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      1. I’m wondering where the Watcher is? He wrote years ago that he once had a sit-down with Smith and lectured her at length about his constitutional research, which is unique today because the Watcher’s perspective is from the old Walter F. Kuhl school. Has the Watcher been advising Smith recently as Rod Love to her Ralph Klein?

        1. Yes Watcher is Watching. And yes I do write my Premier Danielle Smith.
          My latest advice to Premier Smith was that she should give Albertans a made in Alberta Constitution under section 45 of the BNA. Which states that Provinces can create a Provincial Constitution at anytime they choose provided it stays within the BNA Division of Powers between Provincial Jurisdiction and Federal Jurisdiction.
          That is the legal part of my advice.
          The 2nd part was political and legal.
          In said Alberta Constitution would be a clause stating that this would be binding on the Premier, that when ever Ottawa illegally intruded into Provincial Jurisdiction as per the BNA that the Premier would be forced to Declare a UDI and giving Ottawa 30 days to remove itself, or UDI would be enforced. No going to the rigged Supreme Court, straight to International court same as Kosovo in 1998. The beauty is Canada supported Kosovo publicly and in writing when they declared UDI and went Independent. It was ruled legal by the International Court. And Kosovo never even held a referendum, just declared UDI and See Yah.

          https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jul/22/kosovo-independence-un-ruling
          Canada is not a Federation and never was. It is still a Confederation of equal partners.

          1. Kosovo never even held a referendum

            The non-Serbian Kosovars would have been exterminated in a heart beat had they not been backed to the hilt by the US. Alberta is going to have to start developing strong foreign ties with potential allies the way Quebec has already done.

            Stopping the gravy train from Alberta to Ottawa will require a clear mind, and resolve. The Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal axis of evil will stop at nothing to maintain their imperial privilege.

          2. Canada is not a Federation and never was. It is still a Confederation of equal partners.

            Now that’s something I never thought I’d hear the Watcher say…he always says Canada is a phoney queeney thingie. Now it’s a confederation of equal partners? He almost makes it sound like a good thing!

          3. cryptic cynic (hello, Watcher?) says the exact same thing about the confederation bit below.

            But Watcher would know that Kuhl didn’t believe the BNA Act created a confederation at all, but rather a central government of a united colony. Kuhl wrote that the Statute of Westminster granted sovereign authority from the imperial parliament to the colony, but that the provinces hadn’t acted to create a federation, or confederation.

            I guess if you believe they did do this with the Trudeau constitution, then you’d have to believe Trudeau intended to create a confederation of equal partners. But this was not Trudeau’s intention at all. I remember Trudeau saying Canada was embodied in the federal government and the provinces were appendages. He said words to this effect during the few public hearings that were held on his constitution. Trudeau believed the provinces were merely junior partners, or extras in his big show.

          4. Watcher, you’re one of the good guys, always have been.
            That makes you a target here, and elsewhere, a target of the sickened kleptocracy/Karenocracy clowns and their minions.

          5. Well thank you all for you kind comments. I will be 74 in a month, lets just say my thinking has evolved.
            Canada is not a Democracy, it is not a Republic, it is not a colony anymore of England. It is a bastardized Open Air, Self Supporting Penal Colony.
            And the Inmates that is you and I are all in a state Voluntary Servitude.

            This is why I say we have to use legal as well as politics if we are to obtain freedom.
            My ancestor’s fought in the War of 1812 and the Upper Canada Rebellion. And we really should try and outsmart them.
            In reality Canada will fall apart and be broken up I think fairly soon.
            The reason it lasted as long as it has, is that we were very decentralized until Pierre Trudeau.
            And he began gatherin power into the PMO and trying to rule like communist tyrant.
            Canada is too large a country to be run by one man from Ottawa.
            Canada’s debts are too large now and can never be repaid.
            How did we get in this mess. We got here by allowing Quebec and Atlantic Canada to always control the country by gerrymandering the elections. So they got kickbacks.
            After Quebec almost won the Sovereignty vote. It got worse.
            The LIBS/CPC/NDP really began upping the bribe and Danegeld payments to keep Quebec.

