67 Replies to “P.E.I.”

  2. This is just silly!
    A population of 155,000 elects 27 MPPs or less than 6000 per member?! Just what do these MPPs do? Looks like a form of selective elitist welfare. In my view, all the Maritimes should be one large have-not province. I know, not going to happen…too good a gravy train.

    1. Not silly at all. PEI is a province and, as such, is fully entitled to run its provincial affairs as it sees fit.

      1. Yeah a province with the population of a small town … not a city but a friggin’ town. In a sane world consolidation would happen but u are talking the maritimes … a place folks move to because they hear there is no work.

        1. 150,000 ain’t a “small town”. Like to see you on a fishing boat, Stu, you couldn’t hack it, it’s one of the hardest jobs there is.

      2. Certainly it is fully entitled to run its own affairs, but it certainly doesn’t seem entitled to fully pay for them.

      3. Agreed. Size does not seem to be an indicator of electoral intelligence. Alberta, Ontario, Saskatchewan, British Columbia and Manitoba have all voted for socialists and have had socialist governments. Quebec had separatists even when suckling on the equalization teat. Canada as a whole, keeps voting in a corrupt self-serving Liberal dynasty. So much for large constituencies… the track record is no better.

        1. Yes. A lot of intellectual halitosis here about PEI. The province entered Confederation before several others even existed (Alberta and Saskatchewan were largely empty prairie*); PEI had almost four times the population of Manitoba in 1873.

          PEI came in as a province under the circumstances of the day. Fortunately for our federation, there is no mechanism for a heavy-handed central government in Ottawa to dismantle provinces (just imagine if the current kindergarten of a Federal government had that kind of power).

          So suck it up.

          * At the beginning of the 20th Century, the area of what is now Alberta and Saskatchewan had about 160,000 all up. PEI had 100,000.

          1. JJM. I agree.

            When they joined confederation perhaps PEI and NS were smarter than the rest of us. They wanted more senators so they still had some clout in the new country. Sounds a little bit like the country to the south of us!

          2. The short answer is that if the constitutional status of PEI as a province within Canada is of no importance, then neither is that of Alberta.

          3. I think PEI should suck it up. If they had to pay for a government the size they have they would be immediately bankrupt.

            Government in fishworld is a make work process. I’d be ok with PEI having a government of any size they want…..as long as they pay for it. Themselves.

      4. JJM, math is hard for you, logic is hard for you, and now you prove “scale” is not in your thinking tool bag. Good lord you idiot, remain silent when you go full stupid

      5. AND, And they have 4 Senators! – for about what, 200,000 people. New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia both have 10! Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba and BC all have 6 Senators.
        Some of the constituencies in western Canada have as many people as PEI has inhabitants.
        So how is Confederation working out for you so far, eh???

    3. Plus four MPs, two Senators and who knows how many mayors, reeves, town councilors, etc., etc. All made possible by the largest per capita equalization payments in the country. Total pop of PEI is less tha that of Thunder Bay, ON. Just ridiculous.

    5. rob, premier of PEI, AKA, village idiot. Because they have the population of a village:-)))

  3. The bad news for the Libs is twofold:

    1. The Conservatives won.

    2. The Greens outperformed the Liberals. The Greens!

    Haha! I love it!

    1. Notice the Media and polling firms promoting the Greens… The Media running their ABC program.

  4. Interesting.
    The polls where predicting a Green win.
    Then the end count.
    12 seats for the conservative
    8 seats for the Greens
    6 seats for the Liberals
    The math suggests that the liberals are already selling their soul to get a watermelon coalition in place.
    That would be the beginning of a merger talking point that could grow legs right through to the federal election, further if the LPC does as poorly as some are predicting.
    Yeah, lizzie may campaigning to liberal voters with “lend me your vote”, would cause apoplexy within the Laurentian elite community.

