@bradsharpe941no we don't, don't go tearing down fences until you understand why they were built. Mostly for regional development reasons. You cannot trust other provinces to respect your jobs that is not there job. You cannot expect industry to stay here if there is no economic reason.
All this Red Scare nonsense against trade with China are products of the American propaganda machine. We need new customers and China is a huge market. We can trade with them at arms length without getting gouged. This is something we can control.
Tim Houston and his Nova Scotia Conservatives: - Scrapped a one-cent gas surcharge for Nova Scotia's cap-and-trade program, choosing instead the Canada carbon levy which is now 17 cents for gasoline, but blamed provincial and federal Liberal parties every step of the way. - took power away from independent agencies and boards (NS Business Inc., Innovacorp, NS Health, NS Tourism, HRM Housing, NS Gaming Corp, Perennia Food Agency), handed their authority to partisan ministers, and limited the ability of opposition MLAs to hold those ministers accountable. - appointed a Halifax building developer, who donated $24,000 to Tim Houston's campaign (there is a limit of $5000 per person, but the donations were spread across his mother, sisters and brother-in-law), as chair of the new government transition team with access to briefings on policy matters from senior civil servants. - replaced the independent crown corporations Nova Scotia Business Inc. and Innovacorp with the new Invest NS to give the govt more partisan control over economic development - despite the obvious conflicts of interest, appointed Houston's friend, Tom Hickey, CEO of Atlantic Road Construction and Paving Ltd., to run the newly-created crown corporation Invest Nova Scotia with compensation of $18,000 a month ($216,000 annually), and another mutual friend to run Develop Nova Scotia. Without public consultation, Hickey's company quickly received approval to dump 100,000 cubic meters (approx. 11,000 dump truck loads) of their acidic bedrock construction waste in Dartmouth Cove over the next 6 years. - nullified HRM housing bylaws to give the housing minister absolute authority over city planning without consultation and incentivizes partisan ministers to engage in favouritism for friends and allies and donors, although it does nothing to address homelessness, high rents and housing affordability. - scrapped the Coastal Protection Act so developers can decide for themselves where to build along the eroding coastline. - fast-tracked "affordable" housing by removing environmental protections from arsenic-contaminated land at Port Wallace to allow developer friends building $800k luxury homes. - after the Sobeys family paid $12,000 to Tim Houston's election campaign, he paid Sobeys $1 Million to encourage Nova Scotians to buy local products, even though local farmers' markets were excluded from the program. - provided government subsidies to commercial wine bottlers of imported ingredients that are friends of the Premiere. - paid $34 Million (2-3x market value) for a new, unfinished hotel, $10 Million to renovate into a short-term 68-bed nursing home, and $68 Million for a nursing home operator to buy back the property for $46 Million and run it for 5 years as a gov't funded and paid-for private facility, that cost NS taxpayers $66 million so far, plus future operating costs after 5 years is up. - cried in his election campaign that he would provide family doctors for the 69,000 Nova Scotians waiting on the family practice registry, but 3 years after being elected the registry has doubled to 160,000 people and his new solution is to scrap the registry. - scrapped the Covid dashboard that counts the hundreds who died this season and empowers concerned citizens to make informed decisions, because others find it stressful to be informed. - withheld spring Covid vaccines until the fall, even for the severely immunocompromised, despite NS Health recommendations for a 6 month booster before the expected summer wave. - violated patient confidentiality by allowing government employees to access individual patients' medical records. - underfunded Child Protection Services and removed monitoring in temporary youth homes, where 4-day recommended stays are averaging 8 months. - supported subsidizing private windmill farms for Bear Head Energy and EverWind Hydrogen's corporate use, while Nova Scotia Power continues to burn coal. - created a policy that will require Nova Scotia Power customers to pay $31 Million ($67 per household) to prevent power interruptions at a single Michelin plant (so far, until others request it too), one year after paying Michelin a $105 Million subsidy, and residential power failures are more common than ever before. - support Northern Pulp who knowingly polluted for decades, withheld pensions from loyal employees, and sued the province for $450 Million. - made an election campaign promise to hunting groups and firearms sellers to create a spring bear hunt, and then broke it. - campaigned on and legislated fixed election dates, then said he would overturn it to call a snap election if it was advantageous for him. - called a snap by-election with only 5 weeks for candidate nominations and campaigns, and delayed announcing a local mill closure until the day after the election. - called Cape Breton's state of emergency a publicity stunt when they were buried by a meter of snow and buildings were collapsing and exploding from gas leaks. - joined Alberta UCP Premiere Danielle Smith to argue against the Canada Carbon Rebate but won't comment on her plan for Alberta to separate from the Canada Pension Plan or other authoritarian policies. - have no plan to improve rural public transit or reduce commuter vehicle reliance to reduce emissions. - won't stand up for local journalism after most of Atlantic Canada's newspaper outlets were bought up by Transcontinental/SaltWire which then closed most outlets, gutted the rest, withheld pension payments, and then entered receivership. - plan to create a Nova Scotia Guard that will take resources away from existing search & rescue, volunteer fire departments and other emergency response groups that are already challenged for volunteers and funds. - coerced a female staff researcher who was the victim of an alleged sexual assault and battery by PC party leader Jamie Baillie to sign multiple non-disclosure agreements (and her family as well) in exchange for cash. Baille was forced to resign and was replaced by Karla MacFarlane as the interim leader, who is suspected of issuing the NDAs and was promoted to Speaker of the Legislature (to replace the more impartial Keith Bain for supporting Covid protocols and denying MLAs a pay raise). The victim died shortly after from a sudden brain hemorrhage. A legal challenge attempting to ban NDA's from sexual assault cases that threatened to expose the whole affair was withdrawn when MacFarlane resigned. The PC party still refuses to enact a ban on sexual assault NDAs.
@@wally7856they're also a particularly entrenched canadian dynasty with dubious profit motives. Gas is almost always a little more on the east coast and ontario had a limited refining capacity that we chose not to upgrade in the early 20th century.... It's all kinda suspicious.
Yes there should be trade restrictions between provinces. Maybe you haven't noticed the disappearances of some dairies to Quebec, understandable. Without restrictions there will be no breweries , pop bottling facilities, dairie any where east ot the St Lawrence River, Ontario and Quebec have sufficient excess productivity to take on that production. Without restrictions on electrical power pricing Quebec Hydro could undercut the Maritimes power supply out of existence then charge whatever they want, hence forcing industry to relocate to Quebec for economic reasons.... imagine all Michilin tire plants up and government, plastic production gone, Irving shipyard gone, depending on who is running the show in Ottawa possibly the Naval Dockyard relocated. Probably paying double your present power rates as they do in New York City now. Just because some drunken University students want cheaper beer and know how to flood the internet with disinformation is no reason to declutch our common sense and go along with it. Industries will not pass along any savings to you me or any other tax paying citizen. That is not there job, they are paid to pass along earnings to billionaires from efficiencies in the market place not to us. Don't go tearing down fences until you know why they were built, because they were built to protect you.
Uh huh look at a map. 3000+kms to new Orleans or quebec city from the prairies. Fuel is 170% percent higher in Canada than the US. We have 2 railines for half that distance in Canada. Sure kill the trade barriers but you damn well better pay for the infrastructure we desperately need out of Quebec and Ontario's pockets.
Canadian business leaders have long advocated for the removal of interprovincial trade barriers. Experts estimate that eliminating these barriers could boost Canada's GDP by up to $200 billion annually, enhancing productivity and competitiveness, and MORE than offsetting the damage expected from Trump's threatened tariffs. The Business Council of Alberta stated “One of the profound ironies of Canada’s focus on foreign trade is that, in many cases, it is actually easier for Canadian companies to do business across international borders than it is within our own country.” Moreover, 88% of small businesses believe that eliminating trade barriers should be a top priority for Canadian governments. This matter needs to be taken seriously, and these barriers need to come down once and for all. We are on a slippery slope complaining about Trump‘s tariffs while at the same time we tariff ourselves!
Now is the time for CANADA to stand on its own, this is step forward. I agree with Houston on this topic. Canada is a rich Nation ,you never fail until you stop trying.
The whole country is up in arms about another country threatening to impose import tariffs on us meanwhile we impose interprovincial tariffs on ourselves
I honestly didn't think our provinces had trade barriers between each other. What's the point of being a country if we have trade barriers between each other ?
@@DB-cu5cx Totally agree. I like Doug Fords recent slogan but unfortunately it falls into the same category as PP's stupid 3 word slogans that he apparently thinks are policies. It also dumbs down politics and plays the citizen a fool
You should have another chat with Danielle Smith.... just saying. You want to bring 10,000's of jobs to your Provence over the next 10 years? You should absolutely remove some of the sector Bans... you know the ones I'm talking about.
