits of oil and gas on the planet, including significantly more than fast-declining oil and gas reserves in the United States🤫)

Canada is by far the largest foreign energy supplier to the U.S. Around 40 per cent of refineries in that country – especially in the Midwestern states – are designed to process the gooier crude grades from Alberta’s oil sands.
Despite Mr. Trump’s stated wish of energy dominance, the United States will need Canadian crude “more with each passing year, once they notice their declining domestic reserves and production are wholly insufficient to keep up with the energy demands of U.S. consumers and industry, let alone having anything left over to export,” Ms. Smith said.

She said that Alberta has been approached by various proponents about potential projects to expand pipelines taking oil and natural gas to the United States or to make them more efficient. In total, those projects would add roughly two million extra barrels a day of capacity by 2030.

Proponents contemplating pipeline projects include Enbridge Inc., South Bow Corp. and numerous American companies, she said.

While the federal government has not ruled out slapping an export tax on oil and gas headed south of the border, there is “no circumstance under which” Ms. Smith would support it, she said, because it would be a violation of the 1977 pipeline treaty between Canada and the U.S.
Such a tax could generate roughly $40-billion for Ottawa’s coffers, but Ms. Smith said she hopes the federal government will abide by Alberta’s wishes.

“It is not on. It’s not been on from the beginning. You do not demonstrate that you are a reliable supplier of energy products for our most important trading partner by acting in that kind of erratic way,” she said.

Don’t wanna be an erratic fucktard with your trading partners…’cuz that’s a bad thing.
 

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Until the United States comes “back to reality,” Ms. Smith said, Canada should focus its efforts and financial means on building multiple oil and gas pipelines to all coasts, to dramatically increase the amount of fossil fuels sold to Asia and Europe. And she believes there is a spirit of collaboration among premiers and territorial leaders to get construction under way as quickly as possible.
All the pieces need for world beating Nor Am oil market.
 

Ron in Regina

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All the pieces need for world beating Nor Am oil market.
Beating it up, down, or in what direction (?) or is that a perspective thing depending on what side of the border one happens to be on?
(YouTube & “Alberta Premier Responds To Imposed US Tariffs”)
 

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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said Friday she is skeptical of new Prime Minster Mark Carney’s plans even as he announced the end of the consumer carbon tax, which her government has repeatedly spoken out against within hours of taking the job.

Carney was sworn in early Friday and announced a new, smaller cabinet. Later that day, Carney and his 24 ministers shared they were ending the consumer carbon tax.

“This will make a difference to hard-pressed Canadians, but it’s part of a much bigger set of measures that this liberal government is takingto ensure that we fight against climate change, that our companies are competitive and the country moves forward.”🙄

Speaking in Calgary as Carney was announcing the end of the carbon tax, Smith said she wary of changes to the national industrial carbon pricing system which remains in effect.

“He’s made his view very clear about not wanting a transparent carbon tax. He wants a hidden one,” she said.
“I don’t think it does Alberta any good if we end up seeing massive increases to industrial carbon taxes.”

She said the province remains distrustful of the federal Liberals, who have been in power for the past decade, listing, among others, the federal emissions cap, net-zero regulations, and the ban on oil tankers along B.C.’s north coast as examples.

“I haven’t really seen any change that would lead me to be encouraged that we’re going to have a reset on our relationship,” she said.

Smith also repeated her call for a federal election to be called as soon as possible.
 

Ron in Regina

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As National Post reported last week, Carney is facing scrutiny for his work as Brookfield Asset Management’s head of transition investing, in which he oversaw the financing of billions of dollars in net-zero projects around the world. So far, Brookfield and Carney’s transition team have declined to clarify if he still possesses these assets in his blind trust.

But with energy policy already playing a role in the campaign, that question becomes more pertinent. Last week, Carney made a show of “axing” (???) the consumer carbon tax, while Poilievre pledged to eliminate the ENTIRE law, which includes an industrial levy as well.
Carney did not go that far, and there are legitimate questions as to whether he would personally benefit from net-zero policies going forward. If he lets that hang in the air, his motives will be suspect.

Poilievre and the Conservatives were on their way to a stupendous victory and the Liberals were on the way out, perhaps out of existence.

Then former prime minister Justin Trudeau said he was leaving and eventually left.

Then U.S. President Donald Trump went after Canada and turned everything upside down in a trade war.

And the huge Conservative lead? Gone. Vanished. Just like that.

A new Leger poll has the Liberals under their new leader Mark Carney in the lead by three points.

In the fine print, the Liberals lead everywhere but the Prairies.

Election campaigns matter. That’s why we have them, to test the parties out. It is anybody’s game.

But even the fighting chance of a fourth term for the Liberals seems so surreal.

The Alberta premier has already said her government would not allow an Ottawa politician to tell the province how to develop its oil and gas.

Smith has also already said Albertans are not going to put up with the Liberal policies of the last 10 years, disadvantaging oil and gas.

So what does Smith mean by Albertans not putting up with more Liberal crap?
Further, there is something deficient about Canadians’ reasoning if enough of us believe that the problem with Justin Trudeau’s reign was Justin Trudeau, rather than the Liberal brand.
(YouTube & Trudeau's Minister said WHAT?)
 

