I wasted eight minutes watching that? Canada’s tough, tough road ahead

Dark days are coming, perhaps literally if the “climate” agenda wins over the “environmental” agenda, and there is every indication that it will. Soon, when people talk about Canada’s separatist movement, Quebec won’t be the default anymore. The big difference this time around? Quebec wanted to separate because of their cultural feelings; Alberta (and whomever else) will want to separate because they are denied the ability to exercise provincial powers over resource development. Read on…

37 Replies to “I wasted eight minutes watching that? Canada’s tough, tough road ahead”

  1. He likens Canadian politics to a high school popularity contest, as though it was a recent phenomenon. It started with Trudeaumania in 1968 and it’s continued ever since.

    1. Actually, when it comes to the District of Buffalo now Alberta and Saskatchewan, it was Laurier who divided us and it seems Trudeau II is uniting us against the ROC.

  2. Folks it is about one thing and one thing only, freedom. All pivots on that. Those who wish to be slaves of government may do so but do not expect any cooperation from me. Stupid people vote for dangerous parties and policies, they don’t have any idea what this all has to do with freedom.

  3. Terry Etam, who has been so polite in all his writings, so reasoned. How has that been working out for you so far?

    Has it got any pipelines built?
    Did it swing any seats away from the Liberals?
    Has there been as many suicides in the civil service yet as the first NEP caused to non-government?

    Have any of the various National Energy Pogroms every caused any depression or job loses in any level of government anywhere?

    NEWS FLASH: Jason Kenney, Scott Moe, and all the rest have made out very well for themselves under the current system. Don’t expect them to do anything to threaten their personal prosperity.

  4. Great article. I am still in shock this morning that Canadians have elected that sanctimonious, hypocritical fool again.

    1. Well only 66% of the people voted. Ten million did not vote. That is a sad state of affairs.

      1. Do you really think that the extra ten million would have done anything except change the percentages?

  5. Re: ” We have parties pledging to get Canada off fossil fuels in some short time frame, when they have absolutely no clue as to how difficult that will be.”

    I was in Toronto this past weekend (I live well outside of the big city) and was amazed at the traffic on a Saturday afternoon. The Don Valley Parkway and Gardiner were absolutely packed and my wife and I discussed how anyone short of a lunatic could see this disappearing in seven or even twelve years. This is the result of enormous population growth and almost no investment in transit infrastructure for the past 40 years. Don’t get me started on electric cars unless you can explain where the electricity will come from.

    1. And that in a nutshell is the paradox. Lizard, Jughead, and Groper all want this mythical dream in no more than 10 years (arbitrary).
      They provide no solutions.
      They provide no suggestions for massive multi+billion dollar transit, Light Rail, or other alternatives.
      They provide no replacements for the trucking industry, of which all our food products, materials and goods are delivered. Needless to say, what about all the freighters? Are they going to bar them from Canada?
      We are supposed to wean off fossil fuels, but continue to sell coal, oil and LNG to offshore buyers, but ban their use within the country?
      Sure, maybe BC can get by on its hydro power, but what about the rest of the country? Solar panels and wind turbines are incapable. Rotating power outages? Banning LNG? Freezing in winter? Horgan was against the Site C dam, until he was for it! Raw power grab!
      My friends, we deal with lunatics and mass hysteria, and it’s going to get worse, unless we have an event, an event that is lasting and destructive. Like a 2 month sub zero, destructive freezing spell on the coast. And even then, the lunatics here will greensplain it as climate change or some other nonsense.
      Lizard May is nuts and so are her disciples, they live in an alternate reality. Ditto for Jughead, the dancing, jigging yellow topped carpetbagging communist.
      Kenney should lay down the gauntlet today, with Moe, and, in so many words, declare war!

      1. Dan, see Kevin’s comment above.Don’t expect any politician elected under the current system to do anything to upset his personal cart. Moe,Kenney,Ford,Horgan,and ALL the provincial Premiers are doing very well, six figure income, lovely pension awaiting,why in hell would they make any changes to the system that has served them so well?
        We’re stuck with this bullshit unless we somehow change the electoral system, maybe PR would work, but as it is now, not much hope for us peasants.

        1. Don, nowhere is there an expectation of some political messiah to do it all, just pointing out the complete lack of intelligence, scruples, and solutions from the Pied Pipers. The electorate is dumber than a bag of hammers.
          I said in another thread, that otherwise normal sane intelligent people, have been fooled/brainwashed that we’re doomed unless it’s all given up.
          So yes, a crisis, a REAL crisis, not this artificial construct of “in 10 years or else!”, must happen, to show the idiots that this is just nonsense.
          A good hard freezing spell.
          Otherwise, these lunatics are advocating starvation, third world living conditions, wide power outages, etc, all in the name of Gaia. They advocate solutions that don’t exist. They advocate false equivalents, “Solar is more economical than ever”. “Battery technology is on the verge of a breakthrough” . ALL DANGLING CARROTS! But utterly false!
          California has started this already, of course, not in the coastal areas, just in the interior where all the GOP rednecks live and vote.
          Remember, Moroneau said this morning the Libs would act “fiscally responsible”. Fcking eh they will!

