This sends the worst signal to the international community. Canada is a country that doesn't enforce the rule of law. Canada is a country that is not a safe investment destination. Canada is a country where a tiny paid minority of people can bring the country to a halt.
By Canadace Malcolm of Sun News Media
Trudeau missing in action
The far-left in Canada is out of control.
Deceitful environmentalist protesters claiming to speak for Indigenous people have set up illegal barricades across the country. They've blocked railways and highways — closing major thoroughfares, shutting down commercial and passenger rail and grinding our economy to a halt.
They are threatening the livelihood of countless blue collar workers, including farmers, manufacturers, construction workers, workers in the forestry, coal and energy industries and so on. And, according to paramedics in British Columbia, they're also putting lives at risk.
These protesters are as arrogant as they are destructive. They're throwing a temper tantrum and using the heckler's veto because they disagree with the results of our democratic process.
The Coastal GasLink pipeline carrying liquified natural gas from northeastern British Columbia to the west coast has already been approved by the courts as well as every level of government.
This includes the Trudeau government, who have always erred on the side of listening to First Nations and giving them veto powers over pipelines, as well as the left-wing NDP government in British Columbia, who have done everything in their power to block other pipelines from reaching Canada's west coast.
Perhaps most importantly, this project was also given the green light from 20 band councils along the proposed route.
This includes the elected band leaders of the Wet'sutwet'en First Nation, after long consultations with the company and a referendum within the community.
The fact that the Coastal GasLink project has jumped through all the required hoops is nothing short of miraculous. But even when a company does everything required of it, Canada still cannot get its act together to ensure the democratic will gets carried out.
To make matters worse in this situation, the mainstream media have distorted the issue and continue to use euphemisms to downplay the actions of the radical environmentalist left, calling their illegal actions "civil disobedience" and "peaceful protests."
While an overwhelming number of First Nations voices are in support of the project and the pipeline, too many in the media have described these as "First Nations protesters" and the "Indigenous cause." Even the CBC's John Paul Tasker pointed out the media's biased and erroneous coverage.
"I think we tend to do that in the news media, to go to one group and think that it represents a larger community," said Tasker. "All the Indian Act band councils — all 20 of them in the area — supported this," he reminded the audience.
So here we are, on the brink of a national crisis. The rule of law is breaking down, the economy is in disarray and any remaining confidence in our system is quickly vanishing.
Now is the time for strong leadership. We need our Prime Minister to step in and step up. He needs to show strength, make a decision and put this chaos to rest.
But where is our Prime Minister? Has anyone seen him?
Oh right, Trudeau is off on a vanity tour in Africa, meeting with local despots and bribing them into supporting Canada's bid to receive a temporary seat on the United Nations Security Council. Instead of showing leadership at home, demonstrating that he has control in his own country when it comes to tough negotiations and conflict resolution, Trudeau is off touting his $2 billion foreign aid spending and making clear his preference to deal with foreign affairs rather than his own domestic duties.
If Trudeau would rather booze and schmooze with world leaders, he should resign as PM and apply for a position in the UN. But if he wants to call himself Prime Minister of Canada, he needs to act like it. He needs to take control of this situation, intervene and enforce the laws of the land.
I aint as pessimistic as old Jock is. But, it's this kind of shit that feeds his hopelessness about this country. We can't have nice things in Canada. We can't build big projects, that is if they are in the West.
I got my farm, which is my kingdom. I don't have much faith in the country surrounding it.
I am out of Canada for good in four years. I hope prog money completes it's total destruction of the Canadian middle class. It will serve Canadians right.
I have supplies that come from Europe that CN carries. Needless to say, I'm not receiving them. My deliveries from Asia are hauled by CP and so far they are arriving.
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I am sorry to hear that. There are thousands of businesses across Canada in the same predicament because the RCMP, and the OPP are not allowed to do their jobs.
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I am sorry to hear that. There are thousands of businesses across Canada in the same predicament because the RCMP, and the OPP are not allowed to do their jobs.
If I can't get my supplies from Europe soon, I am going to have lay off some of my employees. It is that simple.
