And Jessica Dale-Walker, Liberal candidate for Calgary Nose Hill seems to agree.
Oops! Someone didn’t lock their Twitter down quickly enough: #EXCLUSIVE The Liberal candidate for Calgary Nose Hill Jessica Dale-Walker suggested on her personal Twitter account last year that those who were the first to take the then-newly-developed COVID-19 vaccine were “entitled” and “guinea pigs.” #cdnpoli
… to explain to Canadians that Quebec unilaterally amending the whole of the Canadian Constitution is quite fine with him and his party. And his logic was impeccable. It amounted to declaring it OK because it is Quebec that is proposing the amendment.
h/t PaulHarveyPage2
PAGING SCOTT MOE: Quebec can unilaterally modify part of the Canadian Constitution, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday.
h/t Lev
Liberals have leveraged their illegitimate position by sending money from wealthiest provinces, through grants and equalization payments, to their Liberal strongholds. […]
But the extent of this giveaway to Quebec and notably Atlantic Canada is greater than most people realize, according to a recent article in Halifax’s Chronicle Herald by David Mackinnon, a former civil servant in Nova Scotia and Ontario. He was born in P.E.I. and has been a senior fellow at the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies in Halifax.
He warns Atlantic Canadians that their “bubble” is about to burst because it is unsustainable. This warning is timely considering Alberta is about to hold a referendum demanding changes in equalization transfers this fall. Confederation’s other “sugar daddy” Ontario should do the same.
Mackinnon, however, points out that equalization transfers are only a quarter of the money that the federal government has shovelled into Canada’s poorest provinces.
h/t Paul Harvey pg2
Under the younger Trudeau’s administrations, a perfect storm of destabilizing factors has struck the country. Rampant immigration from third-world nations, predominantly Muslim, has led to sporadic terror attacks, ghettoization, and a depletion of public funds. A punitive and unnecessary carbon tax looks likely to eviscerate the farming community, hamstring commerce and industry, and severely impact ordinary households. Radical feminism has taken root not only in public schools and universities but in the governing cabinet as well, leading to decisions based on ideology rather than pragmatism.
Somebody, get us out of this place.
(h/t Larry)
What is this man thinking? Let us totally forget this attempt to juggle with levy as not a tax. It is a tax and that’s all there is to it. Secondly the notion that should he win government he will put the money from the “levy” into a special customer account and then dictate what you’re allowed to spend it on — solar panels are good, bread is off the list — is a special kind of madness.
Update: Lorne Gunter concurs.
The federal Conservatives revealed their climate plan on Thursday and proposing a $20-per-tonne carbon price — lower than the Liberals’.
The plan is a major shift in policy, as the party has previously threatened to scrap the program introduced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in 2018.
Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole announced the climate policy Thursday morning, saying “Canadians cannot afford Trudeau’s carbon tax.”
Tar. Feathers. Some assembly required.
Western MPs I spoke to this morning tell me that they learned about it all in the news. O’Toole never had the approval from his caucus – let alone his party – for such a flip-flop.
British voters’ attitudes are hardening against the European Union in the wake of the clashes between London and Brussels over coronavirus vaccines that have marked the 100 days since the U.K. completed its divorce from the bloc.
A new Bloomberg poll shows support for Brexit has grown since the historic 2016 referendum, and almost two-thirds of adults believe that being outside the EU helped the U.K.’s vaccination program to succeed.
To suggest that by holding the balance of power in Ottawa we might persuade Hamilton and Toronto MPs to give up the status quo and help us become full partners is, with all due respect, foolish and is raising false hopes in a lot of good people. One need not study much history to come to the conclusion that power has never, ever, been known to give itself up! It can only be wrestled away.
Wayne Ratzlaff, in 1987: Shun The Three Headed Monster1 (pdf)
Take a look at a couple of sentences about climate change that appeared Thursday concerning the Supreme Court of Canada’s ruling on the carbon tax.
Here’s one: “It is a threat of the highest order to the country, and indeed to the world.” And here’s another: “The undisputed existence of a threat to the future of humanity cannot be ignored.”
Who do you think produced these lines: Did they come from Greta Thunberg’s Twitter account? Or maybe they’re excerpts of a Greenpeace Canada press release? A statement from a Green Party MP, perhaps?
Nope. These theatrical flourishes were from the SCOC ruling itself. Right there in the text of the majority decision that ruled the federal government does indeed have the right to run roughshod over provincial jurisdiction and impose a carbon tax on provinces against their will. […]
Yet here we are seeing that language used by the highest court in the land in the text of a major ruling. And they’re not using this language as an aside. They’re using it as the crux of why they’re siding with the feds and doing what they acknowledge is the rare occurrence of rolling out the Peace, Order and Good Government clause as their legal justification.
