61 Replies to “I Want A New Country”

  1. If Alberta was to separate Canada would meet its CO2 reduction targets.

    And the $13 billion Albertans supply Quebec would have to come from? Toronto.

  2. This political cartoon is a bad analogy. To be truthful, Jason has not been given any toys at all. Not even a lump of coal.
    As was shown in the last election; if you ROB Peter to pay Paul, Paul can always be counted on for a vote. Jason is PETER, not Paul.

    1. “This political cartoon is a bad analogy. To be truthful, Jason has not been given any toys at all. Not even a lump of coal.”

      Exactly. Which means the cartoonist is effectively lying and spreading “fake news” i.e., the patronizing notion that somehow the Trudeau government has been very generous to Alberta.

      1. As far as the Poutine Media are concerned Justine the Turdhole is just as infallible as his crazy old man was, despite all evidence to the contrary. The premise begins with the infallibility of Turdhole and the hectoring Nazi girl and ends with the ungrateful and “petulant” Kenney. Why would the Prime Minister of Alberta be so upset with corrupt incompetent globalists destroying Albertas economy and its future when he should be grateful. Turdholeland is the land of the insane, and is the perfect reflection of the insane little NAZI lover that imposed it. Get with the program, don’t Albertans understand that everything is great for french speaking Queerbekers and thats all that matters… this country, it belongs to them. #WEXIT

    1. So far he hasn’t exactly shown that, has he? C’mon, Kenney, many of us voted for you because we figured you’d put the boots to Prinz Dummkopf. Get the lead out!

    2. Indeed, ditto as well.

      However, this is politics. You attract bears with honey not vinegar.

      Kenney’s tactics appear to be, to first, give Trudope and PigsFightingUnderBlanket, all the rope to hang themselves with, while appearing to be civil, appearing to negotiate and wanting to make deals. Like it or not, this is a very important step for Kenney to take, before he even appears to go fully in the direction of independence. Only at that point, where Trudope and Ms Ill Fitting Dress have not co-operated at all, can Kenney confirm and say “I’ve done everything, but the federal government doesnt care”.

      Yes, its painfully obvious to most in the west already, its a foregone conclusion, but these are steps that must be taken, no matter how slow or counter-productive they may seem.

      1. “these are steps that must be taken, no matter how slow or counter-productive they may seem.”

        The “Declaration of the Causes and of the Necessity of Taking Up Arms” was written before Thomas Jefferson’s “Declaration of Independence”, but Action is what is needed. We already have stacks of grievances to refer to, we don’t need to show how stone careless or unrealistic the Canadians are to Alberta’s disposition by pointing it out to them to rebuff yet again.
        Canada does not matter any more. Alberta needs ACTION.

        1. Ooz, and if idiots like you had not kept supporting that Loozer scheep, the cons may have Browned the fool, and chosen a real leader to lead during election. When you post your stupidity, I hope there is not a mirror in front of you

          1. If were more cretins like you voted Maxipad during the election we would have Aladdin majority and guaranteed four more years. FOAD

        2. Oz, Canada needs action, all liberal socialists have to be removed from within her borders. ALL LIBERAL SOCIALISTS!

  4. The Twitter replies poke at the Star’s 41¢ Stock price and a pending bankruptcy.

    Prime Minister Freeland will bail the eastern media out (again) shortly.

    Too much anti-western, anti-conservative spin to cut loose. “But it’s really about the jobs”.

  5. Tory times are tough times.

    All conservatives are racist.

    Conservatives are un-Canadian.

    Just what CAN’T the Media and the Liberal Party regularly say to and about conservatives?

    And why shouldn’t they?

    There are no consequences.

    No conservative media.

    No pushback.

    No one to hold them to account.

    To finger the Fake News.

    To publish the truth.

    The Lying Liberal and Media Bullies reign.

    2. The Toronto Red Star gets $115,000 of taxpayer money EVERY week.
      That toilet paper masquerading as fake news willfully cheers Justin & shits on whoever is not with Justin.
      On the other hand Kenney is old school #LibCons and has very small balls. Alberta will never separate with Jason the Conservative In Name Only at the wheel

      1. That money is not enough to staunch the flow of red ink that is pouring out of their financials. Same for Postmedia and Bell (globe and mail). They are all experiencing quarterly revenue decreases of about $5 million each.
        Give them each a few more years and all of them will no longer be printing papers. They will all be digital or done.
        And not enough people are paying for digital.

  6. The Red Star is the voice of Canada’s institutional left. They want the west under their sanctimonious boots. It can’t die and lay off all of its drones soon enough.

  7. It’s probably nothing. More like domino number two, the first the confirmation of the election of Quebec to rule Alberta.

