The Canadians have chosen a prime minister who promised to look for energy runners throughout Canada, to reduce the project approval deadlines and increased an oil carbon capture project during the debate of English leaders.
But this was not the conservative prime minister that most of the Albertans were waiting.
They did not reject the liberals with the same ferocity and unpleasant results that had delivered Justin Trudeau in the last two elections; Albertaos gave Mark Carney more shine than they had a federal liberal leader in generations.
But that did not translate into profits for the party, certainly not the violation of the blue wall record of the conservatives for which the liberals had been shooting.
The liberals entered the Carney era with two seats in Alberta, and that is what they have emerged. And except for some late seat somersaults, its minority has remained a minority, where they will need vows from the opposition party to obtain something through Parliament.
It is not clear that someone would like a result like Status-Quo like that. It is not the conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, who spent the last three years running to be prime minister; No Carney, who had urged voters to give him a “strong mandate”; And not Alberta’s prime minister, Danielle Smith, who had talked about waiting for the Trump administration to cool it in Talk Talk so that Washington did not help return Canada to Liberal Control.
However, the prime minister who returned promised the end of the status quo when it came to the Alberta Bloud oil and gas sector, even if it were not as much departure as Pailievre had promised, and probably not enough to satisfy what Smith will require Ottawa.
Pailievre had promised to see practically everything in Smith’s desire lists and Sponsors of the oil industry. In fact, the conservatives were so sure to reap an energy development bonanza by reducing several liberal environmental regulations that the party’s expensive platform reserved more than $ 16 billion in additional tax revenues of the new economic growth.
Carney has promised not to repeal the widely criticized project approvals system of Trudeau, but would offer to accelerate evaluations independently.
He spoke in Monday’s speech about the creation of “Energy Corridors”, a plan similar to Pailievre, and reiterated the plans to “turn Canada into an energy superpower into clean and conventional energy.”
Was it ever as pro-experience as Pailievre? No. But the liberal leader had struggled to distance himself from Trudeau with his superpower rhetoric: echoes of a Stephen Harper line – and its rapid elimination of consumer carbon tax. He also said during the debate that “we need to advance” with the carbon capture and storage project of $ 16.5 billion of oil companies, “so that we have oil and gas that is competitive not only today, but within 10 years, within 20 years.”
After Broadcasters declared the victory of the liberals, Carney also pointed out that he had made campaign stops at the end of the game in Edmonton and Saskatoon, with the hope of electoral advances that did not occur.
“I was because I intend to govern for all Canadians,” he said.
Carney will have the opportunity to give the Albertans a voice or two in the cabinet, with the liberal novice parliamentarians Eleanor Olszewski at the Edmonton center and the liberal Corey Hogan in the Calgary Confederation. And with the former Cabinet Minister of the NDP of Saskatchewan, Buckley Belanger, voted as liberal in the north of the province, Saskatchewan could also have a minister: his first front liberal banks not called Ralph Goodale in more than one generation.
That is a less liberal representation in Alberta and Saskatchewan than the party has pressed, but it is better than the laundering of two province of 2019 that helped generate the Wexit movement.
Some alberta separatist voices had already been making noises in advance of a fourth consecutive liberal term. Wait for them to become stronger, since they try to generate minority support so that Alberta leaves Canada to most cry.
“Tonight is not the end. Tonight is the beginning,” said Alberta Republican Party, a new renowned provincial separatist group.
“It is the beginning of a movement that will not rest until Alberta is free to control his own destiny.”
With so many leaders in that pro-independence and pro-referendum movement within the UCP base of Prime Minister Smith, his next movements will be important.
“As Prime Minister, I will not allow the status quo to continue,” Smith said in a statement on Tuesday morning. “Albertaos are proud Canadians who want this nation to be strong, prosperous and united, but we will no longer tolerate our industries to threaten and our resources rings by Ottawa.”
Before the elections, he suggested that the example of former Prime Minister Jason Kenney would follow in 2019 and designate a Second Fair Treatment Panel. The prime minister does not say what his next steps are, and although he does not rule out or does Pooh doing the idea of a referendum of independence yet, he has made it clear that he expects Carnay concessions.
“In the coming weeks and months, Albertans will have the opportunity to discuss the future of our province, evaluate several options to strengthen and protect our province against future hostile acts of Ottawa and, ultimately, choose a path to follow,” said Smith.
Will it import a lot that 28 percent of the liberals of popular vote in Alberta is their greatest participation from the federal elections of 1968? The conservatives had also increased their participation in the 64 percent vote, better than the 2021 score, and the vast majority of liberal profits in the province seemed to be due to a mass collapse in the NDP vote (along with its loss of one of its Edmonton seats).
Carney had promised a certain degree of change, but Albertaos clearly longed for more changes with Poilievre.
With that option closed for now, both the Prime Minister and the Prime Minister will have to discover how to consider with the activists and the discontent residents who are agitated by a much more drastic change for Alberta.
