32 Replies to “Wild Rose Country”

    1. I thought that Oneil Carlier was one as well. BTW, I notice that his Wikipedia page is just a touch out of date as it states that he’s still the Agricultural Minister. Oh, I forgot: the NDP didn’t lose the election–the UCP stole it.

      1. Oneil Carlier lives at Darwell, Alberta which has farms and acreages but I have never heard him described as a farmer which he may very well be. He was a union administrator. Judging from all the anti-farmer legislation his government passed, one might assume he hated farmers.

        1. I thought I heard it mentioned that he was, not that it really matters now.

          I watched the recording of his Bill 6 “consulting” presentation that he made to Red Deer area farmers. I was puzzled why he would support the legislation if he was a farmer himself.

          It wouldn’t have made any difference what his occupational background was. By the time the presentation was over, the audience, both in the room and outside in the parking lot, would have gladly tarred and feathered him.

    2. Imagine having someone who ever did an honest day’s work in cabinet, period.

      When I am king there will be no bankers, lawyers or PR hacks in my cabinet. I want farmers, miners, oilpatch workers, factory workers and truck drivers, people who depend on their wits and work-ethic for their bread.

      The real workers’ and peasants’ government the socialists claim to want, in other words, though in fact such a government will dispatch the socialists in no time.

      If I want the Law interpreted, I’ll consult the royal chaplain. I will insist on someone for that post who fears the Lord, keeps His commandments and who can read the five books of Moses in the original Hebrew.

      1. Has Nigel Farage been talking to you?

        “Brexit Party Accepts Applications from Would-Be Members of Parliament: Politicians Need Not Apply”

        “In an email sent to the party’s 90,000 paying supporters, the Brexit Party invited followers to consider becoming a parliamentary candidate, listing the qualities the party considered positives for selection. Notably, the invitation made clear they were looking for candidates who did not have political experience, but who had worked and served in the real world instead.”

        https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/05/10/brexit-party-invites-applications-politicians-need-not-apply/

    3. Ohhh mammma … look at all the Co2-spewing farm machinery taking the jobs away from literally hundreds of illegal farm workers who could be planting by hand, with a hoe and rake. Ohhhhh mammma … CRIMINAL! The Ag Minister is a CRIMINAL!!

  2. Redmonton is going bonkers. All the “officials” Nutley hired are apoplectic. “You can’t have a farmer in charge of agriculture. What about the five year plan?”

    Sir Humphrey Appleby would not be amused. 🙂

  3. Next you’ll be telling me that the Health minister isn’t morbidly obese.

    1. Hahahhahahahah… I spit my coffee out at this.. thanks buddy, you owe me a keyboard.

  4. Here is an example of how screwed up Government is in Canada.
    I was still operating my modest 800 acre ranch in north central Alberta in Ralph Klein’s day.
    I decided to build a new dugout. I went to see my Alberta Ag guy for plans and engineering information.
    He said hey Klein just put 500M into the PFRA a program dating back to the dust bowl days, and you can probably get a grant, call this number. It was a number of another Alberta Ag. Office.
    Talked to the guy there. He said hey this is all administered back east call this number. He gave me another number.
    This time it was in Fwench and in Quebec City. A Federal Ag guy in Fwench for an English speaking rancher in N. Alberta. He could not help but gave me a number in Ottawa.
    Again they answered in Fwench. As soon as the 2nd guy in Alberta gave me the number back east I had decided this would go no where, but was curious now as to what I would find. The Fwenchman in Ottawa gave me a number back in Manitoba. This guy in Manitoba gave me a different number in the same office of the 2nd guy in Alberta Ag that I had talked to, I was laughing by this time but persevered to the end after the elusive rabbit.
    This guy had been trained by Canada Ag on how the program would be administered. The long and the short was there were so many regulations and so much fine print, that basically the Government controlled my dug out via regulation.
    Basically they would not directly build anything just issue regulations and inspections and sign off’s and follow ups.
    Kind of like my old tomcat who fell off the back fence and tore his nuts off, and had to go consulting after that misfortune.
    Anyways, there I was with my old straw hat and still no closer to a dugout. But Lady Luck smiled and 2 weeks later a construction crew showed up to cut a trail for seismic crews. The one line run a whole 1/4 section, along my west fence line, which was good, It cleaned out brush that needed gone. And they paid me. The 2nd line ran very close to where I needed my dugout. It ran across another 2, 1/4 sections on an angle. as they got close to where I wanted the dugout, the crew was shutdown by Federal regulations regarding stream beds.
    The bossman came up to the house and said they would have to shutdown for the day and maybe next day. They could not cross the dry creek bed without a sign off from the government.
    He was all worked up. I asked him what the 2 d7’s would be doing while he was gone. He said nothing, picking their noses and telling stories. I asked if it would be OK if I put them to work very close by where they had stopped. He said help yourself.
    So we went out to the 2 operators and I showed them where I wanted my dugout. The cat skinners went to work as they liked pushing dirt anyway and I had my dugout. And I got a nice fat cheque tax free for crossing my land.
    The moral of the story is governments are thieves and just like my old Tomcat all they can do is consult and regulate and try and boss you around. All the 500m Klein paid in to PFRA probably was eaten up in salaries and they maybe build 5-6 dugouts. I got my fence line brushed and a new dugout without Tomcat Consulting and a tax free cheque from the oil company and no bullshit.

