Max paraphrased Francois Legault ” its dirty oil, but the money is good”. Referring to equalization he said Quebec has been receiving money for 50 years. “It’s a poverty trap” said Max, I believe Quebec has received almost 300 billion (my numbers not Max’s)
Personally I cannot see Quebec giving up this money, nor do I see Quebecers voting for Max who said it is time to rewrite the equalization formula with the eventual aim of getting Quebec off equalization.
We shall see what happens in the next election
Pea quissed creep. Cut the $ they don’t deserve it.
Hopefully Danielle does better with her show, than she did for Albertan’s as a politician. When The WildRose Party started out.
Myself and another started one of the local Constituency Assoc. for Wildrose. We organized several Fundraisers for her. So I met her several times. I had one fairly long one on one meeting with her and her handlers.
As I was tasked with and proposed an amendment on policy that Alberta use section 45 of the BNA Act to create an Alberta Provincial Constitution to hold Ottawa in check. My idea I might add. And perfectly legal and within the Canadian Constitution. I proposed the same thing to Ralph Klein coming up to Alberta’s Centenary. And he was interested, I said do you not think that after 100 years of service to Canada and paying taxes for 100 years that it is not time that the People of Alberta have their own Constitution in order to protect them from Ottawa’s Vices. But he was too far gone in his cups by that stage of the game.
She was highly intelligent but extremely indecisive, and even at that early stage surrounded by handlers. She had no juice. I could see that and understood then, that there was very little hope for the people of Alberta or Canada for that matter, of escaping the Slave Ship Canada.
To quote Wm. Aberhart “If You Have Not Suffered Enough It Is Your God Given Right To Suffer Some More”
If she had only done her damn job for six months more, she’d be Premier today.
Good thing she never became premier.
While at a constituency meeting once, after her and a couple other Wild Rose MLA’s had finished speaking, they had a question and answer. I asked if any of the three had any thoughts on the UN’s Agenda21. Blank faces stared back at us. I gave a brief summarization, to which they clucked about how interesting. Vague promises about doing some research and getting back to me. Yeah, never happened.
She really lost me when after a CBC interview/ townhall (televised) where she said that AGW science was not conclusive and was quickly laughed at and pilloried in the press. She abruptly changed her tune. BTW my MP gave the same assurances when I questioned him on the same topic. G. Genuis
So as for Agenda21, either our conservative pols are truly ignorant, or they are in on it. Still can’t get a clear answer.
Quebec will shamelessly take and demand equalization to live in the manner they’ve become used to while being rich in natural resources and budgets in surplus.
Equalization should be abolished and provinces would be more responsible managing their own resources without interference from the Feds who play politics with it. None of them have the guts to put a stop to handing dole to Quebec as one example.
As for Max, I don’t see him doing well, I think he made a big mistake, let a lot of us down who supported him as a Conservative and would have in a future bid. He came so close.
No More Sheer fear from Joe…
You actually think Québécois enjoy the Muslimfication of their French Nation…
Get a grip Joe…
Stop with the sheer fear…
Moi pas Muslim
your comment said “You actually think Québécois enjoy the Muslimfication of their French Nation…”
Where did I say that?
But since you brought up muslimfication, perhaps you could explain why Quebec prefers that Quebec and New Brunswick buy oil from Muslim countries (Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Algeria) instead of Canadian oil?
Irving corrupt oil
Montreal really knows how to run buses. This would be funny if it was not disgusting.
William Watson re buses in Montreal: “they don’t have fuel gauges. Drivers are supposed to keep track of their mileage (which implies there’s a mileage indicator, at least) and calculate when they need gas.”
He continues “Unfortunately, it appears Montreal bus drivers aren’t such great calculators. At least a bus a day runs out of gas and has to be towed back to the garage, where it joins the one-third — one-third! — of the fleet that on an average day is waiting for repairs”
Incredible. They must have gone to the Justin Turdeau school of mis-management, or the Bombardier school of how not to build things on time and on budget.
Montreal bus drivers are perfectly capable of calculating that if they run out of fuel and have to be towed back to the garage they’ll spend several hours of their shift not driving or dealing with passengers – i.e. their job. Do it at the right point in your shift and you can rely on being back at the garage to go home on time.
These bus drivers see and know everything including all the angles.
This is a true story …one day a Montreal bus driver in the Little Italy part of the city told an embarking passenger that her bus transfer was invalid. The little Italian lady replied to the driver:
” Hey ah bussa drivera, what’s ah mean ah da transfer ah noo good ah now ah, it a wassa good ah all ah week ah?”
Heh- heh!
Your a true blue Quebec hater…
Tsk tsk
Are all Sheer supporters discriminate against fellow Canadians.
They in power want us to fight with each other so the totalitarian governments of the group that owns two of the only political parties to ever be in power in Canada and they are called Liberals and Conservatives…
Vote PPC and let’s take back our Canada with Max…
Hate
You can say “true blue Quebec hater”, or join some of the others here and say “Sheer Fear”, but the question for all of you is: Can you live with splitting the centre-right vote thus allowing Turdeau to get four more years? If you can live with that downside, then by all means please vote for Max.
In 2015 the Alberta centre-right vote was split between PC, Wild Rose, and not voting. The result – an NDP majority. Which was much worse than the PCs or Wild Rose getting in.
