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Originally Posted by Wolven
Spoken like a true 'Berta ditchbilly.
To recap: Eby is talking about how Smith already has a pipeline, how that pipeline is under capacity and how there is room to optimize the capacity of it before demanding ANOTHER pipeline.
At the same time he is promoting LNG projects that are real and established and points to the fact that Smith is interfering with these real projects and putting billions of dollars of investment at risk. I don't know how LNG is moved... is it a pipeline to the coast??!?
Unlike Smith, Eby sounds like a Premier who is protecting the real interests of his province and industries and is backing up his stance with facts. He is also pointing out that Alberta has just received a free pipeline at the huge expense of taxpayer dollars and that if there are more taxpayer dollars up for grabs, he and the other Premiers have projects that should be considered ahead of another Alberta pipeline.
If you really want to boil the message down, it would be: Alberta should appreciate what they have and wait their turn before sticking their hand out again for free mega projects.
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I think AB, Smith, Carney and Canada are kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place. If you take everything and look at it holistically, we as a country really need to look at serious economic reforms. When Carney says our relationship in trade with America is effectively severed, he means it.
Canada has really really fallen behind in a lot of aspects with poor policy. Poor policy on energy, including oil, gas, clean, green etc. Poor policy on immigration, associated levels of immigration and integration of those said immigrants. Business confidence, how Canada is viewed globally as a business leader and a place to do business have all taken a hit. This is a national problem, all Canadians are at fault and all politicians are as well.
Canada can't afford to play the game of a product that the world consumes at a rate of 2000 barrels a second not being sold in maximum volume. Canada, including AB can't afford to play the game with clean/green energy and turning away billions and trillions in investment from domestic and international sources. We just can't continue to rely on what we are doing, we need to do things smarter, more efficient, more business friendly and revamp our industrial and economic messages. I am a true blue AB Conservative but have immense respect and admiration for Carney. He get's things that actually matter business wise.
The energy industry has kinda been shifted away from the penalty box in the last little while so to speak and we need to grow and expand that. We need to do more with all forms of energy domestically and exporting internationally We need the investments, the employment, the capital and the growth. We need to shy away from mostly trade with US and hope for the best.
These inter provincial trade barriers and economic bickering between provinces needs to stop and we need to grow business brains. Can you imagine regional leaders in France bickering over expansion of aviation exports to Canada? "We don't need to send more $200 million planes to people in Canada"
I don't recall seeing too much opposition to German and Japanese automotive exports or much bickering about top industry exports from other countries. Here in Canada we literally bicker and impede things down to swashed grapes in the form of wine. Heck, we can't even compete in the NHL and bring home winners. It's like we are a country of perennial losers who are blessed with resources but can't figure it out.