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Hey, Pollievre said something definitive? Hopefully people are listening that he cares more about oil and gas than the entirety of the country.
Ontario can lose all its manufacturing jobs, but we have to protect oil and gas. BC can burn and flood, but we have to protect oil and gas.
I've seen "I love oil and gas" advertising... It's a mental illness.
I mean, in fairness, bombardier shed 1000 jobs and the federal government couldn't show up fast enough with bags of money. Suncor shed 1000 jobs like the same day, not a peep.
So just to be abundantly clear, the feds absolutely play favourites, but if you think it's in the west then you haven't been paying attention.
So the government didn't spend billions of dollars to buy Alberta a pipeline?
Goddamn victim complex is getting really old.
To be clear, yes the government ie. the rest of Canada.
I won't argue the government intervenes with businesses. I'd argue now more than ever Canada having an aerospace company (which almost failed entirely) is a strategic need.
But I think that's all tangential to the point at large that this feels like a dumb move.
I agree that it's a disgrace that Smith is breaking ranks, I agree that Canada is better together. She's clearly angling to try and cut her own deals with Trump, which is laying directly into the plan of any fascist playing the divide and conquer game.
Alberta could be a renewables powerhouse, with solar and wind like nobody's business, but nooooo we have to lick the boots of oil and gas no matter what.
It's worse than that: It was on track to be, in 2023 AB accounted for 92% of renewables growth in Canada.
Then Smith put on the "renewables pause"...
And now AB is courting AI companies to build datacenters in southern AB.
Like, it's all such a fucking scam to induce demand on oil and gas.
That being said, I really really wish we could actually export at scale. Canada could absolutely kneecap Russias ability to wage war simply by undercutting their oil and gas sector.
We don't have to artificially create local demand. We could/should service legacy demand and fuck Putin while doing it.