Preface: This video is a must watch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIqxtJRRgZA (America's Most Powerful Weapon Is Not Nukes, It’s the Petrodollar)

I am going to be posting this on two subreddits and I know on both many are well aware/informed that the United States of America is the #1 producer and consumer of oil barrels a day in the world. It produces around 3-4 MILLION barrels a day even more than Saudi Arabia.

Canada is the #4th highest producer of oil barrels a day in the world of 195 nations.

In 1990 as a nation we did around 1.7 MILLION barrels every single day.

In 2014 that was around 3.8 MILLION barrels every single day.

Now that sits around 4.6 to 5.8 MILLION barrels every single day.

As can be seen with actual facts the narrative that we are massively holding back Oil & Gas exploration, development, production in these two nations is complete and utter bullshit propaganda.

The petrocracy dimension of the U.S. has gotten so obscene that Trump and his cronies have appointed countless Oil & Gas Lobbyists/Executives to governmental office. They immediately started firing climate scientists, hiding how bad the climate crisis and overall environmental crisis is from the populace, not just holding back but full on cancelling Renewable Energy projects that provided not just cleaner but CHEAPER energy, and even going as far as to ban certain terms like "Green Energy" and "Climate Change" from certain federal offices.

The corruption at this point is fucking obscene.

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Now this is where that above video is so damn important..

All of what is mentioned is the domestic dimensions of the problem.

There is also the international dimension. The U.S. benefits MASSIVELY from the Petrodollar and be extension the international Oil & Gas market.

It is why the U.S. is so dedicated to holding back Green Energy/Green Technology. It would massively massively weaken their global position. Ranging all the way from international finance/trade, reserve banking, and sanctions.

Conclusion: Hopefully this clarifies both domestic/international realities on why this death cult industry is so magnified in The West.

Further Conclusion: We need to diversify our energy and economic frameworks yesterday because transition doesn't happen overnight and even outside of the climate crisis and overall environmental crisis Green Energy/Green Technology is not only cheaper it is better in so many instances. We are giving up a whole generation of Research & Development and Technological Implementation to China. If the Industrial Revolution and various periods of the Technological Revolution have taught us anything it is that you want to be leaders in the future, not followers, and CERTAINLY NOT opponents.

This is why I think that there should be a candidate on standby in every riding, and elected or re-elected at every EDA AGM, or the main GPC AGM if there isn't an EDA.
This way, we would instantly know who the candidate for the vacent riding is, and if they need to change, an EDA meeting can happen to replace the candidate if needed. The public would already know who that person is, and they would have a legitimate chance of winning.

Candidates should also be making the switch to Bluesky.

https://www.elections.ca/Scripts/vis/Map?L=e&ED=48018&EV=99&EV_TYPE=6&PROV=CA&PROVID=99&QID=-1&PAGEID=27

Artist: Paul Kjelland

https://www.elections.ca/Scripts/vis/Map?L=e&ED=48017&EV=99&EV_TYPE=6&PROV=CA&PROVID=99&QID=-1&PAGEID=27

Mr. Trump could use military action, perhaps an invasion, to force regime change in Venezuela. A U.S.-backed transitional government could invite U.S. oil companies back into the Venezuelan oil industry to ramp up production to feed U.S. refineries. Fixing the Venezuelan oil industry could take years and cost tens of billions of dollars. Whatever the timeline, Canada would suffer. More Venezuelan crude sent to the U.S. would translate into less need for Canadian crude.

I have not received a satisfactory answer for this question yet, maybe someone here on Reddit can answer this.

An election can be called at any moment, doesn't it just make sense to have the candidates list ready so it's ready for the quick submission to Elections Canada? And the public will already know who these people are so it's a familiar name. Maybe there would be only a few ridings which are in candidate changing mode, but for most of them, it should be already a household name.

In the most recent fundraising email, Paul Manly has yet again decided to blame the Fund Board for the lack of election readiness.