            But in doing this they have destroyed the western goose who lays the golden eggs.

            The feds began back after the WW2 to slowly steal jurisdiction from the Provinces.
            And with our weak Premiers they slowly achieved that goal.
            Any way one of Canada’s Preeminent Constitutional Lawyers and Scholars has this to say on how Ottawa abused it’s spending powers to gain control and in effect ruin the country.
            Ottawa is now even trying to run and control Municipal Governments.
            3 hands trying to steal from the 1 pocket of the taxpayer.
            Government has become the biggest problem for citizens. Taxes now consume more of the average Canadian Families income than what they are allowed to take home to pay for the necessities of life. Food, Clothing and Shelter. This is a criminal level of taxation.

            https://mondopolitico.com/library/myth/mpintro.htm#:~:text=Petter%27s%20topic%20is%20the%20so-called%20%22federal%20spending%20power%22%3A,make%20laws%3A%20e.g.%2C%20health%20care%2C%20education%2C%20and%20welfare.

          6. HiHo, Watcher is not a “target” of anything. If he weren’t a respected poster whose opinion is valued, it wouldn’t be solicited. If he chooses to contribute to this forum under various pen names, well so did the authors of the Federalist Papers. Truth be told, this website probably has a dozen posters with various handles. At any rate, Watcher is a not a weakling in any respect, and doesn’t need help he hasn’t asked for. Real Albertans are tougher than that. He respects the healthy give and take of free discussion, as did the American Framers. That’s how we will achieve freedom from the eastern empire. Stop making him out to be a victim. That only speaks poorly of you.

          7. Well Mark V read what I wrote carefully. By going with the UDI, Alberta would be removing itself completely from all Canadian Jurisdiction. That is how UDI works.
            No Canadian Court would have Jurisdiction and it would immediately become the jurisdiction of the International court.

            America was created by a UDI, the Declaration of Independence was a UDI. After it was declared the English even tried to hold on by claiming that they had signed treaties with the Natives.
            When UDI is declared all contracts and Treaties signed by the former country become automatically null and void. That is how UDI works.
            So all Indian Treaties are wiped out. All contracts signed by Ottawa in the name of Albertans are wiped out. From that day forward we are on our own and must gradually move forward, like any other country.
            Canadian courts and rules would no longer apply.
            The whole purpose of UDI is to remove yourself from Canadian Jurisdiction and control.
            The RCMP would have to vacate or swear allegiance, the CF would have to withdraw. All companies operating inside Alberta would have to submit their taxes to Edmonton. All Canadian Departments would have to vacate. Canadian Ag gone, Canadian Fisheries and Oceans gone, etc etc.
            On the plus side we would no longer be sending any monies to Ottawa immediately.
            Negotiations for Albertans share of CPP and UI funds would begin immediately.
            Canadian Old Age Pensions would be paid out to existing retirees for a time just like we do now with foreign country pension agreements.
            Big thing is BILLIONS would be staying in Alberta.
            Alberta already does 87% of all its trade with the USA. Very little with Canada.
            We mostly buy things like pumps, pipe and auto’s from the east, all of which could be quickly purchased in USA.
            As to threats of embargo and on our oil and gas, that is not a problem. That is a sword that cuts two ways.
            Eastern Canada would find itself cut off from Asian trade very fast if they played that card.
            Road and Rail traffic to the Pacific has to pass through Alberta.
            Canada is a rigged game. When Canada ended its colonial ties to England in 1931, The Provinces were duped into continuing a colony status but with Ottawa instead of England.
            Time for a total remake of Canada.
            The change is coming no matter what eastern Canada and Ottawa want.
            Fact is Canada is broke, bankrupted by Ottawa.
            Pierre Poilievre stood in the HOC in January and using the Governments own figures stated that Canadian Governments are now 9 Trillion in debt. We used to have over 1000 Metric tonnes of physical gold held in the Bank of Canada, but Chretien and Martin sold that off, mostly at 250/oz.
            So natural forces will break up Canada, regardless how anyone feels or how the NDP/LIB voters and supporters yowl.
            When the funding is ended for the multitudes of welfare scams end, the country will be broken up. And the cities will burn.
            The former Social Contract has been ended for some time by Ottawa. Time to face facts and move on.