As a Nova Scotian who is under 40, I never understood why we sent hard working labourers to the west to grow their economy and yet we receive equalization payments. Nova Scotia has vast natural resources, and the "not in my backyard" boomers really had a disproportionate impact on our public policy. Nova Scotia is on the precipice of something great. Our unemployment rate is lower than Alberta and Ontario, and it's time we developed what we have and export it worldwide. I am grateful we have a Premier now who is willing to combat this and get traction under us to be great. It's time for Nova Scotia to send equalization payments to other provinces and reduce our dependence. Let's take the "NO" out of Nova Scotia!!!
Wow, it sure is easy to get you Cons to literally parrot what your dear leaders tell you,as long as it's only a few syllables🤣😂🤣 Here, this is for you. Tim Houston and his Nova Scotia Conservatives: - Scrapped a one-cent gas surcharge for Nova Scotia's cap-and-trade program, choosing instead the Canada carbon levy which is now 17 cents for gasoline, but blamed provincial and federal Liberal parties every step of the way. - took power away from independent agencies and boards (NS Business Inc., Innovacorp, NS Health, NS Tourism, HRM Housing, NS Gaming Corp, Perennia Food Agency), handed their authority to partisan ministers, and limited the ability of opposition MLAs to hold those ministers accountable. - appointed a Halifax building developer, who donated $24,000 to Tim Houston's campaign (there is a limit of $5000 per person, but the donations were spread across his mother, sisters and brother-in-law), as chair of the new government transition team with access to briefings on policy matters from senior civil servants. - replaced the independent crown corporations Nova Scotia Business Inc. and Innovacorp with the new Invest NS to give the govt more partisan control over economic development - despite the obvious conflicts of interest, appointed Houston's friend, Tom Hickey, CEO of Atlantic Road Construction and Paving Ltd., to run the newly-created crown corporation Invest Nova Scotia with compensation of $18,000 a month ($216,000 annually), and another mutual friend to run Develop Nova Scotia. Without public consultation, Hickey's company quickly received approval to dump 100,000 cubic meters (approx. 11,000 dump truck loads) of their acidic bedrock construction waste in Dartmouth Cove over the next 6 years. - nullified HRM housing bylaws to give the housing minister absolute authority over city planning without consultation and incentivizes partisan ministers to engage in favouritism for friends and allies and donors, although it does nothing to address homelessness, high rents and housing affordability. - scrapped the Coastal Protection Act so developers can decide for themselves where to build along the eroding coastline. - fast-tracked "affordable" housing by removing environmental protections from arsenic-contaminated land at Port Wallace to allow developer friends building $800k luxury homes. - after the Sobeys family paid $12,000 to Tim Houston's election campaign, he paid Sobeys $1 Million to encourage Nova Scotians to buy local products, even though local farmers' markets were excluded from the program. - provided government subsidies to commercial wine bottlers of imported ingredients that are friends of the Premiere. - paid $34 Million (2-3x market value) for a new, unfinished hotel, $10 Million to renovate into a short-term 68-bed nursing home, and $68 Million for a nursing home operator to buy back the property for $46 Million and run it for 5 years as a gov't funded and paid-for private facility, that cost NS taxpayers $66 million so far, plus future operating costs after 5 years is up. - cried in his election campaign that he would provide family doctors for the 69,000 Nova Scotians waiting on the family practice registry, but 3 years after being elected the registry has doubled to 160,000 people and his new solution is to scrap the registry. - scrapped the Covid dashboard that counts the hundreds who died this season and empowers concerned citizens to make informed decisions, because others find it stressful to be informed. - withheld spring Covid vaccines until the fall, even for the severely immunocompromised, despite NS Health recommendations for a 6 month booster before the expected summer wave. - violated patient confidentiality by allowing government employees to access individual patients' medical records. - underfunded Child Protection Services and removed monitoring in temporary youth homes, where 4-day recommended stays are averaging 8 months. - supported subsidizing private windmill farms for Bear Head Energy and EverWind Hydrogen's corporate use, while Nova Scotia Power continues to burn coal. - created a policy that will require Nova Scotia Power customers to pay $31 Million ($67 per household) to prevent power interruptions at a single Michelin plant (so far, until others request it too), one year after paying Michelin a $105 Million subsidy, and residential power failures are more common than ever before. - support Northern Pulp who knowingly polluted for decades, withheld pensions from loyal employees, and sued the province for $450 Million. - made an election campaign promise to hunting groups and firearms sellers to create a spring bear hunt, and then broke it. - campaigned on and legislated fixed election dates, then said he would overturn it to call a snap election if it was advantageous for him. - called a snap by-election with only 5 weeks for candidate nominations and campaigns, and delayed announcing a local mill closure until the day after the election. - called Cape Breton's state of emergency a publicity stunt when they were buried by a meter of snow and buildings were collapsing and exploding from gas leaks. - joined Alberta UCP Premiere Danielle Smith to argue against the Canada Carbon Rebate but won't comment on her plan for Alberta to separate from the Canada Pension Plan or other authoritarian policies. - have no plan to improve rural public transit or reduce commuter vehicle reliance to reduce emissions. - won't stand up for local journalism after most of Atlantic Canada's newspaper outlets were bought up by Transcontinental/SaltWire which then closed most outlets, gutted the rest, withheld pension payments, and then entered receivership. - plan to create a Nova Scotia Guard that will take resources away from existing search & rescue, volunteer fire departments and other emergency response groups that are already challenged for volunteers and funds. - coerced a female staff researcher who was the victim of an alleged sexual assault and battery by PC party leader Jamie Baillie to sign multiple non-disclosure agreements (and her family as well) in exchange for cash. Baille was forced to resign and was replaced by Karla MacFarlane as the interim leader, who is suspected of issuing the NDAs and was promoted to Speaker of the Legislature (to replace the more impartial Keith Bain for supporting Covid protocols and denying MLAs a pay raise). The victim died shortly after from a sudden brain hemorrhage. A legal challenge attempting to ban NDA's from sexual assault cases that threatened to expose the whole affair was withdrawn when MacFarlane resigned. The PC party still refuses to enact a ban on sexual assault NDAs. ALL EASILY VERIFIABLE. I DARE YOU!
I was planning a move to Nova Scotia anyway, now I am more excited than ever, REAL SENSE FROM A PREMIER! Maybe this kick in the pants is just what Canada needed right now! We can be more prosperous than the USA if we put our minds to it, MAKE IT HAPPEN.
Finally some Canadian unclogging! It's time for all Canadians to use our full potential. We have become prime targets of unexploited ressources. As recommended by PM Houston, barriers between provinces should be removed and cooperation encouraged.
Yes ! Exactly ! I thought similar, recently . That those pesky, limiting, stifling, inter provincial trade barriers are a menace, towards growth. Well done for seeing the light !!! Woo hoo !!! Hallelujah ! 🇨🇦✌🏼🇨🇦✌🏼🇨🇦✌🏼🇨🇦😁
Its sad that a foreign leader has to point things wrong with our country when Canadians have complined about many things and largely gone unheard. We need a government that works as the servant, not the master.
I cannot even travel canada on a disability because if I leave for more than 30 days from ontario I owe every penny back as over payment after day 30 gone. So day 31 and forward i have to return or have overpayment even though i paid ny rent and food. Moral of the story is that each province is greedy with each penny and cannot get along
As an American I was shocked when I learned of this inter provincial trade barriers. That is just crazy. Canada can hardly claim to be a united nation with this in place. Certainly is not a good way to foster national interest or unity much less national goals or strategic planning. Very odd,antiqued way of running a nation.
Absolute ineptitude on the part of Canada, many Canadians have been saying for DECADES that we need to refine our own oil, we need to be able to sell oil to other nations. Look at us now? Like a bunch of children getting cut off from mommy and daddy
That’s right maybe things are starting to look up for Canadians. All this stuff should of been done already all of a sudden Trump speaks everyone jumps wow. Come on do better
@sram390 sorry, this was in reference to the inter-provincial trading guard rails lol, removing them (and I'm no economist) seems like a good way to reduce bureaucratic process costs, speed up trade and incentivises business dealings nationwide. Right now, its more a protectionist measure from all the different regulations in place such as occupational licensing (trades mostly) and even stuff like drinking ages. Without these things, commerce could flow better imo.
Energy east will require decades to get permits, protests and court challenges and in the end not get done. Same thing goes for just about everything that would bring more prosperity with some risk. How can we trade well with the world when we can’t even trade amongst ourselves.
Energy East had all the permits and planning done 10 years ago. Then Trudeau came in (and Quebec reneged on in place agreements) and changed the rule book. Remove Trudeau's changes and pipe could hit the ground in a month. 400 kms are all the first part needed and oil can flow. That's about 6 months if regulations do not stall work every day.
Thanks Mr. Houston for starting these common sense discussions. Canadian economy has been going in a downward spiral for the past 9 years. I have never seen the Canadian economy so weak since I have moved here 15 years ago.