    Pension plan math: If Alberta sneezes, Ontario will need the Kleenex

    “Part of the fallout of the recent federal election is a growing discontent in Alberta with Ottawa. That has manifested itself in a “Wexit” petition — calling for Alberta to separate from the rest of the country — as well as Kenney’s focus on addressing Western alienation.”

    In a video recently shared on Facebook, Kenney says he understands Alberta’s $40-billion share of a CPP total of $400 billion could be pulled out and control given to the Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo), which already manages about $100 billion for Albertan taxpayers.”

    “I haven’t seen any kind of olive branch along the lines of, ‘OK, we’re willing to talk about Bill C-69, C-48 and TMX.’ It’s not enough to commit to getting (the Trans Mountain expansion) built,” Clemens said. “It’s a narrow understanding of what happened. They cancelled Northern Gateway, they introduced regulations that made Energy East uneconomical, and they dithered on Keystone.”

    The Alberta panel, with a budget of $650,000, will take public consultation from Nov. 16 to Jan. 20, 2020, then take the results to the provincial government in March. Other issues under review include opting out of the federal equalization program; creating a provincial constitution, a firearms office and a police force; and collecting its own taxes instead of Ottawa, much like Quebec already does.”

    “Some of them are certainly feasible, whether or not they’re recommended … well,” Clemens said. “Collecting their own tax, I don’t see the economics behind that.”

    Not economics – the politics of consequences.

    https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/pension-plan-math-if-alberta-sneezes-ontario-will-need-the-kleenex?fbclid=IwAR3sri7Iy08XJ7bivOu07T714LRGEXSglSP6BuoCDpMZP6uaKLKBvcznbn4

  8. This is precisely why Alberta needs to shut off gas/oil to the east, develop its own pension and unemployment schemes and add a special tariff just for any products coming in from eastern Canada. For some extra kick, let Kenney add a leaving tax to the tune of 20% for every easterner returning to his province to collect the welfare he thinks that Alberta is going to provide.

    It’s time to be a real b@$#@rd, Jason. I know that you have it in you.

  10. If you haven’t figured it out yet, Kenney is on the other side.

    There will NEVER be a referendum, anything, on separation under Kenney’s watch.
    There will NEVER be a millimetre of pipeline laid under Kenney’s watch.
    There will NEVER be a green subsidy cut under Kenney’s watch.
    There IS GUARANTEED TO BE 30,000 new think tanks to reward loyalists with sinecures.
    There will NEVER be a pushback against Ottawa under Kenney’s watch.
    There will NEVER be an assertion of provincial rights under Kenney’s watch (or Moe’s).
    Kenney will never take a pay cut.
    Kenney will never lay of a civil servant, no matter how many in the private sector suffer.
    Kenney will bankrupt the entire private sector of Alberta, to pay for the defined benefit pensions of the civil service.

    You need to find someone who is at least as angry as you are, and start supporting that. Because being polite, hasn’t worked out for you.

    Rude, angry, belligerent, someone who wants to cause pain to your enemies simply for the sake of causing pain. You need a sociopath who is on your side. Like the ones they have working for them.

    2. You are exactly correct.
      Kenney is a federalist.
      Kenney is as much an Albertan as Scheer was a Saskatchewanian.

  14. The Eastern Press is working for Western Separation.
    Clowns like this cartoonist can only be applauded,thank him kindly for the fine work.
    Working Canadians want Canada to work and are uncomfortable discussing what has become obvious.
    Can Ahh Duh has moved on and left them behind.
    The smug arrogance of our eastern Comrades is wonderful,as Westerners need no one agitating or fomenting hate, the East just can’t help themselves.
    As good Virtue Signalling Progressives,they know so much that just ain’t so,that they absolutely must share with us.
    As for ;”Who is paying the bills?”
    No “decent Canadian” would ever bring such a subject up…Don’t you know??
    All “Smart Canadians” know it is the duty of the west,to work harder,with less, to pay for the freebies and welfare the East so love and deserve.
    I have been monitoring CPAC,CTV and CBC(AS much as I can stomach)
    They have all kinds of enlightened nitwits all reassuring each other that Western Canada does not mean what they say and that we do not know what we see.
    Albertans should be encouraged to tune in and admire the dripping venom of our Eastern Comrades.

    The most edifying comment I have seen amounts to “Sucks to be you”.
    I can’t help thinking the networks want an Independent West, for they sure are helping spread the “love”.

    Maybe we should cut Kenny some slack.
    The forms must be seen to have been obeyed.
    So he must act as he has done.
    As the choices close off,do not be surprised if even Jason Kenny recognizes the true state of our Kleptocracy.
    Sure he is a federalist,one in an ackward spot.

  16. Toronto Star subscription numbers:
    2019 … 205,795
    2016 … 308,881
    2015 … 318,763
    2013 … 360,515
    2011 … 374,678
    2009 … 409,340

    You can plug them into Excel and make a stylish graft to explain things if required.

