Randy Johnson

BSc, Bio Sciences/ Paramedic/ 911 Dispatcher/ Heart and Stroke BLS Instructor/ Conservative/ UCP Alberta

[Randy Johnson @RJAJohnson]

Wise words from Greg Ebel, Enbridge CEO. “Everybody realizes we need an all of the above strategy……. we really do need it all if we're gonna have the abundant energy we need to keep growing the economy.”

[Enbridge @Enbridge]

There are a ton of conversations happening at @CERAWeek 2026. Hear from Enbridge CEO, Greg Ebel on what’s catching his attention and what it means for Enbridge. #CERAWeek2026

[JayGen 𝕏 er🇨🇦 @JayGenXer]

@vesperdigital dug this up and it’s brutal.

Mark Carney on tape admitting that when voters blocked his ESG agenda, central bankers didn’t take no for an answer.

They went around democracy through the back door — acting like regulators, withholding lending on fossil fuels to force an implicit carbon tax that politicians couldn’t pass openly.

That’s not “climate leadership.”

That’s unelected bankers deciding they know better than the people who actually vote.

And now this same guy is Prime Minister.

No mandate for this.
No debate in Parliament.
Just the same backdoor control from the top.

He doesn’t respect voters.
He doesn’t respect democracy.
He respects the agenda — and he’ll use whatever power he has to ram it through.

This is the man Liberals installed to “save” Canada.

Wake up.

#cdnpoli #MarkCarney #ESG #CentralBankers #LiberalFail #CanadaFirst

[Randy Johnson @RJAJohnson]

I really question the sincerity of Mark Carney when he talks about the new Northern Gateway pipeline proposal.

There are so many poison pills planted in the MOU that we haven't seen a proponent even remotely interested.

Prerequisites are the $30 billion Pathways CCUS project that we don't know who is going to foot the bill for, along with his long-term carbon credit system.

And the big one - even though the Feds have complete jurisdiction, Carney has handed the ball back to BC and the First Nations, saying they have veto power. He even stated the Indigenous communities have the right to decide whether the project even makes it onto the “in the national interest” list.

Considering the war in Iran, and endorsements from business leaders, individual countries, even the International Energy Agency, and now the G7, Carney is absolutely painted into a corner. And nobody has said anything about wanting DECARBONIZED oil.

If he tries to slither out of this one, it will be painfully obvious.

[Randy Johnson @RJAJohnson]

The G7 stated that now Canada should take a greater role in providing a stable supply of oil and natural gas to the world.

So what does Carney say to that notion? The gulf states need to build more pipelines in THEIR countries so they aren't as reliant on the Strait of Hormuz.

This guy does not have any fucking intention of helping Canada’s economy out. He only cares about Brookfield’s investments in carbon capture and the idea of a carbon market.

Here we have a gift handed to us, but rather than taking the ball and running with it, our own Prime Minister dishes out a word salad that doesn't even mention oil from Alberta.

Liberal supporters need to wake the fuck up and see this guy for what he is.

[Randy Johnson @RJAJohnson]

@cmmorrone @ShannonStubbsMP The problem is the chart should be at around 10 million. https://t.co/9cJYWRz0LK

[Randy Johnson @RJAJohnson]

“While it is true that Canadian oil and natural gas volumes have grown over the past ten years, they grew at a fraction of their potential. We have continued to grow by debottlenecking existing projects, improving efficiencies, and brownfield expansion. We continue to lever off the investments that were made prior to 2015.
In fact, only one greenfield oil sands project has been approved and built since 2013, while capital investment in oil sands peaked in 2014.
So as Canadians, we need to ask ourselves – what did we get for this? We forewent investment, jobs, royalties, and taxes, while the world continued to consume exactly the same amount of energy... it just didn’t come from Canada."

- Jon McKenzie CEO, Cenovus Energy

Why are you happy with mediocrity?

