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CBC's Lyndsay Duncombe did a piece on equalization for the National, interviewing Trevor Tombe and Tegan Hill of the Fraser Institute, but pretended the math and formula is complicated and hard to understand. It isn't that difficult. Quebec keeps domestic hydro rates artificially low through Hydro-Québec, which slashes its...

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Watch Stephane Dion rail against Alberta and Danielle Smith over separation—with all the spittle and head-jiggling theatrics—yet when asked about his own Quebec, it’s suddenly just “foolish” This wasn’t an interview. It was a hellfire-and-damnation sermon against a Premier and a province for doing exactly what Quebec and its separatists have done for decades Rosie doesn’t even try to point out—or question—Dion’s avalanche of opprobrium aimed at Alberta but never at Quebec separatists. Worse, she actually encourages it The irony never ends: Alberta has sent hundreds of billions in equalization payments to Quebec, yet Dion warns Albertans they’d be forced to “share the dividends of their natural resources with 240 million Americans” if they left. This interview is a perfect example of everything wrong with CBC’s coverage of Alberta separatism. Stéphane Dion Rosemary Barton Danielle Smith
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⚜️🖕🇨🇦 : I am so fed up with Quebec demanding they get special treatment in Canada, at the expense of everyone else. Are you just as fed up? The Bloc Québécois demand that Quebec tax dollars to only be invested in Quebec. The Bloc Québécois says they must protect key sectors of the Quebec economy & the French language. At the same time Quebec takes in huge sums of taxes from the rest of Canada through a rigged equalization formula that gives Quebec over $13 billion every year in “equalization”. This despite Quebec having a comparable economic strength to British Columbia, which is forced to pay into equalization. Quebec gets to hide their #1 source of natural revenue (Hydro) from the equalization formula, making them poor on paper only. Quebec also gets extra Canadian taxpayer cash for… 💰Immigration 💰Heritage 💰Culture 💰Languages 💰French only government jobs 💰Corporate bailouts 💰SNC Lavalin contracts across 🇨🇦 Meanwhile Quebec demands the rest of Canada shift away from oil & gas to Quebec approve clean energy. This directly hurts Alberta and the rest of Canada that relies on equalization payments, to keep their Provinces from becoming super poor. This also stifled foreign investment because it adds an extra layer of uncertainty to any major oil & gas project. Yet Quebec is quite happy to allow foreign oil to pour into the Canadian economy. Time to treat Quebec like everyone else. There is nothing special about a Province that leeches off the poor, while claiming they're a Nation in waiting.
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⚜️🖕🇨🇦 : I am so fed up with Quebec demanding they get special treatment in Canada, at the expense of everyone else. Are you just as fed up? The Bloc Québécois demand that Quebec tax dollars to only be invested in Quebec. The Bloc Québécois says they must protect key sectors of the Quebec economy & the French language. At the same time Quebec takes in huge sums of taxes from the rest of Canada through a rigged equalization formula that gives Quebec over $13 billion every year in “equalization”. This despite Quebec having a comparable economic strength to British Columbia, which is forced to pay into equalization. Quebec gets to hide their #1 source of natural revenue (Hydro) from the equalization formula, making them poor on paper only. Quebec also gets extra Canadian taxpayer cash for… 💰Immigration 💰Heritage 💰Culture 💰Languages 💰French only government jobs 💰Corporate bailouts 💰SNC Lavalin contracts across 🇨🇦 Meanwhile Quebec demands the rest of Canada shift away from oil & gas to Quebec approve clean energy. This directly hurts Alberta and the rest of Canada that relies on equalization payments, to keep their Provinces from becoming super poor. This also stifled foreign investment because it adds an extra layer of uncertainty to any major oil & gas project. Yet Quebec is quite happy to allow foreign oil to pour into the Canadian economy. Time to treat Quebec like everyone else. There is nothing special about a Province that leeches off the poor, while claiming they're a Nation in waiting.

