... an iron curtain has descended across the Continent ...
For anyone who thinks that the child-sniffing, senile old codger who never accomplished anything on his nearly fifty years in political office is going to be a friend to Canada or do anything even remotely useful, get used to disappointment this second. Canada has one of the biggest oil reserves in the world. Not just for cars but cell phones cases and such. Does that bother one? It should. No oil fields, no jobs. No oil sales, no welfare programs for people who just wander into the country. With only one market - China - guess who your political masters want you to beg for scraps?
Not that the more urban-dwelling among us care but when beer can't be purchased, I'm pretty sure that sound bytes like: "bigger than any one project,” will come back to haunt them.
Also - surely Mr. Mintz does not believe that Justin cares about this loss or can even tie his shoelace:
It is an insult. Full stop. Mineral fuels are Canada’s largest export to the U.S. — at over US$89 billion in 2019 — two-thirds more important than auto vehicles and parts. Almost 3,000 direct jobs and another 14,000 indirect jobs will be lost in Canada with the cancellation of Keystone XL. Because of reduced pipeline capacity, Canadian heavy oil will often sell at a discount, resulting in billions of dollars in lost GDP and federal and provincial tax revenues. ...
Energy and pipeline development should be part of this agreement. Experts such as the International Energy Agency and Stanford modelling group have shown that oil and gas products, including plastics and hydrogen, will be needed even in a world with zero net emissions. Without further energy development, North American reserves will decline, resulting in the need to import more oil from other countries.
The biggest disappointment in all of this is Joe Biden. He says he wants to work with his allies but it appears that in one of his very first acts he will insult probably his closest ally of all. We should not sit on our hands in response.
When we understand that no one in office is our friend, their betrayal is easier to get.
And - getting ripped off $4 at a time:
The first carbon tax rebates to consumers averaged $4 a week, according to Access To Information figures. Cabinet has claimed most Canadians received more in rebates than they paid in higher prices for fuel, home heating, groceries and other charges impacted by the tax: “We will win the race against climate change.”
I would like to thank Erin O'Toole for being a bloated, vain, arrogant, easily distracted punching bag for the country's biggest pansy. Your forced removal of Derek Sloan from your decrepit party will bleed supporters away from you and hopefully to the sphere of independent candidates who answer directly to their supporters:
In the end, Derek Sloan wasn’t kicked out of the Conservative caucus because he’s a white supremacist or a horrible social conservative who wants to punish gays and lesbians. None of that is true.
Sloan was booted from the Conservative Party because he hasn’t been a good team player in the eyes of his fellow MPs who told him that he would have to sit by himself in the future.
Good.
Where does one go to vote for him?
Also - see, it's alright when some people do it:
As reported in late December of 2020, “Anti-hate groups are urging the federal government to reconsider which employers can apply for the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) after self-described white nationalist Paul Fromm received COVID-19 relief funds for two of his groups.”
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Well look here, the Liberals "accepted" a donation from an accused sex trafficker. Under the Sloan/Fromm rules that means Justin Trudeau has to get kicked out of the party, right? https://t.co/8pO4TiQkXu
— Andrew Lawton (@AndrewLawton) January 20, 2021
Oh, what remarkable planning!:
Why is Canada at the back of the line? Conservative health critic Michelle Rempel Garner dumped it squarely in the lap of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. “It’s up to the prime minister to explain to Canadians why they won’t be able to get vaccinated for months, while European countries have minimal delays in receiving vaccines … why we might be looking at many more months of lockdown — with the lost jobs, time with families, and mental-health challenges that accompany them.”
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Procurement Minister Anita Anand appeared on CBC's Power & Politics yesterday, where she avoided questions from Vassy Kapelos on whether or not the prime minister has spoken directly to the CEO of Pfizer, Albert Bourla.
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Covid vaccines are not 100 percent effective, says Dr. Theresa Tam, chief public health officer. “I was told I was such a downer when I was just trying to be realistic about communicating the fact it is not a magic solution,” said Tam.
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Canada Post yesterday estimated of more than a thousand employees who’ve tested positive for Covid-19 fewer than two dozen contracted the illness at work. The post office has the largest civilian payroll in the federal public service, a total 68,000 including staff at subsidiaries: “Remarkable."
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“Lockdown was never part of our planned pandemic response nor is it supported by strong science,” Schabas wrote.
Schabas says that the COVID-19 modelling the province is working with is faulty and that fatality rates have declined as doctors and scientists have learned more about the disease.
“Reasonable estimates of the infection fatality rate from Covid have been declining as we learn more,” he said. “Models that predicted hundreds of thousands of deaths from Covid in Canada were badly wrong because they used incorrect, exaggerated inputs.”
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