Western Standard - Alberta responds to Supreme Court decision on Bill C-69

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00:03:55.480 Well, good morning, everyone.

00:04:18.860 I want to start by saying that our government is aware

00:04:21.700 and watching events taking place across the world today.

00:04:24.880 We're monitoring the situation in Alberta closely, following the terrorist group Hamas and their calls for acts of violence around the world today.

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00:04:40.160 Now, to the news of the day.

00:04:43.160 If you believe in fairness, common sense, and the sanctity of the Canadian Constitution, today is a great day.

00:04:50.220 We are extremely pleased with the Supreme Court of Canada's decision confirming the unconstitutionality of the federal government's Destructive Impact Assessment Act.

00:05:00.600 This legislation, also known as the No More Pipelines Act, but I've been calling it the Don't Build Anything Anywhere Act, is an existential threat to Alberta's economy.

00:05:10.860 It is already responsible for the loss of tens of billions of dollars in investment and thousands of jobs across the country in many economic sectors.

00:05:19.400 Today's ruling represents an opportunity for all provinces to stop that bleeding,

00:05:24.080 rebuild investor confidence, and attract those jobs back into our economies.

00:05:27.980 And today, I am pleased to say that Alberta is once again open for business.

00:05:35.560 The court ruled that the act and regulations are unconstitutional and reaffirmed

00:05:40.400 that the primary jurisdiction of non-renewable natural resource development is the sole jurisdiction of the provinces.

00:05:47.640 And the court also ruled that they do not apply to activities that primarily fall under provincial jurisdiction, including conventional oil and gas, oil sands, hard rock mining, and other similar non-renewable resource development.

00:06:02.140 These are substantial wins for the protection of provincial rights in our Constitution.

00:06:06.520 The legislation gives the federal government almost unlimited power to intervene in the approval of virtually any major project or in any part of the country and for any reason.

00:06:17.500 Businesses agree with us.

00:06:19.080 Six other provinces, as well as First Nations,

00:06:21.740 who joined as interveners, NGOs, and Canadians from across the country

00:06:25.660 who made their voices heard.

00:06:27.360 And today, so does the Supreme Court of Canada.

00:06:29.740 And we will continue to fight against Ottawa's unfair overreach

00:06:33.520 that continues with their uninformed and unrealistic electricity regulations

00:06:37.700 and oil and gas emissions cap.

00:06:40.320 They will damage our economy, they will stifle development,

00:06:43.120 they will erode constitutional rights and they will ultimately harm all canadians by putting jobs at 1.00

00:06:48.640 risk and making life more expensive alberta will simply not accept being handcuffed by ottawa's

00:06:54.400 unfair overreach with another blatant attempt to erode and emasculate the rights of constitutional

00:06:59.600 authority of the provinces as equal and sovereign orders of government

00:07:05.280 today's decision significantly strengthens our legal position as we work to protect albertans

00:07:10.000 and all Canadians from federal intrusion into our provincial jurisdiction and we will continue

00:07:14.480 partnering with willing provinces, First Nations and other allies in fighting unconstitutional

00:07:19.200 federal overreach using any and all legal means available to us and this includes potentially

00:07:24.240 introducing a motion under Alberta's sovereignty within the United Canada Act. I would like to

00:07:29.040 thank the provinces, First Nations, business groups, NGOs and others who stood with us

00:07:33.200 and stood for all Canadians. I would also like to thank former Premier Jason Kenney

00:07:38.240 who tirelessly fought back against federal overreach during his term as premier

00:07:42.800 i hope that ottawa will learn from this mistake now today minister of environment and climate

00:07:49.440 change stephen gibault the minister of energy and natural resources jonathan wilkinson responded to

00:07:54.960 this historic decision upholding the rights of provinces to develop their resources they tried

00:08:00.160 to position this as a win it is not they confirmed their plans to bring legislation back to parliament

00:08:06.080 to amend it, clearly they simply aren't listening.

00:08:10.420 Guibault does not seem to acknowledge how badly he lost.

