Todays Haha enbridge protest

[IR_mike]

Too funny

http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/3560461869001

[Pointerman]

What a bunch of low life losers!

[fishinmagician]

What a bunch of low life losers!

Don't think them sticking up for something they believe in makes them a low life loser... I work on the rigs and have been to BC several times, if that was my back yard I wouldn't want to take any risks either, even if they are as small as they are.

[Selkirk]

Too funny

http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/3560461869001

I'm a big fan of Ezra's, and I have a great appreciation for his work, but I don't find what he exposes, as; 'funny'.

Others may differ,

Mac

[IR_mike]

I'm a big fan of Ezra's, and I have a great appreciation for his work, but I don't find what he exposes, as; 'funny'.

Others may differ,

Mac

People that do not seem to know what they are opposing have no credibility.

Therefore they are funny.....accusing someone of being a Nazi because of a different opinion?

[DiabeticKripple]

love how he calls it the left coast instead of west coast

[Selkirk]

People that do not seem to know what they are opposing have no credibility.

Therefore they are funny.....accusing someone of being a Nazi because of a different opinion?

No offence, but the last word I would use to describe those ^ people, would be 'funny'. For me, they are as far from funny as one can get. The terms 'scary', 'disturbing', 'demented', etc., much better apply.

I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree on this one.

Mac

[IR_mike]

No offence, but the last word I would use to describe those ^ people, would be 'funny'. For me, they are as far from funny as one can get. The terms 'scary', 'disturbing', 'demented', etc., much better apply.

I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree on this one.

Mac

I misinterpreted you :)

Trust me we agree....we just use different terminology. :happy0180:

[trooper]

Yep.. I hear thars lots of magic mushrooms around hongcouver.... those boys been eatin too many of 'em... I wonder if they realize that more than 80% of the products they use are made from black gold.

[catnthehat]

Don't think them sticking up for something they believe in makes them a low life loser... I work on the rigs and have been to BC several times, if that was my back yard I wouldn't want to take any risks either, even if they are as small as they are.

The problem is they don't care where it comes from, in fact they don't want to know, as long as they don't see where it comes from, be it electricity , oil, or wood.:confused:
Cat

[Pointerman]

The problem is they don't care where it comes from, in fact they don't want to know, as long as they don't see where it comes from, be it electricity , oil, or wood.:confused:
Cat

Exactly......x2

[79ford]

Yep.. I hear thars lots of magic mushrooms around hongcouver.... those boys been eatin too many of 'em... I wonder if they realize that more than 80% of the products they use are made from black gold.


do you realize cars don't run on bitumen and having a bunch of it run through your back yard to china doesn't really benefit the residents? lol

In the end canadians end up paying more for oil and we still have to import over half a million barrels per day because we are out to lunch when it comes to logistics.

[hillbillyreefer]

do you realize cars don't run on bitumen and having a bunch of it run through your back yard to china doesn't really benefit the residents? lol

In the end canadians end up paying more for oil and we still have to import over half a million barrels per day because we are out to lunch when it comes to logistics.

Except for the billions in tax revenue taken from the producers, suppliers and workers in the oilpatch. All industry in Canada benefits all Canadians.

[twofifty]

The problem is they don't care where it comes from, in fact they don't want to know, as long as they don't see where it comes from, be it electricity , oil, or wood.:confused:
Cat

Or the steak on their plate.

[twofifty]

Speaking of hongcouver....maybe some of the new immigrants have seen
first-hand the costs of unregulated resource extraction.

[hillbillyreefer]

Speaking of hongcouver....maybe some of the new immigrants have seen
first-hand the costs of unregulated resource extraction.

Most likely. We have all seen pictures and video. That is why all mining and other natural resource extraction is heavily regulated in Canada.

[hayseed]

What's your deal??

You're poking me with your negative energy.....lmao....

