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Edmonton Journal
05-07-2025
- Politics
- Edmonton Journal
Bell: A fiery Danielle Smith on fighting when Alberta is punched in the face
Article content I really didn't think the premier would use the lingo of street fighting. But there you have it. Article content Article content Article content Article content The fight Smith is talking about is the battle with Ottawa. Article content Smith insists she wants a better relationship with Ottawa. She has tried but it has not worked out yet. Article content 'Every time I reach out with an olive branch I get smacked down and they come through with more offensive policies.' Article content These are policies such as the No More Pipelines law, the net-zero power regulations, the cap on oil and gas emissions, 'causing so much harm to our economy and fanning separatist intent.' Article content Article content On top of the ugly policies there are those Canadians from outside Alberta who send messages saying Smith and other Albertans should stop whining and shut up. Article content 'I can tell you what you never hear me say. Article content 'You know what, the Americans don't want your auto industry so why don't you just shut it down. Article content 'The Americans don't really want your steel, just shut it down. The Americans don't want your aluminum. Just shut it down. What are you complaining about? What's wrong with you?'
Calgary Herald
04-07-2025
- Politics
- Calgary Herald
Bell: A fiery Danielle Smith on fighting when Alberta is punched in the face
Article content I really didn't think the premier would use the lingo of street fighting. But there you have it. Article content Article content Article content Article content The fight Smith is talking about is the battle with Ottawa. Article content Smith insists she wants a better relationship with Ottawa. She has tried but it has not worked out yet. Article content 'Every time I reach out with an olive branch I get smacked down and they come through with more offensive policies.' Article content These are policies such as the No More Pipelines law, the net-zero power regulations, the cap on oil and gas emissions, 'causing so much harm to our economy and fanning separatist intent.' Article content Article content On top of the ugly policies there are those Canadians from outside Alberta who send messages saying Smith and other Albertans should stop whining and shut up. Article content 'You know what, the Americans don't want your auto industry so why don't you just shut it down. Article content 'The Americans don't really want your steel, just shut it down. The Americans don't want your aluminum. Just shut it down. What are you complaining about? What's wrong with you?'
Ottawa Citizen
04-07-2025
- Politics
- Ottawa Citizen
Bell: A fiery Danielle Smith on fighting when Alberta is punched in the face
Article content I really didn't think the premier would use the lingo of street fighting. But there you have it. Article content Article content Article content Article content The fight Smith is talking about is the battle with Ottawa. Article content Smith insists she wants a better relationship with Ottawa. She has tried but it has not worked out yet. Article content 'Every time I reach out with an olive branch I get smacked down and they come through with more offensive policies.' Article content These are policies such as the No More Pipelines law, the net-zero power regulations, the cap on oil and gas emissions, 'causing so much harm to our economy and fanning separatist intent.' Article content Article content On top of the ugly policies there are those Canadians from outside Alberta who send messages saying Smith and other Albertans should stop whining and shut up. Article content 'The Americans don't really want your steel, just shut it down. The Americans don't want your aluminum. Just shut it down. What are you complaining about? What's wrong with you?'
Calgary Herald
24-06-2025
- Business
- Calgary Herald
Bell: Danielle Smith goes on offence against a two-faced Mark Carney
Article content There is a very attractive project in Quebec. There are very attractive projects elsewhere. There are very attractive projects involving critical minerals and AI and projects not on any premier's list. Blah, blah, blah. Article content The projects will have to be in line with 'the climate goals in Canada' and have the thumbs-up from Indigenous people. Article content Article content Instead of just cooking up a list of favoured projects, the prime minister could simply get to the heart of the matter and say: No, the planned emissions cap on oil and gas is not happening. Article content Just that. Article content Now that would be front-page news, for good reason. Article content It would show Canadians this prime minister is serious. Article content With that emissions cap on the table, this is all just politicking. Article content Then Carney could rewrite the No More Pipelines law and scrap the net-power electricity regulations and Canada and Alberta would be off to the races. Article content Article content Making money!!! For Alberta and the rest of Canada. Article content Doesn't Carney want Canada to be an energy superpower? Article content Yes, it is true Carney got rid of the consumer carbon tax but that was because the Liberals were facing a beating at the polls. The Liberals are not facing an election now. Article content They can be … well … Liberals. Article content Right now nobody, except those who like betting long shots, has confidence Carney will deliver the goods. Article content The square root of squat. Article content Words, words and more words floating through the air. Question after question, never answered. Article content
Edmonton Journal
21-06-2025
- Business
- Edmonton Journal
Bell: Carney gets Bill C-5 win but will Danielle Smith get schooled by the PM?