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Deceitful environmentalist protesters claiming to speak for Indigenous people have set up illegal barricades across the country. They've blocked railways and highways — closing major thoroughfares, shutting down commercial and passenger rail and grinding our economy to a halt.
That'll slow down the spread of our newest flu.
It's all good.
The article is a scare mongers article. The sky isn't falling. Trust me.
If your side had have been voted in, your situation would still be the same.
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Deceitful environmentalist protesters claiming to speak for Indigenous people have set up illegal barricades across the country. They've blocked railways and highways — closing major thoroughfares, shutting down commercial and passenger rail and grinding our economy to a halt.
That'll slow down the spread of our newest flu.
It's all good.
The article is a scare mongers article.
If your side had have been voted in, your situation would still be the same.
It will if this continues..
Canada is totally dependent on out two class one railways to keep our country functioning.
It's already started Fash.
CN Rail lays off staff as pipeline protests limit deliveries to Maritimes
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/cn-rail-lays-off-staff-as-pipeline-protests-limit-deliveries-to-maritimes/ar-BB103PVg?li=AAggNb9&ocid=mailsignout
Where is the prime minister. Why is this illegal blockade allowed to continue.
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He's in Europe posing for selfies.
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What good would he be even if he was here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=GrIl-sLoeIY&fbclid=IwAR0HDuzzfvO0aT1MGoInptzXgW3kW17dgTVKmCKXq-NSVNf5gzRuiciPSbY&app=desktop
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Prog money and paid protesters.
The millennial eco-activists stopping trains are the new colonialists
While so-called 'settlers' protest the pipeline, Indigenous leaders want the project that will bring economic prosperity
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/john-ivison-the-millennial-eco-activists-stopping-trains-are-the-new-colonialists?fbclid=IwAR0uw54Jj6AvMMGs3HvIjuWPL_SfT_x21lhEbvgbYxC1a5ZxyXhAggw_hJ0
The uber-woke protesters who blockaded a CN rail line last weekend would be horrified at being accused of cultural colonialism. But they are as guilty of telling Indigenous Canadians how to live their lives as any Father of Confederation.
The juxtaposition of the views of the eco-activists with those who actually live there couldn't be more stark.
Troy Young, a member of one Wet'suwet'en community, is the director of an Indigenous-owned company that stands to benefit from contracts to clear trees and build roads along Coastal GasLink's proposed pipeline's route.
He said the history of the Wet'suwet'en is of outsiders telling them how to do things. "Why would we accept it? If the environmentalists are successful, it will be one of the biggest cultural appropriations in British Columbia's history," he said.
(Five of the six Wet'suwet'en bands support the pipeline, while five of the 13 hereditary chiefs oppose it. Two of those five opponents have titles that are disputed after hereditary chiefs Darlene Glaim and Gloria George, who held the titles of Woos and Smogelgem, say they had their status "stripped" and given to two men, Frank Alec and Warner Naziel, because of their support for the pipeline.)
But the internal machinations of this particular First Nation are a distraction.
The bigger picture is that 20 bands along the route see this project as a way out of the cycle of underdevelopment they have been caught in.
As Smith put it: "This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I'm tired of managing poverty. I'm tired of First Nations' communities dealing with issues such as suicide, low unemployment or educational opportunities. If this opportunity is lost, it doesn't come back."
What right do the cultural colonialists who blockaded the MacMillan Yard have to say they know better than the democratically elected leaders of these 20 First Nations?
A protest I saw on the news in Vancouver had few Natives present.
Peter McKay on Twitter, "Glad to see a couple Albertans with a pickup truck can do more for our economy in an afternoon than Justin Trudeau could do in four years,"
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Prog money and paid protesters.
We call them, Rent-a-crowd.
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Prog money and paid protesters.
We call them, Rent-a-crowd.
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We do here too.
Ostensibly the blockades are in solidarity with First Nations directly impacted by the Coastal GasLink pipeline in British Columbia. However, the inconvenient fact is that all 20 First Nations along the pipeline route have signed agreements with the pipeline company through their elected band councils and thousands of Indigenous people support the project.
