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Posted by Brent
- May 20, 2026, 09:50:38 PMQuote from: Herman on May 20, 2026, 06:30:46 PMTheir plan is managed decline. It is working.We know.
Posted by Herman
- May 20, 2026, 06:30:46 PMQuote from: Brent on May 20, 2026, 12:56:11 PMEven trudeau and carney voters know life has gotten worse for the working class on the watch of those two evil globalists.Their plan is managed decline. It is working.
Posted by Brent
- May 20, 2026, 12:56:11 PMQuote from: Herman on May 19, 2026, 06:36:33 PMEven trudeau and carney voters know life has gotten worse for the working class on the watch of those two evil globalists.
Posted by Herman
- May 19, 2026, 06:36:33 PM
Posted by DKG
- May 17, 2026, 11:18:31 AMNew analysis drawn from the Rystad Energy UCube comprehensive data set reveals that nearly $450 billion in Alberta's oil sands sector upstream investment could be wiped out under the Carney-Smith NZE agenda.
Investment risk for the oil sands sector is defined as the cumulative reduction in upstream exploration and production (E&P) investment between the Current Policies Scenario (CPS) and the NZE Scenario between 2026 and 2050.
Under current oil demand levels, which represent Alberta government and energy industry expectations, the Alberta oil sands sector investment is estimated at $466 USD billion. However, at the NZE Scenario oil demand levels, the Alberta oil sands sector investment is $18.7 billion.
Premier Danielle Smith has been enthusiastically pitching her Alberta net zero agenda since July 2022, reaffirming it in the 2023 Alberta climate change plan, talking about it extensively in Ottawa with MPs, and officially signing on to it, along with the Carney federal Liberals, as the headline item of the Canada-Alberta MOU.
The Alberta government claims that the NZE MOU will result in hundreds of billions of new investment in the Alberta and Canadian economies. However, the Alberta government refuses to release a comprehensive economic and financial risk assessment of the impact of Carney-Smith NZE. A recent request for information revealed nearly 30,000 pages in responsive records, but very little has even been released. So, what information is the Smith government hiding from Albertans?
The NZE Scenario (NZE) sees efforts to meet the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to below 2 degrees and then pursuing efforts to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees by 2050 through net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Oil demand peaks at 101.6 mbpd in 2025 and then falls to 21.7 mbpd by 2050.
The $450 billion risk to Alberta oil sands investment under Carney-Smith NZE could crater the entire Alberta economy. This is what happens when governments make public policy decisions based on political talking points, rather than relying on robust risk assessment.
Carney-Smith NZE needs to be put to a 2026 fall provincial referendum so Albertans can decide whether this is a course worth pursuing. I am very confident that, when presented with full impact analysis information, Albertans will tell the Smith government to scrap its commitment to NZE.
Investment risk for the oil sands sector is defined as the cumulative reduction in upstream exploration and production (E&P) investment between the Current Policies Scenario (CPS) and the NZE Scenario between 2026 and 2050.
Under current oil demand levels, which represent Alberta government and energy industry expectations, the Alberta oil sands sector investment is estimated at $466 USD billion. However, at the NZE Scenario oil demand levels, the Alberta oil sands sector investment is $18.7 billion.
Premier Danielle Smith has been enthusiastically pitching her Alberta net zero agenda since July 2022, reaffirming it in the 2023 Alberta climate change plan, talking about it extensively in Ottawa with MPs, and officially signing on to it, along with the Carney federal Liberals, as the headline item of the Canada-Alberta MOU.
The Alberta government claims that the NZE MOU will result in hundreds of billions of new investment in the Alberta and Canadian economies. However, the Alberta government refuses to release a comprehensive economic and financial risk assessment of the impact of Carney-Smith NZE. A recent request for information revealed nearly 30,000 pages in responsive records, but very little has even been released. So, what information is the Smith government hiding from Albertans?
The NZE Scenario (NZE) sees efforts to meet the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to below 2 degrees and then pursuing efforts to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees by 2050 through net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Oil demand peaks at 101.6 mbpd in 2025 and then falls to 21.7 mbpd by 2050.
The $450 billion risk to Alberta oil sands investment under Carney-Smith NZE could crater the entire Alberta economy. This is what happens when governments make public policy decisions based on political talking points, rather than relying on robust risk assessment.