[Randy Johnson @RJAJohnson]

“While it is true that Canadian oil and natural gas volumes have grown over the past ten years, they grew at a fraction of their potential. We have continued to grow by debottlenecking existing projects, improving efficiencies, and brownfield expansion. We continue to lever off the investments that were made prior to 2015.
In fact, only one greenfield oil sands project has been approved and built since 2013, while capital investment in oil sands peaked in 2014.
So as Canadians, we need to ask ourselves – what did we get for this? We forewent investment, jobs, royalties, and taxes, while the world continued to consume exactly the same amount of energy... it just didn’t come from Canada."

- Jon McKenzie CEO, Cenovus Energy

Why are you happy with mediocrity?

[Randy Johnson @RJAJohnson]

@timhodgsonmt They also talked about oil and gas, and they didn't stipulate anything about it having to be decarbonized! https://t.co/cZI9qJRVxM

[Heather Exner-Pirot @ExnerPirot]

G7 leaders statement:
“We commit to accelerate the diversification of energy supply routes in order to reduce global vulnerability to the Strait of Hormuz and to increase our energy stocks. We welcome the potential for Canada to deliver significant additional capacity to global markets in the coming years.”
https://t.co/yQ6IUgAhVL

[Randy Johnson @RJAJohnson]

“While it is true that Canadian oil and natural gas volumes have grown over the past ten years, they grew at a fraction of their potential. We have continued to grow by debottlenecking existing projects, improving efficiencies, and brownfield expansion. We continue to lever off the investments that were made prior to 2015.
In fact, only one greenfield oil sands project has been approved and built since 2013, while capital investment in oil sands peaked in 2014.
So as Canadians, we need to ask ourselves – what did we get for this? We forewent investment, jobs, royalties, and taxes, while the world continued to consume exactly the same amount of energy... it just didn’t come from Canada."

- Jon McKenzie CEO, Cenovus Energy

[Randy Johnson @RJAJohnson]

Yes, I realize the plan for CCUS would be to have it built concurrently. My point is based on the fact that times have changed since the proposal, and the global war on CO2 has been put on pause in the name of energy security.

If Canada is the only country going ahead with expensive carbon capture that puts us in a more uncompetitive position.

My thoughts would be to delay it until we are satisfied that the technology will actually work, and the proposed carbon market is sustainable for whoever ends up taking on the risk.

[Randy Johnson @RJAJohnson]

Perfectly stated @ShannonStubbsMP. Our economy is tanking, our national debt is “stupefying and unsustainable” (according to the PBO), and the world is begging us to be a stable energy supplier.

And what has Canada been doing about it, well, other than projecting $70 billion yearly deficits with no end in sight, just adding to our national debt?

Our current Trudeau economic advisor turned PM is still dithering and dinking around trying his best to pretend to support a new Northern Gateway pipeline that should have been built 10 years ago.

Since the war in Ukraine, and most recently in Iran, along with the Pathways CCUS proposal, times have changed and the focus of Countries has been that of energy security not the all out war on CO2.

World leaders, Industry leaders, business think tanks, Chambers of Commerce, the IEA, and now the G7 all agree that spending $30 billion on a carbon capture project focussing on 1/50th of one percent of the world's emissions is not priority right now - it is for Canada to get off it’s fucking ass and build some building energy transportation infrastructure, a.k.a. PIPELINES.

There are of course some companies such as Brookfield that are heavily invested in CCUS and energy transition, that think otherwise but I certainly can't see any conflict of interest with the direction the government is headed in now right?🤡

The answer for Canada to accomplish this urgent need for energy development was spelled out perfectly by you @ShannonStubbsMP. It is the same message that the Conservatives have been screaming from the fucking rooftops for the last decade, (while Liberals keep saying Conservatives have no strategy, or we are just rage-baiting).

Get rid of the investment killing laws, set some basic environment standards and then get the fuck out of the way and let the private sector do its thing.

Before Trudeau was elected in 2015 there were three major pipeline projects in play, either approved or supported by the Harper government, with three major pipeline building proponents - Enbridge, TC Energy, and Kinder Morgan.

