Category: Western Separatism

Go, Already

Western Separatism 107 Comments

Quote of the Century from Chris Selley – 100% of Canadians know for a fact what this country would look like if the oil sands were in Quebec.

We don’t share the same country. Why do we continue to pretend?

I Want A New Country

Cold Dead Hands Western Separatism You Might Be A Liberal 201 Comments

Your open thread on the just announced Trudeau gun grab and instant criminalization of thousands of law abiding Canadians by Order in Council.

(Unless you’re First Nations and use these “military firearms which are only designed to kill people” to hunt, in which case — carry on.)

Keep the language clean.

I Want A New Country

Western Separatism 59 Comments

It’s not just about resources, equalization, and carbon taxes. We’d also shed ourselves of crap like this;

The Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities says it is “appalled” by Health Canada’s decision to move forward with a ban on the use of the deadly pesticide strychnine to kill gophers.
 
Health Canada says an evaluation of scientific information confirms there are risks to other animals, including species at risk, for products registered to control Richardson’s ground squirrels.
 
In 2018, Health Canada cited concerns about animals including the swift fox and the burrowing owl in its proposal. Gophers, which burrow underground, can damage crops and their burrows can injure livestock. Health Canada says it made the decision after reviewing comments from agriculture groups, governments, environmental groups and members of the general public.
 
SARM president Ray Orb said the decision is based on “anecdotal assumptions, not recent research.” According to SARM, a 2019 study showed that “despite a large number of non-target species present, death from strychnine was limited to only four deer mice.”
 
Orb said SARM “will take all steps needed to have the decision overturned or at minimum have our producers compensated for any crop damage due to gophers.”

Plus, the Department of Oceans and Fisheries plus the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change plus…

Dead Country Walking

Shiny Pony Western Separatism 57 Comments

Berkshire bails;

Warren Buffett’s investment company Berkshire Hathaway has decided not to invest $4 billion in a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant by the Saguenay port, according to Radio-Canada.
 
The marine terminal to ship LNG to overseas markets is slated to be built roughly 230 kilometres northeast of Quebec City, at a cost of $9.5 billion.
 
News broke Thursday morning in La Presse that Berkshire Hathaway was walking away from the project.
 
Stéphanie Fortin, head of communications for the company behind the project, GNL Québec, confirmed the company had lost a significant potential investor, but did not want to say who it is.
 
She did say, however, that the company lost the investor because of the “current Canadian political context.”

I Want A New Country

Western Separatism 75 Comments

Change their minds, Alberta.

An Alberta government panel examining how best to achieve greater autonomy for the province is also asking the public if they support separation.
 
The province’s “fair deal” panel, which was formed last fall as part of Premier Jason Kenney’s push for a new relationship with Canada, has been gauging public support for a range of ideas, such as the creation of a provincial pension plan and increased control over natural resources. An online survey posted late last week added another: separation.
 
Members of the panel say many people who attended a series of town halls in recent months raised the prospect of separation and that needs to be reflected in their work. But they say they don’t have any intention of recommending that the government seriously consider going down that road.

Somebody find me the link to that survey, please.

Thanks to commentors: it’s here. That said, don’t do anything that will delegitimize the survey, as you know the detractors will be looking for exactly that excuse.

Calling Captain Dialogue!

Shiny Pony We Are All Treaty People Western Separatism 30 Comments

Where is the Shiny One these days, anyway?

The rail barricade on a train bridge over Wellington Street [Montreal] comes after hereditary chiefs and senior ministers of the federal and British Columbia governments struck a proposed agreement on land rights.
 
The group behind the protest, called Southwest Solidarity With Wet’suwet’en, said in a statement the action is due to the presence of RCMP and the Coastal GasLink pipeline on the territory in northern B.C.
 
“We are blocking this rail line in response to the call from Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs to support Indigenous sovereignty and in recognition of the urgency of stopping resource extraction projects threatening future generations,” said Sara Mullins, a participant in the protest.

Related? Man Arrested For Suspected Arson After CN Rail Building Burns

My money’s on publication ban.

Wexit Saskatchewan

Western Separatism 24 Comments

A new provincial party takes shape.

In a livestream announcement on the VoteWexit.com Facebook Group, lead
registration coordinator, Eric Wall has announced that the application for
official party registration was delivered to Elections Saskatchewan late
last week.
 
The efforts involved in the registration process managed to gather nearly
1,100 more signatures than what was required to apply – the total signature
count for the application was 3, 599.
 
Wall also stated that the application process should be complete within a
couple weeks and the official word should be posted on the Elections
Saskatchewan website after the approval has been given.

As I predicted.

I Want A New Country

Shiny Pony Western Separatism 88 Comments

Rex Murphy:

Teck Resources’ announcement that it is shelving its proposed Frontier oilsands mine is a political earthquake. It is the capstone of this government’s anti-oil and anti-Alberta policies. It shows that the turbulence of the past three weeks is about to be surpassed by something larger.
 
The cancellation follows the West Coast tanker ban, the stalled Trans Mountain and the Coastal GasLink pipelines, the rejection of Energy East and the dense thicket of always swelling regulations, assessments, protests and court cases. Teck is the last of a dark chain of projects that have been scrapped or strangled, which has resulted in billions of dollars being chased away from the country and tens of thousands of jobs aborted, while the Trudeau government danced and chattered away with its useless crusade against carbon-dioxide emissions. Rarely, if ever, has folly been granted such total rein, and incompetence a wider playground.

Dead Country Walking

The Libranos Western Separatism 75 Comments

Canada is presently in the throes of social and political disintegration. A left-leaning electorate has once again empowered a socialist government promoting all the lunatic ideological shibboleths of the day: global warming or “climate change,” radical feminism, indigenous sovereignty, expansionary government, environmental strangulation of energy production, and the presumed efficiency of totalitarian legislation. Industry and manufacturing are abandoning the country in droves and heading south.

Canada is now reaping the whirlwind.

I Want A New Country

We Are All Treaty People Western Separatism 62 Comments

Police move in…

A blockade south of Montreal that halted rail traffic and frayed nerves since Wednesday was abandoned late Friday after riot police arrived to enforce a court injunction.

The roughly two dozen protesters, acting in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs contesting a British Columbia natural gas pipeline, had begun dismantling the encampment earlier in the evening following discussions with police.

They took downs tents and carried items such as sleeping bags, pots, propane tanks and a wood stove to the edge of a security perimeter established earlier in the day by Longueuil municipal police.

… a day late and a billion short: Coastal GasLink’s final report has been rejected by B.C.’s Environmental Assessment Office.Construction in #Wetsuweten territory can’t proceed without this approval, and stands to be delayed by several months.
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State Of The Nation

Shiny Pony We Are All Treaty People Western Separatism You Might Be A Liberal 75 Comments

Pretty much.

Remember now — the government doesn’t order the police after their enemies. That would be dangerous.

In the unlikely case that you haven’t figured this out on your own: This is Trudeau’s mob. They’re advancing his policy goals as surely as if he were directing their activities personally. If he didn’t want these blockades and disruptions, he’d stop them. But he does, so he won’t.

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.

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