That's some good granola he munches on.....:sHa_sarcasticlol:

[Okotokian]

It's what you get in the absence of a societal discussion and decision regarding how much development should be allowed to proceed and at what cost. All one side can say is "More" while the other side replies "None".

[braggadoe]

interesting harper announces new "tanker" legislation today. making canada the world leader in tanker safety. great news right?

but the law has a CAP on how much the companies are liable for, in case of an accident.

1.6 billion dollars maximum. the tax payers are on the hook for the rest.


FYI. the valdez accident cost 1.6 billion dollars 20 plus years ago. way too go steven harper!! world leader or world class dummy??

[hillbillyreefer]

What does the rest of the legislation say? Cherry picking one part doesn't really provide anything for us to base an answer to your inflammatory question on.

[twofifty]

He's cherry picking the bottom line. Isn't that the part that really matters?

[From The Hip]

Good video by Ezra for sure...as for the protesters it is not much of a surprise to me as I have lived in Vancouver but I think Ezra was slightly wrong on his take of "rich entitled white people" who feel guilty.The best case against that was the woman who dressed her kids in shirts and had signs that said F(&% Enbridge.....I figure she is most likely sitting her azz on welfare after she squeezed out a couple of fatherless children whilst milking the system.The guy with the "your poking me with your energy" crapulence has probably never done a hard days work in his life.

In general nothing but a NIMBY attitude from people who are total hypocrites as they use and consume both energy and products derived from the various energy industries on a daily basis in in a lot of cases they are zombie like consumers who upgrade to the newest I-Phone just for the sake of saying they have it.

FTH

[79ford]

I remember a bunch of albertans whining and crying about a power line being built awhile ago;) I think people living near some of the nicest rivers and forests in canada could probably be cut alittle slack for getting their fur razzled a bit

[79ford]

Except for the billions in tax revenue taken from the producers, suppliers and workers in the oilpatch. All industry in Canada benefits all Canadians.


I think a dumb idea like the enbridge line is a great lightning rod for the publics distraction while transmountain gets to fly under the radar long enough to get through.

[5Lgreenback]

Cherry picking and editing information and leaving out all the interviews of people with credible debates. This is clearly not representative of everyone at the protest.

Sun News insulting peoples intelligence, and people gobbling it up! Sun News is as big of a joke as the people in the interview he chose to exploit.

[heretohunt]

I'd like to see Ezra interview Michael Moore:)
Sometimes it is good to give the anti's a taste of their own medicine, cherry picking clips etc.
I'm not sure that most of the protesters have really thought about; what if they got their way?
The sun news is not news, just entertainment.
I'm pretty sure if there was an anti hunting demonstration those same protesters would be there with slightly different signs and the same arguments.

[BeeGuy]

Cherry picking and editing information and leaving out all the interviews of people with credible debates. This is clearly not representative of everyone at the protest.

Sun News insulting peoples intelligence, and people gobbling it up! Sun News is as big of a joke as the people in the interview he chose to exploit.

great post

Sun knows their audience well.

[5Lgreenback]

I'd like to see Ezra interview Michael Moore:)
Sometimes it is good to give the anti's a taste of their own medicine, cherry picking clips etc.
I'm not sure that most of the protesters have really thought about; what if they got their way?
The sun news is not news, just entertainment.
I'm pretty sure if there was an anti hunting demonstration those same protesters would be there with slightly different signs and the same arguments.

Yes Im sure some of these protests do have a few people attending them as more of a social event, and are oblivious to that fact.

[brownbomber]

Yes Im sure some of these protests do have a few people attending them as more of a social event, and are oblivious to that fact.

Same as our crowd, true believers and hangers on. It's all foolishness.

[5Lgreenback]

Same as our crowd, true believers and hangers on. It's all foolishness.

Absolutely.

