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Premiers tell Trudeau they ‘want to go to war’ with U.S. over Keystone XL: sources
Global News ^

Posted on 01/22/2021 2:27:43 PM PST by TigerClaws

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced anger from some of Canada’s premiers Thursday over U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline project — including heated calls for punishment that could fracture ties between the two allies.

The First Ministers call, which lasted just over an hour, also touched on the coronavirus pandemic and issues with the nationwide vaccine rollout, sources told Global News. But Canada-U.S. relations in the wake of Biden’s controversial move dominated the discussion.

“Some premiers want to go to war” with the United States over the cancellation, aides of those who participated in the meeting said.

READ MORE: Keystone XL cancelling will stifle Canada’s oil industry for years: experts

The aides spoke on the condition of anonymity to frankly discuss a private discussion that they said “got pretty heated.”

During the discussion, aides said Ontario Premier Doug Ford cast his lot in with Alberta’s Jason Kenney and Saskatchewan’s Scott Moe, and warned the prime minister he should stand up to “a bully” like Biden on Keystone.

The characterization surprised some of the other premiers on the call, aides said, given the behaviour of Biden’s predecessor, Donald Trump.

Ford, along with premiers of other non-oil producing provinces, fear that if Biden can cancel Keystone XL, he’ll also bring in “Buy America” policies to help the American economy recover from the pandemic. A “Buy America” policy, which Biden has promised on the campaign trail, could freeze out Canadian steel, aluminum, and manufactured goods — something that would cause widespread harm to the Canadian economy.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bidenadm; canada; energy; keystone; keystonepipeline; pipeline; trudeau
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To: wildcard_redneck

BNSF took a big hit when Obama did his coal ban act. Yet not a peep from Buffett, and certainly no thanks to Trump when he lifted it.


101 posted on 01/22/2021 5:11:25 PM PST by rxh4n1
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To: DrPretorius

We have to at least attempt to put up a fight. Running into a hidey hole is exactly what the left wants.


102 posted on 01/22/2021 5:15:21 PM PST by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinion.)
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To: TigerClaws

“Warren Buffet apparently behind the cancelation of the pipeline.”

I’ve read that Buffett’s railroads will make extra money hauling Canadian oil in the absence of a pipeline. The notion that he cares that much strikes me as very far fetched. What Buffett is really worried about is self-driving cars eventually putting his GEICO cash cow out of business. Buffett is not a nickel and dime guy.

Biden’s decision to me is obviously just ordinary Democratic insanity; a pound of eco-flesh to please the crazy AOC/Sanders wing of the party. Now AOC can claim two great “successes”: driving Amazon out of Queens, and killing the Keystone Pipeline.


103 posted on 01/22/2021 5:17:34 PM PST by devere
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To: usconservative

“Canada lives under our umbrella of military protection.”

What you stated is a fact and many Canadians will admit to that as fact.


104 posted on 01/22/2021 5:22:45 PM PST by redfreedom (Member of Agent Orange Health Club Since 1969)
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To: Thunder90

OK, Great. Then fight like hell to get your state to secede from a tyrannical illegitimate criminal US junta that has abnegated its commitment to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights that will never have a legitimate election ever again making slaves of us all. How about that? Petitioning a criminally corrupt court system to redress a grievance is like farting in the wind.


105 posted on 01/22/2021 5:35:33 PM PST by DrPretorius
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To: BluH2o

Trump owned Trudeau.

Period.

He knocked his fake eyebrow out of place.


106 posted on 01/22/2021 5:37:36 PM PST by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: mass55th

Don’t blame you a bit


107 posted on 01/22/2021 5:48:24 PM PST by Osagegirl
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To: redfreedom

But what were they doing letting the Chinese come and do military exercises?

Isn’t Justin T the ‘love child’ of Castro? Or was that just an internet rumor?


108 posted on 01/22/2021 6:15:11 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: redfreedom

Except for the Canadian Coward that just threatened me via feeepmail, lol!!

I retract my statement that a well armed gang could take over Canada.

A girl scout troop could do it with nothing more than their cookies!!!


109 posted on 01/22/2021 6:27:00 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: rigelkentaurus

and more importantly America, her people & the middle-class


110 posted on 01/22/2021 6:31:49 PM PST by magna carta (TX all you have to do is send an email to principal with a witness included on the communication.)
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To: joshua c

Fair point.


111 posted on 01/22/2021 7:54:47 PM PST by null and void (Trump is just the appetizer, We the People are the main course.)
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To: wildcard_redneck

The environmental argument is ludicrous because shipping oil in a rail care by train is far more likely to cause spills and creates far more air pollution from diesel locomotives.


The environmental argument is that piping the oil is more efficient, and will make the oil more readily available for use and thus cause global warming when used.


112 posted on 01/22/2021 9:25:32 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: dfwgator

Finally “Canadian invasion” won’t just be a weather pattern.


113 posted on 01/22/2021 9:28:01 PM PST by Rebelbase (COVID misanthrope)
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To: Gen.Blather

They didn’t build it for the same reason nobody can drill an oil well in California.


With the added difficulty of pumping relatively thick oil up over the Rockies, but yes, mainly political.


114 posted on 01/22/2021 9:31:16 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: wildcard_redneck

Great incentive for the chicoms to offer to assist in building a pipeline from Alberta to Vancouver along with a terminal to transfer the oil to Shanghai bound tankers.


115 posted on 01/22/2021 9:31:40 PM PST by Rebelbase (COVID misanthrope)
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To: usconservative

Biden won’t enforce any “buy American” edicts, only a Patriot would do that.


116 posted on 01/22/2021 9:41:18 PM PST by Amberdawn (Want To Honor Our Troops? Then Be A Citizen Worth Fighting For.)
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To: usconservative

We used to visit Brandon, MB often and eat at the McDonald on the north edge. This was also a popular hangout for the Canadian military. There was just nothing impressive about them. Their uniforms, how they carried themselves, nothing.

During my active duty days I was around plenty of foreign soldiers. Many of them very impressive from the various standpoints. The Canadians just are not among the impressive ones.

There are supposedly several thousand Chinese troops up there. If that bunch decided to take the whole country over there is not a damn thing Canada could do about it. The truly sad part is with Biden in charge, the US would do nothing to stop it.


117 posted on 01/23/2021 4:19:52 AM PST by redfreedom (Member of Agent Orange Health Club Since 1969)
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To: TigerClaws

Hey Alberta, why don’t you become a state?


118 posted on 01/23/2021 4:52:28 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (I'll be good, I will, I will!)
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To: TigerClaws

I say, “Go for it, Canucks!”


119 posted on 01/23/2021 6:22:20 AM PST by KosmicKitty (Who stole my tagline? It was here yesterday.)
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To: JudyinCanada

All true, but at least Baby Trudeau lacks the viciousness of Joe Xiden’s handlers.


120 posted on 01/23/2021 6:22:47 AM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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