Alberta’s Looney-Toons premier must have gotten away from her keepers again. She has used her screw-ball Alberta Sovereignty in a United Canada Act to forbid Alberta’s provincial agencies from obeying a federal law that does not yet exist. That should leave us relieved for a while. When you consider that the provincial police in Alberta are just recently trained federal law officers, it could contribute many more laughs at the expense of Alberta citizens.
Alberta premier Danielle Smith has an excuse. She believes that provincial agencies have to obey the provincial laws. If you have any idea how much it costs to defend an action at the Supreme Court of Canada, you might help find an adult who can convince the premier to back off.
Sure, creating electrical systems and selling electricity is a provincial responsibility but what the province puts into our air is obviously a federal responsibility. The federal government realizes we have to cut back on greenhouse gas emissions.
You might have to speak slowly and use simple words but someone has to tell that Alberta premier that fun time is over. Global warming is serious. Carbon-based fuels that contribute to getting excessive carbon into the atmosphere of our planet can make human life here much shorter than we would like it to be. It is also contributing to the large number of wildfires that are destroying the forested beauty of Alberta. It also contributes to freaky floods.
I am sorry to tell you this but someone in Alberta has to tell the people exploiting the tar sands that they have to start cutting back on their obviously noble effort to get every last bit of bitumen out of Alberta. And don’t even bother us with that crap about carbon capture and storage. It is simply bull shit. All it can do is bring up more bitumen. Why would anyone want to get involved in that game?
And Mr. Trudeau’s Trans Mountain pipeline is his problem. There is no way the Canadian government can recoup the billions wasted on that bit of federal generosity—that was never recognized in Alberta anyway.
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