🇨🇦 Ottawa just legalized provincial extortion

Mark Carney’s grand pipeline fix is to let B.C. charge Alberta for moving Alberta oil through Canada. Brilliant federalism: one country, but every province gets a toll booth if the politics are annoying enough. Even Jack Mintz called it extortion, and he’s right. Interprovincial pipelines are federal jurisdiction, yet Carney handed David Eby an annual royalty anyway, plus infrastructure goodies and environmental compensation, as reported. So much for free movement of goods inside a supposedly united country.

This is what post-Trudeau Canada looks like under the same managerial class: not nation-building, but bribing provincial gatekeepers to stop sabotaging the economy they already crippled. Today it’s Alberta energy paying tribute to Victoria. Tomorrow it’s trucks, rail, and every other corridor held hostage by local ideologues and their climate racket. Ottawa keeps preaching competitiveness while turning Confederation into a patchwork of internal tariffs, political shakedowns, and anti-West punishment disguised as cooperation.

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