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Liberals Offer Platitudes in Place of Action on Pipelines

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Liberals Offer Platitudes in Place of Action on Pipelines

For Immediate Release

February 4, 2022

Ottawa – It should come as no surprise that the Liberal government voted against the Conservative motion to support the Energy East pipeline.  After all, until a few weeks ago the Liberals didn’t even know that four major pipelines were built in Canada between the years 2006-2015.

Sadly Saskatchewan Liberal MP Ralph Goodale & NDP MP’s from both Alberta and Saskatchewan voted against a motion that was in the best interest of the one hundred thousand unemployed oil sector workers.

Extra Liberal oversight has been added to the pipeline approval process, but that still doesn’t guarantee a project can proceed.  Canadian companies like Evraz that build safe and reliable pipelines will soon see the real ramifications of Liberal knuckle dragging in the kill off of more jobs. 

On Sunday January 31^st, 2016, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke on national television with Danny Strilchuk, a 30-year-old unemployed oilfield worker.  Trudeau had the audacity to extend nothing but empty platitudes, consoling this young man with a superficial smile and saying “hang in there, Canada is here for you”.  To what end?  Trudeau hasn’t lifted a finger to help and has left the door open indefinitely for the all the ‘Danny Strilchuk’s’ from the oil sector to just wait in the unemployment line.

Instead of action and concrete measures, all PM Trudeau offered was empty rhetoric.   The Liberal government needs to quit with the selfies and get to work on measures that will help Canadians and bolster the economy.

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