“There is no work here. And it’s not because there’s no oil here. It’s because you are systematically – the province and the federal government – destroying this industry.”
h/t Ken (Kulak)
“There is no work here. And it’s not because there’s no oil here. It’s because you are systematically – the province and the federal government – destroying this industry.”
h/t Ken (Kulak)
Thanks for sharing this Ken (Kulak) … hopefully many share this on their social networks, Failbook, Twitter, (I have..).
A heartfelt calling out of the undermining of the west that’s currently being done by Liberals in both Ottawa and their NDP confederates in Edmonton.
It’s not just the Dippers in Alberta. When I moved to the coast to start grad studies at UBC nearly 40 years ago, I encountered a lot of people who were openly and shamelessly hostile towards Alberta and conservative Albertans in particular.
Among their fondest dreams was a devastated, desolate, and humbled Alberta. Lotuslanders, such as the Whistler crowd, did not believe that Alberta deserved its prosperity. It was seen as having been earned illicitly due to it being firmly based in the oil industry. Albertans were considered and treated as unsophisticated hillbillies and oil workers in particular were despised.
I don’t think that hostility towards Alberta ever subsided since then and I seriously doubt that our current plight gets any sympathy there.
You are right.
Last spring, my daughter-in-law in Chilliwack, who is 38, four kids, and both she and our son, also 38, are back in university studying to be teachers, commented that Alberta and Saskatchewan are too rich and need to be cut down to size. Our son drove semi until he and his wife decided to go back to school My wife and I still can’t get over the shock of that comment. Oil is paying for the student loans, not that bast*rd Trudeau. She )they) gets her news from Vancouver CTV, CBC, and Global there in the Valley, and no doubt discuss this in class.
We as a nation may well have to go through the Venezuela stage, and people will rue the day they made comments like that.
Ken;
The sad part is that your son could well have gotten the same attitude from Justin’sjournos and his teachers in Alberta / Saskatchewan.
Remember, Justin’s paid for journos.
My cliental is mostly rural and I appreciate their candid responses when we get to politics, which I avoid unless they are passionate and bring it up. Anyway, we were discussing the wife and I planning to move out to BC from Alberta. They quickly told me… don’t do it. I questioned why? They told me of their experience in the Salmon Arm area. They were quickly made aware that Albertans were not welcome there. They had made a couple friends ( Alberta expats) but the so called real BC’ers treated them poorly, to the point of shunning. So yeah, the stories are true according to this couple.
Let’s also send it to all the MP’s.
Then they can ask Trudeau if he has seen it.
I kid myself.
A calling out? They don’t care. In fact, its part of the plan.
Unemployed oil workers provide for them and their left coast allies an endless source of mirth and merriment.
I agree with everything you said. the current provincial government and federal government are driven by ideology, not fact. They will not watch and understand your points as they do not care. Their aim is to destroy the oil and gas industry in western Canada and to hell with the economic and personal costs.
Thank you for this very personal and hard hitting video.
Denis, yes indeed, the Western Canada oil and gas industry is in the process of being destroyed. I wonder if the elite powers that be (the Liberals, the corporate media, the schools, the well-monied foundations) wonder what the west, and the Canadian economy as a whole, will be like once the energy industry is fully non-functional? Very little is being said about what things will be like when all the destruction ends.
I wonder if the elite powers that be (the Liberals, the corporate media, the schools, the well-monied foundations) wonder what the west, and the Canadian economy as a whole, will be like once the energy industry is fully non-functional?
Do they care? I don’t believe they can even think that far.
“… the Canadian economy as a whole, will be like once the energy industry is fully non-functional?”
That is their aim. To take western Canada back to 1937, at the same fulfill Maurice Strong’s dream of de-industrializing Canada and the western nations in general, as well as eliminating any threat to Laurentian Elite hegemony. That is a threefer for the Malthusians.
Why do people refer to the 1.6 billion in loans as handouts. It’s a LOAN.
Albertans gave the money and the government is trying to steal even more through interest.
They want everyone dependent and/indebted to them. It’s beyond disgusting.
Of course its a loan and not a handout. And good thing – Albertans want none of their federal handouts, and we sure as hell do not need Trudeau telling us when and how we can take out a loan. And yes Notely shares 100% with Trudeau in the destruction of our oil industry. In fact she opened the floodgates across the country with her Carbon Pricing Taxes and legitimized the attacks on our industry. But frankly, I’m just not sure what Kenney is doing either showing up in Grande Prairie trying to troll for votes. His govt did nothing for the 25 years he was there to change the Ottawa EQ culture that has resulted in the ongoing rape of the Alberta economy for the benefit of Quebec and Ontario. In fact Harper lauded the EQ program and told us hillbilly Albertans we weren’t smart enough to understand it. The only one to defend the Prairies was Brad Wall – and now he is gone, too.
