Opinion
U. N. allows landlocked countries access to tidewater by road, rail or pack mules.
The U.N. convention has that land-locked countries have access to tide water. Yes by road, rail or pack mule. So if Alberta was to separate would we subsidize pack mules to haul our oil to the coast.
We have the roads and the rail already, so separating from Canada would leave pack mules as our last obligated option.
After the previous federal government failed to build a pipeline with an Albertan, Prime Minister Harper in charge. A Quebecois, Prime Minister Trudeau, had the federal government buy a pipeline for Alberta to have greater access to tidewater.
After years of talks and court cases the pipeline is progressing, even though it is believed that a huge number of Canadians, outside of Alberta, wish it wouldn’t. If Alberta was to separate why would Canadians proceed with a pipeline for Alberta to ship oil to other countries.
We can continue being part of Canada, work to finish the pipelines, expand rail service for oil shipping to Thunder Bay for tanker shipping to refineries in New Brunswick.
“Desperation” is oozing out of the pores of Alberta like many dying one industry towns only in a faster rate. How many communities disappeared when their single industry collapsed, and they never tried to diversify? How many gold rushes, coal mines, forestry, fishing, manufacturing, tobacco and trapping centres have disappeared while others morphed into more diversified centres?
There was a time when my investments in energy gave me a great return and now other investments out perform those. Our Premier wants control of our pensions and I hope that never happens. C.P.P. is a great investment tool with a history of great returns. The Alberta pension has a less than stellar history but the last few years have seen positive returns. My biggest fears would be having this premier throw all pension funds into the energy sector.
Perhaps he will invest in pack mules when he becomes Prime Minister and President of the Republic of Alberta? It appears to me, that seems to be his goal, isn’t it?
The province is suffering the death from a thousand cuts and that will be blamed on past provincial government and current federal government, not the current provincial government and the past federal government, which the Premier was a big part of.
If the Premier invests in pack mules would the farmers reap the rewards by growing the feed? Probably not.
Where are the adults anyways?
From the X account of Andrew Scheer
Mark Carney spent his entire life promoting the carbon tax.
Now he’s trying to scam Canadians out of billions and to do it he’s put a whole crew together.
It could be the biggest con job in Canadian history. Only YOU can stop it! pic.twitter.com/1DyywsynBN
— Andrew Scheer (@AndrewScheer) February 22, 2025
From the Daily Caller News Foundation
By Newt Gingrich
In an amazing show of courage, Vice President J.D. Vance offered an intervention for some of our European allies.
That is the best way to think of the two historic speeches he made in France and Germany last week.
In Paris, Vice President Vance pledged the United States would do whatever it takes to lead the world in the development of Artificial Intelligence. He went on to assert that Europe’s automatic response to regulate technological change rather than adapt to it was doomed to fail.
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Vance warned the Europeans that the Trump administration would retaliate to protect American high-tech companies from being fined and regulated by the European community.
Then, Vance went to the Munich Security Conference. It is the annual meeting of European leaders concerned about defense and threats to peace. The Vice President shocked the Europeans by launching a frontal assault on the decay of their political system.
As Vance put it:
“But while the Trump administration is very concerned with European security and believes that we can come to a reasonable settlement between Russia and Ukraine, and we also believe that it’s important in the coming years for Europe to step up in a big way to provide for its own defense, the threat that I worry the most about vis-à-vis Europe is not Russia, it’s not China, it’s not any other external actor. And what I worry about is the threat from within, the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values — values shared with the United States of America.”
He then went through a litany of specific complaints about the behavior of different European countries. They ranged from failing to control immigration, suppressing free speech, and Brussels seeking to control and define futures of independent countries such as Hungary and Romania.
The leading French newspaper, Le Monde (their equivalent of the New York Times) asserted that the American Vice President was declaring “ideological war on Europe.”
Le Monde was right. The European elites have been decaying for at least two generations. They hide behind their privileged status and take ideological positions that feel good but are destructive. Europe’s failures are devastating for most everyday Europeans.
I have personal knowledge about this. I have a Ph.D. in Modern European History – and I have lived in France, Germany, Belgium and Italy. As a young Army dependent, we were living in France when the French Army came back from Algeria, killed the French Fourth Republic and brought back General Charles de Gaulle to establish the Fifth Republic.
It is now the longest serving non-royal government in French history.
The European elites value each other’s opinions more than they value serving the people of Europe. The European elites live in a fantasy world of green policies that destroy industries and jobs, welfare policies which destroy the work ethic, and immigration policies which undermine the popular culture. They simply hope for a peaceful world without a strong military.
Meanwhile, state enforced speech codes protect Islamic extremists at the expense of local citizens.
The result has been a steady decline of European culture, economic development, and defensive capacity.
The Afghan Islamist who wounded more than two dozen people and killed a mother and her two-year-old daughter with a car two days before the supposed security conference signals the willful avoidance of reality at the heart of the elite European worldview.
To be clear, I admire European civilization. I believe America is far stronger and safer if Europe is healthy and capable of growing and defending itself.
I hope vice president Vance’s intervention at least starts European elites thinking about what must be done to revive their continent.
For more commentary from Newt Gingrich, visit Gingrich360.com. Also subscribe to the Newt’s World podcast.
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