I would prefer to have Turdeau out and Scheer in. Then lets have a very vigorous debate and lobbying to adopt some of the PPC platform.
After a read of this column I recall something that Senator Trey Gowdy said after the report on Benghazi was released.
“None of this is surprising, what is surprising is the media’s lack of curiosity ”
Indeed, the question is right in the title of the column. Yet after reading the whole diatribe on the latest cockup by team Sockmonkey, not once does the question get asked why since November 2015 does Canada find itself alone with no allies?
Canada is getting paid back. Previous administrations in the USA always protected Canada, because of NORAD etc. NORAD does not mean much anymore. And NATO is just the EU milking Canada. Does anyone seriously believe that the EU would cross the Atlantic and come to our defense. Come, come now what have you been smoking again Johnny.
Canadians are like the British in this regard. A toothless old guard dog, laying by the gate, threatening to gum those they think will do harm.
Canadians have looked down their noses and shunned Americans, constantly belittling from their high horse. Yet it was mainly due to the protection of our Big Brother that we got a free pass.
The US Taxpayer has been paying our freight on defense since the 1950’s while we increasingly starting with PET became Fat Assed Socialist whores. Money for every special interest group, money for every socialist program and spend nothing on our defense.
We have 30,000 miles of coastline and 2 used diesel subs that are mostly in drydock.
PM Mulroney although I detest the massive con job he did, wanted to buy 3 just 3 nuclear subs to patrol that 30,000 mile coastline and was stopped by the Liberals/Socialists.
That is the story of Canada.
President Trump has decided to let us get a taste of what is too come.
The Liberals have always sold Canada out, now we are outside looking in, no longer in the club.
They traded off Newfoundland’s inshore fishery access to Foreign Governments namely China for Ontario access to global markets.
They sold off all of Canada’s 1000 Metric Tonnes of Gold Reserves under Chretien and Martin, beginning when gold was 250 dollars per oz. And all that money disappeared. Don’t believe me find a source showing were that money went, it never appeared on the books of The Bank of Canada, or the Federal Government.
Always the same. The Slave Ship Canada.
Damn straight.
Watcher
I agree with the comments on the Liberals and make the following points.
1. Militarily the US always protects its own interests and only its interests. After Pearl Harbour, the Germans declared war on the US, not the other way around. Canada was fighting the Nazi’s long before America showed up. A lot of Canadians in the 50’s and 60’s remember that. Yes, it is absolutely true that the Americans made the difference in WW2. It was the overwhelming superiority of US industrial base that made the difference. Note that some of the free pass countries had more killed per million population than the US did (and some had more killed period).
2. The US tax payer paying our freight? Interesting – the US is 20 trillion in debt, so the US tax payer has yet to fully pay for the US military.
3. You are right that America spends a lot on their military. But they also get sucked into stupid wars they don’t seem to finish.
In Vietnam the US did not play to win, they played not to loose. Let’s not debate if they should have been in Vietnam, once you decide to fight a war, fight to win. Don’t throw lives and money down the drain.
4. Afghanistan. At one point Trump asked his military “We’ve been there for 15 years, why don’t we win?” After 9-11 I said to my American friends, we are going to loose this one. They laughed pointing out all the smart weapons the US had. I said that did not make a difference since the aim of Osama was to suck the US into a long war where you spend lots of money, spend lots of time, and then leave after 10 or 15 years. Osama was willing to have people die to win, it looks like the US wasn’t.
Lets look at US fatalities by year in Afghanistan:
2001 7
2002 30
2003 33
2004 49
2005 93
2006 88
2007 111
2008 153
2009 310
2010 496
2011 412
2012 301
2013 120
2014 54
2015 22
2016 14
2017 17
What do you see? The low fatality total in the first 5 years is astounding. In terms of deaths, each YEAR above was equivalent to a bad DAY in world war 2.
Don’t get me wrong, with the number of war deaths and injuries in my family, I am very aware of the cost of war. But Trump’s question “why haven’t we won?” is a valid one. The vast US military expenditure in Afghanistan has done….?
5. Canada free loading? Perhaps, but given all of the above, would the US really defend Canada if Canada was attacked and the US wasn’t?
Well Joe I made the same comment when the USA went into Afghanistan. SunTzu you can defeat your enemy by economic means. The US forgot that is how Reagan defeated the old USSR.
You do not win by shooting multi million dollar missiles at a man on a donkey in the hills of Afghanistan. Afghanistan has been the graveyard of nations for ever. Osama’s was goal was to bankrupt the USA and he has won.
As to the WW2 it was not the Brits that won or the USA, the heavy lifting was done by Russia. Russia lost 20M men defeating Hitler. The USA and all the Allies combined lost less than 1m men. Russia lost that many in Stalingrad alone. The Russians broke Hitlers back. We did a mop up really.
What I meant by America has paid our freight is even now we do not meet our NATO commitment of 2% spending on NATO. Our military is very small and weak for a country of Canada’s size. A few leaky frigates, 2 used diesel subs, a combat ready force of about 5,000 men, a total force all 3 services combined of about 50,000. And only about 5000 who could jump on a plane nd go right into battle. Canada spends as much or more in its annual budget on Native’s Benefits and Treaty Rights as it does its Military, so my point being if you include all the other gimmeedat’s that Canada provides free to whoever crosses our borders.
Then yah our big brother has been scaring the boogeyman away for us, Canada is not an Independent country.
