It was about three years ago when I proposed to the federal government what we believed to be an environmentally salutary way to get some oil workers back to work.
Enter two young Saskatchewan oilpatch entrepreneurs, brothers Matt and Dan Cugnet, with an idea they wanted me to hear. I was in their hometown of Weyburn at an event when they first presented the idea with their MLA and my former colleague Dustin Duncan. Their plan was to get oilpatch workers working again, cleaning up old wells that were no longer in service. It was a win-win — good for the environment and good for the workers.
The loss of 110,000 energy-sector jobs in the West was obviously not so compelling to him and his team. Quebec jobs were apparently worth the brazenness the former attorney general so deliberately and unflappably testified to before the Commons justice committee. At a time of historic job losses and dimming prospects, the federal government has actually sought to make things worse. Juxtaposed against the existential risk the federal government took to save far fewer jobs at SNC-Lavalin is its apparent determination to pass Bill C-69, which industry has said will make it harder if not impossible to secure approvals for future pipeline proposals.
acoyne Umm the government bought a pipeline?
Hes right Trudeau will bend over and drop his pants down for SNC Lavalin
acoyne Oh look yet another thing has been spun as “an insult to the West”... and yet again the Post gives voice to this puerile shit. They live in quite the bubble.
The PMO should have pressured the Natural Resources Minister to increase the world price of oil.
acoyne Nonsense
acoyne It's a slap in the face to people who pay their taxes, obey the law, and deal with shitty service from the corrupt companies the LPC torques the the law to keep them in business SNCLavalin Bombardier
Brad Wall's government literally swindled nuns to make party donor buddies rich, and then stacked government committees to keep any witnesses from testifying about that very issue. Why on earth are you letting that asshole run his mouth on this issue? Do your damn homework.
They bought a goddamn pipeline to get oil to tidewater for 5 billion and you somehow think they’re ignoring the west. What sense does that make? I don’t even vote Liberal and this is stupid.
It’s about jobs. Quebec jobs in his riding he told her. Why can’t the West can’t get it straight he needs them to win.
I think Canadians have to understand that “that Trudeau’s and MP from Papineau and there’s an election in QUE.” his words he denied but then admitted to...he admitted to “Obstruction of Justice”....
I wish these western premiers would hide their fake outrage and stopping with the petty politics. Don’t they have a province to run?
Wall hasn't lost any of his stupidity since retiring, I see.
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