Category: Western Separatism

I Want A New Country

Cold Dead Hands Western Separatism 57 Comments

Family endures heavily-armed RCMP takedown on Alberta farm

“I’m a guy with a young family. I teach piano for a living, I’m not a drug-dealing thug,” the 29-year-old told Postmedia on Wednesday.
 
“I thought they were going to kill my wife, my kids and I. Every time I close my eyes, I see a gun pointed at my head.”
 
In a statement from RCMP, which said they will provide “no further commentary” on the incident, the force said the tactics used were in response to the seriousness of the complaint.

h/t to Larry, who has more to say.

This isn’t the first such incident. It won’t be the last. If the mother, father and two toddlers were killed. Then there might be an apology and officers reassigned. But just as Premier Jason Kenny refuses to address the High River incident. This will be smoothed over and the RCMP and Crown Prosecutor’s will go to every length to get a conviction on anything, no matter how small to justify this SWAT team raid.
 
A few years ago, a pest control officer for the Town of Foam Lake came very close to being shot be an RCMP officer. How many cases don’t make the news ? That is a state secret ! Gun control is just one of the federal gov’t. steps for removing “settlers” from rural Canada, and, I’d argue, bringing into effect P.M. Justin Trudeau’s stated goal of making Canada, the first post nation-state.

David DeWolfe’s cell phone video here.

I Want A New Country

Drill, Baby, Drill Western Separatism You Might Be A Liberal 163 Comments

Scheer climate plan would encompass more big polluters, require investments as penalty

A portion of Scheer’s plan, obtained by CBC News, would compel facilities that produce 40 kilotonnes of emissions or more per year to invest in green tech. The Trudeau government’s current rules impose emission caps on firms that emit more than 50 kilotonnes per year.
 
Scheer will outline his party’s much-anticipated environmental policy at a speech in Quebec on Wednesday. The Liberals have criticized him for taking such a long time to release a climate plan; Scheer was elected leader of the Conservative Party in May 2017. […]
 
In 2017, the 1,622 facilities monitored by Environment Canada’s GHG Reporting Program accounted for 292 megatonnes of emissions — 41 per cent of Canada’s total, according to Environment Canada. The oil and gas sector was responsible for more than a third of those emissions.
 
Mining and oil and gas have been the only sectors to increase emissions since 2005.

Coulda had Max.

Related: Limousine Liberal Catherine McKenna’s “climate emergency” hypocrisy

h/t A Canadian, Nancy Ross

I Want A New Country

Shiny Pony Western Separatism 40 Comments

Brad Wall;

There is a great economic risk to Canada’s resource sector if Prime Minister Justin Trudeau barrels ahead with this new mess. Sadly, one gets the sense that no matter how beset the feds are with well-considered challenges to C-69 — the latest of which came so compellingly from new Alberta Premier Jason Kenney — they do not want to hear the ends of any of their critics’ sentences.
 
More serious still is what Bill C-69 and yet another parliamentary peach, Bill C-48, the B.C. tanker ban, will do to national unity if they become the law of the land.

I Want A New Country

Ethical Energy Western Separatism 62 Comments

Let me ask, if you were a Western Canadian, and your own government put in laws that stop you from being able to “use your head and your feet” to doing something for the world that you see as a great thing, how would you think, feel and SEE things? What would you think or feel if you SEE that your own federal government didn’t support you, forgets about you, or doesn’t really care about you?

It’s a long and detailed blog post. so grab a coffee.

I Want A New Country

Western Separatism 66 Comments

So pay attention.

Western Canada is experiencing a rising tide of resentment toward the rest of the country amidst political battles over pipelines, emissions and equalization payments, with a majority in Alberta and Saskatchewan now saying they get so little out of Confederation that they might as well leave.
 
That’s according to a massive new survey from the Environics Institute, which confirms a widespread impression that Western alienation has gotten worse since Justin Trudeau became Prime Minister. Add a persistent malaise in Atlantic Canada, and the survey depicts an uneasy Confederation on the heels of its 150th anniversary.
 
The poll, which asked more than 5,000 people about their attitudes toward the country between December and January, found a federation feeling more provincial. The proportion of Canadians who said their province or region is important to their sense of self rose from 69 per cent to 77 per cent in the past decade and a half, even as talk of Quebec separatism has cooled.

I have a habit of being a woman ahead of my time.

Related.

I Want A New Country

Climate Cult Ethical Energy Western Separatism 33 Comments

From the comments;

Good news for anti pipeline activists. Groper has stuck it to Alberta again. Our little prince has appointed a female MP from B.C. to the position of Treasury Board president. She is an avid environmentalist who hates pipelines and was vocal in caucus in her opposition to pipelines. She also was behind oil tanker bans when serving as a provincial cabinet minister.

Update.

I Want A New Country

Ethical Energy Western Separatism 59 Comments

Lorne Gunter;

After the death of Energy East, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) decided to file access to information requests with the federal government asking whether foreign oil imported to Canada was subject to the new upstream/downstream scrutiny.
 
The answer, revealed Wednesday, is outrageous.
 
Imported foreign oil is not subject to the same Liberal environmental regulations as Western Canadian oil.
 
Oil imported from Saudi Arabia, the U.S., Iraq or any other country is not subject to upstream/downstream regs.

United We Roll

Ethical Energy Western Separatism 81 Comments

Updated:

The United We Roll convoy has reached Ottawa;

Hundreds of trucks are expected to roll into Ottawa Tuesday to protest the federal government’s policies on the oil industry.
 
The main portion of the United We Roll Convoy set out from Red Deer, Alta., last Thursday and made stops in Regina, Dryden, Thunder Bay, and Sault Ste. Marie before mustering at Arnprior, Ont., just outside the capital.
 

The rally is expected to occupy almost a kilometre of Wellington Street, in front of Parliament.

Those aren’t oil trucks. Those are Reichstag Fire trucks.

Meanwhile, in Juxtaposeland…

https://twitter.com/RachelCrossUTK/status/1097526170013306883

I Want A New Country

Ethical Energy Western Separatism 24 Comments

If you’re still wondering…

… why oil-rich Alberta doesn’t have a massive sovereign wealth fund like Norway, consider this.
 
Alberta is a province, not a country. Ergo, we don’t get to keep all the wealth we generate in this province. Not even close.
 
I realize this runs counter to the preferred narrative in Canada, where politicians and media types insist Alberta either “put all its eggs in one basket” by failing to diversify its economy (hello Christy Clark), or that Albertans “spent like drunken sailors” during boom times.
 
Sure, there’s some truth to those arguments. But the far bigger reason why Alberta isn’t rolling in filthy lucre is that we are part of a federation called Canada.

Like Father, Like Son

Baiting The Left The Libranos Western Separatism You Might Be A Liberal 65 Comments

Justine and the Lieberals are convinced that Albertans are stupid. They’ve convinced themselves that Alberta can forever be treated as a welfare province, dependent on Daddy Ottawa-bucks to keep them afloat:

On top of killing Northern Gateway, Kenney also points out that Trudeau’s government “also killed the Energy East pipeline, further land-locking Alberta’s resources.”

By having nowhere to go, Alberta’s oil is selling at a huge discount compared with the benchmark West Texas Intermediate — and actually fell to a devastating $11 per barrel last month. Premier Rachel Notley announced that starting in January oil output will be curtailed, which immediately helped raise Alberta oil prices, but the differential is still huge, costing the Canadian economy about $80 million every day.

In other words, the differential, caused by a lack of pipelines (which is a federal responsibility) will cost $1.6 billion in just 20 days. Put that in your government’s cancelled pipes, Minister Sohi.

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