Gravelbourg & District Tribune

The Times They Are a-Changin’

 

We had separatists in Alberta forcing everyone to participate in a stupid referendum on whether they should consider separating. Now Albertans have to pick up the tab for that nonsense. Make the separatists pay.

 

Alberta sits on some of the largest oil reserves on the planet. Here’s the problem. None of it belongs to Albertans or Canada. Saskatchewan sits on some of the largest potash reserves and to a lessor extent oil reserves as well as a lot of uranium. All foreign owned.

 

A current debate is what to do with Stelco Steel. It was sold to Lourenco Goncalves, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cleveland-Cliffs an American steel manufacturer and a Trump supporter. He backs President Trump’s 50% tariffs. What did you expect he would do once he got his hands on a Canadian steel company?

 

The UK government nationalized a Chinese owned steel company that was closing. They saw it as vital for their economic future. So why aren’t we nationalizing Stelco? The Canadian government owns pipelines and other infrastructure they deem as important. Why is it that we own assets that only support oil companies?

 

Avi Lewis, leader of the federal NDP, is the only politician calling for nationalization. Why isn’t Pierre Poilievre not doing the same? He supports nationalizing pipelines to subsidize American oil companies but doesn’t want Stelco nationalized to save thousands of Canadian jobs and use it as a tool to promote Canadian manufacturing.

 

And where is our Canadian Prime Minister? Oh yeah! He’s somewhere in Europe where he lived for over a decade.

 

When does he visit Canada?