David EBY to Danielle SMITH & ALBERTA - Go F yourself!
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John talks about Alberta s new plan to get a pipeline to the west coast of Canada and why he thinks it s not going to happen. John also talks about the fact that nothing has changed in the past 4-5 months.
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Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel, 527 AM, Thursday, October the 2nd. I hope
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you're having a great day today. I certainly am. I've got my big blue mug of coffee with
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me, ready to head back upstairs and refresh that in just a few minutes. But I want to
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talk to you about a story that I first saw yesterday. Well, Western Standard sent me
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an email, I think it was like breaking in my email, talking about this new plan by Premier
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Daniel Smith in the province of Alberta to get a pipeline to the West Coast. And the
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Western Standard, I'll show you a bit of their article in just a moment, seemed very optimistic
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about this. I applaud the Premier for trying to come up with a plan to do this. But the
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thing and the phrase that came to my mind regarding this is, she's pissing up a rope because nothing
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has changed. I watched an interview, I'm going to show you a clip in just a second. I watched
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an interview between her and Vashi Kapalas on CTV talking about this new plan. And it
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was like deja vu all over again. It was like an interview I watched between the same two
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women. I think it was back in June. June, July, August, September, October. So we're four
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to five months into this. Nothing has changed. Nothing at all. All of the same barriers are in
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the way that were before. And people seem to be optimistic about this plan going forward.
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Now, I'm just going to say to you, and I hate to be complimentary of Mark Carney, but he played
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this perfectly, like a master. Daniel Smith, in the interview with Vashi Kapalas just yesterday,
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mentioned that the ball is in Mark Carney's court. And Mark Carney isn't returning the ball,
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folks. He set up all the barriers to get in the way of an Alberta pipeline months ago. He's been
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setting it up forever because he doesn't want a pipeline and there will be no pipeline.
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We will not impose a project on a province. We need consensus behind these projects and we need
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the participation of Indigenous peoples. We will only do that in the case where we have the support
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of First Nations. We have the support of all the provinces coming together with consensus.
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That old word consensus comes up again. Has anybody, any province, any government been able to agree on
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everything in this country? And there's just no way this is going to happen. There's too many
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barriers here getting in the way of this pipeline. You know, you got to, God love Danielle Smith for
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trying, but she's going to have to finally get to the end game here. When none of this happens, what is
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Danielle Smith prepared to do? And that's what I, I thought I would find that out weeks ago when the six
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months were up regarding those different demands she had of the government. Let's take a look at the
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Western Standard story here quickly. Editorial, Alberta takes charge. Time for a new pipeline to the West
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Coast. Alberta's government has stepped up to lead a fresh push for a pipeline to British Columbia's
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coast. Premier Daniel Smith announced the move in Calgary tapping experts from Enbridge, South Bow,
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and Trans Mountain to Mapa Root. He doesn't say here that they are investing in this at all.
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This isn't just talk. It's a smart strategy to hand off a de-risk project to private investors,
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avoiding past pitfalls like the Keystone XL mess that cost Alberta $1.3 billion. Here's Daniel Smith
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talking a little bit about this with Vashi Capellas. Well, it's $14 million. And I think
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that the reason is because a proponent has told us that they cannot get companies lined up to ship
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on their pipeline as long as we continue to have a tanker ban, an emissions cap, and some of the
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other bad laws that are in place. And so we know that it's going to take our work to make sure that
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the federal government repeals or in some way revises those bad laws substantially. And to get to that
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point, we want to make sure that there's some of the technical work being done in the meantime.
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The ball's going to be in Prime Minister Mark Carney's court.
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She says that a lot in this interview on how the ball is in Mark Carney's court,
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which just sickens me. Because Alberta, our premier, is basically begging the Liberal government,
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Ottawa, and Mark Carney to get a pipeline. Because we got to go through them, folks,
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in order to get this done. And Carney's created all the circumstances to not have a pipeline.