Section 121 of the Canadian constitution clearly states there should be no trade barriers between provinces. Sadly, it seems the constitution isn't worth the paper its written on.
What bugs me about this so call truth teller. My husband had ALS, couldn't get care ,he had to call maid, ,, Houston few days later said we had the best care in Canada, what a lair, My friend can't breath half the time close to a year to find out she has a blockage, we are dying waiting for care, while there bringing in more people.. Tell you're maga loving man, PP and Smith, we are human beings ,no man owns our bodies. Women are losing rights to the maga right wing who is going to take our rights away., Be careful who you vote for, women might not want to have kids if there is no health care, why put your life on the line. Look at what's going on in the states with women We fought for those rights ,so when a young girls gets ra*ed like I knew a girl in grad 8 who was r*ped in grade 7, made her have a kid, back, in the late 60's ..Is this piece of sh(t is going to follow right wing PP .take away our rights if maga loving man gets in.. I hope women walk away from men who vote CP, like women in the states wright wing maga .Fist time in my life I"m scared of this right wing maga loving party going after what we women fought for.. All I can say, at least put young girls on the pill soon as they get there period..One out of every three women are are r*ped...Maybe de-nutt the men who do it..CP everyone know's can't bring oil east, not enough man power, not enough builder's, but at least there not lying when it comes to women's rights , Women don't vote CP Huston will make sure he follow's his right wing maga loving PP , who talked about making us more like the states.
Tim Houston and his Nova Scotia Conservatives: - Scrapped a one-cent gas surcharge for Nova Scotia's cap-and-trade program, choosing instead the Canada carbon levy which is now 17 cents for gasoline, but blamed provincial and federal Liberal parties every step of the way. - took power away from independent agencies and boards (NS Business Inc., Innovacorp, NS Health, NS Tourism, HRM Housing, NS Gaming Corp, Perennia Food Agency), handed their authority to partisan ministers, and limited the ability of opposition MLAs to hold those ministers accountable. - appointed a Halifax building developer, who donated $24,000 to Tim Houston's campaign (there is a limit of $5000 per person, but the donations were spread across his mother, sisters and brother-in-law), as chair of the new government transition team with access to briefings on policy matters from senior civil servants. - replaced the independent crown corporations Nova Scotia Business Inc. and Innovacorp with the new Invest NS to give the govt more partisan control over economic development - despite the obvious conflicts of interest, appointed Houston's friend, Tom Hickey, CEO of Atlantic Road Construction and Paving Ltd., to run the newly-created crown corporation Invest Nova Scotia with compensation of $18,000 a month ($216,000 annually), and another mutual friend to run Develop Nova Scotia. Without public consultation, Hickey's company quickly received approval to dump 100,000 cubic meters (approx. 11,000 dump truck loads) of their acidic bedrock construction waste in Dartmouth Cove over the next 6 years. - nullified HRM housing bylaws to give the housing minister absolute authority over city planning without consultation and incentivizes partisan ministers to engage in favouritism for friends and allies and donors, although it does nothing to address homelessness, high rents and housing affordability. - scrapped the Coastal Protection Act so developers can decide for themselves where to build along the eroding coastline. - fast-tracked "affordable" housing by removing environmental protections from arsenic-contaminated land at Port Wallace to allow developer friends building $800k luxury homes. - after the Sobeys family paid $12,000 to Tim Houston's election campaign, he paid Sobeys $1 Million to encourage Nova Scotians to buy local products, even though local farmers' markets were excluded from the program. - provided government subsidies to commercial wine bottlers of imported ingredients that are friends of the Premiere. - paid $34 Million (2-3x market value) for a new, unfinished hotel, $10 Million to renovate into a short-term 68-bed nursing home, and $68 Million for a nursing home operator to buy back the property for $46 Million and run it for 5 years as a gov't funded and paid-for private facility, that cost NS taxpayers $66 million so far, plus future operating costs after 5 years is up. - cried in his election campaign that he would provide family doctors for the 69,000 Nova Scotians waiting on the family practice registry, but 3 years after being elected the registry has doubled to 160,000 people and his new solution is to scrap the registry. - scrapped the Covid dashboard that counts the hundreds who died this season and empowers concerned citizens to make informed decisions, because others find it stressful to be informed. - withheld spring Covid vaccines until the fall, even for the severely immunocompromised, despite NS Health recommendations for a 6 month booster before the expected summer wave. - violated patient confidentiality by allowing government employees to access individual patients' medical records. - underfunded Child Protection Services and removed monitoring in temporary youth homes, where 4-day recommended stays are averaging 8 months. - supported subsidizing private windmill farms for Bear Head Energy and EverWind Hydrogen's corporate use, while Nova Scotia Power continues to burn coal. - created a policy that will require Nova Scotia Power customers to pay $31 Million ($67 per household) to prevent power interruptions at a single Michelin plant (so far, until others request it too), one year after paying Michelin a $105 Million subsidy, and residential power failures are more common than ever before. - support Northern Pulp who knowingly polluted for decades, withheld pensions from loyal employees, and sued the province for $450 Million. - made an election campaign promise to hunting groups and firearms sellers to create a spring bear hunt, and then broke it. - campaigned on and legislated fixed election dates, then said he would overturn it to call a snap election if it was advantageous for him. - called a snap by-election with only 5 weeks for candidate nominations and campaigns, and delayed announcing a local mill closure until the day after the election. - called Cape Breton's state of emergency a publicity stunt when they were buried by a meter of snow and buildings were collapsing and exploding from gas leaks. - joined Alberta UCP Premiere Danielle Smith to argue against the Canada Carbon Rebate but won't comment on her plan for Alberta to separate from the Canada Pension Plan or other authoritarian policies. - have no plan to improve rural public transit or reduce commuter vehicle reliance to reduce emissions. - won't stand up for local journalism after most of Atlantic Canada's newspaper outlets were bought up by Transcontinental/SaltWire which then closed most outlets, gutted the rest, withheld pension payments, and then entered receivership. - plan to create a Nova Scotia Guard that will take resources away from existing search & rescue, volunteer fire departments and other emergency response groups that are already challenged for volunteers and funds. - coerced a female staff researcher who was the victim of an alleged sexual assault and battery by PC party leader Jamie Baillie to sign multiple non-disclosure agreements (and her family as well) in exchange for cash. Baille was forced to resign and was replaced by Karla MacFarlane as the interim leader, who is suspected of issuing the NDAs and was promoted to Speaker of the Legislature (to replace the more impartial Keith Bain for supporting Covid protocols and denying MLAs a pay raise). The victim died shortly after from a sudden brain hemorrhage. A legal challenge attempting to ban NDA's from sexual assault cases that threatened to expose the whole affair was withdrawn when MacFarlane resigned. The PC party still refuses to enact a ban on sexual assault NDAs.
Energy East will NEVER happen. Too many obstacles. Pipeline companies know this too well, dumb politics and regulations, Quebec being selfish, Quebec making political deals to prevent it from happening, environmental groups funded by foreign entities, etc, etc.
Desperate times calls for desperate measure. Now is the time more than ever I cant believe we dont provide electricity to NS and other provinces due to no electric lines. So dumb
well said premier, however, without national security or in other words a strong, combat ready military to be proud of we will not have a country, so time to rebuild our country by focusing on these pillars in order of priority: unity, national security, good government, rights & freedoms, economic prosperity & growth, personal & societal wellbeing & growth
Good sensible non-political straight talk! Imagine giving our shutdown refineries a solid reason to start up again and generate good incomes for Nova Scotians! Maybe our biggest issue in Canada is we don't add enough value to our raw resources, which benefits the USA.
I’m glad that people from all parties seem to be getting the message. Canada can be a leader in this world for clean energy AND fossil fuels. I’d trust Canada to develop fossil fuels over most other nations and Canadians are responsible enough to do our due diligence to preserve our environment. There immense opportunities if we stop this left-right divide and go back to the centre where Canada has always done well
Second Premier today promoting Energy East. It only made sense from the beginning and after nine years, people are coming to reason with what Canadians knew all along.
Why are we not hiring CANADAIN workers to truck, deliver, wait tables, be independent. To avoid things like what trump is doing with tariffs. Our CANADAINS need jobs not Americans or anyone taking our jobs then we would not have so much homeless and people out of work. Keep jobs in CANADAIN. Born in Canada and CANADAIN made.