          8. Watcher, thanks for the link to Andrew Petter’s article on federal spending power. It’ll take me a while to work my way through it, but I’ve read the introduction written by mondopolitico.

            I remember back in the day, there was a lot of criticism from all quarters about the Trudeau government interfering in provincial health care as Monique Begin kept threatening Alberta over “extra billing”. The feds steal a lot of money from the taxpayer that they can use to bribe/blackmail the provinces and subvert the division of powers. Today, there’s nary a peep from anyone (except here) about the illegitimacy of federal intrusion.

            Despite being around for a few years, you’ve retained your optimistic attitude about the breakup of the voluntary penal colony. I might not share your optimism, but I do salute your resilient spirit.

        2. I am trying to convince Premier Smith in writing to her, that we have to forget legalities as in ever even thinking of going to court with Ottawa.
          This is why I say use Politics and legalities.
          Use the BNA which Ottawa and its appointed Judges say is the constitution, and at the same time use the political hammer of the UDI over their heads.
          By enshrining this in a Provincial Jurisdiction and binding the Premier who ever that may be to use the UDI when Ottawa infringes our rights is the only way I can see to control Ottawa.
          At the same time, Alberta needs to take a lot of things from Ottawa.

          One of the things I told Premier Smith is, it is not a Constitutional Fight to end Equalization. You simply starve it out. Trudeau et al made a very big mistake.
          Yes go and read it, Equalization is in the Trudeau unratified Constitution.

          But all the Funding for all these schemes is in a Voluntary Agreement with the Provinces. VOLUNTARY. It is called the Federal Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act…
          Alberta simply has to withdraw voluntarily with notice.
          And Equalization dies on the vine. Quebec and PEI will have to figure out how to make it work without Alberta and probably SK.
          NFLD could swap cod tongues and canned seal meat to Quebec for Maple Syrup which NFLD could haul to Boston.

          Anyway. I am a nobody and opinions are like a*sholes. Everybody has one.

          1. At one time I would have agreed with your advice and tactics. But we are dealing with an entirely new reality. One where respect for sacred written contracts (BNA, constitution, bill of rights, the Charter) between government and citizens has been either casually disregarded or contemptuously brutalized. And how can one hope to play the political angle with a narcissistic idiot who is historically ignorant of something like our past support of Kosovo UDI, and also boldly lie under oath about verifiable truths? In short, there’s no hope of appealing to law, precedent or facts with the current government. I understand the rationale of trying to work within the existing constitutional/legal framework, but that assumes both parties accept and respect that framework. Like in the US, I don’t see a polite way around resolving the chasm of fundamental differences in our country.

    2. He used to be good. He had some eye-roller moments but was pretty even-handed in calling out BS. I believe that mental clarity was dependent on the environment he used to have at the NP before leaving it.

      1. Didn’t his sister calve a bastard spawn of the pig himself? Scratch a “journalist” and you find a bought off, souless, wannabe tyrant fanboy. Andy is butthurt. Good.

    3. I can’t stand the arrogance of the po faced yob, but he is a prime example of what is wrong with the governance of this once great nation, I’m sure he has too much ear of PMPoopy.

      1. Given how immediate and in lock-step the eastern media was in reacting to the Act, one wonders – did they even bother to read it?
        Calling it “Unconstitutional” when it specifically states that it will only apply when the feds unconstitutionally intrude into areas of provincial jurisdiction?
        But then, actually reading the Act is the sort of thing that say, Blacklock’s would do.
        And we all know how the press gallery views them.

  3. That cartoon would have been far more effective if it had pictured his butt sticking out from beneath Blackie’s desk and both of ’em wide-eyed.

  4. Curious what SDA’ers think about this bill.

    As best I can understand, it will tie up the federal government everytime the Dauphin passes a new regressive law. Getting resolution from the courts will take years, making everything come to a standstill.

    I think it is a good idea, generally. Similar to how environmentalists drive up house prices by codifying every form of “study” under teh sun, before build permits are issued. “The scarlett beetle population might decline at York and Danforth!!! Stop building!!!”