But what about the non-aboriginal protesters, aptly labelled by Conservative leader Andrew Scheer as "radical activists," many of whom have no connection to the Wet'suwet'en? Activists, Scheer reminded us, who have the luxury of spending days at a time at a blockade. When Scheer referred to such full-time protesters as "privileged", there was an outcry by these make-believe proletariats, play-acting the Bolshevik Revolution at CN rail intersections.
These wannabe revolutionaries have aligned themselves with five Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs opposed to the pipeline, and not the 13,000 Indigenous British Columbians represented by all the band councils that support it.
One would have expected Canada's professional protestors to have sided with the elected leaders of the Wet'suwet'en first nation. But they did not. Instead they back the unelected self-appointed Hereditary Chiefs.
Let our Aboriginal and Indigenous brothers and sisters own their own land and homes on reserves, while retaining all the rights they have as First Nations. Putting First Nations in Communist-style collectives while the rest of us enjoy the benefits of building wealth and equity in our homes is a travesty.
As for unelected Hereditary Chiefs having a veto over decisions made by elected Band Councils, imaging if the Queen as hereditary monarch of Canada possessed the same veto over our elected parliament. Think about it.
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/fatah-the-larger-question-to-ask-during-these-blockades
The privileged white rent a mob climate alarmists would have us believe the majority of Aboriginals who elected leaders who support Coastal Gas Link don't count. Only the hereditary Chiefs who have no mandate, but feel left out.
I support the people of Wet'Suwet'en band. That's why I support the building of pipelines. Because that is what the vast majority of the band wants. That's democracy.
All 20 the First Nations on the Coastal GasLink pipeline route have agreements in place and will receive direct benefits. They are pro pipeline.
All the elected First Nations band councils along the route have voted to allow the pipeline to proceed. So who do these non-Indigenous protesters pretend to represent?
The professional protestors or vigilantes blocking Canada's rail lines need to pack up and go home.
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Peter McKay has been forced to delete that tweet because he's been accused of backing vigilantism.
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Peter McKay has been forced to delete that tweet because he's been accused of backing vigilantism.
The hired prog hands blocking railways in defiance of the law are vigilantes.
This should not shock anyone, but the most dishonest of progtards, but the protesters don't give no fucks about Indians. Most Indians along the right support the project which is why their elected banc councils endorsed the project.
'It's none of their business': The Wet'suwet'en people who want the protesters to stop
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/wet-suwet-en-coastal-gas-link-pipeline-lng-1.5469401
At public meeting in Houston B.C., community members explain their support for the project
Another day of blockades across the country means more protesters with signs bearing slogans such as "Wet'suwet'en Strong" and "Stand with Wet'suwet'en."
They're showing support for the hereditary chiefs who oppose construction of a new pipeline through their territory in northern B.C.
The protesters though are drawing the ire of many in the Wet'suwet'en Nation who not only support the project, but see it as a way for the community to flourish.
The Coastal GasLink pipeline would move natural gas from northeastern B.C. to the West Coast for export, while creating jobs and other financial benefits.
It's why 20 elected First Nations signed their support of the project. Calgary-based TC Energy is developing the $6-billion pipeline.
On Wednesday, about 200 people gave up three hours of their afternoon to pack a movie theatre in the community of Houston, a town of about 3,000 people in northwestern B.C., in the heart of the Wet'suwet'en Nation.
This was a pro-pipeline event as members of the Wet'suwet'en Nation explained why they support construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline.
The people who came out to the meeting say they want to see the natural gas pipeline built. They say the project will create well-paid jobs that will bring economic opportunities to their communities.
Among the supporters was Robert Skin, who said he was elected to the council of the Skin Tyee First Nation, which is part of the Wet'suwet'en Nation, to move the community forward.
He said the pipeline will mean a better life for the next generation.
"With the benefit agreement that [the Skin Tyee] did sign, I see us being in a better place even within the next five years," Skin said.
Speaking to the crowd at the theatre, he said protesters "only get one side of the story" and don't understand the advantages this type of infrastructure project can provide.
Many who attended the meeting said the protesters across the country don't understand the issue, and don't realize many of the Wet'sewet'en want the project to be built.
That's why the event was the first time Marion Tiljoe Shepherd has shared her feelings. She owns her own trucking company in Houston. She's optimistic the project will be built and the economic benefits will provide a financial boost to her business and many others in the area.
