Niall Ferguson gives our sorry situation context that has sadly been missing. Canada was always a lesser partner in NorthAmerica just as Scotland to Great Britain. And the liberals exploited Canadian gullibility to steal our 2024 election.
More like the Conservatives frittered away the election when an actual adult entered the equation. PP couldn’t pivot and didn’t know what else to do. Nothing was stolen.
MC Elbozo threw the CBC a ideal bone to chew on, misplaced patriotism. Then stole the conservatives platform of resource extraction and development. And promised to outspend the NDP, by mortgaging our grandchildren's future.
Your boy PP couldn’t even win his own seat, can’t blame that on the CBC. But if you can’t understand the difference between spending and investing, then there is no point in discussing this any further.
Apparently you're not very good at doing your homework. Or you only hear and remember what suits your political views. How Mark Carney stole his seat from the Conservative encumbant was SICKENING. How Pierre lost his seat by the Liberals reconfiguring the original boundaries of his riding JUST IN TIME FOR THE ELECTION was nothing but pure desperation by the LIEBERALS!! Too bad these socialist psychopaths haven't got the balls to own up to their BS!!!
No conspiracy in what Sandra wrote there... all fact. Gerrymandering is real, and that's what happened to the PP seat... not that it matters now... that was set straight. What is of the utmost importance, Kevin, is the complete fallacy that Carney is a leader in any way but for his wallet and the good people of Brookfield. There isn't any deal to speak of with the US. He is now hedging those bets and false promises in deals with China and other nation-states that we would never do business with under any circumstances... except we have no choice now. Nothing like sticking to Liberal talking points at all costs....never answer any quesitons and never respond to any questions from the opposition. But you keep those elbows up Kevin....while the bread lines stretch past 2 million per month!!!
You liberal communist trolls always throw that shit out without trlling the truth because hou only knos how to lie. PPcs riding was purposely redrawn by the great blackfaced turd to take away the conservative part and load it with liberal government workers, and then the interference ran by the pathetic long ballot idiots, had bogh of those not happened he would have regained that seat. Facts always elude you leftist tossers..fucking troll.
Do tell - what did Canadians get for the Liberals ten years of “investments”, and $1.2 trillion in debt? “MEESTER speaker we are not spending, we are investing” 😬
How sad, the Liberals were at the ballot boxes forcing people to mark an X for the liberal candidate. Steal? More like Pierre Poilievre couldn't deliver the goods. You sound like the American figure skaters complaining about scoring. Time to grow up.
The audiences condescending laughter in the beginning at the expense of Trump says it all. Canadians place themselves somewhere above Trump and look at him and the people who voted for him with contempt. Trump knows that virtually everyone underestimates him and this is his genius. They laughed in 2014 and he won in 2016. Then in 2024. And it will come out that he won in 2020 as well.
So, as Canada sits in judgement of America and clutches it's pearls, Trump is turning the New World Order, that Komrades Karney and Xi endorse, upside down and inside out.
Islamo/Communism will not be tolerated any longer in the Western Hemisphere and not a minute too early either.
Bingo!! Very well put. Thank you. Brian, you need to get over your nostalgic obsession with a Canada that no longer exists. My bet is that at one time or maybe several, you have voted Liberal within the past 50 years.
So, no real costs. For the first time in history, Trump has hit on policies that have only upsides, no costs and that previous generations were blind to until Trump came on the scene.
We could have been a Jr partner in Empire, if we had sufficient vision for it, as the Scots did when the Stuarts got the English throne. But we've blown it, and we in Alberta are on our way out. Its a shame, but what do you do with Eastern Canada and Quebec? Nothing, apparently.
As a non Canadian, genuine Q, if Alberta does run a referendum on whether to leave the union that is Canada and I don't know if BC runs a separate one or not or if both states run a joint initiative for the West of Canada to leave the leftists loons under Carney to their own devices ( abit like California could become its own socialist Republic I guess if Trump doesn't shut down the idiocy running rampant in the SSRC under that idiot with big expressive hands Newsome) ,for you and friends/ family, is the end goal to become a separate country or state or to become a state of the US?
