It is ironic that under the climate obsessed Liberals Canada is shipping more fossil fuels to China which is the world leader in adding CO2 to the atmosphere. All this while here at home the Canadian economy is disintegrating and the Canadian standard of living is dropping like a stone. And PM Carney plans to correct this while honouring C-69 and directing trade away from America.
All that metallurgical coal shipped out of Vancouver to China goes into the production of steel used to undermine our own industry. Mind you the steel component only provided by China and essential to the oil industry is now being cut off by Canadian tariffs. Makes my head spin.
Asia suffers from distressing poverty levels and has little access to the cheap energy sources that could help lift them out of poverty by providing reliable productive sources of life enhancing energy
Next up: the sauve international banker's highly anticipated Oval Office meeting with President Trump. One wonders how he will ever manage to keep those auto manufacturing jobs intact across the center of the Laurentian kingdom he inherited from Trudeau the Lesser. Those potential losses, while distressing for workers, pale in comparison to the carnage Trudeau inflicted on Alberta’s energy sector during his green run - jobs that could have help covered the shakedown Trump is about to put Carney through. But I digress.
Despite all his "Elbows Up" campaign bravado and occasional photo op in a Team Canada jersey, I'm betting that Carney is about to be put through the same wringer that Trump and his tag team partner J.D. Vance used to squeeze Vlodomir Zelenskyy. Carney, like Zelenskyy before him, just doesn't have the cards.
The stakes are just as high for that faux-Conservative Ford. He's going to need a lot more borrowed cash than those $200.00 cheques he handed out earlier this year. Any threats of cutting the electricity to the northeastern US not likely to get him what he wants. Will he look to his newfound chum Carney for a bailout, and will Carney, once he changes his suit after being sweated out in the Oval Office sauna, turn his gaze west, looking for more of that equalization moolah to grease the Laurentian wheel?
The winners are now in; the runners up now licking their wounds, evaluating, and restocking. I have a feeling the former will soon be joining the latter in trying to figure out a way out of the mess they landed in.
Meanwhile, out west the drum beats are growing louder...
would tend to agree. Carney and the Liberal Party campaigned on the always and ever present anti American sentiment that runs through the veins of so many Canadians and the fear of Trump. Now he has to go on bended knee to the oval office and strike some kind of arrangement with Trump. Not quite sure how you square that circle if you are Carney. Canada is ready to explode in my opinion and Carney has pressure from all angles. This is what happens when you crave power as does the LPC and sell your soul. Eventually the people you bribed call in their markers and if you can't/won't deliver you are in trouble. Blanchet has said this is no time for politicking but what if Trump says they want unfettered access to the dairy market? And he wants the digital tax removed? Can't wait to see how Carney wiggles out of that predicament.
The impending threat of Alberta separation will likely make U.S. tariffs fade to a secondary concern. Carney now faces a war on two fronts and elbows up to our western cousins won't have the same appeal. I am intrigued by the potential for and the irony of Alberta deploying constitutional and legislative tools originally intended to benefit Québec.
“Energy sovereignty “ is crucial, but it is unattainable unless the de facto veto that Aboriginal groups and bands have over resource projects is ended. In this crucial field of Canadian endeavour the Supreme Court’s interpretation of section 35 has made Aboriginal bands a virtual third order of constitutional sovereign power. Now UNDRIP. Canada’s national Railway could never have been built if the law then was the law now.
The pronouncement that pipelines to tidewater are 'toxic' because they enable shipments to China is an infantile mantra ( not of Terry Glavin who properly states the obvious) but instead of the comfortably prosperous in Middle Canada/ Quebec and Ontario whose prosperity is not tied to resource sales and industrial production but is tied to being the 'Leninplatz' central administration HQ for the entire and very restless ROC.
There is rarely any mention of the coal volumes shipped from the west coast, while oil is blocked and natural gas (that can replace the use of thermal coal in many cases) has "no business case".
That thermal coal which is sent through BC because Oregon, Washington and California are to environmentally “pure” should be turned back at the border. No more “nice Canadian help” for Trump.
Ms. Claridge, just checked to reaffirm I wasn't hallucinating, but according to Bing, the coal going through Vancover to China, Japan and South Korea is metallurgic and used in the production of steel, not heating like thermal.
Did Bing acknowledge that the coal transits through Canada because the US states rejected it for environmental reasons? It still is coal from American production, correct?
