Last week I had the opportunity to attend the annual business conference of the Canadian Energy Executive Association at the Banff Springs Hotel. One would expect that it would be a gathering of well-heeled stuffed-suits. There certainly was some of that but my bigger takeaway from the day was that of a gathering of industry leaders who had taken a strong dose of humility and acceptance that the old way of doing things simply wasn't going to come back again. It wasn't some form of [Read more]
Column: The petrochemical industry needs to stand up for itself
As with most stable-minded Canadians, I was horrified but not terribly surprised when Justin Trudeau announced that he planned to raise the economically crushing carbon tax to an insane $170 per tonne. Trudeau is a trust fund baby who is ideologically driven. He has no concept or ability to understand economics and in being dependent upon the socialist NDP in order to maintain his grasp on power, it wasn't shocking to see him propose a massive tax increase. I deluded myself though into [Read more]
Column: Death by Regulation
The writing is on the wall and the numbers are distressing to say the least. Foreign investment is fleeing from Canada and we are becoming an international investment pariah. Sadly, this trend should not surprise anybody as our national regulatory environment for large projects in the energy industry went from onerous to outright obscene. The Trudeau government is obsessed with adding unreasonable requirements for new business ventures and they have pushed things to the tipping point. Private [Read more]
Column: Trudeau may want to gender neutralize his own back yard.
Most of us have already heard clips of Prime Minister Trudeau chiding a woman asking a question at a town hall meeting last week and asking her to use the term “peoplekind” rather than the terribly offensive and non-inclusive term “mankind." If you haven’t heard it yet, the short video clip below covers it. It is not terribly surprising to see Trudeau awkwardly trying to pander to extreme feminists who feel that every possible word that is traditionally gender associated is inherently [Read more]
Column: Rachel Notley has no business trying to alienate the Donald
Its hardly a newsflash that Premier Rachel Notley does not think highly of President Donald Trump. Trump is a wealthy, bombastic capitalist who represents everything that the soft-socialist New Democratic Party of Alberta opposes. It would be shocking to hear that Notley admired Trump in any way as a matter of fact. All that said, it was outright reckless for Premier Notley to use President Trump negatively as a prop in order to attack Jason Kenney in a CTV interview with Evan Solomon last [Read more]