As Premiers BEG for prosperity a WESTERN ALLIANCE becomes clear
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Summary
After the First Ministers' meeting, all 7 premiers of the Western premiers have to beg Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to get things done in Canada, and it makes me sick that we have to ask Mark Carney to do it.
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So, yesterday was the first ministers' meeting, and folks, people are putting on a brave face.
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Doug Ford did. He said it was the best meeting in 10 years. Well, I'm not surprised.
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I mean, you had Justin Trudeau, so it was a better meeting. So, that's something good, but I'm not optimistic at all.
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I did a video a while ago about how mediocre Canada is. You've got a bunch of provincial premiers, except for David Eby, who wasn't there,
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sitting around begging of the federal government to get stuff done. And it makes me sick that we have to beg Mark Carney,
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who got parachuted in back in the early part of the year to be the leader of the country. It makes me sick.
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Alberta's got big plans. I'm an independent Albertan, and I've got a different thought when it comes to independence,
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and I'll get to that in just a moment. We've got big plans here. Daniel Smith has big plans.
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Northern Gateway, Energy East, Keystone XL. We want to get rid of all the barriers that are in the way of this province to get stuff done.
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God, we've been through it for months here. Daniel Smith laid them all out. The Bill C-69, the tanker ban, there's nine of them.
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We still haven't got any answers. On Sunday, or a few days ago, she said, Carney had until Sunday to give her answers.
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We come out of the meeting yesterday. We got nothing. She's asked the very first question when she's on CPAC.
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The question she's asked said, you came here for answers, and basically, you got none.
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Premier Smith, thank you for taking the time. My pleasure.
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So the final communique, perhaps not outlining the final projects that people thought it might,
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but it did mention the Western Arctic Corridor. How important was that for you?
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I think it's going to be an amazing project, and the fact that all seven premiers in the West came together
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at our last Western premiers meeting to identify, which I think is a visionary project,
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that would see a corridor stretch from, call it Port of Prince Rupert, to the Port of Churchill,
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or one port on either coast that may not be exactly at that, depending on what it is the private sector says.
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It opens up a lot of opportunity to have a good conversation about oil pipelines, gas pipelines, transmission lines.
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So, she's putting on a brave face. We get the Western Arctic Corridor, which is just fine.
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Prince Rupert, to Churchill. Do you really think anything's going to go through British Columbia?
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No. David Eby doesn't want that. He wants to be a clean energy superpower. He said it back in early May.
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We have a generational opportunity here to be a clean energy superpower, to contribute to the vision of Canada
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Canada as an energy superpower in our own way here in British Columbia, while protecting our province,
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but also our planet from pollution, ensuring that we're using our clean electricity to build.
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David Eby does not want a pipeline going through British Columbia.
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Danielle Smith is asked about it in the CPAC interview.
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She says he does not want a bitumen pipeline. It's not going to happen.
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And it's convenient for Mark Carney, who's loving the fact that all these premiers have to come and beg him,
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the Prime Minister, to get things done in this country.
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Again, we're a mediocre country, that we have to do that.
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But Carney can just say, listen, we all have to agree on these things.
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Oh, sorry, Alberta. BC doesn't want a pipeline. That's not going to happen.
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Which makes me just think that instead of an independent Alberta, we need an independent West.
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Northern British Columbia. The hell with Southern British Columbia.
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Northern British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba.
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A Western alliance. A Western independence alliance.
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To paraphrase Ralph Klein, let the Western bastards freeze in the dark.
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Because they want their green energy. That's what David Eby wants.
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Another convenient out is here on the screen right now.
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Sorry, the Assembly of First Nations don't agree with pipelines.
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AFN National Chief Cindy Woodhouse-Nepinac wrote
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that the proposed bill suggests a serious threat to First Nations exercise of treaty rights.
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It says the First Nations have ceded territory in a lot of those treaties.
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Our national leader is talking about reconciliation.
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The Assembly of First Nations loves being a victim.
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Then Danielle Smith is asked about the national unity issue
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and in her answer she provides another one of Mark Carney's outs
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and one that could be a serious problem with his leadership
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and the Liberal Party still leading this country in a few months.
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You said today's meeting would have significance over national unity.
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Now that the meeting is done, what would you say about the state of national unity?
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What would you say about the message being sent to Albertans?
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I think it's a first step of a multi-step process.
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I think that having words on the page is one thing
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but having that translate into action is another.
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Is there an approval process that leads to a yes?
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That's the kind of thing that they'll be looking for.
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But I think mostly it's a spirit of cooperation with the federal government
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looking at some of the modifications that need to be made to those nine bad bills
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to see if that spirit of cooperation continues.
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I'm hopeful but I know that the prime minister has tensions within his own caucus.
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I think he campaigned though on being an energy superpower.
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And to do that you've got to do things differently
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than the way we've done them for the past 10 years.
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As an independent Albertan, I really don't care what Mark Carney,
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the Liberal Party, the federal government, the premiers promise.
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I don't care if Danielle Smith gets everything she wants.
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There's always another tyrannical government down the road
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It's been going on for, what, five decades or more?
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Then she also mentioned that the prime minister has tensions within his own caucus.
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There's a lot of climate cultists in the Liberal Party.
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if he starts promising oil pipelines and natural gas all over the country?
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Then, of course, there's Legault in Quebec, who's noncommittal as usual.
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So we need to see what's the economic impact for Quebec.
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So what I say is that if there's a project going through Quebec, we'll study it.
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And then you get the people who live out east who don't understand a damn thing
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One of the most unhelpful things about the incessant anti-Canada rhetoric
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from the impressively corrupt oil and gas lobbyists masquerading as Premier of Alberta
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is the constant framing that it is 100% up to Ottawa to repair to the relationship she is torching.
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I just mentioned five decades of Alberta being screwed over.
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And I replied, you probably don't live in Alberta.
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By Mark Carney, the Liberal Party, any of the Provincial Premiers at that meeting.
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