NDP Win “Another Nail in the Coffin for Enbridge” Says Cullen
Ottawa, On – “Another nail in the coffin.”
That’s how Skeena-Bulkley Valley NDP MP Nathan Cullen described the effect of the Alberta NDP’s election win on Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline project during a teleconference with regional reporters today.
“They’ve been dragging this dead horse around a while. Jim Prentice worked for Northern Gateway and didn’t get any further down the road,” said Cullen. “It’s a bit like the zombie movies, you think they’re dead and they just keep on walking around and coming at you.”
He added “now that you’ve seen a progressive government elected in Edmonton, that want to see companies working with First Nations and want to see more value-added projects, it went from a whisper of a hope to no hope at all.”
Cullen said the win is also a big morale boost for the NDP heading into this fall’s federal election.
“It says anything is possible and takes two things away from our opponents. One is that they suggest we can’t form government, that’s obviously not true,” he said. “And secondly, they’re going to try and scare people about an NDP government, well if Albertans weren’t scared about that prospect, then clearly the fear game doesn’t work for the Liberals and Conservatives.”
Despite the big election win in Alberta, he called the passing of Bill C-51, the Conservative’s terror bill yesterday “terrible news.”
He said not only has it been opposed by numerous interest groups, not to mention former prime ministers and supreme court judges, but fears it will receive quick passage through the senate, which he notes “is under its own criminal investigation.”
“I’ve never received more feedback on a piece of legislation than this one, and the government has not yet explained why we need it.
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do us all a favor and move to Alberta Cullen…
I agree with gwf
We need a little more action from you Mr Cullen and a lot less talk…. oh sorry you are a politician… that is all you know how to do……TALK
I can only imagine which interest groups would oppose the new terror
bill, and I,m at odds with them all !
Enbridge misunderstood from day 1 what it would take to build the Northern Gateway. The project has been on life support for years. Election of the NDP gov’t in Alberta has not made the pipeline less likely to be built.
And in reference to the cheap shots at Cullen, our MP in PG-Cariboo isn’t exactly a human dynamo either. Why can’t we entice more capable, honest people into politics?
CL
The Editor misspelled “Economy” in the headline. Seems to have auto corrected to “Enbridge”.
Shocking… comments coming from Conservative heavy Prince George immediately try to cut this guy short. I’m not even an NDP supporter, but I appreciate his honesty.
The constant support of one party in PG election after election shows how small minded this area can be sometimes. No wonder our city keeps spinning its wheels and never getting anywhere.
Posted on Thursday, May 7, 2015 @ 2:50 PM by pgjohn
Shocking… comments coming from Conservative heavy Prince George immediately try to cut this guy short. I’m not even an NDP supporter, but I appreciate his honesty.
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Honesty? The guys a lifer politician. He’s in it for himself first and foremost. There is no nobility in anything he does; it’s all done for the sake of his own ego.
He is no different then any other politician whether they be NDP, Conservative, Liberal, Green, Rhino, whatever. No one takes public office for the sake of the public.
We need to an alternative the party system altogether. This constant bickering is what is getting us nowhere.
we need a political system, that isn’t political and there are no parties….til then nothing will be done for the best of the people, well maybe for a special few.
To be an honest politician, you’d first have to strip the title “Honourable” from their title.
Nathan Cullen is probably the most honest politician of our generation. Say what you want about his policy choices, but I think the true extremists are the ones that think smearing this man with innuendo proves their point. He ran in the election opposed to Northern Gateway, was elected on that platform by his constituents with a majority, and he continues to support his riding opposing Northern Gateway.
On Bill C-51, what a disaster for Canada and our democracy. If people only knew of the neo-nazi’s operating from within Harpers cabinet they would truly understand the danger this Bill represents to Canada.
As a guy that works in the skilled trades a pipeline is short term gain for the selected few…what we need is refineries that will add long term construction jobs then long term full time jobs. ..build a refinery and a big one here in prince george and see what that does for our economy. ..
Listen to all the near sighted dinosaurs chirp and dis the best politician in our region. Maybe try and leave the keyboard and broaden your horizon.
Well with his views on so called “climate change” one has to question his honesty, research abilities integrity and motives.
Cullen referring to those in favour of Enbridge as being Zombies, wandering around in circles isn’t exactly what you would call innuendo free speech.
Cullen opposed Enbridge because it was the politically correct thing to do at the time. To do otherwise might have cost him is cushy job.
