Only a Conservative Victory Would End Liberal Oil and Gas Sector Assault and Help Diversify Away From the US

A minority Liberal victory in our upcoming federal election has the potential to take anti-Ottawa sentiment on the prairies to a whole new level. That’s because a Carney government can be expected to frustrate the legitimate aspirations of millions of Western Canadians. It’s what Liberals do.

Obviously, one of the most pressing economic concerns of the oil producing provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan is the collection of Liberal policies which are restricting growth in Canada’s non-renewable resource sector. Liberal anti-oil and anti-pipeline measures have hamstrung the capacity of the producing provinces to increase the revenue generating capacity of the oil and gas sector. They have restricted the ability of prairie people to benefit from the ingenuity, sweat and capital they have invested in their resources industries. The right to those benefits was supposedly guaranteed under the Canadian constitution.

It is far from clear that a Carney government would get behind developing increased export capacity for oil and gas. Previous statements Carney has made in support of new pipelines were clearly disingenuous. He supported a revival of Energy East when speaking in Kelowna. He went so far as to suggest the emergency powers of the government could be used to get it built. But during the French leadership debate he said Quebec would be given the power to veto any such project. Carney’s handlers should tell him it is impossible for both statements to be true at the same time.

Furthermore, Carney has expressed no intention of dismantling the labyrinthine approval processes and the legalized disruption of construction which makes export pipelines impossible to build (at least without incurring jaw dropping cost overruns). If those policy measures remain in place any pipeline given some sort of special approval, could still remain vulnerable to legal challenges and retroactive cancellation and shut down.

Let’s say special emergency approval for a pipeline is granted but the Impact Assessment Act (Bill C-69) and other onerous environmental regulations are allowed to remain in place. Couldn’t construction still be delayed or the line re-routed whenever a bird nest, arrowhead or rare plant is found on the right-of-way? Will protesters who block construction be treated with kid gloves or more like horn-honking truckers? Those are the sorts of issues that contributed to the $34 billion in cost overruns that plagued construction of the TMX.

There are, no doubt, measures a federal government could take to minimize these sorts of threats. Nevertheless, many of us expect a Carney government would not be prepared to provide truly bullet proof guarantees to new pipeline projects. The Liberals and their core supporters are too deeply invested in climate alarmist ideology to allow for the unfettered completion of pipelines or continued growth in oil and gas production.

The Liberals have already shown us who they are. They were very reluctant to enforce the law against environmental protesters during the period leading up to the cancellation of the Northern Gateway and the Keystone XL. In fact they awarded federal grants to activist organizations that helped organize protests and anti-pipeline court challenges.

Retroactive cancellation of previously approved oil production projects is a tactic recently embraced by environmental groups like Greenpeace in the UK. The Liberals’ allies in the environmental movement can be expected to apply a similar approach to new and pre-existing pipelines in Canada. The activists will no doubt be able to rely on grants from the Liberal government to fund their efforts.

There are approximately 75,000 people directly employed in extracting and transporting gas and oil on the prairies and about twice that number whose jobs rely indirectly on the sector. Several hundreds of thousands more understand how the ripple effects of the changing fortunes of the resource sector affect their province’s economies. For the past nine years those people’s interests and complaints have been ignored, frustrated and attacked by the Liberals and their allies in the environmental movement.

If the past is prologue, it is a safe bet the prairie West will be ignored and abused again should the Liberals pull off a minority election win. Their backers in the Bloc and NDP will insist on it. However, rejecting the reasonable aspirations of a large minority or majority of the citizens in the two major oil producing provinces is guaranteed to produce a precipitous decline in national harmony.

It is true there are large numbers of low information voters and woke supporters of environmental extremism in some of the big cities in the West. They are likely to elect a Liberal or two to the next parliament. But they do not represent the views of the people who create most of the wealth in the West—the people who risk their own capital and help build a more vibrant economy, as well as most of the people whose jobs involve sweating. Annoying these people, in order to garner support among the environmentally sanctimonious in Montreal and Toronto, will not make for a stronger, more united Canada.

