Western Standard - November 03, 2026


Why Should Taxpayers Pay for This Pipeline？

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00:00:00.000 Another budding boondoggle we have, unfortunately, we're seeing the Alberta Premier and the Prime
00:00:04.840 Minister hand-in-hand talking and celebrating how a nationalized pipeline to the West Coast
00:00:09.940 is going to be a great victory for Canada, which may or may not take 10 years if they
00:00:14.380 ever actually get it going, and a cost estimate of $30 billion.
00:00:18.620 I mean, we know there's an appetite for private industry to build infrastructure like this
00:00:23.520 if the government would just get out of its own bloody way.
00:00:26.180 We don't have to pay to build that thing. 1.00
00:00:27.740 They just need to clean up the route.
00:00:30.000 Hey, well said. And also think about what's been going on on this particular project that you're talking about, this particular pipeline, but also other other projects, right? Think about what's going on and think about how unsustainable it is. OK, where you have the government throwing up roadblocks, throwing up barriers to actually private sector investment and, you know, people trying to build major natural resource projects here in Canada.
00:00:53.100 of course i'm talking about the discriminatory tanker ban on the west coast i'm talking about
00:00:57.660 the no more pipelines law or the impact assessment act you know what the bureaucrats like to call it
00:01:02.600 so they they impose these high taxes they impose these uh you know these awful regulations these
00:01:09.380 anti-development laws okay it makes it hard for the private center to build anything and then
00:01:14.820 they turn around and they shovel a whole bunch of taxpayers money at the project completely
00:01:18.860 unsustainable. How about you cut the taxes, you cut the red tape, and you just let the
00:01:22.900 product build these major natural resource projects.
00:01:28.040 That sure would be a refreshing change. It just doesn't seem
00:01:30.880 to be their appetite right now.