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From the Next Town Hall in Fort McMurray in August Trevor Tombe on equalization ""Just just to illustrate magnitudes here, if Quebec's power prices were 2 cents a kilowatt higher, and they would still maintain the lowest power prices $0.02 a kilowatt higher, and we didn't fix the size of the equalization program as we do now, then Quebec's equalization payment would fall by about $4.2 billion this year."" Trevor Tombe Danielle Smith

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229,517 views • 7 months ago

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CBC's Janyce McGregor admits that Alberta is using the Quebec playbook to seek similar provincial control over immigration "Yeah, it seems like that could be what they're angling for here, using tactics similar to what we've seen used in Quebec," But can anyone ever recall McGregor flipping out like this over Quebec? Do you ever see her rail about federal government overspending? PMO talking points is all Janyce has got Sounds also like Janyce could use a refresher in Equalization Janyce McGregor Danielle Smith

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Can someone translate for Quebeckers? "And Alberta, year after year has 20 to 25 billion dollars that is siphoned out of our system to go to Ottawa so that it can be spent mostly in Quebec, but also in other places that vote Liberal." "$600 billion in the last 40 or 50 years that have been taken out of this province." "You don't think we might be able to do a little bit more on social spending if those 20 to 25 billion dollars stayed here?" Danielle Smith Rebecca Schulz Trevor Tombe
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Can someone translate for Quebeckers? "And Alberta, year after year has 20 to 25 billion dollars that is siphoned out of our system to go to Ottawa so that it can be spent mostly in Quebec, but also in other places that vote Liberal." "$600 billion in the last 40 or 50 years that have been taken out of this province." "You don't think we might be able to do a little bit more on social spending if those 20 to 25 billion dollars stayed here?" Danielle Smith Rebecca Schulz Trevor Tombe

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252,967 views • 11 months ago

Wow! Important watch. Trevor Tombe talks equalization payments at the Next Town Hall in Fort McMurray last night "Just just to illustrate magnitudes here, if Quebec's power prices were 2 cents a kilowatt higher, and they would still maintain the lowest power prices $0.02 a kilowatt higher, and we didn't fix the size of the equalization program as we do now, then Quebec's equalization payment would fall by about $4.2 billion this year." "And so there are important ways in which how we design the details of the program can have big implications for the allocation of financial resources across the countries." Trevor Tombe
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Wow! Important watch. Trevor Tombe talks equalization payments at the Next Town Hall in Fort McMurray last night "Just just to illustrate magnitudes here, if Quebec's power prices were 2 cents a kilowatt higher, and they would still maintain the lowest power prices $0.02 a kilowatt higher, and we didn't fix the size of the equalization program as we do now, then Quebec's equalization payment would fall by about $4.2 billion this year." "And so there are important ways in which how we design the details of the program can have big implications for the allocation of financial resources across the countries." Trevor Tombe

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61,716 views • 11 months ago

James Moore calls it like it is "Albertans on a per capita basis have given more to confederation than any group of Canadians in this country by far." "And they've done it for a couple, two, three generations." "And they have a federal government right now whose time is ticking that has actively campaigned against their province, against their core industry, that is 1/3 of Canada's exports to the United States." "They've blocked pipelines." "They've put in place regulations that are designed to be poison pills to stop the export of Alberta oil to global markets so they can get world prices so that we can bring that money back to Canada and create Canadian jobs and pay Canadian taxes to build Canadian hospitals, schools and Canadian roads." "Albertans want to do their part for Canada, and they have for a long time." "Canada should do its part for Alberta and the west as well."💥 James Moore Danielle Smith
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James Moore calls it like it is "Albertans on a per capita basis have given more to confederation than any group of Canadians in this country by far." "And they've done it for a couple, two, three generations." "And they have a federal government right now whose time is ticking that has actively campaigned against their province, against their core industry, that is 1/3 of Canada's exports to the United States." "They've blocked pipelines." "They've put in place regulations that are designed to be poison pills to stop the export of Alberta oil to global markets so they can get world prices so that we can bring that money back to Canada and create Canadian jobs and pay Canadian taxes to build Canadian hospitals, schools and Canadian roads." "Albertans want to do their part for Canada, and they have for a long time." "Canada should do its part for Alberta and the west as well."💥 James Moore Danielle Smith

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Poilievre "You know, here we go again. Liberals are in power. And just as night follows day, separatist movements are in resurgence back in Quebec and here in Alberta." "...For the last 10 years, Ottawa has told our young people that our history is filled with shame and horror, that we are a post national country with no core identity and that our youth will never own homes." "Our message to those youth and to all of the people in Alberta and Quebec who are losing hope in our country, you will again have a country that respects your autonomy, is proud of your industries, unites us around our common identity and history" "A country that will afford you the hopeful future that you have earned." "There has never been a referendum crisis or a national unity crisis when Conservatives have been in power." Pierre Poilievre
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Poilievre "You know, here we go again. Liberals are in power. And just as night follows day, separatist movements are in resurgence back in Quebec and here in Alberta." "...For the last 10 years, Ottawa has told our young people that our history is filled with shame and horror, that we are a post national country with no core identity and that our youth will never own homes." "Our message to those youth and to all of the people in Alberta and Quebec who are losing hope in our country, you will again have a country that respects your autonomy, is proud of your industries, unites us around our common identity and history" "A country that will afford you the hopeful future that you have earned." "There has never been a referendum crisis or a national unity crisis when Conservatives have been in power." Pierre Poilievre

