For what it's worth, given that it's only 50/50 that he's telling the truth at any given time, Jason Kenney said that the information he has was that Teck made the final decision because the federal cabinet was going to kick the deadline for approval down the road by another six months to a full year. If that's true then there was no way Teck was, or could, wait any longer because obviously they were wasting their time trying to get through to the feds. Halting a project by constantly changing the criteria for acceptance or endlessly delaying approval is no different than rejecting it outright. It's a totally chickenshit way to do it but that's to be expected from a gutless government run by a pathetic pajama-boy like Li'l Potato.

So the investors aren't investing because (a) no carbon framework in place, and (b) the Liberal regulatory & approval procedure is deliberately stymieing new opportunities. Six of one, half dozen of the other. Either way both Alberta and the industry are fucked, and apparently permanently while Trudeau's mob of virtue-signallers control this country. If the bulk of the Canadian oil & gas industry was geographically located in Quebec and Ontario this wouldn't be happening at all. And anyone who says otherwise doesn't care, or thinks it's funny, or has absolutely no idea at all how this country is run, who runs it, and who it's run for.

More horseshit...

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Fixed your typo.

What actually counts as "pissing it away" anyway? Spending on the same basic programs and infrastructure as the other provinces do in order to make the place worth living in? Albertans spending extra money on alleged luxury items, lots of which are made in other provinces (which means we do more than our fair share of both creating new jobs and sustaining existing ones in the central Canada manufacturing sector), that circulate more money into both the basic market and into the sales tax system? An inability to save on both the personal and provincial levels simply because too much is annually taken from us in the form of federal income taxes that get turned into more transfer payments to Quebec?

So if we spend and do our part in the overall cycle and build a livable society, and at the same time buy items en masse that keeps the economy in other parts of the country in a healthy state, we're wasteful and deserve what happens to us for not saving. If we save we're a bunch of cheapskates that don't care about the poor, the elderly, the kids, the sick, etc, etc, etc. So we're classically doomed no matter what we do. Is there ever going to be a time in anyone's lifetime when these goddamn slurs against us come to an end? "Piss it away"? How about we piss in the mouths of the goddamn sneering, black-hearted Laurentians who've finally killed us the next time they say shit like that about us?

...and fuck everyone who derides us as greedy, self-centered wannabe-Americans who only care about ourselves and go out of our way to rape the environment for shits and giggles. We pull our damn weight in Confederation, not just through equalization but also through all the money that workers who come here from other parts of Canada remit to their home provinces. Yes, we have our arrogant assholes, but it's not like there's a shortage of assholes in other parts of the country too!

And yet we always get the sneering "why don't Albertans stop voting Conservative" from those elsewhere who keep voting Liberal through thick-and-thin. Or, if they're in a mood for a change, go and vote for an increasingly radical and demented federal NDP. I guess it's in the Canadian character to be completely blind to their other fingers pointing back at themselves while they're exuberantly point one in our faces. Yeah, right.

I say it is because the Liberal Party represents an archaic why of thinking that serves no purpose.

Canadians and particularly those that live in the Windsor/Montreal corridor have always had a distorted view of Canada's place in the world. The Laurentians as represented by the Liberal Party operated under the belief that world's nations look to Canada as that shining city on the hill and that opinion has remained static for the better part of five decades. Canada's current commitment to peacekeeping and the current government's pursuit of a temporary (and ultimately powerless) seat at the United Nations Security Council are demonstrations of the Liberal Party's longing for the past. Unfortunately for them, the world has changed while they have not and Canada will continue its slow fade into irrelevance while the more canny world players will take advantage of the Toronto/Montreal/Vancouver axis' intellectual feebleness.

"Why don't Albertans stop voting Conservative?" I say it is because the Liberal Party represents an archaic why of thinking that serves no purpose.

And BTW there's more heavy fuel-consumption vehicle (aka pickups and SUVs) being sold per capita these days in southern Ontario and Quebec than there is in the West. Kind of irresponsible for them to be spending their money on luxuries, eh, instead of saving for a rainy day, 'nomesayin'. Guess they'll have to lose it all before they learn.