In this episode, we discuss the lack of pipeline projects in Canada and how this is a direct result of the Trudeau government's anti-Canadian environmental policies. I also give my thoughts on Bill C-69 and the "anti-Canadian" stance by Prime Minister Mark Carney.
00:03:41.560Well, they mean that in the sense that we're going to have a bunch of worthless solar panels and wind farms around that have to be heavily subsidized by the government.
00:03:49.940Carney has never ruled out the idea of supporting the construction of a new pipeline.
00:04:09.640It goes on to basically just say that, like, and rightfully so, it quotes, it quotes Danielle Smith, saying that, of course, you're not going to get private investment.
00:04:19.420At the same time, you have industry killing regulations in place.
00:04:25.680It's almost trite to point it out at this point, that you need to get rid of Bill C-48 and Bill C-69 if you actually want any of this stuff to get done.
00:04:34.540And that's what Pierre Polyev has been saying.
00:04:37.420That's what every conservative has been saying.
00:04:39.500You even get non-conservatives saying that, yeah, you kind of got to get rid of these things.
00:04:43.480Like, you have former liberal MP Wayne Long saying, yeah, the government messed up on energy because it made it so that it's, you just can't invest.
00:04:51.120There's just no chance that it's going to be a better area to invest in than heading down to Texas or heading to another country with oil and gas.
00:04:58.180But now I want to jump to something that was going on today, which was the liberal caucus speech that Mark Carney just gave.
00:05:10.100And in it, he's just talking about how, you know, we're getting all this stuff done.
00:05:14.400And he knew the controversy that was already out in the media when he was saying these things.
00:05:19.040He could have reassured people that, no, no, no, right around the corner, we may put out a pipeline.
00:05:24.060But no, he doesn't say it because it's just not a priority for him or that politics is like hockey.
00:06:29.640That's why we had a two week session in which we passed a purely symbolic bill that actually doesn't change anything because they can already fast track projects for through regulations.
00:06:39.340That's just a power of cabinet in general.
00:08:24.560But Alberta's current energy minister and then I believe energy, was he still the energy minister back then?
00:08:31.500Regardless, they're in a standing committee on finance.
00:08:34.200And he was talking and he was asking questions to the 2013 version of Mark Carney.
00:08:41.420And Mark Carney states in this answer that he believes that Canada needs better energy infrastructure to get more investment, you know, like pipelines.
00:08:49.640So this is and we have highlighted this issue again in this report, as you would have seen.
00:08:54.120This is ultimately an issue of pipeline and refining capacity.
00:09:03.860We see the possibility of American, quote, energy security in a few decades.
00:09:09.780But that's in a North American context that includes a substantial increase in exports of Canadian crude to the U.S. market.
00:09:17.640Obviously, there is an advantage to having as many options as many customers as possible and multiple options from an infrastructure perspective that can be supported by the.
00:09:29.680So if I can summarize what you're suggesting is the only thing we can do and the best thing, if we use your 2020 vision, as you suggested to Mr. Bryson, is to concentrate on pipeline capacity and refining capacity.
00:09:46.540We should be getting we should be getting pipelines built in order to expand our capacity to supply oil and gas products, not just to the United States, but to Europe as well.
00:09:56.200But the government's not interested in that, which is why we're not expanding LNG capacity for us to be able to export to the to Europe very well.
00:10:07.680But we're just going to pretend like, oh, this is just completely out of our hands there.
00:10:11.520You know, there's policy and there's details and it's all just complicated.
00:10:16.300I just want to cut to one commentator speaking on this issue this morning, who is actually a former professor of mine, Dwayne Bratt, who is on CTV News.
00:10:25.020He's also, for some reason, been going on about the whole Daniel Smith book ban.
00:10:28.500I never understand how people with PhDs are willing to just parrot the dumbest talking points about how, like, oh, Daniel Smith is banning books.
00:10:36.160No, she's banning explicit materials from elementary, middle school and high school libraries.
00:10:43.300Yes, some written explicit content can be in high school libraries.
00:10:46.720That's things that take place in, like, The Handmaid's Tale and whatnot.
00:10:50.780But goodness, everyone was acting so obtuse on that issue.
00:10:54.080But I find it interesting what he says here about the idea, well, the government could always still do a pipeline.
00:10:59.720It's like, no, it was obviously the thing that they had to deliver now or they were going to lose a lot of credibility.
00:11:05.060Let's talk about the relationship between the federal government and the province of Alberta right now.
00:11:11.740We know Kearney's going to be meeting with Smith.
00:12:27.960I do agree with him that they've raised expectations, but that Don Farrell was ever a good sign.