Canada has replaced its colonialism servitude to Britain, then the USA with its Globalist Colonialism now.
Trump has decided to give Canada, because of Trudeau some payback. When the two stooges interfered in Saudi Arabia’s internal matters, Trump could have sorted that out with a phone call, he didn’t, Trudeau and his stuffed Uke Sausage insulted and mocked Trump at ever turn publicly.
The same with the NAFTA file.
It is going to get very rough for Canadians and guess what elections do matter.
Watcher – thanks for your comments.
re “the heavy lifting was done by Russia” and “We did a mop up really.”
I was aware of the general trends but looking at the data was still an eye opener for me.
a) note the deaths in China (15-20 million), Dutch East Indies (3-4 million), and India (2 million)
b) If you add up Poland, United Kingdom, France, Greece, Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, USA, and the other European countries that fought the Germans (so exclude Italy, Bulgaria, etc.) you get very close to 10 million deaths.
Given the above, my position is that the Russians did not do even the bulk of the heavy lifting and the Allies just do a mop up. In addition, Russia did not conduct a bombing campaign against the German heartland, not did Russia fight a sea war. Nor did Russia fight the Japanese.
My key points were 1) the US came in late, and only after they were attacked. Their participation in WW2 was not altruism (and you did not say or imply it was). 2) Once America was in, they were in all the way and they fought to win. And also importantly the US industrial might gave the rest of the world, including the Russians, much of the tools to do the job; on two fronts, on land, on the sea, and in the air.
There is a book called “The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War” by A.J. Baime. It is truly a great read.
“the heavy lifting was done by Russia”
“We did a mop up really.”
LOL what a load of hogwash. Soviets were Hitler’s most reliable ally for the first two years of war. Without Soviets Barbarossa would never happen. And while helping Hitler, Soviets invaded and occupied six countries. And then the two biggest villains of WWII started killing each other. Pity their betters were caught in the middle. Read Ericson’s “Feeding the German Eagle”, soviets got what they deserved and were as responsible for WWII as Germans.
“We did a mop up really.” Tell that to the survivors (or now, more likely, the descendants of same) of the Murmansk Run. Many Allied seamen (Canadians included) lost their lives supplying the Russians. And got little or no thanks from “Uncle Joe” for their sacrifice.
Tell that also to the men of our family – the soldiers, the airmen, the chaplains, the merchant marine sailors: they fought hard when and where they could. Luckily, they all came home (except for a cousin in Hong Kong), but they did not return unscathed.
As for the Russian casualties, I would suggest it was in many ways the Soviet government sacrificing its people while it lured Germany too far into Russia to be able to sustain its supply lines. Tzar Alexander I did the same with Napoleon, think the 1812 invasion. When one sees how large Russia is, enticing Germany to invade the area which had regularly been overrun by invading armies in order to fatally thin the German line of attack would have been a “no-brainer”, particularly as it would run through the traditional “debating grounds” of Poland, the Ukrane, and White Russia.
” Trump called Trudeau weak and dishonest, words that shocked Canadians.”
Sorry, but millions of Canadians just nodded and said, “Damn straight.”
Joe I should have clarified I meant deaths of soldiers, not the unfortunate civilians. And yes the USA did not fight physically until attacked. I had 5 uncles all signed up by the end of Sept 1939, only one left who is in his 90’s. And one cousin who left Alberta at 17 and joined The Devil’s Brigade.
Watcher
You might enjoy the Arsenal of Democracy book. I’ve read a lot about WW2, but I still found this book a fascinating, good read.
Have you ever watched the movie about the Devil’s Brigade? Was your cousin one of those proudly marching down the road?
LGBTQ…can anyone explain how we are going to supply public washrooms for all? I’m a Luddite, what does it mean to identify as Queer, is it an all encompassing term? It must be terribly confusing to deal with, especially for children in the early grades in schools and as they go on through the education systems. It is to be hoped there are counselors in place to help them as they mature and figure it all out. Perhaps medical science will delve into why it has become so rampant and growing….or is it?
Earlier this week, I was in northern B. C. to work on the house I inherited. I went to buy something at the local Canadian Tire outlet and, at the main entrance, I saw a rainbow-coloured poster on the glass. It was a warning that the store was “committed” (or something like that) to being a LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ-positive place. It even had a symbol of the national bellhop service, er, Mounties on it, so I guess it was meant to be serious.
All I wanted to do was buy some storage bins that I’ll use at my house. I didn’t want to be forced to be nice to somebody who does strange things with their bodies–or else. If they want to do that sort of thing, that’s their business, so long as it doesn’t interfere with my purpose for being there. (You know: enter store, see item, take item, go to cashier, give cash, leave store. What’s so complicated about that?)
I was in a store recently and the sign was the same for both bathrooms. I must have been looking a bit puzzled because the lady working there said, “you can use either”.
Here’s a Gary Moore video to help take you away from all that shit for a few moments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5ZxrgEWtnE
Great post!
I would expand the thought process a tad further. Canada is in essence a resource based economy subject to commodity pricing ups and downs. Canada was structured such that the wealth created by resource extraction was funneled to Ontario the seat of federal power. To establish and retain power the federal government has created a national persona of Canada being a 1st world country with a kind heart. Spending is conducted as if resource extraction has the same intrinsic value as a $1 of GDP created through value added. In other words that the dollars of GDP created in Canada are = to those of the USA. They are not and yet our debt both personally and through government exceed the USA on a per capita basis.
