BC resident:
On a darker note…what really griped my ass this week was watching Carney and Smith holding up their signed agreements LIKE TRUMP ALWAYS DOES… the big flourish!!
@joepublic.bsky.social:
No one, except the politicians it seems, is happy with the MOU between Alberta and Ottawa.
@cougsta.bsky.social:
Gawd, Danielle Smith is an idiotic asshole.
@brutus66.bsky.social:
MAGA chaos agents. Promotors of the 51st states. Goons.
@hooray4noodles.bsky.social:
Why does Alberta keep electing these idiots?
@cindylee.bsky.social:
Because they are educated & funded by Texans.
calgarypebbles.bsky.social:
No one in that room has any integrity. Pathetic bunch.
@thomasowen7.bsky.social:
These are not Peter Lougheed Conservatives, they’re truly unkempt clown posse types who are delusional about Alberta’s future. They’re the dregs of Reform / Alliance who fail to understand that their fever dream would be quashed in short order by the US, turning them into Arkansas North.
@ravenwings.bsky.social:
Extreme right weirdos, trying to pander to weirder extremer weirdos whose weird politics outstrip theirs by magnitudes, but also hate women and resent the idea of having any authority they don’t already respect innately: why can’t I win these people over?
@sagie.bsky.social:
Canada gives them a $34B pipeline, that they haven’t filled, and they hate on Canada.
They love on taking away rights with repeated use of the notwithstanding clause, and a potential $500m from the US to break apart Canada. The two faces of Danielle Smith
@craecan.bsky.social:
That convention room is like if you were to take a bucket of swamp water then distill it down to the thickest, nastiest, stinkiest muck imaginable.
And then living in AB is like living where all govt actions are centred on pleasing that bucket of muck.
@thewarrenisempty.bsky.social:
Its not a swamp, its a tailings pond.
@nklosse.bsky.social:
Denying someone who’s worked hard and is proud of where they live from being a party member? How are they not worthy representation? It’s completely disconnected from reality But the UCP live in Metaverse & love cozying up to America any chance they get absurdly disgusting
@sharonrmecfs.bsky.social:
Smith lying about Ottawa’s neglect makes her look ungrateful and corrupt.
10s of $Bs fossil fuel subsidies annually isn’t good enough.
Ignores $49B TMX, getting Albertan (70%) LNG flowing to BC tidewater with 5 other LNG projects and pipelines in the works.
@triforce.gg:
That little chuckle at the end.
tinkiegurl.bsky.social:
….if anything this has pissed them off even more. Smith’s base sees this as a betrayal of their loyalty to her & the UCP their entire identity is wrapped up in hating Ottawa & the Libs with this MOU she’s taken away the only life they’ve ever known & she’ll pay dearly for it
@thebreakdownab.bsky.social:
Meanwhile in #YYC, just off the Deerfoot…
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journodale.bsky.social:
Good work by @althiaraj.bsky.social on the inside story of Guilbeault’s resignation, from his being frozen out by PMO, given false assurances, and being made to wear the government walking back on pledges he made to Elizabeth May to secure her support. No kidding it was untenable for him to stay.
It also clearly shows that Carney bent the knee to Danielle Smith to get nothing in return. This MOU will not secure interprovincial peace, and it won’t mollify Alberta separatists, and instead he’s threatened his whole climate framework and pissing off every other province.
Complete amateur hour.
May is mighty stupid to believe any words uttered by Carney, he’s repeatedly proven himself a callous liar. Pffft. Or, May is happily supporting Carney betraying Canadians, Canada, and all life on earth by deregulating the most evil most polluting most law violating industry on earth because her rich constituents work in it, or did.
On Carney, I do not believe he doing amateur hour, I believe he’s a happy Nazi, serving USA’s kid raping regime, the US Tech, USA military machine, the oil and gas industry, the rich. He’s also a Harper Con, tightly tangled in the IDU’s and Danielle Smith’s tits. This meme below is from before Carney conned Canadians. His mug fits right beneath Trump’s hands and between the cruel mugs of Smith and Poilievre.