    1. A Green-Liberal coalition government? That would be a death sentence for the Greens federally. Why would the Greens want to be associated with team Turdeau? They stand to take votes away from Turdeau?

      But stranger things have happened.

      1. I concur.
        But let the Greens get the idea that all they have to do is woo the liberal voters to get the big chair and reality will have no chance of getting in they way.
        In a lot of ways the Green party mimics the DNC in the US right up to allowing one woman to put a stranglehold on the leadership.

      2. Joe,Elizabeth May has been one of Justin trudeau’s most ardent admirers since he decided to run for MP. A Green/Liberal coalition in PEI would make a lot of sense for both Parties as power is a lot better than being in Opposition.
        PEI’s biggest employer is the Canada Revenue Agency,which had to be moved there after they closed down the RCAF base at Summerside. I have to laugh at how the Liberals always send a government agency into their Eastern allies, like the Firearms agency in NB, rather than try to create economic opportunities that attract private investment.

  5. Uh Hi all, Justin here, because of all the uh hate in uh Canada, as uh evidenced by the uh election of uh another conservative provincial government, uh I uh have uh decided to invoke the uh War Measures Act.

    The federal election uh will be postponed uh until uh Canadians uh come to their senses, and uh stop voting for hate.

    We uh cannot uh have hatful conservatives running uh the country. Stephen Harper, Stephen Harper, Stephen Harper.

    … I was going to say sarc off, but Justin is that desperate, and that stupid. 🙁 He really might delay the federal election to the full five years.

    1. I agree he will do anything to stay in power. This is my biggest fear. If I was paranoid I would be worried about his imported islamic army.

      1. Plus thum thar extreeeemists in Alberta. It’s already begun, US style identity politics; divide and conquer.
        Remember, if some yahoo makes stupid comments, that’s the same as shooting up an Orlando bar.
        Exactly the same, except for one thing having nothing to do with religion.
        Methinks progressivism, rife with contradictions it be, is the hunted ideology going forward.

        If the Grits were smart instead of scheming, they’d realize they must move to the centre because Greens are eating their lunch. But they’re not smart, so they’ll insult anyone with the temerity to not agree with their autocracy, while regurgitating some long dead issues to prove they’re the compassionate ones who know how to spend you money better than you.

        And we’ll probably fall for it. Because the centre-right is not united against the LPC.
        Some will take the easy way out. Some will see a springboard to western separation.
        Some think the whole Ottawa establishment needs to crush itself under its own weight.
        But, Trudeau won’t be able to masquerade as a populist this time, and Canadians tire of his pontifications and duplicity.
        No worries, CBC is already on board, scouring the countries for extremist tappers, set to attack at any moment.
        If they get keep falling in the polls, they may get desperate enough to try an abortion gambit.
        Like their southern cousins it will leave them bloodied and divided, as the public rebukes their extremism, but they will try.

        1. Ezra is exposing the CBC/Liberal propaganda machine.
          His twitter account is in full battle mode today.

    2. Joe,that fear mongering was promoted by alarmists when Mulroney,Chretien,and Harper were up for election in their final terms. It didn’t happen then and it won’t happen now,we will have an election in October.

      Barring,of course,an example of White Nationalist extremism such as an attack on a mosque in Toronto. Should that occur, Trudeau could invoke the new version of the War Measures Act to the applause of everyone in the media and Parliament.

      Brace yourself for an October, 2019 federal election, it’s the Canadian Way.

      1. Don, good points and normally I’d agree with you, but in my opinion Justin is deranged, so delaying an election for five years is entirely possible. We must get used to thinking “What would a snow board instructor do”. Because that is the only experience Justin has to fall back on when the going gets tough.

  6. Joe, its what despots do….and this child is well on his way to securing that title.

  7. How much did Canadians pay to build a bridge to a potato farm? At one point Harper had the gonads to actually speak the truth by saying Atlantic Canada should be one province not a collection of welfare states. Yup, 26 MLA’s for 150,000 people? Over governance to an extreme. I suggest they send their MLA’s to North Dakota for a lesson in cost effective government.