00:08:14.300 And Wilkinson, I heard him say that he hopes that this is the last time

00:08:17.680 that we end up going to court. Well, there's one way to assure that.

00:08:21.680 They need to drop their clean electricity regulations and they need to drop their emissions

00:08:25.620 cap. That will be the way that we can assure that we can come to the table and work together.

00:08:30.340 The entire reason we ended up in the Supreme Court was

00:08:33.660 because the federal government acted illegally. They ignored the provinces. They ignored the

00:08:40.380 Senate and they ignored the many partners who have opposed this unconstitutional law all along

00:08:45.000 and creating the uncertainty that led to the withdrawal of projects like Tech's Frontier

00:08:50.460 Mine that would have brought $20.6 billion in investment and thousands of jobs across the

00:08:56.020 country. Enough is enough. It is time for Ottawa to stop legislating in provincial jurisdiction

00:09:01.600 and work with us on shared goals.

00:09:04.240 And that's why we call on the federal government

00:09:05.940 to learn from the Supreme Court's decision

00:09:07.920 that their ongoing efforts to seize regulatory control

00:09:11.020 over the electricity grid and natural resource sectors

00:09:14.220 of the provinces is unconstitutional and it's illegal.

00:09:18.420 They do not have the right to thwart the economy,

00:09:20.900 livelihoods and future of any Albertans or any Canadians.

00:09:24.700 Instead, we once again invite them to come back to the table

00:09:28.020 in good faith and work with Alberta

00:09:30.140 to align our mutual efforts on 2050 reductions targets for emissions

00:09:35.020 and the development of our electricity grid and our world-class energy sector

00:09:40.360 to make life better for all Albertans.

00:09:42.840 We hope today's decision provides an opportunity for a reset

00:09:46.060 in the ongoing federal-provincial discussions on these issues

00:09:49.260 because today we celebrate this important decision

00:09:52.600 and we will continue protecting our Constitution,

00:09:56.840 responsibly managing our resources,

00:09:58.520 protecting the environment and making life better for all Albertans and indeed for all Canadians

00:10:04.160 thank you and I'd be happy to take questions thank you we'll start off with questions here

00:10:08.680 in the room we'll go with one question one follow-up if you want to make your way to the mic

00:10:11.820 and Emma you have the floor that person was tall um hi Emma Graney with the Globe and Mail now

00:10:18.720 specific to the Impact Assessment Act Ottawa is planning to rewrite the law as they kind of have

00:10:23.360 do now um what do you want to say to the feds about what it should do now what it should put

00:10:29.600 in the impact assessment act based on the ruling look i recognize that the federal government has

00:10:34.720 jurisdiction over cross-border projects i recognize that even though we have our differences on things

00:10:39.840 like cross-border transmission lines and cross-border pipelines we we uh we would like to see more of

00:10:45.440 those approved but i recognize that is their constitutional jurisdiction and we have never

00:10:49.600 attempted to override or suggest that they don't have the right to make those those kind of

00:10:55.720 decisions where they went so wrong though is they presumed to step into our jurisdiction by trying

00:11:02.480 to make decisions on major projects that fall completely 100 within alberta borders in which

00:11:08.420 we have historically always had the right to make decisions over so that's the part of the act that

00:11:12.960 needs to be removed we'll continue to work with them on trying to get cross-border transmission

00:11:17.160 and cross-border pipelines built, but they should not play cute on this.

00:11:21.560 The Supreme Court of Canada was very clear that the Constitution matters.

00:11:26.760 The sections of the Act, Section 92, they should reread them again

00:11:29.720 so that they can see that we have the exclusive jurisdiction

00:11:32.280 over natural resource development

00:11:33.720 and the exclusive jurisdiction over electricity development,

00:11:36.920 and they should make sure that they honour that.

00:11:39.340 And so when it comes to them,

00:11:40.940 governments aren't known for moving super quickly sometimes.

00:11:43.800 Are you concerned as a government at all that in resulting possible delays because they are going to have to rejig some things here and what that might mean for Alberta's economy and what can you do as a provincial government to try and limit the impacts there on potential developments in Alberta?

