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Continue Reading →: Veto Nation: Carney’s Vision Is a Curse on Unity
Veto Nation: Carney’s Vision Is a Curse on Unity
Unity isn’t built by handing out vetoes like Halloween candy. But that’s precisely what Prime Minister Mark Carney proposes for Canada: a governance structure for major projects so Balkanized, so suffocatingly fractured, that it makes the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth’s liberum veto look like an efficient bureaucracy (more on this below). Carney wants every Premier and…
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Continue Reading →: Unpacking a ban on plastic waste packaging
Unpacking a ban on plastic waste packaging
Ottawa’s plan to eradicate plastic waste by 2030, led by Minister of the Environment Stephen Guilbeault, on its face seems to be a commendable ambition. However, we must tread carefully. An ill-considered approach driven by unchecked ideology might trade one set of challenges for another. As a result, it’s crucial to evaluate its health, economic…
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Continue Reading →: No justice for West in “Just Transition”
No justice for West in “Just Transition”
The “Just Transition” legislation that Justin Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh want to introduce represents terrible news for hydrocarbon energy producers and workers in Alberta and Saskatchewan. The “People-Centered Just Transition” federal proposal sends up red flags from the title onward. It bears the hallmark pretense of caring about people. But governments prioritise systems instead of…
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Continue Reading →: Eco-ideologues at the Ready to Profit from Health Crisis
Eco-ideologues at the Ready to Profit from Health Crisis
Radical ideologues from the University of Alberta are prepared to inflict more pain and suffering upon Albertans in the oil industry for the sake of accelerating the advent of the pristine future they expect to arrive soon.
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Continue Reading →: Alberta’s Problem Isn’t Geography
Alberta’s Problem Isn’t Geography
Regressive and oppressive Iranian Shiite mullahs have proven to be more reasonable business counterparts than former World Wildlife Fund apparatchiks in Ottawa, populist nationalists in Quebec City, and the rigid eco-zealous alliance of Greens and New Democrats in Victoria. This is Alberta’s problem!
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Continue Reading →: Politically Blocked Isn’t the Same as Geographically Landlocked
Politically Blocked Isn’t the Same as Geographically Landlocked
The current problem isn’t that Alberta and Saskatchewan are landlocked per se. Many territories in the world – independent states and sub-national states – are landlocked but are very prosperous without the obstructing actions of their neighbours.
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Continue Reading →: Extinction Rebellion Is an Apocalyptic Cult
Extinction Rebellion Is an Apocalyptic Cult
XR are prepared to go to prison and, like most cults, are prepared to wreak havoc onto the world until the world meets their demands and converts, non-violently for now. But that may change. Their sense of urgency may turn in frustration to violent desperation, prompting their twisted logic to jump to vandal criminal action.