Mick

Married 33 years, blessed with four fantastic kids (3 girls, 1 boy). Edmonton Oilers season ticket holder. #bitcoin

[Daniel Lacalle @dlacalle_IA]

Canada 🇨🇦. Trudeau and Carney wanted net zero, and they got it: zero growth, zero jobs, and zero productivity.

via Bloomberg

[Mick @mickduster]

@VintageOilers @OilersNation Was at that game, and it was incredible! I high fived Janet Jones at the escalator as she rushed down to ice level to celebrate with Wayne. I never imagined it would be his last game as an Oiler.

[Marc Nixon @MarcNixon24]

Nunavut population 42,000

Melanie Joly 125,000 jobs coming to Nunavut.

Everyone gets 3 jobs EACH. BOOM 🤯

[tobi lutke @tobi]

Our regulators have lost the plot. Literally, figuratively, and metaphorically.

[Mick @mickduster]

@kinsellawarren Fuck off.

[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.

[Mick @mickduster]

@ontarioskeptic @CobainRift @YukonStrong @elonmusk You are so naive.

[Mick @mickduster]

@EdmontonOilers good thing Stan Bowman got rid of Kulak for nothing.

[Mick @mickduster]

@staceybrotzel Yep

[Mario Zelaya @mario4thenorth]

@rupasubramanya Hi Rupa
It’s your spellcheck bestie. 👋

For starters: It’s Poilievre.

Not Poiliever.

Nor Poliever.

You misspelled the name, not once, but twice.

Secondly, if only you had this much energy and enthusiasm for holding our government accountable…

[Marc Nixon @MarcNixon24]

Mark Carney unveils a REVOLUTIONARY affordability plan for Canadians.

FREE park passes.

Perfect timing.

113,000 Canadians who just lost their jobs can now sit in a national park and reflect on the economy.

[Mick @mickduster]

@TheRealDKGray No, only a fraction of my holdings are in BTC, but it's still a significant amount. I'm more interested in BN as a long term play, it's a sure bet with Carney selling Canadians out, paving the way for Brookfield's investments, may as well own it myself.

[Mick @mickduster]

@LauraBabcock I do, so fuck off, Karen... I mean, Laura.

[Mick @mickduster]

@RodAVanier You are such an ass clown.

[Mario Zelaya @mario4thenorth]

WOW

Yesterday CTV and CBC ran wall to wall coverage claiming Russia and the US were interfering in the Alberta separatist movement.

Today the Globe and Mail reported:

The RCMP deputy commissioner told Alberta’s Public Safety Minister there is NO credible evidence of foreign interference in the Alberta separatist movement.

ZERO.

None

The RCMP’s own words.

The study CTV and CBC cited?

Produced by “DisinfoWatch” and “academic researchers.”

Not CSIS.

Not the RCMP

Not any law enforcement agency

This is the same CTV that called my verified content “Deception Decoded.”

The same CTV taking millions in government subsidies

A study nobody can verify

Cited as fact, to discredit 301,000 Albertans who signed a petition.

This is why people lose trust in MSM.

CTV & CBC are cut from the same cloth.

[Mick @mickduster]

@CTVNews @kinsellawarren Bullshit

[Mick @mickduster]

@JayGenXer E, absolutely 0.

[Tokyo Rosie @RosieRocks28]

"Thanks for the invite but I'm only here to pander to the TDS crowd back home. I should be negotiating a trade deal with the US but my people hate Trump so much I thought I'd come to Europe and get absolutely nothing accomplished. Fuck, my job is easy."

[David Parker @david_parker]

Have people lost their minds? Joining the European Union while rejecting the geographic reality of being the next door neighbour to the world's only Super Power; is one of the most retarded economic proposals I have ever heard. It could only be dreamed up by Canadians.

[Mick @mickduster]

@McFaul It's just a grift, an endless parade of our money to offshore accounts.