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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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[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 hours ago

"Everything I don't like is woke"

[–] Montreal_Metro@lemmy.ca 15 points 18 hours ago

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

[–] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 day ago

Go cry to Trump again.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 66 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

And now a referendum to remove a garbage politician.

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

[–] Punchshark@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

dani smith is a traitorous cunt!

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I agree but I still don't trust polls. Any polls. Even the non-garbage ones.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

It's okay to just say you don't understand how statistics works.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Absolutely. Much like Cardinal Richelieu said, anything can be twisted to your desires, but assuming the only accurate polling is complete polling is incorrect and infeasible if not impossible.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I get that, wasn't really what I was trying to say, but looking at what I wrote.... definitely comes off that way...

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 hours ago

Alright, that's fair. Here's a quote that kind of meets in the middle: Some people use statistics the way a drunk uses a lamp post - not for illumination but for support.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

“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.

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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/

[–] uis@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

Guys, how did you make it worse than Russia?

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

Start the gretna-sarnia oil convoy! If only we had a rail system!

[–] arankays@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago

Garbage traitor human.

[–] npcknapsack@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] Stanley_Pain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago

Absolute garbage dumpster of a human being

[–] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Albertan here. Fuck yeah I support them.

[–] HonoredMule@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago

Then it should be right up your alley, no?

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] Nemean_lion@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I support a small object entering her at fast speeds.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Nemean_lion@lemmy.ca 3 points 19 hours ago

Ok for one thing. I'm not fast.