As Westerners we have seen generations pass where the east has actively sabotaged our economic process either through excessive taxation or through political manipulation. The greatest economic development plan the country ever undertook was the industrialization of Ontario primarily through AutoPact. The fact that this plan is collapsing in failure does not receive serious debate in the country. There is no serious plan to counter the failure other than to bid for Amazon’s HQ to Toronto.
IMHO technology is by-passing so much of what made Canada strategic and valuable to military and trading partners. Canada is destined for decades of crisis. Social promises will not be kept. The people in the West will likely realize how they have been scammed and reject a future inside Canada. It always works until it doesn’t.
“Andrew Scheer, Conservative Leader, has been vocal in his criticism of the Compact signing, suggesting it is yet another step towards Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s “post-nation”, globalist vision of a world with no borders and no meaningful citizenship. Scheer has argued, in and outside the House of Commons, that Canada must be in control of its immigration policy and its borders – not a faceless UN bureaucracy who cannot be held accountable by the Canadian people. Scheer asserts, “Canadians, and Canadians alone, should make decisions on who comes in our country and under what circumstances.”
The Supreme Court of Canada says a law that makes people convicted of crimes pay surcharges to helps victims is unconstitutional.
In a 7-2 decision delivered this morning in Ottawa, the Supreme Court found the mandatory victim surcharge amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.
Stephen Harper’s Conservative government made the charges mandatory in 2013.
I think the victim surcharge is stupid but as part of a constitutional fine, how can it be unconstitutional? We need to take some power to legislate away from the courts.
Well here you go. French Generals in an open letter to Macron accuse him of Treason against the people. I guess they have figured out that under the UN Migration Pact that the EU will be asked to absorb 59 Million Hadji’s and Feral assorted other riff raff. Makes you wonder how many MILLION of the same Trudeau agreed to for Canada. 1 million a year, 10 Million in 5 years. Has anyone asked the Little Groper. Oh Yah it’s Canada he can do as he wants without permission. https://www.infowars.com/french-generals-accuse-macron-of-treason-over-un-migration-pact/
Justin Trudeau has mad Canada the laughing stock of the world. We are now ridiculed and treated like the red head stepchild. Thanks millennials for giving us this loser.
This is why you never surrender your firearms. The Socialist Government Thuggery of Venezuela that is butchering and starving its own citizens is all the reason you need.
All guns taken by force away from the citizenry under the same pretexts you see in Canada. The Gun crimes have tripled and the Government Socialist goons are murdering their own unarmed citizens.
Never ever surrender your means of self defense against any government. Governments have butchered more of their own citizens over 100m have died at the hands of governments. https://www.foxnews.com/world/venezuelans-regret-gun-prohibition-we-could-have-defended-ourselves
Funny how criminals who commit crimes are rarely charged with illegal possession of a firearm. The few that are convicted of illegal possession, are sentenced concurrently, so do not serve any additional time. I don’t have any hard stats to back this up so maybe my anecdotal observation is not correct.
“Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer”. N. Taleb.
I liked CIBC’s response to the oil and gas industry’s detractors and the fact that they cancelled that potion consisting of oil and gas, from the coming event at Whistler. Pretty classy put down of west coast virtue signalers. Especially those who DRIVE to Whistler to stick their noses in the air. That gasoline you drive to Whistler on, is refined in Edmonton and shipped to you via the existing, 50 year old Trans Mountain pipeline.
Yes, the air AND water stench must be awful. Yikes what a sight a masked skier with nose plug! Ha!
Ever wondered what Oh Holy Night would sound like if Ave Maria were considered as the guide? The Piano Guys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGHUmpUu7Gw
I own a couple of their CDs, but not this one (yet).
Sweet!
Beautiful. I just ordered two of their Christmas albums.
I listened to Maxime Bernier on the Danielle Smith show today.
https://player.fm/series/danielle-smith/maxime-bernier-shares-his-views-on-the-un-migration-pact
Max paraphrased Francois Legault ” its dirty oil, but the money is good”. Referring to equalization he said Quebec has been receiving money for 50 years. “It’s a poverty trap” said Max, I believe Quebec has received almost 300 billion (my numbers not Max’s)
Personally I cannot see Quebec giving up this money, nor do I see Quebecers voting for Max who said it is time to rewrite the equalization formula with the eventual aim of getting Quebec off equalization.
We shall see what happens in the next election
Pea quissed creep. Cut the $ they don’t deserve it.
Hopefully Danielle does better with her show, than she did for Albertan’s as a politician. When The WildRose Party started out.
Myself and another started one of the local Constituency Assoc. for Wildrose. We organized several Fundraisers for her. So I met her several times. I had one fairly long one on one meeting with her and her handlers.
As I was tasked with and proposed an amendment on policy that Alberta use section 45 of the BNA Act to create an Alberta Provincial Constitution to hold Ottawa in check. My idea I might add. And perfectly legal and within the Canadian Constitution. I proposed the same thing to Ralph Klein coming up to Alberta’s Centenary. And he was interested, I said do you not think that after 100 years of service to Canada and paying taxes for 100 years that it is not time that the People of Alberta have their own Constitution in order to protect them from Ottawa’s Vices. But he was too far gone in his cups by that stage of the game.
