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The survey, conducted by Nanos Research for CTV News and The Globe and Mail, found more than two-thirds of people in the Prairies support putting tariffs on oil, natural gas and electricity.

“Well, I think it’s a garbage poll,” Smith said at an unrelated press conference on Tuesday.

“What if we were to ask Albertans or Canadians this: ‘Would you support export tariffs if it meant the U.S. would retaliate by shutting off Line 5 and leaving Ontario and Quebec without gasoline or aviation fuel at all?’ I think you’d get a different answer.”

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 hours ago

Maybe Alberta needs to hold a referendum on whether Danielle should be stripped of her citizenship and deported into the ocean.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 22 hours ago

Go cry to Trump again.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 day ago

I've worked with people like this who dismiss data like this and fuck them, they'll reject anything that doesn't fit their narrative then blame you for it.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago

And now a referendum to remove a garbage politician.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 day ago

I think she's confused the poll with her reflection in the mirror...

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

“What if we were to ask Albertans or Canadians this: ‘Would you support export tariffs if it meant the U.S. would retaliate by shutting off Line 5 and leaving Ontario and Quebec without gasoline or aviation fuel at all?’ I think you’d get a different answer.”

Isn't a relatively small percentage of gasoline consumption imported from the US?

And perhaps people would say to build the missing capacity domestically so we can't be extorted this way.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Enbridge Line 5 is a mess.

Despite Canada’s status as one of the world’s largest oil and gas producers, more than half of the country’s own population does not have true energy security – uninterrupted, reliable access to the energy they need at an affordable price.

Even though Western Canada produces much of the oil consumed in Ontario and Quebec, in order to get there, it moves on pipelines that run through the United States.

“It’s only energy secure if the Americans are our partners and friends,” leading energy researcher Jackie Forrest said on a recent episode of the ARC Energy Ideas podcast.

Amid rising trade tensions with the United States, energy security is taking on greater importance. But Forrest said the issue is not well understood across Canada.

“The concern is that in the worst-case scenario where the Americans want to really hurt our country, they have the ability to stop all crude oil flows to Ontario,” she said.

That action would also cut off the majority of oil supply to Quebec.

(It's a good article to read even though it's owned/operated by the Alberta gov't.)

https://www.canadianenergycentre.ca/big-vulnerability-how-ontario-and-quebec-became-reliant-on-u-s-oil-and-gas/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

Guys, how did you make it worse than Russia?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Start the gretna-sarnia oil convoy! If only we had a rail system!

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

dani smith is a traitorous cunt!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I agree but I still don't trust polls. Any polls. Even the non-garbage ones.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, polls are untrustworthy at best, outright manipulative at worst. It's not like they ask every person in the population. How questions are worded matters nearly as much as who's answering. And, like any kind of statistical data, the answers to a poll can be twisted to say almost anything.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It's okay to just say you don't understand how statistics works.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 50 minutes ago

Absolutely. Much like Cardinal Richelieu said, anything can be twisted to your desires, but assuming the only accurate polling is complete polling is incorrect and infeasible if not impossible.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

Garbage traitor human.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

Okay, then we shut off the power and all the oil going down there if they retaliate that way. Danielle, put your elbows up, mkay? It'll be so much more comfortable than putting them on the ground so you can lick their boots.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Absolute garbage dumpster of a human being

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Albertan here. Fuck yeah I support them.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Then it should be right up your alley, no?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I support a small object entering her at fast speeds.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

Ok for one thing. I'm not fast.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I despise this bitch, but the last part is not an idle threat. It's a very real possibility and it's why no matter how this plays out in the near term, we need to get mixed pipelines directly to the eastern provinces.