Category: Western Separatism

I Want A New Country

CPC Leadership Saskatchewan Party Shiny Pony Western Separatism 52 Comments

Brian Lilley;

Mark Gerretsen represents the Ontario riding of Kingston and the Islands. It’s a long way from Fort McMurray but that isn’t stopping the Liberal MP from not only opposing the project but spending money, perhaps your money, to shut it down.
 
Gerretsen has posted on Facebook about a petition put forward by the Queen’s University Liberals, and sponsored in the House by Gerretsen, to reject the proposal.
 
“We, the undersigned, citizens of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to reject the proposal to build the Teck Resources Frontier Oilsands Mine in Alberta as it is not in the best interest of Canadians,” the petition reads.
 
Isn’t this the equivalent of an Alberta MP asking the federal government to shut down Ontario’s manufacturing sector? Or calling for a stop to all the tax breaks to Toronto’s film productions? That wouldn’t go over too well in Ontario and this won’t go over well in Alberta.

I’ve been in a paint booth all day, so instead of trying to play catch up on today’s Trudeau debacle and his open shunning of Western Canada, this is an open thread for those topics, plus anything else that makes you want to yell at Scott Moe to stop wasting our time and interests on this neverending shit show.

It’s not going to get better. A Conservative government in Ottawa won’t make it better. Move on. Get the ball rolling on a decoupling strategy now, lest the SaskParty find itself competing with a third option in the next provincial election.

Related.

I Want A New Country

Western Separatism 94 Comments

Merci!

The Bloc Quebecois will introduce a motion in Parliament Tuesday calling on the government to kill the proposed Frontier Teck mine in northern Alberta, the Western Standard has learned. Bloc leader Yves-François Blanchet will introduce a motion: “That the House call on the government to not authorize the Teck Frontier mine development, as this project can not be reconciled with the Paris Agreement targets.”

Sorry, link fixed.

We Are All Treaty People

Shiny Pony We Are All Treaty People Western Separatism You Might Be A Liberal 130 Comments

How’s that Liberal government workin’ out for ya?

Businesses and homes across Atlantic Canada are days away from running out of propane as a result of anti-pipeline protests that have cut off rail links across Canada.
 
Ian Wilson, president of Halifax-based Wilson Fuel, said his company is rationing propane by partially filling customers’ tanks.
 
“If we just filled everybody’s tank on delivery, we’d be looking at outages today,” he said in an interview Friday.

Question: If you’re stuck in traffic during an illegal protest, will police still ticket you for sending a text?

With that question asked and answered, I believe it’s time for our own blockade. No more voluntary fine payments: take every parking ticket, every traffic violation, every petty bylaw infraction to court until the police, politicians, and judiciary in this country agree to return to work.

I Want A New Country

Drill, Baby, Drill Western Separatism 71 Comments

Post Millenial;

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has held discussions with the Senegalese President Macky Sall over a partnership that could offer “attractive growth potential” in the oil and gas sector for the West African country.
 
Justin Trudeau has been on a world tour in an attempt to garner support for a seat at the United Nation’s security council. Trudeau was in Africa last week, where he granted a $10 million package to empower African women.
 
Trudeau’s willingness to engage in foreign oil and gas projects may come as a surprise to Canadians who have seen the prime minister fail to intervene in illegal blockades over the building of a pipeline in Northern British Columbia.

Speaking of illegal blockades, Saskatchewan’s own man of inaction has popped his head out from under the desk to send a strongly worded tweet.

“We need action now”.

We’re just fucking doomed.

I Want A New Country

Climate Cult Ethical Energy Shiny Pony Western Separatism 89 Comments

Life under the surrender of law;

J.J. Ruest, the president and CEO of CN Rail, said in a statement Tuesday the railway has no choice but to temporarily shutter “significant” parts of its network because blockades by Indigenous protesters near Belleville, Ont., and New Hazelton, B.C., have made train movements in the rest of the country all but impossible.
 
“We are currently parking trains across our network, but due to limited available space for such, CN will have no choice but to temporarily discontinue service in key corridors unless the blockades come to an end,” Ruest said.
 
Ruest said the protests threaten industry across the country, including the transport of food and consumer items, grain, de-icing fluid at airports, construction materials, propane to Quebec and Atlantic Canada, and natural resources like lumber, aluminum and coal.

Anthony Furey: A judge warned us in 2013 that endless blockades were coming to Canada

So the courts have ruled that the protesters must leave. It’s the job of the police to enforce the law. But the police have instead made a choice to not enforce the law and are instead “monitoring the situation” and “maintaining a dialogue”. Meanwhile, the Ontario Solicitor General’s office, which is responsible for the OPP, shirked responsibility by simply telling Postmedia that “the Minister cannot direct police operations”.
 
This is far from the first time law enforcement in Ontario has failed to do their job. In fact, an Ontario Superior Court judge even issued a stark warning several years ago about what would happen if this contempt for court injunctions on the part of the police continues.

I trust the gun rights people are watching and taking notes.

All this as Shiny Pony hopscotches around the globe with his personal photographer, throwing money from the plane.

I Want A New Country

Shiny Pony Western Separatism 112 Comments

Yes, it would create some problems. But it would solve the big one.

Alberta MPs launched a counter attack on Thursday after a report surfaced Liberal MPs have been pleading with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to give the thumbs down to a new oil sands project.
 
