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I guess your OK with a 200 million $ no bid contract for over priced ventilators to an old Caucus member ?

Oh yeah here in redneck land you can not get tested even if your symptomatical . Were is all that testing he promised 6 months ago?

Absolutely. This is what I would encourage conservatives to do. Pivot away from the WE nonsense as fast as possible, and come up with more legitimate criticisms of the literally hundreds of billions of dollars of spending in the covid response. This obsession with forcing WE to be a big scandal is getting them nowhere politically, but more importantly it is actively harming the country because the country deserves a robust opposition holding the government's feet to the fire on covid spending.

OK, so a new issue. I don't have much of a thought one way or the other on this. Obviously every country in the entire world was in an insane mad scramble to buy ventilators after covid19, everyone paying ourageous prices, and basically it was a global feeding frenzy for anything at all that could maybe do the job. Remember the pathetic "tesla" ventilators musk bought in China? So right now this story is more "OMG THERE IS A CONNECTION IT MUST BE A LIBERAL PLOT". That said, this is exactly the type of thing the conservatives should investigate. Move on from WE. If there is something truly meaningful here, then great, we can deal with it at that time. It seems you want to decide everything is bad before that, though.

Where specifically can you not get tested? Testing capacity is massively improved, of course, but it is lumpy. Take this story from ottawa I reada earlier today: You can have excess testing capacity but if people don't go.........blame it on trudeau I guess?

Guessing you meant Alberta I checked from yesterday:

Obviously Alberta is in a bad place right now with record caseload of cases, and it is quite sensible when this happens to have some prioritization of testing, so if you have no symptoms and no contacts, then sorry, as of Oct 20th, you have to wait. Previously, and presumably in the future, it will widen to be anyone again. However, your claim about denying people who are symptomatic seems false.

Even if you have symptoms you can not get tested. With Flu & Cold season you expect folks to stay home till they feel better? Gonna be a bad winter


Also don't get me wrong Kudos to JT on his strategy forcing a vote that has never been done before on investigations. He knows Jagmit is his little ***** and he can play him non stop as they are broke and falling in the polls

Can you share a news story of precisely where/what you are talking about? In Alberta, the latest update is that they stopped testing asymptomatic people with no contacts. Doesn't that imply that continue to test symptomatic people or people with contacts? Why do you think it is the opposite?

Oh this one's relevant. As per our previous discussion of testing at the border to shorten the quarantine period, looks like Alberta is testing that option out soon: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...ilot-1.5772637

I am surprised this isnt at every airport. Its a great idea.

I'm still quite worried that people test negative (because they just got infected on the plane 3 hours ago), and thus don't quarantine for 2 weeks. It's definitely a debate whether it is best or not.

I always thought test d than 4-5 days later and if your negative on both you can live your life. Yours is a valid concern

Update as I was watching the news if your first test is negative you can carry on with your life but you are required to get a second test day 6&7

Seems smart

Ontario breaking covid records with most cases in the toronto area

https://www.cp24.com/mobile/news/ont...aths-1.5160078

Alberta sucks as well. I had a friend whom had to go to Texas for 3-4 weeks just flew back yesterday landed in Toronto before connecting flight to YEG and no mandatory quarantine . The guy asked him to voluntary quarantine. No one will check up on him . Luckily he never came from the state with the most Covid cases

I think part of the issue here is very few folks no anyone that got Covid and here in Alberta its all voluntary no enforcement

I'm glad that I am in Alberta right now. Basically everything is open back up to some level, school re-openings have been a success (knock- on -wood), people aren't too crazy, everyone seems to be wearing a mask. My co-workers that travel to NS and Nfld can't leave their property and get treated like lepur's by people they know. They also have police call the regularly and ping their cell phones. They obviously hate life right now, not a way good way for people to live.

I've heard of less than a handful of ppl being charged for breaking quarantine. I'm pretty sure nobody finds out unless a case is tracked back to them. Ppl wearing masks all over, but certainly not isolating in public places and stores. Numbers keep rising as temperature drops, and I'm guessing most don't have the patience or appetite for another lockdown. Looks to be a potentially brutal combo. But we shall see

Yeah Albertans are the Trumpites of the north - give zero ****s about anyone other than themselves and aren't all that intelligent. Hope they all get it.

