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January 06, 2026

I find it hard to believe Cdns are so DUMB & lacking common sense this says it all……copied & posted on FB!

CANADA & CDNS need to WAKE up soon to what is NOT happening in Canada the last 10 years! Your life & livelihood depends on it….this says it all elbows up twits!

Northern Gateway. Keystone XL. Energy East.
Twelve-figure losses, decade-long delays-death by consultation.
...
Alberta knows the pattern. It's not a surprise.
It's not broken.
It's design.
And no matter how many feasibility studies you file or ESG boxes you check, you're still playing inside a structure meant to contain you.
The federal system isn't malfunctioning.
It's functioning perfectly—to maintain control.
Here's what I've learned building strategic frameworks for leaders navigating this:
Three structural chokepoints kill every tidewater crude pipeline.
1. Indigenous constitutional leverage under
Section 35.
2. Environmental litigation infrastructure funded for decades.
1.
2. Environmental litigation infrastructure funded
3. for decades.
4. Federal veto design through Bills C-69 and
C-48.
The industry's autopsy line is always: "We
needed better Indigenous engagement."
No.
You were never in a game you could win through
good behaviour.
What gets greenlit is what aligns with territory-first economics.
Coastal First Nations support LNG Canada-
$40B operational right now-because it showed
up first with equity, long-term revenue, and governance rights.
They made a strategic choice.
Any crude proposal now threatens that existing stack.
But that doesn't mean it's permanent.
It means crude must re-enter as part of a broader corridor-one where LNG remains dominant, but other commodities exist under shared control.
Pipelines are single-commodity chokepoints.
When they fail-everything fails.
Corridors are multi-modal jurisdictional ecosystems-moving LNG, grain, hydrogen, fibre, carbon, energy, and eventually crude.
Each is one stream in a multi-channel sovereign system.

  • Section 92A gives provinces resource jurisdiction.
  • Section 35 gives Indigenous nations territorial authority.
  • Municipalities control land-use.
  • Together, these three can build provincial-municipal-Indigenous corridors that require zero federal approval.
  • It's not a loophole.
  • It's a constitutionally-anchored realignment of power.
  • Alberta is in a rare convergence window.
  • Trans Mountain is active.
  • LNG Canada is operational.
  • Alberta's Al corridor is live.
  • Move now, and Alberta becomes the Pacific throughput nucleus.
  • Wait three years, and the federal apparatus reasserts.
  • The question isn't "How do we get a pipeline approved?"
  • The question is: "How do we build infrastructure that doesn't require approval because it's jurisdictionally originated?"
  • This isn't consulting.
  • this This is strategic synthesis at the sovereignty layer.

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Stephen W. M.
RE-RETIRED!
A few weeks a go 1 was having a discussion on LinkedIN about how "SPEED WINS".
If Canada does not build this pipeline to the west coast with "SPEED" Venezuela oil will not only take over the USA Market that Alberta fills it will take over and control all the other markets that Alberta could fill..... time is of the essence. If you are NOT on board with this CUT OFF ALL transfer payments.... (This is how transfer payment wealth is created, along with funds for Hospitals, schools, roads, police, etc.)

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