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@Citizen004 She is in a conflict of interest. Her one job (leader of UCP) requires her to cowtow to separatists who have taken over her party. Her other job (premier) requires her to advance things in the interest of Alberta. She is putting the latter at grave risk by pursuing the former.

@ianbremmer Ya who has the fortitude to take him on.

no regime change in iran, no handpicking of the next supreme leader. no dismantling of iran’s proxies, no restrictions on its ballistic missile and drone programs. an agreement to downblend the highly enriched uranium inside iran. the destruction of iran’s navy, but an emboldened iran that is prepared to disrupt the strait. throw in the cost in lives, the global economy, and the global treasure, and the reputational damage to the united states…and president trump has some serious explaining to do.   next up: cuba

People keep rewriting TMX history as if Kinder Morgan simply “got greedy” or Ottawa heroically saved a perfectly functional project. That is not what happened. Kinder Morgan suspended non-essential spending in April 2018 because the project had become a legal, regulatory, political, and financial minefield. Kinder Morgan explicitly stated the problem was ongoing BC opposition, uncertainty around the ability to build through BC, and unacceptable risk to shareholders: transmountain.com/news/kinder-mo… newswire.ca/news-releases/… BC was actively fighting the pipeline politically and legally: cbc.ca/news/canada/br… At the same time, multiple First Nations and environmental groups launched court challenges against the approval process: fca-caf.gc.ca/fca-caf/eng/co… Then came the massive legal setback in 2018. The Federal Court of Appeal quashed the federal approval entirely in Tsleil-Waututh Nation v Canada because: - marine shipping impacts were improperly excluded from the review - Indigenous consultation was legally inadequate Court decision: decisions.fca-caf.gc.ca/fca-caf/decisi… Legal summaries: stikeman.com/en-ca/kh/canad… nortonrosefulbright.com/en-ca/knowledg… That forced the federal government to restart major portions of the approval and consultation process. Meanwhile, the Liberals were also changing Canada’s broader regulatory framework. Bill C-69 replaced the old NEB regime with the Impact Assessment Act, creating broader federal review powers involving: - climate impacts - social impacts - expanded consultation - wider ministerial discretion - broader project assessment triggers Legislation: parl.ca/documentviewer… The Supreme Court of Canada later ruled major parts of the Impact Assessment Act were unconstitutional because Ottawa exceeded federal jurisdiction: decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-cs… Legal analysis: mcmillan.ca/insights/publi… bennettjones.com/Insights/Blogs… So yes: - Ottawa eventually bought TMX - Ottawa carried the financial risk - Ottawa ultimately completed the pipeline But pretending the investment environment was not a regulatory and legal disaster is revisionist history. No rational private company wants to invest tens of billions into a project where: - approvals can be overturned years later - consultation standards keep evolving - provinces openly fight the project - litigation reaches the Supreme Court - federal rules keep changing midstream - and political risk becomes impossible to price That is why private capital stepped back and Ottawa had to nationalize the risk to get TMX built. That is the actual history.

@ianbremmer The U S in very ugly times.

rule of don: the trump administration decision to settle a lawsuit the trump administration brought against the trump administration to create a $1.8 billion trump administration "weaponization fund" to pay those the trump administration deems unfairly prosecuted.

@Pagmenzies This indigenous situation is getting out of control. May take years but Non indigenous will revolt!

Still can’t believe Carney’s been running around signing MoUs without AFN approval

Not those Palestinians again.

@DrCaseyBabb Carney step up and say how abhorrent this is. @MarkJCarney

In Toronto, a young Jewish girl named Esther has been missing for over a week. To make matters worse, people have been ripping down posters about her disappearance, just like they did with the hostage posters after 10/7—one of the more appalling things I've ever seen in my life.

@DonBraid Perhaps more Smith critic would be in order from Calgary news hounds! She put us here. She’s to blame!

The referendum question is Smith's now. Not Forever Canadian, not Stay Free Alberta, Danielle Smith. The Alberta government wants a vote on independence. That's how this will play in national and international media for the next five months. How is that good for Alberta? #cdnpoli

@Pagmenzies What a terrible Headline.

Ah, a third solitude

@cselley Or 10 years in jail.

I'm thinking two months' probation...

@JJ_McCullough @Citizen004 Thank you!

@Citizen004 The fact that people have been writing books about this supposed “movement” for over 40 years and yet it’s accomplished precisely nothing is an argument in favor of less analysis, not more, imo.

Over the next several months, I will offer my analysis of the campaigns, strategies, communications, and the impact I believe they will have on the critical “test driver” cohort - see the post below for context. In the meantime, dust off your copy of the 1981 book Western Separatism: The Myths, Realities & Dangers, written by Larry Pratt and Garth Stevenson from the University of Alberta, and follow along if you’re interested.

@irbrodie She still needs a prosperous Alberta to get re-elected. She let these separatists into the party so now she has to deal with them to the detriment of us more sane electorates.

I just don’t see the grounds for calling the Premier a closet separatist. She wouldn’t be driving the MOU for a pipeline as hard as she is if she wanted Alberta to separate.

How F ing crazy is Carney and the liberals. Replacing snowbird jets with props. We are the laughing stock of the world! @MarkJCarney

So the premier is more concerned about separatist referendum than people dying in hospital waiting rooms. @ABDanielleSmith

@cspotweet This is just crazy. 4 more years to purchase jets. But the PM jet gets bought in months. Carney is out to lunch @MarkJCarney

Snowbirds to be grounded following 2026 season as Ottawa announces purchase of replacement fleet; snowbirds to return to sky once planes are delivered sometime after 2030. canada.ca/en/department-…

Premier Smith now on the BBQ and rodeo circuit and to hell with people dying in hospital waiting rooms. She has her priorities all wrong. What a total failure! @ABDanielleSmith

If UCP not a separtist party why do they allow Mitch Sylvestre (leader of separtist movement) to be the President of the UCP Bonnyville constituency Association? This man wears a tin foil hat.

@SelinaMRobinson @bcndp The whole national and provincial parties are racist. Unions too!

I wonder if the @bcndp get it yet.

@cspotweet The Judge is applying the law. Being unelected and appointed by Liberal government has nothing to do with it. She needs to stop catering to the separatists @ABDanielleSmith

Premier Smith says it shouldn't be up to a single, unelected Trudeau-appointed judge should overrule the 700K Albertans who want a separation referendum. She also suggests she would appeal this all the way to the Supreme Court.

@cspotweet He’s screwed up his Province so badly and crying about our successes will not change his failures.

“As a country, it's time to stop rewarding bad behaviour. It cannot be the case that the projects that get prioritized in Canada are those where a Premier threatens to leave the country." BC Premier David Eby not pulling punches on the pipeline deal between Alberta and the Feds.