Headline: TMX pipeline cancelled! Liberals and Conservatives join hands and throw themselves into abandoned oil well!
I read the strangest thing today: Conservatives want a Liberal majority, so the TMX can get pushed through. Hahaahahahaha!
Isn't there something Canadian about Trudeau marching in the Climate March... when he has the power ? And Conservatives hating him, but knowing he will save the pipeline ?
member Granny, let's not forget NDP/Singh outright mocking the Liberal government climate policies in the face of buying TMX... with the after results actually being quite humourous watching Singh backpedal/dance around the questioning of his apparent willingness to let provinces veto inter-provincial pipeline projects.
a waldo refresher 101... particularly to reign in the hypocrisy of neophyte Green Party supporters:
=> Harper Conservatives 2014 Canada-China FIPA includes a Canadian commitment to build a tidewater pipeline in exchange for the mega tarsands investments that China made/pledged to make
=> {former} Alberta Premier Rachel Notley openly stated the TMX pipeline approval was integral to allowing Alberta to accept a tarsands emissions cap in the form of passed legislation... law... the Oil Sands Emissions Limit Act
=> the tarsands emissions cap became a key element of both Alberta Premier Notley and PM Trudeau’s respective strategies to cut overall carbon emissions
=> without the Liberal government purchase of the TMX pipeline, Kinder Morgan was quite willing to shutter the expansion plan and walk away from the millions of investment dollars it had already spent - that purchase kept the pipeline expansion viable.
=> earlier I presented reputable critiques of the Green Party "Mission Improbable" plan. Critique that stated the GP proposal to cancel all oil imports to Eastern Canada could not be accomplished without a requisite pipeline build to make up the resultant insufficiency cancelling imports would cause. More pointedly, the GP proposal to alternatively refocus on extending domestic use - particularly in the form of billions of investment dollars to build upgraders and refineries - would result in a significant increase to Canada's emission levels.
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in recent days the PBO released costing for programs the Green Party submitted to the PBO. Until the PBO release it was not publicly known what programs the Green Party had selected for costing from its overall "Mission Improbable" plan. As it turns out, practically all of the key initiatives are missing from the grouping of proposed programs the GP submitted to the PBO. Wait, what... wasn't it Lizzie who repeatedly stated all their proposals would be fully costed by the PBO... seems to me I recall a particular GP supporter here making the same claim! 
So, were these key proposals from the GP "Climate Plan" not chosen to be costed by the PBO... cause they're so prohibitive in cost? What's the Green Party hiding, hey member Granny! An extract from a related recent post:
for anyone missing former PBO head Kevin Page, here's a taste as head of The University of Ottawa’s Institute for Fiscal Studies and Democracy (IFSD) - where IFSD analyzed the Green Party platform, inclusive of recent costing from the current PBO - an analysis to evaluate whether the promises could realistically be delivered.
IFSD determined that the May/GP platform failed to make “realistic and credible economic and fiscal projections” and also failed when it came to “responsible fiscal management” and “transparency.”
One of the major issues was that the billions in spending commitments would require massive revenue tools of about $60 billion per year, which is more than 2.5 per cent of the country’s GDP. This is significant; the proposals would substantially change the way the Canadian economy works. It requires some explanation on how they would do this.
Another serious problem was that the platform failed to provide any kind of background documents to support the fiscal baseline the Greens used to project how they would achieve a balanced budget in five years.
There is no strategy nor is there supporting information to guide the change in fiscal stance other than a large number of proposals. There is no formal commitment to fiscal sustainability over the long run other than verbal commitments made by the party leader
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