It is unlikely that BC would separate. BC is kinda like California. The southern part of this province is seriously 'progressive' and have issues with the supposed red neck Albertans. The end goal is to be an independent country. We assume that we will maintain the strong ties with the states adjacent to us and the province of Saskatchewan who we border. We want to live in a free and democratic country and not turn into a communist country courtesy of the liberal government of Canada.
Thanks for your clarity, it helps one understand things a little better. Went to Edmonton in 2011, lovely place but those mosquitos were bad! Best of Luck and I hope Albertans get what they want and can realise self determination. You can bet Carnage will fight that like hell....
All thoughts about Canada being a great nation are thoughts of Canada past.
Canada present is a post National globalist Marxist vassal state of the UN ruled by the WEF. A natural enemy of President Trump's administration, similar to Cuba.
Thanks Brian, I feel beaten down more by our own government in the past few years and stupid virtue signaling or other claims; genocide being the worse one. I keep praying for better days.
I saw this interview online & felt that Niall absolutely nailed it. I wish every single Canadian could watch that interview. It would put so much of this Canada vs. USA rhetoric into perspective. The reality is: It’s not them, it’s us. Americans wake up everyday & forget that Canada even exists. Many Canadians wake up every morning pledging to hate the USA more by the hour.
Trump is doing EXACTLY what the American people Voted him to do! The DemoRats are LIARS an will destroy the America we know & Love the first chance they get. We Canadians need to get off our A$$ & take our Canada back from the Liberals. VOTE the LIBERALS out Next Election!! Before Canadians Debt reaches 2 Trillion.
One problem that defies any simple fix is that we lose so many of our talented young people to the United States. Perhaps Scotland loses them to England too. We are left with the enthroned mediocrities who helped drive them out.
Several young people in my group have left. They don't talk about it but I understand.
American executives LOVE talented young Canadians. But after a certain point, advancement can become awkward if they don't have American citizenship.
In fairness, it would be the same here, wouldn't it? We would say, if you care so much, take out Canadian citizenship.
I offer no judgment but would say this: Being governed by mediocrities who endlessly prop up failure and - just for example - want to ban X is a double whammy for us because there is no escape from the mediocrity in a small system.
I wish Brian would sponsor a larger discussion of this.
Niall has great points.... when were in the middle of what Trump is doing its hard to stay ojective. I like what he has said, cant be upset and make good decisions..
we have what we need.. except Carney is putting up road blocks? Or fancy MOUs to stall us..
This opportunity came along, and Carney took it or planned it ..Brookfield makes car batteties.. great on the stock exchange for Trump. Why hes not upset?
Carney is 100 % into green energy, as we see now with China and Trump is 100% not! so !!
True, we cant blame the Americans for our leaders wanting green energy..Liberals.... Were not on the same page..
it looks like Trump is the bad guy here but its really Canada.. GOT IT!!!!
With regard to Green energy renewables as the only way to go, there was a fantastic explanation in the Amazon Production of Landman with Billy Bob Thorntons character explaining to his naive gullible lady lawyer colleague for the oil company who totally was Green in both senses of the word, as he took her to the wind farm with literally 109s of wind turbines, the problems with said turbines and the fact to make em, you still need oil and the futility and stupidity of the anti oil brigade. I recommend if you look for that clip on YT then forward it to your green/ lefty friends, it will promote an interesting topic of conversation cos what BBTs character says, is irrefutable truth. And Carneys rush to renewables ain't gonna do shit to save the world that don't need saving from the perceived threat the leftists talk about. Even Bill Gates finally admitted that truth.....And the UN and Left and WEF hate him for it.
Hi Verna, sorry if I offended you if you thought I thought you were a lefty.. the issues with the imposiing of the global warming scam/greening of not just Canada but the whole crazy push in the developed world irrespective of ones political beliefs needs a lot more discussion than the MSM will ever allow.
