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And BC's 2 biggest issues with allowing a pipeline (depending on whether you're talking to the province or the people) are that we'd be taking the risk of shipping crude oil through our islands and remote coastlines, and that we wouldn't really see any local benefits. Building refineries, whether in Alberta, BC, or otherwise, would alleviate our reliance on the US, lower prices (or at least isolate us from major fluctuations from the exchange rate), and make the product less toxic (figuratively and literally) to those opposed to pipelines.

Unfortunately you have enough people who just believe whatever their guy says. I'd think it would be like a Russia-Ukraine type thing, in the sense that a lot of friends and family are on both sides of the border, but Russia still found (and admittedly forced) enough people who didn't care.

I might be the only Canadian brave enough to say this, but I don't think y'all are going hard enough on the tariffs. Too many countries have taken advantage of you. You need to slap a minimum 100% tariff on all these countries ASAP:

Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
Andorra
Angola
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Armenia
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
The Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile
China
Colombia
Comoros
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Republic of the Congo
Costa Rica
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Eswatini
Ethiopia
Fiji
Finland
France
Gabon
The Gambia
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Grenada
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Republic of Ireland
Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
Israel
Italy
Ivory Coast
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Marshall Islands
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
Federated States of Micronesia
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia
Montenegro
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
North Korea
North Macedonia
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Palau
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Romania
Russia
Rwanda
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
São Tomé and Príncipe
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
South Korea
South Sudan
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Timor-Leste
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Venezuela
Vietnam
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe

If you do this, your government will collect more money than it's ever seen and all your problems will be solved.

I don't think they should get a pass for being a bunch of morons (if I'm understanding your comment correctly). They elected this guy once already and that should've given them all the education they needed. As one of their greatest minds once said, "Fool me once, shame on ... shame on you. Fool me... You can't get fooled again!"

We need at least a 25% export tax on all energy exports. Clearly they need it or it wouldn't have set a lower rate. 100% of proceeds can go towards building our own refineries to reduce reliance on the US in the future, in Alberta if that will be what it takes to stop their whining.

You kind of have been for quite a while, this is just the first time the damage has been big and close enough for the rubble to fall back on yourselves.

Regardless of whether I can afford to make those choices, I'm not even given the opportunity to choose as I rent. My landlord isn't the one who will save on utilities or save money by having an EV. You could argue I could move to a more efficient rental, but prices have gone up so much since I moved here I could save 100% of all my energy costs and I'd still end up paying more.

So I agree in that the carbon tax can't change my usage, it only makes things less affordable.

Give them the extra profit if we have to. The rest of us are all willing to make sacrifices, sometimes it's easier to give the baby a soother than listen to their incessant whining.

Oh nice, a 110% tariff on China would at least partially cancel out the Canadian and Mexican tariffs while mainly screwing over his own country. I'm all for it!

Exactly, clearly they'll still pay for it if it's important enough to exempt. In Canada's case we could give Alberta the extra revenue just so they won't get too cranky.

If they exempt oil we definitely need to slap a 25% export tax on it. Give the revenue to Alberta if that's what it takes. Get Mexico on board too.

That's fair, I suppose as someone not familiar with either it's easy to confuse offsite with remote work.

I'd argue some managers shouldn't be able to work 100% remotely. At least in sectors where the people they're managing can't. I work in a job that has to be on location (not an office). On the one hand I don't want them on location because they just get In the way, but on the other hand they're so out of touch with reality because they don't ever talk to us or our customers.

Even if the conditions were harsh, the anchor shouldn't fall on its own. That far offshore it would've been secured.

I'm admittedly not a genius when it comes to foreign exchange/international currency dynamics, but unless the Yuan became the reserve currency I think it would be a positive change for most of the world.

If every country could come up with a way to personally annoy him (refuse to give away their largest territory, build taller buildings all around his hotels, call him a silly name, etc.) all the tariffs would essentially cancel each other out. If everything's tariffed, nothing's tariffed.

Yeah, in BC when we used to have premiums it was only $75/mo and if I remember correctly it scaled up from $0 if you made below about $10000 to the full $75 around $30000.

An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act and other Acts and to make consequential amendments to certain Acts

Catchy name, clearly he hadn't started reading Dr. Seuss yet.

I'm sure it is, but her approach is like when younger kids are playing sports (hockey, soccer, lacrosse) and there's that one kid that refuses to play their position and just ends up chasing the ball. Sure, they're all aiming for the same net, but that one kid can undermine the rest of the team's strategy. At best the rogue kid leaves an opposing player wide open, at worst they steal the ball from their own teammate and shank it into the stands.

I don't have answers, sorry. Maybe just remind others who can vote that they need to and that any pain they feel is solely a result of that dumbass being elected, no matter who he tries to blame.