She was highly intelligent but extremely indecisive, and even at that early stage surrounded by handlers. She had no juice. I could see that and understood then, that there was very little hope for the people of Alberta or Canada for that matter, of escaping the Slave Ship Canada.
To quote Wm. Aberhart “If You Have Not Suffered Enough It Is Your God Given Right To Suffer Some More”
If she had only done her damn job for six months more, she’d be Premier today.
Good thing she never became premier.
While at a constituency meeting once, after her and a couple other Wild Rose MLA’s had finished speaking, they had a question and answer. I asked if any of the three had any thoughts on the UN’s Agenda21. Blank faces stared back at us. I gave a brief summarization, to which they clucked about how interesting. Vague promises about doing some research and getting back to me. Yeah, never happened.
She really lost me when after a CBC interview/ townhall (televised) where she said that AGW science was not conclusive and was quickly laughed at and pilloried in the press. She abruptly changed her tune. BTW my MP gave the same assurances when I questioned him on the same topic. G. Genuis
So as for Agenda21, either our conservative pols are truly ignorant, or they are in on it. Still can’t get a clear answer.
Quebec will shamelessly take and demand equalization to live in the manner they’ve become used to while being rich in natural resources and budgets in surplus.
Equalization should be abolished and provinces would be more responsible managing their own resources without interference from the Feds who play politics with it. None of them have the guts to put a stop to handing dole to Quebec as one example.
As for Max, I don’t see him doing well, I think he made a big mistake, let a lot of us down who supported him as a Conservative and would have in a future bid. He came so close.
No More Sheer fear from Joe…
You actually think Québécois enjoy the Muslimfication of their French Nation…
Get a grip Joe…
Stop with the sheer fear…
Moi pas Muslim
your comment said “You actually think Québécois enjoy the Muslimfication of their French Nation…”
Where did I say that?
But since you brought up muslimfication, perhaps you could explain why Quebec prefers that Quebec and New Brunswick buy oil from Muslim countries (Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Algeria) instead of Canadian oil?
Irving corrupt oil
Montreal really knows how to run buses. This would be funny if it was not disgusting.
https://business.financialpost.com/opinion/william-watson-government-cant-make-buses-run-why-trust-it-with-the-economy
William Watson re buses in Montreal: “they don’t have fuel gauges. Drivers are supposed to keep track of their mileage (which implies there’s a mileage indicator, at least) and calculate when they need gas.”
He continues “Unfortunately, it appears Montreal bus drivers aren’t such great calculators. At least a bus a day runs out of gas and has to be towed back to the garage, where it joins the one-third — one-third! — of the fleet that on an average day is waiting for repairs”
Incredible. They must have gone to the Justin Turdeau school of mis-management, or the Bombardier school of how not to build things on time and on budget.
Montreal bus drivers are perfectly capable of calculating that if they run out of fuel and have to be towed back to the garage they’ll spend several hours of their shift not driving or dealing with passengers – i.e. their job. Do it at the right point in your shift and you can rely on being back at the garage to go home on time.
These bus drivers see and know everything including all the angles.
This is a true story …one day a Montreal bus driver in the Little Italy part of the city told an embarking passenger that her bus transfer was invalid. The little Italian lady replied to the driver:
” Hey ah bussa drivera, what’s ah mean ah da transfer ah noo good ah now ah, it a wassa good ah all ah week ah?”
Heh- heh!
Your a true blue Quebec hater…
Tsk tsk
Are all Sheer supporters discriminate against fellow Canadians.
They in power want us to fight with each other so the totalitarian governments of the group that owns two of the only political parties to ever be in power in Canada and they are called Liberals and Conservatives…
Vote PPC and let’s take back our Canada with Max…
Hate
You can say “true blue Quebec hater”, or join some of the others here and say “Sheer Fear”, but the question for all of you is: Can you live with splitting the centre-right vote thus allowing Turdeau to get four more years? If you can live with that downside, then by all means please vote for Max.
In 2015 the Alberta centre-right vote was split between PC, Wild Rose, and not voting. The result – an NDP majority. Which was much worse than the PCs or Wild Rose getting in.
I would prefer to have Turdeau out and Scheer in. Then lets have a very vigorous debate and lobbying to adopt some of the PPC platform.
Tell the truth and you don’t have to remember what you said. That is what I was taught growing up. So now it isn’t just Russian collusion that stole the election. Remember when they were posting pictures of sparse crowds at President Trumps election ? Have a look ,I think they forgot.https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/newspolitics/wall-street-journal-trump-inaugural-committee-under-criminal-investigation/ar-BBQVpMa?ocid=spartandhp&fullscreen=true#image=1
Apparently these are very big selling items in the ghetto’s this year. Chicago, Detroit etc. can not get enough of them. Sold completely out. https://www.13wmaz.com/amp/article?section=news&subsection=nation-world&headline=kfc-is-selling-a-firelog-that-smells-like-fried-chicken-but-supplies-are-limited&contentId=507-623342234
After a read of this column I recall something that Senator Trey Gowdy said after the report on Benghazi was released.