Similarly, there are tens of thousands of farm operators who are vehemently opposed to Liberal backed measures that will limit their use of fertilizer and penalize them for owning cattle. Saskatchewan’s potash miners won’t take kindly to the imposition of export taxes on their products to save jobs in Ontario and Quebec. These are all capable people—and they don’t take being pushed around lightly.

Central Canadian fantasies about placing export taxes on Western oil shipped to the US, have already angered people in the producing provinces. Anti-Ottawa feelings on the prairies would surpass the boiling point if a Carney government actually attempted to do it.

An all too common response of federal Liberals and the talking heads in the mainstream media to spikes in Western alienation is to smugly claim, “They’ll get over it.” Don’t count on it.

Following a Liberal election win, expect court challenges over the abrogation provincial rights under the constitution and outright defiance of federal policies detrimental to Alberta and Saskatchewan. The federal government may face the prospect of having to arrest popular politicians for refusing to comply with unfair federal policies.

Cabinet Ministers in Saskatchewan have already said they would risk imprisonment for refusing to charge the carbon tax on natural gas used for home heating. The Saskatchewan government has also refused to comply with Liberal regulations requiring coal-fired power plants to be shut down by 2035. They have indicated the province can simply not afford to transition to renewables or nuclear within such a tight time frame.

Carney has had nothing to say about rescinding inane one-size-fits-all federal environmental regulations. Included in the class of mindless federal policies are plans to force people from the colder parts of the prairies to purchase electric cars and heat pumps even though they don’t function properly here in winter. We can expect many prairie people to resist the compulsory transition to EVs. And, as is the case with Liberal gun control laws, governments on the prairies are likely to ensure federal rules are lightly enforced.

More significantly, Carney would be confronted by a campaign to make significant changes to Canadian federalism that will provide greater autonomy to the prairies provinces. An additional bottom line demand will be the creation of constitutionally guaranteed energy corridors, allowing for the construction and protection of pipelines from the prairies to Canada’s coasts.

We are at a critical inflection point in our history that could influence the economic fortunes of Alberta and Saskatchewan for the rest of this century. There is a good chance that during the last half of this century renewable energy will be displacing non-renewable energy at a rate that reduces global demand for oil and gas. If this turns out to be the case, failing to get new pipelines built in the next decade will virtually guarantee a significant portion of Canada’s proven oil reserves will remain forever stranded. Hundreds of billions in potential revenues could been lost. That is, by the way, one of the goals shared by Mark Carney and the alarmist factions of the environmental movement.

Barring substantive reforms to federalism, including meaningful concessions to the producing provinces, the prospects for national harmony and less fractious federal-provincial relations are bleak. A Conservative majority victory in the upcoming federal election is clearly more likely to result in fair treatment for Alberta and Saskatchewan than a win for the Carney Liberals. Mark Carney doesn’t appear to realize heightened levels of alienation in the producing provinces have the potential to raise discontent to levels not seen since the days of the National Energy Program.

The next election could well be our last chance to ensure the producing provinces are permitted to maximize their constitutionally guaranteed capacity to generate non-renewable resource revenues.

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Published on October 1, 2025

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The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is calling on the government of Alberta to completely scrap its provincial industrial carbon tax.

“It’s baffling that Alberta is still clinging to its industrial carbon tax even though Saskatchewan has declared itself to be a carbon tax-free zone,” said Kris Sims, CTF Alberta Director. “Prime Minister Mark Carney is cooking up his new industrial carbon tax in Ottawa and Alberta needs to fight that head on.

“Alberta having its own industrial carbon tax invites Carney to barge through our door with his punishing industrial carbon tax.”

On Sept. 16, the Alberta government announced some changes to Alberta’s industrial carbon tax, but the tax remains in effect.

On Friday night at the Global Progress Action Summitt held in London, England, Carney praised carbon taxes while speaking onstage with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

“The direct carbon tax which had become a divisive issue, it was a textbook good policy, but a divisive issue,” Carney said.

