MAGA are conditioned to believe whatever Trump says because they care more about how it upsets leftists than they do about some incidental truth.

Is there any such thing as modern heavy oil refinery technology that would make a newly constructed refinery cheaper and more efficient than existing ones?

Alberta should build a refinery for heavy oil in Alberta.

You've correctly identified the problem. As long as voters continue to tolerate governments that mismanage healthcare, they will continue to suffer the consequences. It's true that the feds should hold provinces accountable, but things will only get better when the voters hold provinces accountable.

I know we've discussed this before, but I still believe that focusing on the feds is a distraction from the importance of holding each provincial government to account. Provinces have all the levers necessary to make their healthcare systems work, and yet they manage to avoid blame when they fail.

The only instrument the feds have is to withhold funding which, in the first instance, makes healthcare worse. The key issue remains accountability to their voters by the provincial governments that administer healthcare in each province. Why won't people hold provincial governments responsible?

Don’t count on it. Trump and Vance are just the facade. The people behind the curtain know what they’re doing.

Since posting this, I actually listened to Danielle Smith’s whole speech. It was thought provoking, and it gave me a clearer understanding of her and the UCP.

He says that Grand Bargain 2.0 provides a path to a project specific tanker route directly out to open waters where Alaskan tankers currently transit, not traversing either the Hecate Straight or the inside passage of BC's central coast.This is something I had not seen elsewhere and seems important.

If it was, it doesn't seem to be working, does it?

Sorry, let me explain. I felt that the thread, with it's focus on Alberta exceptionalism, promotes the kind of outrage that social media is designed to amplify. Alberta is no more exceptional than BC, Ontario, or Quebec. That shouldn't be the focus of what should be a much more nuanced discussion.

Perhaps worth reading, but “good” is an exaggeration.

Really? You don’t think he’s concerned about how Alberta is governed? Given the history, it makes good sense to build bridges to Alberta.

There's also the question of how Carney's initiatives play with Alberta's voters and how this affects their support of the UCP.

The UCP must ultimately answer to Alberta's voters. Carney is giving them enough rope to hang themselves, while making it harder for them to convince anyone that the feds are the problem.

Sorry, I missed that. I did open the link to read the article but failed to notice it was a reprint from the FP.

The MOU sets the stage for meaningful discussions and negotiations with the province that is central to Canada's energy and environmental future, and will lead to important discussions with industry of what really makes sense in a future that involves less demand for O&G and more for green energy.

This is a useful article, but I feel that it misses a crucial point when it says things like "... a carve-out based on politics rather than evidence is a shortsighted compromise." The point is that politics is important, and progress is not possible with the feds and Alberta at war. 1/2

The referenced article is in Yahoo Finance - not the Financial Post. Yahoo Finance is mostly straight reporting, although from a business perspective, whereas the Financial Post is more opinion.