Shepherd said she's increasingly angered by the protesters across the country. She said they don't speak for, nor represent her community.
"It's none of their business," she said in an interview following the event. "All of these protesters don't have the right to close down railways and ships. It's not right. Go away. I want them to leave."
The elected band council supports the project as do many hereditary chiefs. The laws of Canada would say that the elected band council speaks for the people of the community and so would their most recent election where this was an issue but Trudeau thinks he knows better.
Can you imagine a small group of Conservative MPs saying they disagreed with a bill the government wanted to pass and Trudeau deciding that since those MPs opposed it, then the law could not apply to all of Canada?
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/lilley-its-time-for-different-voices-in-the-blockade-battle
The rent a mobs don't respect democracy. And they don't want Aboriginal prosperity.
Is Trudeau on a foreign holiday again.
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He is in Canada working a full thirty minutes a day.
After five years of consultation, the pipeline has the approval of 20 elected band councils.
It is bitterly opposed by the non-elected hereditary chiefs.
Who should speak for the Wet'suwet'en people?
Consider the Witset band council where pro-pipeline Sandra George was recently elected chief, soundly defeating the anti-pipeline candidate Freda Husan.
She's the spokesperson for the Unist'ot'en camp that is blocking the pipeline under the authority of hereditary chief Warner Naziel.
He assumed that position when Gloria George was stripped of the title over her openness to working with Coastal GasLink.
The cadre of woke folks protesting the Coastal GasLink pipeline across Canada are backing Husan over George. They are horribly wrong. The way forward for all the people of Canada requires a basic respect for democracy and the rule of law.
Anything less is chaos and tyranny.
The principles of democracy and rule of law are not trivial. They are the foundation of a just society.
The will of the Wet'suwet'en people, expressed through their elected representatives, deserves the unwavering support of the Government of Canada.
Democracy is dead in Canada.
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Gaon, do you have regrets about immigrating here?
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Gaon, do you have regrets about immigrating here?
Yes, we both do. I am earning terrific money right now. But, I do not know how Canada can continue like this. A tiny minority of unelected Natives with the help of international leftists is blocking the democratic will of the people. And the prime minister is allowing illegal blockades to continue. It would never be tolerated in Israel or Russia.
The established ideology which is not allowed to be challenged is climate lunacy. I cannot see a future for a country so determined to undermine it's own economy as well as democracy.
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Gaon, do you have regrets about immigrating here?
Yes, we both do. I am earning terrific money right now. But, I do not know how Canada can continue like this. A tiny minority of unelected Natives with the help of international leftists is blocking the democratic will of the people. And the prime minister is allowing illegal blockades to continue. It would never be tolerated in Israel or Russia.
The established ideology which is not allowed to be challenged is climate lunacy. I cannot see a future for a country so determined to undermine it's own economy as well as democracy.
I admit it is not looking good right now. But, I have faith common sense will prevail.
By Brian Lilley of Sun News Media
Trudeau has shown activists how to get what they want
While the deadline was midnight to clear the tracks, OPP officers wisely waited until the sun was up before moving in.
It was just around 8:30 on Monday morning that officers decided to clear the tracks on the CN Rail line, near Belleville.
For three weeks, Mohawk protesters had been blocking the tracks, saying that they wouldn't let passengers or freight trains through until the RCMP fully left the Wet'suwet'en territory some 4,600 km away in British Columbia.
The Mohawks had put out a statement in the middle of the night saying they were negotiating and wanted to keep talking, but those on the front line had a different attitude.
Asked by reporters if they planned to leave the tracks, the people camped out laughed and said no. Then the cops went in. In total, 10 people were arrested 19 days after the blockade went up. A court order was issued more than two weeks ago, police only enforcing it now when they felt all other options had failed.
On the one hand, I'm angry that the police waited so long, on the other hand, it is tough to blame them.
This is a political problem, mostly a federal one, that our prime minister has taken far too long to address. The police knew that if they went in too early, tried to make arrests and anything went wrong, the politicians — federal or provincial — wouldn't have their backs.