The enemies of Alberta, and our industries, are heavily populated with folks who have an intense disdain for anyone who does well on the basis of “dirty” work. “Coarse” industry should never be a wellspring of wealth. Oh, it’s perfectly acceptable to become wealthy by owning such enterprises, or shares in them. As long as one is educated and earns the bulk of one’s living by more noble means, such as education, or medicine, or law. But, it’s another thing entirely to actually become wealthy by dint of skill or the taking on risks associated with scratching at the earth. It’s not just the energy industry, either.
They recoil at the idea of a welder building steel girders for a highway bridge earning as much as a lawyer or an accountant. They regularly look down their noses at the purchase/lease of a $700,000 combine as some kind of exercise in ego-stroking, or ranching as basically “watching cattle shit and eat grass”, never grasping that the guy running that combine has to put several million dollars worth of barley and canola through it just to break even, or that the rancher might be running two or three million dollars worth of cattle, upon which he makes a nice living, fraught as it is with risk.
I once stood in line at the Subway, right behind two doctors. I happen to know that both are big Liberal supporters here in Red Deer. They were discussing the fact that a guy who owns five local car dealerships- he started out as a salesman at a GM store- was building a big hacienda out in a rural subdivision where the two doctors had new places. I heard a line that will long stick with me, largely because I know these two guys will be Liberals til they die.
One asked the other “Who does this used car salesman think he is building a place out there with us?”
This is a guy who employs several hundred people directly. His dealerships EACH pay in the neighborhood of a quarter million a year just in property taxes (That number could easily be way low. It’s not high.). Add payroll taxes, and GST, plus all the people employed building the cars he sells, plus those employed in advertising his stores, and so forth.
But the Liberal doctors were insulted by the fact that this rather coarse merchant was living among them. That strain of thought runs through the intelligentsia who are the backbone of modern liberalism. Wealth is not for those for whom toil is coarse in nature. Nor are the venues of public policy. Those who engage in coarse ventures can only coarsen the debate, and by extension, coarsen public policy.
We can’t be having any of that now, can we.
Well said.
Yes.
The ruling class that studied nothingness is drowning in envy of those that get up every morning and go to do often times not pleasant job to make a living to provide for their families.
They, the ruling class, have to cut down those that pay taxes so they, the ruling class, gets well paid in their stinking offices to push paper, sit around at meetings that discuss last nights party, go to conferences in exotic places that they don’t have to pay for, discussing nothingness and drink to that for free.
Somehow the ruling class got hold of power without the working people noticing.
The propaganda of the governments, supplied by the bought and paid for media cartel, is leading the country on the road to serfdom.
It is interesting to note that a good number of those future serfs are just happy go lucky to go there as long as there is a plum of free stuff in the present moment.
As you will note in the video, those that are not enamored with free stuff will move on where they can create wealth for themselves and those that will participate in the wealth creation.
You may also note that the ruling class contribute 0 to the wealth creation and are, by far, the biggest consumers of it.
A significant part of this attack is due to class based bigotry and petty jealously. The chattering class looks down on blue collared workers in general, high paid blue collar workers in particular and high paid, blue collar prairie workers with extreme prejudice.
What other major Canadian industry is called dirty and unethical (and by extension the workers in that industry) by politicians, academics and journalists? In what other industry would it be acceptable for the prime minister to smear and stereotype workers as potential rapists? Where are the media and academic reports about the lucrative multiplying effect on secondary and tertiary businesses by the success of the oil industry — I want the guys who calculate it for the cultural industry. What about a detailed look at how much the energy industry and its workers contribute to Canada’s social programs through wages and corporate taxes. Where’s the heart-wrenching stories about families and communities suffering due to the callousness of Trudeau’s policies – like when Harper or Ford made legislative changes or when auto workers and their communities are in trouble. Why aren’t there questions about the rank hypocrisy of a tanker ban that exempts the east coast or downsteam CO2 impact studies that exempt cement plants and pipelines in Quebec. How about a fair, balanced investigation into how Canada would fare without Alberta – like they did when “two solitudes” Quebec was unhappy and considering secession.
I’m not sure how any fair-minded, objective person could look at what politicians, academics and journalists are doing to the people on the prairies and its major industries and not see a co-coordinated plan.
Well said and great questions. The purpose is to turn western Canada back to open range.
You ask, “What other major Canadian industry is called dirty and unethical (and by extension the workers in that industry) by politicians, academics and journalists?”