We need a new country.
Western Canadian politicians are still deaf, dumb and blind to the fact that what came for oil and gas is coming for agriculture;
A push on the perceived urgency to deal with climate change is being promoted by John F. Kerry, special presidential envoy for climate, in an interview with “CBS This Morning,” February 19, 2021. He said “the scientists told us three years ago that we had 12 years to avert the worst consequences of the climate crisis. We are now three years gone, so we have nine years left.”
With climate change being the 800-pound gorilla in the room, one of the drum beats is to reduce animal agriculture’s contribution to greenhouse gases (GHG) by reducing the numbers of beef cattle. The Western Watersheds Project, a nonprofit environmental conservation group founded in 1993, is an advocate for a reduction in beef consumption in our diets. The reduced beef consumption would require fewer acres of land devoted to producing food and fiber for beef cattle. However, much of the land devoted to grazing is utilizing a resource that humans cannot consume (grasses).
It’s why the eco-Marxist Trudeau Liberals seem impervious to arguments that the escalating carbon tax will destroy western Canadian grain and beef production — it’s not a bug. It’s a feature.
@ConceptualJames — One of the harder things to do with the doctrine coming from the left right now is to stop thinking of it as “insane” and start realizing it is meant to be strategic toward a terrible purpose.
Live now. (click the listen live button at top right)
– will bring Sask Power and SaskEnergy under provincial rule, backdated to Jan 2019
– Sask will develop own carbon tax scheme similar to NB
– will develop carbon credit/offset system in province
– will ask feds to assist in developing small modular nuclear power generation
– ask feds to provide Sask with “fair share”of funding under some federal low carbon fund
Not sure this is going to calm the get the fuck out of Canada community.
… and a new computer.
My twelve year old desktop died last night, and that leaves me with a twitchy old laptop as backup. Blogging will be slow at my end until Lance can perform transplant surgery on the old box, or failing that, I have to buy a new one. Ugh. Not so good.
Until then, you’re in the capable hands of the guest bloggers and our new constitutional subordination to the “national interest”. Rage on.
Already in a fight to keeps it’s air traffic control tower, the Regina Airport Authority could now be facing the possibility of losing it’s “international” designation.
M.P for Regina-Wascana, Michael Kram, said a Transport Canada document he obtained listing 13 international airports, did not include either Regina or Saskatoon.
Kram says it would be very concerning from a number of standpoints for Saskatchewan airports to lose “international” status.
“It is a big concern because it will hurt our city and it’s ability to attract new businesses,” Kram said. “It will also make it more difficult for families to fly down to sunny destinations in the winter, this would make us look more like a backwater destination, instead of an international city,” he added.
Kram says the term “international” is much more than just an honorary title.
Rex Murphy asks the question Jason Kenney seemingly won’t;
Of all the powers and countries and issues and crises in the world at the present moment, is it not utterly unimaginable that at the top of what Joe Biden is pleased to call his mind is a projected pipeline to Alberta? That on his very first day he drew out the sword of an executive order to slay thousands of jobs in his own country and its closest ally?
Were I in Alberta today I guess I’d be standing just a little taller knowing I was a Canadian, part of a great federation that stands up — vigorous, alert, and always willing to fight — when my province and its citizens are being bullied and injured by any power, including the United States of America.
I’ll drop the irony, instanter. Were I an Albertan today I’d actually be asking: What’s the point? Why are we in this thing? When will it ever stop? Does anyone in Ottawa have any idea of where this is driving us?
h/t PaulHarveyPage2
Fuel shortages loom in Ontario, Quebec if Michigan’s governor succeeds in shutting down pipeline
Ontario politicians are increasingly alarmed at the prospect of thousands of job losses in the coming months and fuel shortages in the province if Michigan succeeds in shutting down Enbridge Inc.’s Line 5 pipeline.
The mayor of Sarnia, a southern Ontario city that’s home to three refineries and multiple petrochemical plants, says the city faces potentially 5,000 job losses as Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has served Enbridge with notice the state is cancelling a decades old easement allowing its Line 5 pipeline, which runs from Western Canada to Michigan and southern Ontario, to cross the Straits of Mackinac through the Great Lakes.
Western Canadians can send a note of support and encouragement to the Governor here.
h/t Buddy
Anne Phair was having some coffee with some friends one day, back when you could still do that. They were talking about the federal carbon tax. Anne said, “I was talking to some friends, most of which don’t actually own their own businesses, and one was talking about how her grandma got some money back and she doesn’t ever get money back. And she was so surprised and I’m like, ‘Yeah, that was my money.’”
Twenty-five years ago today, Quebec came within a small margin of separating from Canada.
Let us know when you actually plan to fight back.
— Dan Tappin 🇨🇦 (@dantappin) October 13, 2020
