Liberal Minority Government 2025 - ???

[Czech_pivo]

Oh, they're definitely not interested in Canada.

The USA on the other hand... viz:

TC Energy shifts billions to U.S. as Canadian investment climate falters​

One of Canada’s largest energy companies is sending billions south of the border, citing better returns and faster permitting processes in the United States.​

One of Canada’s largest energy companies is sending billions south of the border, citing better returns and faster permitting processes in the United States.

TC Energy announced plans to invest $8.5 billion in U.S. energy infrastructure projects over the next five years, including a major pipeline upgrade in Virginia.

President and CEO François Poirier expects natural gas demand to grow by 45 billion cubic feet daily over the next decade.

He added that accelerating project timelines has been a key focus in the United States. What used to take two to three years to permit and the same amount of time to construct could be cut in half or better in the U.S.

Conservative MP Shannon Stubbs blamed Prime Minister Mark Carney for stifling investment in Canada.

“If it wasn’t bad enough that Canada has lost $63 billion in investment since Carney became PM, yet another major Canadian energy company takes money and jobs to the US, instead of Canada,” she said.

Stubbs added that TC Energy, formerly TransCanada, proposed building a west-to-east pipeline in Canada, but “the anti-development Liberals killed it.”

“The lost Liberal anti-development decade of blocked Canadian energy projects drives multiple Canadian companies with billions of dollars to the US to create American jobs, opportunities, and wealth, while the Liberals make Canada fall further behind,” she said.

TC Energy warned back in August that without a positive change in the sector, the U.S. would be a lower-risk investment climate.

TC Energy shifts billions to U.S. as Canadian investment climate falters

One of Canada’s largest energy companies is sending billions south of the border, citing better returns and faster permitting processes in the United States.

www.junonews.com

It comes down to ‘time to market’, timelines are still too long here.

 

[YZT580]

It comes down to ‘time to market’, timelines are still too long here.

plus an unfavourable tax regime. Regardless of what you call it, carbon capture is a huge added expense that renders all this discussion for pipelines in Canada mute. Plus there is still a carbon tax.

 

[Altair]

plus an unfavourable tax regime. Regardless of what you call it, carbon capture is a huge added expense that renders all this discussion for pipelines in Canada mute. Plus there is still a carbon tax.

It's telling that industry asked for a removal of the tanker ban, a streamlined process for regulatory approval, and provincial and federal buy in and when they get this,the goalposts move.

Called their bluff in my opinion.

That said, it doesn't matter. Alberta will pony up so why does industry care? Alberta and Danielle Smith staked everything on this pipeline, up to and including turning the UCP into a seperatist party. Alberta is the one with the weakest hand here and both industry and the feds know it.

 

[Brad Sallows]

It's telling that industry asked for a removal of the tanker ban, a streamlined process for regulatory approval, and provincial and federal buy in and when they get this,the goalposts move.

Ultimately they need assurance that in the time it takes for a project to complete and operate long enough to break into net profitability, there won't be a future Canadian parliament that pulls the rug out. There can of course be other uncertainties, but it is a bit of a puzzle as to how future Canadian parliaments could be so bound. Canada isn't Venezuela, but our eco-zealots represent a risk and they, too, are entitled to representation.

 

[JLB50]

Are they socialist? Or are they capitalist?

Can they be both?

Yes, rhey can and should be both.

Socialism and capitalism are simply convenient labels that tend to represent somewhat vague ideals, yet can be very broad in their manifestations. To some, paying taxes for streets, highways and sewers smacks of socialism. Many would like to go back to the Gilded Age of the late 1800s. But even then schools and libraries were being funded by various levels of governments because private industry was not doing so. The same was true of hospitals except for those operated primarily by charities and religious orders. And if I recall correctly it was Bismarck himself who led the way with the introduction of social security for Germans. And he was far from being a socialist.

Somewhat earlier in this thread someone remarked that socialism always fails. Yes, it does. But so does capitalism, fascism, libertarianism and communism. I can’t think of many economic or political ideas that have survived reality intact without at least undergoing some kind of metamorphosis involving acceptance of opposing thoughts. Those that refuse to budge are, in my opinion, the ones that tend to fall the hardest.

 

[MilEME09]

Do you think the two teams coordinated to counter each other? This is just funny and sad

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/08/investigations/cbc-canada-proud-ad-campaigns

 

[Brad Sallows]

Do you think the two teams coordinated to counter each other? This is just funny and sad

Almost like a bookie.

 

[Altair]

Carney government alters federal ad rules set up to curb ‘partisan agendas’

Ottawa made tweaks to advertising review criteria first established under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government.

www.thestar.com

OTTAWA—The Liberals can now toot their own horn and use their own political slogans in taxpayer-funded ads because of changes the Carney government has made to long-standing ad rules.
The Carney government gave itself that latitude with tweaks to advertising review criteria first established under former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s government in 2016. Since then, any government ad costing more than $250,000 has had to go through a review process with an outside group, which checks ads against the government’s criteria and can demand changes before the ad goes into production.

And Carney undoes a Justin Trudeau own goal.

Also explains the 350m set aside in the budget for advertising.

 

[CBH99]

Just the LPC sneakily pushing their censorship agenda...

 

[HavokFour]

Just the LPC sneakily pushing their censorship agenda...

I see you haven't yet witnessed the newest X experience that's prompted this discussion. It's pretty bad, especially for women and minors.

 

[Altair]

Just the LPC sneakily pushing their censorship agenda...

Do you support X undressing underage girls and women without their consent?

 

[brihard]

I see you haven't yet witnessed the newest X experience that's prompted this discussion. It's pretty bad, especially for women and minors.

Oh the one where people were telling the X AI to create child porn and it was doing so?

 

[HavokFour]

Oh the one where people were telling the X AI to create child porn and it was doing so?

Yep that's the one. Those paying for the blue check can do it, and there's no account option to block it from doing so on your own posted content. It'll show up right under the targeted post too for all to see.

 

[Altair]

Oh the one where people were telling the X AI to create child porn and it was doing so?

Grok, yes

And while "all AI does it" only one is distributing it to hundreds of millions of users via twitter.

 

[brihard]

Yep that's the one. Those paying for the blue check can do it, and there's no account option to block it from doing so on your own posted content. It'll show up right under the targeted post too for all to see.

Grok, yes

And while "all AI does it" only one is distributing it to hundreds of millions of users via twitter.

I don’t personally like mass production and unsolicited dissemination of child porn.

 

[Altair]

I don’t personally like mass production and unsolicited dissemination of child porn.

Yes, one would usually say it;s a bad thing.

But if one dares lift one finger to X/Twitter for the mass production and dissemination of unconsensual porn and child porn, it's censorship and you're a facist.

This is the worse timeline.

 

[Jarnhamar]

Do you support X undressing underage girls and women without their consent?

Legal in the US, not in Canada.

 

[Altair]

Legal in the US, not in Canada.

So you support that?

Because my question was not whether it is legal, it's whether @CBH99 or anyone else supports that.

 

[Jarnhamar]

So you support that?

Because my question was not whether it is legal, it's whether @CBH99 or anyone else supports that.

Support what exactly?

 

[brihard]

So you support that?

Because my question was not whether it is legal, it's whether @CBH99 or anyone else supports that.

What, precisely, are you suggesting any members here “support”? If you’re gonna suggest it, come right out and say it.