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"Whatever happens on Oct. 19, the United Conservative Party of Premier Danielle Smith will have left Alberta a worse place than it was before the 10 referenda scheduled to be voted on that day..."

by David Climenhaga

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[-] Smaile@lemmy.ca -3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

and he killed another pipe line we were building to pocket a foreign oil arbitrage knowing it would pop up when it happened, fuck him.

[-] DrinkMonkey@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

…but are upset he didn’t build 2. Got it.

[-] Smaile@lemmy.ca -2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm not talking about harper, your assuming I'm a conservative when I voted for carney, and your excusing corruption on top of that. go back to reddit if your going to be a know it all you little tribalist.

[-] DrinkMonkey@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

I make no such assumption - I’m pushing back against the narrative that Trudeau is to blame for Alberta separatism, which doesn’t survive inspection. He is a convenient scapegoat of course - the bumper stickers are everywhere to prove it. But on the pipeline front, Harper fumbled Northern Gateway, while Trudeau built Trans Mountain. TransCanada killed Energy East because oil collapsed from $100 to $50, though this in turn freed up capital for Keystone XL (we could only afford one, and Harper’s and Kenney’s infamous line about not picking winners and losers meant paralysis around any new tidewater pipes and further reliance on the US Midwest market). But Biden killed Keystone, not Trudeau. My point is that hanging this on Trudeau is convenient and in service of Alberta Exceptionalism and feeds the conservative narrative of unfair treatment and longstanding strategy of blaming Ottawa for everything. This culture of externalizing blame is the real cause. And Jim Prentice tried to warn everyone.

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