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Current: Founding Partner, Meredith Boessenkool & Phillips Policy Advisors
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Adjunct, University of Lethbridge
Practitioner-in-Residence Fellow, University of Victoria
Former: AB NDP MLA & Minister of Environment, Parks & Climate Change
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What’s left of what we understand as “the
Mainstream Media” is a collection of people trying as hard as they can to hang on long enough to tell local stories and find an audience for them. I love it when they stand up for themselves, and I wish their bosses had done so a decade ago.
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It’s good you still have the professional ethics and sense of civic responsibility to correct an error such as this one as quickly and transparently as possible, Senator.
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It’s disgusting.
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I believe Siksika already have
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Early this morning, a propos of nothing at all in global events, I pulled a book called “Reading ‘Legitimation Crisis’ in Tehran” by Danny Postel off my shelf and took a few minutes to consider it anew. www.dissentmagazine.org/wp-content/f...
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There were some sprinkled among the Ottawa convoy, I noticed!
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Sorry the link properly:
calgaryherald.com/news/local-n...
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Alberta is not “separatist-minded.” It’s still a minority of folks and if they actually get this thing on a referendum ballot (BIG if), they’ll have their asses handed to them.
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For example, here’s Peter Downing’s background. He’s probably not just some wound-up citizen worried about oil and gas policy or whatever: ttps://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/canada-wexit-and-the-federal-election-targeted-in-russian-disinformation-campaign-academics-say
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No it is not. Appropriate disciplinary processes with a Police Act designed to uphold professional standards and ensure civilian oversight is the answer.
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There’s definitely a rationale, as I said on The Strategists last week. I can appreciate that. But there are other trading partners. And if we didn’t get anything for the invite - proper law enforcement coop, investigation, etc, then allowing Modi in to polite company isn’t good for Canada.
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Charles st Arnaud of credit union central and I were talking about it the other day
Will look it up in budget papers, that’s probably where I saw it
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The alternative is for no good things to happen, ever! If you’ve got a nice enough life, and you don’t need social progress for your life to get better, then congratulations to you, but the rest of the world needs better. So get to work doing whatever your thing is for a better world.
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This whole “debate” (not a debate) makes me feel like I am taking crazy pills. The topic is untethered from public policy reality.
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As I’ve said elsewhere, if this is a public project, fine. let’s have a look on that basis. But there’s nothing to even take off the shelf! Danielle out here talking up another 1m bpd, I believe NGP was 700,000? She said it could be Prince Rupert terminus, this was rejected by NGP as unfeasible?
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I’ll check on the incremental royalty revenue, I saw the number the other day but will have to find it
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TMX has returned billions to Albertans in royalties. And about $1.4billion in fed tax revenue, around what the digital services tax raises. Folks may not want to hear it, but it’s true. So there’s reasons why we might want this infrastructure. Let’s be honest about who is paying the bill, tho.
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The NDP lady who was also on the TMX cabinet task force!
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I will not hold my breath for the media to ask the natural question of Smith:
“There’s no private proponent, so that leaves state ownership.
Confirm that’s what you mean, because there are no pipeline fairies.
It’s either the public or private sector that bankrolls this thing.
Choose.”
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If we accept that as reason why northern gateway (for example) hasn’t been taken off the shelf and dusted off, C-5 takes away that rationale. So let’s see a private sector proponent. Absent that, there is no pipeline “debate” to be had. Unless we nationalizing oil transport.
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If bitumen transport has to be nationalized, then let’s have a debate about equity stake, revenue sharing and royalty rate at source. If we are finally admitting this resource belongs to the public in the first instance, as Lougheed often reminded us, then let’s be honest about it.
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The worst thing is the media who just go along with it. Today, yesterday tomorrow: you’ll find “are we building pipelines” wallpapering the discourse in this country. It’s the stupidest intellectual cul-de-sac possible.
WHO IS “WE”? And if this has to be public infrastructure, just bloody say so.
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Now, apparently, we’ve gone full Petro-Marxism, and I can’t find a capitalist in this country who believes the normal rules of market discipline apply to the oil sands industry.
Socialize the risk, privatize the profit.
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The main question for the NEB (the pipeline regulator back in the day) was whether there were volumes to fill the line, arrangements at terminus, and how the whole thing would avoid being a hunk of rust in the ground (financing, ownership, etc)
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I hate to be the NDP lady reminding everyone that we chose capitalism, but the PRIVATE SECTOR NORMALLY BUILDS LINEAR INFRASTRUCTURE.
Before regulatory processes became venues for climate/indigenous/safety/spill conversations because there wasn’t anywhere else for those convos to go…🧵
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This is the best summation of the situation I have heard so far