Just Not ready

[donlever]

What's the opposite of cha-ching?

[BCExpat]

You'd think you would be tired of yourself by now.

Chef is back on my ignore list and I find this forum much better without his constant and repetitive BS.

[2Fingers]

PP needs to expand his message and not just axe the tax. I want to hear more from him on others topics like oil/gas and how he expects to build up our armed forces.

Finally I want to know how he expects to balance the budget and when.

If Canada votes in the liberals again I will lose my mind. NDP is dead, Singh destroyed that party with support for the liberals.

[5thhorseman]

You'd think you would be tired of yourself by now.

Chef is back on my ignore list and I find this forum much better without his constant and repetitive BS.

I don't know how he can keep it up. I would've driven myself mad by now.

[Topper]

PP needs to expand his message and not just axe the tax. I want to hear more from him on others topics like oil/gas and how he expects to build up our armed forces.

Finally I want to know how he expects to balance the budget and when.

If Canada votes in the liberals again I will lose my mind. NDP is dead, Singh destroyed that party with support for the liberals.

Listen to the speech he gave on Saturday. He spelled much of what you are looking for.

Reality is, resource dev will still face endless FN NGO court action that takes 20 years to resolve and by then the project backers are long gone.

I'm waiting to see KSM and Galore Creek hit the permit cycle. World class copper gold deposits in NW BC just inbord of the Alaska panhandle. They were discovered in the 1950's but development work has really taken off the past 20 years. Anywhere else in the world they would have already been in production. They are talking 100+ bridges and several tunnels, 10's kms of tunnel work, just to get a road in. Plenty of opposition from Alaska because of rivers and salmon runs to the Pacific through the pan handle. Fucking big deposits though.

[Meds]

I spent a summer up at Galore Creek in 2008. They were still building the road at that time. Incredible project that has plagued by delays.

[Topper]

Pat King, one of the more radical organizers of the Freedom Convoy, sentenced to 3 months house arrest including 100hrs community service on top of the 9 months he has already spent in prison.

The kind of sentence that makes appeal seem pointless but still doesn't satisfy the governments need for punishment. The government was asking for a 10 year sentence.

Lich and Barber up next.

I was at Galore Creek briefly in 1988, before Teck did the massive new camp and exploration phase. Turbine converted single Otter out of the old strip at a time most fixed wing refused to use that strip. Our other flights were out of Scud strip (a strip smoothed out of a gravel bar in the river channel). The road still isn't in, Feds committed $15 last October to complete the last 27kms.

Hilariously, three of us had helicoptered into Scud from our fly camp (3 guys with two 9x10 tents, coolers for food, coleman stove to cook on, we'd pack up and move camp once week with a helicopter and nets) on a beautiful sunny day. Hanging out on our pile of gear waiting for the DC3 to pick us and take us to Smithers. A LongRanger flew high overhead, circled back, did a low and slow pass up the strip checking us out and then landed. It was the RCMP with two Conservation Officers. The two cops were cool, one was the pilot, they were enjoying a sunny day flying in the Coast Mountains. The two moose and goose characters had carrots up their butts, strutting around asking us all sorts of questions. One of then started flipping through our gear bags and spotted the camp riffle. Standard company issued army surplus Lee Enfield 303 bolt action. He asked about permits for it. Back then it was pay $5 at a hardware store, sign your name and they gave you a permit. None of us had one so the one guy who was a company employee, not us contractor scum got the $100 ticket for not having a permit. Best part was that inside my duffel bag was my brief case with my .44Mag Redhawk and all my paperwork for it, but there was no chance I was volunteering that information.

Most terrifying griz encounter I ever had was just south of Galore.

[Tciso]

Is this true of Poilievre?

His position on taxation is that the middle- and working-classes should take on all of the tax burden for society because if we try to tax the super-wealthy or corporations they'll leave Canada?

Do you think the super wealthy should pay a higher percentage than everyone else?

Is it fair to penalize someone for being successful?

The wealthy, while able to find ways to shelter portions of their the income from taxation, already do pay more. It's simple math.

Lower tax rates on dividends and capital gains tend to benefit the wealthy. So generally they will pay a lower percent of tax on their income.

[Topper]

Carney campaign walking back from its mixed messaging between western Canada an Quebec.

Western Canada - I will use emergency powers to develop resources and I will cut transfer payments to Provinces to save money in the Federal budget.