00:11:58.240 As I said, we're open for business. We'll ask for people who have been delayed in making project approvals or project submissions. Start now because we're going to approve them.

00:12:07.700 we have the constitutional authority to do it and they can um they can bring their laws into

00:12:12.580 alignment with what the supreme court has decided but we have always contended that the constitution

00:12:17.060 matters that our jurisdiction matters and we're going to proceed full steam ahead

00:12:21.780 thank you and we'll go to next with the mic go ahead sean

00:12:26.180 sean polzer western standard uh you're obviously listening to the

00:12:30.420 presser with wilkinson and uh ministers you both this morning um mr wilkinson made a comment that

00:12:37.220 uh the federal government had been acting in good faith and he pointed to the energy round

00:12:42.180 tables as an example and i'm just wondering um how that would apply to the clean electricity

00:12:49.220 regulations and also the impending uh emissions cap we have a table with the federal government

00:12:57.140 to align their interests with the 2050 emissions reduction target to achieve carbon neutrality by

00:13:03.620 2050 and they have not been acting in good faith because every other week we hear an announcement

00:13:09.700 from Stephen Guibault that he wants to go outside that table discussion, wants to have more aggressive

00:13:14.760 emissions reduction caps on methane, wants to have a cap on oil and gas emissions, wants to bring

00:13:20.100 through a net zero electricity grid by 2035. All of those are unconstitutional. They need to align

00:13:26.520 themselves with our 2050 targets and we're quite happy to work with them on that and I think that

00:13:30.480 this Supreme Court decision gives us the power to exert that at the table. So I'm hopeful that we

00:13:36.600 can actually get back to the table in good faith, that they will rescind any public declaration that

00:13:42.800 they want to proceed with those caps or the electricity grid changes, and then we can get

00:13:47.120 back to working towards our shared goals. But I don't think that they, if they are trying to

00:13:52.260 pretend that they somehow still have the right to proceed with those offensive pieces of legislation

00:13:56.720 that are clearly in our jurisdiction they're fooling themselves it's illegal and we're just

00:14:00.880 not going to stand for it uh mr jibble also made a comment about um the moratorium on renewable

00:14:08.560 and 30 billion dollar backlog of projects in the book and that somehow without mentioning

00:14:14.560 you specifically that you should more or less be glad that they were providing some certainty

00:14:21.040 and clarity around those rules oh boy they just don't stop do they that's a joke um minister

00:14:27.600 guibo has done more damage to our investment climate in this province than probably any single

00:14:33.360 federal minister i've ever seen um i can tell you that the moratorium um it's just a pause

00:14:39.760 we're we're only a few months away from announcing the new rules and we've been very clear about what

00:14:43.920 it is that we're looking for we're looking for some certainty that these projects are not going

00:14:47.760 to be built on prime agricultural land or interfere with our beautiful viewscapes we've also been

00:14:53.280 clear that there has to be a plan for how they're going to be reclaimed at the end because each one

00:14:57.200 of those turbines will cost an estimated 1 million dollars to remove and we want to make sure that a

00:15:02.080 landowner isn't left putting the bill for that we want to make sure that we're putting them in a

00:15:07.360 place where we have existing transmission and distribution lines so that we're not

00:15:10.880 unnecessarily adding additional cost and we have to make sure that there is backup

00:15:15.280 like reliable natural gas in order to be able to bring on and back up unreliable wind and solar so

00:15:22.080 we are going to continue with a framework that allows for investment in solar and wind and quite

00:15:26.240 frankly when we announced the pause we had 23 billion dollars worth of projects in the queue

00:15:31.280 we now have 41 billion dollars of soil solar and wind projects in the queue so that looks to me

00:15:36.880 like people are still looking at alberta they're still excited about the opportunity they're waiting

00:15:40.640 for some clarity they'll get that clarity from us because it's under our constitutional

00:15:45.360 responsibility we have the exclusive right as the supreme court determined today to exercise under

00:15:50.400 section 92 and that includes electricity and that's what we'll do thank you thanks so much sean