00:12:33.280I think it was like the Western Standard who did a whole expose on who Don Farrell was.
00:12:38.560It's someone who was actually put in charge back in when the Alberta NDP were in government in Alberta in phasing out coal.
00:12:45.760So I don't think the person who is very much indicated that they're on the green side of energy issues is going to be the person approving pipelines or who's going to be reasonable at all.
00:12:56.280But, yeah, generally speaking, I think I made it sound like I disagreed with Dwayne Moore when that clip started, but I think I read a quote.
00:13:03.200But, yeah, no, generally, yeah, this is all Mark Carney's.
00:13:06.100This is all an issue of Mark Carney's own making.
00:13:09.560He was the one who indicated that he was going to do this, and now he's not doing it.
00:13:13.780And regardless of what he indicated, he should be doing it.
00:13:16.360And I just want to now talk about this other journalist who has been trying to naysay conservatives on this.
00:13:24.440So Brian Lilly was just commenting on this individual, Norman Spector, talking about how there's not going to be a pipeline.
00:13:31.560And Brian Lilly says, this will be hugely detrimental to national unity.
00:13:35.580I really don't think people in Eastern and Central Canada understand what is happening in the West.
00:13:42.580And David Musgrove says, then the free market should step up and fund a pipeline.
00:13:48.140If not too bad, that's capitalism, baby.
00:13:51.340And this other person called him out for his just completely obtuse opinion.
00:13:56.480And I just want to read another quote here from David Musgrove because I find it obnoxious.
00:14:00.980David Musgrove says, what does it tell you that private companies don't want to build a pipeline?
00:14:06.120It tells me they don't see a reasonable rate of return in the long run.
00:14:10.820The free market can get it can be tough.
00:14:13.020Alas, as conservatives say, the market knows best.
00:14:16.400Yet somehow there is green energy projects being started all across Canada that only exist on subsidies.
00:14:24.980They only exist on massive subsidies and massive tax breaks.
00:14:30.020And yet we're going to blame the private sector for not building a pipeline when there are massive negatives to trying to start a pipeline through regulations and taxes.
00:14:38.720Like we have an emissions cap, which is effectively a production cap.
00:14:43.340And we're just going to say here, like, oh, my goodness, private sector failed.
00:14:54.760They want a regulatory landscape that is sensible.
00:14:58.980If it doesn't exist, why would they say, OK, this project could go well or it could end up costing us double and then just get shut down at the very last second because the government is trying to play to the green crowd?
00:15:11.540The government has screwed over, like, resource development companies in the past.
00:15:23.860And then the government just said, nah, nah, it's not in line with our green agenda.
00:15:29.340Oh, there's no there's no business case for it, even though it was ready to go.
00:15:32.540So it's just so obnoxious when you have people just deliberately acting obtuse when it comes to when it comes to the differences between effectiveness in the oil and gas industry and the green energy industry.
00:15:46.480I was watching on I believe it was Ben Mulroney show the other day.
00:15:53.900I think he was a former advisor, Stephen Harper.
00:15:56.080And then they had Max Fawcett on from the National Observer.
00:15:59.180And when the when it was reasonably pointed out by both Mulroney and the former advisor that nobody wants these EVs unless you give them massive tax breaks, that Max Fawcett said, well, that the government does need to be supporting the demand market.
00:16:16.140They need to be supporting consumer demand if we're to get this industry off the ground, which means it's a fake industry.
00:16:23.460It's not a real industry if people need to be paid money in order to buy the product.
00:16:27.260If you have to compensate people a massive amount in order to manufacture or purchase something, then it's not a very viable industry, is it?
00:16:36.860Whereas you never have to tell people to like the other to try and raise demand so that people buy new gas or diesel powered vehicles.
00:16:44.600They want them and they purchase them on their own on their own initiative, even while there is actually a lot of subsidies to buying EVs.
00:16:53.600But these people will never understand that they'll never seem to clue into the fact that they'll condemn the free market for not building pipelines when there is all these barriers.
00:17:02.300But then they'll say, well, the government needs to give a leg up to the EV manufacturers into the EV dealerships.
00:17:09.400But anyways, that should be it for this video, guys.
00:17:13.560I think this is actually going to have a pretty significant impact on Mark Carney's polling in the next week or two,
00:17:20.180because he's kind of already slapped at the former NDP voters who voted liberal in the last election with the Air Canada fiasco,
00:17:28.640which, by the way, the proposed government deal has already fallen through and they look even dumber now.
00:17:33.500And now they're slapping at the conservative turned liberal voters in the last election.
00:17:38.380You get a lot older voters who are like, they were irrationally saying, Paulie was too much like Trump.