    1. “…you can probably get a grant, call this number…”

      Quebec, Ontario, or Alberta, the ability of Ag Ministers to deliver bushels of dollars courtesy of the tax-payer seems to be all that matters as far as the farm organizations (and a lot of farmers) are concerned.

  5. “my old tomcat who fell off the back fence and tore his nuts off, and had to go consulting after that misfortune”
    Heh. I may have to borrow that one.

    1. Fill your boots Nold, just country sayings. I worked with meat eaters all my life, so learned some pretty colorful things.
      But I blame my Dad for making me distrustful of Gubmint. When I was a young shaver, some Gubmint guy once or twice a year would drive in our farmyard. Our dog didn’t like them either and always kept them corralled in their new cars until my Dad got there, quite often they would appear while he was hoeing the garden or had a pitchfork in his hand, or an axe etc.
      He would ask them their business, and they would give a detailed resume of how important they were, then he would hawk and spit, and tell them to turn around and get the hell off my land while you still can. Don’t want or need you. Conversation over.
      Over the years I found his thinking to be pretty much true. They are pretty much like Tomcats who have been neutered but can still spray and stink the place up. Nobody needs a nutless Tomcat or his opinion.

      1. Those days are pretty much over… my neighbour was like this. They told him that he couldn’t build another house on his property and he did it anyway. Sent the town “officials” his way and he saw that off and I think he was carrying his shotgun.. that sent the message and they never bothered him again. BUT i’m reminded of something I think Mark Steyn said about how we live under a government bureaucracy that is far more tyrannical than a king would ever be.. simply because a king couldn’t possibly find the time to oppress us the way a government bureaucracy can.

  6. Whoa! Hang the f**k on. The Federal Minister of the Environment, Catherine No Time McKenna, is trained as a human rights and social justice lawyer. She’s doing an exemplary job telling us how we can’t suck and blow no more so how can an AG minister possibly function if they’re not a social justice wanker? You people in Alberta . . . next thing you’ll be trying to keep your wealth instead of shoveling it to K-bec so they can have free daycare, pay their debts and dump their shit into the St Lawrence. F**king nerve.

  7. Has he started a total war on the unions and the civil service yet? No?

    Well then, say hello to the new boss, same as the old boss. Until the size of you government is cut by 95%, and all government employees are disenfranchised, you have no path to freedom.

    The bureaucrats were in charge under Notely, and the same bureaucrats are still in charge under Kenney.

    1. The same bureaucrats, who belong to the same union, that had their membership out putting up NDP election signs. For the last 300 elections.

      1. Yes! This should be one of the first things any conservative government does after taking power. Clean house. All these far left bureaucrats in Redmonton need to be sent packing (and not replaced).

        These mandarins are one of the most sinister voting blocks. They consistently vote to pick the pockets of taxpayers in ever increasing amounts. Witness how Edmonton voted despite the NDP’s horrific handling of Alberta.

        Ordinarily I would never champion or cheer anyone’s job loss, but the ramifications of leaving these greedy commies in charge of the levers of govt is simply too detrimental to the working folks.

        When the host is no longer a friendly environment for parasites improved health is just around the corner.

        Still pretty early though. Fingers crossed

        1. When governments are called on the cut the numbers of the civil service, they ALWAYS punish the uppity voters by laying off the low level, front line people who actually provide the services, while maintaining the management levels. This sends a message to voters to “stay the hell outta our fiefdom and do what you’re told”.
          We had this occur in the 80’s when I was one of the front line workers who was laid off, but not ONE of the management personnel lost his job. We had one office where the managers outnumbered the field workers by three to one, so the field work simply didn’t get done. The inspection work was then carried on by the private companies themselves, under what management termed “the honor system”, an archaic term that we were to believe actually existed.

          Unions are overprotective of their constituency, but governments are also just as protective of theirs, the career bureaucrats who shuffle papers for most of their career.

          1. Every taxpayer should take the time to befriend one of these govt managers. The tales of waste and extravagance are highly educational on why we have almost half of our labour taken from us.

        2. The best way to do that is to eliminate entire departments and cabinet positions. Can’t have overloaded management in a department that no longer exists.

    2. The election was April 16. This announcement would indicate that Kenney is just appointing his cabinet now.
      Are you the type that would go to war without putting your pants on first? Be reasonable.

    3. “The bureaucrats were in charge under Notely, and the same bureaucrats are still in charge under Kenney.”

      Do you even comprehend that the new Alberta Legislature WILL NOT SIT until next week and what that means?
      Do you expect big changes BEFORE the new cabinet is appointed and BEFORE they even sit?

  8. The problem of having the wrong kind of people in political office could be solved with two words: Term, Limits.
    Funny thing, the idea seems to appeal to everyone throughout the political spectrum; except career politicians.

    1. Funny thing, the idea seems to appeal to everyone throughout the political spectrum; except career politicians.

      Particularly those on the left. The Dumbocrats are outraged that O’Bummer could only serve 2 terms by law.

    2. Exactly. Every MLA/MP should be hard limited to two terms in office. And then out for good. THIS is the path to freedom. That and recall legislation. No more idiotic grand schemes and social engineering experiments. If you are in there for at most 8 years, you aren’t going to have time to concoct any of these schemes.

  9. Meh. The position of ‘Agriculture Minister’ shouldn’t even exist. Also LOL at all these fables of tuff independent farmers telling off those bureaucrats. Bet that stopped quick when they wanted a grant or subsidized insurance or whatever handout was hot.

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