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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...

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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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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 measured fiscal capacity and inflates its equalization payments by billions Meanwhile, Duncombe omits that Quebec deliberately suppresses other resource development (oil/gas exploration limits, etc.), further reducing its own-source revenues—yet provinces like Alberta get full clawbacks for actually developing theirs. Quebec polls show that they are open to both resource development and pipelines Conveniently omitting that crucial detail from the national broadcast is once again giving Alberta separatists ammunition. They can rightly argue that the full story isn't being told Trevor Tombe Danielle Smith The Fraser Institute

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37,426 views • 6 months ago

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599,077 views • 9 months ago

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 • 7 months ago

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This reaction in Canada has mostly to do with the constant barbs that Trump is throwing at Trudeau, who's still in power for another 22 days. There's a very negative relationship there and it's just gotten worse because Trudeau has been putting out posts stirring up anti-Trump sentiment. And so Trump keeps going with, let's buy it as the 51st state. That has made Canadians crazy. The truth is that that is not being discussed at all. That's not part of the actual narrative that's occurring in Washington, D.C.. Premiers in Canada are down with their teams trying to focus on a new deal, if you want to call it NAFTA III. There is a slight chance this whole thing gets punted until April 2nd after the report comes out on the impact of tariffs on Canada and Mexico. But this nationalism in Canada is the noise. It's not the signal.

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395,684 views • 1 year ago

CBC English has been playing down Carney's major historical gaffe in his Quebec City speech. CBC's Cullen "Doesn't help that Mark Carney clearly upset a lot of people in Quebec when he gave that speech intended to be about national unity to many people's ears, mischaracterized the nature of the battle of the Plains of Abraham." "Some people may think, why are we looking back to our history books?" "But that sense that he perhaps fundamentally misunderstood something that is so important to a lot of Quebecers sense of their relationship with Canada." Mark Carney
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CBC English has been playing down Carney's major historical gaffe in his Quebec City speech. CBC's Cullen "Doesn't help that Mark Carney clearly upset a lot of people in Quebec when he gave that speech intended to be about national unity to many people's ears, mischaracterized the nature of the battle of the Plains of Abraham." "Some people may think, why are we looking back to our history books?" "But that sense that he perhaps fundamentally misunderstood something that is so important to a lot of Quebecers sense of their relationship with Canada." Mark Carney

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16,721 views • 7 months ago