00:15:56.080 and jason go ahead uh good still still morning good morning premier hi um i know it's not your

00:16:04.800 name but why do you call it the no more pipelines act um the you know this ruling and you what you

00:16:12.160 were talking about was things that are exclusively on provincial jurisdiction pipelines generally

00:16:17.600 speaking are not i mean there are some surely but why do you use that term no more pipelines act as

00:16:22.960 you saw i said that it has been called the no more pipelines act that's how the former premier used to

00:16:27.200 refer to it i i called it the don't build anything anywhere anytime act because i was i was very

00:16:32.880 concerned about the ways in which they were interfering in provincial jurisdiction the

00:16:37.760 intra boundary projects they never had any constitutional authority over and that includes

00:16:42.960 transmission lines and pipelines that are solely within the boundaries of alberta and we do a lot

00:16:48.480 of pipeline construction but it was the major projects that i was most concerned they wanted

00:16:52.560 to interfere inside d they wanted to prevent us from building highways they wanted to prevent us

00:16:56.480 from building power generation plants that were larger than 200 megawatts and those are the sections

00:17:02.000 that have now been rendered unconstitutional so i'm i'm glad to see that they found the right

00:17:07.600 balance they recognize that we have two orders of government with sovereign powers and exclusive

00:17:12.480 jurisdiction and acknowledge that exclusive jurisdiction on resource development and on

00:17:17.760 electricity belongs to us and when you talk about you talk about exclusivity sovereignty there are

00:17:26.160 the supreme court ruling was pretty emphatic that exclusive domain is not really a thing

00:17:30.960 in these projects because we're talking about navigable waters migratory birds species at risk

00:17:36.640 what to you would make what to you constitutes a sovereign project that alberta has exclusive

00:17:42.400 jurisdiction over that cannot be scrutinized by the federal government well i can tell you

00:17:47.360 we need to build more baseload power more natural gas baseload power and those projects have been

00:17:53.200 in the order of 800 megawatts to a thousand megawatts that's our exclusive right to be

00:17:57.840 be able to make decisions on being able to permit and approve those types of projects i would say

00:18:02.960 that if i want to build the highway between grand prairie and fort mcmurray which is 70 more than

00:18:08.080 75 kilometers of new road that's within our exclusive jurisdiction in order to be able to

00:18:12.640 develop and i would say that if tech frontier mind wants to put in another application that's also

00:18:17.760 within our exclusive jurisdiction to approve those are just three examples that i would give if

00:18:21.360 they're completely within our borders and we have the ability through our regulatory process to go

00:18:27.120 through our own environmental reviews then those are the ones that should stay with us thank you

00:18:31.920 and we'll head over to the phones now operator could you please put through the first caller

00:18:37.120 don braid calgary herald premier um could i ask you if you are today declaring

00:18:44.480 that the 2005 35 rather electricity uh net zero and the coming uh card cap on emissions are simply

00:18:53.520 null and void invalid you're not going to go with them and that you perhaps will bring in a

00:18:58.480 sovereignty act declaration uh well i've heard jonathan wilkinson doesn't want to go to court

00:19:03.200 so um it seems to me that they've got to withdraw them because they don't have the

00:19:07.280 the constitutional authority to impose them and i have already said that they won't work in our

00:19:12.400 province and that we are are not going to to be implementing them we are we are in alignment on

00:19:17.840 getting to carbon neutrality by 2050 i've talked with our electricity producers and uh talked to

00:19:23.200 pathways group, they both believe that those targets of 2050 are achievable. That's what we've

00:19:29.480 got to work towards. It's the federal government who keeps on interfering, intervening and setting

00:19:34.040 unrealistic, unachievable and now patently unconstitutional provisions that we've been

00:19:40.780 fighting against. And so I hope that they read this judgment in the spirit in which I believe

00:19:45.280 the Supreme Court intended it and come to the table and work with us so that we can align on 2050

00:19:49.520 And a follow-up, Don?

00:19:51.560 Yes, thank you.