While off topic in a sense, if I may, I would suggest that conventional farming is being vilified on a daily basis and this vilification is escalating in intensity annually.
Agriculture will be attacked next after oil and gas.
Mining, forestry, oil and gas, and agriculture…
Get ready.
There is zero doubt that this is a coordinated plan that is following a definitely predetermined agenda. What is the goal of these machinations? It would seem to me that the ultimate result will be the balkanization of this country or even more likely Venuzuela North. Why is this happening and who will benefit are the questions that need to be answered. Justine Turdeau is not smart enough to do this, he could hardly find his way home without a chauffer to drive the car. So there must be other entities driving this project.
I’m all too familiar with that sentiment.
I was born the son of 2 tradesmen. I eventually went to university and earned 4 degrees (including a you-know-what). I often got the impression that because of my blue-collar upbringing (which I consider an honour, by the way) that people who were brought up with more comfortable lives thought I was of a lower caste. Some of them were professors, others were, say, schoolteachers.
Sorry, folks, but education is not the great equalizer that it held itself out to be.
“Sorry, folks, but education is not the great equalizer that it held itself out to be.”
Indeed. I have friends who are from across the “class” spectrum, in both the private and public sectors, and include engineers, teachers, social workers, and other formally educated people. Almost without fail, the farther removed they are from blue collar work, the more class conscious they are (ironically, they are often unconsciously class conscious). When I explain how difficult the work can be for the rig crews (as a wellsite geologist I see it first hand all the time), and how often they are working full out, I might receive a shoulder shrug and a tepid “Well, they could always get a degree”, as if that is the panacea of life. Answers like that are frustrating, amusing and demoralizing.
An elderly couple I know are retired public servants who have lived in Ottawa all their lives. Both have been receiving great pensions for decades, and both are lifelong Liberal voters. When I tried explaining the situation here in Alberta, the elderly man quite innocently said to me, “You should have gotten a government job.” There was no malice or arrogance in his statement, just a complete lack of understanding of what I was trying to say. In my trying to explain the negative effects of overreaching governments, his go-to solution was MORE government. This is the mindset that is failing the western world.
I have to admit that I am pessimistic about how all this will play out, although I hope that I am wrong.
“…his go-to solution was MORE government.”
They tried that in Russia in 1917. Didn’t work out so well, nor has it anywhere else since.
What you described could easily be said about some schoolteachers I knew during the mid-1980s.
Times were rough for engineers back then and when I discussed it with them, their attitude was that I should have studied for a B. Ed. Their jobs were guaranteed, they got their summers off, and, when they retired, they would get a nice pension.
All they had to do was keep their noses clean and switch their brains off.
In their way of thinking, being out of work during the 1980s was my fault because I made “bad” choices. (Ever notice that the snooty elites always trot that out as the reason for the misfortunes of someone lower down on the social ladder?)
Good link. Thanks for sharing.
My thoughts:
1. Vote out Nutley
2. Vote to renegotiate equalization.
3. Wean Alberta off RCMP. Set up Alberta pension plan instead of CPP. Disconnect ourselves from as many federal programs as possible. Set up dual income tax like Quebec.
4. Stop BC wine and BC “sewage” fish being sold in Alberta.
5. Opt out of supply management of dairy. Use the not withstanding clause.
6. Harass or even stop BC and Quebec goods from passing through Alberta. Really thorough safety inspections of vehicles, trains, and their contents. Etc
7. Apply a carbon tax on all oil products going to BC. $5 a litre might get their attention. It would be a pilot project.
I am so angry that I now really see Alberta separating.
8. Absolutely boycott Indian reservations that are against pipelines and the industry.
9. Put up hypocrite billboards featuring jetsetters like MacKenna, turdo, Young, DiCapprio, etc.
LC, Joe and Jamie — good ideas. The next Alberta government, after the NDP loses power, has to undertake hardball measures of the kind you have suggested. The powerful elites are still taking the people of Alberta for granted — they assume that Alberta will not retaliate against the onrunning strangulation of the economy. The recent demos in Alberta are a start (even though the corrupt national media downplayed them), and the demos did take some organizational work. But to begin a real fight, more organizing is necessary. Organize, organize, organize.
“I am so angry that I now really see Alberta separating.”
As a resident of B.C. I agree with you 100%.
I hope the price of gas in BC goes to 5 bucks a liter.I buy ALMOST all my gas and diesel for our cars and truck in the US as well as much of my discretionary purchases from the US. A large portion of the goods purchased in Canada comes from China thru the port of Vancouver. Charge $8000 for every railcar that comes through Alberta from B.C. And DON’T stop until the first drop of oil flows through an expanded Trans Mountain pipeline. And tax every railcar going to Quebec UNTIL the Energy East pipeline starts carry Alberta oil to the east coast.