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119,502 views • 6 months ago

Privacy lawyer David Fraser on the new Alberta drivers licences "And if that person is inclined to, let's say, discriminate against somebody who is not born in Canada or who is not a Canadian citizen, you're giving them that information and that ability to do so." "So I think probably opens up the door, at the very least to accusations of discrimination, but probably opens the door to actual discrimination." David T.S. Fraser Danielle Smith
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Privacy lawyer David Fraser on the new Alberta drivers licences "And if that person is inclined to, let's say, discriminate against somebody who is not born in Canada or who is not a Canadian citizen, you're giving them that information and that ability to do so." "So I think probably opens up the door, at the very least to accusations of discrimination, but probably opens the door to actual discrimination." David T.S. Fraser Danielle Smith

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61,212 views • 10 months ago

Raphael Melancon on CBC today: Quebec should threaten to cut off 'massive' hydro exports to the Northeast US as leverage against Trump Anchor Andrew Nichol: crickets — no pushback, no numbers, just elbows Here's the reality check, Raphael: Quebec's hydro exports to the entire US have been shrinking hard — down to ~13 TWh in 2023 from 25+ TWh earlier, and even lower recently due to low reservoirs. For New England, Quebec power was ~5% of net electricity use in 2024. For New York, Canadian imports (mostly Quebec) fell to ~3% or less lately, with periods of net exports the other way. Not "massive." Supplemental. Variable. And the new fancy lines (NECEC, CHPE) are still ramping up amid droughts and domestic Quebec demand Threatening to flip the switch would: 🔥Torch billions in Quebec revenue and contracts 🔥Hurt friendly state bridges (Vermont, Maine, NY, Mass.) that buy clean power 🔥Hand Trump a propaganda win ("Canada is cutting power to Americans!") 👩‍🦯Ignore that Trump love escalation, and Quebec's grid isn't an infinite battery This isn't bold strategy. It's the energy version of "let's burn our own leverage because it sounds so tough on teevee" Canada has real cards (critical minerals, auto integration, defense spending, etc.). Suggesting we sabotage a mutually beneficial clean energy relationship while reservoirs are low is peak unserious punditry CBC: next time, maybe ask the guest for actual data instead of letting it slide Brodie Fenlon 𝐑𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐞̈𝐥 𝐌𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜̧𝐨𝐧 🤦‍♂️
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Raphael Melancon on CBC today: Quebec should threaten to cut off 'massive' hydro exports to the Northeast US as leverage against Trump Anchor Andrew Nichol: crickets — no pushback, no numbers, just elbows Here's the reality check, Raphael: Quebec's hydro exports to the entire US have been shrinking hard — down to ~13 TWh in 2023 from 25+ TWh earlier, and even lower recently due to low reservoirs. For New England, Quebec power was ~5% of net electricity use in 2024. For New York, Canadian imports (mostly Quebec) fell to ~3% or less lately, with periods of net exports the other way. Not "massive." Supplemental. Variable. And the new fancy lines (NECEC, CHPE) are still ramping up amid droughts and domestic Quebec demand Threatening to flip the switch would: 🔥Torch billions in Quebec revenue and contracts 🔥Hurt friendly state bridges (Vermont, Maine, NY, Mass.) that buy clean power 🔥Hand Trump a propaganda win ("Canada is cutting power to Americans!") 👩‍🦯Ignore that Trump love escalation, and Quebec's grid isn't an infinite battery This isn't bold strategy. It's the energy version of "let's burn our own leverage because it sounds so tough on teevee" Canada has real cards (critical minerals, auto integration, defense spending, etc.). Suggesting we sabotage a mutually beneficial clean energy relationship while reservoirs are low is peak unserious punditry CBC: next time, maybe ask the guest for actual data instead of letting it slide Brodie Fenlon 𝐑𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐞̈𝐥 𝐌𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜̧𝐨𝐧 🤦‍♂️

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Pollster Janet Brown "You know, you talk to people outside of Alberta and they're shocked to know that oil and gas is the single biggest industry in the country." "They're surprised to find out how much more Alberta contributes in transfer payments than they receive back in government services." "I think here in Alberta, we're very well versed on the economics of oil and gas and Alberta's economic position in the rest of Canada, but we don't feel that the rest of Canada understands that." Janet Brown
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Pollster Janet Brown "You know, you talk to people outside of Alberta and they're shocked to know that oil and gas is the single biggest industry in the country." "They're surprised to find out how much more Alberta contributes in transfer payments than they receive back in government services." "I think here in Alberta, we're very well versed on the economics of oil and gas and Alberta's economic position in the rest of Canada, but we don't feel that the rest of Canada understands that." Janet Brown