00:19:53.560 The feds seem to be suggesting that this is

00:19:55.560 just a little bit of a legislative glitch and

00:19:57.560 they can come back in with some amendments that

00:19:59.560 make it just fine again and then maybe we start

00:20:02.540 going through this whole thing again.

00:20:04.540 But what do you think this decision requires Ottawa

00:20:06.540 to do since it's not actually, I understand,

00:20:09.540 a declaratory one, it's more of an advisory decision.

00:20:12.540 What does it require them to do?

00:20:14.540 Should they end up with a decision?

00:20:16.540 What does it require them to do?

00:20:18.520 Should they immediately stop all work on approving projects on private provincial land or by private companies and just release them from all these obligations?

00:20:31.360 I mean, they don't just turn the lights out in Ottawa because of a court ruling.

00:20:34.820 So what practically speaking does it mean or should it mean for people who've got projects in the works?

00:20:40.040 Well, I think they need to remove the sections of the act that are unconstitutional, that fall within provincial jurisdiction.

00:20:45.860 and they can continue on the project's approval

00:20:49.060 where they do have jurisdiction.

00:20:50.820 They have jurisdiction over cross-border pipeline projects.

00:20:53.660 They've got jurisdiction over cross-border transmission line projects.

00:20:57.200 That's where they should focus their effort,

00:20:58.640 but they should stop trying to micromanage our affairs in each province.

00:21:01.980 So I think it's pretty clear what the court says is cross-border

00:21:07.680 and therefore under federal jurisdiction

00:21:09.120 and what's completely within our boundaries,

00:21:12.120 and therefore we take the lead on.

00:21:14.000 Obviously, we have to work together.

00:21:15.860 on certain issues, navigable waters being one,

00:21:18.900 but we also know from this court decision

00:21:21.740 we've got the exclusive right to develop our resources

00:21:24.100 and that includes electricity

00:21:25.380 and we're going to be exercising that.

00:21:28.480 Thank you. Operator, could you put through

00:21:30.040 our next caller, please?

00:21:32.220 Jasmine King, Global News.

00:21:35.780 Hi there.

00:21:37.120 With the UCP releasing their resolution

00:21:40.020 for the AGM coming up in November,

00:21:42.460 one of those policies includes

00:21:44.420 obtaining the written consent of parents and guardians for changing the name or pronouns

00:21:48.900 used by a student in school is the province prepared to use the notwithstanding clause to

00:21:54.340 make this a law at all uh look i support the grassroots process that our members are going

00:21:59.780 through at the party i'm really excited that we've got i think now 2100 or more delegates so it's

00:22:06.340 going to be a robust discussion we'll watch that and uh the policy process is is one of the measures

00:22:11.860 that our cabinet and caucus use in making a decision but we also confer with stakeholders

00:22:16.580 and we also talk to albertans and so i want to see how the debate goes and then we'll we'll make

00:22:22.020 some decisions once we see how whether or not it passes and did you have a follow-up jasmine

00:22:29.620 no i don't thank you operator could you put through our next caller here please

00:22:35.540 lisa johnson edmonton journal

00:22:37.140 Well, hi. Thanks for taking my question, Premier. You've pointed out and you've

00:22:43.460 argued here that this ruling essentially sets up these projects as being exclusively under

00:22:52.500 provincial jurisdiction, but in the decision the Chief Justice said very explicitly, and I'm going

00:22:59.300 to quote here, he said, the fact that a project involves activities primarily regulated by the

00:23:04.740 provincial legislature does not create an enclave of exclusivity end quote in other words while

00:23:11.780 he said that he wrote that the legislation was over broad it doesn't the ruling doesn't give

00:23:17.620 immunity to the province from federal law can you respond to that well look i mean i have responded

00:23:23.620 to that with our 2050 target to get to carbon neutral but that's my acknowledgement that the

00:23:29.780 the federal government does have a right to set an overarching framework for the entire country

00:23:34.940 as we try to reduce emissions. I'm being very proactive. I'm being very collaborative. They're

00:23:41.720 the ones who are going too far. And I guess if we can keep on battling this out in the Supreme

00:23:46.920 Court to find out exactly where the line is, but I'm asking for the federal government to accept