Wss talking abt toronto but I'll take your word for it

I have a few friends that are Trumpsters and it baffles me but then again I say the same about folks that support JT. We say the same thing about BC and Toronto

Though if your in the Oil Industry Trump is better for you then Biden

I personally hope no one gets it even the folks that wear a mask not even JT or his ***** Jagmit

Funny story:

Lol USA voter suppression

I went to vote in my provincial election in Canada today - polls close at 8pm. I roll into a high school voting station roughly 8 blocks from my house at 7pm. No one in line. No voter card. Old guy asks where I live and says "sorry, your voting station is at (blank)" and shows me on the map:

My actual voting station is 3 blocks from my house.

So I hop in the car - or could have walked the literal 4 minutes - to the new voting station. No line again. The reason I don't have a voter card is because I'm not registered in that area somehow (OMG VOTER FRAUD!!) so they fill out a form that takes literally 45 seconds, I sign it, and they hand me my ballot. I make sure I don't misclick and put it in the box.

I then proceed to leave my ID there - you don't need ID to vote as long as someone in the constituency will speak to you being actually you - and since I marked "receive voter registration card via text" on that form the poll worker both called me and texted me saying I forgot my ID.

From start to finish it was ten minutes going to both places. GG democracy.

Yeah myself being an old fart never missed voting in any election and I think the longest I stood in line is 10 minutes. Than you watch folks in Georgia standing in line 6-8 hours.

Our provincial elections no one is complaining about mail in voting either.

If you look at Canada and all the premiers they are winning landslide elections even the BC premier that pulled the slimeball move and signed an agreement not to call an election.

Only one premier I think would lose if he called an election now

Transmountain is issue number 1 for the conservatives. Liberals bent over ****ing backwards to be supportive and even went and bought the ****ing thing. But....it sounds like the expansion might not even be economically viable: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/tra...781073?cmp=rss

I think you mean to say "conservative oil-patch workers, or those who've been whipped into a frenzy by politicians looking for easily attained voting blocks". It would be next to impossible for me to find a conservative within my province for whom the oil pipeline is a 'number 1 issue'.

Apart from that, what's the real problem: that the government spent money on something that's terrible for the environment, or that it's a bad investment?

From that article:

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, a left-leaning think-tank, warns in an assessment released this morning that the federal government may need to rethink its commitment to expanding the pipeline.

The report, titled Reassessment of Need for the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project, says the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a short-term drop in oil demand, leading the International Energy Agency to revise its outlook.

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The pipeline is a long-term infrastructure play. Serious, far-reaching decisions shouldn't be made on events which they themselves term "short-term".

I'm being somewhat tongue in cheek, but the think-tank that put it together isn't going to come out and say it's a good idea: take their recommendations with a pinch of salt.

The purchase of the pipeline may be one of the dumbest things the Liberals did. I know the Alberta side is being built as a worker died on site yesterday
Alberta & Saskatchewan just wanted an environment were development would work. Bill C69 and I forget the other one basically made it impossible for projects to go ahead. They kept delaying the Teck decision which caused them to pull out. Reality is it would never get built with the current price of oil.

Reality is Joe Biden is going to win and Keystone is dead as well than and that Train up north not going anywhere either. Alberta crude will continue to be shipped via rail.

Alberta is a have not province now and Oil is not rebounding in the near future. Kenney's corporate tax cuts have not created any jobs or attracted new businesses.

Though CDN's need to realize Oil revenues contributed to a national economy and with out resource revenue Justin's deficits will be astronomical.

I heard Justin is considering a Covid tax to cure the pandemic as we all know the carbon tax has saved the planet

Lol a report done by a "left-leaning think tank". You know what would have been a good way of knowing if it was economically vialble? Let the private sector to continue to build it. I don't know a single person in the industry that wanted the government to buy it or was happy when they did. I also know plenty of liberals in the industry and outside of the industry that are for this pipeline. Any reasonably intelligent person would be.

But again lol at posting a left-leaning think tank report that is using low short term oil demand due to COVID on a 20+ year project as their main argument.

Don't you have some bullshit to peddle in the Trump thread? "I don't know a single person...", "I also know plenty..." blah blah blah: every post you and your ilk upchuck are filled with vague personal anecdotes that you somehow believe make your opinions gospel. Take a look at your posting history and get a ****ing clue.

I suppose you can be forgiven since the leader of the free world believes in doing the same, but don't expect that crap to not be highlighted when you bring it to this thread.

There have been many polls that say Canadians support pipelines to bring Alberta's oil to market outside of Quebec. A majority of British Columbians were for the Trans Canada pipeline

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...reid-1.5282430

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/british-columb...poll-1.4746283

Remember we have a prime minister that only got 33.1 % of the popular vote