44 Replies to “I Amuse Myself”

  1. We’d love to have you Saskitc – Saskatawalawala – SaksFifth – WHATEVER!
    Sincerely,
    Sid
    U.S.A.

  2. Just curious Kate, how strong is the idea of union with the United States?
    We have heard lots of talk over the years about Alberta nationalism/union with the US but nil about Saskatchewans opinion on the idea for that province.

  3. It would be highly amusing if turdoo the lesser had to preside over the breakup of Canada. Much better even than pissing on peeair’s grave.

  4. Nice infrastructure ! A big THANK YOU to the prior generations who clutched shovels and picks … instead of their pearls. A generation who consulted Engineers before digging … not the WWF, EPA and Sierra Club.

  5. As an Albertan, I would prefer independence to union with the US. The US government is no less intrusive into state/provincial affairs than Canada.

  6. There are many much worse things to be than American, but I like our system better than theirs so although I’m not supremely confident a smaller country made out of parts of Canada would do as well as we hope, I’d prefer to try one comprising the four western provinces before joining the U.S.A.

  7. Easy to draw, hard to say. There’s a reason for the common abbreviation “Sask.” I spent most of the 1990’s and ’80’s in the U.K. and found most people there couldn’t pronounce the name if they read it, fewer could guess the spelling even if they could pronounce it.

  8. The official abbreviation is “Saskabush”, but it isn’t used much nowadays after that American family screwed up the world so badly.
    Yeah,Alberta and Sask-etc. should join the USA,their votes might have helped Hillary win.

  9. Well that was certainly true under the Obama administration, but not true in accordance with the U.S. Constitution.

  10. The original intent was a union of independent states with a few limited institutions to unite them. Hasn’t exactly worked according to plan. Canada was also a union of provinces independent within the empire that imposed a limited structure over themselves. The power of the federal governments to tax and spend has put them in charge of almost everything in both countries.

  11. Saskatchewan as a province: 3.2 percent of Canada’s population.
    Six senators out of 105; 14 MPs out of 338.
    Saskatchewan as a state: 0.35 percent of the US population.*
    Two senators out of 102; two representatives out of 437.
    * I believe Saskatchewan would rank 43rd out of 51 states, between Maine and Rhode Island.

  12. Independence above all else. Why join a regime that is about to implode. Texas wants to leave and everybody else wants Californicate to leave.
    The civil war proved that once in there is no exit, regardless of what the Constitution says.

  13. Forming the Republic of Western Canada would be much better than joining the United Snakes of Hysteria

  14. If British Columbia and Alberta ever got their act together for a west-cost based export terminal for oil & gas, everybody east of Saskatchewan would be eating spork sandwiches, drinking tang and wondering what happened to all the money.

  15. Nice thought, but it’ll never happen.
    Folks that visit this site have to remember, that Saskatchewan is a province that voted NDP for almost the entire 1970’s, 1990’s and 7 years into the 00’s.
    Your friends and neighbours are just waiting to destroy the economy again.
    Albertan’s voted NDP and BC may very well do the same next year.
    Why separate when the problem is right next door and across the street?

  16. Steve,
    AB and SASK form their own country and many BC’ers would form 5th columns to convert the Coasters. Nice little country but the Americans, Chinese and Ruskies would all be lined up to take a bite. So many Chinese in Vancouver now there would be kaos.

  17. Not even in jest would I support the idea of betraying our heritage. Our ancestor’s spilt blood to defend our way of life, our culture, our traditions, and our freedom.
    It is much better to retain our connection to King and Country. If that means we must struggle with eastern influences then so be it. But I would not see our fore-fathers’ sacrifice so blithely cast aside.

  18. Two senators – 1/51st of the most powerful elected body on earth. Waaay more power as a state than as a province.

  20. That sort of blind allegiance to King and Country is why so many Newfoundlanders died in ww1 marching out of the trenches into a wall of machine gun bullets.

  21. Which pipeline on the map is the one that the aboriginals in Dakota are so upset about this month?
    Pipelines are safer than trains.

  23. How about N.E. British Columbia (forget the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island, too many progressives), Alberta (post Notley), Saskatchewan, Manitoba, the Territories (we can negotiate)?

  24. What I am hearing here is the usual self-absorbed, childish gripes of all separatists and secessionists who aren’t getting their own way.
    Oh, boo-hoo.

  26. Yeah, thanks. While there are some superior individuals such as Kate, we already have more left wing pukes than we can shake a stick at.