It was only short days ago that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government were painting anyone that wanted to bring the barricades down as racist and violent. The Liberal allies in the media echoed that sentiment when they pilloried Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer using those Liberal talking points last week.
Then on Friday, realizing that the rail shut-down was having a significant economic impact on the country, and that his attempts at dialogue were going nowhere, Trudeau adopted the same stance as Scheer.
After weeks of effectively allowing the blockades to go unchecked, Trudeau called the situation "unacceptable and untenable."
"The fact remains the barricades must now come down and the injunctions must be obeyed and the law must be upheld," Trudeau said. That was Friday. On Sunday, Trudeau held calls with Ontario Premier Doug Ford, Quebec Premier Francois Legault and British Columbia Premier John Horgan. The Ford government, in particular, had been asking for a co-ordinated effort to deal with the blockades, worried that if they acted to take them down, Trudeau might attack the province rather than back them.
In fact, it's easy to see that Trudeau could have easily treated Ford the same way he did Scheer if the province moved on the blockades last week. Instead, Trudeau effectively gave his blessing for this to come to an end.
Officially, governments say that they don't direct police, but the reality is that they give signals and by Sunday night, the signal was given to the OPP that the blockade on the CN Rail line should come to an end.
It's sad that it took this long, it's sad that we live in a world where lawlessness is rewarded.
In not acting sooner, it elevated those who would break the law for their political gain, our political leaders, but Trudeau in particular, have given future activist groups a blueprint on how to get what they want.
Shut the infrastructure down, threaten the economy and partner with a group the government is afraid to move against.
Sadly, we will see more of this in Canada.
Justine will turn Canada into the next Venezuela.
Protesters who blockade rail lines or highways in Alberta could face up to $25,000 in fines under a bill tabled by the UCP government Tuesday.
Blocking railways is already against federal criminal law, but Bill 1, the Critical Infrastructure Defence Act, introduced in the legislature after the throne speech, would give police and prosecutors the power to hand out more provincial penalties.
Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers president, Tim McMillan had this to say about the Trudeau
"I don't think (Teck) is a cautionary tale, I think it's part of a long string of cancelled projects," he said. "We've seen Northern Gateway cancelled after it had been approved; we saw Energy East cancelled before it got ( approval). This creates a very challenging environment for global investors to look at Canada and say, ' How would we invest in a country or a project after we see these sorts of failures?' "
McMillan noted the energy sector isn't the only sector under attack, as opponents have also protested forestry and agricultural projects. He believes those efforts are co-ordinated. 'Changed their names'
"The tar sand campaign is something that's still on the website of several of those organizations that explicitly target Canada, the energy sector in particular," he said. "Forestry has gone through it and it's the same groups. Some of them have changed their names."
Give those greenie frauds hell Chief Ross.
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https://www.facebook.com/kenneyjasont/videos/652262388888590/UzpfSTEwMDAxMzg3NDI1MjI4OTo4MzYxNDY0NjAxOTExNTU/
That prog pretend Aboriginal woman didn't try to hide the fact that she could not care any less about Aboriginal well being or democracy. She wants to use a minority opinion among Indians to advance climate alarmism.
Some good news, CN is recalling workers laid off due to the illegal blockades.
Pipeline protesters losing public support
By Brian Lilley of Sun News Media
The protesters who've been attempting to shut down Canada for the past few weeks have captivated media attention and have a lot of politicians nervous, but they're losing public support.
Whatever one thinks of the Coastal GasLink Pipeline, most Canadians don't want to see rail lines blocked, ports shut down or roads closed by those protesting against them.
That's the result from not one but several polls on this issue over the past several days.
In fact, one poll from Ipsos showed support for the pipeline has gone up, even as Canadians acknowledge that the federal government needs to do more to deal with real-life concerns in First Nations communities.
Over the past several days some of the country's most reputable polling firms have all taken the pulse of the country on how the protests are impacting the country and what Canadians think.
Angus Reid found that 70% of the people they polled thought Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was doing a bad job of handling the situation.
Considering the split on what people think of the issues at play, that tells me he hasn't won over either side on this issue.
DART found that 69% agreed with the statement that "Canada is broken."
A consistent theme among all the polls, including the latest from Campaign Research, is that people want the blockades gone.