The wine embargo was a good start and got the attention of B.C. Unfortunately Notly folded WAY to soon.
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The election campaign diet: word salad and air pudding.
“They will not watch and understand your points as they do not care. ”
They do not care. Precisely.
As long as the votes keep coming in from the urban centers, the Tower Trash doesn’t give a shit about what happens in the rest of the country.
Exactly!
But the ruling elites do care. They care in the sense that they are deliberately destroying Alberta in order to hit the Paris GHG targets. The destruction is all planned. Th elites do want the energy workers on the unemployment lines. That’s Gerald Butts’s and Justin Trudeau’s plan. And it’s working.
It isn’t going to get better. The left only ever finds fault with others. (I listened to a turkey sitting at the dinner table last night who kept blaming Doug Ford for stuff … and Mike Harris FFS.)
Conservatives are always having to fix the mistakes of the lefties, but they rarely do enough because the left attacks them for cutting spending or red tape and then the “people” put someone like Notley, Trudeau, Horgan, or McGuinty into power and the slide continues.
Alberta needs to exit confederation for its own sake.
“…but they rarely do enough because the left attacks them for cutting spending or red tape …”
They rarely do enough because they listen to the re-election whispers from their little poli-sci grads with the dickhead haircuts in elf suits – and as Harper found out, you may as well govern as if you’re going to get only one kick at the can.
Buddy, NO politics at Christmas dinner were I was. I was the only con, and they know I don’t suffer lefty bull$hit, period. And I am better informed than the whole lefty cabal there:-)))
FREE SASKABERTA !!!!!!
Re-elect Turdo in 2019 !!!!
I so angry as well. Both the Alberta and Canadian governments have hurt my family. And I don’t see my neighbors doing much better either both in Alberta and the Kootenays. We need to throw the bums out. Our political class and bureaucrats need to go. I would rather normal working class Canadians lead our country.
How many Canadians does it take to screw in a light bulb? Over 1001!
One to apply for a permit and 1000 bureaucrats to endlessly tie up the process in re tape.
And where are all those green jobs? And not the dope growing ones?
Wake up Canadians, this country is hurting.
The third largest oil reserve in the world stranded and forever tied up for the Americans, there was a time that that alone would have kicked the libs off into a fit. Anyone but the yanks would have been the libs modus operandi
Drain the Muskeg!
don’t worry fokes andy 2% scheep will fix all!!!
Trudeau and Gerald Butts are taking Canada’s biggest industry and replacing it with higher taxes and increased third world immigration.
Sounds like a plan.
It’s obvious as to what they’re doing.
And shame on those Canadians working for NGOs that are destroying Canada.
It is obvious but it’s not just NGOs, it’s the majority of the chattering class and a sizable portion of fellow Canadian citizens in the rest of Canada who cheer when Albertan families are in economic distress.
If a separatist political leader and party that knows how to effectively appeal to Albertans pride, anger and pocketbook gains traction then I’d hate to be the nationalist trying to convince Albertans to continue to be Canada’s piggy bank, environmental scapegoat and second-class citizens. There’s a long history of insulting political quotes and deliberately harmful federal policies to use as ammunition to promote separatism. Far more legitimate grievances and insults than Quebec can list.
“Screw the West; we’ll take the rest” Liberal strategist Keith Davie
Nothing new here, Pee Wee and Butts are just following the script.
Thanks for so many brilliant yet sadly accurate posts. My best friends are liberals, voted yet again for Wynne, nothing will make them see the disaster Trudope is bringing to Canada.
sadly true.
when it gets really really bad, and there is NOTHING to stop that given sufficient time and horrid decisions, the lefties and LIEberals will whimper and finger point at ANYONE ELSE.
and grab more freebies whilst they ‘run out of other people’s money’.
You only need to look at the combined philosophies and goals of Maurice Strong and GEORGE Soros to understand none of this is misguided or accidental.
Every bit of it is by design.
And the endgame is quite simply the end of freedom, prosperity and the west
History will repeat itself. Western Canadians that have an understanding of wealth creation will get together and create a “ Western political movement”.
It will be labeled radical, bigoted, homophobic, unpatriotic……..
This will result in the hunt for a moderate leader more acceptable to those who tell us how to think. He will then skilfully deflect western sentiment down the well traveled road (Progrssives,CCF, Socreds, Reform) into federal politics painting a picture of fixing our CON-federation!
Sorry. Not optimistic Albertans have the guts to follow through.
I will disagree.