CULLEN is allowed to voice his point of view, whether or not we agree with it. LIKE some of the posters voicing their opinion at least CULLEN is calling a spade a spade. THAT is one thing I respect is honesty and integrity……….good for him. I truly think that CHRISTYS cheerleaders should be a lot more worried about this ever increasing debt load being piled upon the BC taxpayer! LIKE one of the posters mentioned what about manufacturing and other related business avenues to look into. WHAT is the LIBERALS plan B……or do they even have a sustainable plan???
this is the closest to honest you will ever see in politics. those who say he is not honest are just plain liars. i have never met a more dedicated and honest politician in my life. you will never see or gety better than this fellow.
I remember hearing Nathan Cullen speak in Prince George several years ago. He was one of the best and most honest politicians I have ever hear heard. WE NEED him, he is wonderful. Thank you Nathen for all you great work.
ice:-” I truly think that CHRISTYS cheerleaders should be a lot more worried about this ever increasing debt load being piled upon the BC taxpayer! LIKE one of the posters mentioned what about manufacturing and other related business avenues to look into. WHAT is the LIBERALS plan B……or do they even have a sustainable plan???”
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First of all there has to be an actual consumer demand for whatever it is you’re going to manufacture, and secondly, even if there is, can that demand be made ‘effective’? In other words, can you recover enough in ‘price’ to cover the ‘costs’? ALL the ‘costs’, because otherwise the bank created credit that initiated those ‘costs’ cannot be fully repaid.
And when it can’t be fully repaid, how then can the bank create more credit without endangering its own existence? Now in business accounting the receipt of a bank loan is not classed as revenue by the borrowing business. And its repayment is therefore not classed as an expense, (as is the interest on the loan, and other business costs). Bank loans can only be repaid if the business has a PROFIT. And if it can’t generate one from what it’s doing it cannot maintain its credit with its banker, and is soon out of business.
Even if banks foreclose, and come into posssession of everything their borrowing customers have mortgaged, it does them no good unless those assets can be made profitable, somehow.
The BIG PROBLEM for Christy’s crowd, and the NDP, here, in Alberta and nationally, is that they can’t create conditions where businesses are continually PROFITABLE enough to repay what they’re borrowing. And they haven’t a clue how to do that. Too bad, the ‘jobs’ they all cherish so much depend entirely on that.
It’s not likely the BC Liberals have a “plan B”. Which is probably a good thing, because their “plan A” is pure delusion. When that’s finally apparent they’ll be quite happy to turn the reins over to Horgan, and then blame him for everything that goes wrong afterwards. Which will be plenty, in all likelihood, because ALL the NDP Premiers we’ve had so far seem to have severe learning disabilities when it comes to anything ‘economic’. Any philosophy such as theirs, which has no conception whatsoever of the creditary nature of our whole economy, and still holds instead the ridiculous Marxian idea that “the poor are poor because the rich are rich”, (which was already long out of date when Karl Marx expressed it way back in the mid 19th century), will NEVER be able to come up with a meaningful policy that will allow us to ever achieve our full economic potential, and truly have “the good life”.
The good news about the Alberta election will be the hopeful migration of industrial enterprises and skilled workers to BC. It would be great if Enbridge could start laying pipe soon, give the dismal economy of PG a boost.
Cullen supporters and their ilk should look to Greece and see what 50 years of NDP can do to an economy.
Contractor, it may not be readily apparent, but giving a dismal economy a boost is only beneficial if we actually get some genuine ‘prosperity’, and not what has been in the past no more than another recurrence of disguised ‘inflation’.
That latter can be induced by any political Party, and it always ends up in a bigger bust than the boom it seemed to be while it was occurring.
We should ask ourselves just exactly what ‘prosperity’ really is. I believe it’s when our standard of living increases faster than our cost of living. For most of us, that is.
In an ‘inflation’ our standard of living, at least for most people, does increase, too. But our cost of living is increasing even faster.
We all get to feel rich because we get to work with bigger figures. But in terms of what those figures will actually BUY, we’re really working our way straight into the poorhouse.
Now left of center Parties like the NDP tend to ignore that, because they aim for a ‘worker’s paradise’, and to them that’s when everyone is working. If they’re not working for ‘enough’, that’s fine, too. Because they seek to represent poverty, not find a way to permanently end it. That destroys their constituency. Surely those who are right of center can do better than follow the same thinking that’s been tried so many times before, and comes up just as short as the thinking of those on the left?
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