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@CBCAlerts This Alert is incorrect. It isn't about dropping investigations, it was about securing a Deferred Prosecution Agreement. It doesn't cancel prosecution, it defers it if the company agrees to terms (fines, compliance, etc.).
@CBCAlerts The CBC's "Alert" is also illogical. For either prosecution or the successful negotiation of a DPA to take place, the Crown has to have a lot of evidence already in hand. The "investigations" have already taken place.
@CBCAlerts In fact, one of the requirements for the negotiation of a DPA is that there has to be a reasonable expectation of conviction should prosecution be pursued.
The CBC is now producing unreliable news at taxpayers' expense. Tonight's The National features a man from Drayton Valley who claims that the federal government caused the downturn in the oil industry. No, it didn't. The US shale revolution did. #cdnpoli #abpoli @PresidentCBCRC
Now The National, in its "in-depth" coverage, lets the mayor of Drayton Valley get away with the statement that it's government policy that killed the town. "In-depth" apparently means recording everyone's uninformed sob-story.
Now Ian Hanomansing lets the next uninformed interviewee state that AB should stop transfer payments to Quebec. AB does not make transfer payments to QC. Furthermore, QC is taking a lot of AB oil via the Line 9b reversal.
Senator Batters, Elections Canada noticed when your party tried to cheat - well, did cheat - in the 2006 election. They noticed the whited-out and photocopied fake invoices used to solicit reimbursements from the taxpayer. All organized at campaign HQ. #cdnpoli #skpoli
Fortunately, too, CRTC noticed Senator Batters' party trying to use anonymous robocalls to intimidate the Saskatchewan Electoral Boundaries Commission with a view to trying to gerrymander for Conservative benefit. Fine, $78,000.
Oh, and BTW, the Harper Conservatives legislated against Elections Canada encouraging Canadians in Canada to vote, to exercise their franchise. They just don't want voters to vote. But they will tout their support of some kind of imaginary democracy where voting is discouraged.
As Mr. Wilson must know, oil prices began to fall precipitously in mid-2014. Job losses began to mount in early 2015 (before the ABNDP was in power). What did Stephen Harper and the Conservatives do for the next nine months? Nothing. /2 #cdnpoli #abpoli
2/ After the Liberals were elected, they delivered extended EI and job-training benefits to Alberta ***retroactive*** to January 1, 2015 - that is, for the nine months during which Stephen Harper and the Conservatives did absolutely nothing for AB. /3
3/ The federal Liberals also wrote a "fiscal stabilization" cheque to the AB government for $241M, despite the fact that Albertans enjoy the lowest provincial taxes in Canada and pay no PST. /4
Do I need the itemize the many ways in which AB’s oil industry has been propped up by federal Liberal governments since Leduc? Oh, here, let me describe a few. /2 #cdnpoli #abpoli
2/ In 2016 the Liberals offered retroactive extended benefits for EI and training back to January 1/15, or nine months before Mr. Harper left power after offering no help whatsoever. /3
/3 In the early 50s the then Liberal government got the only existing pipeline to tidewater going. That’s the current TM pipeline and it was a Crown corporation before being sold to the private sector. /4
OK, clearly we need a refresher course on what has been done for AB over the years. In the early 50s after the Leduc discovery, AB needed an outlet for its oil. The then Liberal government formed a Crown corporation and obtained approvals for the TM pipeline.../2
2/...still in use. The project, ready to go, was sold to the private sector. In the mid-70s, when Atlantic Richfield backed out of the Syncrude project, the PET government together with ON and AB joined together to replace the missing stake so that Syncrude could go ahead. /3
3/ Then, in the mid-90s when oil prices were too low for the oil sands to be viable, the Chrétien government provided accelerated capital cost allowances worth about $300M per YEAR to oil sands projects. These allowances were phased out by the Harper government 2010-4.
Mr. Poilievre, how can it have escaped your notice that there has been a structural change in the oil industry that began with the mid-2014 (pre-Trudeau) plummet in oil prices. The cause of that decline was a global and North American supply glut. /2 #cdnpoli
2/ That glut was caused by the oil industry. It developed the technologies needed to tap tight (shale) oil, thus giving the Americans their shale oil boom and declining interest in Canadian oil. Low prices were particularly challenging for oil sands producers' higher costs. /3
3/ Oil sands producers set about successfully reducing their costs via consolidation, job-cuts, automation, etc. We are unlikely to return to the good ol' streets-paved-with-gold oil days. Pipeline companies are somewhat less enthused than they once were. /4
Mr. Harper denied that a recession was happening in September, 2008. Mr. Flaherty ridiculed Mr. Dion for saying that he'd consult. In December, behind the Prorogue Wall, Mr. Flaherty consulted and decided that "go big" stimulus was needed. More in reply #cdnpoli
Conservatives regularly complain that the opposition parties forced the Conservatives to stimulate the economy. So, if they were lauded, it was for listening to the opposition parties or (as Mr. Flaherty told the Globe and Mail) for doing a one-eighty from their previous views.
And, Mr. Walsh, if you have any rebuttal numbers you are free to offer them. I use the ones from the federal annual reports.
