Trudeau government is ignoring constitutionally entrenched provincial jurisdiction
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Summary
The Supreme Court struck down the government's ban on new oil and gas development in Western Canada, but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is determined to push ahead with C-69, despite the court's ruling. Why is Trudeau so obsessed with his own personal legacy, and why does he care so much about it?
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So let's talk about C-69. I mean, Western Canadians, we were jubilant when the Supreme
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Court found that the no more pipelines bill was unconstitutional. We kind of always knew,
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but we had the court reaffirm that. But that celebration, you know, didn't last very long
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before the federal government started signaling they're going to continue their attack on Western
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industries despite the court ruling. Even the Globe and Mail had a headline that said Ottawa
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to press ahead with oil and gas cap despite Supreme Court decision. So yeah, even the
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Toronto Globe didn't try to sugarcoat it. The government plans to ignore the ruling of the
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Supreme Court of Canada, or at least to work around it. It sounds like it looks like the plan
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is to simply pack the regulations for a cap on oil and gas production into a new bill and jam it
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through Parliament. Jagmeet Singh will, of course, gleefully support it. I mean, you got to think
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it took four years to get C-69 to the Supreme Court. It'll presumably take just as long to get
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any new legislation to the highest court in the land as well. So development and investment will
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continue to be chilled in the West. The government doesn't care if the new bill gets thrown out.
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It'll accomplish what it wants to, and that's to grind the oil and gas industry in Western Canada
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to a halt. Let's not pretend that's not their goal. The Trudeau regime doesn't care about the
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Constitution. They don't care about the tens of billions of dollars oil and gas bringing to the
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federal coffers every year. They don't care about the hundreds of thousands of jobs direct and
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indirect. They don't care that world demand for oil and gas products is expected to increase for
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decades to come. This is a government of zealots. They're ideologues, and they're beyond reason.
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Trudeau's government support numbers are in the toilet, and he doesn't even care about that
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anymore. He's obsessed with having his own personal legacy, and he wants that legacy to be taking down
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the oil and gas industry he loathes so much. He wants to leave by poking those darn Westerners one
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more time in the eye because he's never forgiven the West for its refusal to capitulate to his father's
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ideological government decades ago. The federal government has no sense of fiscal reality and no
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respect for the businesses that create wealth for Canadians. We've seen this disrespect as the head
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of Suncor Energy was dragged on the carpet and interrogated by liberal and NDP MPs last week over
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the business decisions of the company. What horrific sin did Suncor commit to be dragged across the
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country to have to explain themselves to the federal politicians? Well, they sold off their lame wind and
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solar projects and said they were actually going to focus on oil and gas development. In other words,
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an oil company wants to be an oil company. They did nothing illegal or immoral, yet the authoritarian
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squids in government felt they had the right to demand an explanation of them. Suncor CEO Kruger, he
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should have told him to go to hell, to be honest, and stayed home. Appeasement never works with zealots,
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and he wasted his time and energy trying to explain himself to a group of people who had no right to demand
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an explanation from him in the first place. The attitude's the same with the grocery chains. Trudeau demanded the
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competition bureau look into grocery prices, and the bureau did so. And Trudeau's own study concluded
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there was no gouging in the retail grocery sector. They called the profits modest. Well, that wasn't
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good enough for Justin to hell with the facts. He then ordered the CEOs to appear in Ottawa again and
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demanded they reduce prices within weeks or he would tax them. The arrogance of the demand was galling.
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The economic illiteracy on display is unsurprising but still troubling. How on earth can chains operating on
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profit margins of four percent or less? Significantly cut food retail prices while remaining profitable? Trudeau doesn't
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care. Further, how would tax those businesses, taxing those businesses save consumers any money? How do taxes make
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anything cheaper? Well, of course, from a man who says carbon taxes make living cheaper, economic logic doesn't apply to
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him. Only Trudeau has those answers because nobody with a whiff of economic knowledge understands his demands, you
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know, they know it makes no sense. Trudeau won't let himself be bound by reality or principle, though. He's
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flailing and desperate as his public support crumbles, and he's decided the private sector is the source of
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his problems. This is a dangerous attitude, though, coming from an authoritarian minority government
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being backed by a socialist. The damage he can cause with his constant attacks on Canadian business
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could reverberate for decades as he turns the nation into an investment pariah. When liberals can so
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quickly just ignore a Supreme Court ruling, or at least the spirit of it, and so boldly set out to
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violate the spirit of the Constitution, one starts to wonder what the point of the Constitution is.
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Then I started wondering further, well, what's the point of confederation, then, if the Constitution
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isn't binding? It's time, guys. It's time for the West to seriously consider its future outside of
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Canada, because Canada is not treating the West as an equal partner within it, that's for sure.