[elkhunter11]

The problem is they don't care where it comes from, in fact they don't want to know, as long as they don't see where it comes from, be it electricity , oil, or wood.:confused:
Cat

But when it gets cold out, you can bet that they will all be crying for heat, and they likely won't care where it came from, until they don't need it any more.:)

It isn't much different than Ontario and Quebec complaining about our dirty oil industry, but they certainly don't complain about the money that they receive from it.:rolleye2:

[leeaspell]

But when it gets cold out, you can bet that they will all be crying for heat, and they likely won't care where it came from, until they don't need it any more.:)

It isn't much different than Ontario and Quebec complaining about our dirty oil industry, but they certainly don't complain about the money that they receive from it.:rolleye2:

I remember reading in the paper last year, Edmonton sun I think, that more people from Ontario work in the oilsands but still live in Ontario, than people who work in the auto industry in Ontario.

[Robin Goodfellow]

Too funny

http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/3560461869001

Ezra Levant is a smug, pompous *****, and we lower the bar by giving him out attention.

[IR_mike]

Ezra Levant is a smug, pompous *****, and we lower the bar by giving him out attention.

But when he is right.....he is right. :)

[HunterDave]

I watched up until he was talking about David Suzuki. I've seen Ezra do this type of thing with the INM protesters and yes, I did find it pretty funny when a protester has absolutely no idea of what they are protesting. He doesn't have to throw curve balls like Rick Mercer does in "Talking with Americans", all that he has to do is ask them about the issues.

[Wild&Free]

Go spend some time in the northwest where Enbridge wants to build the pipeline and ignore the acid reject draft dodger offspring of the lower mainland.

I grew up there. I learned to hunt and fish there. I'm knowledgeable about the terrain this pipeline will pass over the mountains. It is a Disaster in the making that will have a severely negative impact on the Skeena Watershed in my old back yard and the potential for the same disaster in the Fraser and Nechacko Watersheds.

No one here, myself included, has the right to tell the people living there what risks are acceptable. I can tell you that everyone I know back home thinks the risks, however marginal, are unacceptable.

[Wild&Free]

But when it gets cold out, you can bet that they will all be crying for heat, and they likely won't care where it came from, until they don't need it any more.:)

It isn't much different than Ontario and Quebec complaining about our dirty oil industry, but they certainly don't complain about the money that they receive from it.:rolleye2:

Most people in the NW where the pipeline will run heat their homes with mountain pine beetle killed wood. Thanks trade with Asia.

[Robin Goodfellow]

But when he is right.....he is right. :)

Being right is not such an accomplishment.

Ezra's spent his whole life being right. I remember him from speakers corner at the U of C, where he would spend one lunch hour a week proving to everyone that he was right.

Few have been so right, and contributed so little.

[IR_mike]

Being right is not such an accomplishment.

Ezra's spent his whole life being right. I remember him from speakers corner at the U of C, where he would spend one lunch hour a week proving to everyone that he was right.

Few have been so right, and contributed so little.

Not saying I agree with him on anything or everything, but when you have people as clueless on a issue as the people he was interviewing....its a eye opener.

[fargineyesore]

Being right is not such an accomplishment.

Ezra's spent his whole life being right. I remember him from speakers corner at the U of C, where he would spend one lunch hour a week proving to everyone that he was right.

Few have been so right, and contributed so little.
He contributes by informing people of the BS that these enviro and protest nuts are all about. How many media besides him and the Sun exposed Theresa Spence's BS? You think he doesn't contribute because you don't agree, but I suppose you think those media on the other side of the issue contribute because you agree with their stance? Kind of hypocritical isn't it?

[Robin Goodfellow]

Not saying I agree with him on anything or everything, but when you have people as clueless on a issue as the people he was interviewing....its a eye opener.

The key is that he deliberately sought out the inarticulate and blindsided them.

I used to be active in the antiwar movement. The organizers were some incredibly articulate and well educated people, but not necessarily eager to expose themselves.

On the other hand, there were always folks with their heads up their *****es eager to get in front of a camera and "represent".

Moral of the story is that the person reporting is provided with sufficient material to present the issue in any way they wanted - But such representation should not be mistaken as representative.