Not really. Here's a list of his track record, so far: Tim Houston and his Nova Scotia Conservatives: - Scrapped a one-cent gas surcharge for Nova Scotia's cap-and-trade program, choosing instead the Canada carbon levy which is now 17 cents for gasoline, but blamed provincial and federal Liberal parties every step of the way. - took power away from independent agencies and boards (NS Business Inc., Innovacorp, NS Health, NS Tourism, HRM Housing, NS Gaming Corp, Perennia Food Agency), handed their authority to partisan ministers, and limited the ability of opposition MLAs to hold those ministers accountable. - appointed a Halifax building developer, who donated $24,000 to Tim Houston's campaign (there is a limit of $5000 per person, but the donations were spread across his mother, sisters and brother-in-law), as chair of the new government transition team with access to briefings on policy matters from senior civil servants. - replaced the independent crown corporations Nova Scotia Business Inc. and Innovacorp with the new Invest NS to give the govt more partisan control over economic development - despite the obvious conflicts of interest, appointed Houston's friend, Tom Hickey, CEO of Atlantic Road Construction and Paving Ltd., to run the newly-created crown corporation Invest Nova Scotia with compensation of $18,000 a month ($216,000 annually), and another mutual friend to run Develop Nova Scotia. Without public consultation, Hickey's company quickly received approval to dump 100,000 cubic meters (approx. 11,000 dump truck loads) of their acidic bedrock construction waste in Dartmouth Cove over the next 6 years. - nullified HRM housing bylaws to give the housing minister absolute authority over city planning without consultation and incentivizes partisan ministers to engage in favouritism for friends and allies and donors, although it does nothing to address homelessness, high rents and housing affordability. - scrapped the Coastal Protection Act so developers can decide for themselves where to build along the eroding coastline. - fast-tracked "affordable" housing by removing environmental protections from arsenic-contaminated land at Port Wallace to allow developer friends building $800k luxury homes. - after the Sobeys family paid $12,000 to Tim Houston's election campaign, he paid Sobeys $1 Million to encourage Nova Scotians to buy local products, even though local farmers' markets were excluded from the program. - provided government subsidies to commercial wine bottlers of imported ingredients that are friends of the Premiere. - paid $34 Million (2-3x market value) for a new, unfinished hotel, $10 Million to renovate into a short-term 68-bed nursing home, and $68 Million for a nursing home operator to buy back the property for $46 Million and run it for 5 years as a gov't funded and paid-for private facility, that cost NS taxpayers $66 million so far, plus future operating costs after 5 years is up. - cried in his election campaign that he would provide family doctors for the 69,000 Nova Scotians waiting on the family practice registry, but 3 years after being elected the registry has doubled to 160,000 people and his new solution is to scrap the registry. - scrapped the Covid dashboard that counts the hundreds who died this season and empowers concerned citizens to make informed decisions, because others find it stressful to be informed. - withheld spring Covid vaccines until the fall, even for the severely immunocompromised, despite NS Health recommendations for a 6 month booster before the expected summer wave. - violated patient confidentiality by allowing government employees to access individual patients' medical records. - underfunded Child Protection Services and removed monitoring in temporary youth homes, where 4-day recommended stays are averaging 8 months. - supported subsidizing private windmill farms for Bear Head Energy and EverWind Hydrogen's corporate use, while Nova Scotia Power continues to burn coal. - created a policy that will require Nova Scotia Power customers to pay $31 Million ($67 per household) to prevent power interruptions at a single Michelin plant (so far, until others request it too), one year after paying Michelin a $105 Million subsidy, and residential power failures are more common than ever before. - support Northern Pulp who knowingly polluted for decades, withheld pensions from loyal employees, and sued the province for $450 Million. - made an election campaign promise to hunting groups and firearms sellers to create a spring bear hunt, and then broke it. - campaigned on and legislated fixed election dates, then said he would overturn it to call a snap election if it was advantageous for him. - called a snap by-election with only 5 weeks for candidate nominations and campaigns, and delayed announcing a local mill closure until the day after the election. - called Cape Breton's state of emergency a publicity stunt when they were buried by a meter of snow and buildings were collapsing and exploding from gas leaks. - joined Alberta UCP Premiere Danielle Smith to argue against the Canada Carbon Rebate but won't comment on her plan for Alberta to separate from the Canada Pension Plan or other authoritarian policies. - have no plan to improve rural public transit or reduce commuter vehicle reliance to reduce emissions. - won't stand up for local journalism after most of Atlantic Canada's newspaper outlets were bought up by Transcontinental/SaltWire which then closed most outlets, gutted the rest, withheld pension payments, and then entered receivership. - plan to create a Nova Scotia Guard that will take resources away from existing search & rescue, volunteer fire departments and other emergency response groups that are already challenged for volunteers and funds. - coerced a female staff researcher who was the victim of an alleged sexual assault and battery by PC party leader Jamie Baillie to sign multiple non-disclosure agreements (and her family as well) in exchange for cash. Baille was forced to resign and was replaced by Karla MacFarlane as the interim leader, who is suspected of issuing the NDAs and was promoted to Speaker of the Legislature (to replace the more impartial Keith Bain for supporting Covid protocols and denying MLAs a pay raise). The victim died shortly after from a sudden brain hemorrhage. A legal challenge attempting to ban NDA's from sexual assault cases that threatened to expose the whole affair was withdrawn when MacFarlane resigned. The PC party still refuses to enact a ban on sexual assault NDAs.
YES!!! Inter provincial trade is needed! We will support everyone in Canada if you let us trade better!!! Also drop the daylight savings time change, screw the USA!!!!
The trade barriers are unconstitutional... Section 121 of the Constitution Act of 1867 guarantees the free movement of goods between the provinces of Canada. It prohibits interprovincial tariffs and other trade barriers.
This is a first I hear,that it has been complicated to do business between provinces.What a bunch of numb nuts that have allowed this to happen for exactly how many years.?Sad
Within Canada, there shouldn't be any restrictions!! Period!
Yup can't go from Ontario to. Quebec for booze or go to jail
those restrictions will be removed at your expense. the government will take a bigger bite out of your paycheck
We live in a stupid country
I love your faith in our fellow Canadians, however it is unfounded when considering the behavior of business or other provinces agendas.
@bradsharpe941no we don't, don't go tearing down fences until you understand why they were built. Mostly for regional development reasons. You cannot trust other provinces to respect your jobs that is not there job. You cannot expect industry to stay here if there is no economic reason.
Remove all trade barriers domestically and diversify our international trading partners! Don’t restrain ourselves! Empower ourselves!
empower yourselves by allowing the chinese to tap into canadian businesses.
@@jordansims9162 Canada has better ties with China than the Americans.
@@jordansims9162 Yes next time china might claim they want Canada to be the 51st state.. oh wait😂😂
All this Red Scare nonsense against trade with China are products of the American propaganda machine. We need new customers and China is a huge market. We can trade with them at arms length without getting gouged. This is something we can control.
@@jordansims9162if your going troll, at least try to make sense.
Another Premier making sense. I applaud you sir
AWESOME
It's ridiculous because all of our leaders need to be on board with this. Can't keep relying on the Americans.
...the "only"
@@ryanj357 the crazy down south. That empire is crumbling.
Tim Houston and his Nova Scotia Conservatives:
- Scrapped a one-cent gas surcharge for Nova Scotia's cap-and-trade program, choosing instead the Canada carbon levy which is now 17 cents for gasoline, but blamed provincial and federal Liberal parties every step of the way.
- took power away from independent agencies and boards (NS Business Inc., Innovacorp, NS Health, NS Tourism, HRM Housing, NS Gaming Corp, Perennia Food Agency), handed their authority to partisan ministers, and limited the ability of opposition MLAs to hold those ministers accountable.
- appointed a Halifax building developer, who donated $24,000 to Tim Houston's campaign (there is a limit of $5000 per person, but the donations were spread across his mother, sisters and brother-in-law), as chair of the new government transition team with access to briefings on policy matters from senior civil servants.
- replaced the independent crown corporations Nova Scotia Business Inc. and Innovacorp with the new Invest NS to give the govt more partisan control over economic development
- despite the obvious conflicts of interest, appointed Houston's friend, Tom Hickey, CEO of Atlantic Road Construction and Paving Ltd., to run the newly-created crown corporation Invest Nova Scotia with compensation of $18,000 a month ($216,000 annually), and another mutual friend to run Develop Nova Scotia. Without public consultation, Hickey's company quickly received approval to dump 100,000 cubic meters (approx. 11,000 dump truck loads) of their acidic bedrock construction waste in Dartmouth Cove over the next 6 years.
- nullified HRM housing bylaws to give the housing minister absolute authority over city planning without consultation and incentivizes partisan ministers to engage in favouritism for friends and allies and donors, although it does nothing to address homelessness, high rents and housing affordability.
- scrapped the Coastal Protection Act so developers can decide for themselves where to build along the eroding coastline.
- fast-tracked "affordable" housing by removing environmental protections from arsenic-contaminated land at Port Wallace to allow developer friends building $800k luxury homes.
- after the Sobeys family paid $12,000 to Tim Houston's election campaign, he paid Sobeys $1 Million to encourage Nova Scotians to buy local products, even though local farmers' markets were excluded from the program.