“None of this is surprising, what is surprising is the media’s lack of curiosity ”
Indeed, the question is right in the title of the column. Yet after reading the whole diatribe on the latest cockup by team Sockmonkey, not once does the question get asked why since November 2015 does Canada find itself alone with no allies?
https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/weve-never-been-this-alone-canada-finds-itself-caught-between-two-powers-without-any-serious-allies
Canada is getting paid back. Previous administrations in the USA always protected Canada, because of NORAD etc. NORAD does not mean much anymore. And NATO is just the EU milking Canada. Does anyone seriously believe that the EU would cross the Atlantic and come to our defense. Come, come now what have you been smoking again Johnny.
Canadians are like the British in this regard. A toothless old guard dog, laying by the gate, threatening to gum those they think will do harm.
Canadians have looked down their noses and shunned Americans, constantly belittling from their high horse. Yet it was mainly due to the protection of our Big Brother that we got a free pass.
The US Taxpayer has been paying our freight on defense since the 1950’s while we increasingly starting with PET became Fat Assed Socialist whores. Money for every special interest group, money for every socialist program and spend nothing on our defense.
We have 30,000 miles of coastline and 2 used diesel subs that are mostly in drydock.
PM Mulroney although I detest the massive con job he did, wanted to buy 3 just 3 nuclear subs to patrol that 30,000 mile coastline and was stopped by the Liberals/Socialists.
That is the story of Canada.
President Trump has decided to let us get a taste of what is too come.
The Liberals have always sold Canada out, now we are outside looking in, no longer in the club.
They traded off Newfoundland’s inshore fishery access to Foreign Governments namely China for Ontario access to global markets.
They sold off all of Canada’s 1000 Metric Tonnes of Gold Reserves under Chretien and Martin, beginning when gold was 250 dollars per oz. And all that money disappeared. Don’t believe me find a source showing were that money went, it never appeared on the books of The Bank of Canada, or the Federal Government.
Always the same. The Slave Ship Canada.
Damn straight.
Watcher
I agree with the comments on the Liberals and make the following points.
1. Militarily the US always protects its own interests and only its interests. After Pearl Harbour, the Germans declared war on the US, not the other way around. Canada was fighting the Nazi’s long before America showed up. A lot of Canadians in the 50’s and 60’s remember that. Yes, it is absolutely true that the Americans made the difference in WW2. It was the overwhelming superiority of US industrial base that made the difference. Note that some of the free pass countries had more killed per million population than the US did (and some had more killed period).
2. The US tax payer paying our freight? Interesting – the US is 20 trillion in debt, so the US tax payer has yet to fully pay for the US military.
3. You are right that America spends a lot on their military. But they also get sucked into stupid wars they don’t seem to finish.
In Vietnam the US did not play to win, they played not to loose. Let’s not debate if they should have been in Vietnam, once you decide to fight a war, fight to win. Don’t throw lives and money down the drain.
4. Afghanistan. At one point Trump asked his military “We’ve been there for 15 years, why don’t we win?” After 9-11 I said to my American friends, we are going to loose this one. They laughed pointing out all the smart weapons the US had. I said that did not make a difference since the aim of Osama was to suck the US into a long war where you spend lots of money, spend lots of time, and then leave after 10 or 15 years. Osama was willing to have people die to win, it looks like the US wasn’t.
Lets look at US fatalities by year in Afghanistan:
2001 7
2002 30
2003 33
2004 49
2005 93
2006 88
2007 111
2008 153
2009 310
2010 496
2011 412
2012 301
2013 120
2014 54
2015 22
2016 14
2017 17
What do you see? The low fatality total in the first 5 years is astounding. In terms of deaths, each YEAR above was equivalent to a bad DAY in world war 2.
Don’t get me wrong, with the number of war deaths and injuries in my family, I am very aware of the cost of war. But Trump’s question “why haven’t we won?” is a valid one. The vast US military expenditure in Afghanistan has done….?
5. Canada free loading? Perhaps, but given all of the above, would the US really defend Canada if Canada was attacked and the US wasn’t?
Well Joe I made the same comment when the USA went into Afghanistan. SunTzu you can defeat your enemy by economic means. The US forgot that is how Reagan defeated the old USSR.
You do not win by shooting multi million dollar missiles at a man on a donkey in the hills of Afghanistan. Afghanistan has been the graveyard of nations for ever. Osama’s was goal was to bankrupt the USA and he has won.
As to the WW2 it was not the Brits that won or the USA, the heavy lifting was done by Russia. Russia lost 20M men defeating Hitler. The USA and all the Allies combined lost less than 1m men. Russia lost that many in Stalingrad alone. The Russians broke Hitlers back. We did a mop up really.
What I meant by America has paid our freight is even now we do not meet our NATO commitment of 2% spending on NATO. Our military is very small and weak for a country of Canada’s size. A few leaky frigates, 2 used diesel subs, a combat ready force of about 5,000 men, a total force all 3 services combined of about 50,000. And only about 5000 who could jump on a plane nd go right into battle. Canada spends as much or more in its annual budget on Native’s Benefits and Treaty Rights as it does its Military, so my point being if you include all the other gimmeedat’s that Canada provides free to whoever crosses our borders.
Then yah our big brother has been scaring the boogeyman away for us, Canada is not an Independent country.
Canada has replaced its colonialism servitude to Britain, then the USA with its Globalist Colonialism now.
Trump has decided to give Canada, because of Trudeau some payback. When the two stooges interfered in Saudi Arabia’s internal matters, Trump could have sorted that out with a phone call, he didn’t, Trudeau and his stuffed Uke Sausage insulted and mocked Trump at ever turn publicly.
