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Cancelling the Keystone XL permit was a repeated Biden campaign promise. At the time I'm sure it looked like a good idea. Hindsight is 20:20.
It was something he needed to do politically but it was never a good idea. I understand people want to get us off of fossil fuels but the fact is that we still need them so its not a good idea to limit our access to it.
It was something he needed to do politically but it was never a good idea. I understand people want to get us off of fossil fuels but the fact is that we still need them so its not a good idea to limit our access to it.
So now the call is not for American oil companies to provide us with oil -- but to import from Canada because we think Canada will be a cheaper way of doing it?
Okay, I gotta admit that Roboteer's answer made me laugh, once I saw the typo (which I fixed). Thanks!
A premier is the equivalent of a Prime Minister, except at the Canadian provincial level. There would be nothing wrong with calling Mr. Kenney Alberta's Prime Minister, or Mr. Trudeau Canada's Premier, but it's just traditional, in Canadian political circles, to refer to the head of government of a province as a Premier, and the head of the federal government as Prime Minister.
The provinces each have a Parliament, just like in Ottawa, except they don't have Senates. But they work the same way as the House of Commons: the leader of the party with the most seats in the Legislature (the provincial equivalent of the House of Commons) is asked to form the Government, and thus become the premier. And business goes on--bills are introduced, debated, and eventually passed into law, or not. Confidence votes can occur. It's a smaller form of a Westminster parliament, and the premier is the province's head of government.
But I'm unsure if if I'd agree that a Canadian premier has more power than an American state governor. Of course, like any member of the legislature, the premier can introduce bills, and participate in debates. Beyond that, he or she can set policy, and select members of the cabinet who can be counted on to support that policy. But the premier cannot sign bills into law, or issue executive orders or the like, as I understand American state governors can do. That's the job of the provincial Lieutenant-Governor, the Queen's representative in the province. Who is always neutral, not selected for political reasons, and whose role is largely constitutionally-circumscribed, and mostly ceremonial.
Kenney presumes the pipleline operators would have prevailed in the many lawsuits that had halted construction by the time Biden cancelled it. That seems unlikely given the labyrinthian US appeals system and the snail's pace at which it moves.
So now the call is not for American oil companies to provide us with oil -- but to import from Canada because we think Canada will be a cheaper way of doing it?
If we are going to import from somewhere, I say better Canada than Russia.
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