- provided government subsidies to commercial wine bottlers of imported ingredients that are friends of the Premiere.
- paid $34 Million (2-3x market value) for a new, unfinished hotel, $10 Million to renovate into a short-term 68-bed nursing home, and $68 Million for a nursing home operator to buy back the property for $46 Million and run it for 5 years as a gov't funded and paid-for private facility, that cost NS taxpayers $66 million so far, plus future operating costs after 5 years is up.
- cried in his election campaign that he would provide family doctors for the 69,000 Nova Scotians waiting on the family practice registry, but 3 years after being elected the registry has doubled to 160,000 people and his new solution is to scrap the registry.
- scrapped the Covid dashboard that counts the hundreds who died this season and empowers concerned citizens to make informed decisions, because others find it stressful to be informed.
- withheld spring Covid vaccines until the fall, even for the severely immunocompromised, despite NS Health recommendations for a 6 month booster before the expected summer wave.
- violated patient confidentiality by allowing government employees to access individual patients' medical records.
- underfunded Child Protection Services and removed monitoring in temporary youth homes, where 4-day recommended stays are averaging 8 months.
- supported subsidizing private windmill farms for Bear Head Energy and EverWind Hydrogen's corporate use, while Nova Scotia Power continues to burn coal.
- created a policy that will require Nova Scotia Power customers to pay $31 Million ($67 per household) to prevent power interruptions at a single Michelin plant (so far, until others request it too), one year after paying Michelin a $105 Million subsidy, and residential power failures are more common than ever before.
- support Northern Pulp who knowingly polluted for decades, withheld pensions from loyal employees, and sued the province for $450 Million.
- made an election campaign promise to hunting groups and firearms sellers to create a spring bear hunt, and then broke it.
- campaigned on and legislated fixed election dates, then said he would overturn it to call a snap election if it was advantageous for him.
- called a snap by-election with only 5 weeks for candidate nominations and campaigns, and delayed announcing a local mill closure until the day after the election.
- called Cape Breton's state of emergency a publicity stunt when they were buried by a meter of snow and buildings were collapsing and exploding from gas leaks.
- joined Alberta UCP Premiere Danielle Smith to argue against the Canada Carbon Rebate but won't comment on her plan for Alberta to separate from the Canada Pension Plan or other authoritarian policies.
- have no plan to improve rural public transit or reduce commuter vehicle reliance to reduce emissions.
- won't stand up for local journalism after most of Atlantic Canada's newspaper outlets were bought up by Transcontinental/SaltWire which then closed most outlets, gutted the rest, withheld pension payments, and then entered receivership.
- plan to create a Nova Scotia Guard that will take resources away from existing search & rescue, volunteer fire departments and other emergency response groups that are already challenged for volunteers and funds.
- coerced a female staff researcher who was the victim of an alleged sexual assault and battery by PC party leader Jamie Baillie to sign multiple non-disclosure agreements (and her family as well) in exchange for cash. Baille was forced to resign and was replaced by Karla MacFarlane as the interim leader, who is suspected of issuing the NDAs and was promoted to Speaker of the Legislature (to replace the more impartial Keith Bain for supporting Covid protocols and denying MLAs a pay raise). The victim died shortly after from a sudden brain hemorrhage. A legal challenge attempting to ban NDA's from sexual assault cases that threatened to expose the whole affair was withdrawn when MacFarlane resigned. The PC party still refuses to enact a ban on sexual assault NDAs.
There should be NO trade barriers between provinces. The fact the oil is imported by Ontario and Quebec makes zero sense.
The Irving oil refinery out East can't refine Alberta oil, it's too thick. They would needs billions in upgrades to do so.
@@wally7856they're also a particularly entrenched canadian dynasty with dubious profit motives.
Gas is almost always a little more on the east coast and ontario had a limited refining capacity that we chose not to upgrade in the early 20th century....
It's all kinda suspicious.
They have oil and gas in those provinces same as Saskatchewan and Manitoba 😊
Yes there should be trade restrictions between provinces.
Maybe you haven't noticed the disappearances of some dairies to Quebec, understandable.
Without restrictions there will be no breweries , pop bottling facilities, dairie any where east ot the St Lawrence River, Ontario and Quebec have sufficient excess productivity to take on that production.
Without restrictions on electrical power pricing Quebec Hydro could undercut the Maritimes power supply out of existence then charge whatever they want, hence forcing industry to relocate to Quebec for economic reasons.... imagine all Michilin tire plants up and government, plastic production gone, Irving shipyard gone, depending on who is running the show in Ottawa possibly the Naval Dockyard relocated. Probably paying double your present power rates as they do in New York City now.
Just because some drunken University students want cheaper beer and know how to flood the internet with disinformation is no reason to declutch our common sense and go along with it.
Industries will not pass along any savings to you me or any other tax paying citizen.
That is not there job, they are paid to pass along earnings to billionaires from efficiencies in the market place not to us.
Don't go tearing down fences until you know why they were built, because they were built to protect you.
@@wally7856we don't just have heavy oil. If you actually did more than listen to eco nuts about 50% of western oil is light to midgrade
It is time Canada behaves like a country and not a collection of Provinces.
Exactly! This team Canada approach is ludicrous considering all of the interprovincial trade barriers
YES! GOD BLESS US ALL! LETS BUILD ENETGY EAST!
thats less money for each province which means less services for each people.
Or a collection of unfriendly foreign customers. Cough cough US.
@@jordansims9162I think your posting on different video. You seem to be talking about something completely different
He said every thing right in my opinion. Trade should be as easy as driving through the Country. Canada first, export 2nd.
This is a good idea...instead of sending things north to south we should be sending things east to west.
Uh huh look at a map. 3000+kms to new Orleans or quebec city from the prairies. Fuel is 170% percent higher in Canada than the US. We have 2 railines for half that distance in Canada. Sure kill the trade barriers but you damn well better pay for the infrastructure we desperately need out of Quebec and Ontario's pockets.
The fact we have this is ridiculous, we are a bunch of idiots
I'd prefer to not be lumped in that category 😂
Trudeau the most one
ok Mr. Economic expert
Speak for yourself you couldn’t pay me to vote left wing liberal lunacy
its time to be united more than ever before
Wow someone who is thinking about Canada ....true Canadian! We need to think of Canada first! I am proud to be a Canadian
Canadian business leaders have long advocated for the removal of interprovincial trade barriers. Experts estimate that eliminating these barriers could boost Canada's GDP by up to $200 billion annually, enhancing productivity and competitiveness, and MORE than offsetting the damage expected from Trump's threatened tariffs. The Business Council of Alberta stated “One of the profound ironies of Canada’s focus on foreign trade is that, in many cases, it is actually easier for Canadian companies to do business across international borders than it is within our own country.” Moreover, 88% of small businesses believe that eliminating trade barriers should be a top priority for Canadian governments.
This matter needs to be taken seriously, and these barriers need to come down once and for all. We are on a slippery slope complaining about Trump‘s tariffs while at the same time we tariff ourselves!
Now is the time for CANADA to stand on its own, this is step forward. I agree with Houston on this topic. Canada is a rich Nation ,you never fail until you stop trying.
Well at least Nova Scotia has a sane straight Premier!
What does straight have to do with anything? Common sense and strength is what matters. We have had enough of stupid culture wars, they weaken us.
The whole country is up in arms about another country threatening to impose import tariffs on us meanwhile we impose interprovincial tariffs on ourselves
Holy smokes...a non west premiere making sense!!🎉🎉🎉
Thank you for your efforts on this. We are all Canadians and there should be no trade barriers. You are 100% correct.
I honestly didn't think our provinces had trade barriers between each other. What's the point of being a country if we have trade barriers between each other ?
YES!
That's 100%...Make Canada great again.
Please DON'T steal trump's line, replacing the name of country.
@@DB-cu5cx Totally agree. I like Doug Fords recent slogan but unfortunately it falls into the same category as PP's stupid 3 word slogans that he apparently thinks are policies. It also dumbs down politics and plays the citizen a fool
@DB-cu5cx we're living in a new world.
PREMIER HOUSTON I APPLAUD YOU
You should have another chat with Danielle Smith.... just saying. You want to bring 10,000's of jobs to your Provence over the next 10 years? You should absolutely remove some of the sector Bans... you know the ones I'm talking about.
It's gonna happen. He released a manifesto today. The bans are gonna evaporate. Thank God.
My God, I’m proud that he is our Premier.
In proud Nova Scotia voted conservative for their premier
As a Nova Scotian who is under 40, I never understood why we sent hard working labourers to the west to grow their economy and yet we receive equalization payments. Nova Scotia has vast natural resources, and the "not in my backyard" boomers really had a disproportionate impact on our public policy. Nova Scotia is on the precipice of something great. Our unemployment rate is lower than Alberta and Ontario, and it's time we developed what we have and export it worldwide. I am grateful we have a Premier now who is willing to combat this and get traction under us to be great. It's time for Nova Scotia to send equalization payments to other provinces and reduce our dependence. Let's take the "NO" out of Nova Scotia!!!