I think nearly all coal mined in Canada is metallurgical, but I also think it is still hypocritical to accept continued coal shipping while blocking oil and gas.
I listened to a Michael Ignatieff interview on where we are at right now. In his detailed and thoughtful analysis he did not even mention the Alberta and Saskatchewan independence movement that this election has set on fire. Unless Carney has a plan to deal with this I worry that Canada is in for another lost decade. And I don’t think he does
Thanks, Terry. Sage advice. I’m not in agreement with the suggestion of “wealth transfer” via what amounts to a “home equity tax”. Most of us did not buy houses as an investment, we bought them as homes. I find it difficult to buy into the idea that because my home increased in value, I am somehow responsible to pay for someone else’s home.
We didn’t build the railway in the 19th century, that was accomplished by distant ancestors that had a very different education than the current cohort.
The Paul Chiang/Jon Tay story made me feel sick. It was the same feeling I had when Trump was yelling at Zelenskyy in the Oval Office. The ground had shifted beneath us and it was all so wrong. Then the story just kind of went away. And that was even worse.
No doubt the Mandarin Bloc was monkey wrenching the election. I can't figure out why this didn't get more sustained attention. I think maybe people don't want to be accused of "election denialism" or something? I don't know.
I’m old enough to remember when the Manchurian Candidate was just the name of a movie.
I’m waiting with interest to see if the Eurasia Group - you know, where Carney’s wife and Gerry Butts work, and which so kindly seconded ex-CBC art salesman Evan Solomon as a Liberal candidate- was correct in its prediction that Carney would roll over for Trump right after the election. I mean, they oughta know, right?
Barton was also the architect of the hare-brained scheme to increase Canada's population to 100 million by importing vast numbers from the rapey head-chopping demographic.
The Liberal Party of Canada airbrushed their once Dear [embarrassing] Leader from history and installed their new Politburo decider-in-chief to replace him.
Of course the U.S. Left are swooning over Carney. At least he’s held a real job in the real world. The empty vessel that proceeded him was once followed like a cult leader stateside so I’m sure their confidence in their own impeccable judgment of human worth could not possibly be wrong twice in a row.
Surely our economic genius of a PM negotiated with China BEFORE crude oil was shipped out of Vancouver. The substance of that negotiation would be to eliminate tariffs on Canola and Seafood. Failure to have done so is not strategic. Canadians were told Carney was strategic, smart, calm etc. iIf Canadians turn to China without setting a high bar, the risk is being trifled with regularly. The reset comes with Canada making good deals with China. Not sure the PM is sufficiently able to tell China “Not so fast” or “No” when the only signs Cdns have of his tough intestinal fortitude was how he dealt with Paul Chiang and his replacement, Peter Yuen. Fortunately voters told liberals, Carney and China that they were in charge and that they should back off.
Pre-election polling data identified dealing with Trump as the top issue, especially among the 55 and up. Many felt Carney's resume equipped him to do that better than Poilievre. Until I see Elections Canada voter statistics, I'll go with Trump as the issue that tipped the vote towards the Liberals.
Trump was the issue that tipped the scales, because of the polling and especially because of the hype from our media. It created a sort of feedback loop and people fell for it.
"....It’s about geopolitics alright, but it also has everything to do with what life is like in Canada for at least half of Canadian voters. They live paycheque to paycheque. And then there’s the nearly one in five Canadians who rely on foodbanks to feed themselves. Six in ten Canadians who don’t own a home have already given up on ever owning one......"
There is apparently no reliable moral compass that guides the legacy media coverage of federal politics as it slips increasingly into irrelevance and obscurity.
The media coverage of this past election at times displayed infomercial qualities akin to when AM radio was losing the audience battle, late in the last century and relied on syndicated junk to attract listeners
It must be noted that Carney did not speak of the tariffs levied by China, which Western farmers largely bore the brunt of.
It is ironic that under the climate obsessed Liberals Canada is shipping more fossil fuels to China which is the world leader in adding CO2 to the atmosphere. All this while here at home the Canadian economy is disintegrating and the Canadian standard of living is dropping like a stone. And PM Carney plans to correct this while honouring C-69 and directing trade away from America.
Bloomberg - Chinese crude imports from VAN were an unprecedented 7.3 million barrels in March, while American oil exports to China were almost nil.
Before China imposed a 100% tariff on Canadian canola (ONLY grown in the west) they bought up a shitload at a reduced price.
