russia https://canadianriley.com Canadian Riley From Parliament to You Independent Political News Blog Sun, 04 Jun 2023 02:42:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://i0.wp.com/canadianriley.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-canadian-riley.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 russia https://canadianriley.com 32 32 214541444 Protests against the Trudeau government’s decision to send turbines to Europe for Russian pipeline https://canadianriley.com/protests-against-the-trudeau-governments-decision-to-send-turbines-to-europe-for-russian-pipeline/ https://canadianriley.com/protests-against-the-trudeau-governments-decision-to-send-turbines-to-europe-for-russian-pipeline/?noamp=mobile#respond Sun, 17 Jul 2022 21:49:10 +0000 https://canadianriley.com/?p=1464 Protestors can be seen in Edmonton at the Sieman’s building, and in Ottawa at parliament hill today. Protests are being held against the Trudeau government’s decision to hand over turbines for the Nord Stream-1 to Russia are urging Canada not to give in to Putin’s pressure on sanctions on Russia.

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Canadian-Ukrainian Yuri Kolomiyets told the crowd of about 150 supporters assembled on the lawn of Parliament Hill that the decision will mean more oil and gas money for Russia to fund its attack on Ukraine.

Ottawa’s Ukrainian community is gathering on Parliament Hill on Sunday, July 17 to protest the federal government’s decision to send turbines to Europe for a Russian pipeline, despite severe sanctions against Russia over its war in Ukraine.

Protesters called on Canada to “be brave like Ukraine” and uphold economic sanctions against Russia on Sunday, just hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered essentially the same message to the Prime Minister.

The Liberal government is facing criticism for deciding to give an exemption to Siemens Canada to send the six turbines to Germany.

“This was a very difficult decision,” said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday, July 13.

Prime Minister Trudeau said the decision was more about helping Canada’s European allies, as they face an energy crisis in their efforts to wean off Russian oil and gas, than it was about giving some sort of pass to the Russian regime.

“We have seen Russia consistently trying to weaponize energy as a way of creating division amongst the allies,” he added.

Freeland defends Trudeau and the Liberals decision to Exempt Gas Turbines From Sanctions saying that it was the “right thing to do”.

Speaking to reporters in a teleconference after a meeting of G-20 finance ministers in Bali, Indonesia, Freeland said she understood Ukraine’s response but defended the government’s move as the right one to make under the circumstances.

“That was a very difficult decision for Canada and I understand the concern that Ukraine has about it, but it was the right thing to do,” Freeland said.

]]> https://canadianriley.com/protests-against-the-trudeau-governments-decision-to-send-turbines-to-europe-for-russian-pipeline/feed/ 0 1464 Hypocrite F1 driver Sebastian Vettel at Montreal Grand Prix in Anti-Oilsands T-shirt https://canadianriley.com/hypocrite-f1-driver-sebastian-vettel-at-montreal-grand-prix-in-anti-oilsands-t-shirt/ https://canadianriley.com/hypocrite-f1-driver-sebastian-vettel-at-montreal-grand-prix-in-anti-oilsands-t-shirt/?noamp=mobile#respond Tue, 21 Jun 2022 00:22:52 +0000 https://canadianriley.com/?p=712 Vettel, who drives for Aston Martin, arrived on a bicycle at the site of the Montreal Grand Prix wearing a T-shirt with an anti-oilsands slogan.

The T-shirt said “Stop Mining Tar Sands” and, below a picture of a pipeline, added “Canada’s Climate Crime.”

Vettel was asked about the T-shirt at a news conference, and he described it as a “small gesture,” adding that he’d be wearing a special helmet to raise awareness about the oilsands.

“I think what happens in Alberta is a crime because you chop down a lot of trees and you basically destroy the place just to extract oil, and the manner of doing it with the tarsands, oilsands mining, is horrible for nature,” Vettel said. “There’s so much science around the topic that fossil fuels are going to end, and living in a time that we do now, these things shouldn’t be allowed anymore, and they shouldn’t happen.”

Sonya Savage, Alberta’s Minister of Energy shot back “I have seen a lot of hypocrisy over the years, but this one takes the cake. A race car driver sponsored by Aston Martin, with financing from Saudi Aramco, complaining about the oilsands.”

 

“In a shocking way of hypocrisy this past weekend in Montreal German Formula One driver Sebastian Vettel had the audacity to call Alberta’s oil sands a crime. The Aston Martin driver is sponsored by Saudi Aramco, the largest oil producer on the planet.”
]]> https://canadianriley.com/hypocrite-f1-driver-sebastian-vettel-at-montreal-grand-prix-in-anti-oilsands-t-shirt/feed/ 0 712 Melanie Joly’s Staff Went to Party with Russian Officials and is Not Saying Who They Were https://canadianriley.com/melanie-jolys-staff-went-to-party-with-russian-officials-and-is-not-saying-who-they-were/ https://canadianriley.com/melanie-jolys-staff-went-to-party-with-russian-officials-and-is-not-saying-who-they-were/?noamp=mobile#respond Fri, 17 Jun 2022 04:06:28 +0000 https://canadianriley.com/?p=585 Update 06-17-2022: Mélanie Joly’s office missed Global Affairs e-mail alerting them to Russian embassy party.

Sending a senior foreign affairs staffer to a party at Russia’s foreign embassy was offensive and undermines Canada’s mission to hold Russia accountable for its horrific actions in Ukraine.

At first, Joly attempted to paint the situation as entirely the fault of public servants in her department, and suggested the decision wasn’t run by her office beforehand. She wouldn’t say whether she personally knew about plans to attend the Russia Day celebration.

Melanie Joly says a Canadian representative never should have attended a party at the Russian Embassy and that the buck stops with her as the Minister. She didn’t answer if she knew in advance that the representative planned to attend the party or who they were.

The reality is, this should never have happened. And this will not happen again. I’m the Minister and the buck stops here.

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