Wow, it sure is easy to get you Cons to literally parrot what your dear leaders tell you,as long as it's only a few syllables🤣😂🤣
Here, this is for you. Tim Houston and his Nova Scotia Conservatives:
- Scrapped a one-cent gas surcharge for Nova Scotia's cap-and-trade program, choosing instead the Canada carbon levy which is now 17 cents for gasoline, but blamed provincial and federal Liberal parties every step of the way.
- took power away from independent agencies and boards (NS Business Inc., Innovacorp, NS Health, NS Tourism, HRM Housing, NS Gaming Corp, Perennia Food Agency), handed their authority to partisan ministers, and limited the ability of opposition MLAs to hold those ministers accountable.
- appointed a Halifax building developer, who donated $24,000 to Tim Houston's campaign (there is a limit of $5000 per person, but the donations were spread across his mother, sisters and brother-in-law), as chair of the new government transition team with access to briefings on policy matters from senior civil servants.
- replaced the independent crown corporations Nova Scotia Business Inc. and Innovacorp with the new Invest NS to give the govt more partisan control over economic development
- despite the obvious conflicts of interest, appointed Houston's friend, Tom Hickey, CEO of Atlantic Road Construction and Paving Ltd., to run the newly-created crown corporation Invest Nova Scotia with compensation of $18,000 a month ($216,000 annually), and another mutual friend to run Develop Nova Scotia. Without public consultation, Hickey's company quickly received approval to dump 100,000 cubic meters (approx. 11,000 dump truck loads) of their acidic bedrock construction waste in Dartmouth Cove over the next 6 years.
- nullified HRM housing bylaws to give the housing minister absolute authority over city planning without consultation and incentivizes partisan ministers to engage in favouritism for friends and allies and donors, although it does nothing to address homelessness, high rents and housing affordability.
- scrapped the Coastal Protection Act so developers can decide for themselves where to build along the eroding coastline.
- fast-tracked "affordable" housing by removing environmental protections from arsenic-contaminated land at Port Wallace to allow developer friends building $800k luxury homes.
- after the Sobeys family paid $12,000 to Tim Houston's election campaign, he paid Sobeys $1 Million to encourage Nova Scotians to buy local products, even though local farmers' markets were excluded from the program.
- provided government subsidies to commercial wine bottlers of imported ingredients that are friends of the Premiere.
- paid $34 Million (2-3x market value) for a new, unfinished hotel, $10 Million to renovate into a short-term 68-bed nursing home, and $68 Million for a nursing home operator to buy back the property for $46 Million and run it for 5 years as a gov't funded and paid-for private facility, that cost NS taxpayers $66 million so far, plus future operating costs after 5 years is up.
- cried in his election campaign that he would provide family doctors for the 69,000 Nova Scotians waiting on the family practice registry, but 3 years after being elected the registry has doubled to 160,000 people and his new solution is to scrap the registry.
- scrapped the Covid dashboard that counts the hundreds who died this season and empowers concerned citizens to make informed decisions, because others find it stressful to be informed.
- withheld spring Covid vaccines until the fall, even for the severely immunocompromised, despite NS Health recommendations for a 6 month booster before the expected summer wave.
- violated patient confidentiality by allowing government employees to access individual patients' medical records.
- underfunded Child Protection Services and removed monitoring in temporary youth homes, where 4-day recommended stays are averaging 8 months.
- supported subsidizing private windmill farms for Bear Head Energy and EverWind Hydrogen's corporate use, while Nova Scotia Power continues to burn coal.
- created a policy that will require Nova Scotia Power customers to pay $31 Million ($67 per household) to prevent power interruptions at a single Michelin plant (so far, until others request it too), one year after paying Michelin a $105 Million subsidy, and residential power failures are more common than ever before.
- support Northern Pulp who knowingly polluted for decades, withheld pensions from loyal employees, and sued the province for $450 Million.
- made an election campaign promise to hunting groups and firearms sellers to create a spring bear hunt, and then broke it.
- campaigned on and legislated fixed election dates, then said he would overturn it to call a snap election if it was advantageous for him.
- called a snap by-election with only 5 weeks for candidate nominations and campaigns, and delayed announcing a local mill closure until the day after the election.
- called Cape Breton's state of emergency a publicity stunt when they were buried by a meter of snow and buildings were collapsing and exploding from gas leaks.
- joined Alberta UCP Premiere Danielle Smith to argue against the Canada Carbon Rebate but won't comment on her plan for Alberta to separate from the Canada Pension Plan or other authoritarian policies.
- have no plan to improve rural public transit or reduce commuter vehicle reliance to reduce emissions.
- won't stand up for local journalism after most of Atlantic Canada's newspaper outlets were bought up by Transcontinental/SaltWire which then closed most outlets, gutted the rest, withheld pension payments, and then entered receivership.
- plan to create a Nova Scotia Guard that will take resources away from existing search & rescue, volunteer fire departments and other emergency response groups that are already challenged for volunteers and funds.
- coerced a female staff researcher who was the victim of an alleged sexual assault and battery by PC party leader Jamie Baillie to sign multiple non-disclosure agreements (and her family as well) in exchange for cash. Baille was forced to resign and was replaced by Karla MacFarlane as the interim leader, who is suspected of issuing the NDAs and was promoted to Speaker of the Legislature (to replace the more impartial Keith Bain for supporting Covid protocols and denying MLAs a pay raise). The victim died shortly after from a sudden brain hemorrhage. A legal challenge attempting to ban NDA's from sexual assault cases that threatened to expose the whole affair was withdrawn when MacFarlane resigned. The PC party still refuses to enact a ban on sexual assault NDAs.
ALL EASILY VERIFIABLE. I DARE YOU!
I was planning a move to Nova Scotia anyway, now I am more excited than ever, REAL SENSE FROM A PREMIER! Maybe this kick in the pants is just what Canada needed right now! We can be more prosperous than the USA if we put our minds to it, MAKE IT HAPPEN.
Ontario vets are also equivalent to Atlantic ones. Drop that barrier too, there’s a serious shortage in Nova Scotia
Smart man!
Finally some Canadian unclogging! It's time for all Canadians to use our full potential. We have become prime targets of unexploited ressources. As recommended by PM Houston, barriers between provinces should be removed and cooperation encouraged.
Well done Tim, We need Energy East Now!
No way Quebec ever allows another pipeline to get built.
@alanj9978 if they lose 13 billion in transfer payments they will. Canada needs to wake up now
Why do we even have trade barriers to begin with? This country is so over governed.
I agree!
Absolutely agree 100%
Now that is something I can agree on - great potential between provinces.
Indeed! True. You nailed it Ptrmier Houston
''It's time to hustle ''
Tim Houston 2025
Some intelligent input into dealing with our dilemma with pending US economic threats! Maybe Premiere Houston should consider running for PM!
The fact that it is easier to sell in the US than within Canada is absolutely incredible, it is about time for that to change
Makes complete sense! Bring it home!
Agree with Prmr Houston
DO IT...
Totally agree..... common sense steps....
Very well said
this is the way
yes !!! it would be great to remove these trade barriers between Provinces.
Yes ! Exactly ! I thought similar, recently . That those pesky, limiting, stifling, inter provincial trade barriers are a menace, towards growth.
Well done for seeing the light !!!
Woo hoo !!! Hallelujah !
🇨🇦✌🏼🇨🇦✌🏼🇨🇦✌🏼🇨🇦😁
This make sense why canada can trade within their own province.
Its sad that a foreign leader has to point things wrong with our country when Canadians have complined about many things and largely gone unheard. We need a government that works as the servant, not the master.
I cannot even travel canada on a disability because if I leave for more than 30 days from ontario I owe every penny back as over payment after day 30 gone. So day 31 and forward i have to return or have overpayment even though i paid ny rent and food.
Moral of the story is that each province is greedy with each penny and cannot get along
SMART, COMMON SENSE! YES TIME TO DEVERSIFY! Trade with rest of the world! No trade barriers between provinces ASAP too!!
As an American I was shocked when I learned of this inter provincial trade barriers. That is just crazy. Canada can hardly claim to be a united nation with this in place. Certainly is not a good way to foster national interest or unity much less national goals or strategic planning. Very odd,antiqued way of running a nation.
Absolute ineptitude on the part of Canada, many Canadians have been saying for DECADES that we need to refine our own oil, we need to be able to sell oil to other nations.
Look at us now? Like a bunch of children getting cut off from mommy and daddy
Yup, makes sense
That’s right maybe things are starting to look up for Canadians. All this stuff should of been done already all of a sudden Trump speaks everyone jumps wow. Come on do better
It’s time for Canada to pull its pants up and start running this ship correctly. Don’t blame Trump. This government has been slacking in many areas.