The Teck Frontier mine in northern Alberta would create thousands of jobs and add hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil into the province’s economy.
 
Alberta MPs launched a counter attack on Thursday after a report surfaced Liberal MPs have been pleading with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to give the thumbs down to a new oil sands project.

Whatcha waiting for, Justin? Go for it.

Oh, and check the replies to this Andrew Coyne tweet.

Here’s a teaser.

I Want A New Country

Western Separatism 38 Comments

If Saskatchewan and Alberta were to leave Canada, the skies above become our airspace. Just saying.

Related: Blocking Prairie oil is not about the environment. And neither is it about safety. It’s all about politics and control

I Want A New Country

Western Separatism You Might Be A Liberal 38 Comments

Feckless: Paying up comes easy when it’s somebody else’s money

The Senate of Canada will not appeal a court ruling that found the upper house violated a francophone man’s language rights by utilizing English-only push-buttons on Parliament Hill drinking fountains.
 
The Federal Court last week ordered the Senate to pay former public servant Michel Thibodeau $1,500 in damages and to cover his $700 in court costs.
 
Mr. Thibodeau complained in 2016 that water fountains in the hallways of Parliament Hill’s East Block – which houses some Senate offices and committee rooms and is open for public tours during the summer – required thirsty folk to push a metal button embossed with the word “push.”
 
Some even included that instruction in braille, but none included the French word “poussez.”

I Want A New Country

Western Separatism You Might Be A Liberal 75 Comments

Why it’s Stephen Maher, Liberalsplainin!

After an election that turned out badly for them, angry Albertans and Saskatchewanians have been complaining about the transfer of money to other parts of the country.
 
They point out that Albertans foot the bills—paying in $240 billion more than they received in benefits over the last 11 years. It’s too much, they say. Enough is enough. It’s time to reform equalization. Some angry, unrealistic people are even using it as argument to take Alberta and Saskatchewan out of Canada and start a new country.
 
I have been waiting in vain for someone, like the prime minister, for example, to point out that this way of looking at the country—as if it is a piggybank into which some provinces make payments and other provinces make withdrawals—misses the point about what it should mean to be a Canadian.

Well, if equalization doesn’t really exist, as Maher’s tortured argument tries to claim, let’s just kill it.

I Want A New Country

Western Separatism 40 Comments

Silence yourselves, colonists. Your new Overseer has arrived to set things straight.

The North Vancouver MP’s new job in the environment portfolio comes with a more prominent profile after an election where climate change was a top-of-mind issue for voters, but also laid bare some of the deepest political divides Canada has ever faced.
 
The task ahead involves rapidly ramping up Canada’s ambition to cut emissions and transition the economy away from fossil fuels without letting the energy-based economies of Alberta and Saskatchewan collapse.

Mighty thoughtful of them.

Let The Eastern Bastards Freeze In The Dark

Western Separatism 34 Comments

Not strong enough, Mr. Kenney.

“We have technology that could guarantee you constant, stable access to propane and other fuels. They’re called pipelines,” he said.
 
“If the government of Quebec is concerned about reliable access to propane and other fuels … then we have a very simple message for the government of Quebec: help us build additional pipeline capacity.”
 
The comments come after Legault called for an end to the Canadian National (CN) Railway strike, saying the province’s supply of propane will run out in a matter of days.
 
The Quebec government is rationing the remaining supply of its propane.
 
Legault also called on the federal government to consider back-to-work legislation, if need be.
 
Kenney said that Quebec would not need to rely on storage and rationing if there was a way to “ship in” fossil fuels through a pipeline.

The strike will end, the propane will resume flowing, and the status quo will return as though nothing had ever happened.

Try this next time, Mr. Premier — “This is Quebec’s opportunity to transition to a fossil fuel free economy — and they can count on us to assist in that.”

Related. (h/t Watcher)

Let The Eastern Bastards Freeze In The Dark

Ethical Energy Western Separatism 80 Comments

Don’t think of it as “shortfall”.

With the CN strike about to enter day three, the president of the Canadian Propane Association (CPA) says the province of Quebec is about to enter into a crisis situation, with Ontario not far behind.
 
Quebec heavily relies on the the railroad to bring its supply of propane — 83 per cent is transported via the rail line. In Canada, overall, 63 per cent of propane moves on the tracks, with the remainder transported by truck.
 
According to Nathalie St-Pierre, president and CEO of the CPA, by the end of the day on Wednesday, 80 per cent of Quebec’s propane reserve will be used up. […]
 
The supply shortfall is being caused by numerous factors — demand spikes from cold weather, farmers needing to dry grain, and a rail strike that has yet to be resolved.
 
St-Pierre can’t recall the last time an accumulation of factors have caused such a shortfall of the product.

Think of it as practice.

Shiny Marquis De Blackface

2019 Federal Election Political Animal Shiny Pony Western Separatism 80 Comments

Has appointed his new cabinet. (link fixed)
 
Of note: Climate Barbie has been demoted to Minister of Bike Lanes, with Jonathan Wilkinson taking that portfolio.

Saskatoon-raised Liberal MP Jonathan Wilkinson, a former advisor to Premier Roy Romanow and leader of the Saskatchewan Young New Democrats, has been named federal environment minister.
 
Wilkinson was first elected to the House of Commons in 2015, representing the riding of North Vancouver.

Plus gun grabber Bill Blair takes over the Gun Grabbing Portfolio.

So, we’re doomed. Thread open.

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