  8. As was the case with the Alberta election, the media-driven polls got the PEI result completely wrong. The polls had the Greens ahead, and this drove the entire commentary in the corporate media (all favouring the Greens). And lo and behold, once the actual votes were counted, the PCs won a minority government. In Alberta, the corporate polls had the UCP ahead by only 6-8 percent, yet the UPCS won by 23 percent. The Toronto-based media suits favoured the Greens and NDP, but actual voters did not listen to them. I hope the idea of the corporate media failing to fix elections becomes a trend.

    1. Is it a sort of Trump effect, where voters won’t tell pollsters they support right of centre (aka extremist) parties?

      1. I won’t tell pollsters anything unless they pay me for the time it takes. And if they ever do, I am only offering to sell them my time, no promise I am going to tell them the truth.

  9. I’m not so sure that having the Luddite Party holding the balance of power is something to be celebrated.

  10. “26 MLA’s for 150,000 people?”
    Here’s the scary part.
    The PEI legislature sat for 43 days in 2018, 29 days for the spring session and 14 days for the fall session.
    MUST MAKE LAWS. MEDDLE MEDDLE MEDDLE.
    Also the Toronto Hockey Team lost. What gives? It ain’t my birthday.

    1. Montana legislators get $92.46 a day for the 90-day session or $ 8321.4 per year. Provincial members should be considered part-time.

  11. Yes, Harper did say he would work to change the Atlantic provinces from a culture of dependency, that really angered them.
    The cold hard truth was too hard to swallow. Liberals have great electoral success with dependents, it’s the socialistic way to gain and keep power. It may not be working so well anymore, with a dummy administration at the helm in Ottawa people are slowly waking up.

    1. For the record, because I am a conservative, who would like to see Atlantic Canada doing better and less dependent, Harper’s downfall out East was his completely tone-deaf failure to understand anything about the Maritine economy, how the local industries work, or how the historical trajectory of Confederation impacted the Maritime provinces. If the Cons want to do better out East, they have to put more effort into understanding and criticism that is constructive instead of demeaning.

      2. I worked for many years with ‘Atlantic migrants’ here in Ontario. They were, for the most part, professional foresters. None wanted to go back to the least coast because of the ‘party’ culture and the poor work ethic. These people were all smart and wanted to make a life for themselves and their families. So they left.

  12. Not only did a high Tory turnout keep the Greens from getting their hands on real power, but the referendum on proportional representation—designed to ensure the Tories would never form government ever again—also went down to defeat.

    Islanders clearly have no further interest in being lab rats for the mad schemes of central Canadian globalists.

    (PEI had the dubious honour of being the first province to be lorded over by a non-white British premier, Joe Ghiz, son of Atullah. Presumably his masters hoped damage would be limited if their Arab puppet did something truly idiotic. After all, it was only Prince Edward Island.)

    God bless and keep the Islanders. Now all they need to do is stop voting Liberal federally.

    1. Indeed. I found it interesting that only Liberano incumbents went down to defeat including the Premier.

      Regarding the plebiscite. I think this is the 3rd time they’ve asked PEI voters to switch.

      Also popular vote to seat count the results are very proportional.

      Hopefully the PC’s can pickup 1 more seat in the delayed election.

  13. So, people seriously think anything changes between a Liberal government and a Progressive Conservative one?

    I own all the bridges on the continent, and if you want one you have to buy it from me. I have really fair prices.

    1. Exactly. This is the Maritimes. There’s barely any daylight between the Liberals and the PCs out here. Even when the NDP ran Nova Scotia for a term, they stayed just barely to the left of either of them (and then got turfed anyway in favour of a bunch of Liberal thugs).

      Sometimes team red is actually a step to the right of team blue out here. They flip flop as the years pass. There’s very little to be read into this result, other than that the provincial Liberals’ time was over and the Greens actually made significant headway.

