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‘It’s a garbage poll’: Danielle Smith criticizes survey suggesting Canadians support retaliatory tariffs on oil and gas

www.ctvnews.ca

The survey, conducted by Nanos Research for CTV News and The Globe and Mail, found more than two-thirds of people in the Prairies support putting tariffs on oil, natural gas and electricity.

“Well, I think it’s a garbage poll,” Smith said at an unrelated press conference on Tuesday.

“What if we were to ask Albertans or Canadians this: ‘Would you support export tariffs if it meant the U.S. would retaliate by shutting off Line 5 and leaving Ontario and Quebec without gasoline or aviation fuel at all?’ I think you’d get a different answer.”

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I am starting to support tariffs on Alberta. She is really running me the wrong way.

I've worked with people like this who dismiss data like this and fuck them, they'll reject anything that doesn't fit their narrative then blame you for it.

"Everything I don't like is woke"

I think she's confused the poll with her reflection in the mirror...

Maybe Alberta needs to hold a referendum on whether Danielle should be stripped of her citizenship and deported into the ocean.

Go cry to Trump again.

dani smith is a traitorous cunt!
- I agree but I still don't trust polls. Any polls. Even the non-garbage ones.
  
  Yeah, polls are untrustworthy at best, outright manipulative at worst. It's not like they ask every person in the population. How questions are worded matters nearly as much as who's answering. And, like any kind of statistical data, the answers to a poll can be twisted to say almost anything.

“What if we were to ask Albertans or Canadians this: ‘Would you support export tariffs if it meant the U.S. would retaliate by shutting off Line 5 and leaving Ontario and Quebec without gasoline or aviation fuel at all?’ I think you’d get a different answer.”
Isn't a relatively small percentage of gasoline consumption imported from the US?
And perhaps people would say to build the missing capacity domestically so we can't be extorted this way.
- Enbridge Line 5 is a mess.
  Despite Canada’s status as one of the world’s largest oil and gas producers, more than half of the country’s own population does not have true energy security – uninterrupted, reliable access to the energy they need at an affordable price.
  Even though Western Canada produces much of the oil consumed in Ontario and Quebec, in order to get there, it moves on pipelines that run through the United States.
  “It’s only energy secure if the Americans are our partners and friends,” leading energy researcher Jackie Forrest said on a recent episode of the ARC Energy Ideas podcast.
  Amid rising trade tensions with the United States, energy security is taking on greater importance. But Forrest said the issue is not well understood across Canada.
  “The concern is that in the worst-case scenario where the Americans want to really hurt our country, they have the ability to stop all crude oil flows to Ontario,” she said.
  That action would also cut off the majority of oil supply to Quebec.
  (It's a good article to read even though it's owned/operated by the Alberta gov't.)
  https://www.canadianenergycentre.ca/big-vulnerability-how-ontario-and-quebec-became-reliant-on-u-s-oil-and-gas/
  
  Start the gretna-sarnia oil convoy! If only we had a rail system!
  
  Guys, how did you make it worse than Russia?

And now a referendum to remove a garbage politician.

Garbage traitor human.

Okay, then we shut off the power and all the oil going down there if they retaliate that way. Danielle, put your elbows up, mkay? It'll be so much more comfortable than putting them on the ground so you can lick their boots.

Absolute garbage dumpster of a human being

Then it should be right up your alley, no?

Albertan here. Fuck yeah I support them.

I support a small object entering her at fast speeds.
- Please don’t fuck her
  
  Ok for one thing. I'm not fast.

I despise this bitch, but the last part is not an idle threat. It's a very real possibility and it's why no matter how this plays out in the near term, we need to get mixed pipelines directly to the eastern provinces.

Garbage poll, including people who don't even live in Alberta. "The Prairies" sure. What do they know about oil and gas in Manitoba? Ideally you'd want to poll only people with at least 5 years experience in the fossil fuels industry.
- Poll only people in oil? Are you serious? What would be the purpose of that? Maybe only rural Alberta should be able to vote in the provincial election and damn the rest. I think you have oil on your brain, and it's affected your thinking abilities.
- So in your view a poll on the attitudes of Canadians to oil and gas tariffs should ask only Canadians who have worked for many years in the oil and gas industry? That's not a poll of Canadians, that's a poll of the oil and gas industry.
  
  They're joking.
- And not the oil workers who realize that it goes “We stand on guard for thee” and not “We stand on guard for me” right?
- Back when I was a kid there were pumpjacks all over the southwestern portion of Manitoba, dotting the sunflower fields.
  And we still pump oil today.
  Manitoba has two oil and gas producing sedimentary basins with potential for oil and gas production, southwest Manitoba and the Hudson Bay lowlands.
  Producible oil was discovered in southwestern Manitoba in the 1950’s. This area has produced oil since 1951.
  All Manitoba's current oil production is located in southwest Manitoba along the northeastern flank of the Williston Basin, a sedimentary basin that also occupies portions of southern Saskatchewan, North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana.
  Manitoba produced 2,201,087.5 m3 of oil in 2020.
  https://www.manitoba.ca/iem/petroleum/oilfacts/index.html

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