Now the hapless Liberals are going to repeal parts of the Citizenship act which revoke Canadian citizenship for people convicted of terrorism, treason or espionage. To call this outrage folly would be to underestimate its gravity.
"A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian," said our toddler PM, demonstrating once again the breathtaking shallowness of his grasp of the law. Oh yeah, I forgot, he studied drama in college, not political science or law.
How can this person be governing Canada?! Now the Saudis, who control the supply and price of oil, are telling us we might as well quit producing in the oil sands because they are going to neither lower supply, nor raise prices, something which must happen if Canada is to be able to extract oil in the expensive way we must.
It's all so scary. If you really want to get depressed, read Jeffrey Simpson in The Globe and Mail today. I have been saying for years that you can't get pipelines past the natives and environmentalists, but he further amplifies the issue. "Why bother spending heaps of time and money on the review or regulatory process when governments aren't going to pay any attention, but rather make decision based on politics," he writes.
He's absolutely right. Those who oppose pipelines oppose them regardless of any regulatory process which might give them a legitimate green light. And anything they don't like, they go to court to fight, dragging everything out until we're all burning the furniture to keep warm.
"It is the triumph of politics and political pressure over evidence-based reviews denounced before they begin and excoriated when they finish. If and when decisions are ever made (about Canadian resource extraction) opponents can always contest them in the courts."
So, if you were having a bad, it just got worse.
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