The Commons: Like a lawfully authorized bridge over navigable waters

It is to the Macdonald government’s eternal shame that it did not enact a proper FAQ in 1882










Across the way, Thomas Mulcair laughed.




Once more Mr. Mulcair laughed.


Mr. Clement shook his head, appearing rather unimpressed.





The Commons: Like a lawfully authorized bridge over navigable waters


    So are they moving a lot of freight on Balsam Lake these days? Cameron Lake? Are they floating log rafts around and around Lake Rousseau looking for an outlet?

    Take a look at this map and tell me what this is all about?

    • Obviously they’re protecting ancient portage routes to Tony’s place…you ahistorical ignoramus.

  2. Breaking news, paternity tests will prove that Pierre Poutine is the illegitimate child of Pierre Poilievre and Jenni Byrne…seems mr pollypocket has a history of owning a robocall company and ms. Byrne had the key to the CIMS database.. plant a seed in a young election worker and voila Pierre Poutine is born!!

  3. The Campbell river, the Bella Coola river, small!! I lived on the Puntledge in Courtenay BC for quite a while, it isn’t that smaill. There’s a river outside my house – the Hay River – that isn’t small. I was through the Liard river and Stikine this summer – those suckers are scary.

    Good find NDP.

    • Because under the Environmental law that was, “Under the old act, anytime a federal agency or department had to provide a license or grant some kind of approval, that federal body had to ask the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency to perform an assessment.” So NWPA had to grant approval, meaning the environmental law triggered an assessment.

  4. This is putting the finishing touches on the export of Bulk Water to the US; A conservative dream since their conception! Paul Martin and the Liberal chiefs were onside with this even while thumping their “Red Book” which was already shredded.

    In his first term in office Harper pushed the responsibility of whether to export bulk water or not over to the provinces. The only thing held back was waters under the Navigable Waters Act.

    The mighty Peace River was the one they were after! The Alberta Conservatives have got a fully engineered plan, put up in 1982. Named “The Weatherford” project its design covers 8 large pipelines running south to the US. This includes 8 pumping stations; each one taking the power of a city! This design is capable of moving 2/3rds of the flow of the Peace River!

    What is missing is a ice free year round sump to draw that amount of water from. The BC Liberals answered the call there offering to build a hydro electric dam on the Peace River just down from Hudson’s Hope. They were criticized because the dam would not produce enough electricity to pay for itself.

    Between this new dam and the Hudson Hope dam there will be a large, deep lake formed, a sump from which a year round supply of water will be available to the pipeline.

    Harper is eliminating all the Federal Hurdles for this project.

    I asked Bob Rae if he was on side with this and he wouldn’t answer the letter.

    Alberta’s conservatives have relentlessly pushed the privatized water plans. Calgary Brewing and Malting have huge allotments of ground water that will be for sale to the City of Calgary who’s water is about to run out as the St. Mary’s glacier and Rocky Mountain snow pack and glaciers diminishes.

    I cannot for the life of me figure out why Albertans continue to vote Conservative! They have done nothing short of rape this province of its resources while nodding and smiling at the electorate whom they consider to be dunces.

    • Hey cyberclark – I guess your biggest concern is where you’re going to get your Kool Aid supply once the water’s all gone.

  5. I am outraged that no one has pointed out, so far, that the fourth GG was the MARQUESS of Lorne, not the Marquees of Lorne. Innocent readers will think that the GG was just a bunch of big tents.

    • I am profoundly ashamed. My apologies to the Duke.

      • Why are you referring to a Duke as a lowly Marquess anyway? That title goes to his son, like a throwaway.

      • Thanks. Just so you know, I wasn’t really outraged, but felt I had to go along with the normal tone of comments. Mildly amused would have been more accurate.

  6. Does anyone besides me wonder if the CHS might have planted a bomb here, by excluding so many well-used (and loved) large lakes and rivers in non-Conservative ridings, and by specifically including so many lakes in Gazebo Tony’s riding? If that is the case, brilliantly played, sirs. *slow clap*

  7. The NWPA was never a environmental Act, it did however trigger the Federal EA (CEAA),quite a bit through the “Lawlist”. In 2009 the NWPA was modified which reduced many of the issues and with the removal of the Lawlist under CEAA, most issues were dealt with. The NWPA needed fixing but I suspect they went further than they should and those chicken will come home to roost when First Nations and NGO’s start taking companies to court for interfering with the common right of navigation, which still exists and in fact the change to the NWPA places all the liabilities onto the proponent. I expect that with the changes to the Fisheries Act, the NWPA and CEAA, you will see more blockades and court challenges, back to the 80′s and 90′s it will be and companies might end up wishing they hadn’t pushed so hard for these changes.
    Note: Even some lakes that are charted by the Hydrographic services are not listed.

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