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Two big east-west projects have been canceled in the last decade, and a Canadian company also lost billions when former U.S. President Joe Biden revoked permits for the Keystone XL pipeline project to the U.S. in 2021.
The tariff war with the United States could have been very different if Canada had decided to build the Energy East and LNG Quebec pipelines over the past decade, according to a new study by the Montreal Economic Institute.
The Energy East project also faced fierce opposition in Quebec, but Champagne — who represents a riding in the province — said he believes Quebecers have realized “the rules of the game have changed over the last few days.” (???)
“Canada’s high level of dependence on U.S. trade is not unavoidable. It is the direct result of years of policy decisions that have delayed or actively impeded major infrastructure projects,” said Gabriel Giguère, senior policy analyst and author of the report at MEI.

Giguère noted in his study that based on its transport capacity of 1.1 million barrels per day, commissioning of the pipeline Energy East could have diverted 27.7 per cent of Canadian oil exports from the United States to Europe, an amount worth $36.7 billion per year.
Companies would be unwilling to consider a new pipeline proposal unless the federal government quickly amends the Impact Assessment Act, said Martha Hall Findlay, a former Liberal Member of Parliament and Suncor Energy Inc. executive, now director of the University of Calgary's School of Public Policy.
Energy East, a 4,500 km pipeline from Alberta to the Irving refinery in New Brunswick, was proposed in 2013 by TransCanada (TC Energy) and abandoned in 2017 due to regulatory hurdles in Canada and strong opposition from environmental groups. The project was estimated at over $15 billion at the time.
It’s been more than seven years, meanwhile, since TC Energy, known as TransCanada at the time, officially terminated its Energy East pipeline.
It was expected to be operational by 2021. The revival of the project has not yet been announced. In fact, TC Energy doesn’t even build pipelines for heavy crude oil anymore, having moved its heavy oil operations to South Bow.
The Liberal government insisted TC Energy’s decision to cancel Energy East was a “business decision,” but in 2019, a senior vice-president at the company said that regulatory uncertainty had a “chilling effect” on investment.
Energy East was also unpopular in Quebec at the time. The provincial government never signed on to it because it saw few benefits and the pipeline route would have to cross several rivers, which raised concerns among Quebecers.

Another project, GNL Québec, was blocked by the Quebec government due to environmental concerns in 2021. The project was a $14-billion pipeline with a terminal in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean.
“We cannot be dependent,” Champagne said? “We have these natural resources. We need to be able to export to markets. And you know what? I think people understand better now (???), the nexus between energy security, economic security, and I would even say national security.” Really???
Based on its transport capacity of 46 million cubic meters of gas per day, its implementation could have diverted 19 per cent of Canadian gas exports to Europe, representing $1.7 billion worth of goods per year.

According to a recent poll, both projects now receive a tremendous amount of support from Quebecers and both Liberals and Conservatives support pipeline construction in the context of a trade war with the United States.
Trump on Monday said he wanted Keystone XL built and pledged easy regulatory approvals. But on the same day, he said tariffs on U.S. imports from Canada and Mexico would proceed in March.
Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper recently said that Canada should immediately build a pipeline “in the east so we can supply our own country with energy.” Mr. Harper was speaking Tuesday during a panel on energy at the Raisina Dialogue, India’s largest geopolitical conference.

However, the costs of building such infrastructures have risen considerably.
The act, effective in 2019, required social and cultural assessments of pipelines as well as environmental impacts. Since then, only one project — the Cedar LNG project — has successfully completed the process, and that took 3-1/2 years.

"Working collaboratively with the provinces will be key — and will take some serious political leadership," Hall Findlay said.
“The cost to build the infrastructure is what drives the competitiveness of the product in each market. Going west is a quarter the distance of going east, therefore going west will always be more cost competitive than going east,” said TC Energy’s CEO François Poirier in an interview with the National Post.
He said the country needs permitting reforms, elimination of the proposed cap on emissions from oil and gas production, and expansion of federal and provincial loan guarantee programs allowing Indigenous communities to become equity investors in pipeline projects.
“And so that is where I think as a nation, in terms of diversifying our markets, both in crude oil and natural gas, we need to be looking west,” he added.
 
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The tariff war with the United States could have been very different if Canada had decided to build the Energy East and LNG Quebec pipelines over the past decade, according to a new study by the Montreal Economic Institute.

“Canada’s high level of dependence on U.S. trade is not unavoidable. It is the direct result of years of policy decisions that have delayed or actively impeded major infrastructure projects,” said Gabriel Giguère, senior policy analyst and author of the report at MEI.

Giguère noted in his study that based on its transport capacity of 1.1 million barrels per day, commissioning of the pipeline Energy East could have diverted 27.7 per cent of Canadian oil exports from the United States to Europe, an amount worth $36.7 billion per year.

Energy East, a 4,500 km pipeline from Alberta to the Irving refinery in New Brunswick, was proposed in 2013 by TransCanada (TC Energy) and abandoned in 2017 due to regulatory hurdles in Canada and strong opposition from environmental groups. The project was estimated at over $15 billion at the time.

