Let’s call Bill C-48 what it actually is: a blockade on Canadian energy and Indigenous prosperity, not a balanced marine policy.
C-48 still allows international tankers through the very same waters under a so-called “voluntary exclusion zone.” So let’s be honest: if this were truly about marine protection, why permit any vessels at all?
What C-48 does is target Canadian enterprise, and shoot it in the foot. It outright bans the loading and unloading of crude and persistent oil at one of the safest, deepest natural harbours on Canada’s West Coast, which shuts down the most efficient pathway for Canadian energy to reach Asian markets.
C-48 also cuts against Indigenous economic opportunity and self-determination, which is exactly why the Lax Kw’alaams First Nation took the federal government to court. C-48 infringed on their rights, title, and ability to pursue their own development priorities.
That’s not environmental protection. It’s an economic barrier, full stop.
It should be obvious to every Canadian that C-48 is an anti-development policy that weakens Canada’s competitiveness and flat out makes no sense when you look at marine traffic standards anywhere else in the world.
Conservatives don’t believe a West Coast pipeline should be held hostage by yet another costly Liberal condition.
@cbcwatcher When did any Canadian official last submit themselves to media scrutiny on relations with the US? Yet, Hoekstra is a constant feature. The silence itself is the story as is the silence and complicity of the Canadian media….
It was always the plan to replace us
Tony Blair literally admitted it on camera
When you wonder why British people are being replaced by foreign migrants it's because there has been a plan in place for decades to make this happen
@KirkLubimov This will not survive a change of government. That’s the problem with tax-funded white elephants that are 5x the price of a private project. Consultant fees, planning fees, regulatory fees etc are the only thing that will be produced from this pipeline.
The private sector would have built the TMX expansion project for $7B. The government chased them out of Canada and built it themselves for $35B.
The private sector now doesn't want to touch another pipeline project.
The government is stepping in to mismanage the construction of another project that will cost $45B of taxpayer dollars.
To build the pipeline, the governments also have to spend $20B+ on the uneconomical carbon capture project.
So taxpayers will pay $90B for something the private sector would have done themselves for $20B if the government just got out of the way.
Completely unacceptable waste and mismanagement.
🚨BREAKING: UK GOVERNMENT TO TAKE CONTROL OF YOUTUBE ALGORITHM
This is pure authoritarianism
Keir Starmer's/Andy Burnham's Government is set to control the YouTube algorithm by LAW stipulating that they must push "APPROVED CONTENT" to UK Citizens
And independent voices who criticise the government will be pushed to the back of the queue making it harder for people to find
YouTube has acknowledged this is happening
This must be stopped
A leaked internal home office report from 2002 shows the UK Government had planned to change what "British-ness" meant through mass immigration
It was always the goal to erase our identity and replace us