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Tracy Wilmadean's avatar

Danielle Smith is doing a much better job than Mark Carney in attracting investment into the country. My fear is that many of these projects will never see the light of day as so many special interest groups are immediately up in arms. Likely many of the same people that like their government benefits. When will Canadians realize the money has to come from somewhere? And when will government stop kowtowing to these people and get stuff done???

Sparkle Smith's avatar

Time for Alberta Independence-- it's the only way Alberta gains leverage!! time to take control and decide how much influence outside groups have.

Jerry Grant's avatar

Realizing they are picking other people's pockets wouldn't stop them.

Christine Barnett's avatar

My sentiments exactly.

that Canadian jew's avatar

"“Lecturing countries from afar is an ineffective strategy. It’s satisfying, but it’s ineffective,” Carney said."

Translation - "Lecturing Muslim and Arab countries may cost me votes and does literally nothing, so I'll let them continue - but make no mistake - I'll keep telling at Israel and putting Jew haters in positions of power over Jewish safety" - mark carney

Jerry Grant's avatar

Muslim values are Carney's values. That must mean he beats women and rapes children.

Brian's avatar

There both terrorists!

jacklynw's avatar

Carney creates his own narrative to suit his needs in the moment. He did not live up to his campaign promise of negotiating with Trump, so he rebuked Trudeau's foreign policy. He has yet to act in Canada's best interest!

Lord Chancellor's avatar

“A feasibility study with Ontario Premier Doug Ford for an all-new Canadian pipeline from Hardisty, Alberta, to Sarnia, Ontario”

It sounds good. It feels good. But these politicians are all talk and no action. I’ve seen this rodeo before. In 1980, Pierre Trudeau introduced the National Energy Program to secure Canadian energy self-sufficiency and link our pipelines east. It failed. Fast forward to 2017, and the Energy-East pipeline went nowhere. It failed.

Shall I keep going?

Randy Stubbings's avatar

The idea didn’t fail, it was canceled by Trudeau and the Liberals.

that Canadian jew's avatar

Québec was staunchly against it... JT isn't going to go against the francophones....

Donald Ashman's avatar

Pierre Poilievre promised to use all of the powers of the Prime Minister’s office to build an “Energy East Corridor”, including emergency powers.

Had we elected Mr.

Poilievre, this project could already have been under way.

Sparkle Smith's avatar

Time for Alberta Independence

Keith's avatar

The AI data center scares me. Most of the pipeline talk is hot-air meant to fool Albertans that Canada is listening. I still support Alberta ‘s secession. I do not trust Liberals to do ANYTHING that benefits Alberta.

Keith's avatar

I would agree that the federal government is the problem. That said, the federal government & META are peas in a pod. I don’t trust either one of them. The only real answer is to leave confederation.

Betty McIvor's avatar

The AI data centres have nothing to do with the federal government or Canada, and shows me that companies will continue to invest in Alberta as long as the federal government is not involved.

Jerry Grant's avatar

"While it’s true that the Major Projects Office Carney established said they had no projects ready..."

Just when you thought investing in Canada couldn't get any worse, he added another useless bureaucracy, another hurdle to jump. He'd better sign our economy over to his Chinese masters soon or there will be nothing left, and we'll only be useful to them for slave labour and somewhere to put military bases.

YMS's avatar

Thriving in spite of all the road blocks Ottawa puts in Alberta's way isn't easy. Being a conservative politician, even in Alberta where the media is 100% against everything you say and do isn't easy either. I'm sure Danielle Smith probably wants to bang her head against the wall sometimes but she keeps plugging away.

I think she is by far the most competent politician in the country right now. Fingers crossed Ottawa finally gets the hell out of the way and stops standing in the way of prosperity... I won't hold my breath. MOU's mean nothing, the MPO is useless and just another layer of inept bureaucracy.

For supposedly being so smart, Carney sure is making mess of the economy. Is it on purpose? How could it not. At this point, my cat could do a better job. Not surprising, the liberals don't rule for the welfare of the people, they rule for the liberals. With an uncurious and deferential media and population, why should they even try to be accountable?

P Booth's avatar

Great news for Alberta And Daniel Smith! She's a smart cookie and a hard worker! Doing a hell of a job for Alberta! And it all started with her strong stance against Carney. Too bad Ford couldn't do that for Ontario instead of sucking up to Carney every chance he gets!, we need him to show Canada he's a strong CONSERVATIVE AND ON PIERRE POILIEVRE'S SIDE!!

John Smith's avatar

Carney may be making visits to foreign countries rather than lecture them from afar like Trudeau but the results are the same ! Nothing for Canada ! It all a show a fraud ! I don’t t believe Carney will do a pipeline and will keep delaying this ! He hopes to run another election get a majority then will shut down the oil and gas growth like Trudeau and pander his carbon tax scheme leading to poverty! Read his books snakes may shed thier skin but the new skin is the same colour! I am not convinced he will ever actual sign the contract for the subs either at the end of the 18 month contract period

Stan Channing's avatar

I encourage you to ask your GPT of choice what a 1.8GW AI data center would actually cost... only then will you see just how much money Meta is actually investing here.

And now that Alberta has shown they can get the job done, others will follow suit. Imagine 10 more of these all generating $250M in tax or royalty revenue.

The doofuses in the rest of the country literally thought Alberta was going to keep that 144 trillion cf of gas in the ground... Alberta will just use it domestically and convert those hydrocarbons into bits and bytes instead.

This will go down as one of the biggest weeks in Alberta's history... and it's all because of Premier Smith and her government.

Betty McIvor's avatar

To bad she continues to spout 'sovereign Alberta within Canada when everything she's done the past few months shows us that we can have a very strong economy without Canada's interference.

sandi ross's avatar

Good for Premiere Smith & Alberta...they will continue to carry the country....yikes to 4 in 10 business potentially moving to US, much like Brookfield. Trump will be happy but Carney just doesn't seem to care that he's jeopardizing our country with his silly games and memorized speeches. All talk, no action! MOU's are worth nothing until you start generating revenue!

David Marshall's avatar

Danielle Smith is the smartest most business savvy Premier in the whole country she is moving forward in spite of terrible liberal policies. It is national shame the mainstream media continues to shit all over her.

Wake up Canada !

Scott Newell's avatar

And just imagine if we did not have to send billions of our taxes to the Parasite East !

Sparkle Smith's avatar

Definitely Time for Alberta Independence!

Kimmer's avatar

lets face the facts folks, Mark J Carney was the wrong GUY, he possesses NONE of the qualities that it takes to be a Prime Minister, we can bang our heads against the wall, BUT he most certainly isn't

PM material. One would think the old guard LIBRALS would take him aside and TELL him how things WORK, because what we see today playing out, is so corrupt, he plays premiers against premiers, he poached a Majority (with favours), and NOW pulling plugs on committees, stacking the SENATE more. Pushing this ALTO train, total waste of OUR $$$. Now he wants to bail out CONDO DEVELOPERS! Then we have the Cluster of the Chinese Spy cars, supposedly affordable, but oh no surprise they are NOT CHEAP as promised, below $35k. Lotus base $119k - 139k touring keeping in mind listed MRSP do not include dealer fees and transportation levies, or luxury tax. Another ? Will our EV charging stations work with these Chinese imports? Tesla is proven to be less expensive and definely more reliable. Direct competition to what has already been established, WHY would anyone buy a Chinese spy car

QuackerCrumbs's avatar

$99 per month? That needs to be corrected.