33 Replies to “I Want A New Country”

  2. The ONLY Business “certainty” I see is that they (and numerous Albertans as well), are leaving…

    …and after 4 yrs of being told I am a Homophobic, Misogynistic, Transphobic, Racist Biggoted CIS Normal NAZI – who as an Oil GAs Worker is a potenial rapist…??

    Its what WE MUST do as well.
    Leave this beyond fkd up CON Federation.

    1. Disagree

      Just get rid of the LibCons

      The PPC is the only party that supports oil and gas workers like me including free speech…

  3. Well if you told me you were drowning, I would not lend a hand
    I’ve seen your face before my friend, but I don’t know if you know who I am
    Well I was there and I saw what you did, I saw it with my own two eyes
    So you can wipe off that grin, I know where you’ve been
    It’s all been a pack of lies.

    Every time McKenna opens her trap I have a strong urge to sing these lyrics.

  4. I would love to see a trans-gendered man (female to male) be a roughneck and in the words of Corb Lundren – “pull dragons from the ground”.
    A former co-worker in Alberta had a brother who started working in Fort McMurray at the age of 19. His employer told him that the job would be over by the time he was 25, as his reflexes would just not be fast enough by then. He worked 2 weeks on, 1 week off, and was told to abstain from alcohol/drugs as he worked 5 stories above ground and was tethered to the superstructure by 2 leads. If a tool dropped, then he and all his co-workers would be ordered to the ground and a “piss test” would be done immediately. Any drugs or alcohol in the system and you would be dismissed immediately. In return, he was paid obscene amounts of money. He did quit at 25 and went back to trade school.

  5. Hands down SGR is The Best journalist in Alberta and arguably the best in Canada. She provided more opposition grist in Alberta than lame Jason Kenney’s entire caucus – a one woman wrecking ball during the NDP years. She takes no prisoners federally and dishes out just as hard on the smiling idiot Scheer but saves her best for Freeland/McKenna/Trudeau/Butts.

  6. Yep, I am with you Kate. I am done. And there are lots of people, including both ordinary voters and elites. If Saskatchewan wants to come along that’s fine but I’m ready to get the ball rolling and nothing will do that faster than 4 more years of Trudeau.

    I am voting PPC and encouraging others to do so – another Liberal win will move things along. Voting Tory simply delays the inevitable and adds more suffering. The party of Andrew Scheer shares neither Alberta’s values nor its interests and hasn’t the willingness or wherewithal to change the course of events. And, even if they did, the real government of Canada (i.e. the courts) will never allow it. Canadian confederation no longer works. The economic and political interests of the various regions are simply too disparate and the foundational institutions of Canada give Westerners little to no representation.

  7. As someone from Ontario I’m befuddled that Alberta hasn’t yet put the separatism issue to a referendum. It’s patently obvious that Alberta (and likely Saskatchewan) are getting royally screwed by the feds (i.e. Quebec, B.C. and formerly Ontario).

    1. alberta has been infected by the socialist gene, you do remember the NDP government out there. well, there are too many socialists to ever form a separation party.

  8. The Liberal government in Ottawa effectively considers Canadians to be genocidal maniacs out to destroy the planet.

    For that conscious slur against the very citizens they putatively serve, they should be banished to the political wilderness in the very next election.

  9. Destroying the Alberta oil industry is a Trudeau tradition.

    There was, of course, the head-butting between Peter Lougheed and PET, which, finally, had a peaceful resolution.

    I worked in Calgary during the late 1970s and I remember the sense of optimism that people had. The Mackenzie Valley pipeline project was effectively dead, courtesy of Thomas Berger (which shouldn’t have surprised us, considering that he was bought and paid for by the Liberals), but Fort Mac was booming and there was lots of activity in the Beaufort Sea area.

    The latter was a particularly attractive play as it was relatively shallow. Rather than building floating platforms for the rigs, the companies dredged the sea floor and built artificial islands. It was so busy that there was talk that the company my father worked for might send him up there for a while.

    But, even in the late 1970s, there were dark clouds besides the Mackenzie Valley project on the horizon. Phillips, the major owner of Pacific Petroleums, pulled out of Canada, which gave PET the opportunity to start nationalizing the oil industry, something he longed to do for years. Thus, Petro Canada got its start, with, I recall, someone named Maurice Strong as the head (you’ve heard of him, perhaps?).

