James Nibourg

@ikwilson Did Parliament decide on the two Questions put forward to the people of Quebec ?

Important constitutional point: Carney is wrong. The 1998 Secession Reference is a seminal constitutional ruling of the Supreme Court of Canada. The Clarity Act is a later federal statute. Where the two conflict, the SCC’s constitutional ruling prevails. The SCC held that a clear majority on a clear question would trigger a duty to negotiate. It did not rule that Parliament must pre-approve, bless, or veto a Alberta's referendum question before our vote is held. That “Parliament reviews the question first” mechanism comes from the Clarity Act — not the Secession Reference. Albertans have the right to decide their own future. The Clarity Act cannot be used to extinguish that right. Albertans will decide. Not Ottawa.

Took a call from Rob in BC on the ☎️ radio show and he made some great points. Canada has some of the largest and most responsibly produced natural resources on earth, yet we constantly “trip over our own feet” when it comes to actually building projects. So let’s talk about it 👇

Enjoyed celebrating the opening of Cargill’s canola crush plant outside Regina. Crushing 1 million tonnes annually, this facility will help us reach our Growth Plan goal of crushing 75% of the canola we produce here in SK. Thanks to Cargill for choosing SK for this investment!

@CoryBMorgan It is interesting Cory, the powers that be pay a allowance to these special interest groups, they willing take the colonial money. Everyone knows you are beholden to the person that pay you an allowance, like children of a house hold.

There will never be enough consultation to satisfy indigenous activists for two reasons. For one, the level of what's considered adequate consultation has never been defined. Secondly, being obstinate pays very well for the chiefs & lawyers who represent them.

@ClarksonsFarm1 This is 100%

This.👏🏻

Hodgson is lying about this. Construction of phase one started in 2021. Planning for the whole project began after survey work in 2013. The Major Projects Office played no real role in this.

🇨🇦 This is what happens when a province decides to compete instead of comply. De Havilland chose Alberta. Not Ontario. Not Quebec. Not BC. Alberta. 🛢️ 3,000 high skilled jobs. Private sector investment. No carbon capture conditions. No MPO photo op required. This is what attraction looks like. 💪🇨🇦 #CdnPoli #Alberta #DeHavilland

EDITORIAL: Snowbirds grounded by incompetence Grounding the legendary Snowbirds until some vague date in the next decade is yet another example of Canada’s 'can’t do' government torontosun.com/opinion/editor…

@GlobalCalgary Crazy. Allowing democracy in a democracy

@GlobalCalgary If there’s no support for separation, why are they worried? If it’s a fringe minority, there’s nothing to worry about, right?

@GlobalCalgary If democratic processes “worry” a political party, then something has gone very wrong with that political party’s values along the way

It was a pleasure welcoming the Grade 6 students from Crescent Valley Elementary School to the Legislature. Great to meet an engaged group of grade six students asking many thoughtful questions. Wishing them all the best on the rest of their school year!

The wild thing about punishing Canadian bitumen producers with a carbon tax is that they produce the heaviest oil on Earth, a product used in unique and essential applications ranging from jet fuel on the lighter end to asphalt roads and roof shingles on the heavier end. We have no real alternatives to asphalt, shingles, or many other heavy-oil applications, regardless of what anyone drives, EVs or ICE vehicles.... Extracting this bitumen requires significantly more energy, and therefore more emissions,than producing lighter oils, much like how BBQ propane flows easily from a reservoir while asphalt demands far more effort to produce. Think about lifting a young child vs. an adult, would you need more energy? Even if you fracture a hockey-puck-like piece of bitumen, it still won’t flow to the surface without thermal energy to melt it and allow production. At what point did we stop making sense and started punishing companies simply for extracting a viable, in-demand product that virtually everyone relies on in daily life, just because it’s heavy and takes more energy to produce? Labeling it “dirty” to satisfy our biases ignores the fundamental reasons we need this oil in the first place. Also, why don't we start calling heavy ppl "dirty", same logic. Heavy oil is just that, heavy... and needs more energy to be produced.🫡🪒

