# Anti-pipeline demonstrations across Canada **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [February 15, 2020, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-pipeline-demonstrations-across-canada/847986 "2020-02-15T20:08:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-pipeline-demonstrations-across-canada/847986/21 "2020-02-25T01:56:03Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > If Toronto City Council rejected gas lines into residential areas I’m pretty sure there would be some poor folks of all ethnicities fighting pretty hard against it. > > but I guess the protestors could import their natural gas from Russian and transport it by truck, rail. Assuming they aren’t blocked by protestors. > > If I were President Trudeau I’d focus on getting supplies to those outside of the area in question so as not to disturb sacred indigenous land until they get it worked out. You okay, bro? ---
**Author:** ![dan39](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/258eb7/32.png) [@dan39](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dan39)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-pipeline-demonstrations-across-canada/847986/22 "2020-02-25T15:34:26Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > President Trudeau Prime Minister. Canada doesn’t have a President. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-pipeline-demonstrations-across-canada/847986/23 "2020-02-25T15:54:02Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > This can be laid at the feet of Trudeau, who has greatly empowered native bands and leaders to have veto power over infrastructure projects, and who has backed away from confrontations with protestors repeatedly. Argle bargle it’s all Trudeau’s fault. If I want simplistic one-sided political commentary, I can go read the National Post. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-pipeline-demonstrations-across-canada/847986/24 "2020-02-25T17:53:54Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > This can be laid at the feet of Trudeau, who has greatly empowered native bands and leaders to have veto power over infrastructure projects, and who has backed away from confrontations with protestors repeatedly. Look, Justin Trudeau isn’t a good Prime Minister. He’s just not. He’s directionless, ineffective, and far meaner and more petty than most people realize. But holy shit, if there is ANY p[oblem in Canada you can’t lay at the feet of the current occupant of 24 Sussex, it’s this one. Like, you REMEMBER Oka, right? Did you hear about Caledonia? This shit is not new. Trudeau is responsible in the sense the buck now stops at his desk but even suggesting this problem is just his failure is just so insane. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-pipeline-demonstrations-across-canada/847986/25 "2020-02-25T18:28:42Z")
Well, especially since he doesn’t live at 24 Sussex. No one lives there anymore. It’s a dilapidated, asbestos hell-hole. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2020, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-pipeline-demonstrations-across-canada/847986/26 "2020-02-26T00:59:08Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Well, especially since he doesn’t live at 24 Sussex. No one lives there anymore. It’s a dilapidated, asbestos hell-hole. [Prolly Trudeau’s fault as well:](https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/how-the-pms-residence-became-a-nightmare-at-24-sussex/) Somehow. > [@](#): > > The house’s decrepitude became public in 2008, when then-auditor general Sheila Fraser announced that renovations to the heritage-designated building, a federal government-owned property managed by the National Capital Commission (NCC), were urgently required to repair cracked windows, 50-year-old knob-and-tube wiring, deficient plumbing, a leaky roof, old window air conditioners, a lack of universal disabled access, and “not functional” laundries. The work, estimated to cost $10 million, required the “residents,” as the NCC calls them, to move out for at least 18 months, something then-prime minister Stephen Harper refused to do. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2020, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-pipeline-demonstrations-across-canada/847986/27 "2020-02-26T02:33:37Z")
> [@dan39](#): > > Prime Minister. Canada doesn’t have a President. If he was responsible for getting the rival Canadian train lines to share their tracks and route some of the freight through the US then good on him and my apologies for the title error. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-pipeline-demonstrations-across-canada/847986.md?page=1)