@journodale.bsky.social:
Gotta make sure that the white/Christian nationalists continue to hold the reins of power with in the party.
This is older than MAGA. This is a deep-seated ugliness that the party and its predecessors kept under polite wraps and is now feeling emboldened enough to be in the open.
@markusoff.bsky.social:
UCP convention-goers voted to ban permanent residents and other non-citizens from being party members or voting to nominate candidates.
Saskatchewan Party grassroots did something similar; it could have a large effect on party base makeup in some ridings.
@nolore.bsky.social:
Every time you see that the government is trying to raise our military spending to 5% of GDP, think about the fact that our total elementary and secondary school spending is 3.9% of GDP.
This is my biggest criticism of the MOU – in addition to capitulating to a maple maga, it deliberately pits Canadian people against each other. That. Is. Not. Nation building.
@stewartprest.ca:
As a political scientist, I think the effects on unity are some of the biggest problems with the agreement. It legitimates “Alberta” as an aggrieved party, distinct from other provinces, while treating BC and its peoples to be as issues to be managed, rather than partners in the federation.I agree. I see Carney and Smith signing this vile MOE as a nuclear bomb destroying Canada, intentionally, so as to give the divided dregs to Nazi Trump Regime.
@jennaa2014.bsky.social:
Just adding, Indigenous peoples were completely ignored too, in violation of our laws. But yes, this.
@michaelincanada.bsky.social:
I don’t understand at all how they could have not been included. It seems a major mistake, legally and ethically. I don’t think it was a mistake. Smith, Carney, Hodgson and their leader, Harper, are deeply racist, just like their orange Nazi Pal, Trump. They want Canadians to blame Indigenous when the pipeline does not happen (because no company is stupid enough to waste billions on a product the world grows sick of). And, they want more violence, rapes and murders against Indigenous women and girls (Harper and Carney are also staunch misogynists, religious driven).
@jennaa2014.bsky.social:
They were ignored by Minister Hodgson for 2(!!) months. It’s legally wrong and ethically appalling.Yes, intentional, likely on Trump’s and Carney’s racist piss-on-the-rule-of-law orders.
@amirattaran.bsky.social:
Great article. Yes, Carney definitely wrecked his environmentalist support this week. I’d not vote Liberal.
We would have a better government if that selfish pig Jagmeet Singh had resigned well before the last election.
Mark Carney lost the minister who was the green conscience of his government. Here’s how it happened by Althia Raj, Nov 28, 2025, Toronto Star
Althia Raj is a national politics columnist for the Star. Follow her on Twitter: @althiaraj
The CBC story landed with a thump on Monday afternoon: Prime Minister Mark Carney’s memorandum of understanding with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, it suggested, would include a carve-out for her province on clean electricity regulations.
Canadian Identity and Culture Minister Steven Guilbeault was stunned.
This had not been discussed at the cabinet table, nor had Liberal MPs been briefed in caucus. They’d been told the MOU required Alberta to beef up its industrial carbon pricing regime, build the Pathways carbon capture project, and obtain the consent of Indigenous Peoples and the government of British Columbia. Some felt that with B.C. and Indigenous opposition, Alberta would be forced to enact better climate laws in exchange for the promise of a pipeline that would never get built.
But now, the MOU appeared to go much farther than anything discussed. In the days that followed, the agreement Carney crafted with Alberta would lead to the resignation of Guilbeault, his popular Quebec lieutenant and an environmentalist many caucus members looked to for guidance. This is the story of how that resignation came about, based on conversations with numerous sources with knowledge of Guilbeault’s last days in cabinet, who spoke freely with the Star only on the condition that they be granted anonymity.
Giving Alberta a carve-out on clean electricity regulations — rules that were revised to address concerns from Alberta and Saskatchewan would set back Canada’s decarbonization efforts. If Alberta got a carve-out, why not Saskatchewan or Ontario? Just as Carney had warned when he criticized the carbon tax carve-out for home heating oil in 2023, a carve-out would lead to less certainty in the system, less investment, and ultimately undermine the effort.