Quebec - No pipelines without Quebec's consent and no cut to transfer payments

He really has a lot to learn about politics.

Note, he left the Bank of Canada a year early, just as the heavy lifting in Bank policy was needed and did the same at the Bank of England. He was called before British Parliamentary committees because of his political statements on Brexit when the role of the head of the Bank of England is to remain apolitical.

[Topper]

Democracy Watch has launch a private prosecution through the Ontario Courts of the Liberal Government for Obstruction of Justice over the political interference in the SNC-Lavalin scandal.

Liberal hail mary at the the TO-Que corridor for a high speed rail link. A proposal that has been on the shelves for 60 years. Will it include a pipeline corridor?

[Meds]

I was at Galore Creek briefly in 1988...

Was that strip the gravel one at Bob Quin that was parallel to the highway south of Iskut? That's where we flew in from Smithers. Fucking approach drops down into the valley and from the passenger section looking through the front the aircraft actually dips below the runway and then comes up and "flares" into a landing. first time scared the shit out of us. The next few were fun to watch the guys coming in for the first time.

We were heli (Long Ranger or 205/212) in and out every day from the main staging area. My friend was up there the summer before me and they had scaled back a ton since then. They had the Mi-26 up there that year.....the heli staging area had to be 10 acres and the Mi-26 landing pad and area owned almost 33% of that. Unfortunately that bird was gone the year I was there.

On the clear mornings the chief pilot from one of the heli contractors was the best guy to fly with in the Long Ranger. He'd skim the river and rip into the valleys, always taking the scenic route if he could. Flying under some of the fog was nerve racking at times in the 205.....a couple of those pilots were borderline insane. It was quite the departure for me from the oil and gas work I'd done where nobody dared take a risk just for the sake of adventure.

All of our scope was in the road construction, so I was assigned as a medic to a crew of drillers and blasters and a few equipment operators. They had me running the 40 ton rock truck for a bit until one of the HSE losers got wind of it. He tried to shut it down on grounds of safety and tickets, but the drilling contractor manager (who was filling in as project manager for a week) told him there was no reason I couldn't operate it because it wasn't classified as heavy equipment like excavators and dozers so you didn't even need a drivers license (akin to farm equipment) and I was better at doing it after 2 days than half the regular guys from the local band were after months on the job. So the HSE guy went to the local foreman for the Band contractor and told him.....I'm out now because it's taking away a job that could go to a band member.

The drillers who had their blasting tickets also tried falling a couple of trees with explosives when the fallers were going to be delayed by half a day. That didn't work so well.....all we did was create some widow makers that delayed things further. As you have said.....fucking drillers.

I didn't see a single bear the entire time I was up there.....I suppose the exploding rock tends to drive them away. Lots of moose in the rivers though while we were flying.

[Meds]

He (Carney) really has a lot to learn about politics.

Italics mine.

Carney's wife is a devoted environmentalist.....considering his ideals and proposals regarding banks only funding projects that fit the green agenda, one has to wonder who might be in the driver's seat of that relationship.

[Topper]

There was an air strip right at Galore camp back in the day. Likely now the modern trailer camp site. Flat ground was a premium there. The preferred access was fixed wing via Scud Strip just a few km north of Galore camp in the Scud river (near the confluence with the Stikine - hence the police patrols) the heli into Galore. I believe VIH had the contract when you would have been there. When I was in the area they had around 20 500D's based at Snip, mainly staffed by Kiwi pilots who were used to hunting deer from helicopters in New Zealand. There were three skill levels of pilots defined by one canyon work site. If you had a Canadian pilot, he'd drop you off and you had to hike in 1km, a Kiwi would vertical in and drop you in a hover drop, then there was Yoshi, he'd drop you off, turn the machine around at bop back out of the canyon. Our camp moves were 1 trip less with Yoshi than they were with anyone else. The mechanics hated him for how much he stressed the machines. Would never be allowed now with electronics and power settings relayed to head office in real time,

[Megaterio Llamas]

[Topper]

The more I read about the high speed train the more laughable a fiasco, typical Trudeau, announcement it is.

What was announced is a 5 year study, any construction won't begin for at least 5 to 10 years and it will take decades to complete.

As one commentator noted, there were no Japanese high speed rail experts at the announcement who would be advising on the construction.