The rail blockade near Belleville, which shut down freight and passenger service for much of the population for three weeks, is the biggest but far from the only example.
Campaign Research asked this basic question, "Does the need to block a pipeline from being built justify blocking rail lines, ferry ports and busy intersections?"
The answer was 70% saying no, 18% saying yes and the remainder saying they don't know.
A full 50% said they agreed with the statement that
"it is never acceptable to stop other people from working or travelling as a method of protest."
That compares to 23% who said blocking busy transportation corridors is unreasonable and just 19% who said it's justified.
And yet we've had weak political leadership, at all levels, and police afraid to act without the backing of their political masters, treating the protesters as if they were the mainstream. They are not. Canadians aren't cold or unfeeling people, we understand that there are real issues to be dealt with in First Nations communities across the country.
From poverty to boil water advisories, legitimate land claim disputes and more — the issues are well known.
Yet that is for the federal government to fix.
Stopping average Canadians from getting the propane they need to heat their homes, the chlorine their town needs to clean their water or even stopping them from getting to work won't win over supporters from fixing real issues.
It hasn't helped that Canadians know that all 20 First Nations communities along the route of the pipeline support the project, as do most hereditary chiefs because they see it as beneficial to their people.
Protesters from outside those communities who are against all fossil fuels have latched onto a small group of hereditary chiefs and say we should stop the project because they oppose it.
Would those of us outside of First Nations communities accept that something most of us wanted needed to be stopped because Prince Charles and his sons didn't like it?
No, we'd tell them to get packing.
If the Wet'suwet'en don't like what their elected leaders have done, then they can contact them or vote them out at the next election.
Trying to say that First Nations communities don't deserve the same democratic rights as the rest of us is not only wrong, it's racist.
The majority of Canadians want the blockades to end and the underlying problems to be fixed.
That will require action from the only man who can put the federal government into motion on this, Justin Trudeau.
By Mark Towhey of Sun News Media
It's time Canada's First Nations got their act together
In Wet'suwet'en, as in many indigenous communities, it is unclear who — if anyone — leads.
Is it the democratically elected band councils? Or, the hereditary chiefs? Or, both? If so, how are disagreements between them resolved? Only the Wet'suwet'en can decide.
And, they must decide. If band councils had authority to negotiate on behalf of their people, where are they now? Why are they not speaking out against those robbing them of their legitimacy? If the councils were not authorized to negotiate, why did the people stand silent as it happened?
Time and again, across Canada, governments, companies, and others have tried to negotiate in good faith with failed First Nations. Just when one group claiming to speak for the people agrees, another pops up to disagree. This cannot continue.
Indigenous Canadians, like all of us, have the right — and a responsibility to their children — to demand more from their leaders. And, to hold them accountable.
Indian Act and hereditary chiefs be damned.
Canada's First Nations must decide who speaks for them. Then let no others pretend to do so.
By Candace Malcolm of Sun News Media
In 2013, two terrorists were arrested over an al- Qaida-linked plot to derail a passenger train providing daily service between New York City and Toronto.
The two men, one a Palestinian refugee, the other a PhD student from Tunisia, were charged and eventually convicted on a bevy of terrorism charges including planning to derail a passenger train. They were given a life sentence for their crimes.
Canada has never exactly been tough on terrorists; we earned the unsavoury reputation as a safe haven for Islamist terrorists in the decades prior to 9/ 11 due to the fact there were no laws on the books against fundraising and providing material support to terrorist groups abroad. But when it came to the disruption and potential derailment of a train in our country, Canada threw the book at these two hooligans attempting to attack our critical infrastructure.
There is no messing around. As my colleague Joe Warmington pointed out in a recent article, "the Criminal Code of Canada makes it clear."
Under Section 248, it states that interfering with transportation facilities with the intent to endanger safety and is likely to cause death or bodily harm is an indictable offence and liable to life imprisonment. "Life in prison! You read it right," wrote Warmington.
Not only is this law on the books, it's one that has been used in recent memory when two jihadist terrorists conspired to attack a train in Canada. That is why it was all the more shocking to see a video this week of a group of men near Belleville, Ont., throwing large wooden pallets at a CN train.