    So, kinda seems like using progressive tactics against progressives. I think it could work.

    2. It’s about retaining the Constitutional powers of the Provinces that have always been there but not utilized as the Federal government has incrementally encroached on those powers using the Totalitarian Tip-toe.

      The Federal governments job is to ease trade and flow of goods through and between provinces, along with foreign affairs, protecting Canada’s borders, and it’s money supply. It’s FAILED on all fronts.

      In Alberta’s case it’s the flow of Energy to Eastern and International markets and a multitude of debilitating Federal regulations on every industry from farming to forests.

      Add in some forced vaccinations followed by gun confiscations and more than a few Albertans finally get pissed off. If other provinces had any sense they’d invoke their Constitutional Rights as well.

    3. I think you’re right. The Alberta Sovereignty Act (and the Saskatchewan First Act) can be used to slow walk federal legislation that encroaches on provincial constitutional rights. It is the counter attack to what the federal government does to the provinces.

      I think it creates a second problem for the federal government. If they take Alberta or Saskatchewan to court over provincial rights then the federal government will also be taking the Quebec government to court since AB&SK are only asking for the same rights as Quebec. I’m pretty sure that’s not a fight that the Trudeau liberal-NDP government wants. What if the federal government ends up with all 3 provinces wanting independence?

    4. I was concerned about giving the premier and the cabinet quasi-dictatorial powers. I get the impression the bill has been edited to alleviate those problems. If it has, then I’m happy.

      1. I dont see the bill as dictatorial. It gives Albertans the ability to veto federal laws. I dunno, a veto ability seems the opposite of a dictatorship.

        Veto = you cant do that to me.
        Dictator = you must do this.

        1. It does not give Albertans the ability to veto federal laws. That is not a thing. What it does is recognize and ‘bass boost’ the ability of Albertans to simply not enforce federal laws. Earlier versions of this bill also let cabinet basically do whatever it wanted.

          1. If Alberta REALLY wanted to mess the Fed up, require the questionable Federal laws drag themselves through Parliament, then the Courts, for years and years. Do to the Fed what the hippies do to logging operations: enforce endless paperwork on the Feds to get anything done …

    5. “I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible.”

      Milton Friedman

      I’ll substitute “cutting taxes ” with “reducing the state” above.

      1. I’ll substitute “cutting taxes ” with “reducing the state” above.

        Hear, hear!! Omnipotent Government has many other arrows in its funding quiver. Money printing, debt monetization, borrowing, stealing gold reserves and oil from other countries…the American Empire has provided object lessons in all that. Taxes are used mostly for control of the subject population, but aren’t essential for revenue. What is essential from a personal liberty perspective is slaying the demon of the oppressive state.

      2. Ask a liberal this question: How much government is too much? How much more can government expand before it’s too big?

        1. Better yet was years ago when someone asked Pelosi where in the US Constitution was Congress given the authority to pass a law she had just championed. She looked at the guy through a stunned drunken stupour, and slurred, “The Constitution? This is a joke, right?”. True story. Probably on YT somewhere.

        2. One of the Carolina states about 15 years ago followed up on a Democrat election proposal that sought to raise everyone’s state taxes, calling their bluff by adding a line on their state tax form for voluntary extra tax donation. I recalled thinking how brilliant it was, if democrats were so convinced of the virtue of their proposal, people would have no reason not to support it, and the governing Republicans gave them the opportunity which, of course, no one did. It was a great troll.

      3. I too want to end drug prohibition, restrictions on immigration, laws against prostitution and Johns, and import taxes/quotas, as well as zoning and agricultural subsidies.

  6. Coyne:
    LIBERAL 100%
    SMUG 100%
    ARROGANT 100%
    ASSHOLE 100%

    I’d say that right pretty much sums up that Eastern bit of Vacuous ass kissing garbage….like all the rest.

    Good on You Danielle…!!
    As just one whose livlihood depends upon our Resouce Industry…All 100 thousand of us heartily agree and support you 100%

  8. Red Rachel will now have to become far more militant and extreme so as to try and stir and
    rally her union base. This will expose her wickedness and alignment with the Canadian traitors in Ottawa.

