Another Sideshow Bob moment for Poilievre. Another "bite me!" moment for Carney.

Today was the day that Parliament voted on the Conservatives Gotcha! motion about the Canada-Alberta pipeline MOU.
Poilievre stepped on a rake while Carney skated through it. 

In The Globe and Mail, Stephanie Levitz writes:

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s effort to get the House of Commons to vote in support of a new oil pipeline failed after Liberals refused to back an endeavour they described as a divisive political stunt....
During Question Period, Mr. Carney pushed back on Mr. Poilievre for not supporting all of what Alberta had agreed to, and said that if the Conservative Leader did support it, he would have included the entirety of the MOU in the motion.
“I am not a lifelong member of this House, so I don’t know all the rules but I do not think there is a limit on the size of motions,” Mr. Carney said.
The NDP and Bloc Québécois had said earlier Tuesday they would vote against the motion.
Interim NDP Leader Don Davies – who called the pipeline bad for the country – said that given the Conservatives’ mid-debate amendments, the motion amounted to a political game.
“We’re talking about a multibillion dollar issue that has incredible consequences for people across this country, and the fact that the Conservatives couldn’t get their own motion right I think says something about their motivations,” he said....

Dale Smith explains the basic problem:

...The MOU states a “private sector constructed and financed pipelines, with Indigenous Peoples co-ownership and economic benefit, with at least one million barrels a day of low emission Alberta bitumen with a route that increases export access to Asian markets as a priority” whereas the motion simply says “pipelines enabling the export of at least one million barrels a day of low-emission Alberta bitumen from a strategic deepwater port on the British Columbia coast to reach Asian markets,” and adds “respecting the duty to consult Indigenous people.” One of these things is not like the other....
The thing we need to remember in all of this is not the shenanigans, or the Conservatives thinking they’re too clever, or any of that—rather, it’s that they think they can ram through these projects without Indigenous consent. Sure, they’ll talk about “meaningful consultation,” but consultation is not consent, and in their press releases, consent is never mentioned, nor is even consultations. That’s not realistic, nor even legal in the current framework. Of course, they also think a new pipeline will “unblock the trillions of dollars of privatesector energy investment to produce more oil and gas, build profitable pipelines and ship a million barrels of oil to Asia a day at world prices.” My dudes—this is a post-2014 world. It’s not going to be trillions of dollars, and world oil prices are tanking because of a supply glut. All of this is fantasyland...

Prime Minister Carney flips the script on Poilievre: "I don't think there's a limit on the size of motions. And in fact, since the MOU is already translated, I think it would be very easy to take the entire MOU in both official languages and propose them."

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— Scott Robertson (@sarobertson.bsky.social) December 9, 2025 at 1:49 PM

This issue is bigger than just one vote:

PM Carney has developed a pathway to for Alberta, BC, & Indigenous communities to collaborate and find win-win solutions All parties need to listen first without getting defensive and being open to new and creative ideas Did you know the MOU is about more than a pipeline? #cdnpoli

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— Shannon Peel 🇨🇦 (@shannonpeel.bsky.social) December 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM

There is truth here too, I think:

Employment in oil and gas is in terminal decline and won’t be saved no matter what Carney and Smith cook up, according to new research from the Centre for Future Work provided exclusively to @nationalobserver.com. The only responsible choice for governments is to plan for the transition.

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— John Woodside (@woodsideful.bsky.social) December 8, 2025 at 8:13 AM

I dunno if you were around when Danielle Smith CONSTANTLY slagged Justin Trudeau for getting in the way of Alberta's tar sands FINDING THEIR HOME SOMEWHERE ELSE. Even though he spent $15,000,000,000 TRIPLING the TMX and they can't fill it. I suspect Carney is giving Smith something to wave/1

— dredecopp.bsky.social (@dredecopp.bsky.social) December 9, 2025 at 9:57 AM

...in front of her separatist supporters and call an election. Note the boos in the convention when she mentioned the MOU and a "strong Canada". Carney KNOWS there is NO desire in the private sector for ANOTHER pipeline of toxic bitumen-he's letting Smith run with this straight into /2

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— dredecopp.bsky.social (@dredecopp.bsky.social) December 9, 2025 at 10:01 AM

Coming full circle with Sideshow Bob and his rakes, eh? 

But I have felt for years (without actually doing any research into it because I don't want to jeopardize my amateur standing!) that Trudeau invested in the TMX pipeline because he also knew the writing is on the wall for Canada's oil and gas industry. So he wanted Canada to profit from our black gold before the market for our oil disappears entirely -- like whaling disappeared when we no longer needed whalebones for corsets, and beaver trapping disappeared when we no longer used pelts for top hats.