During the federal election, Carney promised to remove the more visible consumer carbon tax and change it into a bigger hidden industrial carbon tax. He also announced plans to create “border adjustment mechanisms” on imports from countries that do not have national carbon taxes, also known as carbon tax tariffs.

“Carney’s ‘textbook good policy’ comments about carbon taxes shows his government is still cooking up a new industrial carbon tax and it’s also planning on imposing carbon tax tariffs,” Sims said. “Alberta should stand with Saskatchewan and obliterate all carbon taxes in our province, otherwise we are opening the door for Ottawa to keep kicking us.”

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Mark Carney’s “Worst of All Possible Worlds”

Published on July 20, 2025

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Matthew Ehret

Originally published on Pluralia

Is it possible that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has selected the worst of all possible pathways in his tight-rope balancing effort to resolve severe tensions with the USA on the one hand, while simultaneously increasing trade/security relations between Canada and the EU?

The incredible untapped resource potential of Canada, fused with a vast northern territories, undeveloped lands, and low population levels makes Canada a living embodiment of potential and value for the entire world.

If a spirit of genuine multipolarity, cooperation, and future-oriented thinking were alive among policy making circles of Ottawa, then there is no doubt that Canada could offer much to the world both in terms of resources, energy, and ingenuity. The vast Arctic, which Canada shares with partners like the USA, several European states, the Russian Federation (and near Arctic partners like China), provides an opportunity for dialogue, scientific cooperation, and economic development, the likes of which humanity has never seen.

Sadly, a different spirit is currently shaping Canadian policy, which lacks that positive vision.

Carney’s Canada–EU Integration Gambit

On June 23^rd of this year, Mark Carney signed the Canada European Strategic Partnership for the Future on the basis of increasing trade and security relations with the European Union.

Despite proposing to increase Canada–EU trade and Canada energy/mineral exports to the EU, the program is entirely driven by a military agenda, which sadly threatens the lives of all Europeans and Canadians alike. The “Strategic Partnership” moves in tandem with another pact enmeshing Canada into the $800 billion Re-Arm Europe plan and additionally ties Canada into the Security Action for Europe (SAFE) program. The ironically-named “SAFE” program serves as a sort of “World Bank,” specifically designed for building up the military defense capabilities of participating nations.

Capitalized with $235 billion, this fund allows the European Union to take loans out at preferential rates and then extend those loans to all European (and soon possibly Canadian) members who may then invest in military industrial capabilities while simultaneously evading the 3% of GDP debt ceiling imposed on all EU nations.

With Trump’s recent appeal to EU states to increase their NATO spending to a dizzying 5% GDP, it appears that both SAFE and Canada’s participation in the EU War gambit are two vital parts of solving this bewildering challenge.

The new Canada–EU Strategic Partnership promises to “boost cooperation on maritime security, cyber security, and other threats to peace, expand Maritime security cooperation and coordination activities, increase defense industrial cooperation” and will “increase ties between Canada and The European Defense Agency.”

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After many decades of slow de-industrialization, Europe now finds itself trapped within a paradigm that demands military confrontation with Russia, on the one hand (requiring a robust industrial powerhouse that hasn’t existed in generations), while simultaneously holding firm to the decarbonization program outlined by Agenda 2030, Paris Accords, and EU–Canada Green Alliance.

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While satisfying both dynamics may be impossible (as decarbonization, carbon prices, and windmills have not been known to enhance industrial growth), the ivory-tower technocrats surrounding the likes of Mark Carney and Mario Draghi appear to believe that this circle can be squared… and hence Canada’s participation in the new plan is vital.

In tandem with Canada’s partnership with the EU, on June 26, 2025 Canada’s Governor General gave “Royal Assent” to the passage of one of the most comprehensive omnibus bills in history called the “One Canada Economy Act” (Bill C5).

This bill sets the stage for the repeal of decades of environmental legislation and the end of all trade barriers, which have held back inter-provincial cooperation for generations. An Ottawa press release stated: “The government of Canada is fulfilling its promise to build one Canadian economy out of thirteen” (referencing the 13 provinces and territories making up Canada).