    Rachel Notley will be a naked emporor-wanna-be. Bring it on Rachel, your days are numbered and they are short.

    1. Red Rachel has been blasting the airwaves on a Leftist misinformation campaign claiming Smith is trying to force SEPARATION when in fact she has pushed for “Sovereignty” – Two completely different animals but never let the Truth get in the way of a good Communist.

      1. I get the impression that she’s become so much more extreme and nutty since 2018. I think she’s losing her mind.

        1. She’s not losing her mind, she is having her metal tested and her true character and leanings are being exposed. (S)Notley has had to do a deal with the devil to become leader of the Provincial NDP, which is nothing but a water-carrier of the Federal NDP.

          Traitor Jagmeet is her boss, and Jag hides under Lil Castros desk and takes orders from Klauss Schwabb and Co.

          1. You are correct about the NDP’s hierarchy. I had to shove an idiot dipper supporter’s nose into the provincial NDP’s constitution to prove it after he called me a liar.

          2. MikeT, they know sweet FA about anything else. You don’t actually expect a Commie to know anything about the party they support, do you?

  10. If you agree with the passage, send the Premier your congratulations through the government website.

  11. Aggressive federalism?
    You mean like the feds going to war with the west’s farmers and oil producers and pipelines?
    I think that already happened.

    The media goobers like to throw around the word extremist.
    Who are the real extremists though?
    Maybe the people who support going back to the stone age by ending fossil fuels and the people who want to severely reduce food production are the real extremists.

    1. There are two things that Alberta (and the other provinces as well) must make clear to the Ottawa fascists. Regardless of the laws you pass….regardless of whether those laws are determined by the Supreme Court to be “constitutional”, the provinces must say clearly and publicly that ANY such laws (or court decisions) that put our energy grids or our food supply in jeopardy will be completely ignored. Full. Stop.

  12. Two thoughts on Smith.
    1/Isn’t she the one responsible for the demise of the Wild Rose party?
    2/To he favour. She was not a member of the Shit Head government.

    1. Exactly right. And she did a 180 on some of what her voters wanted then, and has now done a 180 and says she believes what the rural conservative wants/believes.

      This is a good step, but she fooled me once.

      1. @C_Miner “This is a good step, but she fooled me once.”

        More than fair, it’s also fair to accept that everyone can make a single mistake in their career, one that seemingly cost her political career forever, and then she worked hard to reform and rebuild trust deserving a chance to prove that mistake as a one off. I’d say so far pretty damned good with Danielle Smith………..

        Rags to riches, back to rags, build it back better, that’s True Grit.

        1. Paul, it wasn’t merely a single mistake, it was a FUBAR to end all FUBAR’s. And, she hasn’t built nearly as much trust as first blush would indicate.

          Alberta small-c conservatives are dying of thirst in this desert and are desperate to find anyone who presents as semi-conservative and half-reasonable. I’ve noted it before and will continue to do so: DS mouths the correct platitudes, but she stabbed people in the back once & the ensuing Commie experiment cost the people of this province hundreds of billions of $$$. Socially she is as Commie as Red Rachel. Do not trust her and hold her feet to the fire every moment of every day.

          True Grit is what Albertans have. DS is merely an opportunist.

          1. “Alberta small-c conservatives are dying of thirst in this desert” and deserve no better as long as they think the Western Standard is a serious source of news or the unvaccinated are victims of anything but their own bad judgement.

            “Socially she is as Commie as Red Rachel. ”

            WTF are you talking about?

          3. I’m with you DB. She has an election she needs to win, so throwing some red meat around is the order of the day.

            Let’s see what she does when she won’t have to answer to voters for 4 years.

      2. And the alternative is????? Red wretched Rachel? The other parties are clown parties so you have a choice.

        1. Joe, right now I don’t believe there is another choice. All I’m saying is, don’t go rushing into this with your eyes closed. Be very cautious & keep a tight grip on that leash. It’s not incumbent upon us to trust her. It’s up to her to earn our trust. She’s a long GD way to go, based on her history.