    2. Yes, of course it makes no difference whatsoever. Then we wonder why we are ruled by divide and conquer socialists.

    3. There are some politicians who are better than others as constituency members, i.e. responding to individuals in need of the assistance an elected rep. can provide in getting a bureaucrat to move a file along (and if you have one of these on the government side rather than the opposition that usefulness is enhanced.) These you should consider leaving in office.

      But voting either way, there is always this difference: The ones who are re-elected stop accruing pension entitlement and lose the expense account, so there is always some good to be had by voting against an incumbent.

  14. Oh, and Liz J;

    NO ONE IS EVER WAKING UP.
    THE CBC IS DOING THEIR JOB; THEIR JOB IS NOT WHAT YOU THINK IT IS.

    Can you please at least try? Put at least 12 minutes out of the year’s worth of thought into it? Seriously, it is more interesting to laugh at the troll attempts of dizzy and Andrew and unme. There is not even amusement value in your comments.

    You keep using these phrases; they clearly do not mean, what you think they mean.

  15. Newfoundland and Labrador coming up in May.
    Liberal governments are left in Yukon, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia.

    1. Though the Yukon is a territory of course, not a province.

      Meaning the Federal government can tinker there in ways it cannot with a province.

    2. Yukon is as bad as PEI. All government.

      They don’t have the political sway the potatoe eating socialists do.

      1. As I said, Yukon is not a province.

        It has no constitutional powers to back it up in any scrap with Ottawa.

  16. PEI has no shit. Nor will it ever have shit. The reason being that no one. Absolutely no one. Gives a shit about PEI.

  17. I think it’s another example of the desire for change (and mostly change to conservatism) that is sweeping the country. I fully understand the federal/provincial thing but it nonetheless bodes ill for Sunshine Boy.

    How exactly they work it out in PEI doesn’t really matter. However, I think a Green/Lib coalition is the least likely outcome. The Libs were repudiated and their leader defeated. And as a final humiliation, they would be the junior partners. I think the PCs will govern, cadging two votes from the Greens and Libs as necessary. Bit shaky, but who cares? Main thing is the status quo was overturned and the Liberal brand took another beating

  18. Given that the Spawn’s government is as green as the Greens and yet they compete at the polls tells me that there is a visceral hatred for the Liberals amongst the Greens. That’s a good thing as the only meaningful function of the Greens is to split the watermelon vote. If the left ever united under the green theological banner, it would spell the the fast track over the cliff for Canada rather than the slow death we have come to enjoy.

    1. Your getting it.

      Any talk within party ranks either the green or lieberal will be greeted by rank and file members as treachery and “vote splitting “(tm).

      But frankly if the result ofthe next election is a liberal loss, the go to excuse will be vote splitting between the liberal and green parties, and nothing whatsoever to do with the Sockmonkey.

  19. Left-Right alliance in Britain

    Nationalists across Europe are learning that the ideological gap is smaller and easier to bridge than the globalist gap, as the British follow the Italian lead:

    As a left-wing campaigner for 35 years, I’ve been arrested on picket lines, led anti-imperialist demonstrations and spoken at anti-deportation protests outside police stations. I’ve made speeches at street rallies, in prisons and universities and at pubs.

    Yet yesterday, in an unexpected twist of events, I found myself sitting next to Nigel Farage, announcing my intention to stand as a candidate for his Brexit Party in the European elections on May 23….

    Be in no doubt, this is a watershed moment for democracy. It’s been almost three years since 17.4 million people voted to Leave the EU – the largest popular mandate in British political history. But today, thanks to an ineffective Government and a cabal of staunchly Remain-supporting MPs, we remain shackled to Brussels. It is almost as if a referendum was never held.

    http://voxday.blogspot.com/2019/04/left-right-alliance-in-britain.html?m=1

    1. The fusing of nationalism and socialism-we can call it national-socialism! Surely good things will come of this.

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