Unsurprisingly, Prime Minister Mark Carney has lied about something else that he and the Liberal Party campaigned on in the 2025 federal election. Now, he s walking back his stance on oil and gas development and pipelines. During the election, he made it seem like, unlike Justin Trudeau, he was going to be far more friendly to new development of oil & gas resources and building pipelines. But now he s being a complete weasel and putting it on the provinces to block them, and then backing up the provinces if they say no.
00:00:03.160Unsurprisingly, Prime Minister Mark Carney has lied about something else that he and the Liberal Party campaigned on in the 2025 federal election.
00:00:13.200Now, he's walking back his stance on oil and gas development and pipelines.
00:00:19.000During the election, he made it seem like, unlike Justin Trudeau, he was going to be far more friendly to new development of oil and gas resources and building pipelines.
00:00:29.160But now he's being a complete weasel and putting it on the provinces to block them and then backing up the provinces if they say no.
00:00:37.720Basically, he's saying, yes, but not if David Eby doesn't want to do it.
00:00:42.720Yes, but not if Legault doesn't want to do it.
00:00:45.600Yes, but not if Wab Kanu doesn't want to do it.
00:00:47.960Which is basically just him saying no, because as the Prime Minister, it should be his job to help these national projects ram through and actually get completed.
00:01:00.000And instead, he is allowing people who don't actually have the jurisdiction to stop them to stop them.
00:01:05.100Because this is an actual national interest of the country and provinces cannot block other provinces from building projects.
00:01:13.920When it's a singular small pipeline that just needs to run from one part of the country to another, one province can't say, well, it's our jurisdiction, you're not allowed to do it.
00:01:22.840Because now that's an attack against another province's industries by saying that they can actually export efficiently, which is what's happened to the oil and gas resources in Alberta for decades now.
00:01:35.660I'm going to get into it in just a second here.
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00:01:49.940Here is Mark Carney in a press conference alongside, I believe, like, of course, that's Chrystia Freeland.
00:01:57.300I always forget his name, the other guy's name.
00:02:00.000He's basically just an appendage of Mark Carney these days.
00:02:04.260But here's Mark Carney in English after answering in French saying that, well, of course, I'm in favor of pipelines and oil and gas development, but not if anyone else says no.
00:02:14.260And I guarantee not only does he mean the premiers, he probably also means First Nations groups.
00:02:19.440He probably means environmental activist groups.
00:02:21.920He can say yes while saying no as long as he wants.
00:02:25.080He can keep saying yes, but then saying, but there's this holdup right here, which is so weaselly, in my opinion.
00:02:51.260This is the thing that drives me up a wall.
00:02:54.060Participation of First Nations people, you mean not building a pipeline is going to somehow involve them more?
00:03:00.580Because that is effectively what you're doing by letting ban councils hold up projects forever through endless consultations, often in lands that they don't actually get to say whether or not a pipeline gets built.
00:03:13.400But the government will pretend that they have veto.
00:03:16.320And so it allows them to veto it by pretending another group vetoed.
00:03:20.460This is, again, the game Mark Carney is playing.
00:03:37.920Something that I'll translate into French, which is what's encouraging from the first minister's meeting in Saskatchewan is that many provinces came together in support of projects that would stretch across provincial boundaries.
00:03:56.200So, for example, the Western and Arctic corridor would be an example of the Energy East Partnership.
00:04:02.400That's Energy East Partnership, not pipeline, to be clear.
00:04:05.300Even he couldn't say pipeline, even though Doug Ford is on board with a pipeline, Scott Moe is.
00:04:31.180He's been signing over lands to First Nations groups that really didn't have control of them in the first place.
00:04:37.040And so, yeah, there might be a possibility there.
00:04:39.620But the main holdups are Quebec's a big holdup and we have B.C. as a big holdup.
00:04:45.280Technically, we could do an end run around Quebec.
00:04:48.460The problem is it's obviously less efficient to be trying to build in Ontario than building in Quebec, where you immediately have access to the Atlantic Sea or to the Atlantic Ocean.
00:04:58.720Again, Hudson's Bay is a good possibility.
00:05:01.360But on the West Coast, David Eby wasn't even at that First Minister's meeting.
00:05:05.420Is Mark Carney going to chastise him for going to Japan and hanging out in convenience stores and saying, look, they have hard bite potato chips in Japanese convenience stores?
00:05:15.280By the way, unless that's a recent development, goodness, I was in Japan less than a year ago.
00:05:19.940I did not notice these B.C. products around.
00:05:22.540This is like a North Korean fake village in the sense that they were probably letting a bunch of the products be on some Japanese store shelves just to make David Eby look good.
00:05:32.860So then they could actually get to negotiating over real import and export deals.
