BeaverFever BeaverFever:
You Trudeau Derangement Syndrome folks don’t understand how Canada works. It’s BC, not the Feds holiding up the pipeline. If you’ll recall Trudeau BOUGHT the damn pipeline.
Also equalization payments to Quebec have nothing to do with this situation and they’re guaranteed under the charter so not available as a token in right wing fantasy extreme hardball plays
And once again the righties refuse to point so much as a pinky finger at the oil companies themselves. Plenty of blame to spread everywhere but never at the oil companies. A sure sign they’re being played for patsies.
One Word: Expropriation. What you don't understand is Trudeau can declare the pipelines a "National Strategic Project"(or whatever), Take the land and assert Federal Jurisdiction on it.
I actually blame OPEC and the Saudi's for this mess. They over produced, they crashed the market, but the left is responsible for this anti-pipeline rhetoric.
I also blame every Alberta PC government since Lougheed for not having Alberta's best interests in mind when they entered into business friendly royalties that ensured less money found its way into provincial coffers. Alberta's Heritage Fund and Norway's Oil Fund were both supposedly set up the same way, yet only one is worth $1T dollars.
But I do still blame Quebec, and anyone that's fine with taking foreign oil over locally produced stuff. Quebec blocked the Energy East Pipeline.
BC is also to blame, absolutely.
But its not like Trudeau doesn't have the tools to get the Pipeline built. He just lacks the balls to get the job done.
This is why Alberta is musing with Separation, our concerns are ignored and provinces can act in a manner that damages the Confederation and the Federal Government is powerless to stop them.
None of this is good, but its clearly big Oil and Gas that's responsible.