Guilbeault, an environment activist before he was convinced to run for the Liberals in 2019, wanted a briefing. Carney’s chief of staff, Marc-André Blanchard, didn’t seem to understand what Guilbeault was upset about.
But on Tuesday afternoon, Guilbeault and his two chiefs of staff had that briefing with Blanchard, Environment and Climate Change Minister Julie Dabrusin, her chief of staff, the prime minister’s deputy chiefs of staff, Privy Council Clerk Michael Sabia and deputy clerk Chris Fox. There, Guilbeault saw a draft of the MOU for the first time.
Federal legislation already obliged Alberta to clean up its industrial carbon pricing system. Ottawa, he argued, did not need to trade away a suspension of the clean energy regulations to get it to do that.
He asked why the government was sacrificing a few hundred million tonnes of greenhouse gas emission reductions, reductions that couldn’t be achieved without the industrial carbon price reaching $400 to $500 per tonne.
“Is this true?” Blanchard asked. Fox confirmed Environment Canada analysis that suggested the price would have to be around $400 per tonne for equivalencies to be found. (That number was scoffed at Thursday by Alberta officials, who noted that the MOU states affordability and competitiveness must be design features.) Then Fox took on an aggressive tone, defending the agreement as necessary for Canadian unity and to combat separatism in Alberta.Fucking liar
At the end of the meeting, Guilbeault told the others he could not accept the MOU. Then he headed into cabinet, where the agreement with Alberta wasn’t discussed at all.
Carney did ask to meet Guilbeault, however, and as the Star reported, they met for nearly an hour early that evening. They discussed how the regulations worked, and the impact of what Ottawa appeared ready to trade away. Carney suggested revised wording to the MOU that Guilbeault could live with.
But later that night, Blanchard told Guilbeault that Alberta wouldn’t budge.Alberta is Canada now or is Carney Alberta?
The possibility of Guilbeault resigning from the Liberal cabinet over climate policy wasn’t new. He’d threatened to quit during the tenure of Justin Trudeau, who had appointed him environment minister, and rumours swirled around Ottawa that he’d told the Prime Minister’s Office he would leave if a new pipeline was listed as one of the Carney government’s projects of national interest.
The carve-out on the clean energy regulations wasn’t Guilbeault’s only problem with the MOU. There was no requirement for the support of Indigenous Peoples or the approval from British Columbia, even as Ottawa was offering to end a 50-year moratorium on oil tanker traffic along the coast of northern B.C., and the Pathways project now appeared contingent on a new bitumen pipeline approval.
By Wednesday, Guilbeault realized the Liberals were backing away from a pledge they’d made to secure Green Party Leader Elizabeth May’s vote on the budget — that they would not include a fossil fuel subsidy for oil recovery. He’d worked to eliminate it from the Nov. 4 budget, but here it was, once again. Would May support the Grits on another confidence vote next week? Of course Douche May will, she’s a fucking traitor, a Mulroney-Harper Con, not ever a Green – just contr0lled opposition supporting the worst in Ottawa to keep her rich con constituents happyWould NDP MPs Gord Johns and Lori Idlout abstain again? Or would the Conservatives have to hide more MPs behind the curtain to ensure no Christmastime election?
So the PMO tried to re-engage Guilbeault, after he’d been frozen out of earlier MOU discussions. There were suggestions that he could say he was putting the government on notice, and if discussions with Alberta on climate didn’t prove fruitful by the April 1 timeline in the MOU, he could resign then.