Carney-Smith NZE needs to be put to a 2026 fall provincial referendum so Albertans can decide whether this is a course worth pursuing. I am very confident that, when presented with full impact analysis information, Albertans will tell the Smith government to scrap its commitment to NZE.
Posted by Herman
- May 14, 2026, 07:51:09 PMNot the friendly green hero they want you to believe...
This is Mark Carney – The Toxic Economist.
Greenwashing expert. Brookfield's guy.
Turning Canada into a toxic debt swamp while calling it "saving the planet."
You pay the bills.
He gets the fees.
Wake up.
This is Mark Carney – The Toxic Economist.
Greenwashing expert. Brookfield's guy.
Turning Canada into a toxic debt swamp while calling it "saving the planet."
You pay the bills.
He gets the fees.
Wake up.
Posted by Herman
- May 14, 2026, 07:50:06 PMCanada's auto industry is heading for Extinction.
Mexico has stolen Canada's Lunch.
Canada Fell
2.4m vehicles produced in 2000 to 1.2m in 2025
Mexico Rose
1.9m vehicles produced in 2000 to 4.1m in 2025
Dear Canada: Did you notice you're De-Industrializing?
Well done Liberal Voters.
Mexico has stolen Canada's Lunch.
Canada Fell
2.4m vehicles produced in 2000 to 1.2m in 2025
Mexico Rose
1.9m vehicles produced in 2000 to 4.1m in 2025
Dear Canada: Did you notice you're De-Industrializing?
Well done Liberal Voters.
Posted by Herman
- May 01, 2026, 09:49:05 PMTomorrow, Mark Carney could use an Order in Council to move a pipeline to the Pacific forward.
Instead we get fake MOUs and unconstitutional vetoes. Canada is not a serious country.
Instead we get fake MOUs and unconstitutional vetoes. Canada is not a serious country.
Posted by Herman
- April 30, 2026, 08:44:19 PMThere's always what Liberals say and what's actually reality. But it's nice to know that Trudeau is having a great time on Katy Perry's private jets and yachts in California!
Posted by Herman
- April 30, 2026, 08:41:12 PMThis was Trudeau's legacy, and Mark Carney is now continuing the exact same policies.
Posted by Herman
- April 30, 2026, 08:23:46 PMImagine if the Liberals had listened to Pierre Poilievre and built the pipelines, we could've been producing and selling more oil now with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Canada would've been able to prosper.
Posted by Herman
- April 29, 2026, 06:28:25 PM
Posted by Herman
- April 29, 2026, 05:46:14 PM
Posted by Herman
- April 24, 2026, 08:08:15 PMWe could have helped a lot of Canadians with $275 million.
Instead we're spending the money on helping people who shouldn't even be in our country in the first place.
Instead we're spending the money on helping people who shouldn't even be in our country in the first place.
Posted by Herman
- April 19, 2026, 07:59:54 PMLet's link two issues that are troubling Canadians these days: the brain drain and Alberta's referendum on separating from Canada. Both are about people exiting a country.
In the case of the brain drain, it's mainly the young and old who decide to move elsewhere so they can improve their standard of living. With separation, a majority of voters decide they need to secede to be successful, which happened with Singapore separating from Malaysia, Norway from Sweden and the Czech Republic from Slovakia.
Whether it's a person or a jurisdiction that's exiting, the source is often dissatisfaction with opportunities offered by staying put. I think of my own case when my wife and I trotted off to the United Kingdom for my doctoral education. We thoroughly enjoyed mid-1970s Britain and even considered staying. But with labour relations ruinous, strikes frequent and crippling, salaries low and the pound plunging, it took about a nano-second to decide we should return to Canada.
Since 2021 almost half a million Canadians have left the country. According to Statistics Canada's review of the most recent census data, two-thirds of emigrants are between 20 and 44 years of age and almost 70 per cent have university degrees. A majority are immigrants who decide to move again in search of greener pastures. Today almost 1.3 million Canadians live abroad, three-fifths of them in the United States.
Not since the 1990s has the "brain drain" been a policy concern. But after a lost decade of high taxes, a failing health-care system and stagnant per capita incomes running at Alabama levels, it's not surprising more people are leaving.
incomes are down from 2014, when commodity prices crashed, the province still transfers close to $20 billion a year to other provinces by paying more federal taxes than Ottawa spends in Alberta. That net tax burden — close to a tenth of household income — would be more acceptable if Albertans felt they had influence over federal decision-making. But they don't, which is why even those who don't want outright separation generally favour greater provincial autonomy.
