“Let’s get that pipeline through eh?” one Stampede-goer said to Carney. “Thank you for doing this. We need someone like you to push this through.”
“You know where we stand out here right? We’ve got to have that pipeline. It’s good for the country,” said another man.
Carney said he’s optimistic the pipeline will get done and that polling across the country shows it has majority support.
“I’m feeling pretty good about it now,” Carney said.
He was scheduled to return to the Stampede on Sunday morning.
Earlier Saturday, Carney reposted his sweeping 17-minute video argument for working across provincial boundaries and ditching his predecessor’s climate plan. He unveiled the video on social media June 30.
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The video opens with Carney saying Canada is facing a threefold energy crisis with high prices, global instability and a rapidly changing climate.
The solution, he says, demands collaboration across the country and reducing barriers for development, including oil and gas.
“Addressing energy security means we’re going to produce our conventional oil and gas in the most environmentally sustainable ways and export them to where they will make the biggest difference.”
His address also seems to make a special effort to speak to Albertans’ frustrations with the rest of the county, as the province heads toward an Oct. 19 referendum on separation.
“I was a teenager in Edmonton when the national energy program was introduced, and I remember how Ottawa made Albertans feel like our resources weren’t our own,” Carney says in the video, referring to former prime minister Pierre Trudeau’s policy from the 1980s.
“More recently, we were made to feel like our energy contributions were running against the tides of history,” he adds. “What should have brought us together began to divide us, contributing to a half-century of politics that have too often pulled us apart.”
Carney appeared at the Stampede with his Alberta Liberal members of parliament Matt Jeneroux and Corey Hogan as well as Terry Duguid of Winnipeg.
The prime minister wasn’t introduced as he later sat in the stands at GMC Stadium, with his wife, Diana Fox Carney, to watch chuckwagon races. Carney didn’t make a public address and blended in with others wearing cowboy hats.
Carney took off his hat and put it to his chest as he sang the national anthem and looked to the centre of the arena, where a rider stood on the back of a galloping horse while holding a Canadian flag.
Ben…. It was the Liberals than cancelled Energy East and Northern Gateway.
He is lying as he usually does!
Carney is a total poseur.
Who here needs their knob gobbled
Ben the last I checked Alberta is landlocked. Other provinces, mainly BC and Quebec held up any plans for a pipeline to either coast.
Carnhole swallowers and their comments are sooooo brain-dead, carnhole deserves your support
Carney and his swallowers, you can’t fix stupid
Ben. Let us know when something is actually built. Right now just talk and nothing more. Carney promised a deal with Trump that still hasn’t happened.
Cheeseball Carney. He takes the slimy politician stereotype to a whole new level. Canada is a swamp even more than the USA was under Biden.
I don’t believe him.
Just 3 years ago as Special Economic Advisor, Carney advised Trudeau not to sell LNG to Germany and Japan, saying there was no business case for it.. Now he travels the globe trying to secure similiar deals.
He has always been anti resources and pro-carbon taxes.
Under the Harper/Poilievre government the Northern Gateway and Energy East pipelines were promised year after year and did not get built. Pipe dreams. Now Carney is getting something done and the conservatives complain! Is that because they failed?
Carney says we are “moving at speeds” never seen before. After a year, nothing has been accomplished or even started. I guess Liberals think announcements are accomplishments.
“Looking good” Carney says. Didn’t he say the same in a deal for sectoral tariffs with Trump. How about a schedule, timelines Carney. We don’t take you on your word.
Marielle sure is full of garbage.
Redneck comments are soooo grade 3.
PP deserves their support.
Carney doesn’t even wear a cowboy hat properly. He is a total faker on everything. He promised a deal with Trump now over a year ago, with nothing to show for.
He is an outsider to Alberta as he left long ago.
It’s too bad someone didn’t remind him he needs to get rid of 9 bad laws in order to speed up the pipeline process. Get out of the way and let people that know what they are doing get it done. He’s trying to run a business not a govt. and it isn’t working. Stay home and do some work in this country.. stop showboating and giving away our money when we need it. As long as people need food banks and healthcare there is no business supplying the rest of the world. You can’t pour from an empty cup.
Who here needs their azz ate out
Brokeback Mountain for Carney.
The only way liberal politicians and liberal voters can help Canada succeed is for them to all enroll in the MAID program asap
Not believing it until a shovel hits the ground.
lol @ rednecks who are a small minority now that Danielle Smith doesn’t need them anymore.
Of course likes the idea. We like the idea of prosperity for all done responsibly.
Just get rid of the damned Liberals first and their climate change noose around our necks.
Was Carney “Elbows Up” when flipping pancakes. This guy is a legend in his own mind. He is a total cheeseball.
Making one promise to Alberta and another to BC
Anyone with any intelligemce can see where this is going
I can only say good things about Carney after all I am a paid Liberal troll
Not a mention or video of a whole stadium full of people booing Carney!
Why the spin about another pipeline to crowded Vancouver? We asked for a pipeline to Prince Rupert, or another norther port.
Yep, just more giveaways to natives.
This has been held up for years by the Liberals. Why would anyone give them credit for finally admitting that we need a pipeline?
Glad to see Canada progressing under Carney.
lol. Nothing has been confirmed or built.
Talk is cheap and we expect action and not broken promises.