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And instead of getting rid of the laws that she talked about there,
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they created another law on top of laws, Bill C-5. So now it's up to Carney to be the decider of what
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goes on in this country. It's just, you know, I used to have a teacher that used to write BSBB on
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the chalkboard. BS baffles brains, and that's what this is all about. Back to the article from the
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Western Standard. Fiscal sense seals the deal. Alberta's ponying up just $14 million for early
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planning. Not owning the pipe, but prepping it for private hands. Sources told the Globe and Mail
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that Bill C-48's tanker ban blocks companies from leading applications. So the province is stepping
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in to slash legal risks. Smart move and Indigenous involvement starts now. Leaders like Chief Raymond
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Powder of Fort Mackay, First Nation, and Dale Swampy of the National Coalition of Chiefs praise the
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early engagement. As Swampy noted, this drives economic reconciliation through ownership stakes.
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And this was discussed with Vashi Capella's huge barrier in the way of the pipeline.
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So is it your impression from those proponents that they believe if, for example, all those
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irritants in the form of those laws are removed, that there will be a proponent for this pipeline?
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Because again, they will still be up against, for example, Coastal First Nations, which just released
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a press release saying, as the rights and title holders of BC's North and Central Coast and Haida Gwaii,
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we must inform Premier Smith once again that there is no support from Coastal First Nations for a pipeline
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and oil tankers project in our coastal waters. Like, that opposition doesn't disappear, even if Mark Kearney
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Well, we'll see. I mean, we, I have a very skilled Indigenous relations minister who's very sensitive
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to the fact that any major project that goes forward has to have Indigenous ownership as
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the foundation. That's a bit different than it was 10 years ago, that we're beginning with the
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Danielle Smith is trying to work with Indigenous people, but there's just too many barriers in the
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way Vashi Capella's actually addressed that in this interview with Premier Smith.
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And I do understand your point about endeavouring to change that. And if it were, you know,
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one or five or even 10 First Nations that had expressed some opposition to this, I can, you
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know, envision a path forward. But I think it was 61 First Nations 10 years ago that expressed
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opposition so much so that they took it all the way through the courts and ultimately got
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a decision in their favour. How much taxpayer money are you willing to bet on something like
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this when the track record is what it is? You can see on her face there that Danielle
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Smith knows her back's up against the wall, and she's eventually going to have to come
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to the endgame, as I mentioned with Mark Carney. You haven't done this, so National Unity Crisis,
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which I did a video on just the other day. But Indigenous groups, it's almost like extortion.
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Do you get that feeling? Extortion is threatening somebody unless you get an economic payoff.
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And that's kind of what Indigenous groups do in this country. You give us money or else you
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don't get what you want. And that's where we are right now. I've said for months, provinces
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and Indigenous groups that get in the way of building things that make life more prosperous
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in this country should not benefit from the prosperity of this country. We should start
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slowly cutting them off from any transfer payments or any benefit they get from the rest
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of the country if they get in the way. So I'm jumping in here after I had already cut
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my video and edited it. And I wanted to include this in because this is David Eby after Danielle
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Smith did this announcement regarding this plan. And the only way to describe what David Eby
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is doing here, he's basically telling Danielle Smith in the province of Alberta to go f***
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itself. Eby is all in with Mark Carney, all in with his major projects office, which is located
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here in Calgary. This is just proof that nothing is going to happen when it comes to a pipeline
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between Alberta and the British Columbia coast.
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And that's a relationship that needs to go both ways. British Columbia has literally tens
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of billions of dollars of real private sector, shovel ready projects that are going to drive
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forward not just our economy here in BC, but the national economy at a time that the national
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economy is under direct threat and attack by Donald Trump. The problem that we have is that Premier
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Smith continues to advance a project that is entirely taxpayer funded, has no private sector
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proponent, is not a real project, and is incredibly alarming to British Columbians, including First Nations
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along the coast, whose support is required for the success of the billions of dollars in real
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projects that I'm talking about. We need a major projects office at the federal level, not a major
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distractions office, not a major politics office, but an office that advances real shovel ready projects
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that will move this economy forward in British Columbia and nationally. And what I am seeing from Alberta
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directly threatens that. There is no investment right now, and there is no proponent and there is no pipeline,
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Tim Hodgson, energy minister, is waiting on this. This is from the CTV.
