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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
Locke, it's been sad watching you go Full CaptainCrunch these last few months.
Please come back.
Again, I ask, what is the tangible benefit to Trudeau to use political capital to help push through pipeline infrastructure to eastern canada or the BC coast?
"Because Canada owes us" or "terror oil" aren't real reasons.
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First of all seriously, I don't attack you at all period, I would expect some courtesy, I've said in the past that I respect you as a poster, but now it just feels like your talking ^^^^ just to talk ^^^^.
If this is about political capital and strictly political capital and not about the economic picture of this country, what your basically saying is that Prime Ministers aren't in the business of doing what's best for the country they're in business of doing what's best for the party.
Cynical absolutely and probably correct. But if that's the case, then you can argue that Confederation is actually dead and this isn't a country at that point.
Now somehow I've been painted as a hardcore Alberta Separatist, which first of all is incorrect, and second of all is just stupid.
I am however of the mind set that if we have a prime minister that looks at everything as spending political capital to spend in Ontario and Quebec and BC and screw the rest, then its up to the provincial governments to take a harder edge on protecting the economy of this province and protecting the interests of this province. And if we have for example provincial politicians that are actually going against the constitution when it comes to the flow of goods across this country unhindered and a Prime Minister that's not going to tell the provinces that the decision is with an organization like the NEB which they're more then welcome to register their views then whats the point of the NEB for example for pipeline reviews.
I think there needs to be a great deal of clarification from the Prime Ministers office and the government on the roles and rights of provincial governments in terms of things like Pipelines approvals. Same with Native Groups for example.
Also going back to the question that you made about why Trudeau should spend political capital on the pipelines if its going to cost him good will in Ontario and Quebec.
Frankly besides the fact that not spending political capital to get the pipelines build will economically harm Ontario who's got server budget problems of their own that Wynne is expecting Trudeau to pay for, and it will harm Quebec who's now looking at slashing things like their daycare programs and low cost tuition in upcoming budgets.
But it will lead to a rise in anger in Alberta and in the West and we will go back to the bad old days of "We want in" and "Screw the East" that we saw in the 80's and 90's.
