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[N_Fiddledog]

Harper attacks NDP over McQuaig's oilsands comment

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Conservative Leader Stephen Harper has accused the NDP of harbouring a "not-so-hidden agenda" to limit the development of Canada's natural resources, after a New Democrat candidate suggested some of Alberta's oil should remain in the ground.
Harper said the NDP wants to "keep the oil in the ground" in Alberta to address the current oil crisis – an accusation that springs from comments made by NDP candidate Linda McQuaig earlier in the week. McQuaig told a television discussion panel on Friday that for Canada to meet its climate change targets, "a lot of the oilsands oil may have to stay in the ground."
Harper called McQuaig a "star" candidate and potential cabinet minister if Thomas Mulcair's NDP come to power, before raising fears over how the New Democrats will treat Canada's natural resources. "The NDP is consistently against the development of our resources and our economy," Harper said at a campaign announcement in Ottawa. "That is the NDP's not-so-hidden agenda on ...

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[PublicAnimalNo9]

2Cdo 2Cdo:

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Thanos Thanos:

Well, I didn't aim that at you, not on a personal level anyway. It was a generic thing aimed at the sort of stupid people who dig down deep to make sure that others are always outsiders. It's an attitude thing, easily found as often in places like Toronto as it is in some geek hamlet in Alberta or BC where the locals can't stop themselves from staring and gawking like idiots at anyone who wanders in from the outside. It's exemplified by the attitude of the likes of Linda McQuaig, who are just not capable of controlling their contempt for those who don't fit into their thought patterns, ideologies, or policies. They have no empathy and no understanding so they literally do not care what would happen to anyone who ends up on the wrong end of their dogma.

Your photos make you seem tall so I wouldn't have called you a runt anyway. A jabroni, maybe, but not a runt.

Ah, I see now, my bad, sorry for the misplaced outrage. Misinterpreted it as a little more focused than it really was.

6 feet, but at 120 pounds I guess a better term than runt would be spindly or scrawny

Holy shit! I seen more meat in a bag of chips.

Bacon flavoured I presume?

[Zipperfish]

Thanos Thanos:

Just because some isn't born here doesn't not make them a Westerner. If I move to Nova Scotia one day and spend the rest of my life there I'll consider myself a Maritimer, even if I'm a transplanted one.

I have a cousin who's been living in PEI for almost 25 years. She's still "from away" though. ha ha ha

[OnTheIce]

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Thanos Thanos:

Well, I didn't aim that at you, not on a personal level anyway. It was a generic thing aimed at the sort of stupid people who dig down deep to make sure that others are always outsiders. It's an attitude thing, easily found as often in places like Toronto as it is in some geek hamlet in Alberta or BC where the locals can't stop themselves from staring and gawking like idiots at anyone who wanders in from the outside. It's exemplified by the attitude of the likes of Linda McQuaig, who are just not capable of controlling their contempt for those who don't fit into their thought patterns, ideologies, or policies. They have no empathy and no understanding so they literally do not care what would happen to anyone who ends up on the wrong end of their dogma.

Your photos make you seem tall so I wouldn't have called you a runt anyway. A jabroni, maybe, but not a runt.

Ah, I see now, my bad, sorry for the misplaced outrage. Misinterpreted it as a little more focused than it really was.

6 feet, but at 120 pounds I guess a better term than runt would be spindly or scrawny

I had a couple of 10 year olds on my team last year that were 120lbs

[Zipperfish]

OnTheIce OnTheIce:

I had a couple of 10 year olds on my team last year that were 120lbs

Season's starting. My kids have development adn power skating all week. Yeee-haw!

[N_Fiddledog]

Linda McQuaig meets her hero Hugo Chavez, the dead communist who destroyed Venezuela

NDP's policies would kill oilsands

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In politics, a "gaffe" occurs when someone accidentally tells the truth.

Enter Linda McQuaig, one of Canada's most famous radical leftists and NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair's star candidate in the riding of Toronto Centre.

On CBC's Power & Politics Friday, McQuaig told host Rosemary Barton: "A lot of the oilsands oil may have to stay in the ground if we're going to meet our climate change targets." She added the situation will become clearer once Canada has a climate change accountability system and a "proper" process for reviewing pipelines.