  13. Excellent news!
    This is a first step towards real independance for AB.
    They are starting to build a legal framework that will allow them to make a financial sector independant of the globalized feds, and a para-military “police” force to protect their interests.
    If AB thought it could separate just by having a referendum, just imagine how fast their available capital would be zeroed out by the feds, by fiat, and how fast military forces could be deployed to confiscate/nationalize “strategic assets vital to national security.”
    When QC threaten’s separation, its merely a somewhat hard-nosed negotiation tactic, that works pretty well, not a serious attempt at separation.
    AB has taken that first step to real independence, and I wish you all Godspeed.
    Don’t screw this up by voting in the NDP again as soon as things look good.

    1. I’m actually a little but not surprised at Liberal provinces response. Canada is after all a “Post National State” according to the Liberal haters. Would they have the same vitriol if Haaaaarper was again at the Federal helm and encroaching on their provincial constitutional rights – or – do they just love any form of authoritarian government control regardless of the flavor?

      1. I think we both know the answer to that.
        Globalist fascism = good, even if it impoverishes everyone, a feature not a bug.
        Independent states = bad, especially if it enriches everyone, becauswealthy people get uppity.
        Then again, wealthy people get decadent too, and go all trans-crazy and scared of people who don’t wear helmets on a motorbike, or scared to charge a freakin battery. There is no cure for the human condition, the best we can do is to leave us all alone and let us all get on with our lives, and maybe let a few Karens swing when they get out of hand, which is all the time now.

  14. As much as the NP has suffered from Coyne’s departure, Coyne has suffered far more. I think he needed to be in that environment for his own good. He is so much worse now for the bubble he’s been in since then.

  15. Most Canadians and the Federal Government need to remember their history lessons, which conveniently and sadly isn’t taught anymore, that Canada is a Confederation of Provinces, not a Federation. It escapes me why provincial and federal Conservatives don’t state this fact when berated by the socialist media.

    1. Canada is a Confederation of Provinces, not a Federation

      Is this not a distinction without much difference?

      In 1867, the Province of Canada (in existence from 1840), created a government super-structure referred to as the Dominion government. The head of the Dominion government effectively appoints all provincial LGs, the entire judiciary (excepting the petty provincial magistrates), and all regional representation in the upper house of the Dominion government.

      The 1867 constitution act carefully delineated provincial powers, and declared that anything not explicitly provincial is implicitly the exclusive jurisdiction of the Dominion government. Any doubts as to interpretation will be decided by a court appointed by the Dominion government. The Dominion government reserves the right (as specified in the constitution act 1867) to disallow any legislation from the provinces it disapproves of.

      The Dominion of Canada was designed (with significant impetus and direction from London) to be an imperial system. The empire was designed to extract the wealth, resources, and productivity of what was at the time known as British North America, for consumption at the privileged imperial centre.

  16. Next?
    Deputize every gun owner in Alberta,as..”As and when deputies”.
    Who voluntarily maintain the needed tools.
    Although a tax write off of these tools and their munitions would be nice.

    1. Yep.
      People’s militias = good.
      Standing armies = bad.
      I guess it all hinges on whose paying the troops, same it ever was.

  17. Won’t be long now I guess when tough guy Coyne takes his Douglas Macarthur hat and corn cob pipe out of the closet.

    1. Only because he pretends for a living.

      “Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.”

      Douglas MacArthur

  18. I’m now following Kate on Twitter. We all need to be trying to Wexit. It will come to this sooner or later.

    I prefer sooner.

  19. Coyne is yet another older dude who’s low testosterone, dying masculinity and lack of any physical presence has turned him into a whining bitch.

    1. He is currently being replaced by young, strong, virile “new Canadians” thronging to the GTA. He will be even more irrelevant in the coming years.

  20. But remember, Blackie didn’t want a fight. Guess what, asshole, it just got dumped right on your doorstep.

    If you fight this, you alienate even more folk. If you don’t, you enable it. HA!