    1. Fixed it for you

      2019

      Last quarter of 2019 sold out and bought by the Government of Canada a friendly totalitarian communist country.

    2. Faster please.
      It’s good to see the last 100k subscription reduction took only 3 years compared to 7 years for the preceeding 100k reduction.

  17. As I’ve said before, envy is the root of all evil. Toronto (and all points East) resents Alberta because of its success – higher per capita income, lower per capita debt, lower taxes etc. In Canada, what started as as envy eventually turned into systemic discrimination against Alberta’s economy, a royally skewed equalization formula and rationalized bigotry towards citizens of Alberta. Saskatchewan gets caught in the crossfire because of its economic, geographic and political similarity to Alberta.

    According to the Canadian Taxpayers Association and https://richestjet.com/richest-provinces-in-canada/

    Alberta debt and debt per person 2019- $69,5000,000 and $16,000 per person. Alberta’s GDP per capita 2019 – C$78,154

    Ontario debt and debt per person 2019- $350,000,000 and $24,000 per person. 2019 GDP per capita in Ontario – C$48,971

    Saskatchewan debt and debt per person 2019- $11,700,000 and $10,000 per person. 2019 GDP per capita in Saskatchewan – C$70,654

    Punishing, mocking, scapegoating and hating Alberta and Saskatchewan for their success and then wondering why there’s a growing secessionist movement….

    1. Not just Toronto.

      Vancouver’s pretty good at that and was so when I was a grad student at UBC 40 years ago. A while later, I worked in Saskatoon and the attitude was pretty much the same.

  18. I’ve always thought that the Toronto Star and the CBC were the two worst things about Canada.

  19. Drove to the gun range today to pay my 2020 dues and received a lot of positive reactions Just outside of TO, I wonder why?

    Pic of the rear of my VW Diesel so I had to create a meme in order to post it here since I don’t touch social media.

    https://i.imgflip.com/3knuw3.jpg

          1. Born in Manitoba still a Jets Fan when the team exists

            Moved to Alberta when 16

            Transferred to Ontario when 28.

            I have worked across western Canada on almost every pipeline. Suncor Syncrude too many times to count, living in camp is very in prisons ting

            Still in the Pipeline Repair business in Canada and been asked to work worldwide but declined.

            Need some semblance of a life

            Volunteered for the Conservative Party of Alberta on two provincial elections

            Graduated and had my first marriage in Alberta.

          3. Yes, that does illustrate a couple of “I thought he said….” moments.

            Nice to see prolonged exposure to the centralist ways haven’t warped your thinking too much.

  20. Most interesting thing about the cartoon is the Star’s tacit admission that Chrystia Chomiak is the one really in charge.

    A unified North America under the leadership of President Trump wouldn’t have much room for the Toronto Star—or a Little Russian Nazi who by rights should never have been born, never mind gotten a fraudulent Canadian citizenship.

    The only question left there would be how soon Chrystia could be deported to the Russian Federation to end her days in a Siberian prison.

    1. Come Now!.. Hate is not beneficial to anything or anybody…..Nobody gets to select their ancestors …..
      Chrystia is an aggressive person … Period….Deal with it

  21. Well said Kevin.
    In 1982 the contempt and abuse was well documented.
    Enough already.
    Preston lead the response to purposely deflect the alienation down into the abyss.
    Kenny and Moe will do the same unless we hear unequivocal statements
    of where they will/intend to lead the west.
    Freedom has to be our unifying glue.

  22. Kenney is not being difficult enough! Step up your game Jason until we see these whiny easterners putting up these tantrum cartoons daily. It’s all I want to hear from them…complaints about how difficult Alberta is being.

  23. Somewhat as T-Bone says, Kenney should resent having to foot the bill for all the presents to the rest of Canada. Taking the deficit into account, it’s also the under 30’s that will be paying, but they voted for that.
    The Star, meanwhile, took in a big haul so this quid pro quo is the least they can do.

  24. Kate is starting to get her wish. The freebie Star-Metro just ceased publication in several major cities. Apparently giving away their leftist trash wasn’t a successful business strategy either.

  25. Stupid (as in the editorial cartoon). Shrug.

    Has anyone seen the Toronto Star lately? It’s far less than half the size it used to be (circa 2000-2008). Same goes for the Globe and Mail. In this race to the bottom, the New York Times takes the cake — one may not even be able to line the litter box with it — and I don’t know nuthin’ ’bout cats, being the Rottweiler guy that I am.

    On the other hand, I know Jason Kenney, and, I can tell y’all, he ain’t no petulant child: he’s very serious and deliberate. If he and Scott Moe are endorsing Rona Ambrose, that’d be good enough for me.