The same with the NAFTA file.
It is going to get very rough for Canadians and guess what elections do matter.
Watcher – thanks for your comments.
re “the heavy lifting was done by Russia” and “We did a mop up really.”
There is an interesting summary of WW2 deaths at this site:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties
I was aware of the general trends but looking at the data was still an eye opener for me.
a) note the deaths in China (15-20 million), Dutch East Indies (3-4 million), and India (2 million)
b) If you add up Poland, United Kingdom, France, Greece, Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, USA, and the other European countries that fought the Germans (so exclude Italy, Bulgaria, etc.) you get very close to 10 million deaths.
Given the above, my position is that the Russians did not do even the bulk of the heavy lifting and the Allies just do a mop up. In addition, Russia did not conduct a bombing campaign against the German heartland, not did Russia fight a sea war. Nor did Russia fight the Japanese.
My key points were 1) the US came in late, and only after they were attacked. Their participation in WW2 was not altruism (and you did not say or imply it was). 2) Once America was in, they were in all the way and they fought to win. And also importantly the US industrial might gave the rest of the world, including the Russians, much of the tools to do the job; on two fronts, on land, on the sea, and in the air.
There is a book called “The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War” by A.J. Baime. It is truly a great read.
“the heavy lifting was done by Russia”
“We did a mop up really.”
LOL what a load of hogwash. Soviets were Hitler’s most reliable ally for the first two years of war. Without Soviets Barbarossa would never happen. And while helping Hitler, Soviets invaded and occupied six countries. And then the two biggest villains of WWII started killing each other. Pity their betters were caught in the middle. Read Ericson’s “Feeding the German Eagle”, soviets got what they deserved and were as responsible for WWII as Germans.
“We did a mop up really.” Tell that to the survivors (or now, more likely, the descendants of same) of the Murmansk Run. Many Allied seamen (Canadians included) lost their lives supplying the Russians. And got little or no thanks from “Uncle Joe” for their sacrifice.
Tell that also to the men of our family – the soldiers, the airmen, the chaplains, the merchant marine sailors: they fought hard when and where they could. Luckily, they all came home (except for a cousin in Hong Kong), but they did not return unscathed.
As for the Russian casualties, I would suggest it was in many ways the Soviet government sacrificing its people while it lured Germany too far into Russia to be able to sustain its supply lines. Tzar Alexander I did the same with Napoleon, think the 1812 invasion. When one sees how large Russia is, enticing Germany to invade the area which had regularly been overrun by invading armies in order to fatally thin the German line of attack would have been a “no-brainer”, particularly as it would run through the traditional “debating grounds” of Poland, the Ukrane, and White Russia.
” Trump called Trudeau weak and dishonest, words that shocked Canadians.”
Sorry, but millions of Canadians just nodded and said, “Damn straight.”
Joe I should have clarified I meant deaths of soldiers, not the unfortunate civilians. And yes the USA did not fight physically until attacked. I had 5 uncles all signed up by the end of Sept 1939, only one left who is in his 90’s. And one cousin who left Alberta at 17 and joined The Devil’s Brigade.
Watcher
You might enjoy the Arsenal of Democracy book. I’ve read a lot about WW2, but I still found this book a fascinating, good read.
Have you ever watched the movie about the Devil’s Brigade? Was your cousin one of those proudly marching down the road?
LGBTQ…can anyone explain how we are going to supply public washrooms for all? I’m a Luddite, what does it mean to identify as Queer, is it an all encompassing term? It must be terribly confusing to deal with, especially for children in the early grades in schools and as they go on through the education systems. It is to be hoped there are counselors in place to help them as they mature and figure it all out. Perhaps medical science will delve into why it has become so rampant and growing….or is it?
Earlier this week, I was in northern B. C. to work on the house I inherited. I went to buy something at the local Canadian Tire outlet and, at the main entrance, I saw a rainbow-coloured poster on the glass. It was a warning that the store was “committed” (or something like that) to being a LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ-positive place. It even had a symbol of the national bellhop service, er, Mounties on it, so I guess it was meant to be serious.
All I wanted to do was buy some storage bins that I’ll use at my house. I didn’t want to be forced to be nice to somebody who does strange things with their bodies–or else. If they want to do that sort of thing, that’s their business, so long as it doesn’t interfere with my purpose for being there. (You know: enter store, see item, take item, go to cashier, give cash, leave store. What’s so complicated about that?)
I was in a store recently and the sign was the same for both bathrooms. I must have been looking a bit puzzled because the lady working there said, “you can use either”.
Here’s a Gary Moore video to help take you away from all that shit for a few moments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5ZxrgEWtnE
It is now illegal the EU to Blaspheme Mohammed, P*ss Be Upon Him. https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-13/european-court-human-rights-blasphemy-laws-where-word-out-place-can-cost-your-life
Great post!
I would expand the thought process a tad further. Canada is in essence a resource based economy subject to commodity pricing ups and downs. Canada was structured such that the wealth created by resource extraction was funneled to Ontario the seat of federal power. To establish and retain power the federal government has created a national persona of Canada being a 1st world country with a kind heart. Spending is conducted as if resource extraction has the same intrinsic value as a $1 of GDP created through value added. In other words that the dollars of GDP created in Canada are = to those of the USA. They are not and yet our debt both personally and through government exceed the USA on a per capita basis.
