Well, doesn’t that just tell you what you need to know about where Alberta stands in Confederation?.For the premier of any province to be told they weren’t welcome to speak to a standing committee of the House of Commons, is rude beyond comprehension. Canadians expect their governments to work together, which means they need to talk with each other..However, given that it’s the premier of Alberta who has been snubbed, that it is the house committee on environment and sustainable development that’s doing the snubbing and the issue between us is the Trudeau Liberals are demanding Alberta commit to a power strategy that could kill Albertans, yes we need to be talking to each other..One does not need to be a political insider to see what’s going on here..First, Danielle Smith is quick, articulate and has the facts on her side. Those facts would be if Alberta followed Liberal guidance, it would be forced to rely upon wind and solar during winter, without — without — the security of sufficient gas-generated backup energy. The consequences of that on a cold, dark, windless day are too obvious to require elucidation..But elucidate she would and for want of an answer, they would look like the horribly ill-prepared, doctrinaire ignoramuses that they manifestly are..As the premier tweeted, “That was the fastest response we’ve ever received from the Feds — apparently they don’t want me to testify about electricity grid reliably or our pursuit of carbon neutrality by 2050 after all. (I) wonder why?”.Second, it’s pretty obvious where this is going. The Liberal brand is shot..Certainly, the Trudeau brand is done. It has the lustre of rust on an old bucket in a junk yard. But even if the adequacy-challenged prime minister were replaced by the comparatively cerebral and competent Mark Carney, the Liberals have performed overall with such consistent ineptitude that a change of government must be as close to certain as snow in Calgary by Halloween..Their one hope — and it is a strategy that seldom fails them — is to divide the country east-west. So, watch for the Trudeau Liberals to ramp up their efforts to present a complacent and timid central Canada with an enemy within Confederation that they already love to look down upon — a Western Canada that’s tough, resilient and knows enough to reject the disingenuous offerings of Messrs. Trudeau and Guilbeault..Tomorrow, the Supreme Court of Canada renders its decision on the Trudeau Liberals’ Bill C-69 ‚ the so-called ‘no pipelines bill,’ that the Alberta Court of Appeals decided last year was unconstitutional. We await the ruling, and the premier’s comments on it, with interest..All the more reason, we suspect, that the Trudeau cabal really doesn’t want the charismatic Smith in Ottawa, using up all the oxygen.
Well, doesn’t that just tell you what you need to know about where Alberta stands in Confederation?.For the premier of any province to be told they weren’t welcome to speak to a standing committee of the House of Commons, is rude beyond comprehension. Canadians expect their governments to work together, which means they need to talk with each other..However, given that it’s the premier of Alberta who has been snubbed, that it is the house committee on environment and sustainable development that’s doing the snubbing and the issue between us is the Trudeau Liberals are demanding Alberta commit to a power strategy that could kill Albertans, yes we need to be talking to each other..One does not need to be a political insider to see what’s going on here..First, Danielle Smith is quick, articulate and has the facts on her side. Those facts would be if Alberta followed Liberal guidance, it would be forced to rely upon wind and solar during winter, without — without — the security of sufficient gas-generated backup energy. The consequences of that on a cold, dark, windless day are too obvious to require elucidation..But elucidate she would and for want of an answer, they would look like the horribly ill-prepared, doctrinaire ignoramuses that they manifestly are..As the premier tweeted, “That was the fastest response we’ve ever received from the Feds — apparently they don’t want me to testify about electricity grid reliably or our pursuit of carbon neutrality by 2050 after all. (I) wonder why?”.Second, it’s pretty obvious where this is going. The Liberal brand is shot..Certainly, the Trudeau brand is done. It has the lustre of rust on an old bucket in a junk yard. But even if the adequacy-challenged prime minister were replaced by the comparatively cerebral and competent Mark Carney, the Liberals have performed overall with such consistent ineptitude that a change of government must be as close to certain as snow in Calgary by Halloween..Their one hope — and it is a strategy that seldom fails them — is to divide the country east-west. So, watch for the Trudeau Liberals to ramp up their efforts to present a complacent and timid central Canada with an enemy within Confederation that they already love to look down upon — a Western Canada that’s tough, resilient and knows enough to reject the disingenuous offerings of Messrs. Trudeau and Guilbeault..Tomorrow, the Supreme Court of Canada renders its decision on the Trudeau Liberals’ Bill C-69 ‚ the so-called ‘no pipelines bill,’ that the Alberta Court of Appeals decided last year was unconstitutional. We await the ruling, and the premier’s comments on it, with interest..All the more reason, we suspect, that the Trudeau cabal really doesn’t want the charismatic Smith in Ottawa, using up all the oxygen.