Despite a backlash of First Nations leaders who have recognized that a cancellation of centuries of treaties is taking place amidst a dictatorial gambit to override their voice in any economic or military plans for Canada, it appears the reset in governance is going forward in full steam.

If this bill had been advanced as a genuine endeavor to create for the first time in history a unified Canada capable of executing top-down mega-projects devoid of red tape (not dissimilar from China’s capacity to wield the forces of the nation state in the building of the Belt and Road Initiative), it would appear that Bill C5 were a truly positive blessing. After all, Canada has never been permitted to have free trade among the provinces since its earliest days and has thus been kept artificially underdeveloped and divided within itself, so an end to this unfortunate fate would be most welcomed.

However, when we are reminded that a logic of Orwellian geopolitics is shaping the new emerging iron walls and AI-driven-space-based warfare is now threatening world peace, then a more dystopic reality presents itself.

Not Just Canada: Three of Five Eyes Go for a Eurotrip

However, it is not only Canada that is being drawn into this new dystopic vision of an Eastasia, Eurasia, Oceania division of the globe, but other British Commonwealth nations have also been brought onboard with simultaneous Strategic Partnerships with the EU, beginning with the UK–EU Strategic Partnership, first announced in April 2025, and followed weeks after by an Australian–EU Strategic Partnership, which reads like a replica of the Canada–EU pact.

In all three Commonwealth/Five Eyes pacts with the EU, we find a special focus on intelligence sharing, minerals exports, cybersecurity, countering disinformation, and military industrial/national cooperation enhancement.

But does Canada’s re-alignment with the EU indicate that Ottawa’s relations with Washington are truly as dismal as some have been led to believe, or is there evidence of another game afoot?

The Golden Dome

Beyond the threats of tariffs, the shattering of rules-based order, and US ambition to acquire Canada as a 51^st state, another more insidious war plan has emerged in the form of a $540-billion continental defensive shield, first announced as an Israeli-modelled “Iron Dome” for North America by Trump in January of 2025.

Rebranded “The Golden Dome” after its first two weeks of dismal publicity, both Mark Carney and leading strata of Canada’s defense establishment have shown themselves to be remarkably in favor of the integrated “defensive” security shield, which calls for surrounding North America with medium- and long-range ballistic missiles, space-based weapons, and integrated AI command systems.

This shouldn’t be entirely surprising, since it was only in April 2024 that then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (advised by Mark Carney and Chrystia Freeland) approved a Canadian Arctic Defense strategy upgrade permitting for the first time in history long-range missiles installed in Canada’s high Arctic.

The Golden Dome appears to simply be the next logical step.

Instead of showcasing his typical nationalist bravado in opposition US jingoism, which served him well in winning the latest Canadian elections, Carney has shown himself to be in favor of Canada’s participation in the Golden Dome, which will cost Canadian tax-payers approximately $100 billion, according to current estimates.

After meeting with President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on May 21, Carney stated: “We are conscious that we have an ability, if we so choose, to complete the Golden Dome with investments in partnership. And it’s something that we are looking at, and something that has been discussed at a very high level.”

Carney ended by stating: “Is it a good idea for Canada? Yes, it is good to have protections in place for Canadians.”

On June 10, CBC (the official state broadcasting service of Canada) featured a report outlining ongoing secret meetings being held between Ottawa and Washington policy makers to craft a final agreement on the Golden Dome says the draft agreement now under negotiation states “that Canada is willing to participate in the Golden Dome security program, originally proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump… It also mentions Canadian commitments to build more infrastructure in the Arctic, Canada’s pledge to meet its NATO defense spending targets, as well as previously announced border security investments.”

It is clear that a vast re-alignment of global relations is now underway, and it also appears that a consensus has been reached to adapt to a multipolar model… at least for a limited time. However, the word “multipolar” does not mean the same thing to everyone.

While a multipolar model premised on inter-civilizational cooperation and respect for the UN Charter would be a blessing for all nations, it appears increasingly likely that the pilots at the helm of the trans-Atlantic ship have read their George Orwell and prefer to live according to the rules of the jungle instead of embracing a more civilized identity at this stage of history.

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