All three fully expected the projects to be carried through to completion. It was a period of time where there was something called INVESTOR CONFIDENCE.

That was back in 2015 and prior. The next 10 years was a disaster for this country, and it doesn't look like much of anything has changed in the past year.

[Randy Johnson @RJAJohnson]

Absolutely correct @ShannonStubbsMP! You couldn't possibly have worded it any better.

[Shannon Stubbs @ShannonStubbsMP]

11 Years of Anti-Energy Liberal Policies Have Left Canada Behind

June 17, 2026

Ottawa, ON – Shannon Stubbs, Conservative Shadow Minister for Energy and Natural Resources, released the following statement in response to the G7 Leaders’ statement on geopolitical issues:

“Today, under Mark Carney, Canada is more than a decade behind on major private sector nation-building projects and energy production growth that could provide Canadian domestic energy security and fuel the world to break Canadian allies’ dependence on oil and gas from dictators and hostile regimes.

“Instead of being a predictable, reliable, trusted supplier of responsibly produced energy to the world – for national security and to help lower emissions globally – the Liberals have instead politicized and blocked new projects through constant interference, uncertainty, uncompetitive taxes, bans and mandates, and deliberate death by delay.

“These Liberals brought in the unconstitutional, anti-development never-build-anything-anywhere Bill C-69, the Shipping Ban Bill C-48 that blocks expanded exports and therefore limits production, and the Unjust Transition Bill C-50 that will kill 170,000 jobs in oil and gas, and 1.4 million trades jobs because its whole purpose is to ‘transition’ oil and gas jobs out of Canada.

“The Liberals also impose the federal industrial carbon tax – which neither the United States nor any other major oil-producing nation inflicts on its businesses – and Clean Fuel Regulations that drive up the cost of fuel, machinery and equipment for already struggling Canadians and small and medium-sized businesses.

“Through interference, added conditions and delay, the Liberals killed the west-to-east pipeline that would’ve shipped western Canadian oil to eastern refineries for Canadian use and for export to Europe, and killed the Northern Gateway Pipeline that would’ve fueled Canada’s allies in Asia and contributed $300 billion in just 30 years to Canada’s economy, and others like the GNL Quebec, supported by the local Saguenay community, project and the Teck Frontier Mine.

“Instead of reversing or reforming the laws, policies, and regulations that the Liberals admit block construction of major national projects when they listed them all in Bill C-5, with the rationale it could work around them to fast-track projects. The Prime Minister keeps in place the very same leave-it-in-the-ground laws that have choked Canadian energy development, an agenda he advised former Prime Minister Trudeau to implement, consistent with his values and positions before getting elected in Canada.

“If Carney truly wants to live up to his promise to make Canada an ‘energy superpower’ and to export Canadian energy around the world for national and geopolitical security, he must listen to what industry leaders, pipeline and producer proponents, economists, and provincial and territorial leaders tell him in ever growing numbers, which is to immediately bring in a legislative and regulatory repeal and reform agenda of the anti-development Liberal laws that block building and to get out of the way.

“After more than a year, the Liberals haven’t changed any of those anti-development laws and regulations they themselves said they would, and he continues to landlock and isolate Canada, home to the most important resources and innovation that the world wants and needs.

“While Carney talks a big game as he tours the world on lavish taxpayer-funded trips, Canadians have yet to see concrete policy action that delivers actual results here at home. Conservatives will keep pushing for action that delivers energy security, resilience and affordability, and national and economic unity, through the repeal and reform of anti-development and anti-energy Liberal laws, red tape, bans and taxes to unlock Canada’s energy and resources competitively and urgently, with good-paying jobs for Canadians and important revenue for all levels of government.

“Canada should be the global supplier of choice with additional capacity of Canadian energy to unleash Canada’s economy and fuel Canada’s allies with an Energy and Critical Minerals Reserve, to ensure Canada is strong at home for unbreakable leverage abroad.”

