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So that’s alright then cause it was the cop’s fault.

Good news, when you lose an election you can now trash the Capitol building and try to hunt down its occupants.

Canadians don’t want to do farm work, it’s physically hard.

Anything approved in 2006 was under the Martin government. Even TCP said current events had removed the business case for Energy East.

Why would anyone be surprised at a guy who is endorsing Germany's new Nazi party giving a Nazi salute.

For one thing it will save them a ton of money defending themselves from Trump’s upcoming witch hunt.

What say you MAGA hats?

And supposedly the Biden's leveraged the presidency for financial gain. They were rank amateurs compared to the Mango Mussolini and his brood, https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/melania-meme-coin-1.7435916

BC has single refinery and it only supplies less than 50% its needs, the rest comes from Alberta and Washington State refineries. If you want to know why the others were closed, ask the oil companies because there was no pressure to close them from BC, it was a bottom line corporate decision. Trump doesn't give a rats ass who you blame but he sure loves it when we blame each other and not him. FFS, get over Trudeau and start thinking of your country, he is just another PM and will be gone in a couple of months.

The F-18 has basically the same top speed as the F-35A.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/19/trump-democracy-orban-modi-franco

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/19/g-s1-43062/trump-tariffs-revenue

There will be 34 Aframax tankers a month leaving the terminal in Burnaby each capable of carrying 600,000 barrels. There is no way you could fill those by rail.

https://vancouversun.com/business/energy/suncor-leasing-oil-tanker-ships-to-carry-crude-from-trans-mountain-pipeline-expansion

No the original Transmountain ships light crude and refined product in batches. Light crude for the Parkland refinery in Burnaby and the refineries in Ferndale and Anacortes Washington, as well as refined product for BC because we can now only refine less than 50% of what we need, since our oil companies decided to shut down three refineries and move production to Edmonton. The TMX expansion that cost over 30B is exclusively for the export of Alberta heavy oil. But keep it up, I'm sure your posts are music to Trump's ears.

TMX doesn't feed refineries on the west coast, they can't process the stuff. It all goes into tankers and is shipped to refineries in the far east and Gulf of Mexico. The TMX is 100% for Alberta oil exports, there was no other reason to build it. Yes there is a natural gas line being built to tidewater in BC and it has had its share of opposition and vandalism. It is also not being paid for by Canadian tax payers.

80% of the TMX runs through BC and other than construction (many of which went to Albertans anyway, I saw lots of Alberta plates among those working on it) and a few maintenance jobs, BC gets nothing out of it except 90% of the environmental risk. Polls actually showed a majority of BCers in favour of the pipeline. The government's opposition was to appease its base in Vancouver, Burnaby and the Island. I live in the Fraser Valley and there was no opposition to it, no demonstrations or vandalism at all even though it runs right through some of its cities. It isn't just Alberta, there has been lots of opposition to natural gas projects in Northern BC as well.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/crude-oil-tariffs-united-states-canada-1.7434926

And then there is the possibility that Kinder Morgan came to realize there wasn't a hope in hell of building the thing for 8 billion. Politics was only part of the reason Energy East was cancelled. TCP also cited industry economics at the time became such that there was no longer a good business case for it. When it was cancelled in 2017, Keystone XL looked like a go again with Trump's election.

Compensation for inconvenience and restoration of properties did cost a lot. The line runs through several residential areas in my town and right through the middle of Ledgeview golf course, the home course of Adam Hadwin and Nick Taylor. I know a guy in Chiliwack who was offered $80K plus having his property restored by Kinder Morgan before they sold. That's just one residential lot.

Smith going to Mara Lago shows weakness and division. Guys like Trump thrive on that.

As of December 2024. Alberta is was right on the national average. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/250110/mc-a001-eng.htm

I stand corrected but it is lower than several provinces including Ontario. Perhaps Smith shouldn’t have done all that advertising trying to get people to move to Alberta for the “Alberta Advantage”.