Agree 💯
Yes, this should have happened YEARS ago. It makes little sense now a days, and it only promotes division among the provinces. Prosper together!
Please explain why is promotes division
@sram390 sorry, this was in reference to the inter-provincial trading guard rails lol, removing them (and I'm no economist) seems like a good way to reduce bureaucratic process costs, speed up trade and incentivises business dealings nationwide. Right now, its more a protectionist measure from all the different regulations in place such as occupational licensing (trades mostly) and even stuff like drinking ages. Without these things, commerce could flow better imo.
@@jk5385 I agree with all that. We have enough commerce to spread around!
Remember that it was Justin Trudeau cancelling Energy East in 2017. The blame lies right there.
Energy east will require decades to get permits, protests and court challenges and in the end not get done. Same thing goes for just about everything that would bring more prosperity with some risk. How can we trade well with the world when we can’t even trade amongst ourselves.
Energy East had all the permits and planning done 10 years ago. Then Trudeau came in (and Quebec reneged on in place agreements) and changed the rule book. Remove Trudeau's changes and pipe could hit the ground in a month. 400 kms are all the first part needed and oil can flow. That's about 6 months if regulations do not stall work every day.
Thanks Mr. Houston for starting these common sense discussions. Canadian economy has been going in a downward spiral for the past 9 years. I have never seen the Canadian economy so weak since I have moved here 15 years ago.
I have little to no use for Tim Houston’s government, but I do agree with him on this.
In short, he's saying don't trust America, 😂😂😂
I honestly think what ever the outcome the Canadian Identity will be strengthened
It's stupid to ban industry and then hold your hand out for help. We need to build the Canadian economy in every province!
Makes sense to me
We have our own tariffs 😂😂😂
Section 121 of the Canadian constitution clearly states there should be no trade barriers between provinces. Sadly, it seems the constitution isn't worth the paper its written on.
The sad part about energy east it won’t lower prices of fuel in the east…….
Opening up inter-provincial trade and credential barriers seems to be a no-brainer.
When did this start ?
So much federal spending gone to waste... could have used hundreds of billions in infrastructure investments instead of one time handouts
I agree 100%. Eliminate the barriers between the provinces and maybe our dependence on selling to the U.S. goes down.
Maybe Canada will improve its internal trading between provinces.
You also can’t expect Nova Scotia to grow with the high taxes in Nova Scotia….. highest in the country
What bugs me about this so call truth teller. My husband had ALS, couldn't get care ,he had to call maid, ,, Houston few days later said we had the best care in Canada, what a lair, My friend can't breath half the time close to a year to find out she has a blockage, we are dying waiting for care, while there bringing in more people.. Tell you're maga loving man, PP and Smith, we are human beings ,no man owns our bodies. Women are losing rights to the maga right wing who is going to take our rights away., Be careful who you vote for, women might not want to have kids if there is no health care, why put your life on the line. Look at what's going on in the states with women We fought for those rights ,so when a young girls gets ra*ed like I knew a girl in grad 8 who was r*ped in grade 7, made her have a kid, back, in the late 60's ..Is this piece of sh(t is going to follow right wing PP .take away our rights if maga loving man gets in.. I hope women walk away from men who vote CP, like women in the states wright wing maga .Fist time in my life I"m scared of this right wing maga loving party going after what we women fought for.. All I can say, at least put young girls on the pill soon as they get there period..One out of every three women are are r*ped...Maybe de-nutt the men who do it..CP everyone know's can't bring oil east, not enough man power, not enough builder's, but at least there not lying when it comes to women's rights , Women don't vote CP Huston will make sure he follow's his right wing maga loving PP , who talked about making us more like the states.
THANK YOU!! Very well said!
And here are some more facts about Houston. Feel free to share this list FAR AND WIDE!
Tim Houston and his Nova Scotia Conservatives:
- Scrapped a one-cent gas surcharge for Nova Scotia's cap-and-trade program, choosing instead the Canada carbon levy which is now 17 cents for gasoline, but blamed provincial and federal Liberal parties every step of the way.
- took power away from independent agencies and boards (NS Business Inc., Innovacorp, NS Health, NS Tourism, HRM Housing, NS Gaming Corp, Perennia Food Agency), handed their authority to partisan ministers, and limited the ability of opposition MLAs to hold those ministers accountable.
- appointed a Halifax building developer, who donated $24,000 to Tim Houston's campaign (there is a limit of $5000 per person, but the donations were spread across his mother, sisters and brother-in-law), as chair of the new government transition team with access to briefings on policy matters from senior civil servants.
- replaced the independent crown corporations Nova Scotia Business Inc. and Innovacorp with the new Invest NS to give the govt more partisan control over economic development
- despite the obvious conflicts of interest, appointed Houston's friend, Tom Hickey, CEO of Atlantic Road Construction and Paving Ltd., to run the newly-created crown corporation Invest Nova Scotia with compensation of $18,000 a month ($216,000 annually), and another mutual friend to run Develop Nova Scotia. Without public consultation, Hickey's company quickly received approval to dump 100,000 cubic meters (approx. 11,000 dump truck loads) of their acidic bedrock construction waste in Dartmouth Cove over the next 6 years.
- nullified HRM housing bylaws to give the housing minister absolute authority over city planning without consultation and incentivizes partisan ministers to engage in favouritism for friends and allies and donors, although it does nothing to address homelessness, high rents and housing affordability.
- scrapped the Coastal Protection Act so developers can decide for themselves where to build along the eroding coastline.
- fast-tracked "affordable" housing by removing environmental protections from arsenic-contaminated land at Port Wallace to allow developer friends building $800k luxury homes.
- after the Sobeys family paid $12,000 to Tim Houston's election campaign, he paid Sobeys $1 Million to encourage Nova Scotians to buy local products, even though local farmers' markets were excluded from the program.
- provided government subsidies to commercial wine bottlers of imported ingredients that are friends of the Premiere.
- paid $34 Million (2-3x market value) for a new, unfinished hotel, $10 Million to renovate into a short-term 68-bed nursing home, and $68 Million for a nursing home operator to buy back the property for $46 Million and run it for 5 years as a gov't funded and paid-for private facility, that cost NS taxpayers $66 million so far, plus future operating costs after 5 years is up.
- cried in his election campaign that he would provide family doctors for the 69,000 Nova Scotians waiting on the family practice registry, but 3 years after being elected the registry has doubled to 160,000 people and his new solution is to scrap the registry.
- scrapped the Covid dashboard that counts the hundreds who died this season and empowers concerned citizens to make informed decisions, because others find it stressful to be informed.
- withheld spring Covid vaccines until the fall, even for the severely immunocompromised, despite NS Health recommendations for a 6 month booster before the expected summer wave.
- violated patient confidentiality by allowing government employees to access individual patients' medical records.
- underfunded Child Protection Services and removed monitoring in temporary youth homes, where 4-day recommended stays are averaging 8 months.
- supported subsidizing private windmill farms for Bear Head Energy and EverWind Hydrogen's corporate use, while Nova Scotia Power continues to burn coal.
- created a policy that will require Nova Scotia Power customers to pay $31 Million ($67 per household) to prevent power interruptions at a single Michelin plant (so far, until others request it too), one year after paying Michelin a $105 Million subsidy, and residential power failures are more common than ever before.
- support Northern Pulp who knowingly polluted for decades, withheld pensions from loyal employees, and sued the province for $450 Million.
- made an election campaign promise to hunting groups and firearms sellers to create a spring bear hunt, and then broke it.
- campaigned on and legislated fixed election dates, then said he would overturn it to call a snap election if it was advantageous for him.
- called a snap by-election with only 5 weeks for candidate nominations and campaigns, and delayed announcing a local mill closure until the day after the election.
- called Cape Breton's state of emergency a publicity stunt when they were buried by a meter of snow and buildings were collapsing and exploding from gas leaks.
- joined Alberta UCP Premiere Danielle Smith to argue against the Canada Carbon Rebate but won't comment on her plan for Alberta to separate from the Canada Pension Plan or other authoritarian policies.
- have no plan to improve rural public transit or reduce commuter vehicle reliance to reduce emissions.
- won't stand up for local journalism after most of Atlantic Canada's newspaper outlets were bought up by Transcontinental/SaltWire which then closed most outlets, gutted the rest, withheld pension payments, and then entered receivership.
- plan to create a Nova Scotia Guard that will take resources away from existing search & rescue, volunteer fire departments and other emergency response groups that are already challenged for volunteers and funds.