      2. Completely absent from any zealots plans for banning petroleum vehicles, is a mention of agriculture. Food is pretty well the most important, the only thing when you get right down to it. Food in N America is 98% dependent on fossil fuel power, to plant it, store it, harvest it process it and deliver it. See above mention of delivery system for all consumer products including food. The fanatics ignore this because they have no conceivable alternative, electric combines? farm tractors? highway rigs? How absurd is this?
        Others ignore it because they assume food will continue to appear on shelves as usual. The disturbing part of their fantasy is that historical
        facts tell us that in mass food shortages, the controlling elite will eat quite well, it is the masses who do the suffering.
        Just once I would like to hear a Green enthusiast address Agriculture Policy; and beyond the sustainable, local food nonsense, how would the city of Tortonto eat without any fossil fuel support?

    2. The electricity for Toronto and southern Ontario can come from Quebec. Trudeau ensuring more money for Quebec.

      As far as the prairies, it will have to come from Manitoba, BC Greens and NDP don’t want any more hydro dams.

  6. Not unexpected but still disappointing. I sincerely hope western Canada chooses to fight for its freedom and rights.

  7. I’m just glad that we can all wear blackface out in public now.

    Seriously — if that was not racist and did not cost the man his job, then nothing is racist.

    Say what you will about the rest of the election, but at least it settled that for us.

  8. We just elected a man who likes to wear black face to lead a ‘minority’ government!

    Irony abounds…

  9. It was time 20 years ago. My relationship with Canada is purely transactional now… and I am tired of coming out on the dirty end of the stick.

    We need a referendum on equalization, we need to make the environmentalists feel the consequences of their idiotic energy policies, and we need to remind the rest of the parasites in this country who is paying for their freebies and gibs.

    It’s time to stop being civil and time to get nasty – with some really nasty people that would take us for granted.

  10. As far as appealing to reason and logic are concerned, there is little that can be done.

    Canada’s electorate – overwhelmingly urban – votes for dependency… and Freedom is the forfeit of dependency. And if you know anything about history and human nature, then you damned well know the inevitable results.

  11. Well, this has made one decision easier for me.

    For Halloween I’m going to dress in blackface with a huge “Justin Trudeau” nametag and a clown costume with a medieval fool’s hat.

  12. It’s been a tough brutal growing season. I’m still not finished harvest as my last canola field will not cure properly. That field is my profit. My bills get paid in order to obtain inputs for next season.
    To the north of me within 25 miles an early August frost affected wheat crops. Theres nothing in the head and it was baled for greenfeed.

    Grain markets are in disarray. There is a Lot of market manipulation going on. The UDSA had to leave the preharvest Midwest crop tour because of death threats. Satellite data is telling a different story than boots on the ground.
    The Liberal government has done little to market Canola to China and Pulses to India or alternative markets. Dance competitions are held and Trudeau lost.

    See the YouTube links for the US Crop conditions post snowstorm that affected southern AB, SK, and Manitoba.
    Since an early Sept 2018 snowstorm Western Canadians have dealt with a LOT colder than average year. In 2019 we had 4 hours of 30°C. There wasnt an uncomfortable nights sleep due to high temps.
    The media says “the planet is burning up”.
    Western Canadians and now the US Midwest are saying Bullshit, but we are the deplorables who support CPC and Trump.

    Ice Age Farmer
    https://youtu.be/JDTdK7X3xIw

    Yanasa Ama Ranch has been predicting major US crop losses all season since the flooding and subsequent Midwest rains that prevented corn planting on time.
    https://youtu.be/k9V8Vkh2Wfw

    1. Dance competitions are held and Trudeau lost.

      LOL … I hear you, brother (sister? hey, whatever you choose in Canada). I feel for you … having spent a grand total of 3 months of my life on a working farm/ranch (alfalfa and oat hay) … seeing up close and personal how intimately connected the farmer is to the environment. I learned that ONE bad unseasonal thunderstorm drenching newly cut alfalfa can cause it to mold and become virtually worthless. So we had a mad scramble to rake the windrows, turning them over to dry out. I know how utterly connected farmers are to the environment. There’s not ONE gawddammned Canada Goose jacket wearing urban elitist who has a clue about how the REAL world works. Their carefully managed view of the environment is just so much propaganda as to be laughable.

      I pray you get your crop in with abundant yields … if it’s not too late.

