Western Canadians were jubilant when the Supreme Court found the No More Pipelines Bill (C-69) was unconstitutional. The celebration didn’t last long before the federal government began signalling it would continue with its attack on western industries despite the court ruling. A Globe and Mail headline said it all with Ottawa to press ahead with oil and gas cap despite Supreme Court decision. Yes, even the Toronto Globe didn’t try to sugarcoat it. The government plans to ignore the ruling of the Supreme Court of Canada. Or at least, to work around it.It appears the plan is to simply pack the regulations for a cap on oil and gas production into a new bill and jam it through parliament. Jagmeet Singh will gleefully support it, of course. It took four years to get C-69 to the Supreme Court. It will presumably take just as long to get any new legislation to the highest court in the land. Meanwhile, development and investment will continue to be chilled in the west. The government doesn’t care if the new bill gets thrown out, it will accomplish what it wants, which is to grind the oil and gas industry to a halt within Canada. The Trudeau Regime doesn’t care about the constitution. They don’t care about the tens of billions of dollars oil and gas bring into federal coffers every year. They don’t care world demand for oil and gas products is expected to increase for decades to come. It is a government of zealots. They are ideologues and are beyond reason. Trudeau’s government support numbers are in the toilet and he doesn’t even care about that anymore. He is obsessed with having a legacy of taking down the oil and gas industry he loathes so much. He wants to leave by poking those westerners one more time in the eye. He has never forgiven the west for its refusal to capitulate to his father’s ideological government. The federal government has no sense of fiscal reality and no respect for the businesses that create wealth for Canadians. We have seen this as the head of Suncor Energy, Richard Kruger, was dragged on the carpet and interrogated by Liberal and NDP MPs over the business decisions of the company. What horrific sin did Suncor commit to have him be dragged across the country to have to explain himself to federal politicians? Suncor sold off its lame wind and solar projects and said it will focus on oil and gas development. In other words, an oil company wants to be an oil company. They did nothing illegal or immoral yet the authoritarian squids in government felt they had the right to demand an explanation from them.Kruger should have told them to go to hell and stayed home. Appeasement never works with zealots and he wasted his time and energy trying to explain himself to a group of people who had no right to demand an explanation from him in the first place. The attitude is the same with grocery chains. Trudeau demanded the Competition Bureau look into grocery prices and the bureau did so. Trudeau’s own study concluded there was no gouging in the retail grocery sector and called profits modest. That wasn’t good enough. To hell with the facts!Trudeau then ordered CEOs to appear in Ottawa and demanded they reduce prices within weeks or he would tax them. The arrogance of the demand was galling. The economic illiteracy on display was unsurprising, but still troubling. How on earth can chains operating on profit margins of 4% or less significantly cut retail food prices while remaining profitable? Further, how would taxing those businesses save consumers any money? Only Trudeau has those answers, apparently, because anybody with even a whiff of economic understanding knows his demands make no sense. What company or investor would want to set up shop in a country when you could be called to Ottawa at any time to explain your business decisions to an ideologically driven government committee? Trudeau won’t let himself be bound by reality or by principle. He is flailing and desperate as his public support crumbles and he has decided the private sector is the source of his problems. This is a dangerous attitude coming from an authoritarian with a minority government being backed by a socialist. The damage he can cause with his constant attacks on Canadian businesses could reverberate for decades as he turns the nation into an investment pariah. When the Liberals can so quickly ignore a Supreme Court ruling and so boldly set out to violate the constitution, one must wonder what the point of the constitution is. Further, one must wonder what the point of confederation is. It’s time for the west to seriously consider a future outside of Canada.
Western Canadians were jubilant when the Supreme Court found the No More Pipelines Bill (C-69) was unconstitutional. The celebration didn’t last long before the federal government began signalling it would continue with its attack on western industries despite the court ruling. A Globe and Mail headline said it all with Ottawa to press ahead with oil and gas cap despite Supreme Court decision. Yes, even the Toronto Globe didn’t try to sugarcoat it. The government plans to ignore the ruling of the Supreme Court of Canada. Or at least, to work around it.It appears the plan is to simply pack the regulations for a cap on oil and gas production into a new bill and jam it through parliament. Jagmeet Singh will gleefully support it, of course. It took four years to get C-69 to the Supreme Court. It will presumably take just as long to get any new legislation to the highest court in the land. Meanwhile, development and investment will continue to be chilled in the west. The government doesn’t care if the new bill gets thrown out, it will accomplish what it wants, which is to grind the oil and gas industry to a halt within Canada. The Trudeau Regime doesn’t care about the constitution. They don’t care about the tens of billions of dollars oil and gas bring into federal coffers every year. They don’t care world demand for oil and gas products is expected to increase for decades to come. It is a government of zealots. They are ideologues and are beyond reason. Trudeau’s government support numbers are in the toilet and he doesn’t even care about that anymore. He is obsessed with having a legacy of taking down the oil and gas industry he loathes so much. He wants to leave by poking those westerners one more time in the eye. He has never forgiven the west for its refusal to capitulate to his father’s ideological government. The federal government has no sense of fiscal reality and no respect for the businesses that create wealth for Canadians. We have seen this as the head of Suncor Energy, Richard Kruger, was dragged on the carpet and interrogated by Liberal and NDP MPs over the business decisions of the company. What horrific sin did Suncor commit to have him be dragged across the country to have to explain himself to federal politicians? Suncor sold off its lame wind and solar projects and said it will focus on oil and gas development. In other words, an oil company wants to be an oil company. They did nothing illegal or immoral yet the authoritarian squids in government felt they had the right to demand an explanation from them.Kruger should have told them to go to hell and stayed home. Appeasement never works with zealots and he wasted his time and energy trying to explain himself to a group of people who had no right to demand an explanation from him in the first place. The attitude is the same with grocery chains. Trudeau demanded the Competition Bureau look into grocery prices and the bureau did so. Trudeau’s own study concluded there was no gouging in the retail grocery sector and called profits modest. That wasn’t good enough. To hell with the facts!Trudeau then ordered CEOs to appear in Ottawa and demanded they reduce prices within weeks or he would tax them. The arrogance of the demand was galling. The economic illiteracy on display was unsurprising, but still troubling. How on earth can chains operating on profit margins of 4% or less significantly cut retail food prices while remaining profitable? Further, how would taxing those businesses save consumers any money? Only Trudeau has those answers, apparently, because anybody with even a whiff of economic understanding knows his demands make no sense. What company or investor would want to set up shop in a country when you could be called to Ottawa at any time to explain your business decisions to an ideologically driven government committee? Trudeau won’t let himself be bound by reality or by principle. He is flailing and desperate as his public support crumbles and he has decided the private sector is the source of his problems. This is a dangerous attitude coming from an authoritarian with a minority government being backed by a socialist. The damage he can cause with his constant attacks on Canadian businesses could reverberate for decades as he turns the nation into an investment pariah. When the Liberals can so quickly ignore a Supreme Court ruling and so boldly set out to violate the constitution, one must wonder what the point of the constitution is. Further, one must wonder what the point of confederation is. It’s time for the west to seriously consider a future outside of Canada.
