Although the Chief Constable of the Vancouver police diligently enforced liquor laws, that responsibility nevertheless did not “prevent him from ensuring the Churchills were well-provided with liquor.”
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Some American states have benefitted from Canada’s natural gas stagnation.
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Average British Columbia premiums for motorists were only cheaper than Alberta in one year out of twenty—and by two bucks.
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Most “local” economies greatly depend on investment and purchases from somewhere else.
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From First Nations to federal finances, any sober analysis about the importance of oil and gas to Canada’s future — GDP, jobs, incomes, or tax revenues — cannot be understated.
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What world population declines may do to environmental debates
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The reality is that domestic oil consumption needs will be met either by Canadian sources, or with imported foreign oil.
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The population of the Lower Mainland has grown. It’s not unreasonable to expect infrastructure needs to grow with it.
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As to where the $477 billion in foreign oil imports between 1988 and 2019 ended up, fully $225 billion or 47 per cent of all foreign oil flowed into Quebec
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Canada, with a mere one per cent increase in oil and gas investment between 2009 and 2017 was the other exception to the recovery in oil and gas investment worldwide
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History matters: By the late 1980s and early 1990s, even liberal Americans were tiring of the excuse-a-day approach to crime on the streets and those who explained away crime with endless “root cause” theories.
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An Alberta politician recently gloated over Thatcher’s death before apologizing. Useful fact: Thatcher’s 11-year time in power resulted in 1.7 million more Britons employed, compared with just 600,000 new jobs in France in the same period.
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Keeping the Paris commitment will not be cost-free and existing policies lack sufficient means to the promised Paris end.
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The claim that First Nations are overwhelmingly opposed to oil and gas development is false
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Most of this activity requires little from governments, only that politicians and others allow these industries to flourish—including by not standing in the way of pipelines.
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“The partisanship of the radicals distressed him; it was, he remarked, ‘a bad habit to say that another man’s thoughts are bad and only ours are good, and that those holding different views from ours are the enemies of the country.”
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Self-harm is never a viable strategy for a positive future.
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That today’s liberals once again call themselves progressives is more honest and accurate than using the “liberal” label, given that term once designated those who valued liberty and personal responsibility.
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Conflating personal prejudice with institutional racism does a tremendous disservice to those who lived through actual institutional racism, and who successfully fought such practices to extinction.
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When so-called “ethical investors” do not treat tyranny-produced oil in the same manner as diamonds mined with slave labour in Africa — blood diamonds, they make a choice.
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