There’s a generation a lot of people forget exists. We were born at the tail end of the Boomers, but we are not culturally the same as people born in the 40s and early 50s. We are Generation Jones. And honestly, it explains a lot. We grew up in a world that still felt fundamentally analog, but we were young enough to be dragged headfirst into the digital revolution. We are the bridge generation between rotary phones and smartphones, between slide rules and AI, between Walter Cronkite and algorithm driven media. We remember when there were only a few television channels and the entire country watched the same thing at the same time. We also adapted to the internet, email, forums, social media, streaming and now artificial intelligence. We lived before and after the technological singularity hit everyday life. That is not a small thing. People born in the 40s came of age in a post World War II America that was still industrial, deeply hierarchical and institutionally stable. Their formative years were shaped by the Cold War, Vietnam, the civil rights era and a society where information moved slowly. Generation Jones came later. We inherited the aftermath of all of that. We were the kids who watched Watergate destroy blind trust in government. We watched manufacturing begin to collapse. We saw divorce rates explode. We were the first truly latchkey generation in massive numbers. We learned independence early because many of us had to. We grew up with one foot in old America and one foot in whatever this new thing was becoming. We played outside until the streetlights came on but we also learned DOS commands. We learned cursive and keyboarding. We had card catalogs and Google searches. We went from vinyl records to cassette tapes to CDs to MP3s to streaming in one lifetime. We remember maps. We remember memorizing phone numbers. We remember life before GPS and before every human interaction became filtered through a screen. And because of that, I think Generation Jones developed a very unique perspective. We are adaptable because we had no choice but to adapt. We learned technology as adults instead of being born into it. We remember a slower world but were forced to survive in a rapidly accelerating one. That creates a very different mindset than either older Boomers or younger Gen X and Millennials. A lot of us also reject the caricature people now associate with “Boomers.” We were not buying houses for the cost of a sandwich in 1965. The interest rate on my first house was over 14% and that was after buying down a point. Many of us got hit by recessions, outsourcing, pension collapses and economic instability just like younger generations did. We watched promises evaporate in real time. We understand older generations because we were raised by them. We understand younger generations because we had to evolve alongside them. That’s why the Jones generation often feels culturally homeless. We are rarely discussed, rarely defined and usually lumped into categories that don’t actually fit us. But we exist. We are the human transition point between the industrial age and the digital age. And frankly, there will probably never be another generation quite like us again.

Why does Alberta have the most recycled politicians in Canada right now ?

Central planners shipped snowplows to equatorial Ghana, where snow has never fallen in recorded history. The bureaucrats who approved this requisition never questioned whether tropical Africa needed equipment designed for Minnesota winters. This absurd waste reveals the fundamental flaw in all central planning: the knowledge problem. No committee of experts can possibly aggregate the dispersed knowledge held by millions of individuals making local decisions. The Ghanaian farmer knows his climate better than any Brussels bureaucrat with a spreadsheet. The local road maintenance crew understands what equipment actually works in 90-degree heat and seasonal flooding. Markets solve this automatically through profit and loss. Private companies that shipped snowplows to Ghana would face immediate bankruptcy. Customers would refuse to buy useless equipment. Investors would pull funding from incompetent management. The price system communicates information faster and more accurately than any central planning agency ever could. Waste gets punished swiftly and decisively. Government agencies face no such constraints. They spend other people's money on other people's problems with zero accountability. The bureaucrat who approved snowplows for a snowless country keeps his job, pension, and budget for next year. He might even get promoted for "international development leadership." Meanwhile, taxpayers foot the bill for equipment now rusting unused in Accra warehouses. You cannot centrally plan prosperity any more than you can centrally plan weather patterns. Every snowplow shipped to Ghana represents resources stolen from productive uses and allocated by people who will never face the consequences of their ignorance.

@echipiuk Let Democracy Rule ! Have the vote!

It is deeply troubling to watch elected officials advocate for silencing citizens who participated in a lawful democratic process simply because they disagree with the issue being raised. This is not even about debating the pros and cons of independence. This is about an organized effort by elected officials to silence citizens from participating in a lawful democratic process, and that should concern everyone. You do not have to support independence to recognize how dangerous that is. Once governments, political actors, and courts begin deciding which citizen-led issues are acceptable to discuss, democratic participation stops being a right and becomes a permission granted by those in power. Today it is this petition. Tomorrow it could be any issue the political class finds inconvenient. Citizens do not hold institutional power. Their voice is their power. And when lawful democratic processes are undermined to prevent citizens from even being heard, public trust in democracy itself begins to collapse.

@miket136 Wonder which FN they will consult with ?

This pipe will never be built under the Liberal regime or under the current legislative framework. The MOU is simply a shiny bauble meant to mislead and distract Albertans. Smith beclowns herself by entertaining it.