I think it’s more likely that he ran back to home office hoping for protection.

Apparently he ran off to Texas

If the pipeline proposal proceeds on the schedule we are given it will begin right around the time of the next Alberta provincial election and have been in process for a year for the next BC provincial election. Making Smith look strong for hers and Eby look weak for his.

Carney is more ideologically copacetic with Danielle Smith than he is with David Eby and seems like he is both fine with a UCP governed Alberta and would prefer a CPBC governed British Columbia.

Potentially, depending on how they choose to finance it. The Trans Mountain pipeline is fully government owned through a crown corp, they could do something similar. Or they could potentially go with a P3 model where they use government funds to make investment more attractive to a private corporation resulting in a privately owned pipeline or shared ownership depending on the specifics of the agreement.

You’ll notice there’s a premier missing who’s province is going to have to be involved in this. Also, how do you all feel about selling off our ports and airports to buy Danielle Smith another pipeline? Because,

There is no private sector proponent or route for a possible pipeline. The Alberta government says it will act as the project’s proponent in submitting the proposal to the federal government’s major projects office.

that “Sovereign Wealth Fund” will definitely be financing this.

You missed a name. This is a federal plan, after all.

And thanks to their military doctrine where they produce a limited quantity of very flashy, expensive weapons, they will get low on munitions when they engage in any serious conflict. Watching the US flounder against Iran (who apparently spends between 8-25 billion a year on defence according to various estimates I looked at) really makes you wonder if buying weapons from the US is buying weapons for yesterday’s war.

This majority is getting worse every day.

I guess we see why Carney worked so hard to bribe his way to a majority. So he can inflict Thatcherism/Reaganomics/fucking horseshit on us.

Fucking Teslas? Talk about a bait and switch.

So why did you make the differentiation, then? The Star has endorsed the Liberal party in every election except one, by the way, including Carney. Which doesn’t make the paper a friend to me but they are certainly not diehard enemies of the current government.

No, I just disagree with neoclassical economics. We can look back over the last 40 years and see that an overreliance on private investment leads to wealth inequality and unstable societies, the rise of right wing pseudo populism and figures like Trump. The style of economics you favour is an abject failure and needs to be abandoned.

Print money as necessary. As long as that new money is going into developments that will grow in value over time, it will be fine. Trading a depreciating asset for an appreciating asset. Also expropriation already happens all the time, for example land for HSR tracks, and investment still happens. Investors will get over it.

A lot of companies will make a lot of noise about theft and how they will never invest in Canada again and some might even pull out for awhile but we’ll ultimately be fine because we have loads of resources the world needs. They sure as hell wouldn’t be turning their noses up at our oil right now.

But really, I’m a socialist and would much prefer if governments invested in our country instead, so that the value created goes to Canadians rather than, for example, Texas based oil and gas companies.

We also have gigantic oil reserves. Which we should absolutely expropriate.

The Star is not Postmedia, it is Canadian owned.

The Norwegians didn’t just discover 3 trillion in their couch cushions. It’s the result of their policies. We are doing the opposite of those policies. Instead of nationalizing industry and using the boons that come from that for the public good, we are instead selling off public assets to shovel money into the private sector. The only reason these funds share a name is because Carney is deceitful and thinks we are too stupid to see through it.

Oh really? Because it was pretty obvious that he originally saw all this as an easy way to feel and look mighty after his operation in Venezuela gave him a false sense of power. Not really worth rushing to support in my opinion. I guess Carney felt differently.

Collectivization of all industry. Or if that’s too pie in the sky, strengthen and actually enforce local ownership requirements over Canadian news orgs.

I’ve always thought that combining geothermal power with Dutch vertical farming would go a long way towards making much more of Canada agriculturally viable. This would help solve the food security issues experienced in the north and also help with solidifying Arctic sovereignty in a more effective way than military bases, which is to say making a larger human footprint than ~130k people spread across three huge territories viable.