If curious about the amount of coal being mined in BC and shipped west:
https://www.rupertport.com/terminal_details/trigon-terminals/
All that metallurgical coal shipped out of Vancouver to China goes into the production of steel used to undermine our own industry. Mind you the steel component only provided by China and essential to the oil industry is now being cut off by Canadian tariffs. Makes my head spin.
What about that LNG port in northern BC (Kitimat). Seems like it will be servicing Asia not Europe. It’s still under construction.
Asia suffers from distressing poverty levels and has little access to the cheap energy sources that could help lift them out of poverty by providing reliable productive sources of life enhancing energy
Next up: the sauve international banker's highly anticipated Oval Office meeting with President Trump. One wonders how he will ever manage to keep those auto manufacturing jobs intact across the center of the Laurentian kingdom he inherited from Trudeau the Lesser. Those potential losses, while distressing for workers, pale in comparison to the carnage Trudeau inflicted on Alberta’s energy sector during his green run - jobs that could have help covered the shakedown Trump is about to put Carney through. But I digress.
Despite all his "Elbows Up" campaign bravado and occasional photo op in a Team Canada jersey, I'm betting that Carney is about to be put through the same wringer that Trump and his tag team partner J.D. Vance used to squeeze Vlodomir Zelenskyy. Carney, like Zelenskyy before him, just doesn't have the cards.
The stakes are just as high for that faux-Conservative Ford. He's going to need a lot more borrowed cash than those $200.00 cheques he handed out earlier this year. Any threats of cutting the electricity to the northeastern US not likely to get him what he wants. Will he look to his newfound chum Carney for a bailout, and will Carney, once he changes his suit after being sweated out in the Oval Office sauna, turn his gaze west, looking for more of that equalization moolah to grease the Laurentian wheel?
The winners are now in; the runners up now licking their wounds, evaluating, and restocking. I have a feeling the former will soon be joining the latter in trying to figure out a way out of the mess they landed in.
Meanwhile, out west the drum beats are growing louder...
would tend to agree. Carney and the Liberal Party campaigned on the always and ever present anti American sentiment that runs through the veins of so many Canadians and the fear of Trump. Now he has to go on bended knee to the oval office and strike some kind of arrangement with Trump. Not quite sure how you square that circle if you are Carney. Canada is ready to explode in my opinion and Carney has pressure from all angles. This is what happens when you crave power as does the LPC and sell your soul. Eventually the people you bribed call in their markers and if you can't/won't deliver you are in trouble. Blanchet has said this is no time for politicking but what if Trump says they want unfettered access to the dairy market? And he wants the digital tax removed? Can't wait to see how Carney wiggles out of that predicament.
The impending threat of Alberta separation will likely make U.S. tariffs fade to a secondary concern. Carney now faces a war on two fronts and elbows up to our western cousins won't have the same appeal. I am intrigued by the potential for and the irony of Alberta deploying constitutional and legislative tools originally intended to benefit Québec.
How about we get unfettered access with softwood lumber? (Excluded from NAFTA).
“Energy sovereignty “ is crucial, but it is unattainable unless the de facto veto that Aboriginal groups and bands have over resource projects is ended. In this crucial field of Canadian endeavour the Supreme Court’s interpretation of section 35 has made Aboriginal bands a virtual third order of constitutional sovereign power. Now UNDRIP. Canada’s national Railway could never have been built if the law then was the law now.
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Trudeau gave way too much away. I’m not expecting it to change.
The pronouncement that pipelines to tidewater are 'toxic' because they enable shipments to China is an infantile mantra ( not of Terry Glavin who properly states the obvious) but instead of the comfortably prosperous in Middle Canada/ Quebec and Ontario whose prosperity is not tied to resource sales and industrial production but is tied to being the 'Leninplatz' central administration HQ for the entire and very restless ROC.
There is rarely any mention of the coal volumes shipped from the west coast, while oil is blocked and natural gas (that can replace the use of thermal coal in many cases) has "no business case".
That thermal coal which is sent through BC because Oregon, Washington and California are to environmentally “pure” should be turned back at the border. No more “nice Canadian help” for Trump.
Ms. Claridge, just checked to reaffirm I wasn't hallucinating, but according to Bing, the coal going through Vancover to China, Japan and South Korea is metallurgic and used in the production of steel, not heating like thermal.
Did Bing acknowledge that the coal transits through Canada because the US states rejected it for environmental reasons? It still is coal from American production, correct?
