Promises and Deception: Carney sticks it to Alberta

I asked perplexity.ai to produce a list of promises made to Alberta by Prime Minister Mark Carney over the last year. Here's what it came up with:

November 2025 MOU: Federal Commitments to Alberta

The federal government committed to the following in the MOU signed November 27, 2025:

Energy & Pipeline

• Declare a new Alberta bitumen pipeline to Asian markets a project of national interest and refer it to the Major Projects Office under the Building Canada Act
• Provide a clear and efficient approval process for the pipeline, targeting a single, streamlined review
• Commit to enabling bitumen export from a strategic deep-water port to Asian markets, including adjusting the Oil Tanker Moratorium Act if necessary
• Recognize the new pipeline as additional capacity on top of an expanded Trans Mountain (an extra 300,000–400,000 barrels/day)

Emissions & Climate Regulations

• Not implement the Oil and Gas Emissions Cap that the previous federal government proposed
• Suspend the Clean Electricity Regulations (CER) in Alberta immediately, pending a new carbon pricing agreement

  Acknowledge Alberta's TIER carbon pricing system as the valid framework for heavy emitters in the province

Carbon Pricing & Methane

• Work with Alberta to negotiate a new industrial carbon pricing agreement (TIER system, targeting $130/tonne minimum effective credit price) by April 1, 2026
• Enter into a methane equivalency agreement with a 75% reduction target (relative to 2014 levels) by 2035, to be signed by April 1, 2026

Carbon Capture (Pathways Plus)

• Work with Alberta and Pathways companies to sign a trilateral MOU on Pathways Plus — the world's largest planned CCUS project — by April 1, 2026
• Extend federal Investment Tax Credits (ITCs) and other policy supports for large-scale CCUS investments, including Pathways and enhanced oil recovery

Nuclear & Electricity

• Collaborate with Alberta to develop nuclear power generation capable of serving Alberta and interconnected markets by 2050
• Support development of large transmission interties with BC and Saskatchewan to build a low-carbon western power grid

Regulatory Streamlining

• Negotiate a cooperation agreement on impact assessments by April 1, 2026, establishing a single review process to eliminate duplication
• Work to achieve a maximum 2-year permitting and approval timeframe for major projects
• Propose amendments to the Competition Act to remove "greenwashing" provisions creating investment uncertainty

Indigenous & Economic Partnerships

• Use the Canada Indigenous Loan Guarantee Corporation to backstop Indigenous co-ownership of the bitumen pipeline and Pathways project
• Conduct good-faith consultations with Alberta on any federal regulatory measures affecting Alberta industry

March 2026: Regulatory Approvals Agreement

• Ottawa and Alberta signed a deal giving Alberta control over regulatory approvals for major projects within provincial jurisdiction
• For projects requiring both federal and provincial review, regulators agreed to produce a single, unified decision to reduce redundancy
• The federal government agreed to integrate Alberta's processes into federal reviews where relevant for federally-related projects

May 15, 2026 Energy Agreement (Calgary Signing Ceremony)

• This agreement formalized and expanded on the November 2025 MOU:
• Confirmed a path toward new pipeline construction beginning as soon as 2027, carrying more than 1 million barrels/day to the Pacific
• Agreed to a revised industrial carbon price trajectory: $130/tonne by 2040, a lower rate of increase than the national schedule of $170/tonne
• Both governments reaffirmed a mutual commitment to net-zero emissions by 2050
• Provided a formal framework for the Pathways Plus carbon capture project to proceed as a linked precondition with the pipeline

Notice that the essence of these agreements is simply this: the carbon taxes are real, the bowing to WOKE nonsense and indigenous lawyers is real, but the pipelines and the regulatory approvals they depend on are not.

Carney at el are going to propose, collaborate, work toward, and affirm - but not necessarily do anything they didn't have to do anyway - like acknowledge that Alberta has regulatory responsibility for Alberta projects.

Bottom line: Carney and his echo chamber suffer serious TDS and when their vote to have Canada join the EU (!) is rejected by something like 90% or more of people in Alberta and Saskatchewan, it won't matter because most Canadians live in Ontario and Quebec - where they believe Alberta is some alien work camp on other planet that just sends them buckets of cash - you know, because they so obviously deserve it.

Canada, as a country, as an ideal, is worth defending but the idiots in Ottawa are not - they drip insincerity, condescension, arrogance, and, above all, an overwhelming naivette about their own beliefs and roles in the world.

I believe that the Alberta government may be about to announce that they will profer the Lukaszuk "Forever Canadian" Referendum: "Do you agree that Alberta should remain in Canada?" for a fall vote. If so: (a) it's stupid; and (b) we should all vote No!

It is stupid because there is a much better option - along the lines of: should the Alberta government prepare a detailed plan for withdrawal from the Canadian federation to be voted on if the federal government does not honor these five major commitments (list them) by (pick a date)?

And, we should all just say No! because breaking through Ottawa's smug stupidity requires that we get their attention first.