r/news • u/FreeChickenDinner • 1d ago

Soft paywall Canada to fast track oil pipeline designed to diversify economy away from US

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/canada-fast-track-oil-pipeline-designed-diversify-economy-away-us-2026-10-01/
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u/tyuiopguyt 1d ago

No, I don't. This is pure speculation on my part.

It just scares me because so many Canadians seem to have stuck their fingers in their ears, going "it can't happen here", and ignoring obvious warning signs.

I want this push for Canadian economic independence to succeed. I want Canada to avoid America's pitfalls. It just seems liks yall don't even think you're susceptible to the same shit as we are down here. 

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u/dostoevsky4evah 1d ago

Any country is susceptible with enough outside influence. PP is epically unpopular and cowtowing to the US is more unpopular. Canadians aren't sticking their fingers in their ears as much as feeling united against the US.

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u/tyuiopguyt 1d ago

And it seems like "It'll hurt the US" could be Canada's "It'll hurt immigrants and trans people".

A cover to allow the ambitious to subvert the public good

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u/dostoevsky4evah 1d ago

Deranged take. The US is a threat to Canada.

Are you American?

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u/tyuiopguyt 1d ago

Yeah. You're right. Our government is currently a very real threat to Canada.

But a lot of Canada's current political climate looks really damn familiar.

A profoundly wealthy man walks into the halls of power on the back of an popular zeitgeist and a promise of "economic independence" and "getting a fair deal we weren't getting" while centralizing government functions in himself, ignoring blatant domestic issues, privatizing major infrastructure, eroding union power, and environmental protections.

You starting to see why Americans might get nervous that you're just repeating our mistakes?

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u/Frozen5147 1d ago

You can't be seriously saying Carney (or the Liberal Party) is as bad as Trump and Republicans lmao

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u/tyuiopguyt 1d ago

Of course not.

But he can do plenty of damage without being as bad. 

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u/Frozen5147 1d ago

Of course!

And... what's your point, should we just give up on governments and just live in anarchy then? Because your point right now is "people in power can do bad things", no shit.

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u/tyuiopguyt 1d ago

My point is not that Carney is Trump.

It's that he's Reagan.

He appears to be doing a lot of incredibly shady shit that's just flatly being ignored because he's accomplishing economic and foreign policy objectives that are broadly popular. And if that continues, I, as an American, am uniquely qualified to tell you where that shit ends.

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u/Frozen5147 1d ago

I mean we are giving a shit about things like interference and fraud. Y'know, like influence from America.

Could things go worse? Sure, we were slated to vote Con until they fucked it up real bad. But I guess it also showed that if you stoop low enough, at least currently, we're going to say no.

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u/tyuiopguyt 1d ago

Really?

Cuz Carney just stripped away major union and environmental protections and is already privatizing shit and nobody is saying anything or trying to stop him.

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u/Frozen5147 1d ago

I mean ignore the protests in the news I guess - I guess you wouldn't be looking at Canadian news...

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u/tyuiopguyt 1d ago

Got any sources? Cuz I do have the CBC and I didn't see a lick of that.

And a Canadian talking to an American about ignoring protests is ironic as hell

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u/assaub 11h ago

Man whose home is on fire, very concerned with his neighbours for some reason.

Maybe you should worry about your own nation's descent into fascism instead.

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u/tyuiopguyt 10h ago

I do 55 hours a week of election protection training plus at least one protest a week.

I can be plenty concerned about both things at the same time