What happened in this thread? The parent post is blocked for me

I'm saying if the PM is giving winks and nods to placate conflicting interests in the short term, it will backfire and cause a lot of collateral damage. There is no 4D chess — he is demonstrating that he only cares for the interests of global capital and US O&G companies

What are his values? Is he a leader in green finance or is he a proponent of expanding O&G capacity? Everything he's doing as PM indicates the latter

I would much prefer a PM who articulated clear values. He really seems hell-bent in contradicting everything he did as UN envoy for green capital. I don't know what this guy stands for, and ambiguity is not 4D chess

The purpose of a system is what it does, so the purpose of Canada's tax regime is to let the wealthy off the hook at every turn while punishing everyone else.

That WSJ piece is wild though

Feels like there is an element of ratfucking on the Americans part to force a peace deal that sidelines Europe and hands US and Russia the O&G and minerals deals

Thanks, I read that last night, but worth a second read. I saw this brief rebuttal that I agree with:
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Anyway, we probably won't change each other's minds today, so thanks for the back and forth and have a good one

What did he accomplish? He got some weak promises for capping industrial emissions as part of this bargain, while rolling back the previous commitments from the last grand bargain for the other pipeline, which by the way isn't even running at capacity. I fail to see how this is good

But again, he hasn't even accomplished that. He's managed to alienate BC and FN with no actual progress toward expanding greatapacity. If the goal was to placate AB, who will remain unhappy regardless, it comes at a great political cost.

But he didn't even accomplish that. AB needs to solicit BC's and FN's approval before the feds will support it, and with all these shenanigans he only alienated them further! He burned a shitload of political capital with centrist voters to give separatists and conservatives their sugar

What we have witnessed tday in this new federal-Alberta agreement is a complete abandonment of core federal climate policy and a complete abdication to the MAGA-aligned govt of Alberta and to oil & gas corporations that send huge chunks their profits to the US.

And they're not going to vote liberal anyway!

I shouldn't have to read tea leaves to understand if the prime minister actually wants a pipeline built as a national project or if he is secretly woke. He's gone pretty far out of his way to prove he loves capital!

This only rewards Alberta separatists and alienates BC and coastal FNs. This exacerbates unity and he gets a nothingburger in Alberta. Rolled back climate policies, and encourages the UCP to continue acting in bad faith and undermine renewables

Should BC threaten to separate so we can revoke federal authority to impose a pipeline here? Of course not, but that's just what happened here in spirit

All this does is reward Alberta UCP and Alberta separatists for whining about their dirty and expensive oil industry and for undermining renewables there

He also alienates BC massively for very little benefit in Alberta

So by avoiding imposing federal will on Alberta in the spirit of cooperation, he imposes federal will on and abandons BC and coastal FNs. How much political capital is he wasting in BC to win over albertans who will never vote liberal anyway, for policies the AB govt will actively undermine?