Rob Graham

International business development professional. Now retired stray old fart. Former Canadian Foreign Service Officer. Lives in God's country.

[John Tomkinson @johnwtomkinson]

Canada’s ideological industrial ​carbon ​pricing ⁠system makes Canadian oil uncompetitive.

If Alberta wants to remain competitive in a global market, it will have to break free from the virtue signaling regulatory and policy burdens of Ottawa.

On October 19th, vote Option 2!

[Dan McTeague @GasPriceWizard]

As I pontes out before Christmas

The #MOUisDOA

[Terry Newman @terrynewman]

Number of hour-long, hard-hitting interviews Canadian media has been able to secure with this PM for Canadians = 0

[Dan McTeague @GasPriceWizard]

No surprise. Talk & MOU’s are just distractions to ensure that by hook or by crook, no oil pipelines are built

It’s why the major projects office hasn’t taken any of these vital projects seriously …
And this on the same day that oil exports reversed out trade deficit in April

[Rob Graham @RGAME2]

@cbcwatcher Eastern voters are determined to make themselves poor. Little can be done. Point this out to them and they mumble about Trump. If it wasn't Trump, it would be some other excuse. When a population celebrates ignorance thru voting little can be done to avoid disaster.

[John Tomkinson @johnwtomkinson]

I used to be a federalist.

I used to believe in Canada.

I love what Canada once was.

On the wall in my office is my Canadian Armed Forces Officer Commissioning Scroll, and a copy of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

But the Canada of today is not the Canada I grew up in. It is no longer the nation I stood up for.

Canadians rights have been disregarded. Democracy has become just a byword, not what citizens can expect and aspire to without a fight. Ideology has replaced equality and justice. Families are under attack.

Over the past year I have examined the facts. I stepped back to self examine my own biases. I looked behind the curtain of the Canadian government press releases and media "reporting".

What I found was a broken nation, its heart and soul gone, its character reduced to identity politics and forced unequal wealth redistribution. Scandals. Dishonesty. Empathetic suicide. Self destructive economic policies.

In my recent advocacy for an Alberta referendum to give everyone a voice, I have been slandered, attacked, threatened, and received such vulgar responses from federalists that it is truly shocking and heartbreaking. But seeing how far Canada has fallen, it is not surprising. It validates the point that the Canadian experiment has failed.

Today my Canadian Armed Forces Officer Commissioning Scroll, and a copy of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms are still on my office wall as a historical record.

Today I support Alberta Independence.

Today I grieve a lost and destroyed Canada.

I miss what Canada once was, but it is time to dust ourselves off, stand up again, and move forward.

On October 19th, vote for a brighter future. Vote for Option 2.

[Rob Graham @RGAME2]

@da95824 Why are you using American slang? No one in Canada uses that expression y'all in daily conversation ever.

Do you think you're edgy? Urban? Trendy?

[John Tomkinson @johnwtomkinson]

It appears that the Taber Council broke the law with election interference.

Alberta Elections Act Section 206.5

Prohibition on municipal bylaws
206.5 Despite sections 7 and 640(1.1) of the Municipal Government Act, a municipal council must not pass a bylaw or resolution respecting election signs or election advertisements.

Referendums are covered in the Alberta Elections Act and are treated the same. This is municipal political interference on political advertising by the registered @CoryBMorgan TPA during a specified campaign period.

On the bright side, the news coverage has helped increase donations and support for Alberta Independence! 😉

[Jon Fraser @JonFraserTF]

"placed on leave"? WTAF Durham College!?!

His ass should be fired immediately. I'll also be following this one closely, because if there is any indication of leniency due to immigration status, I'm going to lose my mind.

[Heather Exner-Pirot @ExnerPirot]

"The oil sands companies can build and operate [Pathways] if there is an appropriate sharing of costs between industry, the federal government, and the provincial government. The question is really, how will Canada and Canadians benefit from this project?
The reality is that this is a project with no revenue. It is simply another cost burden that will be borne by industry and the two levels of government.
The current estimate of the cost of capturing and sequestering one megatonne of CO2 is between $1.5 and $2.0 billion.
A project of this size will require the expenditure of $20 to $30 billion dollars which will show up as an incremental cost for industry and a budget deficit and debt for our governments.
And Canadians should ask – what do we get for this level of expenditure? The answer is that we will reduce global emissions by 16 megatonnes. In a world that emits over 57,000 megatonnes annually, we will reduce our global emissions by 0.02 of one percent. For $20 to $30 billion dollars of spend, we will reduce global emissions by 0.02 of one percent." /6

[Heather Exner-Pirot @ExnerPirot]

"I have heard some proponents of the carbon tax defend it by suggesting that the world will require decarbonized oil barrels going forward. To be honest, Cenovus places over one million barrels a day across three continents, and none of our customers have ever suggested or even asked about the carbon intensity of Canadian crudes.
If customers were willing to pay for decarbonized barrels, we would certainly see these price signals and not require government interference.
The carbon tax escalates through time, making our industry less resilient at lower commodity prices, and will require the premature shut-in and reclamation of oil producing projects that would otherwise be economic to produce.
Much of this is being orchestrated in the belief that we can build a functioning carbon market. The reality is that carbon markets are a political construct and there are no examples of functioning, enduring, or investible carbon markets to draw from." /5

[Dan Albas @DanAlbas]

The Liberal industrial carbon tax makes Canadian energy uncompetitive and energy CEOs like this one won’t invest in a new Pacific pipeline.

It’s time Prime Minister Mark Carney realize that the only person holding Canada back from being an energy superpower- is him.

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

On the left: @D_Tarczynski, Polish politician and MEP. Banned from the UK because he was considered "not conducive to the public good".

On the right: Hadi Alodid from Sudan. Allowed to enter and given a 5 year leave to remain.

This right here is the problem.

[Francesco 🇮🇹 @SaP011]

Her name is Luana Zaratti, an Italian bus ticket inspector.

She was 26 when, during one of her shifts, she asked an illegal Egyptian immigrant for his ticket.

He had none. His answer was a violent headbutt straight to her face, so hard it shattered her nasal septum and caused severe head trauma.

Luana collapsed to the ground, blood pouring from her nose.

That single blow destroyed her life.
It left her with permanent brain damage and lifelong disability.

Years bedridden, almost vegetative.
But her willpower pulled her back to a shadow of the life she once had.

The attacker was sentenced to just 14 months in prison, but he never served a single day. He disappeared.

Luana, declared unfit to work, now survives on less than €1,000 a month.

[Bloomberg @business]

The leader of one of Canada’s biggest oil companies blasted a government push for a massive carbon-capture project and carbon tax in exchange for an oil-sands pipeline as anticompetitive and uneconomic https://t.co/VUFkqJ2T6v

[Sam Cooper @scoopercooper]

Read story in next post along with this question - no question in my view Carney’s government is knowingly engaging in negligence. Frankly diaspora groups should be bringing actions and raising the UK Home Office report that points to Chinese mafia tasked to corrupt MPs.

[Rob Graham @RGAME2]

@brianlilley @Kotyjo There will be no pipeline under this Prime Minister.

Read his bloody book.

[Brian Lilley @brianlilley]

But, but, but....
The whole world wants decarbonized oil!

[Michael Thomlinson @miket136]

The town should have just stayed out of it, but they’ve stepped in it now.

PTI is a registered third party advertiser engaged in permitted advertising during a campaign. Municipalities don’t get to decide which campaigns are allowed to advertise and which aren’t.

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

In Canada, white leftists call Israel a “colonial project.” Meanwhile the indigenous people know the Jewish national homeland is the most successful decolonization project in history.