    1. Junior’s kind doesn’t think in terms of “win-win”. Their mindset is an adversarial all or nothing. All for me, nothing for you. But he’s not as stupid as he usually looks or sounds. He’s quite cunning. If he has to burble warm fuzzy noises to temporize himself out of a sticky wicket, he will. But he has an entire government system on his payroll to use for his fights. It will be interesting to watch this proceed. The only thing I’m certain of is a Trudeau is never to be trusted, except to be trusted to do the worst possible thing. Always.

    2. Rather, he is doing what he has been told to do and shutting up while his handlers figure a way out of this.

      Like Justin would let Alberta be independent.

      1. Juthdin can jump, he can scream, he can rend his perfect hair, he can cry a river of crocodile tears, he can hide under his bed & hold his bref ’til he turns blue, he can go cuddle w/ Soapy while he sucks his thumb. He doesn’t have an f’ing choice in the matter. And neither does anyone else not living here.

        1. Be happy, but don’t count yer chickens before the eggs have hatched. You have a long slog of guarding the eggs and incubating them ahead of you.

          1. No worries. I ain’t taking nothing for granted. “A journey of 1000 miles begins with one step”.

        2. You forget that this is a dictatorship and that Justin can utilise the RCMP and the Chinese when he wants.

          1. Soon the King’s Horsemen will be persona non grata in Alberta. We’re going provincial police.

  21. The eastern media hasn’t figured out that a seismic shift has taken place in western politics. In the US it was the election of Trump. They never saw it coming. Their reaction was to denigrate Trump voters as uneducated rubes. Knuckle dragging mouth breathers.

    In Canada the discontent was focused by the Freedom convoy which resulted in the election of Poilievre. People are pissed. They are tired of the politics of the Bushes, Clinton’s and Obama. In Canada it’s the LPC and the Trudeau’s. If you don’t agree with the elites they are quick to call names.

    The Alberta Sovereignty Act comes about as an result of the dissatisfacation. It sends a direct message to the federal government that things have changed. We’re not prepared to do business as usual.

    Andrew Coyne is singing to the choir. He and his audience are stupefied. ‘What is it these people want,’ they dumbfoundedly ask.

    Things have changed. The discontented almost re-elected Trump. Yes they (he) screwed up in the mid terms but they haven’t gone away. They will coalesce behind a new leader.

    Confederation is changing in Canada. The western provinces are no longer content to be a handmaiden to quebek. Get used to it Canada, it’s happening.

    1. The ‘seismic shift’ is that conservatism is over. We’re never seeing another GOP president again in all likelihood.

      4. No, that is not what it means. It means increasing numbers of conservatives will cease recognising the legitimacy of the government. The US is sliding inexirably into ungovernability. Like Rome circa 410 AD. Or Pakistan today.

        There will be increasingly large swathes of the countryside where betamale soyboys from the “Fed” cannot travel in their official capacity, without an armed escort.

        Hey, how are those power stations that are starting to get attacked?

        When a large chunk if the country begins to realise they will never again receive political representation at the highest levels, they will go full Donbass on you.

  24. As I posted a couple of days ago about coyne, he’s praying for a confrontation, ain’t he? Wetting his pants in anticipation. Praying that his hateful little suggestion plants a seed. He’s just another MSM war monger stoking the fires of hatred.

    1. I guess the po faced yob didn’t know the plant was growing for years.. put him on the front lines within throwing distance.

    1. Remember when Harper got rid of the gun registry? He introduced a bill and brought it to a vote in the HoC.

      The ndp opposed the bill. Tom Mulcair wanted to keep the firearms registry. The ndp member from Thunder Bay Bruce Hyer voted with the conservatives. Mulcair kicked him out of the ndp caucus.

      The lesson here is: don’t trust the ndp. If this ever comes to a vote windbags like Charlie Angus will turtle. Bet on it.

  28. So Preston, in 1987 you said you didn’t want to use “the hammer”. A reference to a UDI.
    The one and only thing you intentionally accomplished was to deflect western alienation down a road with the bridge washed out, and now we find ourselves 35 years later still in the same struggle.
    Saddens me to think about all the younger folks who know none of that history.
    Repeating history?
    Not if we throw all our efforts behind provincial goals.
    I pray DS stays true to her rhetoric.

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