I really enjoy that series ( Landman) cos it's not PC, far from it and it pokes massive holes in the argument that's been forced upon us. I've never had an issue with trying to reduce pollution in fact everything we can do to reduce that is to be lauded but the crap re: Co2 being the cause of global warming when you use common sense to realise the planet in the past was hotter, a lot hotter and Co2 was in much higher volume when compared to where we are today and humans weren't around to cause it but irrespective of that, the point was fluctuations are a normal part of climate change which always happens.
All the Co2 market is is a scam to generate $ because I'm sure you'll agree, I don't really see anyone changing behaviours to reduce Co2 and certainly all the elites, politicians and bad actors (literally and figuratively) who castigate us all for our failure to go along with their BS are flying everywhere in private jets with a massive Co2 footprints basically saying do as I say, not do as I fo and we don't have to comply but you do.
Everyone is equal but some are more equal than others....
When Canada was founded, we were worried about America. Than we united and started building, punching above our weight. If we start building again, we will have confidence again. Sadly, pouting from the sidelines seems like more fun for too many today.
Eastern Canada and Western Canada are in no way alike. This article and thoughts therein really belong to you, not us. That is a small part of why we are leaving.
There is a difference, but as someone who spends a lot of time on the prairies, I'll disagree to a point.
Some of the same inferiority complex exists in Western Canada as well. It may not be as deep, it may not affect as many people, but it is there. I've heard it in Sask, I've heard it in Alberta - as recently as this past summer in both. And really, you are talking about West Central Canada, because BC is another matter completely.
Brian, as a proud Albertan [actually, my nation is Alberta and I hold Canadian citizenship by accident of birth, i.e. the Republic of Alberta did not exist when I was born], I absolutely agree that we on the prairies have an inferiority complex when considering Upper and Lower Canada.
I contend that it arises because our worsers [dammit! definitely not our betters] in Upper and Lower Canada control substantially ALL media and keep telling us that, oh, the Blue Jays are "Canada's team," [not! my whole life I have cheered for the now world series champs]; all elections are decided by the time Upper Canada votes [sadly true]; our opinion just doesn't count [wrong! but the "East" ignores us, even if our opinion has great merit]; the G & M is Canada's "national" newspaper [it is to laugh]; the Ceeb is a national broadcaster [well, in terms of having stations across the country, yes, but in terms of reflecting the country, particularly this part of the country, absolutely not [unless the country is exclusively Upper and Lower Canada]. And so on and so forth.
So, yes, we have an inferiority complex and we are a) aware of it; b) resentful of it; c) very much aware that the sneering of Upper and Lower Canada at the prospect of Western independence simply makes that action much more important to accomplish.
I enjoy the comments coming from eastern Canada where they tell us that Albertans want to be Texans. I can only assume that they also think Texans are strong, independent, resilient and productive therefore these people prove the point that they are insecure.
That is NOT an inferiority complex. It is people who are flexing their Superior Muscles. We WILL leave. Quebec did not have the guts back in the day. We Albertan’s have no fear. We want OUT. This Confederation does not work for us.
I agree, but BC should consider how they are connected to Canada once AB is a big middle finger sticking up from the 49th parallel. For me I'm not voting unless we can convince 50% of all four plus Yukon, NWT and at least 70% of the indigenous communities to agree. AB by itself is a US state of they're lucky, more likely a territory getting milked just like they are now. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss...
I read American history regularly and T is a product of of how the US has operated(very successfully) for the last 250 years. Until I heard this guy, I thought Brian and Conrad Black were about the only two people in Canada that I knew that had actually read(or in Conrad's case written) a book about the US. We have been condescendingly smug about the US for my entire life.
Canada sadly is now a sinking ship that millions will flee. NWO alignment with communists, globalists, and Islamists is not the way forward. New US visa programs like one for trades will be devastating for Canada’s economy.
I read that Chinese EV cars were denied entry by Israelis for containing spyware… is this true?
US is going to keep punishing us for being anti-American.
