Policies of Justine, Horgan and Notley Kneecapping Canadian Economy and Workers

[Anonymous]

[size=150]Sun Media[/size]



Ottawa summit with Trudeau, Horgan and Notley unlikely to solve energy problem



Here's the one stat you need to know going into Sunday's Ottawa summit between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and B.C. Premier John Horgan: Last year, investment in Canada's oil and gas industry was still only about half of what it was in 2014 when the world oil price began to plummet. Compare that to the United States.



The U.S. lost almost as much oil and gas investment as Canada between 2014 and 2016, according to the International Energy Agency. When things hit bottom in 2016, Canada was at 53 per cent of its pre-collapse investment levels, the United States was at 56 per cent.



But we are still only at about 58 per cent. Meanwhile, the Americans recovered last year to 78 per cent of 2014 levels, with a further one-third increase predicted this year.



No other numbers so clearly point out why Trudeau, Notley and Horgan need urgently to get a deal done that allows Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain expansion project to go ahead.



So long as our oil and bitumen are landlocked and must be transported by rail, our energy industry (and the national economy) will lag behind the rest of the world.



Building Trans Mountain alone will not eliminate all the problems. With just one new pipeline, we will still need to ship oil by rail to meet all the demand and that means a lot of our oil will still have to be discounted as much as 40 per cent to cover the transportation costs and the lack of international buyers.



At some point, for energy investment to return fully, we will have to revisit the Energy East pipeline project or something similar. But one step at a time. The lack of pipelines (and the near impossibility of building new ones) is not the only reason investors are reluctant to return to Canadian oil and gas, even though they are hustling back to other countries' oil industries.



Since the election of the Liberals federally and in Ontario, coupled with the election of the NDP in Alberta and B.C., Canada has become an unappealing place to invest.



A recent World Bank report ranked Canada as the 34th out of 35 OECD countries in length of time to get a construction permit. And that's general construction, not just pipelines.



To acquire all the necessary federal, provincial and municipal OKS for a new factory, warehouse or condo takes nearly six months longer than in the U.S. and nearly four months longer than in the OECD as a whole.



Then, of course, there are taxes. The Americans have dramatically cut their corporate rates. Meanwhile our PM vowed in a speech



to the World Economic Forum in Switzerland in January to keep both Canadian taxes and red tape high.



(Such a clever strategy.)



Since the New Democrats took over in Alberta in 2015, Alberta has fallen from the 14th best place in the world to invest in oil and gas to 33rd, according to a survey of executives and investors conducted by Vancouver's



Fraser Institute last November. And the reasons half of them gave for the drop? High taxes (including a carbon tax) and greater regulation. Nationally, there are also higher taxes since 2015 (plus a looming carbon tax coming), and the Liberals' new assessment regime that imposes impossible enviro standards, as well as gender-based and Indigenous "traditional knowledge" assessments of new projects. Finally, there are NAFTA worries.



The Royal Bank said this week that because of all these factors it is watching capital flight from Canada (mostly to the U.S.) occur "in real time." Even if the three leaders can work out a pipeline deal, it's doubtful they will reverse their many other economically destructive policies.

[Anonymous]

If my  husband's shop is forced to relocate to North Dakota, I blame the prime minister and the premier of Alberta..



I don't blame the premier of BC, because if we had a real leader for a prime minister, John Horgan's antics would be irrelevant.

[cc]

Now, THAT's putting it where it is at



Spot on!!!

[cc]

Here's "today's" TrueDough spiel



http://nationalpost.com/news/politics/horgan-still-blocking-trans-mountain-after-meeting-with-pm-notley-3">Trudeau promises money, legislation to 'remove the uncertainty' and make Trans Mountain happen



OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he has instructed his finance minister to enter negotiations with Kinder Morgan to "remove the uncertainty" hanging over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.



Trudeau also says federal legislation is coming that will "reassert and reinforce" the fact that the federal government is well within its jurisdiction to approve the project and ensure it goes ahead.



He's offering few details, however, saying the negotiations will not take place in public.



"Ideally, we wouldn't be in this situation right now," Trudeau told a news conference Sunday after a closely watched, last-minute meeting with B.C. Premier John Horgan, who is blocking Trans Mountain, and Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, who desperately wants to see it go ahead.



"Ideally, the rhetoric and actions by the B.C. government would not have led to the concerns of the company, that got approval to move forward on a project that is in the national interest," he said.