The video makes it clear. The men are actively trying to stop, or perhaps even derail, a moving freight train.
Not only were they brazen enough to get within feet of a moving locomotive carrying potentially hazardous material, throwing wooden skids drenched with gasoline and setting fires, they were also stupid enough to film it all — making it easier for police to arrest and charge these reckless activists.
These men should be described as domestic terrorists. Their behaviour is no better — and in some ways worse
— than the al-Qaida terrorists currently sitting behind bars in a maximum security prison. While the al-Qaida terrorists were driven by an evil ideology that brought down the World Trade Center towers in 2001 and has caused endless death and misery throughout the Middle East and beyond, these individuals willing to engage in domestic terrorism are consumed by their own twisted ideology.
Their destructive world view gives them the self-appointed authority to hold Canada hostage and stop a pipeline from being built on the other side of the country, all to serve their own narrow interests.
They ignorantly believe that they are not subject to Canadian law and have commanded a veto power over tens of thousands of good-paying jobs for blue-collar Canadians.
Perhaps worst of all, they are dishonestly claiming to speak for all indigenous people. This, despite the fact that resource development projects create hope and economic opportunity for Northern communities and have broad support among elected band leaders in Western Canada.
The al-Qaida terrorists targeted a passenger train and their goal was to murder as many Canadians and Americans as possible, making their crime far more heinous.
But their attack was only in the planning stages, and there was no imminent threat to public safety, according to the RCMP at the time.
Whereas, the people who physically attacked a train on Wednesday actually carried out their plot.
And while the target wasn't a train full of people, they nonetheless endangered the lives of the train conductor, nearby communities and fellow blockade activists, had the train actually derailed.
This is terrorism, plain and simple. It's time to throw the book at those willing to endanger lives by attacking a train.
Regulatory and legal issues in Canada have already led to the cancellation of $100 billion worth of resource projects, according to the C.D. Howe Institute. The cancellation of the Teck Resource's $20-billion oilsands project is just the latest example. Meanwhile Saudi Arabia is investing $110 billion to develop a natural gas field and Russia is moving forward with $150 billion investments touted as the "biggest project in the modern-day global oil industry."
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Blocking Canada's oil and gas industry is having no effect on stopping fossil fuels or slowing climate change. We say no, other countries with lower environmental standards than us say yes.
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Blocking Canada's oil and gas industry is having no effect on stopping fossil fuels or slowing climate change. We say no, other countries with lower environmental standards than us say yes.
Does Trudeau work for Saudi Arabia or Russia.
GNL Quebec, which was spearheading the project, confirmed it had lost a major potential investor in the $9-billion Energie Saguenay project
Warren Buffett, one of the world's most influential investors, has pulled out of a proposed $9 billion liquefied natural gas project in Quebec over concerns about railway blockades and infrastructure challenges.
The domestic oil and gas sector was already reeling after Teck Resources cancelled its $20.6 billion Frontier oilsands project in Alberta last month, partly over fears about rail blockades, and as other strategic investors have avoided the industry.
"Over the last month, a clear signal has been sent to businesses across Canada that the rule of law will not be upheld and that major projects cannot get built," Conservative MP for Chicoutimi-Le Fjord Richard Martel said in an email, adding that Quebecers "risk losing out" on a multi-billion project.
GNL Quebec confirmed Thursday it had lost a major potential investor as it seeks to build the $9 billion Énergie Saguenay project to export Western Canadian natural gas from a proposed facility in Quebec.
"This was a major private investor who left at the last minute," GNL Quebec spokesperson Stephanie Fortin said in an interview.
"The reason is the recent challenge in the Canadian political context."
https://nationalpost.com/commodities/energy/warren-buffett-reportedly-pulls-out-of-lng-project-in-quebec-due-to-challenges-in-canada/wcm/9fd7e9b0-fd44-47d5-aa32-c81317fa4734?video_autoplay=true
Another major resource industrial project bites the dust thanks to Trudeau's lack of leadership.
How many thousands of jobs did Trudeau cost Canada this time?
CN Railway is investigating after a train derailment in Sainte-Marie-Salome in Quebec.
