NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair says the plug should be pulled on the Northern Gateway pipeline that will carry oilsands bitumen to tankers on the West Coast.
We think Canadians should do the same to Mulcair’s chances of ever becoming prime minister.
Mulcair made the comment in Vancouver, after a scathing U.S. National Transportation Safety Board report on a pipeline spill in Michigan in 2010.
It said Enbridge, which wants to build the controversial Northern Gateway, acted like “the Keystone Kops.”
The report “should put the final nail in the coffin,” of the B.C. pipeline,” Mulcair said. “There are some issues involving the environment, but the most important one is those supertankers with the raw bitumen in them off your pristine coast with extremely fragile ecosystems,” he told the crowd in trendy Kitsilano. “And I can’t see how anyone can be in favour of that.”
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Mr Mulcair would be more credible by stating that east coast, offshore oil production should be shut down, tankers evicted from the east coast and Saint Lawrence/Great Lakes waterways and all central/eastern Canadian pipelines reviewed with as much vigour as he wishes west coast ones.
He should also be advocating for Quebec’s power sales to the US to be fully included into “income” to more fairly reflect what Quebec “earns” vs the pot full of money extracted by force from ROC taxpayers to “bail out” Quebec’s public expenditures.
Enough BS from this man and his “political shakedown” artists.
well said JT!
All the opposition politicos want to “develop the oil sands in a sustainable way” but nobody wants to SELL the product – like get it to market – pipelines are bad, ships are bad, rail is bad, trucks are bad, any transport is bad. So their solution is to build a refinery – WHERE – and for HOW MUCH? And then what – TRANSPORTATION?
All the opposition politicos want to “develop the oil sands in a sustainable way”
Sounds like they’re apparatchiks for the UN’s Agenda 21.
And yet Mulcair is completely silent on the biggest environmental disaster in Canada in his own province…..the James Bay Project. An disaster of biblical proportions in terms of the environment.
Mr Mulcair is also silent on Charest’s recent $50 million taxpayer’s “aid” to the asbestos industry in his home province, another environmental boondoggle that he can’t blame on Alberta’s oil sands industry. Some “environmentalist” Mr Mulcair.
I also don’t see a lot of electric cars driving around in such an environmentally conscious ELECTRIFIER province, who seem perfectly willing to meddle into provincial affairs outside of their own jurisdiction, while screwing the source province for their electrical wealth – Newfoundland and Labrador on royalties.
Mr Mulcair is speaking as a Quebec politician in my POV, 50% of his voting base is located there, so he isn’t speaking to most Canadians outside of Quebec. They have 22 seats outside of Ontario and Quebec, so like the Liberals before them, they are the Quebec/Ontario Party – or “Qu-Ons” or KLINGONS if you will. If I offended someone from there who votes anything other than Liberal/NDP, well it’s up to you to get rid of these carpetbaggers next election, because they’ll tax the crap outta you and destroy what’s left of your manufacturing/energy base. I escaped 35 years ago.
So, it seems that only conservative run provinces are to blame for economic stagnation in Liberal/NDP run provinces, according to Mr Mulcair. Those same provinces can then carry out any environmental degradation they feel like without a peep from Mulcair, leader of the opposition NDP, Mr Nanny State himself. He certainly isn’t speaking for ALL Canadians whenever he opens his mouth.
Looking to blame others for his own province’s and it seems Ontario’s failed economic policies and big government spending, as well as environmental issues. Both provinces are deep in debt on purpose, from where I sit and both aiming to suck federally redistributed tax dollars from people who don’t even get to vote in those provinces on those same economic policies. How venal can these provincial governments get, with Mr Mulcair’s support?
Who’s pulling Mr Mulcair’s string on Gateway and the oil sands industry? Rockafeller Foundation, Tides Canada, the UN? Who is funding Mr Mulcair’s NDP Party, because I’ll bet Mulcair’s salary as leader of the opposition NDP that it isn’t grass roots Canadians, other than some Big Labour organizations filching union member’s dues to do so. He certainly isn’t BFF with the International Brotherhood of Electrical workers, pipefitters, welders, machinists, surveyors, Teamsters located in the western part of Canada.
So, who’s funding him and his Party?
UAW–CAW–PSAC are the ones funding this party. Outside of Canada–Soros.