      PS … Global Warming now includes “EXTREME weather” … so your unseasonal freezes are STILL caused by Global Warming! But you already knew that. Everything bad … is global warming … caused by diesel tractors working the virgin prairie… which should be returned to the Bison herds. Geeze, these people are idiotic MO-rons

  13. This is the FIRST article I’ve read from Terry that wasn’t so energy-wonk sounding as to actually capture my attention.

    I’m gonna say it again … shut it all down. Shut down ALL fossil fuels in Canada for a month. Yes, a full Month. Why not? Can the government COMPEL private business to produce their product? No revenue, no taxes, no remittances for one month. No fossil fuel energy for ONE month. How else to reach the simpleton voters in Canada?

    And what is the MAXIMUM “clean-green, renewable” wind energy that could EVER be produced? 15% of current energy use? That’s a stretch. There are only just so many wind corridors where these contraptions can be expected to provide maximum efficient output. OK … so don’t shut it ALL down … just shut down 85% of all fossil fuel use to give these simpleton Canadian voters a REAL LIFE object lesson about their “clean-green, renewable” energy future.

    Pro Tip: The people of CA who had their power SHUT OFF by PG&E … “for fire safety” … have all gone apoplectic! Even greenie Gavin Newsome has screamed at PG&E for shutting down the power. As Terry said … these children voters of Canada would NEVER accede to their rich, luxurious, lifestyles being taken away. And boy-howdy … that was the absolute TRUTH when PG&E shut down 2.5M Californians rich, luxurious lifestyles … “for their own good”. Take a lesson Canada. Wake your voters the fkcu up!!

  14. I am disappointed in the election result, but I have also been disappointed in Scheer and the direction of the Conservative Party, so I am not extremely upset — more fatalistic about this outcome. I personally REALLY liked Harper. I think most of his changes were for the better of Canada, and I understood the need for him to move slowly. Still, what occurs me today is how badly he was treated by Easterners and Quebec from the very start of his tenure. And yet, the Easterners choose to reelect the corrupt self-serving Liberals and their fatuous leader. That for me defines the permanent political landscape in Canada. Time for Westerners to make their move for independence.

  15. I posted this on Facebook today: Once more the West has been slapped in the face by eastern voters who permit landlocking their oil in the process of destroying the Canadian resource industry to facilitate international radical environmentalist virtue signaling. Ontario voters in particular are saying Alberta needs to be starved and milked at the same time in the name of fairness and other nebulous nonsense, all bounded around anti-west bigotry. Now we all get 60cents/litre carbon tax increases, which go into general revenues, yet still we have massive deficits despite no wars, recessions or financial shocks in the last four years. Look around, China is slowing down, the US will likely go into recession soon, and Canada has abysmal growth rates and 50% more unemployment than the US, left ill-prepared by short sighted politicians. Our productivity is grinding to a halt. More Canadians voted Conservative than Liberal yet the latter has a strong working minority. But, unlike the Liberals’ Dem cousins, Conservatives will not mount an irrational resistance or accuse others of being Russian assets. We will work within the system as it is and respect the result that clearly does not respect voters, up to and including, if necessary but not necessarily, separation. Rant over; don’t care what others think about this, those who seem unable to accept reality. That is up to them, but they shouldn’t pretend there won’t be consequences in Canada being governed from the east but bled from the west. We will not accept taxation without representation.

  16. Well, today I finally realize that I’m not really a Canadian, way down deep where it counts. I am some form of mutant.

    Representing the majority, a Canadian is a person who will still vote for a political party they -know- is lead by a fool and is proven to be engaged in criminal activity. Or is a full-on Communist and will be engaged in criminal activity as soon as they gain power.

    A Canadian is a person who will still be swayed by a media they -know- are liars, bought and paid for by criminals.

    A Canadian is a person who will pay 50% or more of their income in taxes, and then vote for MORE taxes.

    A Canadian is a person who, given the choice between War, Famine, Pestilence or Death will actually pick one.

    A Canadian is a person who thinks everything is just dandy, business as usual, will ignore and and all danger signs that things are going off the rails, and will pay no attention to anything beyond their own tiny personal sphere… until such time as the power goes off and stays off in the middle of winter, there’s no gas at the gas station, and there’s no food at the supermarket. And even if there was they wouldn’t be able to buy it because they don’t have a job and their saved-up money is worth nothing.

    Then they will finally say “hey, what happened?”

    I’ve always wondered why I never fit in with my peers, and now I know.

    Therefore, I no longer care. I’ll just wait for the catastrophe, and make sure I’ve got my kit sorted for when it all hits the fan.

    1. I used to feel a strong commitment to Canada, but something shifted when Trudeau called us a post national state. Canada has lost It’s core — a centre that kept people feeling part of a nation. Our politics reflects that. I do not feel that the current leadership in our country values what Canada has stood for as a nation. If I lived in Alberta, I would favour separation at this point.