Article content Question for premier But a big question remains. Did Alberta Premier Danielle Smith get what she wanted? Did Alberta get what it wanted? Unlike Carney, both Smith and Alberta will have to wait for the big win, if there is one. Carney is asked the big question after his big win. Will the first projects to be fast-tracked be in the energy field? Will those projects be considered initially? The reporter mentions Premier Smith and pipelines. Smith wants a bitumen pipeline to the B.C. port of Prince Rupert. Smith backed Carney on Bill C-5. 'Well, that's a very good question,' says Carney. You know when someone says it's a very good question you might not get a very good answer. 'It depends. To be perfectly honest that's the only answer,' continues the prime minister. Carney says there are transmission line projects and there are a number of possible pipeline projects, gas pipelines or oil pipelines. Article content Article content But …. 'At the same time there are major projects that are very attractive. For example, a project in Quebec that's very attractive,' he says, in French. Sinking feeling Carney mentions a potential energy corridor at Grays Point in Nunavut. There is a potential project in Manitoba and Saskatchewan as far as Churchill. 'Those are projects that could lead to the development of other projects involving critical minerals.' If you're experiencing a sinking feeling it's not the pizza you ate last night. Carney says there are other projects not on the list put forward by the provinces 'in terms of AI infrastructure.' The prime minister talks about what a project has to have in order to be picked for the express lane of approval. 'It has to be in the national interest,' says Carney. 'There has to be some probability they can actually move forward. Article content 'We have to have the agreement of the Indigenous peoples.' Here is a line for you. 'They also have to be consistent with our climate goals in Canada.' When will the first so-called nation-building projects be picked? 'We'll see,' says Carney. Premier Smith has already said she wants Carney and the Liberals to be dealing with her demand to scrap nine anti-oil and gas and anti-development Liberal laws by the fall. You know, getting rid of the oil and gas emissions cap, the tanker ban, rewriting or scrapping the No More Pipelines law, tossing the net-zero power regulations, to name the ones that always come up. A few days ago, Smith backed Carney in the hopes of getting the pipeline built as a first step. Then with her pipeline on the prime minister's VIP list, the Very Important Project list, Carney could then take the hatchet to the bad for Alberta laws cooked up in the 10 years of Trudeau. Article content But, just saying, what happens if Carney doesn't come through with Smith's bitumen pipeline? What happens if Carney doesn't deal with most of Smith's demands? One of the premier's demands is for Carney to scrap the Liberal goal of having no new gas vehicles sold in 10 years. Carney is not changing course on that one. Meanwhile, the federal Conservatives also backed Carney. They also wanted the nasty Liberal laws holding up development to be scrapped. They campaigned on it in the last election campaign. They voted with Carney on Bill C-5 since something was better than nothing. They didn't want to be seen as standing in the way of something moving forward. When the vote was over Carney went over and shook some Conservative hands. It is easy to shake hands when you won the game. Devin Dreeshen, Smith's point man on transportation and economic corridors who is hoping real hard for that bitumen pipeline, weighs in on a worst-case scenario. 'If the kind words from the Carney government ring hollow because there are no projects in Alberta being fast-tracked we are right back to Square 1 where we have a federal government that says it is Team Canada but is doing everything to not help Team Canada win.' Latest National Stories
