Roundup: Considerations for Teck

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We’ve been hearing a lot about the proposed Teck Frontier oilsands mine in northern Alberta lately, and demands by Jason Kenney and a number of Conservative MPs that its approval be fast-tracked as close to immediate as possible. Energy economist Andrew Leach has a few thoughts on the matter, particularly of how to reconcile Teck in the broader scope.

Good reads:

  • Access to Information documents show that the government is concerned that the bill to restore status to some First Nations women is overbroad.
  • It sounds like Harjit Sajjan is not keen to replace General Jonathan Vance as Chief of Defence Staff anytime soon.
  • The next round of Federal Court challenges against the Trans Mountain expansion are being heard over the next three days.
  • Not surprisingly, the Federal Privacy Commissioner finds political parties’ privacy policies to be lacking.
  • The Canadian Judicial Council is putting out new guidelines for former judges when it comes to what they do once they retire from the bench.
  • With Boris Johnson’s election in the UK and the near-certainty of Brexit going ahead, the question is now how a Canada-UK trade deal will go ahead.
  • The COP25 climate conference wrapped up in Madrid, with no agreements on carbon markets or Article 6 on emissions trading.
  • A jury in Montreal found a former SNC-Lavalin executive guilty of foreign bribery and corruption charges.
  • Candice Bergen and Michelle Rempel are not ruling out a run for the leadership.
  • Here’s a look at new Conservative MP Eric Melillo, who was elected at age 21.
  • François Legault says he won’t stick around for a third or fourth term. Duly noted.

Odds and ends:

My latest video for Loonie Politics explains why it’ll be difficult for the next Conservative leader to find a message that will speak to the various factions in the party.

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9 thoughts on “Roundup: Considerations for Teck”

  1. Difficult for the next Conservative leader to find a message to the various factions of the party? First the party has to find a cogent platform that a leader it designates can support. Then the trick is to convince Canadians that the new iteration of the “conservative party” will have policies that Canadians can rely on to take the Nation into the rest of the century. I say good luck with that. Looking at all the possible contenders, the exercise will be a continuing failure. There will be no new vision coming out of this party.

    • They want Rona to run so she can present as the pretty, “moderate” face of the underlying fascist rot in caucus, and so they can make bad-faith attacks on Trudeau of being a chauvinistic bully and a fake feminist. That, and/or force him to step aside to give Freeland a better chance, who they will then attack with their own sexist smears a la Hillary Clinton.

      If she doesn’t, I’m sure there’s a draft Jody team in the works — and I wouldn’t put it past her to jump in the race out of Scheer spite. Daddy promised her the top job, after all — and a bigger office.

      Literally their only “uniting” vision is virulent hatred of all things Liberal and in particular, Trudeau. Remember Obama/Clinton derangement syndrome? GOP north.

    • Ever heard of Lebensborn? Whether that or forced eugenics, it’s all about controlling women. The correct answer is *choice.*

      The state (and church) should have no business in the uteruses of the nation.

  4. Let’s see if I can make sense of your argument.

    It’s OK to call Conservatives “Nazis” because many are anti-abortion. Nazis were anti-abortion. Also, Nazis had programs to encourage Aryan births (Lebensborn).

    So, anyone that tries to influence “the uteruses of the nation” is a Nazi.

    Didn’t Justin just increase the Child Benefit program?

    • Right, because a social benefits program to help improve the quality of life for low-income families of ALL formulations and backgrounds is the same as exercising state ownership of women’s bodies and ***racial engineering*** by totalitarian fiat. Funny, I don’t seem to recall Justin imposing a blood-and-soil test requirement for the Canada Child Benefit.

      Real mystery here why “conservatives” don’t meet with much respect. /fp

  5. So, if I offered to ALL pregnant women in their last trimester a HUGE bonus for NOT having an abortion, you would not call me a Nazi, right?

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