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Dear Peter Van Loan
Government House Leader.
Bill C-24
I watched today the 30 minutes of questions and comments on your motion to bring closure yet again to debate in the House of Commons, and I have to say I have never heard you so arrogant and patronizing before and I do not find it becoming of you.

I heard you mention democracy several times and wonder if you actually know what it means. Do you? And do you really think we have it here in Canada?

I have a simple question for you which you, as the Government House leader, should know the answer off the top of your head and it is this:

How many amendments proposed by any opposition member at any stage of passage of any bills through either Houses of Parliament have been adopted since the election of May 2011?

IF you can find even one please tell me about it.

I believe that should provide you with the answer about Canadian Democracy today, because the voices of 60% of the voters are being muzzled.

Jeremy Arney

Canada’s moral and physical health

The Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos

Member of Parliament

Canadian Minister of Health

9th November 2022

Naturally our Prime Minister was not at the recent Health meetings with the Provincial Health Ministers and/or Premiers, because his interest in the wellbeing of Canadians is very low on his WEF driven agenda.

I have only been privy to the biased and not really informative press releases but it seems that the idiots in charge of the Canadian health system all seem to think that throwing money at the problem will solve it.  Money is a heartless and cold commodity and rarely solves the problems that corporate and political greed cause.

Like many other Canadians I have not had a family doctor for years now as my last two both retired, and those who remained were oversubscribed with patients and had no room for me. Well, that was OK with me as my minor problems have been solved by a quick (sometimes) visit to the local clinics or ER.

But there is a greater cause for lack of doctors than retirement and that is the inability of family doctors to practice medicine that is best in their opinion for their patients.  Doctors spend years and a great deal of money learning their trade, and then have to set up a practice and stand by the Hippocratic Oath and earn the trust of their patients.  Since early 2020 this has not been possible as the governments, both federal and provincial, have all pushed toxic untested mRNA jabs with no known long-term side effects and no realistic known effectiveness against catching or transmitting that flu you all obediently called covid. If doctors did not tow the political lines the local licensing bodies (politically operated provincial Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons) removed their licenses to practice medicine, either in hospitals or their own practices.  This caused a lot of doctors to refuse to harm their patients and step aside from their practices.

Until you all recognize that money will not get these doctors back again, you can throw as much money as you can at the problem and it will have the same effect as the money you have thrown at Trudeau’s bosom buddy, the Nazi comic in Ukraine, who will never be appeased.

Doctors MIGHT return if you allow them to practice what they have learned but somehow I doubt that they will trust any of you enough to take any offers you make seriously.

I am so tired of hearing that Canada is a democracy when the Canadian voters are treated like cattle, or sheep, and not listened to at all. Klaus Schwab, Fauci and Gates, the WEF, NATO, IMF, UN even the WHO have your complete attention, but they do not vote for you yet, nor do they pay for your jobs, pensions or your joy riding around the globe.

I saw on the CBC today that the OMA spokesperson is still pushing the mRNA jabs, but now includes regular flu shots, along with masking, washing hands etc.,   Not one mention of those necessary vitamins that will boost natural immunity because according to the “bosses” they are not necessary when pharma can produce sickness causing jabs and make a fortune doing it.  She made the claim that last winter there were only 12 cases of flu reported in Ontario and I have to wonder why.  Of course, I know the answer and that is that they were all recorded as covid to boost the panic you all wanted to create.

I am so disgusted with your lack of attention to real Canadians or the so-called middle class, which has only existed in your minds for years, as a good talking point. So much for democracy in Canada.

Jeremy Arney

Pipelines, Albertan tar and NAFTA

Premiere Rachel Notley of Alberta.

13th January 2018

 I was cruising CPAC the other day and I came across your address to the Economic Club of Canada from 21 November 2017 concerning amongst other things the need for pipelines from the Alberta tar sands to tidewater.

 You said and I quote:

 “…..we need to be able to sell that energy from that energy industry to more than just one client.

Right now, all our energy infrastructure is built for export to the United States.  They are a monopoly buyer.”

 I will not argue with that at all, but there is a catch to what you are saying.

 I am referring to NAFTA, and in particular Article 605 which I quote below:

 

NAFTA

Article 605: Other Export Measures

Subject to Annex 605, a Party may adopt or maintain a restriction otherwise justified under Articles XI:2(a) or XX(g), (i) or (j) of the GATT with respect to the export of an energy or basic petrochemical good to the territory of another Party, only if:

  1. a)the restriction does not reduce the proportion of the total export shipments of the specific energy or basic petrochemical good made available to that other Party relative to the total supply of that good of the Party maintaining the restriction as compared to the proportion prevailing in the most recent 36month period for which data are available prior to the imposition of the measure, or in such other representative period on which the Parties may agree;

 

From this, it is clear from what you are saying that we are exporting 100% of the bitumen from the Alberta tar sands to the US and we cannot reduce that percentage without the approval of the US.  As long as that Article of NAFTA, or indeed NAFTA itself, remain in effect there is no way that even a “barrel” of tar can be shipped anywhere except to the United States, which in essence owns 100% of your tar.

It is also clear that you are suggesting that the disputed Kinder Morgan pipeline to Burnaby is to transport that diluted tar intended for export by super oil tankers to, amongst others, China.

Clearly, Minister Freeland, to whom I have written numerous times on this very Article 605 with absolutely no response, chooses to ignore this important NAFTA  article even if it must be clear to her that we have a serious problem.

What both of you are suggesting is that a claim in front of a quasi-legal trade tribunal is of no importance to you as the people of Canada will be happy to pay the millions in lost profit which the US importers of this Canadian tar will claim against us as soon as you ship so much as one kilogram of tar somewhere else.

Perhaps you have a way around this?

If so I would be very pleased to hear it.

What I personally hope is that President Trump does actually go ahead and cancel NAFTA and you can then at least contemplate exporting your tar elsewhere in the world and, I would suggest, through a port in Alaska.

Incidentally the concept that supertankers do not get into trouble, never accepted by the coastal people here in BC, is under a black cloud of smoke right now as there is one on fire in the China Seas after a collision, and there is no way that any spill of diluted bitumen in either the Vancouver Harbour, Georgia Strait or the Strait of Juna Fuca can be cleaned up any more than was that mess in Michigan. 

It is unfortunate that in your desire to make things better again for Alberta, you should choose to trample over British Columbians in the same way our original settlers did to the then long-time inhabitants of what we now call Canada. 

Strange how history repeats itself isn’t it Ms Notley?

Jeremy Arney

 

Ps,

We are a long way from this and getting further away each day

 

When the Landscape is Quiet Again.

Governor Arthur A. Link, October 11th, 1973.

We do not want to halt progress; we do not plan to be selfish and say North Dakota will not share its energy resources. We simply want to ensure the most efficient and environmentally sound method of utilizing our precious coal and water resources for the benefit of the broadest number of people possible.

And when we are through with that and the landscape is quiet again, when the draglines, the blasting rigs, the power shovels and the huge gondolas cease to rip and roar and when the last bulldozer has pushed the spoil pile into place and the last patch of barren earth has been seeded to grass or grain, let those who follow and repopulate the land be able to say, our grandparents did their job well. The land is as good and in some cases, better than before.

Only if they can say this, will we be worthy of the rich heritage of our land and its resources.”