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We are building Canada strong. The statement starts off by saying, and that means any project brought forward by a proponent
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will be evaluated against the same rules for all proponents. If Alberta wishes to be the initial
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proponent and funder of a pipeline to the West Coast and put it forward to the MPO, that is within
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their right to do so. We have an active and constructive dialogue with Alberta, the statement goes on to say,
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and we'll always look for ways to advance shared priorities. We have listed Pathways Plus as a
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transformative strategy for Canada and have been clear that a pipeline project must move forward in conjunction
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with the Pathways project, which will decarbonize our oil sands to the equivalent of taking over 4.75
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million cars off the road. So she actually mentions, I'm talking about Daniel Smith in this
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interview that she did with Vashti Capella. She says she wants to change the climate when it comes
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to investment in pipelines. This has got a lot to do with climate, but it's not investment.
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It's why we can't have nice things anymore. And listen, we'll hear Hodgson, the final part of what he wrote
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here. Concludes by saying, building major projects includes meaningful consultations with
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Indigenous rights holders, working with all affected jurisdictions, and alignment with
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Canada's objective with respect to climate change and clean growth. Once any proponent has done this
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work, the federal government is open to evaluating a project on its merits.
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So there you go. All of the things are in the way there, okay? You've got the provinces,
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you've got the Indigenous groups, you've got the climate thing there, you've got Mark Carney and
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the federal government in the way. All of these things are in the way. Nothing's going to get done.
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At the end of this interview, Danielle Smith goes back and repeats what she said before.
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It's going to be up to Prime Minister Carney whether or not he wants to work with us on being
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able to advance these kinds of projects or not. Mark Carney. Mark Carney is the decider, folks,
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of everything that happens in the province of Alberta. I can bring up Alberta independence here.
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People often say, and the argument is, well, you'd be in the same boat if Alberta were independent.
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Well, no, we would have the federal government out of the way because we'd be our own country.
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We would have more bargaining power, as far as I'm concerned, because British Columbia would now
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be isolated from the rest of the country. And we could say to British Columbia, play ball with
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us or we can just cut off the three or four roads that run between British Columbia and the rest of
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the country. And there's only three or four roads, folks. You either play ball with us or you might
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as well shut down your port in Vancouver because everything will have to be shipped through the
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United States of America because not a damn stick of wood, not one product will go through Alberta
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until you play ball with us. We could do that. We can't do that right now because we've got to go
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through the federal government. And we're begging the federal government
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for our prosperity here in this province. Sorry to be so damn negative about this.
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Danielle Smith knows who Mark Carney is. She's not stupid. The look on her face through that
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interview with Vashti, look at the look on her face here. The look on her face, she realizes that this
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is a futile activity. She knows who Mark Carney is. Here she is talking about him. Given that the new
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prime minister is a whole new level of climate zealot and eco extremist from his decades long push for
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net zero banking that sought to make it impossible for banks to invest in oil and gas to his promise
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now to massively increase carbon taxes on our industry. Make no mistake. He wants to eviscerate
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our oil and gas industry. It's right in his book. Danielle Smith knows who he is. I just want to
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know what the end game is here. Where does this end? She gave the six months. She's extended it.
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She's now trying with this project. I am not optimistic that this will ever happen. I am not
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optimistic that a pipeline will ever happen until Alberta goes on its own. Is that where we're going
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with Danielle Smith? I said months ago, we need a leader of the independence movement out here. I
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talked to Mitch Sylvester. You can watch his video. I actually put up a video of Jeff Rath,
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Dennis Mowdry and Mitch Sylvester kind of encapsulating all of their interviews where I
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asked him about this and he said, no, it's done by design. I don't know.
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Danielle Smith, the leader of the independence movement out here?
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Wouldn't that be something? But I just don't ever see a pipeline going through,
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not with all of the barriers in the way. And the biggest barrier is Mark Carney and the government,
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because he, as Danielle Smith said, it's up to him.
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