🇨🇦 Pipelines, Pancakes, and a Push for Canadian Prosperity 🇨🇦

🎙️ Watch the video + listen to the podcast below | 🛢️ Energy Corridors, Minerals, and Political Will

While most came for the cowboy hats and pancakes, something more important happened behind the scenes at the 2025 Calgary Stampede.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Ontario Premier Doug Ford signed non-binding MOUs to explore the creation of:

🔹 Pipelines – oil and natural gas corridors from Alberta to Ontario
🔹 A railway to the Ring of Fire – tapping into Ontario’s vast critical mineral reserves

Doug Ford said it best:

“Canada is open for business.”

It’s bold talk — and for once, it wasn’t just talk.

🔄 Flashback: When Premiers Bashed Alberta

Let’s not forget:
15 years ago, Liberal leaders like Dalton McGuinty and Jean Charest flew to Copenhagen, stood in front of global cameras… and threw Alberta’s oil sands under the bus.

It was politics over prosperity.
Posturing over pipelines.
And that wound hasn’t fully healed.

Today’s tone is different. But trust is earned—and Alberta remembers.

💬 Smith’s Quiet Diplomacy Deserves Credit

Danielle Smith didn’t just show up to flip pancakes and pose for selfies.
She showed up with strategy.

At one Stampede breakfast alone, U.S. Senators, Members of Congress, and energy leaders mingled with Alberta business owners. That kind of outreach? Intentional.

Smith knows we must diversify away from America as our only energy buyer. But she’s also savvy enough to court a future Trump administration to:

• Eliminate damaging tariffs

• Restore cross-border energy trade

• Accelerate infrastructure approvals

This isn’t political theater — it’s the groundwork of real economic diplomacy.

🛢️ Carney Talks… Smith Moves

Mark Carney recently told the Calgary Herald a new pipeline might make his list of “nation-building projects.”
That’s nice.

But Smith said it plainly:

“There’ll be a moment when the rubber hits the road.
You can only talk the talk for so long before you start putting some real action around it.”

Until we repeal Bill C-69 and lift the tanker ban off B.C.’s coast, Canada’s energy economy will remain handcuffed.

Pierre Poilievre is right:
Real growth requires real reform.

⚒️ Ring of Fire: Name Needs Work, Vision Doesn’t

Ford is pushing hard for a new rail line to the Ring of Fire, a mineral-rich zone in Northern Ontario with the potential to power EV batteries, advanced manufacturing, and more.

Side note?
The name “Ring of Fire” may have Johnny Cash roots…
But if you’re trying to build public support, maybe avoid names that sound like an environmental catastrophe in progress.

✅ What Canada Needs Now

• Energy corridors that span provinces, not ideologies

• Railways and pipelines that benefit every region

• Premiers and federal leaders who don’t just make noise—they make moves

🌾 A Blessed Country—If We Choose to Act Like It

Whether it’s:

• Alberta’s oil

• Ontario’s minerals

• Quebec’s hydro

• Saskatchewan’s potash and uranium

Canada is rich beyond measure.

But unless we choose bold, strategic leadership — this wealth will remain locked beneath our feet.

Let’s unlock it.

🎥 Watch the Stampede Round-Up

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