00:00:00.000I am so tired of being consistently right about Prime Minister Mark Carney's fake pipeline.
00:00:07.060He can sign as many meaningless MOUs as he wants and speak positively about building a pipeline,
00:00:13.220but he's never actually going to do it. And I think the Alberta provincial government and the
00:00:18.380oil and gas industry are finally catching on to what Carney's game is. Check out this headline
00:00:24.800from Globe Politics. Kearney confirms West Coast oil pipeline still without private sector backing.
00:00:33.680It's almost like the Kearney Liberals have done absolutely nothing to clear the regulatory decks
00:00:41.760to make it possible to build a pipeline. It's almost like they've also simultaneously been
00:00:47.440handing out vetoes to the BC provincial government and to First Nation groups like Therkandi. And
00:00:54.320shockingly there's no private sector backing oh i wonder why it's almost like nothing's changed
00:01:01.440since prime minister justin trudeau was around it's almost like saying nice things and then
00:01:07.360trying to get alberta to commit to carbon capture and higher industrial carbon taxes actually makes
00:01:13.520it less appealing to build a pipeline in fact carney may be worse at building pipelines than
00:01:19.760Justin Trudeau was. Check out this clip where he answers a question about Alberta putting forward
00:01:25.840a proposal where he already sounds like he's trying to downplay the possibility of it actually
00:01:31.080working when he's the only one who has to say yes. Already submitted its pipeline proposal to you
00:01:37.100and is it sufficient enough in your view to start the process of designating it a project of national
00:01:42.060interest as well as reaching an agreement on pathways? Thank you. So a couple of things. One
00:01:47.400is that i will be in alberta tomorrow tomorrow evening and looking forward to that and we've
00:01:54.680been in close contact the premier and i this is what we call stalling he's trying to figure out
00:02:01.560what his deflection of the lie is going to be in a few seconds here i always like to point out mark
00:02:07.480carney's rhetorical tactics that he uses in order to try and be a slightly better liar he always
00:02:13.960obviously tries to save himself time by just going on and prattling about nothing oh yes i'm going
00:02:19.800to go to alberta and i like alberta i talk to daniel smith sometimes it's like okay well how
00:02:25.560about you talk about what you think about the pipeline proposal on your desk our teams as well
00:02:31.480uh it's uh as you in indicate in your question it's for alberta to submit uh a proposal uh on
00:02:39.560or around july 1st uh that's uh that's tracking well from their perspective uh but then there's a
00:02:46.440process that goes uh that takes a few months until october before a decision is made whether or not
00:02:52.440to refer to uh the major projects office do you hear that so with alberta's pipeline proposal
00:02:59.960carney can sit on it for another few months and even if he says yes it's not actually rubber
00:03:05.800stamping the pipeline to be greenlit to start building in a few months he might green light it
00:03:12.120to send it to the major projects office for them to also do their own regulatory inspection of the
00:03:19.720project and then decide if it's actually going to be a project of national importance this is
00:03:25.320a long-winded way of saying it's never going to be done and he's going to make that clear
00:03:30.120in the next few seconds a variety of things that have to be followed through a variety of stakeholders
00:03:36.440that have to be engaged and you reference rightly pathways in your in your question and
00:03:45.240is always been linked all aspects of the implementation what is now an implementation
00:03:49.880agreement are linked so pathways the reforms to the carbon market potential pipeline a series of
00:03:57.240of other measures that are taken, including measures by the federal government? You see what
00:04:01.020he did there? One, again, you should immediately have alarm bells going off in your head. And
00:04:05.760as soon as we mentioned stakeholder engagement, when it comes to building a pipeline,
00:04:11.460that means very, very, very long winded consultations with First Nation bands who are
00:04:19.940mostly incentivized to say, no, there is one area where the pipeline's not going to get built.
00:04:25.460Oh, and another one of the stakeholders is the B.C. government, which is a radically green left government who also doesn't like the pipeline.
00:04:33.920And then he also starts talking about pathways and some of the other things they want to see on the carbon markets, which is effectively demanding that Alberta Premier Daniel Smith sign up for higher industrial carbon taxes.
