Someone within should have thought out BC NDP leader Adrian Dix’s idiotic oil pipeline review ‘policy’ and talked him down before he uttered this massive mistake.
Dix is now stating that the (uncompleted) federal environmental pipeline review is not up to standard and that he would do another:
If we do nothing, then the decision of the B.C. government will be made by [Prime Minister] Stephen Harper. I don’t think that’s acceptable to British Columbians. (see here)
What other federal reviews would a BC NDP government try to supersede with their own? Love to hear from constitutional experts about a provincial government running parallel reviews in areas of federal jurisdiction?
Here is Dix’s ‘crack’ legal understanding on display:
“B.C. has the ability under its jurisdiction to do what has to be done and take positions on that. The question of whether ultimately the approval is federal or provincial will be one that constitutional lawyers are going to be discussing over the next few years”
Dix has now declared BC a nation upon itself. Screw being part of the rest of Canada!
Wonder what other federal jurisdictions will be reviewed by a NDP government? Military installations on his list?
Dix has now just spooked every business-minded person who thought that maybe the NDP could be trusted this time and succeeded in only reminding them of the past disastrous BC NDP governments.
August 22, 2012 at 1:09 PM
I will withdraw my criticism of Red Ali here in Alberta. Things could be much worse.
August 22, 2012 at 1:51 PM
I guess from the media’s silence is that, only the NDP besides the liberals can reopen the constitution which should be reopened anyway especially when it comes from Trudeau.
PM wanted to reopen the constitution for the sake of Senate Reform which may I add was requested by a former senator in 1926.
August 22, 2012 at 2:43 PM
Given that pipelines would clearly fall under the exception set out in Section 92(10) of the Constitution Act 1867 Adrian Dix is now declaring BC a separate nation? Is that the same deal as Quebec? Gee and I thought the separatists were losing in Quebec and weren’t invading BC.
I gather all the federal lawyers will be having a sporting day of hilarity when and if this baseless lawsuit should ever come to the fore. Meanwhile business will be heading for the hills.
I gather they will have to call in signals and intelligence units as none is being displayed by the ‘leader’ in question.
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Section 92(10) Constitution Act 1867
Local Works and Undertakings OTHER THAN such as are of the following Classes:
(a)
Lines of Steam or other Ships, Railways, Canals, Telegraphs, and other Works and Undertakings connecting the Province with any other or others of the Provinces, or extending beyond the Limits of the Province:
(b)
Lines of Steam Ships between the Province and any British or Foreign Country:
(c)
Such Works as, although wholly situate within the Province, are before or after their Execution declared by the Parliament of Canada to be for the general Advantage of Canada or for the Advantage of Two or more of the Provinces.
August 22, 2012 at 3:25 PM
I think Mulcair has been critical of the Gateway pipeline, but curiously supportive of the refinery in Kitimat.
Personally, I’m just curious how all this can be reconciled with the principles behind the carbon tax. Clearly, the push toward petro-dollars runs at odds with the government’s and the opposition’s PR on GHG emissions.
August 22, 2012 at 3:29 PM
Think of this — the same mentality would screw over prairie farmers over the exportation of grain, crops etc etc. — so should the same apply to fish caught off of BC or the east coast — nevermind the pipelines in NS going the New England?
Everytime the constitution is opened hell breaks out. So BC NDP want a new cash cow.
August 22, 2012 at 4:05 PM
BC is slowly and steadily morphing into Quebec… which isn’t surprising considering the level of corruption so ingrained within the political class and their media whores. Klark and Comrade Dix have this province behaving like some backwards rogue State, while the economy tanks. The Heartland Institute has released a study outlining how the BC taxpayer is on the hook for approximately 320 billion dollars in Public sector pensions over the next decade, but you don’t hear a thing from the media or the political class as to how this impending disaster will be dealt with. Instead we have a federal Liberal tribalist posing as Premier and her counterpart is a french language activist and dyed in the red commie, Adrian Dix, posturing, while they pick fights they can’t win. BC is doomed to become Quebec west, perpetual whiners, welfare bums and social engineering maniacs. What a clown show!
August 22, 2012 at 4:20 PM
I guess it was a good thing that the railroads were put into BC a century ago, cause you’d never get them in now.
Adrian Dix just played to his core base with this declaration…pity he’s not so enthusiastic in his ‘at home’ dealings with the BC Libs.
Welcome to BC…California North.
August 22, 2012 at 8:02 PM
Sean M ” BC is doomed to become Quebec west, perpetual whiners, welfare bums and social engineering maniacs.” So true. I had not thought in these terms, but you make a compelling argument.
August 22, 2012 at 9:25 PM
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August 23, 2012 at 11:41 AM
This is a good example of just how dangerous an NDP government will be in B.C.,yet I still see people at The Blogging Tories who say they will vote NDP “to teach the Liberals a lesson”!
The Liberals DO deserve the boot,but the NDP DO NOT deserve the reins of power. Dix is a communist,and he is very committed to world socialism. Dix has no concept of where the money comes from, no knowledge of how the economy works. If he does,he certainly doesn’t act like it!
I detest CC and the Liberals,but Hell will freeze over before I vote for those Nation-destroying communist bastards who infest the NDP.
Dix is nothing but a charisma-challenged,pale-complected Obama,and if we’re stupid enough to elect him, BC will be like the poorest regions of Obama’s USA in short order.
If you don’t want the Liberals, vote Conservative,Cummins CANNOT be worse for US,the people of the Province,than Dix!
August 23, 2012 at 6:17 PM
Why doesnt the NDP complain about the Feds not providing the City of Victoria with a sewage plant so they can stop polluting the oceans wiith raw sewage . Surely the ROC should be responsible to pay for wiping the lefties bums.
August 23, 2012 at 9:11 PM
Check the research–the water off Victoria is NOT polluted (we are protected by our unique tidal waters) and a sewage plant would be a billion dollar boondoggle.