  17. The situation faced by the West did not start with Turdeau II or Turdeau I for that matter. The economic and political direction of Canada resides in Toronto. Quebec was bought off decades ago and the exploitation of the West continues because Westerners have never seriously challenged the status quo, other than the early days of Reform. The West is viewed as a threat to Ontario control. The wealth of oil presented a serious threat during the Lougheed era and more recently the past 20 years of massive growth. Harper was placing the West on a somewhat equal footing and he was axed.

    If Scheer thinks he will improve on his results from last night then he is dreaming. If he actually does then it will only be because he was co-opted. The flow of money either from NEP or thru ‘carbon tax’ is always to the east. My conclusion after 52 years is that this will never change. Kenney got a message last night in the starkest terms. If he does not act there will be another leader who will. I would love that person to be Brent Wilson. Most of Manitoba, all of Sask & AB and a goodly part of BC are on side. Now is the time to start preparing for separation. Talk of being a landlocked country is bafflegab. Our new country will have access thru the USA. The billions of $’s sent to Ottawa will be retained in the West. Money is not an issue in the independence conversation. It is the fear of change and a clear definition of what our new country will be.

    I said previously that yesterday was the last time I would be voting CPC. We elected our CPC MP last night. That MP is well aware of the views of many of those who supported him. He is a smart and experienced individual who knows how government works. It is people like him who can lead us thru the transition that is coming.

  18. Given the disconnect between the conservative west, and the “liberals” (SOCIALISTS of all stripes), I still reach the conclusion that these fools have a fascination with MMT, Modern Monetary Theory. Sounds harmless, doesn’t it?

    This is Bernie’s reason for wanting to have massive spending increases, with all his free stuff. These theories always sound great on paper. But, it’s a recipe for hyper-inflation. Rather than raise interest rates, it’s hammer to keep the economy moderate (!) is to jack up taxes as the tool.

    Sounds like a proper solution, already tried in Zimbabwe and Venezuela. Maybe next time it will work better…….

    Oh, and Moroneau said this morning the Libs will be “Fiscally responsible”………….whatever that means to a Liberal, he left out the rest of the sentence, “to their supporters only!”

    Weighing over my options on the remainder of my Canadian investments, whether to liquidate into other assets (precious metals, US funds) and how soon. Not sure US is the best place either, but gold is a holding without income either. Maybe it’s just a time to hedge ones assets in stability, rather than hope for gains, this country is entranced with the belief that a large increase in government jobs means the economy is doing great! Cuz BNN/CTV said so! Good gawd, these pipples know NOTHING!

  19. The situation faced by the West did not start with Turdeau II or Turdeau I for that matter. The economic and political direction of Canada resides in Toronto. Quebec was bought off decades ago and the exploitation of the West continues because Westerners have never seriously challenged the status quo, other than the early days of Reform. The West is viewed as a threat to Ontario control. The wealth of oil presented a serious threat during the Lougheed era and more recently the past 20 years of massive growth. 4 million bpd of oil production is a world class effort and dwarfs what the east can offer the country. Harper was placing the West on a somewhat equal footing and he was axed. TO feared him. If oil free enterprise could create wealth at a level that would dwarf progressive bribes where would that leave the east?

    If Scheer thinks he will improve on his results from last night then he is dreaming. If he actually does then it will only be because he was co-opted. The flow of money either from NEP or thru ‘carbon tax’ is always to the east. My conclusion after 68 years is that this will never change. Kenney got a message last night in the starkest terms. If he does not act there will be another leader who will. I would love that person to be Brent Wilson. Most of Manitoba, all of Sask & AB and a goodly part of BC are on side. Now is the time to start preparing for separation. Talk of being a landlocked country is bafflegab. Our new country will have access thru the USA. The billions of $’s sent to Ottawa will be retained in the West. Money is not an issue in the independence conversation. It is the fear of change and a clear definition of what our new country will be.

    I said previously that yesterday was the last time I would be voting CPC. We elected our CPC MP last night. That MP is well aware of the views of many of those who supported him. He is a smart and experienced individual who knows how government works. It is people like him who can lead us thru the transition that is coming.

    1. Thoughtful comment. A push for Western separation will be the legacy of this election. Liberals are not capable of leading a united country.

  20. “A clear definition of what our new country will be. ”
    I want to see a Republic where it has a US based Constitution. Citizens have their freedom defined and guaranteed. NO option clause like the 1st sentence of the Canadian Constitution.
    Including. Limiting lobby groups to NO FOREIGN MONEY. If foreign money is found the group faces decertification.
    The people have the referendum powers of Switzerland. Where the politicians understand what their job is and WHO gives them their power.

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