When Mark Carney says “Everything’s on the table”, he means using the West to protect the East
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Nothing is off the table when it comes to defending our country, said Liberal leader Mark Carney. He was talking about a potential federal export embargo against Western Canadian oil, gas, uranium, and potash. But not quite everything is on the table.
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Nothing is off the table when it comes to defending our country, said Liberal leader
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Mark Carney. He was talking about a potential federal export embargo against Western Canadian
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oil, gas, uranium, and potash. Carney says that Canada faces such a grave threat from
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President Trump's tariffs and annexation talk that nothing can be taken off the table,
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especially using BC, Alberta, and Saskatchewan's primary resource industries as strategic striking
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points. And he's seen the light on Canada's precarious energy infrastructure, which has no
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West-East pipeline, thanks to that project's throttling by the federal Liberal government
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that he now leads, in combination with Francois Legault's CAC government in Quebec. When running
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for the Liberal Party leadership, Carney sounded pragmatic, stating that Canada needed a West-East
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pipeline, including through Refusenik Quebec. After meeting with Alberta Premier Danielle
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Smith, Carney sounded more conciliatory in his tone to Westerners' longstanding demands
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to be allowed to build pipelines eastward, including repealing the so-called No More Pipelines Act.
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All that lasted a hot minute until Carney reversed himself on April Fool's Day, stating that the
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anti-pipeline and energy development legislation passed by his predecessor, Justin Trudeau, would
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remain in place. As former President George W. Bush said,
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Carney might be the Prime Minister of all Canadians, but he is still a Liberal. And the Liberals are a party
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for only the right kind of Canadian. The kind of Canadian who works for the government. The kind
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of Canadian that is sufficiently progressivist in their views on the latest social dogmas. The kind
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of Canadians who value abstract fervour to fight global warming over more pedestrian concerns like
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earning a living. The kind of Canadians who vote to continue Liberal rule after the disastrous previous
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nine years. Conservative voting, gun-toting, oil-drilling, woke-resisting Westerners don't fit
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the bill of Carney's right kind of Canadian. In Liberal conceptions of post-national Canadian
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nationalism, they aren't really true Canadians. They're more like Americans living on Canadian soil.
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And so repealing anti-energy legislation like Bill C-69, commonly known as the No More Pipelines Act,
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does not advance Carney's hereto successful objective of collapsing the NDP vote behind the
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Liberals. Consolidating the hard left behind him is going to mean some sacrifices. Sacrifices like
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the West's biggest industries. The oil and gas industries are on the table as pawns to be sacrificed,
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but they are most certainly not on the table as industries to be championed, as means of economic
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and energy independence. The industries that will be protected at all costs are located somewhat
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eastward of the Palacer Triangle. They include Ontario's heavily subsidized electric vehicle
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plants, making products that nobody wants. They include Quebec's tray-subsidized aerospace industry,
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that Trump is trying to lure southward. They include the Soviet-style supply-managed dairy and egg
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sectors that both Mark Carney and Pierre Polyev say will never be given up for negotiation,
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even though it is one area that Canada is most clearly a protectionist villain
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in free trade, and unjustly costs Canadian families hundreds of dollars a year in inflated costs.
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In fact, Mark, nothing is off the table, Carney says, and I quote, it's off the table.
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All parties have promised mandatory French language labeling requirements are off the table,
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despite being another major and legitimate trade irritant for the Americans.
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To continue on this theme, Carney said that the digital services tax, which is levied against
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American companies and passed on to Canadian consumers, is, you guessed it, off the table.
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So yeah, it turns out that not quite everything is on the table. Just the possibility of economic
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warfare against BC, Alberta, and Saskatchewan from our own federal government.
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So just soliciten front, we're at the table that we allow with our own medical emergency