00:05:37.880They're not probably going to actually start stocking Canadian snack foods everywhere.
00:05:42.440It was just an easy way of letting David Eby pretend he had gotten a win early.
00:05:47.000But David Eby said no, no to a pipeline and he wasn't at the First Minister's meeting.
00:06:01.700Well, they don't even matter in the grand scheme of things here unless you're going to build a pipeline out to New Brunswick.
00:06:06.560Yeah, kind of wobb canoes on board a little bit.
00:06:10.220But again, he's kind of always one foot in the pool, one foot out of the pool.
00:06:15.240And then you have Doug Ford in Ontario, which I guess that's good.
00:06:20.160At the same time, it's not as efficient to be building a pipeline to one of the Great Lakes and then try to go through the St. Lawrence with those oil and gas products.
00:06:27.420You always want to go directly to the Atlantic.
00:06:35.580If you notice the pause there, it's because I had to sneeze really bad.
00:06:38.360Now I just want to bring up one other thing because it's not quite deserving of its own video right now.
00:06:43.280But this is pretty pathetic, and it comes courtesy of one of the best conservative MLAs or MPs right now, Andrew Lawton, who was challenging, I believe it was the Minister of Public Safety, but a minister involved with the gun bans and gun confiscations right now.
00:07:00.580He challenged them on it, and it turns out this guy doesn't even know what a PAL or RPAL license is.
00:07:06.920Hey, Chair, does the minister know what an RPAL is?
00:07:22.180I'll stipulate, Chair, that is the Canadian's firearm safety course that all gun owners in Canada have to do to get their firearms license.
00:07:28.680Has the minister ever done the Canadian firearm safety course?
00:09:07.180Oh, Andrew, you should play the full 10-minute tape.
00:09:10.820Really, they know he just looked like crap.
00:09:13.140He didn't know what a possession and acquisition license was or a restricted possession and acquisition license, the things that you need to be able to openly, to be able to, like, own a firearm in Canada.
00:09:24.400And he's the man who's going to be administering, potentially, the gun confiscation, which is absolutely going after law-abiding gun owners, because I'm not sure if the liberals have figured it out yet.
00:09:36.100But gangs do not pack their heat from Cabela's.
00:09:39.300They're not going to Bass Pro Shop to get a rifle to knock over a liquor store.
00:09:43.620These people get guns smuggled over the border that they refuse to actually secure properly.
00:09:49.480In fact, they were all, at one point, over in Roxham Road, just allowing illegal people to walk over the border, which was also distracting police and border security from being able to catch people who were smuggling drugs, guns, and other things in and out of Canada.
00:10:05.540It's absolutely mind-boggling that this man is now going to be in charge of things to do with firearms.
00:10:13.760Again, law-abiding gun owners not only are not committing the gang shootings in downtown Toronto or even in rural areas, they are also less likely to commit a violent offense than any Canadian.
00:10:26.880They are almost pacifists, except for the fact that they own guns.
00:10:31.960These people, gun owners, people who have PAL licenses, are one-third as likely as the average Canadian to commit a violent offense.
00:10:41.800Because if you start committing violent offenses, you're not going to have a PAL license very long.
00:10:46.600It's one of those things that sort of builds up a responsible citizen, that you have a privilege that would get taken away from you if you were not being responsible.
00:10:53.800And this is something that even many states have in the U.S. You have a right to own a firearm, but we also have the ability to at least test you before you do it.
00:11:03.800You know, people can argue whether you should have to take a test or not.
00:11:06.980As long as it's straightforward and easy, I don't see why it's a bad thing, especially, again, it kind of builds up that responsibility in people.
00:11:13.660I wish in high school we would bring back firearm safety courses.
00:11:19.220I wish every high school guy would get a PAL license before they leave high school.
00:11:24.380I wish everyone would have to get a driver's license before they leave high school.
00:11:28.320I don't care if you live in the most metropolitan downtown place possible.
00:11:33.200I think everyone should be doing things that make them more free and more responsible.
00:11:38.520Because getting more responsibilities, getting more privileges makes you more free.
00:11:43.180Being able to drive a car objectively makes you more free than somebody who can only ride a bike, ride public transportation, or take an Uber.
00:11:51.420But anyways, so that's it for this video, guys.
00:11:54.460I know I went a little bit off the trail there at the end when I talked about this firearm issue.
00:11:58.480But I always think it's good to pair up the more eye-catching topic with something that's a little bit harder to market in the end.
00:12:07.000In case you want to get into YouTube, you know, talk about whatever you want in the video, but just title the video after the bigger piece of news.
00:12:14.720Anyways, getting a little bit of a peek behind the curtain here.