Meanwhile, Blanchard returned with more disappointing news: Alberta would not budge on oil recovery, which Smith had wanted from the beginning.Which Carney is delighted about, because he’s a Nazi dictator, serving rich American oil and gas companies and Trump’s Kid-raping Regime. He want no regulations for the most toxic abusive harmful companies operating in Canada and plans to make ordinary struggling Canadians pay for consultations with Indigenous that is by law required to be done by and paid for by the companies doing the raping, not done by BC govt and paid for by us. Carbon Capture for enhanced oil recovery means zero emissions reductions, aka, no decarbonizing as Carney happily and constantly lies about, it means much more pollution and massive amounts of water contamination.
Guilbeault wrestled with his decision. The MOU was far worse than he’d expected. It would significantly increase climate pollution and undermined much of his accomplishments in politics. He was also deeply troubled by the ease with which the PMO was casting aside its moral obligation to May. What was the Liberals’ word worth?Carney’s word is not even worth shit. He’s a lying racist pro-genocide Zionist fuck, serving Nazi Amerikkka and big oil.
Overnight, he worked on his resignation letter. He did not want to hurt the prime minister and his Liberal colleagues, but he believed his credibility was on the line. He couldn’t defend the MOU without looking “like a liar, a fool or, worse, a traitor,” said a person close to him.
Carney had already cancelled consumer carbon pricing, paused the zero-emission vehicle sales mandate, abandoned the oil and gas cap, and added a new subsidy for liquid natural gas in the budget. Canada would not meet its Paris Agreement climate targets. It would renege on its international climate obligations.
It seemed the longer Guilbeault stayed in cabinet and was associated with its climate decisions, the more cover he provided the government.
As details of the MOU were released, some caucus members looked to Guilbeault to see how outraged they should be. “If he hasn’t quit, I guess it’s not that bad,” one MP messaged before the MOU had been released.
To journalists attending the technical briefing, it seemed clear that the Carney’s government had handed Smith everything she wanted. There were no timelines for Alberta’s climate commitments, there would be no equivalency in terms of greenhouse gas emission reductions. The industrial carbon price Alberta was committing to is lower than the federal benchmark.
On Thursday, Blanchard and Carney separately called Guilbeault, who told them he planned to quit. They told him his voice was needed around the cabinet table, and suggested he could play a larger role on climate moving forward.Liars! They were just trying to squeeze Guillbeault into pimping Carney’s massive betrayal of all Canadians and earth’s livability.
“Guilbeault ultimately decided he couldn’t defend the MOU and be true to who he was, and what he believes in,” said a source close to him.
“He would have been lying to people if he tried to defend that (MOU) publicly.”
His resignation letter was on the prime minister’s desk shortly thereafter. By resigning, some thought he believed he might help his party course correct. An afternoon staff meeting was called, and a statement announcing his decision was posted online at 4:49 p.m.
By then, it was clear to many Grits — including several in the Prime Minister’s Office — that they might have cast aside too many traditional allies and a large part of their voter coalition to court new voters. Had Smith handed the Liberal prime minister a long noose with which to hang himself?I hope so! Traitors Smith and Carney need to be in the trash.
I messaged back the MP who’d suggested Guilbeault’s impeding resignation was the green barometer for Carney’s MOU with Alberta.
“I guess it was that bad,” I wrote. “Damn right,” they wrote back.
@babs54.bsky.social:
This is disturbing.
@davidmoscrop.com:
If you expect Mark Carney won’t take pipeline blame whether it’s built or not, I have bad news for you: opposition parties aren’t going to be charitable in their framing and voters aren’t always charitable, or consistent, themselves.
Carney will be seen as Captain Pipeline.
@proud-2b-canadian.bsky.social:
This premier is a traitor and a coward.
PERIOD.
FULL STOP
RESIGNSMITH
NeverUCP
NeverSmith #DanielleSmithlsUnfitToLead
Ableg #Abpoli #Cdnpoli
ABResistance #UCPfail
FuckSmith #FuckTheUCP
@peggyblair.bsky.social:
100%. I agree with everything you say. I’ve been saying it since I heard the announcement. It’s a very cynical ploy to appease Alberta with a pipeline that will never happen, while stopping over British Columbia and First Nations who weren’t even consulted.
