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Tony Valeri's avatar

Yet, Canadians are blaming Trump, meanwhile Canada's economy is being destroyed from within.

Marg's avatar

Yes that is for sure Tony! I agree with you, why are people not smelling the coffee is completely beyond me!! Our economy cannot survive this way.

Btw wondering what’s happening with the mou with Carney and Danielle Smith anyway , all is strangely quiet on that front!

Lord Chancellor's avatar

You don’t think the Iran war Trump initiated had anything to do with gas prices spiking. Wow.

Christine Barnett's avatar

Would we have to worry if Canada had access to our own reserves? Speaking of which…

Kevin 🇨🇦's avatar

Canada does have plenty of refining capacity however we are still constrained by the price of oil and distillates as they are commodities. When world prices go up, our price at the pumps goes up too. But at least we should not have fuel shortages, like other countries are dealing with.

Lord Chancellor's avatar

In 1980, Pierre Trudeau introduced the National Energy Program (NEP) to secure energy independence. The Mulroney government abolished it 5 years later. See link below. As much as it pains me to say it, Justin's daddy was right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Energy_Program

Angela's avatar

No he wasn't. When a federal government interferes with provincial jurisdiction that's tyranny. There were other ways to deal with the situation but it had nothing to do with the economy. It was all about control.

Lord Chancellor's avatar

Except a deal had been worked out between Justin’s daddy and Peter Lougheed

Ooops…try again, sunshine.

Ken Schultz's avatar

A deal under duress.

Kevin 🇨🇦's avatar

Interesting discussion - the comments on rising diesel prices due to reduced refining capacity worldwide due to Ukraine strikes on Russian refineries (which are totally justified) and also Iran war constraining Middle East refineries are right in the mark - not so sure about the talking points about investment dollars not flowing into Canada. I would need proof or confirmation of that. In any event, I believe that Mr Global, Matt Randolph is the preeminent voice on Substack concerning oil and energy. Matt also indicates that the price of diesel (and shortage of same) is much more important and relevant than merely looking at the price of oil.

Angela's avatar

Of course it did. Anyone thinking otherwise is a moron. But Iran MUST be dealt with if we want any sort of relief.

Tony Valeri's avatar

Well Diesel is less refined then Gasoline. It is cheaper to make and carries the vehicle much further. So being that you can go further on it. They raise the taxes for it. I believe this is an attack on Canadian Produce and industry. Seems to me it is being done on purpose in order to usher in their WEF 2030 world globalist agenda.

R Leggat's avatar

Tell me about it. I live in Creston, BC and just filled my tank on our diesel farm 1 ton for $289 at $2.359 per litre...

Magnificent fish pie's avatar

This country is gonna burn