But delusional leftists are happy to jump on Carney’s Chinese EV train and ride off into national ruin. Elbows Up, losers!
Canadians (liberals/socialists) have an inferiority complex... they didn't have the nerve to leave British rule like our American friends did, nor are they quite good enough to be "European" (despite what Carnage considers himself). So they scream and carry on about the horrible orange man and the terrible Americans who voted for him and cut off their nose to spite their faces thinking that a "deal" with the PRC, an actual authoritarian dictatorship, is better than the "fascist" bent on world domination to the south of us who is shaking up the WEF oligarchs and changing the rules for the betterment of his country.
Three now-provinces were invited to join the united States in our revolution. Primarily due to Parliament pandering to the special interests of the Quebecois, they opted against it (though at least two regiments of Canadians did valiantly fight for American independence).
Still, the Articles of Confederation allowed a special exemption for any willing Canadian colony to join the Union without a vote by the States. They had plenty of time to reverse their decision but, given the cultural issues of the day (French language and Catholicism), I understand why they refused - but they made their bed.
__________
That is, of course, history, and Quebec’s cultural concerns were never really supported by the Commonwealth’s promises. As a die-hard Habs fan, this makes me sad. Still, they’re lying in the bed they made.
Of course, Alberta wasn’t around to take advantage of those offers. I’ll welcome Albertans with open arms if they ever choose to cross that metaphorical medicine line.
Niall Ferguson gives our sorry situation context that has sadly been missing. Canada was always a lesser partner in NorthAmerica just as Scotland to Great Britain. And the liberals exploited Canadian gullibility to steal our 2024 election.
With a little help from Dominion voting machines 😬
More like the Conservatives frittered away the election when an actual adult entered the equation. PP couldn’t pivot and didn’t know what else to do. Nothing was stolen.
MC Elbozo threw the CBC a ideal bone to chew on, misplaced patriotism. Then stole the conservatives platform of resource extraction and development. And promised to outspend the NDP, by mortgaging our grandchildren's future.
Your boy PP couldn’t even win his own seat, can’t blame that on the CBC. But if you can’t understand the difference between spending and investing, then there is no point in discussing this any further.
Apparently you're not very good at doing your homework. Or you only hear and remember what suits your political views. How Mark Carney stole his seat from the Conservative encumbant was SICKENING. How Pierre lost his seat by the Liberals reconfiguring the original boundaries of his riding JUST IN TIME FOR THE ELECTION was nothing but pure desperation by the LIEBERALS!! Too bad these socialist psychopaths haven't got the balls to own up to their BS!!!
And you are the reason the conservatives will lose the next election…..
Ah, conspiracy theorist. Explains a lot.
No conspiracy in what Sandra wrote there... all fact. Gerrymandering is real, and that's what happened to the PP seat... not that it matters now... that was set straight. What is of the utmost importance, Kevin, is the complete fallacy that Carney is a leader in any way but for his wallet and the good people of Brookfield. There isn't any deal to speak of with the US. He is now hedging those bets and false promises in deals with China and other nation-states that we would never do business with under any circumstances... except we have no choice now. Nothing like sticking to Liberal talking points at all costs....never answer any quesitons and never respond to any questions from the opposition. But you keep those elbows up Kevin....while the bread lines stretch past 2 million per month!!!
Every comment section always has the obligatory Liberal troll to spout off.
The election interference in Polieves riding( Changing boundaries and hundreds of names on the ballot) is well documented.
As is Carney getting a parachute into a solid Liberal riding.
Conspiracy? You Libs always fall back on the same rhetoric.
Im surprised you don’t bring up his security clearance, which he has easily passed a few years ago when he was in Harpers cabinet.
You liberal communist trolls always throw that shit out without trlling the truth because hou only knos how to lie. PPcs riding was purposely redrawn by the great blackfaced turd to take away the conservative part and load it with liberal government workers, and then the interference ran by the pathetic long ballot idiots, had bogh of those not happened he would have regained that seat. Facts always elude you leftist tossers..fucking troll.