Gobsmacking to see a section that says that British Columbia will engage with First Nations about this project, when BC wasn’t even consulted ahead of time. Nothing like trying to impose an obligation on third parties who aren’t signatories. SMH.Nazis Carney and Smith’s MOU is a divide to conquer tool, and to rage and hate feed racists to act out against Indigenous.
@amirattaran.bsky.social:
You know how Canadians take lasting offence at Trump’s “51st state” diplomacy?
Well, Tim “It’s Called Zoom” Hodgson just equalled it come to First Nations diplomacy.
If this smirking, offensive jerk is not ejected from Cabinet, I believe Carney will have a high price to pay.
@rachelgilmore.bsky.social:
David Cochrane asks about the fact that it would’ve been impossible for the coastal First Nations to travel from their communities to meet the feds on the timeline the govt offered.
“It’s called Zoom,” Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson responds.
Jesus CHRIST.
@nigelb.bsky.social:
Looking forward to next week when we can can talk about something more important, concrete and meaningful than the political theatre of a non-binding MOU.
‘Free and independent Alberta’ question draws loud applause at UCP’s annual general meeting, Smith said the province is considering modifying the rules when it comes to recall when asked about it by members by Cindy Tran, Nov 28, 2025, Edmonton Journal
UCP members erupted in cheers and applause when a leader of the Alberta separatist movement posed a question on the province’s independence on the first day of the United Conservative Party’s annual general meeting.
Jeffrey Rath with the Alberta Prosperity Act received loud cheers and a standing ovation during Friday evening’s bearpit session with Premier Danielle Smith and her cabinet ministers when he asked the room of thousands of UCP members if they are in favour of a “free and independent Alberta.”
“That so called MOU was signed yesterday, the ink wasn’t dry on the paper and Mark Carney went out and gleefully announced a 600 per cent increase to the industrial carbon tax in Alberta. My question for the room is how many of all of us favour a free and independent Alberta,” Rath said.
In response, Smith said, “I support an independent Alberta within a United Canada,” a line both she and her cabinet have said repeatedly when asked about separation. It earned her a mix of booing, heckling and cheers from the same crowd.
But that wasn’t the first instance separation came forward throughout day one of the three-day annual general meeting at the Edmonton Expo Centre.
During Smith’s opening talk with UCP president Rob Smith, a question that received positive cheers from the crowd was when a different member of the Alberta Prosperity Project asked if Smith had read the group’s document saying “an independent Alberta would reshape its fiscal environmental landscape.”
None of Saturday’s resolutions include separatism.
Recall amendments being considered
Recall, independent policing and auto insurance were some key issues brought forwarded by UCP members. Despite the news of the signing of the memorandum of understanding (MOU) between Smith and Ottawa Thursday, there weren’t many questions from the crowd on it or strong response in support.
Smith said the province is considering modifying the rules when it comes to recall when asked about it by members. So far, 14 UCP MLAs are currently facing recall petitions.
The cost of the recall petitions is one of the factors Smith said her caucus is considering. Validating the signatures for each of the current recall petitions could cost more than one million dollars, according to Smith.
“If they manage to get recall petitions for all 87 of us, it’s gonna be $100 million just to validate the petition. That doesn’t even talk about the process going to recall, that doesn’t even talk about the process for byelections,” Smith said.
“That’s another factor that we have in our minds because we didn’t expect this abusive process.”Really? Or is it that craven UCP expected all Albertans to quietly take the endless abuses and law violations by Smith and her evil shits, and didn’t expect courage, compassion, and integrity in some Albertans willing to give of themselves to hold the corrupt to account by legally getting rid of them, using Smith’s own law.
@rlbca.bsky.social:
Albertan here… less than amazing. Far, far less than amazing. In fact, most of us can’t think of one thing this government hasn’t screwed up.
@laurieinyyc.bsky.social:
If the UCP was doing such “amazing work”, there wouldn’t be 14+ recalls.