    Technically, I’d be okay if it was Rona, Peter, or Erin O’Toole (I doubt that John Baird will do it). But it needs to happen now (or excruciatingly soon), and seamlessly.

    I’m convinced that the course of human events is on the move, now, and that we are out of position for the sake of the country, or any Wexit movement that may emerge.

    Sayin’

  26. WaPo and the NYT are behind a paywall and doing ok. If you have content that people want they will pay for it.

    I have subscribed to the NP ever since it went digital. It’s not ideal but as a Canaduan newspaper it at least has some copy I can read.

    The future looks grim for all of them. Canadians are notoriously cheap. They will be okay receiving a newspaper as long as they don’t have to pay.

    Can’t see more than one survivor in a hard market and it sure wont be a conservative one.

    1. It’s not a Canadian newspaper in any way, shape or form.
      It is owned by US bond holders.
      The equity holders are suckers.
      Cancel your subscription.
      Only suckers pay for news.

  28. So the bought-and-paid-for Trawna Star has something to say about Alberta, eh?

    Toronto: old Onondaga word meaning “bedwetting hypocrites”.

  29. David your comments regarding new Con-servative leadership reveal your reliance and hope for a brighter future for the CON-federation.
    I pray the west doesn’t once again get sucked into the same wash basin where everything runs to the center drain.
    We can’t afford it.
    Our weakness in putting high hopes in new faces has always been our downfall.

    1. I happen to agree completely with you.

      Nevertheless, there are existing political and constitutional arrangements in place — at the moment — and I feel we ought to make the best use of them that we can. I have long believed that Quebec does not stand any kind of a chance financially outside of Confederation, although that particular province’s population has a somewhat developed political sense of itself. By the same token, the Western provinces have the economic wherewithal to make it on their own, but don’t have, at all, a cohesive sense of political identity. For what that’s worth.

      What bugs me the most, however, is the oppressive sense of “Groundhog Day” in this country. It’s like it’s 1982 all over again — and there ain’t no constitution to patriate or deflect things upon this time around. We are astonishingly out of position on just about every issue facing or looming before the country, whether it stays together or not (disclosure: I hope it does). I can scarcely believe it: we’re behind the eight-ball the whole time. I’ve heard it in Spades (and I ain’t talking Euchre now) for the past two weeks at get-togethers with friends and family.

      Jason Kenney, in my experience, is a very careful operator: he has the rare ability to take stock of a meeting (rather than hi-jacking the agenda from moment one), and where it’s going, before he puts anything on the table. And when he puts something on the table, it’s calculated to be, more or less, enough to move things along to the next phase. I hate to say this (not really), but he reminds me of Bill “bland works” Davis back in the day.

      So, if Mr. Kenney says it should be Rona, I’d say that one has to think seriously about this advice, and why he’s giving it. Mr. Kenney is not a petulant child, much to the chagrin, remotely possibly, of the hopelessly clueless Toronto Star.

      1. I ask people “why Rona?’ and they cannot point to any accomplishment other than she got elected in a riding that has never not been conservative and she didn’t mess up as interim leader. Big deal. interim leaders by virtue of their position don’t have to make tough calls or make tough decisions. They are caretakers. Nothing else.

        1. Agree 100% with you IDF. Plus every time I see her resting-bitch-face I want to gag.

          I will add that Kenney is a traitor to western Canada with his unfair reformulation of transfer payments, his aspiratiosn to be PM by sacrificing Alberta “for the greater good” and I just do not trust the SOB. There is something about him that rubs me the wrong way. Like a sleazy salesman.

          1. To be honest, I don’t care who it is. But it’s gotta be somebody: there are several other names I could add to the list, well beyond Peter (a friend), Erin O’Toole (an acquaintance) or Rona (a close friend of a Conservative MP, who happens to be a cousin of my wife).

            I don’t need any lectures about how important Western Canada is to the economy, or how devastating it would be for Western Canada to leave Confederation. I get it. In fact, I got it a long time ago. And, oh, I don’t need a version with pictures.

            There are at least — at least — three million (3,000,000) votes to be had here in Ontario in the next election, which I believe will happen sooner rather than later.

            Calling Jason Kenney a traitor to Western Canada, in the absence of any specific evidence, is your right, clearly. But it’s the same thing that some dude yelled at Joe Clark 35 years ago (faithfully reported on CBC, to be sure) — everybody’s heard it all before…and they don’t care.

            If you don’t want Rona, that’s fine with me. To be brutally honest, I favour Erin O’Toole.

            But this delusion that Max is going to make a comeback — I got two emails from him today — ain’t going to happen.

            Make your decisions: the country is seriously out of position on every issue.

  30. I take it this cartoon implies that the rest of Canada has given Alberta everything and Kenney and Alberta are still whining?
    And they wonder why we want to leave.
    Typical leftist thinking. Insert information into leftest brain and it comes out backwards.

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