"Two cars derailed and there's no danger for the public, no injuries, no fire and no dangerous goods are involved," CN senior manager of public affairs Olivier Quenneville told CTV News.
A source reportedly told CTV News that they believe something was purposely put onto the tracks to derail the train. A CN spokesperson did not confirm whether or not that is true.
"The incident is still under investigation and we will not comment further," said Quenneville.
CN is currently investigating the situation with a team on the ground.
https://www.thepostmillennial.com/breaking-quebec-train-derailment-may-have-been-intentional-source/?fbclid=IwAR1f0A15AQ_wzTmo3DMAm9x0JGdkS1-rEH_ikA8bqAix32t_tduruV0SBYU
Could this be the work of the people behind the illegal blockades? I would not be the least bit surprised if they are culprits.
World's best-known investor fed up with PM's inaction?
GNL Quebec, the company behind an effort to build a pipeline from Eastern Ontario to the Saguenay region of Quebec where a liquified natural gas export hub would be built, has acknowledged that a major investor was backing out. That major investor is Buffet and with him goes $4 billion of the $9 billion needed in financing.
Now that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's inaction on dealing with the attempted shut down of Canada is hurting Quebec, I have to wonder if he will change his tune on the pipeline and resource project. The pipeline and LNG port had already received special treatment from the federal government.
[size=150]When TransCanada wanted to build their Energy East pipeline and bring Western Canadian oil to Eastern Canada — both for export and to replace foreign imports in Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada — the Trudeau government brought in new rules. Energy East was going to be required to account not only for the greenhouse gas emissions created in getting the oil out of the ground and into the pipeline but all the greenhouse gases when the oil was used, wherever that was in the world.
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It was shortly after that announcement that TransCanada pulled the plug.
[size=150]As Quebec media first reported and I later confirmed in March 2018, that test never applied to the GNL Énergie Saguenay project.[/size]
Now, even with that special treatment, the project is in jeopardy — a major investor has pulled out and who knows what other projects are in jeopardy.
Saguenay deputy mayor Michel Potvin said his region really didn't need this, especially at this point in the project.
"We're not going to find $4 billion tomorrow morning, and we sure aren't going to find it in the region. So we have to roll up our sleeves," Potvin said.
Environmental activists will hail this move as another victory for the green economy. They will point to lower prices for liquified natural gas and say this project wasn't even viable. None of that is true.
LNG remains viable and like many commodities sees prices fluctuate. It is also a clean fuel that when exported often replaces coal as a source of electrical or heat generation. If shifting from coal to LNG would reduce emissions, shouldn't Canada's environmentalists back it?
Well, they should but they won't.
The mud hut brigade has adopted the slogan and hashtag #ShutCanadaDown and wants to make sure that all fossil fuels in this country stay in the ground. This group has an over exaggerated influence on the federal government, our media and our national and, in some cases, provincial policies.
[size=150]Buffett has looked at what is going on in Canada and realized he can't rely on a stable investment or regulatory environment, so he is walking away.[/size] He won't be alone, and with each investor that decides to put money elsewhere, regular Canadians will be hurt by a lack of jobs.
[size=150]The professional protesters and activists, funded by American billionaires and foundations, won't feel the pinch from their actions or Justin Trudeau's lack of leadership but thousands and thousands of Canadian families will.[/size]
Venezuela is encouraging investment in it's economy to reverse socialist decay. Canada is discouraging invest to discourage prosperity.
Government is...offloading key enterprises to private investors...'
According to Bloomberg News, Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro has quietly begun transferring state assets back into the hands of private owners in an effort to reverse the country's economic collapse.
"Saddled with hundreds of failed state companies in an economy barreling over a cliff, the Venezuelan government is abandoning socialist doctrine by offloading key enterprises to private investors, offering profit in exchange for a share of revenue or products," write Caracas-based journalists Fabiola Zerpa and Nicolle Yapur.
https://headlineusa.com/bloomberg-venezuela-turns-to-privatization-after-being-bankrupted-by-socialism/?fbclid=IwAR0aXH7eCvZrZETV9OVyxNllU2WUFmz6UNkvqkBxHpjczK3Cl685ztoZScE#disqus_thread