More of the same is not a reason to stay

“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”

― G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain

Strong men (and women) founded Canada.  They cut a country out of a frozen wilderness that rose to prominence during both world wars.  Perhaps they did too good a job.  Canada had it very good for a very long time so I guess it was predictable what would happen.  The country is now full of soy boys that sat back and watched as a bunch of sociopaths destroyed what used to be a great country.  The destruction has been so complete that the next generation of hard men will need to make hard choices.

One hard choice people in Alberta want to make is just to leave and start over.  People in Alberta have been trying without success to influence the direction of Canada for decades.  They have concluded that there are just not enough hard men yet in the rest of Canada so leaving is the only way forward that does not include continued decline.

This is sad but true.  Canada can’t be fixed because not enough Canadians have the will to fix it.  The inability to fix what is broken in Canada is at the root of Alberta independence but that is not what politicians and media want you to believe.  The official narrative is that this is all about pipelines.  If Ottawa approves another pipeline the hard people of Alberta will go back to sleep and enjoy the decline.

There are 2 problems with the narrative.

1. It isn’t true.
2. Mark Carney will never approve a pipeline.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is a high priest in the climate cult.  From December 2019 until 2025 Mark Carney was the UN Special envoy on Climate Action and finance.  Mark Carney did not resign as the governor of the Bank of England until March or 2020 so for 4 months he brazenly violated ethics rules by being involved with politics.  The exact same thing that he had to resign from the Bank of Canada over.

Mark Carney is highly ethically challenged, which makes him the perfect climate crusader.  It is also why he has no problem lying about his intention to build a pipeline.  Carney is, however, smart enough to not lie overtly.  He has not said that he will or will not approve a pipeline.  All he said (depending on the source) is that he would consider or support a pipeline.

Ms. Smith and Prime Minister Mark Carney on Friday unveiled the details of the pact designed to smooth the path for a bitumen pipeline to the West Coast. Alberta agreed to increase the carbon price it imposes on oil producers, and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through carbon capture and storage, while Ottawa agreed to support a pipeline to tidewater.

Carney has the authority to do more than consider or support, but he did not.  A leopard does not change its spots.  He has no intentions of ever letting a pipeline be built.  Even if he approves the permit, he knows no one will build it.  Canada still has a ban on large oil tankers on the west coast.  What good is a pipeline to the coast if you are not allowed to put the oil on tanker?  It would be a pipeline to nowhere.

In return for this non-promise Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has agreed to make energy expensive in her province.  Smith wants so desperately to believe she can kill the independence movement with the promise of a pipeline that she is willing to ignore that the climate cult has been lying for decades.

A recent paper published in Geoscientific Model Development, tied directly to the next generation of UN-backed climate modeling for the IPCC’s upcoming assessment cycle, suggests that some of the most extreme warming scenarios used for years are no longer considered plausible. 

Frankly I think it is bizarre that Smith thinks high taxes and false promises are what Albertans want.  Her gambit will not work because it is just a great example of why Canada doesn’t work.  The federal government will not do the right thing unless we agree to their extortion.  That is not a win, it is just more of the same.