"When ministers treat taxpayer dollars as leverage for floor-crossing, they transform representative democracy into a patronage machine." This is a great description of a prescription for disaster.
Great article on the State of Canadian politics in relation to energy and Carney's corruption building on Trudeau's "net zero" and insane covid policies. Reminds me of Australia (we lived in NZ and Oz 1977 to 1990), where the party in power has identical policies to the party not in power (due to having to form a coalition with the insane green party that is striving to destroy Oz). Australia has, I think, equivalent natural resources to Canada. Insane regulations and red tape keeps them in the ground, as their political leaders force wind, solar and billion dollar batteries on the lifeblood of their country - farmers, small towns, energy intensive mining and refining export industries which are shutting down. The Hormuz bottleneck has resulted in the doubling down on their renewable disaster. At least Canada is reasonably immune to the closure of 15-20% of exports that travel through the gulf?
Australia is being led by a progressive, just like the UK, Canada, and the EU. NZ's former PM Jacinda was also a progressive. Doubling down on net-zero, burdening businesses with colossal amounts of red tape, taxes on everything, high energy prices, dubious "industrial policies" rather than a free market, and so on -- those are the hallmarks of deindustrizlization and degrowth that make up the global progressive movement. Based on what all of these things amount to when taken together, people/voters need to consider just what the movement is "progressing" towards.
Excellent. After spending a decade erecting a regulatory Berlin Wall to ensure that no pipeline, LNG terminal , mine or major energy project could ever be built in Canada, the Liberals quickly, under Marx Carnage, switched to a narrative about making Canada an “energy superpower,” something that will never occur unless that regulatory gauntlet is removed. Since they have no plans or intention of cutting down that barrier - indeed, they continue to add to it - the only way that anything will ever get built at all ( let alone “ faster than ever before”) is via constantly carving exemptions out. LPC incompetence has left them with few options other than exemptocracy. Unless, of course, they were to drop the DEI, green communism and Islamophilia that drives their policy.
This is the best analysis of the Liberal's cynical enforcement of their political power. In a redistributive state such as Canada the implications are depressing and are really at the root of the Independence movement in Alberta.
"When ministers treat taxpayer dollars as leverage for floor-crossing, they transform representative democracy into a patronage machine." This is a great description of a prescription for disaster.
PS: Love the term "Exemptocracy"!
Great article on the State of Canadian politics in relation to energy and Carney's corruption building on Trudeau's "net zero" and insane covid policies. Reminds me of Australia (we lived in NZ and Oz 1977 to 1990), where the party in power has identical policies to the party not in power (due to having to form a coalition with the insane green party that is striving to destroy Oz). Australia has, I think, equivalent natural resources to Canada. Insane regulations and red tape keeps them in the ground, as their political leaders force wind, solar and billion dollar batteries on the lifeblood of their country - farmers, small towns, energy intensive mining and refining export industries which are shutting down. The Hormuz bottleneck has resulted in the doubling down on their renewable disaster. At least Canada is reasonably immune to the closure of 15-20% of exports that travel through the gulf?
Australia is being led by a progressive, just like the UK, Canada, and the EU. NZ's former PM Jacinda was also a progressive. Doubling down on net-zero, burdening businesses with colossal amounts of red tape, taxes on everything, high energy prices, dubious "industrial policies" rather than a free market, and so on -- those are the hallmarks of deindustrizlization and degrowth that make up the global progressive movement. Based on what all of these things amount to when taken together, people/voters need to consider just what the movement is "progressing" towards.
Carney: what a duplicitous Jerk!
Tammy, I can feel Canadians’ pain and frustration dealing with Ottawa. We Americans had to deal with Biden and his “Government of One” dealings.
Thanks for keeping us informed. S
Excellent. After spending a decade erecting a regulatory Berlin Wall to ensure that no pipeline, LNG terminal , mine or major energy project could ever be built in Canada, the Liberals quickly, under Marx Carnage, switched to a narrative about making Canada an “energy superpower,” something that will never occur unless that regulatory gauntlet is removed. Since they have no plans or intention of cutting down that barrier - indeed, they continue to add to it - the only way that anything will ever get built at all ( let alone “ faster than ever before”) is via constantly carving exemptions out. LPC incompetence has left them with few options other than exemptocracy. Unless, of course, they were to drop the DEI, green communism and Islamophilia that drives their policy.
This is the best analysis of the Liberal's cynical enforcement of their political power. In a redistributive state such as Canada the implications are depressing and are really at the root of the Independence movement in Alberta.