Wyatt Clunock talks about the lack of progress on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline and other pipeline projects by the Trudeau government, and why it might not be so bad at all. He also talks about Prime Minister Mark Carney's decision not to show up for question period in Parliament today.
00:01:11.380She probably knows this memorandum of understanding with Mark Carney on pipelines is not actually going to result in a pipeline.
00:01:18.140She just cannot look like the difficult party because naturally the news media is far more likely to blame her for a pipeline not getting done
00:01:25.820if she ends up pushing back on Carney's lies than they're blaming Carney for being the liar in the first place.
00:01:32.120And so she's basically just letting it happen.
00:01:35.480But we have federal conservative party leader, Pierre Polly, of calling out Carney for basically trying to fake a pipeline announcement.
00:01:42.180He's not going to build one. As I have been saying, Carney is outsourcing saying no to other people.
00:01:48.580He will keep saying yes to a pipeline all day long.
00:01:52.120But then he'll say, well, David Eby doesn't want to do it.
00:01:55.740Or, well, this native band run by activists doesn't want to do it.
00:01:59.800Or some random guy in the Kootenays who calls himself a wizard doesn't want to do it.
00:02:05.360They will just find some random person at the end of the day that doesn't want to do it.
00:02:09.220They'll just get a cat to say no to the pipeline at the end of the day and say Carney says, oh, well, Garfield doesn't want to do it.
00:02:16.980He absolutely has the authority and he got absolutely bashed today in parliament by Polly of calling him out for his life to the point he didn't even show up.
00:02:27.800He could have been there to fight with Polly of on this thing he's so proud of, apparently, but he didn't.
00:02:33.840So before I get into it, I do want to remind you guys, hey, if you like the show, make sure to leave a like on this video.
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00:02:42.860But before I play the video, I do just want to start off with this tweet that federal conservative party leader,
00:02:49.800Pierre Polly of put out because, hey, I like smart politics and this is definitely smart politics.
00:02:55.220Polly up here says, dear prime minister, you snuck out the back door of the house mid question period to dodge a debate with me on pipelines.
00:03:02.260Then you dodge the emergency debate on softwood lumber.
00:03:05.680Your schedule is open for question period today.
00:03:19.800Pacific because Carney did not show up.
00:03:22.400And, yeah, it's not great when your own people have to talk about how strong you are when you're not even strong enough to actually take on your opposition.
00:03:30.880You try and mock for having not won his reelection initially in the last election.
00:03:52.940The good news is that David Eby, the Premier of B.C., has absolutely no constitutional authority to block a pipeline.
00:04:02.460The bad news is that this prime minister does.
00:04:06.460It's under section 9210A of the British North American Act works between provinces or exclusively the federal government's responsibility.
00:04:16.440So you can already hear how much people are trying to heckle on this one because they know it's not a comfortable topic for the government.
00:04:23.620They do not want this being brought up because, again, they want the story to just be that there's a memorandum of understanding.
00:04:29.460Carney likes oil and gas, and then he can maybe win an election in 2026, get a majority, and then he never actually has to have the pipeline passed.
00:04:38.180We're going to get to some of his own ministers later.
00:04:40.560Some of his own MLAs basically saying they don't actually want a pipeline, and it's David Eby's authority to say yes or no.
00:04:46.840And the prime minister has said that they don't want it because they don't support it.
00:04:51.340But Carney is just pretending to support it.
00:04:53.320He is outsourcing saying no to other people because, really, the answer from Carney is no.
00:04:58.480He'll just keep saying yes while getting other people to say no for him.
00:05:01.880Please, will the prime minister stop hiding behind the powerless premier, get out of the way, and approve a pipeline to the Pacific today?
00:05:10.200The Honorable Minister of Natural Resources.
00:05:14.400Mr. Speaker, I'd invite the member opposite to buy a ticket to Calgary tomorrow to see how a federal government works with the provincial government to build Canada strong.
00:05:31.880Tomorrow, the prime minister will wave around in the air a worthless piece of paper that he says that the premier of B.C. can veto any time he wants.
00:06:18.320You could probably get the money together with companies within a year if you clear out all the regulatory hurdles.
00:06:23.320They would put up the money in an instant if you got rid of the regulatory hurdles and they were guaranteed to actually be able to finish the project.
