L. Wayne Mathison

Teneycke: "When you elect leaders who are completely and utterly unaccomplished prior to entering politics and who have entered politics in their 20s, you are going to be very vulnerable to running against somebody who has actually done something with their life. And why Scheer is still sitting in the caucus is the same reason why Poilievre will end up sitting in the caucus after he's done being leader, because he is unemployable in any other job."

This is heartbreaking. In 1996, 16-year-old Travis Lewis murdered Martha McKay’s mother, Sally, and her cousin inside their historic Arkansas home. Instead of rage, Martha chose radical forgiveness. She visited Lewis in prison for years, wrote letters, and advocated for his parole. In 2018, after 22 years behind bars, he was released—with Martha’s support. She even gave him a job… on the same family estate where he had killed her mother. Then, in March 2020, Lewis stole from her, lost the job, broke back into the house, and murdered 63-year-old Martha— in the exact same room where her mother died 24 years earlier. You can’t rehabilitate murderers.

Scott Reid and the rest of these individuals just like everyone else have all succumbed to the anti-Pierre mainstream media rhetoric. What is even the point of all of this? Have they offered up another person to take Pierre’s place? I’d like to know what a new leader of the opposition can offer that Pierre isn’t? People dislike Pierre because the media hammers him with more scrutiny than the actual person leading our Country down the drain.

Refined petroleum products are the bigger story behind rising diesel, gasoline and jet-fuel prices. Ukrainian strikes have severely damaged Russia’s refining system, disrupting a major source of global fuel supply. This matters because crude oil and refined fuel are not interchangeable. You can release crude from strategic reserves, but it still has to be transported, refined and distributed. When refinery capacity is damaged or already stretched, extra crude does not quickly replace lost diesel, gasoline or jet fuel. Global inventories of refined products are tightening. That means higher transportation, farming, construction and airline costs. Canada produces plenty of energy, yet Eastern Canada remains heavily exposed to imported crude and refined products because political leaders rejected or obstructed pipelines carrying Western Canadian oil east. I understand why Western Canadians are angry. Eastern political leaders turned down Western energy infrastructure, then left their own consumers vulnerable to foreign supply shocks and rising prices. Ordinary people did not make every one of those decisions, but the politicians, activists and institutions that fought Western oil should be held accountable when the consequences arrive at the pump. Canada is an energy-rich country behaving like an energy-poor one. That was a political choice.