[Thanos]

Went for the Dippers again, because Fildebrant's Nazis didn't run a candidate here. They'll lose so my vote doesn't matter anyway. But at least I can say with some minimal pride that I didn't vote for the Utopian Corruption Party.

[llama66]

I'll not be voting for the Used Car Salesman.

[Thanos]

Oddly enough I'd believe that guy in the picture more than I ever would Jason Kenney. Extended warranty? I'll take it!

[Thanos]

UCP majority declared already, only 45 minutes or so into the counting.

[Strutz]

This should be interesting...

[Thanos]

Or catastrophic, depending on which way the wind blows.

[BRAH]

Yes My Master!

[martin14]

Smoking win.


Such fun to watch the CBC coverage for a few minutes, they are absolutely seething.

[llama66]

And what will change over the next 4 years? That's right, nothing. We'll continue to hitch our carts to an industry that is increasingly maligned, and we'll wonder why good days are not back. I look forward to the future confusion as why St. Kenney did not magically return us to "glory days". As Bill Watterson once said "it's hard to tell if we live in a tragedy or a comedy"

[Thanos]

Kind of looking forward to this though when Horgan, Weaver, Stewart and the rest of that Left Coast clique of hypocritical assholes take their next shot at us:



You wanted war you got one, bitches. Enjoy your soon-to-come $4.00 per litre gasoline.

[N_Fiddledog]

Here's another problem with "Democratic Socialism."

If you ever have actual Democracy and actual Socialism no population seems able to tolerate the combination beyond a single term.

[DrCaleb]

llama66 llama66:

And what will change over the next 4 years? That's right, nothing. We'll continue to hitch our carts to an industry that is increasingly maligned, and we'll wonder why good days are not back. I look forward to the future confusion as why St. Kenney did not magically return us to "glory days". As Bill Watterson once said "it's hard to tell if we live in a tragedy or a comedy"

[Freakinoldguy]

Thanos Thanos:

Kind of looking forward to this though when Horgan, Weaver, Stewart and the rest of that Left Coast clique of hypocritical assholes take their next shot at us:



You wanted war you got one, bitches. Enjoy your soon-to-come $4.00 per litre gasoline.

Maybe, maybe not.

This National Post article is interesting and goes to great lengths to explain why shutting off the oil won't hurt BC as badly as Albertan's think and might even end up hurting Alberta just as badly. But after all the "it won't hurt" crap the last paragraph is the real kicker because it explains that shutting off the flow of oil isn't necessary to hurt BC.

$1:

There might be another way
One way to hurt B.C. consumers without simultaneously shooting Alberta in the foot would be to stop shipping gasoline and diesel through Trans Mountain and use the pipeline exclusively to pump diluted bitumen. This would have the same effect on prices at B.C. gas stations, since it would effectively cut off the province’s supply of Albertan refined products. Diluted bitumen is purely an export product; the Burnaby Refinery can’t process it. Meanwhile, with thousands of barrels more diluted bitumen flowing out of Alberta, it would mean more profitability for the oil sector. Western Canadian Select, the primary variety of oil produced in Alberta, is sold at a significant discount for the simple reason that there are very few ways to get it to global consumers. Thus, the more diluted bitumen that can be pumped onto Port Metro Vancouver tankers bound for China, the more that discount slims. As one energy expert told the National Post, simply taking the refined products out of the Trans Mountain would be an anti-B.C. pressure tactic “that is premised on less malevolent grounds.”

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/co ... ff-the-oil

But a question. Since the Canadian Gov't owns the Trans Mountain Pipeline how does Jason Kenny propose to make a deal with Trudeau to shut it down? All the oil industry is privatized so to stop the oil flowing from Alberta Kenny would have to get the oil companies on board but, failing that Alberta can't just shut down a pipeline they don't own now can they?

Interesting times.

[DrCaleb]

I'm sad that the Alberta Party didn't pick up any seats at all, including Stephen Mandell. But I guess nice guys don't finish first in Politics.

Which makes me wonder why the Alberta Liberal party was completely dessimated, because Khan seemed like a fucking goof.

[BRAH]

llama66 llama66:

And what will change over the next 4 years? That's right, nothing. We'll continue to hitch our carts to an industry that is increasingly maligned, and we'll wonder why good days are not back. I look forward to the future confusion as why St. Kenney did not magically return us to "glory days". As Bill Watterson once said "it's hard to tell if we live in a tragedy or a comedy"

Over the next four years Canada will still buy Terror-Oil because the Oil Sands and Pipelines are Evil or something.