"We're making unprecedented investments in nation building projects." The nation we're building:

👇 I can't believe so many people are *praising* Carney for this.

Carney just signed a deal with Alberta that lays out conditions for a new oil pipeline. In doing this, he managed to piss off one of his own cabinet ministers (who promptly resigned), coastal First Nations, the B.C. government, the Green Party and the Bloc Québécois. But uh, here's what he got:

Prime Minister Mark Carney and Premier Danielle Smith have signed an agreement to advance Alberta’s pipeline dreams — and weaken some pollution laws. Here’s what you need to know: thenarwhal.ca/carney-alber...

Ditto for reconciliation.

I'm not joking at all. He's absolutely Harper 2.0.

Reading the MOU as a whole, there's an impression of policy in a time warp. Environmental commitments are fuzzy and down the road; Indigenous engagement amounts to financial inducements to go along with the state. It's as if nothing has been learned the last 15 years. www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/back...

The mental gymnastics about how Carney is actually playing 4D chess and brilliantly fooled Albertans and will maybe even win more seats in Alberta and Indigenous people and progressives will forget when there's no actual pipeline and he's not at all in it for the corporations.

liberal talking heads proving they have absolutely no convictions other than power and consulting contracts with how quickly they turned around on oil pipelines and climate policy

This afternoon, I informed the Prime Minister of my decision to resign as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister of Nature and Parks Canada, as well as his Lieutenant in Quebec. You can find my full statement below.

All that has to happen is people who held their noses and voted LPC out of fear of PP go back to voting NDP in BC and BQ in QC and he's toast. Carney just made that significantly more likely to happen.

Partisan politics melts partisan brains. For example, folks become totally ok with *their* guy being disengenuous or throwing Indigenous people under the bus.

All the 4D chess folks doing their mental gymnastics to rationalize Carney's latest move. It's getting rather embarrassing.

I don't know who needs to hear this but making deals with Alberta and the oilpatch doesn't fucking work Just ask the last person who tried.

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Lol. K.

Trudeau-era environment minister Steven Guilbeault has published a resignation letter detailing the reasons for his departure from Carney's cabinet. He directly cites today's MOU:

Or PP, unfortunately. Quebec voters will go back to the Bloc. BC voters will go NDP or CPC. Progressives across the country will not fall for the "lesser evil" pitch next time. Seems more plausible than ever that Carney won't last 2 years and the Liberal party will go down with him.

Won't be the last if Liberal MPs (especially in BC and QC) want any chance of being reelected.

I'm not interested in "I told you so." A lot of people voted Liberal because they were terrified of Poilievre and his gang. I get that. But Carney's who we got, he's being a weak leader, pushing policies that are harming the vast majority of us and it's time to just admit he sucks and push back.

On a day where Carney is set to announce an MOU for a new oil pipeline, it's all the more important this country has a serious reckoning with the choices being made and how the world is changing. It's reckless, short sighted and completely ignorant to the shifting geopolitics we depend on.

The Pathways project is a major part of the new pipeline deal between Carney and Smith, appearing 17 times in the memo's text. But much like the pipeline itself, First Nations in its path don't want the megaproject.

"Carney doesn't actually want a pipeline. He's just playing Smith." By pissing off progressive voters, jeopardizing Liberal MPs in BC and Québec, dumping the issue on Indigenous communities, and probably having such a ploy backfire in Alberta. Brilliant!

Runctitional is my new favourite cromulent word.

Carney to reporters: there won’t be a pipeline without a private investor. Carney to the chamber of commerce: here are all the ways we’re bending over backwards to attract a private investor:

Notable that Carney gets nothing in return: this will hurt the liberals in BC, they won't make any gains in Alberta, Smith won't stop and of her bullshit, and it will likely tear apart the Liberal caucus. The only reasonable conclusion is that Carney is a climate change denialist and a fool.

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If Carney is relying on First Nations to stop a pipeline he doesn't actually want so he can manipulate Alberta, that is *even worse* than him just being a banker working for extractive industry shareholders.

1/ Mark Carney has betrayed all of us by making a pipeline pact with Danielle Smith. A real nation-building project would expand the renewable energy of the future while creating thousands of jobs - powerlines not pipelines.

There will always -- *always* -- be people saying not to worry.

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Btw, if you're a Carney loyalist who has rationalized everything he's done and told the rest of us to keep quiet, you own what's happening now and what will happen in the next election.

Mark Carney is looking for short-term solutions to long-term problems (US instability, climate change, the digital revolution). That's why he's raiding the policy cabinet for every half-baked idea he can find. The biggest of these are tripling down on resource extraction, followed by AI FOMO.

Eye on the ball folks! It seems the pipeline piece may well be a distraction. While a pipeline remains very unlikely, the practical impact of this deal are all the immediate concessions to oil & gas industry & the federal abandonment of core climate policies. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/n...

As the federal gov inconceivably lifts regulations on oil and gas and lays the groundwork for a new pipeline, a reminder that our recent research found "Canada's" O&G industry's recent expansion increased payouts to foreign shareholders without adding any new jobs www.taxfairness.ca/en/resources...

Genuinely feels like there's been a coup within the Liberal party thanks to Carney and his bros. Not to say Trudeau's Liberals were much better (they bought a pipeline!) but Carney is a full-blown red tory and I'm shocked more Liberals aren't outraged their party has been usurped like this.

"Nation building" "Canada strong" "Elbows up"

British Columbia’s finance minister may be set to delay a proposal that would slash the assessed value of pipelines, giving pipeline companies a massive tax break at the expense of rural property owners. @tyolsen.bsky.social reports. #bcpoli

Carney caved on virtually all of Smith's demands. Updates to come.

The Liberal party was historically unpopular only a few months before the last election. If you think the reason is that they weren't appeasing the US enough, or were too feminist, or cared too much about climate, or weren't sufficiently militaristic, well, good luck with the next election.

You'll note that there is zero talk of nationizing fossil fuel revenues for actual nation-building that benefits citizens (a la Norway), it's just corporate profit.

US-Owned Oil Sands Giants Send Profits Out of 🇨🇦 Despite Public Support for Resource Sovereignty "Lead members of the Pathways Alliance—Canadian Natural Resources, Cenovus, Imperial Oil & Suncor—are behaving like a Trojan horse for Trump’s anti-climate politics" www.theenergymix.com/u-s-owned-oi...

1. This federal-Alberta pipeline MOU is even worse than I expected. Even before we get to the pipeline: - exempts AB from net zero electricity reg (AB produces 44% of all electricity-related GHGs in Canada). - delays methane reg by 5 years (75% redn by 2035 rather than 2030. (cont'd)

This is craven and beyond contempt. There's no justification. Carney is using the perceived threats from the US to justify slashing commitments, checks, and balances as they pertain to environment, labour, and basically everything else. This is a corporate power grab and an attack on everyone.

Carney fans will, of course, rationalize this. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

Told you.

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