When your election campaign hasn’t made it west of Winnipeg, you wouldn’t expect a question about how Albertans and many in the rest of the West feel about four more years of the Liberals. Read More
’I resile to no one in terms of my understanding of the West,’ says Liberal Leader Mark Carney, leading people to rush for the closest dictionary
‘I resile to no one in terms of my understanding of the West,’ says Liberal Leader Mark Carney, leading people to rush for the closest dictionary
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When your election campaign hasn’t made it west of Winnipeg, you wouldn’t expect a question about how Albertans and many in the rest of the West feel about four more years of the Liberals.
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But a question did come up Friday.
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Liberal Leader Mark Carney was in Quebec, where they are considered a nation within Canada after all.
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Carney’s sidekick is with him.
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You remember Steven Guilbeault, reviled in Alberta, the Liberal green guru, the one-time environment minister with an eco-extremist axe to grind, the former Greenpeace activist on a mission to screw over oil and gas.
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Guilbeault is Carney’s official Quebec lieutenant as well as the man Carney says will strengthen our Canadian identity.
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God help us.
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Anyway, Carney is asked what his plan is to address Western alienation.
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TRANSLATION: How is Carney going to deal with all those people west of Winnipeg, and especially in Alberta and Saskatchewan, who cannot stomach another four years of the Liberals?
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Those individuals who will lose what little faith they have left in Canada when their fellow Canadians don’t care or even acknowledge there are issues Ottawa needs to address here.
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They have tried time and time again to get the rest of Canada’s attention with no success and no respect. They have been told to shut up and stop whining.
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Problem? What problem?
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Here is Carney.
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Carney starts with a word you need to look up in the Oxford dictionary. Guess Carney wants to show us he is the smartest person in any room.
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My friends in Ontario tell me arrogance is a vote-getter in that province. They worship elites.
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“I resile to no one in terms of my understanding of the West, my connection to the West.”
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Carney tells us for the umpteenth time he grew up in Alberta, in Edmonton to be precise, beating that dead horse one too many times.
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You’re not an Albertan, buddy. You’re not an Edmontonian either. You wouldn’t even run to represent Edmonton in the House of Commons.
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You picked an Ottawa riding calling that city your home.
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“I’m part of a government that governs for all of the country and very much for the West,” says Carney.
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Very much for the West?
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I hear an alarm. It must be the crap detector going off.
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In French, Carney says he is very familiar with the West. He is coming here next week.
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Wonder if he will talk out of both sides of his mouth.
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In Alberta, he said the cap on oil and gas emissions was off and then back home in good old Ontario he said the cap was on.
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In Alberta, he would scrap the Liberal No More Pipelines law. Back home, he pulled a U-turn rivalling anything a Hollywood stunt car driver could pull off. No More Pipelines lives.