It was expected to be operational by 2021. The revival of the project has not yet been announced. In fact, TC Energy doesn’t even build pipelines for heavy crude oil anymore, having moved its heavy oil operations to South Bow.

Energy East was also unpopular in Quebec at the time. The provincial government never signed on to it because it saw few benefits and the pipeline route would have to cross several rivers, which raised concerns among Quebecers.

Another project, GNL Québec, was blocked by the Quebec government due to environmental concerns in 2021. The project was a $14-billion pipeline with a terminal in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean.

Based on its transport capacity of 46 million cubic meters of gas per day, its implementation could have diverted 19 per cent of Canadian gas exports to Europe, representing $1.7 billion worth of goods per year.

According to a recent poll, both projects now receive a tremendous amount of support from Quebecers and both Liberals and Conservatives support pipeline construction in the context of a trade war with the United States.

Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper recently said that Canada should immediately build a pipeline “in the east so we can supply our own country with energy.” Mr. Harper was speaking Tuesday during a panel on energy at the Raisina Dialogue, India’s largest geopolitical conference.

However, the costs of building such infrastructures have risen considerably.

“The cost to build the infrastructure is what drives the competitiveness of the product in each market. Going west is a quarter the distance of going east, therefore going west will always be more cost competitive than going east,” said TC Energy’s CEO François Poirier in an interview with the National Post.

“And so that is where I think as a nation, in terms of diversifying our markets, both in crude oil and natural gas, we need to be looking west,” he added.
A good campaign ad detailing how many fully staffed hospitals were lost due to climate policy would open eyes.
 

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Based on its transport capacity of 46 million cubic meters of gas per day, its implementation could have diverted 19 per cent of Canadian gas exports to Europe, representing $1.7 billion worth of goods per year.
Too bad there is no business case for that.
According to a recent poll, both projects now receive a tremendous amount of support from Quebecers and both Liberals and Conservatives support pipeline construction in the context of a trade war with the United States.
Snooze, ya lose.
And so that is where I think as a nation, in terms of diversifying our markets, both in crude oil and natural gas, we need to be looking west,” he added.
And that is why turdOWE slapped a tanker ban on the West Coast. To prevent just such economic activity.
 

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Following a virtual meeting with Canada’s premiers, Prime Minister Mark Carney says he will maintain the emissions cap, despite Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s calls to end it and earlier on Friday calling for clarity on the federal government’s stance on the emissions cap after conflicting responses from Carney and his federal environment minister…but we’re two days away from an election call so….?
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Speaking with media following Friday’s meeting, Carney said his government’s focus is on getting emissions down and said the emissions cap is there for a reason.

When asked whether or not the federal government would build pipelines he said “the position is not black and white.”😉
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“I’m focused on, as the government is, on getting emissions down from the production to the transportation of conventional oil and gas,” Carney said.

“My focus, and where I took my response the other day is around, how are we going to make that investment happen? So the (emissions) cap is there (for a reason). The issue is getting the investments down …? We’re making progress in unlocking that. We need to continue to work on it.” ??? What is he saying here?

At a housing announcement on Thursday, Carney suggested he may be willing to move away from emissions caps for oil and gas companies and said in his morning meeting with Smith the two discussed “getting things done,” including building more pipelines across Canada. He said part of the plan will be implementing new legislation to accelerate delivering those projects. Wait? What? Where does he stand?

However, later that day, federal Environment Minister Terry Duguid said in an interview with The Canadian Press that Carney would be moving forward with the Liberal plan to impose emissions reduction targets on oil producers. Oh…ok?
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Smith at a press conference on Friday said she made it clear that Alberta will “no longer tolerate an emissions cap on oil and gas.”

“We’re just asking the question of the prime minister to (either) lift this destructive unconstitutional production cap or not. Albertans & Canadians DO want the answer to that question before they go to the polls, and not after.

“In fact, we’d love to have the answer today, and I hope that we know whether or not it’s the prime minister’s message or the environment minister’s message.”
 

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On this day, Carney says he wants a majority government so the Liberals can do what they want without having to deal with a pesky opposition outnumbering the Liberal ranks.

A poll is leaked. In battleground Ontario, Carney Liberals are at 48 per cent and Poilievre Conservatives are at 33 per cent.

This week Kory Teneycke, Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s campaign manager, said if the Poilievre team doesn’t get its act together the Conservatives could be obliterated.

And a lot of those folks in Ontario would no doubt support a tax on Alberta oil and gas going south.

They don’t care what happens in Alberta. Our job is to pump out wealth and shut the hell up. They also don’t believe Alberta will do anything more than huff and puff.

On Thursday, Carney is talking about U.S. President Donald Trump and how the Americans are hitting the Canadian auto industry with tariffs…& how will he protect the second largest export in vote rich Ontario?
…& yet…pipeline to connect East to West?
 

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There are two possibilities here. One, that all the polls are being manipulated, or two, that the noise emanating from the political right does not accurately reflect their numbers.
Well being that all the lamestream media is on the government payroll, what do you expect?
 
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