[Trudeau Promises To Give Your Money Away In Secret Negotiations To Make Trans Mountain Happen]

[Anonymous]

Here's "today's" TrueDough spiel



http://nationalpost.com/news/politics/horgan-still-blocking-trans-mountain-after-meeting-with-pm-notley-3">Trudeau promises money, legislation to 'remove the uncertainty' and make Trans Mountain happen



OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he has instructed his finance minister to enter negotiations with Kinder Morgan to "remove the uncertainty" hanging over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.



Trudeau also says federal legislation is coming that will "reassert and reinforce" the fact that the federal government is well within its jurisdiction to approve the project and ensure it goes ahead.



He's offering few details, however, saying the negotiations will not take place in public.



"Ideally, we wouldn't be in this situation right now," Trudeau told a news conference Sunday after a closely watched, last-minute meeting with B.C. Premier John Horgan, who is blocking Trans Mountain, and Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, who desperately wants to see it go ahead.



"Ideally, the rhetoric and actions by the B.C. government would not have led to the concerns of the company, that got approval to move forward on a project that is in the national interest," he said.



[Trudeau Promises To Give Your Money Away In Secret Negotiations To Make Trans Mountain Happen]

Money is not required, leadership from Ottawa is.

[Anonymous]

Progressives like those three stooges and Peaches are antithetical to the socialist workers movement.

[realgrimm]

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[Anonymous]

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Don't vote for him and we can start undoing  the damage he has caused to the middle class in this country.

[Angry White Male]

Even more immigrants?  That's all we fucking need!

[Anonymous]

I read that support for the Transmountain expansion is up to 54 per cent now in BC.

 

[realgrimm]

Even more immigrants?  That's all we fucking need!

Tell me about it



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His position is contradictory.

[Anonymous]

John Horgan is a very selfish guy.

Harming Canada isn't 'in the best interests of British Columbians,' Mr. Horgan

Time for British Columbians to look at whose interests are really being served: the people's, or the premier's



British Columbia Premier John Horgan continues to defend his opposition to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion on the grounds that it is his job "to do what's in the best interests of British Columbians." But whose interests are really being served by continuing to create mayhem and uncertainty around a project that has federal approval?



Premier Horgan talks about "gaps" with respect to the federal government's Ocean Protection Plan. If that really is a concern he should spell out what those gaps are so they can be addressed by what looks like a willing federal partner. Or is there another agenda here? One that's not about protecting B.C.'s coast but rather about stopping this project at all costs? This would not, by any stretch of the imagination, be in B.C.'s best environmental, economic, or Canadian interests as a member of Confederation.



Time for British Columbians to look at whose interests are really being served: the people's, or the premier's

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[Anonymous]

The Trudeau regime is not serious about getting the Transmountain expansion built.



From Sun News Media





If Alberta was thinking it might have to buy all or part of Trans Mountain as early as April 8, you can bet the same thoughts were going through the minds of the Trudeau government, too.



Carr's admission on the weekend was hardly scandalous.



But a revelation further down in the CP story should be scandalous.



Reporter Mia Rabson revealed [size=150]"B.C. government records show the company hasn't applied for a single new permit" since the federal government became the presumptive owner on May 29.[/size] Regardless of who owns the pipeline, the owners will need more than 1,100 construction permits to proceed. [size=150]Before Ottawa bought the project, Kinder Morgan had applied for just 756. And since it's May 29 purchase, the federal government has applied for no further permits.

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Approval not a problem



It's true the Trudeau government won't technically own Trans Mountain until Kinder Morgan shareholders can approve the deal this summer. But no one expects approval to be a problem. If they really wanted to, the incoming owners could encourage the company to crank up its permit-application machinery. They're not.



It's looking more and more as if the Trudeau Liberals aren't truly serious about building the Trans Mountain Expansion. They bought it so they could make it look as if they were keeping the project alive, but they also bought it so they could control whether it ever got off the starting blocks.



They want to mute the criticism from pro-pipeline voters by pretending to take meaningful action, while at the same time keeping environmental voters quiet by not actually doing anything to get bulldozers moving.



It's all about keeping this issue as quiet as possible until after next October's federal election. Can you imagine what it would do to the electoral fortunes of Liberals in B.C. (also in Toronto and Quebec) if anti-pipeline protesters began chaining themselves to construction equipment and the Trudeau government had to call out the RCMP or even the military?



The surest way to avoid those bad optics is to never commence construction.



[size=150]Last week in the House of Commons, opposition Natural Resources critic Shannon Stubbs got Carr to admit there was a good chance construction on the pipeline might not begin this year. The revelation this past weekend about construction permits (or the lack of them) merely confirms that it will be a surprise if work begins in 2018 in a big way.[/size]



And that will mean one of the biggest reasons given for shelling out $4.5 billion in taxpayers' dollars will be a sham.