  27. Question.
    Why does Canada as a country exist? What is it that binds us together? What is it that connects westerners with east coasters or Quebeckers? Health care? Transfer payments? Do we have some common purpose?
    These are legitimate questions. Ones that need to be addressed especially when one area of the country refuses to allow another to develop it’s economy and create wealth.

  28. Well put abtrapper
    When discussing the value or concept purpose of anything in our society, whether it be the CBC, UN, NATO or even The Dominion of Canada, I always ask the same question:
    If it did not exist, could you, or anyone, make a rational case to create it?

  30. according to Turdeau, nothing binds us together, we have no culture, there is no reason to stay together other than our awestruck perpetual admiration for being dictated to by our “better than the rest of canada” Quebec civil service people and PMs.

  31. Canada’s days are numbered unless a federal political structure fair to everyone gets created. JJM, your entitled usual self absorbed gripes of many Eastern federalists who resent Western success gets tiring. Alberta and Saskatchewan are considered economic powers. Economic power without political power is worthless. Western Canada’s role (and Alberta in particular) under the current system is to be the ATM of confederation, nothing more. Western Canada doesn’t need Canada, Canada needs the West. If the West walks, Canada’s financial integrity is gone, and the nation crumbles shortly afterward.

  32. So did a lot of Westerners, albeit on other battlefields. Back in the day, when spouse was enrolled at UBC, to be come engaged (via Denny, who lived in the basement suite on the other side of the duplex we rented) with men who had served with my Grandfather in WW I. Denny took one look at my father – when I was renting the duplex – and remembered the man (my grandad) with whom he had served in WW I. They belonged to “Toban’s Tigers”, as I recall.

  33. Not to detract from the sacrifices families all across Canada made in ww1; however the percentage of losses the Newfoundlanders suffered was disproportionately large, and their culture and economy never recovered. Colonial troops were wasted to cover the incompetence of decisions made by British generals sipping wine in their chateaus 20 miles or more behind the lines. The statues of some British generals should be buried with their horse’s legs sticking out of the ground.

  34. What is it that binds us together?
    The government of Ontario/Quebec aka ‘the Feds’, treats the other provinces and territories as colonies. Perhaps because Canadians are ‘subjects of the Crown’ not ‘freemen’, they seem to accept this as the natural order of things, and only complain.

  35. I believe the oil and other resources belong to the provinces and however pumps it out of the ground. Once The Donald gets the keys to the Oval Office, and we (Saskatchewan-Alberta) can hit a pipeline that goes down to places like Mobile, New Orleans, Galveston or Corpus Christi, the oil can be shipped anywhere in the world. Trudeau can go to hell! And Alberta needs to have an election soon. As for a Canada–USA formal union, I don’t know if we’d be any better off, and I don’t think Trudeau will be here long. Sad thing is we’ll be stuck with his debt. It will all depend on the Trump administration.

  37. The original preferred Commerce route (Mississippi) was North/South..PM John A Macdonald built the Rail Road to tie Canada together East & West… All Rail roads are now limited east/west…How many products actually ship to the Southern Market… The addition of 3 Canadian Providences to the USA (3 States) would help offset the California & NY Socialist populations…The US Senate is more powerful than the House, and 6 new Senators would be interesting…
    JMPOV

  38. Not a RR’s go east/west. There is a major spur that heads south out of Winnipeg along the Mississippi

  39. The only reason Canada excists is because upper and lower Canada hated the Americans more than the hated each other.
    Not a good basis to start a country.

  40. I have always said that Alberta has a lot more in common North/South rather than East/West. I would be in favour of a merged Montana/Alberta entity and if we could get Saskatchewan to merge with North Dakota, things would be looking a lot more optimistic.

  41. agreed, and it would sure throw a wrench in truedope and his cronies plans for the west.
    the mutt can take his carbon tax and shove it!

  42. Me: “[The] usual self-absorbed, childish gripes of all separatists and secessionists who aren’t getting their own way.”
    You: “JJM, your entitled usual self absorbed gripes of many Eastern federalists who resent Western success gets tiring.”
    Me: QOD.

  43. “Colonial troops were wasted to cover the incompetence of decisions made by British generals sipping wine in their chateaus 20 miles or more behind the lines.”
    We could have a good discussion on the relative merits and incompetence of the British generals.
    But as to wasting colonial troops, it’s worth remembering that the Newfoundlanders were an integral unit within a British division and that most of the horrific casualties of the Somme were British (in the sense of coming from the UK proper).
    Indeed, the overwhelming percentage of British Empire war dead – by a wide margin – were men from the “Mother Country”.

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