A new Senate report released earlier this week recommends Canada step up its energy export game if the nation is to truly capitalize on our abundant wealth of natural resources. Compiled over the last three years, at undoubtedly great cost to taxpayers, the report aims to define 13 “priorities” for Canada’s energy sector.
“Canada today is an energy powerhouse,” Conservative Senator David Angus told the Canadian Press. ”[But] we have to work together.”
Angus went on:
“Canada can become the most energy productive nation in the world, with the greatest and highest level of environmental performance in the world, all leading to great national prosperity … but only if we change and adapt to this new world order.”
Angus went on to detail how our current “energy challenge” would require that Canadians across the board - including “ordinary citizens, corporate Canada and aboriginal communities” — come together and cooperate for us to truly kick ass and take names on the global energy scene.
Basically, what Angus and his patronage-fund hard-working pals in the Senate are telling us “ordinary citizens” and “aboriginal communities” is to put up, or shut up. The energy train here in Canada only goes one way, and that way is fast-fucking-forward, bud.
The report also recommends such things as diversifying our exports beyond the United States, and developing “newer, cleaner-burning alternatives to traditional fuel options.” But that’s just common fucking sense. Anyone with a basic grasp of supply and demand could have told Canadians that, and spared us three years of taxpayer-funded busywork for a bunch of party stooges in the Senate.
“We need to embrace natural gas as a game-changing fuel,” Liberal Senator Grant Mitchell said. “It is clean, it is efficient, it is safe and it is becoming a platform for the Canadian energy system.”
News flash, Grant: British Columbia is already sucking as much natural gas out of the earth as is humanly possible right now, and Alberta is burning the fuck out of it. The sooner we can ship that shit to China, the sooner we’ll all be rolling in pits of money.
What this report really tells us is that we need to get rid of the Senate if we’re even going to begin to talk fiscal responsibility at the federal level. How many millions of dollars did we pay for this fucking waste of trees? A book report my illiterate brother cobbled together in elementary school would be more illuminating than this “energy strategy” these pension assured freeloaders pawned off on us. You want to get lazy people to stop sucking government funds dry, Steve? Start with these fuckwads.
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