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[–] 14 points 1 month ago

Anyone remember a year ago when Liberals were posting opinions like this?

Illustration of Mark Carney giving a child aged Danielle Smith a puzzle toy labeled "Pipeline!  Agreement in Principle".

5D chess, this pipeline will never, ever happen, just placating Danielle Smith, etc. Turns out the tricked one here wasn't Smith.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    The more international headlines I read the more the entire world sounds like the US.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    here in Australia

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/01/nsw-coalmine-approval-hunter-valley-climate-crisis-lock-the-gate

    The green light for the largest coalmine in NSW history is shocking proof that our governance systems are betraying Australians

    fuck Australian voters, could have voted Green, chose this shit instead.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago* (12 children)

    Why is it national interest to ship OUT your oil? I'd think keeping it IN the nation would actually be national interest. Oh? That's right, shareholder wealth...the rest is "f- the environment," actually.

    And as we've seen with Iran and Venezuela, oil production paints a bullseye on you.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (10 children)

    Because trade is good for everyone involved? That's something the Americans have completely lost the plot on.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    Trade with the US was bad for Canada every year prior.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    It wouldn't have been if it was reliable.

    Fundamentally, trade happens when you've got something that you don't want as much as your neighbour does, but he has something that you want more than he does. The result is that each side gets something they wanted more.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago* (4 children)

    Fundamentally it was just stealing from us to make them rich. Being unreliable is good for us.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    It made both of us richer. Spare us this Trumpian zero-sum view, it's normal for both trading partners to benefit.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    We benefited trading with the UK. The US didn't take over to benefit us. Don't act like the Canada/US (or NAFTA) wasn't the worst agreement in Canadian history.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Depending on other nations to refine our oil leaves us vulnerable. Which is why if we nationalize and refine most of our own oil, it would allow us to keep profits within the Canadian economy. So trade isn’t always a positive.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    We can build a pipeline a lot faster than we can build refineries. By all means do both, but the refineries won't be online for many years after we're already selling the unrefined stuff.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    Why is the image for an article about oil pipelines, an image of a woman's face?

    That's probably a hint as to whether this is journalism or click bait.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago*

    That's the author. If it were an old man would you care? The article is on point, this is almost as bad as running on voter reform and then going "haha no we aren't going to do that actually, we like a two party system."

    And now, in the easy win for the liberals given the fascist shit across the border, I guess that means time for liberals to be more brazenly conservative.

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