As a Canadian who has benefited from living in both Alberta and Ontario, it is sad for me to hear people say Canada is broken. If we want people and provinces to stay, the best way is not to block or tax their exit but instead to make Canada a better place to live.
For decades, Canadians took pride in schools and universities that graduated top-notch professionals, business leaders and skilled workers. But in recent years standards have fallen as institutions have focused more on identity issues and less on learning. Some provinces are beginning to address this problem by revamping their curricula. A more dramatic reform would be a voucher system to encourage competition among schools.
Governments also spend too much — 44 per cent of GDP — which requires high taxes that hurt Canada's competitiveness. Greater productivity in public services will take greater competition for public monopolies (such as provincial power companies) and privatized delivery of services on a competitive basis. Wasteful spending and frivolous subsidies directed at historically slow-growth industries or ego-massaging projects will not improve Canada's productivity.
Mark Carney understands Canada's economy is underperforming but he's still a long way from undoing all the wasteful practices that have hurt it. Even his nation-building plans have yielded little construction so far. Now that he has a majority, let's see if he shifts from governments picking politically popular projects to the private sector deciding where capital can be used most effectively.
If we want to keep people and provinces in Canada, we should be making the country better, not putting up exit barriers or taxing emigrants. Desperate autocrats do that sort to thing, not free and democratic Canadians.
- jackassass M. Mintz
Fri, April 17, 2026
In the case of the brain drain, it's mainly the young and old who decide to move elsewhere so they can improve their standard of living. With separation, a majority of voters decide they need to secede to be successful, which happened with Singapore separating from Malaysia, Norway from Sweden and the Czech Republic from Slovakia.
Whether it's a person or a jurisdiction that's exiting, the source is often dissatisfaction with opportunities offered by staying put. I think of my own case when my wife and I trotted off to the United Kingdom for my doctoral education. We thoroughly enjoyed mid-1970s Britain and even considered staying. But with labour relations ruinous, strikes frequent and crippling, salaries low and the pound plunging, it took about a nano-second to decide we should return to Canada.
Since 2021 almost half a million Canadians have left the country. According to Statistics Canada's review of the most recent census data, two-thirds of emigrants are between 20 and 44 years of age and almost 70 per cent have university degrees. A majority are immigrants who decide to move again in search of greener pastures. Today almost 1.3 million Canadians live abroad, three-fifths of them in the United States.
Not since the 1990s has the "brain drain" been a policy concern. But after a lost decade of high taxes, a failing health-care system and stagnant per capita incomes running at Alabama levels, it's not surprising more people are leaving.
incomes are down from 2014, when commodity prices crashed, the province still transfers close to $20 billion a year to other provinces by paying more federal taxes than Ottawa spends in Alberta. That net tax burden — close to a tenth of household income — would be more acceptable if Albertans felt they had influence over federal decision-making. But they don't, which is why even those who don't want outright separation generally favour greater provincial autonomy.
As a Canadian who has benefited from living in both Alberta and Ontario, it is sad for me to hear people say Canada is broken. If we want people and provinces to stay, the best way is not to block or tax their exit but instead to make Canada a better place to live.
For decades, Canadians took pride in schools and universities that graduated top-notch professionals, business leaders and skilled workers. But in recent years standards have fallen as institutions have focused more on identity issues and less on learning. Some provinces are beginning to address this problem by revamping their curricula. A more dramatic reform would be a voucher system to encourage competition among schools.
Governments also spend too much — 44 per cent of GDP — which requires high taxes that hurt Canada's competitiveness. Greater productivity in public services will take greater competition for public monopolies (such as provincial power companies) and privatized delivery of services on a competitive basis. Wasteful spending and frivolous subsidies directed at historically slow-growth industries or ego-massaging projects will not improve Canada's productivity.
Mark Carney understands Canada's economy is underperforming but he's still a long way from undoing all the wasteful practices that have hurt it. Even his nation-building plans have yielded little construction so far. Now that he has a majority, let's see if he shifts from governments picking politically popular projects to the private sector deciding where capital can be used most effectively.
If we want to keep people and provinces in Canada, we should be making the country better, not putting up exit barriers or taxing emigrants. Desperate autocrats do that sort to thing, not free and democratic Canadians.
- jackassass M. Mintz
Fri, April 17, 2026