But does it originate in the US?
Not to mention the mines in BC:
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/industry/mineral-exploration-mining/british-columbia-geological-survey/geology/coal-overview
I think nearly all coal mined in Canada is metallurgical, but I also think it is still hypocritical to accept continued coal shipping while blocking oil and gas.
I listened to a Michael Ignatieff interview on where we are at right now. In his detailed and thoughtful analysis he did not even mention the Alberta and Saskatchewan independence movement that this election has set on fire. Unless Carney has a plan to deal with this I worry that Canada is in for another lost decade. And I don’t think he does
Thanks, Terry. Sage advice. I’m not in agreement with the suggestion of “wealth transfer” via what amounts to a “home equity tax”. Most of us did not buy houses as an investment, we bought them as homes. I find it difficult to buy into the idea that because my home increased in value, I am somehow responsible to pay for someone else’s home.
We didn’t build the railway in the 19th century, that was accomplished by distant ancestors that had a very different education than the current cohort.
The Paul Chiang/Jon Tay story made me feel sick. It was the same feeling I had when Trump was yelling at Zelenskyy in the Oval Office. The ground had shifted beneath us and it was all so wrong. Then the story just kind of went away. And that was even worse.
No doubt the Mandarin Bloc was monkey wrenching the election. I can't figure out why this didn't get more sustained attention. I think maybe people don't want to be accused of "election denialism" or something? I don't know.
I’m old enough to remember when the Manchurian Candidate was just the name of a movie.
I’m waiting with interest to see if the Eurasia Group - you know, where Carney’s wife and Gerry Butts work, and which so kindly seconded ex-CBC art salesman Evan Solomon as a Liberal candidate- was correct in its prediction that Carney would roll over for Trump right after the election. I mean, they oughta know, right?
Don't forget about Dominc Barton, former cheerleader/Canadian Ambassador to China who is now a 'Strategic Counselor' for the Eurasia Group.
Way to many ties between that group and the Liberal Party. Might be cause for a Glavine deep-dive?
Barton was also the architect of the hare-brained scheme to increase Canada's population to 100 million by importing vast numbers from the rapey head-chopping demographic.
More like the religion of pieces, but yeah.
You mean the followers of ‘the religion of peace’?
Lots to think about. Thank you. I also believe we will need to take care of each other. God please help us in our decision making.
Great article Terry!
In summary:
The Liberal Party of Canada airbrushed their once Dear [embarrassing] Leader from history and installed their new Politburo decider-in-chief to replace him.
The sheeple have spoken.
Of course the U.S. Left are swooning over Carney. At least he’s held a real job in the real world. The empty vessel that proceeded him was once followed like a cult leader stateside so I’m sure their confidence in their own impeccable judgment of human worth could not possibly be wrong twice in a row.
Surely our economic genius of a PM negotiated with China BEFORE crude oil was shipped out of Vancouver. The substance of that negotiation would be to eliminate tariffs on Canola and Seafood. Failure to have done so is not strategic. Canadians were told Carney was strategic, smart, calm etc. iIf Canadians turn to China without setting a high bar, the risk is being trifled with regularly. The reset comes with Canada making good deals with China. Not sure the PM is sufficiently able to tell China “Not so fast” or “No” when the only signs Cdns have of his tough intestinal fortitude was how he dealt with Paul Chiang and his replacement, Peter Yuen. Fortunately voters told liberals, Carney and China that they were in charge and that they should back off.
Pre-election polling data identified dealing with Trump as the top issue, especially among the 55 and up. Many felt Carney's resume equipped him to do that better than Poilievre. Until I see Elections Canada voter statistics, I'll go with Trump as the issue that tipped the vote towards the Liberals.
Trump was the issue that tipped the scales, because of the polling and especially because of the hype from our media. It created a sort of feedback loop and people fell for it.
Worth repeating:
"....It’s about geopolitics alright, but it also has everything to do with what life is like in Canada for at least half of Canadian voters. They live paycheque to paycheque. And then there’s the nearly one in five Canadians who rely on foodbanks to feed themselves. Six in ten Canadians who don’t own a home have already given up on ever owning one......"
There is apparently no reliable moral compass that guides the legacy media coverage of federal politics as it slips increasingly into irrelevance and obscurity.
The media coverage of this past election at times displayed infomercial qualities akin to when AM radio was losing the audience battle, late in the last century and relied on syndicated junk to attract listeners