McQuaig's comments provoked an angry reaction in Alberta, with Wildrose Party Leader Brian Jean urging NDP Premier Rachel Notley to repudiate them.

On Sunday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper warned, "the NDP is consistently against the development of our resources and our economy. That is the NDP's not-so-hidden agenda on development."

Spokespeople for the federal and provincial NDP responded McQuaig's comments were in line with the party's policies of sustainable development for the oilsands.

If you believe that, we have some oceanfront real estate in Alberta we'd like to sell you.

McQuaig, who would be a shoe-in for cabinet in a Mulcair government and who in 2013 called for a "slow down" and "moratorium" on oilsands development, simply stated explicitly what is implicit in Mulcair's platform.

The NDP, for example, is against the Keystone XL pipeline, the Northern Gateway and non-committal on Energy East, all methods of transporting oilsands oil to market.

Environmentalists who attack these pipelines make no bones about their ultimate goal.

It is to kill off oilsands development by making it financially unviable.

The fig leaf Mulcair puts over this position -- as he did at last week's leaders' debate -- is to suggest there may be some environmental review process somewhere that will be developed someday by someone that will satisfy the NDP when it comes to approving pipelines.

What's safe to say is if that if Mulcair and the NDP form the government after Oct. 19, whatever review process they develop will make the existing onerous and lengthy one look like the 100-metre dash by comparison.

Clearly, Mulcair's intent is to all but choke off development of Canada's oilsands.

All McQuaig did was let the cat out of the bag.

[Zipperfish]

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

Linda McQuaig meets her hero Hugo Chavez, the dead communist who destroyed Venezuela

Harper shakes hands with his hero, Justoin Bieber, who destroyed music.

[andyt]

Future Chairman Mulcair thanks you for the humerus picture of running dog lackey Harper. Please note that when Chairman Mulcair is "elected" any attempt to include him in pictures such as this will result in you being banished to Surrey. And your toilet paper ration will be revoked.

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[herbie]

Linda McQuaig IS NOT NDP policy.
Only in the mind of an idiot would you think or claim anyone would kill the biggest cash cow in the country. Not that I'm calling Harper an idiot, he's clever enough to use statements idiots will fall for.
The scenario no one will talk about is they might move their investments into fracking in N Dakota or elsewhere because it's cheaper and more profitable - even if oil prices climb. They'd dig up the oil sands, ship it to China, let them extract the oil and refine it and ship it back to us if that was more profitable. Even look the other way if they used the depleted sand to build new island bases in the Spratly islands...

[N_Fiddledog]

It's not just Linda McQuaig though.

In the video at the beginning of this thread it was shown how quickly Linda's policy dreams can be turned into reality by the new Alberta provincial NDP.

Here it is again.



So do you Chavez fans promise the rest of us it stops there?

[DrCaleb]

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It's not just Linda McQuaig though.

In the video at the beginning of this thread it was shown how quickly Linda's policy dreams have been turned into reality by the new Alberta provincial NDP.

Here it is again.

So do you Chavez fans promise the rest of us it stops there?

You do know that they claim to suffer a 'loss' because of an increase in corporate income tax - not because of any change to oilsands, right? Saudis dumping oil on a saturated market had nothing to do with it . . .

And her comments came after CRL posted the loss . . .

[Zipperfish]

Depends how bad climate change turns out to be. If it's on the worse side of things, it will likely have to stay in the ground. More likely we won't really know until after it's all oxidized anyways. depneds on alternatives available too, I guess.

[Thanos]

I take anything that CNRL says with a grain of salt because, bar none, they are the worst managed of the major companies in the oil sands. From the moment they struck ground at the Horizon site back in the early 2000's through to the deaths of those Chinese workers they hired to build their tank farm through to how they poisoned an entire wetland and creek bed at a SAGD site with no idea how to stop the pollution through to how even when times were good they still somehow managed to post losses, CNRL has proven itself time and time again to be one of the dumbest companies imaginable. There's no way that a 2% provincial corporate tax hike cost them $600 million in losses. It didn't because it's not possible. No matter who, like that twat Levant, spins it CNRL lost because of the overall collapse. No business likes the tax hike but top blame one of the smallest hikes in Alberta tax history as a virtual economic armaggeddon is sheer fucking horseshit.