‘We don’t want to hear what people are against,’ Carney tells Vancouver audience after pipeline criticism
https://nationalpost.com/news/we-dont-want-to-hear-what-people-are-against-carney-tells-vancouver-audience-after-pipeline-criticism
‘We don’t want to hear what people are against,’ Carney tells Vancouver audience after pipeline criticism
https://nationalpost.com/news/we-dont-want-to-hear-what-people-are-against-carney-tells-vancouver-audience-after-pipeline-criticism
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>“What we’re trying to accomplish, and I think we’re really getting momentum now across the country, is we don’t want to hear what people are against, we want to hear what they’re for,”
I get what he is saying in that tell me what you want is more useful than tell me what you don’t want. That said, it is usually because it is not always clear what you do want. I think Carney is well aware of what people who are against the pipeline want, so this seems like a pretty cruddy response to the criticism.
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I want a Canada where premiers who collude with foreign actors to undermine Canada are punished with the full weight of the law. I want a Canada that is focused on clean energy production, environmental stewardship and one which protects whats left of our old growth forests. I want a Canada that sees the economic and environmental value to keeping our west coast shores clean and functional. I want a federal government that builds the infrastructure to provide clean and safe drinking water for all of our first nations.
If Carney and Hodgson hadn’t started out being so dismissive and high-handed and informing us what they and AB had agreed — without notice, let alone our consent — they’d be doing to BC, maybe the initial reaction wouldn’t have been focused on “what people are against.” This statement of his suggests to me that he’s still not really understanding the issues at hand, because he’s a wealthy and powerful person who generally is treated as “the smartest guy in the room” and therefore isn’t really used to hearing any criticism or the word “no.”
BC is against waivers for the tanker ban, for at-risk species protections, and other environmental protections. Or, if it makes Carney feel better, we are *for* keeping all current environmental protections in place.
He said the quiet part out loud. He should be open the hearing everything. Statements like this just sow divison.
I’m against driving animals to extinction to make a buck. I’m against pumping the economy of one region at the expense of another.
There’s innumerable ways for us to make money, grow our economy, and avoid destroying the ecology of our country.
I’m sick and tired of this false choice that we can apparently only be a successful, sovereign nation if we build this one particular project when at the same time we are provably building so many resource projects.
I get the impression Carney wants to hear what people who have enough wealth are for and doesn’t care about what anyone else thinks either way.
Garbage headline, the rest of the quote is missing which completely changes the meaning. The internet really does suck most of the time.
Ok Mark, let me give this a try. I am FOR nation building projects that align with encouraging a significant shift towards green energy.
I am FOR infrastructure projects which will enrich the lives of ordinary Canadians, and not American disaster capitalists and their bought and paid for Canadian politicians (*coughs in Toronto Island Airport).
Sounds fairly dismissive of BC’s rights. Be a shame if they held a referendum on separation as a result to block Alberta’s crybaby antics.
We are FOR the Green Projects you promised would happen alongside Fossil Fuel development. But so far, fossil fuel projects are the only ones being advanced.
We are FOR politicians following through on their promises.
Maybe give us the Green Projects you promised?
What Eby should have done is present BC’s own list of items he would bring to a referendum sometime next year. Doesn’t have to be about separation but our own referendum on immigration, wealth transfer and whatever else BC wants because apparently threats are the only thing that gets Ottawa’s attention.