Bell: Albertans waiting — is Carney going to screw us over this week?
The question. A simple question. Easy to answer if you're not playing games.
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Easy to answer if your words have any meaning.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney will roll out his plans for the country Tuesday. King Charles III will read the script.
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Ottawa insiders expect it to be mostly high-minded words.
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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she will be listening.
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She told me right after Tim Hodgson, Carney's energy czar and self-styled prairie boy, spoke to business types in Calgary last Friday and said he was on their side and he would be their voice and he would be Alberta's voice.
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Hodgson didn't take any questions from the press. After all, if you get questions you have to provide answers and if the answers are the usual B.S. you will be called out.
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Anyway, Smith did not see clear evidence of a change of heart.
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Smith has heard plenty of words from Liberals. She has heard the talking out of both sides of the mouth, the message tailored to the audience at the time, the sweet nothings.
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She wants to hear commitments. Something solid. Something real and spelled out in black and white.
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Something you can show people with money who want to invest in Alberta. Something they can bank on.
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She wants Carney to blow away the Trudeau Liberal laws and regulations and policies holding back higher oil and gas production and wants action within weeks, within a few months.
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The No More Pipelines law. The emissions cap on oil and gas. The net-zero electricity regulations. The tanker ban off the west coast of B.C.
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Gone.
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