Thread by @EmmaLGraney

Kenney responding to Throne Speech. He says the energy sector pulled Canada through the financial crisis and it was thanks to Alberta's "generous transfers" that the nation remained strong. "Yet Alberta was not recognized in yesterday's throne speech," he says #cdnpoli #ableg

"It's not just about oil and gas," Kenney says, but all natural resource sectors, adds "go back to the drawing board on Bill c-69" (he likes to call the "no more pipelines law".) Also slams environmental reviews of 3 mines in AB. B/g: theglobeandmail.com/business/artic… #ableg #cdnpoli

Kenney's message thus far, basically: Ottawa is the worst and they don't thank Alberta for anything we do EVER and they're trying to destroy us and drive investment to other countries. #ableg #cdnpoli

Kenney says the feds are doing all kinds of de-facto constitutional amendments right now. Says the throne speech was a "spectacular failure" and he'll be issuing a missive with other premiers tomorrow saying how lame it was. #ableg #cdnpoli

LOL this is a better way of phrasing that:

Kenney says Alberta doesn't need those bureaucrats thousands of kilometers away in Ottawa telling us what to do nosireebob thankyouverymuch #ableg #cdnpoli

In a throne speech that large, there were countless priorities but zero plans to bring back investment in the energy sector, Kenney says. That's in response to a Q mentioning chambers of commerce in AB were actually onboard with the speech #ableg #cdnpoli

Kenney: Alberta has done more than any other province for knocking down internal trade barriers (this has been a huge focus for successive AB governments, as well as the last couple of SK ones that I've covered as a journalist) #ableg #cdnpoli

Kenney: If you think the billion people in India who want to improve their living standards are gonna drive around Teslas you're living in a dream world. They wanna stop burning cow dung and have reliable energy #ableg #cdnpoli

That's why there will be continued oil and gas demand, Kenney says. But he also says the transportation sector is not the largest consumer of oil, which is wrong. This is from Statistica, for example #ableg #cdnpoli

And here's Canada's figures, which clearly have transport as the #1 use of oil. This is from Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) #ableg #cdnpoli

ANYHOO! Press conference is over, back to other stuff for me. #ableg #cdnpoli