As Westerners we have seen generations pass where the east has actively sabotaged our economic process either through excessive taxation or through political manipulation. The greatest economic development plan the country ever undertook was the industrialization of Ontario primarily through AutoPact. The fact that this plan is collapsing in failure does not receive serious debate in the country. There is no serious plan to counter the failure other than to bid for Amazon’s HQ to Toronto.
IMHO technology is by-passing so much of what made Canada strategic and valuable to military and trading partners. Canada is destined for decades of crisis. Social promises will not be kept. The people in the West will likely realize how they have been scammed and reject a future inside Canada. It always works until it doesn’t.
The reality of Christmas in 2018:
https://downtrend.com/donn-marten/a-christmas-tale-from-the-coming-socialist-utopia/
Pretty much so.
“Andrew Scheer, Conservative Leader, has been vocal in his criticism of the Compact signing, suggesting it is yet another step towards Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s “post-nation”, globalist vision of a world with no borders and no meaningful citizenship. Scheer has argued, in and outside the House of Commons, that Canada must be in control of its immigration policy and its borders – not a faceless UN bureaucracy who cannot be held accountable by the Canadian people. Scheer asserts, “Canadians, and Canadians alone, should make decisions on who comes in our country and under what circumstances.”
I believe I posted Part 1 a few days ago.
https://niagaraindependent.ca/what-is-the-un-global-compact-for-migration-part-2-of-2/
BREAKING NEWS! !!! Federal Touriism, Official Languages and Francaphonie Minister Madaline Joly has just postponed her visit to China!!! Oh yes, /sarc
More pavilions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvE-h2s_rps&t=3s
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/supreme-court-strikes-down-victim-surcharges/ar-BBQWYYK?li=AAggXBV
What a surprise:
The Supreme Court of Canada says a law that makes people convicted of crimes pay surcharges to helps victims is unconstitutional.
In a 7-2 decision delivered this morning in Ottawa, the Supreme Court found the mandatory victim surcharge amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.
Stephen Harper’s Conservative government made the charges mandatory in 2013.
I think the victim surcharge is stupid but as part of a constitutional fine, how can it be unconstitutional? We need to take some power to legislate away from the courts.
Well here you go. French Generals in an open letter to Macron accuse him of Treason against the people. I guess they have figured out that under the UN Migration Pact that the EU will be asked to absorb 59 Million Hadji’s and Feral assorted other riff raff. Makes you wonder how many MILLION of the same Trudeau agreed to for Canada. 1 million a year, 10 Million in 5 years. Has anyone asked the Little Groper. Oh Yah it’s Canada he can do as he wants without permission. https://www.infowars.com/french-generals-accuse-macron-of-treason-over-un-migration-pact/
Justin Trudeau has mad Canada the laughing stock of the world. We are now ridiculed and treated like the red head stepchild. Thanks millennials for giving us this loser.
This is why you never surrender your firearms. The Socialist Government Thuggery of Venezuela that is butchering and starving its own citizens is all the reason you need.
All guns taken by force away from the citizenry under the same pretexts you see in Canada. The Gun crimes have tripled and the Government Socialist goons are murdering their own unarmed citizens.
Never ever surrender your means of self defense against any government. Governments have butchered more of their own citizens over 100m have died at the hands of governments. https://www.foxnews.com/world/venezuelans-regret-gun-prohibition-we-could-have-defended-ourselves
Funny how criminals who commit crimes are rarely charged with illegal possession of a firearm. The few that are convicted of illegal possession, are sentenced concurrently, so do not serve any additional time. I don’t have any hard stats to back this up so maybe my anecdotal observation is not correct.
“Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer”. N. Taleb.
We have too many lawyers. End rant.
Liberal/Globalist Heads will explode. Mexico has shut down the border with Guatemala they have had it with illegal immigrants. https://www.chicksonright.com/youngconservatives/2018/12/13/mexico-has-officially-had-it-shuts-down-their-own-border/?fbclid=IwAR32_reGH-FRUebyJiiGhrNUunRKqzu5nf9QEWrkdNtn4zY8hlrDl0cbN40
Fox News breaking tonight…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/12/breaking-federal-judge-in-texas-rules-obamacare-unconstitutional/
https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/cibc-cancels-oil-and-gas-conference-in-whistler-as-mayor-apologizes-for-climate-change-letter
No conference in Whistler? Check this out.
Hey, you crabbing my grass?
Ken Kulak has this covered in tips for Dec 15 only from the Sun, I posted from The Herald. HA!
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Check this out too:
https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/whistler-wants-albertan-oil-and-gas-company-to-pay-for-resorts-climate-change-costs
I liked CIBC’s response to the oil and gas industry’s detractors and the fact that they cancelled that potion consisting of oil and gas, from the coming event at Whistler. Pretty classy put down of west coast virtue signalers. Especially those who DRIVE to Whistler to stick their noses in the air. That gasoline you drive to Whistler on, is refined in Edmonton and shipped to you via the existing, 50 year old Trans Mountain pipeline.
Yes, the air AND water stench must be awful. Yikes what a sight a masked skier with nose plug! Ha!
Alberta just shut their d*mn oil off let the savages walk or run on wood chip gas. Ha Ha Ha. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=cars+ran+on+wood+gas&view=detail&mid=D745E2723B3F144E1CABD745E2723B3F144E1CAB&FORM=VIRE