Western Canadians are not stupid.
Complacent ,yes.
Slow to anger, indeed.
But not insanely stupid.
We tried Reform.
It went exactly as you described.
But things are different now.
The debt is unbelievably bigger.
The disfunction is rampant and impossible to ignore.
As for the labels, we are already called haters for even having the audacity to suggest that an action of government may result in easily foreseen consequences.
Investing in welfare is not going to produce any return on investment .
Rewarding the clueless and useless is not going to reduce their numbers.
Importing persons who have no skills,speak not our language and who openly despise our culture is not going to result in well assimilated citizens.
Kangaroo courts which demand we speak as they say,will not improve our attitudes.
Hence being labelled by the paid Presstitutes and their educated but idiot comrades is now an honour.
If these creatures hate you,you are doing great work.
And in those 30 years of “Reform”,we got poorer.
The thieves became ever more emboldened.
So now with Trudeau Two and an utterly useless and spineless political elite, separation is easier to justify that retaining the nonfunctioning confederation.
We are into 5th generations of career “civil servants”,persons so removed from productive work that they do not understand the taxpayer.
“Uncouth aliens who know nothing of how government really works” .
Sorry but that is how they see us.
So I see Western Separation as unavoidable, it is the default position rather than the option.
Justin Trudeau is not loyal to Canada. Just as his father wasn’t and his master, Gerald Butts, isn’t.
VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED:
“Hypothesis Non Fingo” …Alberta should just separate from crazy Canada and tell Trudeau & the Communist Liberals the following:
https://youtu.be/BMZBh8w1beA
apologies to Ken K …wink!
Nancy, Nancy! 😉
Btw, I agree with the sentiment and I would be a liar if I said I had never verbalized the same. Anger and disgust trigger base reactions.
Also, BTW, that Sergeant instructor I had was better than these guys, as he hardly missed a sentence without that verb.
Whew!
I don’t usually swear but I think of the words occasionally. When needed… I usually cry tears of disappointment….boo, hoo!
Thank you…you are a gentleman and a scholar!
might just have to stamp FYT on the new loonie in 2019.
But for any liberals in the crowd it means fantastically youthful Trudeau. 🙂
Or “Forever yours, Trudeau”. I’m sure that there are lefties here in Canada who are sufficiently unhinged to think that.
Yep Tooner. Liberals get elected locally but then figure they represent the globe.
After all, we no longer engage in “foreign affairs”. They’re “global” now. Then again, what do you expect when Climate Barbie’s portfolio is for “environment and climate change”?
I say he is a bit of a useful idiot. “we are Albertans, and we’re Canadians”; the second part of that assertion is what tells me all I need to know.
Can you be a Christian and a Satanist?
Can you be for socialism and for democracy?
Can you be a capitalist and a communist?
No, you cannot. You can be an Albertan, or you can be a Canadian; pretty clear that you cannot be both. Has been for a very long time.
In Canada, there is no social acceptability for Alberta, Saskatchewan, the Fraser valley, farming, mining, construction, nothing.
Pick a side, fight, or shut the fook up.
Sent to everyone in my various address books as well as to every Member of Parliament. Lets hope this gets lots of views.
John your first 7 lines are accurate and I have no argument.
However the rest of your post could have and was written in 1986. Remember the CF 18 contract?
The analyses has been cited and written about since the 30’s.
I hope and pray you are right but I watched first hand as the reformers were conned into withdrawing the hammer. They were just as frustrated as any of us today. But were convinced after a few irrelevant wins to go federal.
That’s when I walked away. Equlilization is entrenched in the constitution.
So no matter how unjust this will never be addressed with out 4 priemiers
from the west being on the separatist page.
“Only when they believe we will get out will they do anything to keep us in!”
The “reform” movement should have challenged in the 4 Western provinces…. and they would have done well.
But Preston had PM assperations.
His pitch would not stand up to scrutiny but he skillfully deflected the efforts of thousands of very good people into the cesspool of federal politics where all is decided by mob rule.
THE GREAT AMERICAN CONSPIRACY TO SABOTAGE CANADIAN OILPATCH
The Rockefeller group, based in the United States, laid down five specific tracks to solve what they saw as the Canadian problem. Congratulations, Canada, you’ve been thoroughly had by a U.S. eco-campaign that hurt our economy but hasn’t slowed U.S. oil interests one iota. Every environmental measure in Canada is of trivial global impact. By Stewart Muir, Contributing writer for Canadians for Affordable Energy and executive director of Resource Works. CALGARY HERALD – Updated: December 29, 2018
https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-the-great-american-conspiracy-to-sabotage-canadian-oilpatch