John Gordon

[Jeff Berube @ABJeffBerube]

That’s not even close to the whole story. For most of us, one, two, three, or even ten pipelines changes nothing.

When oil crashed in 2014, the industry had tens of thousands of layoffs. The province was hurting but there were signs of hope: Northern Gateway, Energy East, and TMX.

Northern Gateway had its approval cancelled by Trudeau.

Energy East was cancelled because Ottawa wanted to count upstream and downstream emissions, which put the project on shaky ground.

But the coup de grace came when Québec’s prime minister at the time, François Legault said that there was “no social acceptability for a pipeline.”

TC cancelled it shortly after.

Finally, we fought over TMX because Ottawa wouldn’t assert its jurisdiction.

Trudeau let Horgan and BC make it so risky to try to build TMX that Kinder Morgan had to pull out.

Nobody wanted the federal government to buy the pipeline, they should have simply enforced the conditions to ensure it was safe for Kinder Morgan to proceed.

Albertans had stayed quiet for a long time over equalization because Ottawa was staying out of our faces, so it was just the price to pay to operate in this country.

But when came time to help Alberta after the oil crash, the whole nation turned its back on us and proceeded to crush the three beacons of hope we were counting on to turn the corner.

That’s when a lot of us started paying closer attention to politics to figure out how to get our voices heard.

It didn’t take very long before we started looking at seats in the House of Commons and the Senate and realizing how unequal and unfair our representation is in Ottawa.

Bottom line is that we’re effectively screwed and that the people we subsidize through equalization continuously vote for governments that attack our industry.

Fixing the constitutional mess is impossible because it would require either Ontario or Québec and all the maritime provinces to vote in favour of curtailing their own political power. It will never happen.

In 2019, we figured that Canada was going to be smart enough to realize that Trudeau was a disaster and we’d get back some common sense.

Wrong. Trudeau was voted in for a second time.

If you were in the oil and gas industry at the time, you probably had your first taste of western alienation with the Wexit movement instantly polling above 30% in support of independence.

Next up is covid and that’s when all hell broke loose with the spending, the OIC to prohibit common guns, etc.

Albertans’ living standards were the most impacted by Trudeau and now Carney’s insane deficit spending.

We watched as Trudeau pranced around on the world stage, virtue-signalling with our money while the cost of living was sky rocketing.

In FY 2024-2025, we watched the Liberals send $13B abroad between gender equality and climate change foreign aid, while running a $36.3B deficit.

We had one last hope with Pierre looking like he was going to get elected and stop the bleeding. But they parachuted Carney in and the rest is history.

The country’s finances are in shambles and it would take 3 generations to fix this mess if we started today by doing the obvious, which Ottawa is still refusing to do.

Ottawa is fiscally irresponsible and now headed down a very dangerous path of authoritarianism with all the bills that were passed in this parliamentary session.

Alberta independence supporters see the writing on the wall and don’t care about any number of pipelines.

Once you’ve looked close enough at the system, you realize it can’t be fixed and there’s no coming back from realizing the true extent of the mess Canada is in.

The Canada we grew up in doesn’t exist anymore. It is a sinking ship and independence is the only way to save Alberta.

[Alberta Sovereignty Now @absovern]

Fact.

[Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 @ryangerritsen]

This film will be a must watch when it comes out.
It’s called The Agenda. This is exactly what Carney has been working on for 10 years. He is even featured in this trailer.
Share this everywhere.

[John Gordon @GoJo60]

@oldhockeycards

[johnny's skate service @Johnnys_skate]

Best of luck to SAHA in the quarter final vs Yale tonight!
@SAHockeyAcademy
@CircleKClassic

[** W. Brett Wilson ** @WBrettWilson]

⁦@JustinTrudeau⁩ won’t apologize. Maybe those that voted for him should?

[Erin O'Toole @erinotoole]

Justin Trudeau doesn't want Canadians to see this.

👍👍Will you help us get the truth out?

[Licia Corbella @LiciaCorbella]

There r a lot of numbers in this column but they paint a picture of just how reliant the entire country is on Canada’s largest export — #energy. Please read it and RT. Every Canadian needs to understand this. #cdnpoli #abpoli #ableg https://t.co/PE8Qie6Lm9

[John Gordon @GoJo60]

@GrahamDeLaet

[Dave Nikirk @NikirkDave]

This is awesome.

[Springbank Rockies @SMHAHockey]

Deadline to get votes in is Feb 9th, so let's go Calgary, let's help the SMHA PWAA team in their quest to the Good Deeds Cup and $100,000 for the @nathanschildren & @CalgaryFoodBank

[Oil Sands Action @OilsandsAction]

At present, 4.6 million barrels of oil per day transit into, through or near Canadian waters by oil tanker.

Why do “green” groups exclusively oppose Canadian oil exports?

https://t.co/jZOJu8r6DX

[Cory Morgan @CoryBMorgan]

People (the majority) who voted no last night did not vote against Calgary.

They did not vote against future initiatives.

They did not vote against the entire Olympic concept.

They voted against a terribly broken bid that was cloaked in secrecy & pushed with arrogance

[Jason Field @Jakeoilfarm]

As @JustinTrudeau makes a complete mochery of our countries Justice system, our trade, our businesses, our farms, and our image, every time he opens his mouth, its time to step down from Prime Minister and let a competent candidate step in.

1,000,000 retweets....lets go Canada

[John Gordon @GoJo60]

Nice work Bauer, my kid was not hurt. Wish I could say the same for the helmet. #Bauer #Re-Act #noconcussion

[Jon Truswell @JonTruswell]

Bantam AA #EMHW Champs. NWCAA Bronks

[Penn State IFC @PennStateIFC]

With the current devastation in Houston, we are pledging $0.15 for every RT this gets! Please forward this along to help out those in need!