00:23:53.340 that there is exclusive provincial jurisdiction under the Constitution, accept that that's what

00:23:58.660 the language of the constitution says and to work with us on on those areas of shared priority they

00:24:03.960 cannot just drop new policy on our head and make us spend another six years going through the court

00:24:11.240 to be told once again that they've been acting illegally so um that's what i hope does not

00:24:16.060 happen i think that it's pretty clear what the court has said they want to see us work

00:24:20.060 collaboratively and that is not acting in the way that steven steven gibault has been so if there's

00:24:25.280 new spirit of coming together in cooperation to align our goals around a 2050 emissions target

00:24:30.720 then i think we i think we'll be able to get somewhere but if they think that they're going

00:24:34.480 to tinker with this and keep us tied up for the next six years well i can tell you we we're just

00:24:39.760 not going to put up with that and did you have a follow-up lisa thanks yeah you you also mentioned

00:24:46.160 today that the legislation you suggested the legislation is already responsible for the loss

00:24:51.200 of tens of billions of dollars in investment um all right and you brought up the tech frontier

00:24:56.960 mine which is an interesting example to me are you aware of any project that has been

00:25:01.760 explicitly stymied or held up for campo because of impact assessments under this legislation rather

00:25:08.800 than just simple economic considerations well of course it's only been a couple of hours since we

00:25:14.160 got the ruling down so we can uh we can follow up with you on identifying uh projects there

00:25:19.840 There have been many companies who have said that because they don't know if they can navigate through the regulatory process, that they've pulled the plug.

00:25:26.940 I mean, that was the story that Energy East told us.

00:25:29.420 They'd spent, I think, $10 billion on the project and couldn't see a way through to get to the, maybe $1 billion on the project, couldn't see a way through to get to the finish line.

00:25:37.020 That's what happens when you have regulatory uncertainty.

00:25:39.700 That's what happens when you just don't know if you're going to be able to get to a yes.

00:25:43.740 And so I'll be happy to get our officials to follow up with you on projects that we think ended up either not going forward or got pulled because they couldn't figure out where the decision-making authority lay.

00:25:57.660 Thank you.

00:25:58.480 But I can tell you this. We have almost zero projects in the queue for natural gas.

00:26:04.980 And that, to me, is a direct result of the federal government interfering in our market and creating uncertainty about whether or not such projects would be able to go ahead.

00:26:15.020 Under normal circumstances, we're a natural gas basin. We've got 12,000 megawatts of natural gas on our grid.

00:26:20.780 Why in the world would I only have 41,000 megawatts of solar and wind in the queue and virtually no natural gas?

00:26:26.460 That is absolutely underscoring why nobody wants to invest in natural gas in our province.

00:26:31.840 That is 100% because of the uncertainty that the federal government created from this act.

00:26:36.560 So how many of those projects, how many projects would be there if they hadn't created that uncertainty?

00:26:41.380 I don't know if I can calculate that, but I know it would be a heck of a lot more than zero that we have right now.

00:26:47.840 And thank you. We just have time for one more quick question from the room and then we'll be wrapping for today.

00:26:52.200 you might want to bring in a motion in the house under the sovereignty act can you expand more on

00:26:58.620 what that might look like what it might entail and what it incorporates yeah it'd be the uh given

00:27:03.060 that the supreme court of canada has acknowledged our our jurisdiction to develop our resources and

00:27:09.080 our electricity therefore and then it would go from there and it would be in direct response

00:27:14.300 if the federal government decides to continue forward with their unconstitutional clean

00:27:18.840 electricity regulations, their unconstitutional emissions cap, and their unconstitutional methane

00:27:23.100 cap. So it falls in their court. Look, I don't want to do that. I would rather be collaborative.

00:27:27.160 It's why when I spoke to the Prime Minister, my very first conversation, I said I was aligned

00:27:32.080 with this 2050 target. It's why I asked him to wait until we did our own emissions reduction plan.