    In addition, the good times also led to some foolishness. For example, Dome Petroleum took over HBOG and Smilin’ Jack Gallagher put his company into hock over its ears.

    Then came the NEP and things went into the dumpster soon after that. Work in the Beaufort Sea was either suspended or completely stopped, so my father never got to go there. Oil sands work slowed and, it seemed, whole companies disappeared overnight. A lot of well-known firms, particularly in oilfield equipment fabrication, went belly up as there was no work for them.

    Dome’s debt would haunt it for a few years and eventually Amoco Canada bought it. Amoco itself, being a subsidiary of Standard Oil of Indiana, disappeared when the parent company was taken over by BP in the late 1990s.

    My father’s own company suffered as well, though it was partly due to the slack attitude of the owner, who happened to be the son of the founder. The company was barely solvent during the following years and my father was on work-sharing for a while. Eventually, that company went into receivership and was taken over about a year later by an international manufacturing firm. (One reason the company was on the skids was the owner was a lot like Prinz Dummkopf and let his subordinates run it, who then treated it like their own piggy bank. When the receivers came in, one of the first things they did was to take away their credit cards and the keys to their company vehicles.)

    I found a job in Saskatchewan about a year after the NEP began. I got canned less than a year after I started and I spent most of the 1980s either hanging onto a lousy job or looking for another one. Times were tough for engineers during those days and that continued under Lyin’ Brian.

    It didn’t help that there was a recession soon after Reagan was inaugurated and that the world oil price was low. Still, much of what I described could be laid at the feet of PET who, frankly, couldn’t have cared less what happened. Our misfortunes and miseries were simply the price that had to be paid for his vision for this country to be fulfilled.

    If there’s any justice, PET is spending eternity in a rather warm place.

    1. If there’s any justice, PET is spending eternity in a rather warm place.

      Let’s update that sentence:

      If there’s any justice, PET is spending eternity in a very, very hot place.

    2. Thanks for the history lesson (reminder) Rupertslander. I moved from Ontario in 1967 and have been in Calgary since, with a few exceptions. Those exceptions were a couple of years each in Manitoba and BC, both under the NDP. While I was not directly involved in the oil patch, I well remember the devastation PET wreaked upon my friends, neighbours and clients. And now I get to see it all again, inflicted on my kids and grandkids. (Past) time to pull the pin and get the hell out.

      1. You’re welcome.

        Unfortunately, my career never recovered from what happened in the early 1980s and, I suspect, I’m not alone. As I mentioned, I spent most of that decade either looking for a lousy job or hanging onto on.

        And why “lousy” jobs? Because that’s all I could get. The fact that I had been unemployed earlier and that the outfits I worked for were running close to the edge (chucking people, including me, over the side when things got too much for them to handle) worked against me. The longest I was continuously employed was 20 months and I often wondered if I would have a job to go to the next day.

        About a year after I quit my teaching position, I spoke with someone at a computer equipment manufacturer. I showed him my CV and he remarked that I was an “unstable” employee because I changed jobs so often. He was an immigrant from the UK and came across the pond nearly 30 years ago when the worst of the ’80s was pretty much over.

        I explained to him that what I went through was typical and that things were really tough for technical people back then. I knew that for a fact because I knew some of them. The company I mentioned earlier hired a lot of new employees shortly before I started and many of them were refugees from the oil industry and who worked there because they, like me, couldn’t find anything else.

        He, of course, didn’t believe me. Never having gone through those circumstances himself, he was, therefore, uncontaminated with the truth of those times.

        I, on the other hand, was simply a statistic, a monument to idiotic federal and provincial government economic policies.

  10. Hey Alberta, the Liberals get into power despite how you vote and then they steal from you. Gerald Butts is laughing at you.
    And if you think the average eastern dickhead (its not a bird) cares about you, you’re deluded.
    The Liberals, led by PM Adulterer, hate you, but love your wealth. The NDP, led by Jughead Rolex, would shut down all your oil industry and all your cattle industry quick, fast and in a hurry. The Greens would have your lands emptied of all but We Were Here First Nations people. That’s at least 60% of the population of Canada.
    And the Cons, well, they don’t know whether to break wind or tie their shoes.

    Now the first thing you need to do is get rid of all the Canadians in your province…

    1. “Now the first thing you need to do is get rid of all the Canadians in your province…”

      What a bizarre notion.

      That would leave Alberta deserted except for landed immigrants and foreign residents.