00:04:47.320I believe like a $20 billion carbon capture scheme, as well as a bunch of other nonsense.
00:04:55.200And with all that, we get a potential pipeline.
00:04:58.940Potential, shouldn't it be guaranteed if we do any of this stuff?
00:05:02.960It's absolutely wild that you have to jump through this many hoops simply to have your
00:05:09.140proposal get rubber stamped to then go to the major projects office to be reviewed again
00:05:15.260by whatever jokers are currently managing that office who have not actually been able to fast
00:05:21.120track any substantial project that wasn't already most of the way through or a tiny expansion to an
00:05:28.000already existing project at some point alberta premier daniel smith just has to come out and
00:05:35.080call him out for being just a complete weasel on this issue he's so clearly kicking the can
00:05:41.620down the road further and further every time the alberta government makes a substantial move
00:05:47.140towards actually trying to get something done every time they actually do something to try
00:05:51.940and get the pipeline built carney immediately goes limp and he starts saying oh you need the
00:05:56.500major projects office to get involved in this no you don't you can just approve it as the prime
00:06:00.980minister no one else needs to be involved except the prime minister and he will not say yes which
00:06:08.980means he's saying no no matter how much he pretends he is saying no check out this article
00:06:15.700from energy now a more pro oil and gas news organization i've already read this article so
00:06:22.980i just want to sum it up for you here but the the headline is canada's oil firms look to scrap
00:06:28.100carbon tax tied to new pipeline now the reason why this is significant is that if you thought
00:06:34.740and it's very clear from the details of the article. If you thought that putting up with
00:06:39.800a higher industrial carbon tax would guarantee the pipeline gets constructed, maybe you'd go
00:06:45.880along with it knowing that maybe seven, eight years down the line, if a conservative government
00:06:49.780is in power, you can get rid of that carbon tax anyways. They're pushing back against increasing
00:06:55.960the industrial carbon tax and they want it scrapped because they know it's complete nonsense
00:07:01.380to impose a higher price on themselves for a potential pipeline,
00:07:05.800because the potential pipeline is never going to happen.
00:07:09.080In fact, even in the minor areas of some green reform,
00:07:13.720of trying to get rid of a bunch of the anti-oil and gas green regulations in place,
00:07:21.480Carney pulled back on it because he was getting too much pushback from members of his own caucus.
00:07:26.760is. Remember, at least 14 liberal MPs signed a letter to Carney protesting about the pipeline
00:07:34.120that he wants to build. That's the funny thing about all this. Carney is trying to walk a
00:07:40.920rhetorical tightrope. That's stupid for him to be trying to do. He's trying to never get a pipeline1.00
00:07:46.860actually built to please the green left, as well as please the business liberal sort of center
00:07:53.200by pretending he still wants to build one. But that just means both groups do not actually,
00:07:59.280they are both dissatisfied. He's doing all these political maneuvers and somersaults,
00:08:03.960and at the end of the day, it's probably just going to result in his political neck being
00:08:07.820broken on this stunt. Anyways, now I want to jump over to this article from the Frazier Institute,
00:08:14.200which sort of needles in on the fact that Carney hasn't done absolutely anything to fulfill the
00:08:20.260federal liberal side of the MOU with Alberta. Check out this one. It's a commentary by Kenneth
00:08:27.180Green here, and it says, Carney government already clawing back MOU promises made to Alberta.
00:08:33.720Back in November 2025, the federal government in Alberta struck a memorandum of understanding to
00:08:40.360help resolve the multifaceted and increasingly fractious impasse between the two governments
00:08:45.320over Alberta's ability to expand oil production and reach export markets
00:08:49.920being shipping from Canada's Pacific coast.
00:08:52.880The two governments were starkly opposed.
00:08:55.080On one hand, Alberta has long wanted to expand production and development of its oil sands
00:09:00.180and gain export pipeline capacity to the West Coast with a lucrative market waiting in Asia.
00:09:05.700On the other hand, Carney's government inherited and assumed prior commitment
00:09:10.120to make Canada a net-zero greenhouse gas emitter by 2050.
