Alberta

Mark Carney and Danielle Smith may be in for more hassle than they bargained for

Danielle Smith was flying high last Thursday as she and Mark Carney signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in Calgary. Interesting that it was called an MOU and not an agreement, although most of the news media, and Smith herself, talked about it in those terms.

So now Carney and Smith have an “understanding” that an oil pipeline may be built from Alberta to the northwest coast of B.C. despite the oil tanker ban and B.C. premier David Eby’s objections; the industrial carbon price may go up in Alberta; and Alberta may get its multibillion Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage facility. That’s an awful lot of uncertainty given all the hype and hoopla surrounding the announcement.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

MACLEOD: Pipeline promises, political games: Why Ottawa’s ‘lifeline’ to Alberta oil always ends in betrayal

This latest Canada-Alberta MOU is just another chapter in the same infuriating story we’ve lived through for fifty years: Ottawa dangles a lifeline to the oil patch when it needs votes or headlines, then quietly lets the rope go slack the moment BC coastal outrage or a Vancouver fundraiser kicks in.

(Incognito)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Alberta to Bar Police From Enforcing Federal Gun Buyback

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her government will table a motion next week under the Alberta Sovereignty Act that would instruct all provincial entities to refuse to enforce or prosecute matters under the federal gun buyback program.

Smith made the comments on Nov. 29 during a keynote address at her United Conservative Party’s annual convention, where she outlined her government’s priorities and next steps. She said the proposed motion would apply to all provincial entities, including municipalities and law-enforcement agencies, and would include provisions to prevent them from prosecuting Albertans “defending their homes and families from intruders.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Gun Control, Gun Rights

Alberta vows to defy federal gun laws as Smith unveils sweeping pushback

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her government will move next week to block enforcement of Ottawa’s new firearm legislation, marking one of the strongest sovereignty-based challenges her United Conservative Party has launched against federal authority to date.

Speaking to supporters more than an hour late at the UCP AGM in Edmonton, Smith said her government will table a motion under the Alberta Sovereignty Within a United Canada Act ordering all provincial agencies — including municipalities and police services — to refuse to enforce or prosecute the federal gun grab program.

h/t SM (Incognito)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Gun Control, Gun Rights

The Carney-Smith agreement surely won’t make pipelines ‘boring again’

Shortly after Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith formally signed their memorandum of understanding on Thursday, Smith joked to reporters in Calgary that she would love for “pipelines to be boring again.”

It’s not clear that pipelines have ever been boring — they have been associated with political tumult in Canada for at least 70 years. And given the great questions that are still tied up in both the idea and the reality of an interprovincial pipe — the unresolved work of reconciliation, the lack of a complete answer to the present and future threat of climate change, the fear for national unity — it is difficult to imagine that a pipeline could easily be made boring in this moment.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Donald Trump’s fingerprints are all over Mark Carney’s Alberta deal

Basking in the glow of new-found friendship between Ottawa and Alberta, Premier Danielle Smith declared that this day would never have arrived if Justin Trudeau was still prime minister.

“I can tell you 100 per cent that the former prime minister would never have moved this far on these issues,” Smith said, after she and Mark Carney unveiled a whole new energy-and-environment deal between Canada and Alberta.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA, WTF?

WIECHNIK: Alberta’s oil patch is one coup away from crisis

As the United States masses an aircraft carrier and nearly a dozen other naval warships off the coast of Venezuela, it looks increasingly possible there may be a regime change in Latin America sooner rather than later.

Reports say that as many as 15,000 US sailors and Marines — the largest American deployment in the region since the ousting of Panama’s president Manuel Noriega in 1989 — are involved in the move, which has been officially dubbed by Washington as a “counternarcotics mission.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, USA, Venezuela

Carney and Smith to unveil energy deal in Calgary Thursday, source says

Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith are set to announce a memorandum of understanding on energy in Calgary Thursday, over the objections of B.C. Premier David Eby.

Mr. Eby said he spoke privately with Mr. Carney Monday, laying out three specific concerns about a heavy oil pipeline running from Alberta to his province’s northwest coast, but received no commitment that Ottawa would heed his objections.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Lorne Gunter: Feds’ treatment of Alberta versus Quebec clearly uneven

Presently, Quebec’s legislature, the National Assembly, is debating a new provincial constitution that would declare Quebec a “free national State,” known as the State of Quebec, “fully sovereign” from the rest of Canada. The new constitution would assert that the province may appoint its own superior court judges (a power now reserved to Ottawa), conduct foreign policy separate from (or even at odds with) Canada’s foreign policy, ignore federal laws and participate in national institutions only when Quebec wishes to.

It’s effectively a declaration of independence without having to give up billions annually in transfer and equalization payments.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Quebec

Another Alberta separatist leader is courting U.S. conservatives in Washington and Mar-a-Lago

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Another Alberta separatist has travelled south of the border to woo American conservatives.

In recent months, members of the Alberta Prosperity Project (APP), a separatist organization, have boasted of meetings in Washington, D.C., with senior-level officials from the U.S. administration. Now, the only political party affiliated with Alberta’s independence movement, the Republican Party of Alberta (RPA), is making its own waves south of the border.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Western Alienation Separation", "Western Independence", Alberta, Canada, USA

Smith tables bill allowing Alberta to ignore international agreements that impact provincial jurisdiction

The Alberta government has introduced new legislation aimed at clarifying how international agreements signed by the federal government apply within the province.

Titled the International Agreements Act, the proposed law would ensure that international treaties or accords negotiated by Ottawa only take effect in Alberta if implemented through provincial legislation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta

GOLDBERG: Smith’s pipeline gambit will force Carney to choose a side

As Canada’s pipeline saga continues, Prime Minister Mark Carney won’t be able to sit on the sidelines much longer.

Here’s what’s happening: Alberta Premier Danielle Smith isn’t waiting around for a private sector proponent to come forward with a proposal to build a pipeline to bring Alberta oil to British Columbia’s northwest coast.

(Incognito)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Alberta considers new law allowing it to ignore international agreements signed by Canada

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s government says it is planning to introduce legislation that would allow it to ignore international agreements signed by Ottawa.

The future legislation is listed in a new mandate letter Smith issued this week to the government’s intergovernmental relations ministry, which the premier heads.

The letter says it’s about protecting “Alberta’s authority,” and Smith’s office added in a statement that it’s also an issue of due process.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, Canada