“If they say no to this project, then they are signalling … that he (Prime Minister Justin Trudeau) wants to phase out the oilsands,” Kenney said.
It was not a sentence I was prepared to read. Not even in the central Canadian press.
The sentence was this: Canada is preparing an aid package for Alberta.
Let me detail how wrong this is, and outrageous.
Where did this “Canada” come from? The Liberal government is not Canada. And everyone in Canada except, perhaps, the Liberal government, knows this.
The headline should read: The minority government of Justin Trudeau, having already strangled Alberta’s energy industry with pipeline bans and carbon taxes, has come up with a new, most devastating insult to that province. It is contemplating an “aid package” (UN administered?) in the event it makes the most bottomlessly stupid decision in the history of the country and denies the go-ahead to the Teck mine.
Completely rewritten headline with same meaning: Trudeau government mulls speeding up Western separation. Bright Toronto backbencher has brilliant idea: “I know. Let’s cancel the $20-billion Teck oilsands mine and all its good-paying jobs and send every Albertan a copy of Coding for Dummies. For free. A few for the farmers as well. We can call it an aid package.” Chuckles from the back of the caucus. Wide grins in front.
This “aid package” formulation deserves an emphasis. What is this about Canada preparing an aid package for Alberta? We send aid packages to foreign countries, usually after great disasters.
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“Total Canadian proven oil reserves are estimated at 171.0 billion barrels, of which 166.3 billion barrels are found in Alberta’s oil sands and an additional 4.7 billion barrels in conventional, offshore, and tight oil formations. Canada accounts for 10% of the world’s proven oil reserves.”
Any other country in the entire world would love to have our natural resources. What would they do with them? They’d extract them, develop them, and most of all they’d export them around the world in exchange for cash. Cold hard cash. Cash for infrastructure. Health care. Military defence. Pension plans. Research. National debt reduction. Balanced budget. Yearly government surpluses. The list is very long. But what do we do? The Liberal government instead wraps its hands around the throat of our energy industry and chokes the life out of it. Insanity driven by the inbred Trudeau father/son intense dislike to the point of despise for the west, and especially for the Province of Alberta. The Trudeau father/son loyalty to and belief in the superiority of Quebec.
How Much Oil Does Canada Import? Too Much!
Just how much oil does Canada import every year? The answer is shocking actually, considering that Canada has the third largest proven oil reserves in the world.
Looking at the Canadian International Merchandise Trade Database, it shows Canada imported approximately $19.4 billion of crude oil in 2018, with that number dropping slightly to $16.6 billion in 2017. A more detailed look in this chart below:
https://www.canadaaction.ca/how_much_oil_does_canada_import
Teck Mine An Enormous Opportunity for Canada
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/craig-teck-mine-is-an-enormous-opportunity-for-canada