- coerced a female staff researcher who was the victim of an alleged sexual assault and battery by PC party leader Jamie Baillie to sign multiple non-disclosure agreements (and her family as well) in exchange for cash. Baille was forced to resign and was replaced by Karla MacFarlane as the interim leader, who is suspected of issuing the NDAs and was promoted to Speaker of the Legislature (to replace the more impartial Keith Bain for supporting Covid protocols and denying MLAs a pay raise). The victim died shortly after from a sudden brain hemorrhage. A legal challenge attempting to ban NDA's from sexual assault cases that threatened to expose the whole affair was withdrawn when MacFarlane resigned. The PC party still refuses to enact a ban on sexual assault NDAs.
Energy East will NEVER happen. Too many obstacles. Pipeline companies know this too well, dumb politics and regulations, Quebec being selfish, Quebec making political deals to prevent it from happening, environmental groups funded by foreign entities, etc, etc.
Desperate times calls for desperate measure. Now is the time more than ever
I cant believe we dont provide electricity to NS and other provinces due to no electric lines. So dumb
well said premier, however, without national security or in other words a strong, combat ready military to be proud of we will not have a country, so time to rebuild our country by focusing on these pillars in order of priority: unity, national security, good government, rights & freedoms, economic prosperity & growth, personal & societal wellbeing & growth
First priorities are strengthening the economy so that we can actually afford a bigger military budget.
NO ANIMAL AGRICULTURE!!! No mink FARMING!
Good sensible non-political straight talk! Imagine giving our shutdown refineries a solid reason to start up again and generate good incomes for Nova Scotians! Maybe our biggest issue in Canada is we don't add enough value to our raw resources, which benefits the USA.
Whether you're on the right or left, I think this makes sense.
Automobiles. Transferring a car from Alberta to BC is expensive and a PITA
I’m glad that people from all parties seem to be getting the message. Canada can be a leader in this world for clean energy AND fossil fuels. I’d trust Canada to develop fossil fuels over most other nations and Canadians are responsible enough to do our due diligence to preserve our environment. There immense opportunities if we stop this left-right divide and go back to the centre where Canada has always done well
hold on
Why didn't they push for this before Trump
Second Premier today promoting Energy East. It only made sense from the beginning and after nine years, people are coming to reason with what Canadians knew all along.
Why are we not hiring CANADAIN workers to truck, deliver, wait tables, be independent. To avoid things like what trump is doing with tariffs. Our CANADAINS need jobs not Americans or anyone taking our jobs then we would not have so much homeless and people out of work. Keep jobs in CANADAIN. Born in Canada and CANADAIN made.
OMG, somebody just woke up.
At a minimum, NAFTA should apply within Canada!
My bud is killing it
Great idea
They never amended the act in the first place .
This guy is talking sense and has sense of the bigger picture . Good for him for speaking well !😊
Not really. Here's a list of his track record, so far:
Tim Houston and his Nova Scotia Conservatives:
- Scrapped a one-cent gas surcharge for Nova Scotia's cap-and-trade program, choosing instead the Canada carbon levy which is now 17 cents for gasoline, but blamed provincial and federal Liberal parties every step of the way.
- took power away from independent agencies and boards (NS Business Inc., Innovacorp, NS Health, NS Tourism, HRM Housing, NS Gaming Corp, Perennia Food Agency), handed their authority to partisan ministers, and limited the ability of opposition MLAs to hold those ministers accountable.
- appointed a Halifax building developer, who donated $24,000 to Tim Houston's campaign (there is a limit of $5000 per person, but the donations were spread across his mother, sisters and brother-in-law), as chair of the new government transition team with access to briefings on policy matters from senior civil servants.
- replaced the independent crown corporations Nova Scotia Business Inc. and Innovacorp with the new Invest NS to give the govt more partisan control over economic development
- despite the obvious conflicts of interest, appointed Houston's friend, Tom Hickey, CEO of Atlantic Road Construction and Paving Ltd., to run the newly-created crown corporation Invest Nova Scotia with compensation of $18,000 a month ($216,000 annually), and another mutual friend to run Develop Nova Scotia. Without public consultation, Hickey's company quickly received approval to dump 100,000 cubic meters (approx. 11,000 dump truck loads) of their acidic bedrock construction waste in Dartmouth Cove over the next 6 years.
- nullified HRM housing bylaws to give the housing minister absolute authority over city planning without consultation and incentivizes partisan ministers to engage in favouritism for friends and allies and donors, although it does nothing to address homelessness, high rents and housing affordability.
- scrapped the Coastal Protection Act so developers can decide for themselves where to build along the eroding coastline.
- fast-tracked "affordable" housing by removing environmental protections from arsenic-contaminated land at Port Wallace to allow developer friends building $800k luxury homes.
- after the Sobeys family paid $12,000 to Tim Houston's election campaign, he paid Sobeys $1 Million to encourage Nova Scotians to buy local products, even though local farmers' markets were excluded from the program.
- provided government subsidies to commercial wine bottlers of imported ingredients that are friends of the Premiere.
- paid $34 Million (2-3x market value) for a new, unfinished hotel, $10 Million to renovate into a short-term 68-bed nursing home, and $68 Million for a nursing home operator to buy back the property for $46 Million and run it for 5 years as a gov't funded and paid-for private facility, that cost NS taxpayers $66 million so far, plus future operating costs after 5 years is up.
- cried in his election campaign that he would provide family doctors for the 69,000 Nova Scotians waiting on the family practice registry, but 3 years after being elected the registry has doubled to 160,000 people and his new solution is to scrap the registry.
- scrapped the Covid dashboard that counts the hundreds who died this season and empowers concerned citizens to make informed decisions, because others find it stressful to be informed.
- withheld spring Covid vaccines until the fall, even for the severely immunocompromised, despite NS Health recommendations for a 6 month booster before the expected summer wave.
- violated patient confidentiality by allowing government employees to access individual patients' medical records.
- underfunded Child Protection Services and removed monitoring in temporary youth homes, where 4-day recommended stays are averaging 8 months.
- supported subsidizing private windmill farms for Bear Head Energy and EverWind Hydrogen's corporate use, while Nova Scotia Power continues to burn coal.
- created a policy that will require Nova Scotia Power customers to pay $31 Million ($67 per household) to prevent power interruptions at a single Michelin plant (so far, until others request it too), one year after paying Michelin a $105 Million subsidy, and residential power failures are more common than ever before.
- support Northern Pulp who knowingly polluted for decades, withheld pensions from loyal employees, and sued the province for $450 Million.
- made an election campaign promise to hunting groups and firearms sellers to create a spring bear hunt, and then broke it.
- campaigned on and legislated fixed election dates, then said he would overturn it to call a snap election if it was advantageous for him.
- called a snap by-election with only 5 weeks for candidate nominations and campaigns, and delayed announcing a local mill closure until the day after the election.
- called Cape Breton's state of emergency a publicity stunt when they were buried by a meter of snow and buildings were collapsing and exploding from gas leaks.
- joined Alberta UCP Premiere Danielle Smith to argue against the Canada Carbon Rebate but won't comment on her plan for Alberta to separate from the Canada Pension Plan or other authoritarian policies.
- have no plan to improve rural public transit or reduce commuter vehicle reliance to reduce emissions.
- won't stand up for local journalism after most of Atlantic Canada's newspaper outlets were bought up by Transcontinental/SaltWire which then closed most outlets, gutted the rest, withheld pension payments, and then entered receivership.
- plan to create a Nova Scotia Guard that will take resources away from existing search & rescue, volunteer fire departments and other emergency response groups that are already challenged for volunteers and funds.
- coerced a female staff researcher who was the victim of an alleged sexual assault and battery by PC party leader Jamie Baillie to sign multiple non-disclosure agreements (and her family as well) in exchange for cash. Baille was forced to resign and was replaced by Karla MacFarlane as the interim leader, who is suspected of issuing the NDAs and was promoted to Speaker of the Legislature (to replace the more impartial Keith Bain for supporting Covid protocols and denying MLAs a pay raise). The victim died shortly after from a sudden brain hemorrhage. A legal challenge attempting to ban NDA's from sexual assault cases that threatened to expose the whole affair was withdrawn when MacFarlane resigned. The PC party still refuses to enact a ban on sexual assault NDAs.
YES!!! Inter provincial trade is needed! We will support everyone in Canada if you let us trade better!!! Also drop the daylight savings time change, screw the USA!!!!
All barriers hampering trade within, and out of Canada must be removed ask swiftly as possible.
Premier Houston could be a good, sensible Prime Minister.
The tariffs between provinces is much worse. These politicking scoundrels are completely out of touch!
The trade barriers are unconstitutional... Section 121 of the Constitution Act of 1867 guarantees the free movement of goods between the provinces of Canada. It prohibits interprovincial tariffs and other trade barriers.
because this country is anti-business. we screw ourselves over at every turn. its ridiculous.
Cut the red tape. Grow up Canada
I like this guy!
This is a first I hear,that it has been complicated to do business between provinces.What a bunch of numb nuts that have allowed this to happen for exactly how many years.?Sad
I hear you my boy struggling is the word