When I went to New Orleans in 2005 just before Hurricane Katrina struck, my friends were robbed on Bourbon Street. They went down an alley as a shortcut back to the hotel just as the sun was setting, and to their dismay three people robbed them.
They were first asked for cash with a promise these people would flee the scene as soon as they got what they wanted. Everyone turned over what money they had, then one man pulled a knife and started demanding that they turn over their phones.
At this point everyone ran very far away, although one of my friends stayed behind. I think he may have been a bit drunk and he kept repeating, “I only got a buck.” Eventually the alley became a bit more public and the robbers took off into the confusing and twisting alleys that are in downtown New Orleans.
Having written about the upcoming Saskatchewan Party leaders event in Estevan, I got thinking about the federal Liberals and their plan to turn Estevan into a ghost town. The truth is the modifications that were made to Boundary Dam during the 1990s did a great job of cleaning up the air and it was absolutely the last step needed to keep the air clean for the animals and people living around the power plant.
The carbon capture and storage facility that the Harper Conservatives helped finance wasn’t aimed at improving air quality. It was aimed at creating some sort of defence against a green regime wielding a knife demanding more than what they promised they would take.
The fundamental thing some people don’t understand is the support base for the New Democratic Party and Liberals who live in densely populated areas don’t care if every family surviving from coal production is laid off and has go on welfare. Mathematically speaking, that is a problem since there are many different ridings stuffed into one densely populated area.
Voting for left wing parties, for a great many, is a once in a four-year chance to do something easy to feel overwhelming good about themselves. The people who care about the votes will do anything to get them and right now pretending to be a moral crusader is trendy.
Politics is ugly; it can be just as ugly as those criminals who robbed my friends on Bourdon Street. Any criminal lawyer will tell you that you cannot trust criminals because they always lie. It might not be the situation all the time but some criminal lawyers always proceeded with that attitude as an act of professionalism when assembling the disclosure.
Criminals, when under the pressure of possible imprisonment, lie a lot and it is because they will lose everything they hold dear if they don’t get their charges thrown out or reduced. They have such a powerful reason to lie and to try and subvert the law, that most of the time they can’t even help themselves from acting wrongly.
That same sort of raw emotion that makes practising criminal law such a difficult and enormous task, is the same powerful emotion that politicians feel when they are the ones responsible for getting the party re-elected next term.
The voters, at least in this day in age, want to make a sort of moral vote when they go to the polling stations. When you combine that with a lust for power you end up with a dangerous criminal running for re-election.
When Donald Trump said, “I represent the people of Pittsburgh not Paris,” what he meant was he would not destroy jobs in the country he represents because someone in Europe thinks it is the moral thing do.
I don’t think Justin Trudeau actually wants to put Canada into a recession and see layoffs but I do think he likes trends and he enjoys having power and feeling he is using it morally.
My understanding is that converting all coal power energy in the province to carbon capture and storage (CCS) would cost as much as converting all coal power energy production in the province to natural gas roughly two times over.
This checkmate position the federal government has put this province in was intended and the right answer is to flat-out not listen to any of their demands.It would be wise if Saskatchewan didn’t put its self at the mercy of the federal Liberals and play their game that is rigged to only benefit the federal Liberals.