      1. Your blade’s a little dull today JJM although I know you believe you’re ten times smarter than me and that may very well be true. My point is that no matter what the origin of the Albertans are, do they choose Alberta over Canada or vice versa? Kinda like how Trudeau chooses K-bec over Canada. Capice? Its time to choose.

        1. I have no use for separatists, whether the Western variety or the Québec variety.

          They’d wreck the house in pursuit of a utopian promise of a new and better one, with no remorse for the chaos they’d cause and no guarantee of success.

          1. But the status quo is better? Sorry, but I don’t buy your argument.

        2. Albertan by choice. Canadian by circumstance.

          I’d love to see Alberta and Saskatchewan go our own way.

  11. Only the totally mindless (most of the mushy middle of the political spectrum) would think that Bill C-69 was anything but a way of ensuring no new major pipeline is ever constructed in Canada. The purposeful economy destroyers and deceitful greens including most of the media all know what its intention was along with their political enemies, those of us who support the Oil and Gas based economy. Climate Barbie, as clueless as she appears, knows full well the intent of C-69 and as a loyal soldier in the Butts’ sock puppet green zealot inner circle – parrots her deceitful script while looking quite naturally like the winner in a bimbo competition. The whole filthy pretense is a way of coning the mindless mushy middle to continue voting for the Spawn while hiding the Butts-engineered strangling of the Oil and Gas sector.

    Sheila, the absence of any economic impact analysis on Alberta is not an oversight but rather a way of minimizing the deceit as they could always find an “economist” in their camp that could write what they are told. Butts knows what he is doing.

  12. The PPC and Max will defund the Leftists, environmentalist and the CBC and 600 million media bailout and build pipelines across Canada.

    The LibCons will keep this shit status quo we are living in now if voted back Trudope or scaredy-cat Scheer into power.

    Pipeline Protesters Shouldn’t Be Funded By Taxpayers

    The next time you see pipeline protesters chaining themselves to a bulldozer, know that your taxes may have paid for their activism.

    The federal government has given $2.5 million of your money to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives so it can “shine a bright light on the fossil fuel industry by investigating the ways corporate power is organized and exercised.”

    https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/guest-column-pipeline-protesters-shouldnt-be-funded-by-taxpayers

  13. New country is only viable if the welfare state is abandoned.
    Quitting Confederation but continuing all the idiocies of Confederated Canada will change nothing.
    Even if current Canada stopped every theft and stupid spending,there is no chance of fiscal recovery.
    The debt is bigger than the citizen base.
    Devaluation is the only,(yes it is planned) way out for this Country.
    Following the successful trails of Zimbabwe and Venezuela.
    Does not matter who we elect in Ottawa,they will lack the gut(and certainty of political oblivion) to do what is needed.
    Far easier to hand that bill and a much reduced nation on to those children yet to be born.
    Our new country had better have a superior model to that of Canada,which never was much more than a regional basket case.
    Perhaps the US Constitution, but whatever we chose we cannot allow the current kleptocracy to continue.
    The parasite does not rule the host, not if the host is to live.

    1. 100% agreed. This is what Kenney should be doing right now. Start starving out all the commies and parasites here in Alberta.

  14. Liberals have no interest in facts.
    They want to completely destroy, I mean, destroy the economy of Alberta and make Alberta dependent on others.
    They can’t win in Alberta, with any sense in Edmonton, no seats in the province.
    The guy running in the Calgary centre, if he wins it would be only on feel sorry for him bases.

    The “Liberal” government of Canada, destroying a province by design has no right to govern a country.
    The government of Alberta should make life really, really hard for them
    Expose their conspiracy to actually, in fact, willfully destroy a province.

    “Liberals” are a low life.

  15. Another media bailout expansion coming from the Liberals

    The Rebel
    @RebelNewsOnline
    .
    @AndrewLawton talks to
    @EzraLevant about why the Canadian media wants Trudeau and Scheer to focus on Trump when there’s a federal election just three months away.

    WATCH: (link: http://bit.ly/2McvnqI) bit.ly/2McvnqI | #cdnpoli

    1. Why is Kenney leaving NDP hacks in control of the bureaucracy? These clowns should have been cleaned out a week after the election.

  17. I’m from Ontario, and I want Alberta to separate. That way Canada can break up and we can get rid of a useless federal government that doesn’t do anything for any of us.

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