00:09:14.780Along with other commitments to environmental protections and aboriginal reconciliation, all issues critical to any hope of future Alberta-to-Pacific pipeline development.
00:09:26.040I just want to go down here to show you the parts where they've now basically clawed back their promises.
00:09:32.800In the MOU, the Smith government pledges were concrete and immediate, and to begin immediately.
00:09:38.960The federal government's pledges were much less concrete, much more aspirational, and are a lot more contingent on diffused forces and good fortune.
00:09:49.840And with the ink barely dry as the MOU enters implementation, the clawback on those diffuse promises is already starting.
00:09:59.060As the CBC reports, after feedback from thousands, Carney government slows down sweeping environmental changes.
00:10:05.320The subhead informs that consultations extended from June 7th to June 22nd, pushing them neatly past the current legislative session in Parliament that might have advanced the legislation.
00:10:18.760This is, by the way, the same legislation the federal government is banking on to fast-track Alberta's potential pipeline.
00:10:25.700In other words, its major part of the MOU threatened only months after negotiations and formal adoption.
00:10:32.160So, yes, the federal liberals have absolutely no way of actually fulfilling their side of the MOU until maybe the fall, at which point they then have to wait longer to make the legislative changes that they've sort of half promised to make to build the potential pipeline.
00:11:25.340It's like, well, because you're the problem.
00:11:27.400This is like if a town wanted to bring in more business.
00:11:32.360It's a city that wants to bring the tech sector into town.
00:11:35.660They want to be a part of the growing tech industry.
00:11:38.800And they promise businesses, if you come and you set up shop in our city and bring jobs here and make this your new headquarters, you'll get something.
00:11:49.960And then they ask, well, what do we get?
00:11:52.340And then you're like, well, you have to come and set up shop first, and then we'll tell you all the incentives we're going to offer, to which they would be correct in assuming you have absolutely nothing.
00:12:04.760It's like saying, well, if you do everything I want, if you put billions of dollars into the Pathways Carbon Capture Project, increase the industrial carbon tax, and pass a bunch of other green regulations, they don't give you what's in this box over here.
00:12:20.180You can't know what's in the box, but it's really cool.
00:12:41.680And this is why Daniel Smith has to pull out of this farce.
00:12:45.140He's effectively getting her to implement green measures that she would have normally never agreed to on the vague, foggy promise that eventually we might approve something that will then go to the major projects office to be reviewed again, to be probably just completely killed by the B.C. government and First Nation groups.
00:13:06.400But if we roll 100 on a 100-sided dice and we actually get through all those stages, maybe from five or six years from then, we will build the pipeline, although we still haven't gotten rid of Bill C-48 and Bill C-69, which makes it pretty impossible to build it.
00:13:23.220But who cares? Just live on the fumes of hope, Daniel Smith. It's all going to be okay.
00:13:30.240This thing needs to die. This is a stupid project that's never actually going to get finished.1.00
00:13:36.400The Alberta government should pull out, the oil and gas companies should pull out, because continuing to go down this trail is simply artificially boosting Mark Carney's approval ratings based on vapor, based on nothingness, based on the promise he might build something.0.99
00:13:52.580Danielle Smith has to say, I've been so willing to work with them.
00:13:57.040And every time we make a proposal, every time we try and propose something that will actually make it far more likely to build the pipeline,
00:14:04.300the liberals act dumb and they say, oh, there's no private proponent.
00:14:07.600Why should I get the regulations out of the way if there's no private proponent?0.98
00:14:11.040It's almost like no private proponent is going to show up if there's no ability to actually do anything with it.0.98
00:14:17.120It's like kind of a, you need, it takes two to actually get this done, but Mark Carney's pretending like Alberta is going to implement everything, propose the route, get the proponent, and then the federal government will start the slow process of actually fixing up the regulations for this project.0.97
00:14:34.940Remember, you know that crazy project called the Alto high-speed rail line?
00:14:40.600We've spent over $260 million taxpayer dollars at the Alto Crown Corporation just studying the stupid high-speed rail project that nobody actually wants.0.94
00:14:52.360It will serve a very small portion of the population.0.94
00:14:55.560The approval ratings on it are abysmally low for it being so early into the project's life.