00:06:29.280Because in a normal country, they are able to finish projects with certainty because the government usually doesn't squash them.
00:06:36.640And so this guy could just say in six months, you'll be seeing us break ground and you'll look like such a fool.
00:06:42.060And if he actually was able to then line up a bunch of companies to sign an agreement that we will not get in your way, it would look even better.
00:06:48.440They can't do that because they don't want to do that.
00:06:50.320So they're just running away from it with just vague language about how we're agreeing to stuff.
00:07:44.100And he asked us to pass emergency legal powers in C-5 to give him the personal authority to overturn any regulation in order to get the project done.
00:07:57.480In other words, this government has the exclusive power.
00:08:35.440The only word we still need in there is catalyzed memorandum of understanding.
00:08:39.860We are going to, it's a catalyzed investment of a memorandum of understanding.
00:08:44.900What is that actually going to result in?
00:08:47.000So I hope tomorrow at this announcement ceremony between Smith and Carney, and, again, Smith's not with Carney.
00:08:53.200She just has to pretend to go along with this so she doesn't get thrown under the bus and saying, oh, see, the Alberta premier wasn't working with him.
00:08:59.760So she's going to be as smiley as possible on this one, but I hope a journalist actually asked Carney, why don't you actually just say, approve an actual plan for a pipeline, and then say to all the oil and gas companies, you will absolutely sign something saying you will remove all the regulatory hurdles, like, you know, with penalty of $100 million if you break your promise.
00:09:19.260Mr. Speaker, what this prime minister is doing is leading.
00:09:23.880He's leading on building national projects.
00:09:27.060He's not only leading from behind, he is literally leading from outside the house, even though he's in the city.
00:09:32.500He's leading on building port capacity.
00:09:35.880He's leading on making Canadian steel, lumber, aluminum, and various commodities more available for homes, for big projects, to put people, unionized people, men and women, from every part of this country to work building our great country.
00:09:55.460That's what this prime minister is doing.
00:09:58.700What is the leader of the opposition doing, Mr. Speaker?
00:10:01.300You know, don't set up the opposition leader for a zinger.
00:10:13.700I think this is, like, step number one in being the liberal house leader.
00:10:18.400Step number two, because Steve McKinnon probably needs to know the step, is don't eat your own thumbs.
00:10:23.880Another one is don't set your own hair on fire.
00:10:26.620But, you know, I can go through all the rest of the rules on another day.
00:10:29.540But, like, goodness, why would you say that when you know your own fearless leader is fearfully hiding in, like, another room in the building?
00:11:17.400You know, yesterday, the Prime Minister said, who cares that Canadian workers are losing their jobs because he broke his promise to get a deal?
00:12:04.220This is actually November 19th, where the media was interviewing Liberal cabinet ministers and MPs from British Columbia on whether or not they will support a pipeline or will this actually get a pipeline built?
00:12:17.380Can there be an oil pipeline or an MOU with Alberta if BT Premier David Evey is against it?
00:12:23.880You've heard the Prime Minister, you've heard Minister LeBlanc say a number of times publicly that for any projects to materialize, those projects will have to be made with the accord, the agreement of provinces.
00:12:43.220So he has confirmed that, yes, they're not going to be building a pipeline because David Evey has to agree to it.
00:13:07.160Well, I mean, I'm not privy to those talks that are going on.
00:13:10.180I think what's important is what Minister Hodgson and the Prime Minister said, is that for any projects, particularly anything that's going to be listed on the national project or the major projects list, it's going to have to have provincial buy-in and Indigenous support.
00:13:28.500And Coastal Four Nations have been very clear.
00:13:31.200They've had a public binding agreement related to the potential of a Northwest pipeline.
00:13:35.960So I think that's really important to keep.
00:13:38.100He's even more clear here that the Liberals are not going to do it because he basically just said, you know, the province and First Nations have been very clear.
00:15:20.320He literally just said he doesn't see that happening.
00:15:22.680And by the way, do you know how corrupt it is in British Columbia?
00:15:26.560Not only is David Eby saying no for his own reasons, but David Eby, like Carney, is also double outsourcing saying no because he brought in Grand Chief Stuart Phillip to say no.
00:15:36.920Do you know who Grand Chief Stuart Phillip is related to?