Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Trudeau knows that if he comes out on the side of the Pipelines and Alberta that he'll piss off his voting base in Ontario and Quebec, he'll also piss off the deep red liberals in his party.
What really pisses me off is that Brad Wall seems to be fighting our battles for us, Notley mumbles from the Pembina Institute guideline. Brad Walls basically stands up and says this is ridiculous, you people are hypocrites and morons, do you know what this means to everyone, clearly not.
Trudeau made it pretty clear when he said that he doesn't want this country known for its resources but its resourcefulness, whatever in the hell that means. But it goes to the message that everything can run on good intentions, which is simply not true. To have a great country where everyone has a good standard of living you have to have a vibrant economy, and some of it might be considered by some to be, and its the wrong choice of words, unsavory.
But the fact is that economically this country won't survive economically without resource exploitation.
Our people make too much and our costs for materials and transportation is too high to compete in the manufacturing sector. We're too small and not ruthless enough to compete in the high tech sectors to the point of driving a nation economy. Our wages are so high that we're losing mundane jobs to outsourcing due to businesses seeing a better return on investment through outsourcing.
We can compete agriculturally, but Canada can't survive purely on a agrarian economy.
The bottom line is its not going to effect all that much this year, but over the next few years, things like Transfer payments and equalization are going to reduce, Alberta isn't going to have the revenue base or the tax base that it did when it was the engine of the economy, and by denying pipeline access Quebec and the other provinces are going to cut their own throats.
At the same time, you can't have a government that is going to write a check to a failing company like Bombardier who's primary revenue stream is government bailouts, and then look at an entire industry that's getting hammered and say, we'll here's the billion in infrastructure spending that we promised you, but we don't have plans to help out your industry, but we'll bail out auto and companies that have direct lines to the Liberal Party (Chretien and Bombardier)
At the same time, we have a weak and flustered premier and government who are clearly not in love with the golden goose here and so their support is half hearted, and when the chips are down and people are being tossed out of work they jack up taxes, add a carbon tax, put in policies to basically wreck small and medium businesses in the service and labor sector.
And with the Carbon tax, they implemented it as a general tax not as some environmentally sound encouragement platform, but as what is basically going to be a ponzi scheme, on the vague soul crushing premise that, now that we're doing our progressive thing environmentally, Quebec and Ontario and BC will become supporters in our ability to save this provinces and thus Canada's economy. But then and who couldn't see this coming? She got stabbed in the back and looked even more foolish.
At this point we have multiple things that need to happen.
Trudeua needs to stand up and say that this economic slide in Alberta is an emergency that effects the entire country, so STFU and lets find a way to get these pipelines done, quick fast and in a hurry. Need to complete the environmental assessment, I'll bring in more people to do this, and limit the consultations so that the wack jobs funded by Tides and other groups aren't invited in to throw shoes into the process.
Notley and Wall need to work together to create a strong and united front, period, I know that he's a flintstones loving Fiscal Conservative, but he can do what you can't Rachel, and that's stand up and make your discomfort known.
Trudeau needs to put together a package to assist the Oil sector in this province, and if that means, no more purchasing out of country oil and gas and energy then that's the way its got to be. Break Nafta? Tough Titties said the Kitty to the States you did it first when you screwed us to make Darryl Haanah and Kenye West happy.
If you want to diversify the economy and implement green energy strategies, then great, do it, but you can't do it without a strong economy in place to pay for generational changes.
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