Danielle Smith has spun Meta's new plant to make it sound like not only are they bringing their own power, they're adding to the grid.
But on closer examination, it's the exact opposite.
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Trump on Iran: "Obama was the worst of all because Obama actually went to their side, because, you know, he's a -- well, let's not say. Let's leave that for another time."
**** JUST LIKE PREVIOUSLY AGREED UPON, CANADA GETS PAID BACK FIRST. ✅ Only after that, we split the revenue 50/50 with USA.
ANOTHER WIN FOR OUR COUNTRY.
Thank-you, PM. 🙏🏼 💪🏼
Carney: "The word net does a lot of work in this. We are sharing after Canada is paid back. So we get the revenues, then the servicing of the costs of the bridge and paying the debt of the bridge. And then what's left over, there's a split of that for 15 years ... There's not going to be a lot of net to split. So look, it's a good deal for Canada."
You know, I wasn't going to snark on this, but you need an education.
Please, let's review who signed Canada up to spend $6.4 billion on the Gordie Howe International Bridge without any guarantee of when, or even if, we'd recover the investment.
It wasn't Mark Carney.
The agreement was negotiated and signed under Stephen Harper's Conservative government. Canada agreed to finance construction because the Michigan Legislature refused to appropriate the money. In exchange, Canada receives the toll revenue until its costs are recovered.
That wasn't being "taken to the cleaners." It was the only way to break the decades-long monopoly of the privately owned Ambassador Bridge, which handled roughly a quarter of all Canada–U.S. trade and had become a strategic bottleneck.
Today, Canada has a modern publicly owned international crossing that strengthens supply chains, improves border resilience, creates economic growth on both sides of the border, and generates toll revenue over time.
If you're going to criticize the deal, at least criticize the government that made it. Conservatives negotiated it. Conservatives signed it. Conservatives defended it.
Facts matter more than campaign sound bites.
BTW Pierre, this is why you lost the election. This is why you'll continue to lose.
On the Gordie-Howe Bridge deal, the truth is in the small print. I believe this was a face saving deal for Trump, one that’s unlikely to give even minor concessions. A 50-50 sharing of the bridge’s net toll profits with the United States (after operating costs and after Canada’s
So, without any public consultation, the Smith UCP government signed agreements that will allow Meta, a foreign corporation, to use power equivalent to that used by city of Edmonton for at least TWO YEARS before Meta’s own power plant is up and running. https://t.co/SOwRnEipUI
One lesson of the Trump years: the US signature on an international agreement is worthless. There was an agreement in place to govern the bridge. Trump repudiated the agreement at behest of a donor with a direct anti-public-interest stake.
1992. $325 a month in Slave Lake, Ab. My 1st radio gig at 1210 CKWA. Odd place. Studio apt. Washroom was down the hall. Locked myself out of my apartment a few times. Had to walk to the managers office in a towel.
This is an Alberta Emergency Alert. Environment Canada has issued a tornado alert.
This alert is in effect for Parkland County near Entwistle Fallis and Tomahawk
At 6:15 p.m. MDT, Environment Canada meteorologists are tracking a severe thunderstorm that is possibly producing a tornado. Damaging winds, large hail and locally intense rainfall are also possible. This severe thunderstorm is located near Wabamun Lake and is moving to the east at 40 km/h.
This is a very dangerous and potentially life-threatening situation. Tornado warnings are issued when a thunderstorm is producing or is likely to produce a tornado.
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