-30-

[Randy Johnson @RJAJohnson]

Do you really think Carney offered, or did he get caught up in a classic case of groupthink. Do you really believe he had the spine to tell those other world leaders that before we approve a pipeline we have to build a $30 billion CCUS to capture 1/50th of one percent of the world’s emissions?

Did he mention that even though the Supreme Court has ruled the federal government has complete jurisdiction over interprovincial projects such as this, the pipeline will not proceed unless it has the approval of both BC and the Indigenous communities. Carney has even stated the a new pipeline has to have the approval of First Nations to even be designated “in the national interest.”

Our economy is tanking, our national debt is “stupefying” (to coin a phrase), and the world is begging for Canada to be a stable source of energy.

Carney is well known for saying one thing to one audience, and then a completely different take to the next one. When you say “Ottawa wants this as much as Alberta and industry,” all I can say is I hope you are right!

[Randy Johnson @RJAJohnson]

You are probably right with the timeline, but the world will also need oil nine years from now, plus can you imagine what our national debt will be nine years from now??

And, “with the world becoming more divided and dangerous,” do you really think this is the last war that will ever disrupt oil supply???

[Randy Johnson @RJAJohnson]

@MookieTobin @ExnerPirot They don't give a fuck about the rest of the world, their heads are stuck in NIMBY’ism.

[Randy Johnson @RJAJohnson]

@billzinga @ExnerPirot Carney saves that for his Canadian audience. The other G7 members would probably laugh at him.

[Randy Johnson @RJAJohnson]

@CherylR09307747 @ExnerPirot @cbcwatcher This should put enough scrutiny on him to make his stalling techniques become too obvious.

[Randy Johnson @RJAJohnson]

@ShannonStubbsMP Listen to Mark Carney here. Does this guy sound like someone who is really excited about building a pipeline?? https://t.co/2g9FQFYATl

[Eric Nuttall @ericnuttall]

If the cost of a new 1MM Bbl/d pipeline is Pathways, a $30BN project conceived in a vastly different world that erodes our competitiveness, then I say nay. It took me 4 hours to get my 6 year old an ankle x-ray last night...we do not have to live like this, yet choose to. Sad.

[Randy Johnson @RJAJohnson]

@AddyVanderploeg @WayneMathison @DaIeJohnson They will get it figured out sooner or later. Probably later though unfortunately.

[Randy Johnson @RJAJohnson]

Sure, argue less my ass. Listen to Mark Carney’s criteria for a pipeline to get built.

Loosely translated he says - don't worry folks I'm gonna make it as tough as I can to build this fucking pain in the ass pipeline.

First I'm gonna make them spend $30 billion to address 1/50th of 1% of the world’s CO2 emissions. I'm not sure who “them” is yet, but don't worry I'll figure it out.

Then, somehow, someway I'm gonna make sure BC gets more out of this, (who knows what the hell he's talking about).

And finally, the big one - not only will there be Indigenous consultation, but “that includes whether to designate the pipeline in the national interest” in the first place. I just looked out my window and I don't see any fucking pigs flying.

The Supreme Court has already determined the federal government has complete jurisdiction over interprovincial projects, but Carney has said previously that it also won't go forward unless BC and the Indigenous communities agree to it.

All in all, he has planted enough poison pills to make things almost impossible - and hell, I haven't even mentioned the industrial carbon tax and his utopian carbon market, you know the one that Brookfield is counting on?

In the meantime our economy is floundering, and the world is begging for Canadian energy. Just like Trudeau, Carney doesn't give a flying fuck about Canada. He is a total failure. https://t.co/LGeNJzVAbi

[Eric Nuttall @ericnuttall]

If the cost of a new 1MM Bbl/d pipeline is Pathways, a $30BN project conceived in a vastly different world that erodes our competitiveness, then I say nay. It took me 4 hours to get my 6 year old an ankle x-ray last night...we do not have to live like this, yet choose to. Sad.

[Randy Johnson @RJAJohnson]

@brianlilley @SaltyDevice It's almost like Mark Carney doesn't realize that people outside of his immediate audience don't hear about what he says. And the media is too pro-liberal to call him out on it.