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62,433 views • 1 year ago

Carney - Smith MOU gets signed "But back to the tanker ban, which I think is the interesting thing here, that a lot of people will say that is the thing that I know that Danielle Smith, the Premier of Alberta has said is key, that is the last step in all of this in the Memorandum of Understanding, it's very clear that everything else has to happen and then the tanker ban is considered and a strategic deep water port and that is where that pipeline would go" "And they said that there's no specific date, but 2029, if everything goes to plan, is the year that we could see shovels in the ground for a pipeline." Danielle Smith Mark Carney
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Carney - Smith MOU gets signed "But back to the tanker ban, which I think is the interesting thing here, that a lot of people will say that is the thing that I know that Danielle Smith, the Premier of Alberta has said is key, that is the last step in all of this in the Memorandum of Understanding, it's very clear that everything else has to happen and then the tanker ban is considered and a strategic deep water port and that is where that pipeline would go" "And they said that there's no specific date, but 2029, if everything goes to plan, is the year that we could see shovels in the ground for a pipeline." Danielle Smith Mark Carney

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39,924 views • 8 months ago

Somebody might want to tell CBC that the anti-oil pipeline Pembina Institute is not the same as Pembina Resources... that is in for 10% of the new Alberta pipeline to the BC coast 🤣 "Pembina Institute, a private company, is partnering with the Alberta government and the federally owned Trans Mountain Corporation for construction of the pipeline, a move experts say helps with the enormous price tag, estimated to be up to $43.7 billion." Also Heather Exner-Pirot "But this will obviously take a consortium that will involve Alberta and federal governments as well." CBC News Brodie Fenlon
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Somebody might want to tell CBC that the anti-oil pipeline Pembina Institute is not the same as Pembina Resources... that is in for 10% of the new Alberta pipeline to the BC coast 🤣 "Pembina Institute, a private company, is partnering with the Alberta government and the federally owned Trans Mountain Corporation for construction of the pipeline, a move experts say helps with the enormous price tag, estimated to be up to $43.7 billion." Also Heather Exner-Pirot "But this will obviously take a consortium that will involve Alberta and federal governments as well." CBC News Brodie Fenlon

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55,208 views • 27 days ago

Let’s get one thing straight: Alberta does not “fund B.C.” — and B.C. isn’t some poor, helpless province clinging to Alberta’s wallet. They’ve got a booming economy, fat revenue streams, and oh yeah… a massive pipeline that everyone is lining up to applaud. Good for them. Seriously. Build it. Grow your economy. That’s what every province should be allowed to do. But here’s the part that magically gets ignored: If B.C. can build a pipeline and cash in, why does Alberta instantly get cast as the national villain for wanting to do the exact same thing? Why is resource development “visionary” for one province but “evil” when Alberta touches it? This isn’t about handouts. It’s not about who “deserves” more. It’s about the basic concept of fairness — you know, that thing Ottawa loves to preach but rarely practices. Alberta is done being told to sit quietly in the corner while other provinces run the same playbook and get showered with praise. If fairness actually means something in this country, it can’t magically stop at the B.C. border. Alberta has every right to build, grow, and protect its economy. And Alberta is CLEARLY done apologizing for it.
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Let’s get one thing straight: Alberta does not “fund B.C.” — and B.C. isn’t some poor, helpless province clinging to Alberta’s wallet. They’ve got a booming economy, fat revenue streams, and oh yeah… a massive pipeline that everyone is lining up to applaud. Good for them. Seriously. Build it. Grow your economy. That’s what every province should be allowed to do. But here’s the part that magically gets ignored: If B.C. can build a pipeline and cash in, why does Alberta instantly get cast as the national villain for wanting to do the exact same thing? Why is resource development “visionary” for one province but “evil” when Alberta touches it? This isn’t about handouts. It’s not about who “deserves” more. It’s about the basic concept of fairness — you know, that thing Ottawa loves to preach but rarely practices. Alberta is done being told to sit quietly in the corner while other provinces run the same playbook and get showered with praise. If fairness actually means something in this country, it can’t magically stop at the B.C. border. Alberta has every right to build, grow, and protect its economy. And Alberta is CLEARLY done apologizing for it.

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