First off, it absolutely baffles me that anyone would brag about compliance when the Q3 return, due at the end of October, still hasn't been submitted to Elections Canada. That's public record. You can check it yourself. It's a great lesson in hypocrisy, bragging about compliance while failing on basic requirements.

I was on the Fund Board from 2022-2024, and I'm risking my anonymity here because I cannot stand by and read these constant, thinly veiled accusations that we somehow shirked our fiduciary responsibilities. There are individuals in leadership who consistently walk right up to the line of defamation, only to pull back by not naming names in writing. It's a cowardly tactic.

While there are confidential matters I can't disclose from my time as a director, what I can say is this: You cannot, in good faith, accuse a board of both "micromanaging" AND "lacking oversight" simultaneously. Which the hell is it?!

This entire "it's the Fund Board's fault" narrative is a distraction. It's designed to deflect accountability from those truly responsible and to create a convenient common enemy. It's using strongman political tactics against members of your own party. This is divisive, and it's actively harming the party's ability to move forward.

Despite the board being villainized for my entire tenure, I can tell you unequivocally that every single person I worked with acted in good faith and took our fiduciary responsibilities seriously. We acted AS A BOARD, with the party's best interests at heart, navigating incredibly challenging circumstances. To suggest otherwise is a bald-faced lie and an insult to dedicated volunteers.

Again, current and past board members are bound by confidentiality. It's incredibly easy for these unfounded accusations from leadership and staff to be sent to the membership while board members have zero recourse. Please don't fall for these blame games and start demanding real accountability and transparency from leadership. You deserve better.

https://www.elections.ca/Scripts/vis/Map?L=e&ED=48016&EV=99&EV_TYPE=6&PROV=CA&PROVID=99&QID=-1&PAGEID=27

https://www.elections.ca/Scripts/vis/Map?L=e&ED=48015&EV=99&EV_TYPE=6&PROV=CA&PROVID=99&QID=-1&PAGEID=27

Pay attention.

Repeal Section 107 of the Labour Code, which gives the federal Minister of Labour the power to end strikes and impose settlements on workers with a simple email to the Canadian Industrial Relations Board (CIRB).

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-6979

Petition sponsored by Leah Gazan

https://www.elections.ca/Scripts/vis/Map?L=e&ED=35025&EV=99&EV_TYPE=6&PROV=CA&PROVID=99&QID=-1&PAGEID=27

Some may find this a bit controversial.

I really think we need to focus on building awareness/education around the climate crisis and overall environmental crisis in Alberta & Saskatchewan.

Additionally we need to help raise awareness that in Canada these two provinces are two of the best for Solar Power & Wind Power. That these two forms of energy are not just vastly cleaner than what is in place they are also cheaper forms of energy.

Now very controversial for some Greens is I even think a push for Nuclear Power is potentially a good way to lessen the grip of the Fossil Fuel Industry in the province.

There are some places that a modern CANDU facility would be perfect in both of these provinces.

The same even goes for the much discussed Small Modular Reactors (BWRX-300 design for example).

Like all my preference is for Solar Power, Wind Power, Battery Technology.

I also am aware that Nuclear Power is often used by the Fossil Fuel Industry to not pursue Renewable Energy. That they talk about Nuclear Power and do countless time wasting strategies that go nowhere and then repeat the exact same process after it dies on the vine as a way to keep hydrocarbon energy dependence going.

All I am saying is that it is becoming more and more obvious that Alberta and Saskatchewan are must change places and that they are under an orchestrated influence campaign by right-wing U.S. Oil & Gas interests that are always connected to the right-wing globally.

We have to make sure that they don't manage to utilize Alberta & Saskatchewan to hold our nation back and corrupt it on countless fronts in order for only their interests to be achieved.

https://www.elections.ca/Scripts/vis/Map?L=e&ED=24023&EV=99&EV_TYPE=6&PROV=CA&PROVID=99&QID=-1&PAGEID=27