00:27:36.920 We did. It's why I asked him to wait until we did abatement curves with S&P Global. We have that

00:27:41.240 information. It's why I asked for us to have a joint table so that we could discuss these things,

00:27:45.340 which we do. I've taken the initiative on all of this because I want to be collaborative.

00:27:49.760 They want to be unilateral and they've now just been told you can't do that. So I'm hoping that

00:27:54.600 they are mindful of this court decision, that they respect it, and that they'll come to the

00:27:58.340 table and work with us on shared goals. What is it that there's something to

00:28:02.580 force under the guise of the sovereignty act? I mean, the sovereignty act isn't just saying

00:28:06.800 we will not, this will not occur in our lands. It's about enforcement provincially of the law.

00:28:12.000 So how would that, in that respect, anything you say about sovereignty

00:28:17.100 regarding CCCC9 or CER impact that?

00:28:20.860 Are you talking about ASO will not be any part of it or what?

00:28:24.520 Explain that, please.

00:28:25.440 We're going to build natural gas plants.

00:28:27.760 Sorry, explain that.

00:28:29.140 Until you do, a lot of people will reasonably say that this is just bluster.

00:28:32.900 How does it apply to provincial enforcement?

00:28:36.500 You'll see, Jason.

00:28:37.480 You'll see.

00:28:38.020 You'll see.

00:28:38.600 I mean, we are going to assert our jurisdiction.

00:28:41.180 We know we have a problem with our electricity power grid being unstable because it almost

00:28:45.480 failed eight times in the last year.

00:28:47.180 We know that we need to bring on more natural gas and we will commission more natural gas

00:28:52.940 and it will be very clear that we have the constitutional authority to do that.

00:28:56.740 And I suppose they can step in and say, no, you can't and try to take us to a court again

00:29:01.400 and drag this out for another six years.

00:29:04.200 But I think the court ruling is pretty clear today.

00:29:05.920 We are open for business.

00:29:07.020 We have the ability to approve projects and we're going to approve them.

00:29:09.980 Thank you. And that's all the time we have for questions today.

00:29:12.980 Thanks, everyone.

00:29:28.980 Canadian Shooting Sports Association, without the CSSA, our gun rights would have been taken long, long ago.

00:29:34.980 ago these guys are on the front lines helping to draft smart and intelligent firearms regulations

00:29:41.220 and legislation in canada and more importantly educating the public about how we keep guns out

00:29:46.960 of the hands of the wrong people to become a member it's absolutely worth every penny

00:30:04.980 It's a pretty quiet day in the commodity markets at the moment here. There's a little bit of

00:30:16.200 movement here and there, but not too much of anything. Let's take a look at where pricing

00:30:20.000 is at. Cash barley is holding at $3.45, wheat's holding at $3.55, and corn is holding at $3.44.

00:30:27.600 Moving to the milling wheat markets, December Minneapolis futures slipped

00:30:30.960 $0.02 to $7.22 per bushel with local hard red spring bid for October movement at $9.64 per

00:30:37.080 bushel delivered. In the oil seats, nearby canola futures are up $4 to $7.1650 per ton

00:30:43.460 with delivered values for October movement at $15.75 per bushel. Continuing to the pulse markets,

00:30:49.920 nearby red lentil prices are holding at $0.36.5 per pound and yellow peas are trading at $10.75

00:30:55.480 per bushel. Taking a quick look at the cattle markets, December live cattle slipped 52.5

00:31:01.060 cents to 187.80 per hundredweight. For more information on pricing and picked up on farm

00:31:07.240 options, give me a call at 403-394-1711. I'm Mike Van Dyke at Marketplace Commodities,

00:31:13.760 accurate real-time marketing information and pricing options. Canadian Shooting Sports

00:31:17.660 Association, without the CSSA, our gun rights would have been taken long, long ago. These

00:31:23.320 guys are on the front lines helping to draft smart and intelligent firearms regulations and

00:31:29.380 legislation in Canada and more importantly educating the public about how we keep guns

00:31:34.520 out of the hands of the wrong people. To become a member it's absolutely worth every penny.

Western Standard - October 13, 2023

Alberta responds to Supreme Court decision on Bill C-69

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