TagProvincial Rights
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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 →: Shandro gun announcement shows how Sovereignty works
Shandro gun announcement shows how Sovereignty works
In mid September (2022), Premier Jason Kenney openly disagreed with UCP leadership hopeful Danielle Smith over Smith’s proposed Alberta Sovereignty Act (ASA). Kenney said the legislation would be destabilising, unconstitutional and a disaster for Alberta. Kenney’s former principal secretary levelled similar accusations, which Kenney happily quoted: it should be called “the Alberta suicide act.” Kenney…
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Continue Reading →: Three Elements Converge into a Perfect Economic Storm for Alberta
Three Elements Converge into a Perfect Economic Storm for Alberta
In the midst of a perfect triad of storms, Alberta should combat the COVID-19 pandemic as though there were no attempts to choke Alberta’s oil industry, and it must combat the attempts to choke Alberta’s oil industry as though there was no COVID-19.
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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 →: Federal Subsidies Undermine the Media and Provinces
Federal Subsidies Undermine the Media and Provinces
Regional reporting and editorials may come to suffer blindness similar (even if lesser) to that in some Central Canadian media, to the disadvantage of provinces over time.
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Continue Reading →: Atlantic Canada must be told ‘no,’ or it will continue to decline
Atlantic Canada must be told ‘no,’ or it will continue to decline
To save the Atlantic region from continued decline, several changes should be implemented. They will be unpopular, but are necessary.