Do tell - what did Canadians get for the Liberals ten years of “investments”, and $1.2 trillion in debt? “MEESTER speaker we are not spending, we are investing” 😬
You’re right..if you can’t understand the difference between monetizing debt and investing, the shoe fits well
Totally disagree with your take.
How sad, the Liberals were at the ballot boxes forcing people to mark an X for the liberal candidate. Steal? More like Pierre Poilievre couldn't deliver the goods. You sound like the American figure skaters complaining about scoring. Time to grow up.
The audiences condescending laughter in the beginning at the expense of Trump says it all. Canadians place themselves somewhere above Trump and look at him and the people who voted for him with contempt. Trump knows that virtually everyone underestimates him and this is his genius. They laughed in 2014 and he won in 2016. Then in 2024. And it will come out that he won in 2020 as well.
So, as Canada sits in judgement of America and clutches it's pearls, Trump is turning the New World Order, that Komrades Karney and Xi endorse, upside down and inside out.
Islamo/Communism will not be tolerated any longer in the Western Hemisphere and not a minute too early either.
Totally agree, KZwick. We are too busy focusing on Trump and not in a good way.
We 100% agree.
Bingo!! Very well put. Thank you. Brian, you need to get over your nostalgic obsession with a Canada that no longer exists. My bet is that at one time or maybe several, you have voted Liberal within the past 50 years.
Do you see any costs to Trump’s ‘genius’ way of helping America and the world, or is it just onward and upward to utopia from here?
It will cost some so called 'friends'. But they were never really friends, were they.
So, no real costs. For the first time in history, Trump has hit on policies that have only upsides, no costs and that previous generations were blind to until Trump came on the scene.
Sovereignty ain't cheap, as Komrade Karney is about to find out.
Maybe. You sound like you’re fully in on that. No doubts and qualms. Almost a little bit like 16th century Protestants and Catholics.
We could have been a Jr partner in Empire, if we had sufficient vision for it, as the Scots did when the Stuarts got the English throne. But we've blown it, and we in Alberta are on our way out. Its a shame, but what do you do with Eastern Canada and Quebec? Nothing, apparently.
Our entire family (lots of votes) are lining up to sign the petition and GET OUT.
Same
For the last 5 or 6 years, I have not cared about Canada. I care about Alberta. Full stop.
For me it goes back to 2015.
As a non Canadian, genuine Q, if Alberta does run a referendum on whether to leave the union that is Canada and I don't know if BC runs a separate one or not or if both states run a joint initiative for the West of Canada to leave the leftists loons under Carney to their own devices ( abit like California could become its own socialist Republic I guess if Trump doesn't shut down the idiocy running rampant in the SSRC under that idiot with big expressive hands Newsome) ,for you and friends/ family, is the end goal to become a separate country or state or to become a state of the US?
Thanks for your thoughts.
From NZ
It is unlikely that BC would separate. BC is kinda like California. The southern part of this province is seriously 'progressive' and have issues with the supposed red neck Albertans. The end goal is to be an independent country. We assume that we will maintain the strong ties with the states adjacent to us and the province of Saskatchewan who we border. We want to live in a free and democratic country and not turn into a communist country courtesy of the liberal government of Canada.
Thanks for your clarity, it helps one understand things a little better. Went to Edmonton in 2011, lovely place but those mosquitos were bad! Best of Luck and I hope Albertans get what they want and can realise self determination. You can bet Carnage will fight that like hell....
Walk away from the madness and forge your own path. The future may be a bit rough for a while but it will be yours.
All thoughts about Canada being a great nation are thoughts of Canada past.
Canada present is a post National globalist Marxist vassal state of the UN ruled by the WEF. A natural enemy of President Trump's administration, similar to Cuba.
We need to change that.
Thanks Brian, I feel beaten down more by our own government in the past few years and stupid virtue signaling or other claims; genocide being the worse one. I keep praying for better days.
I saw this interview online & felt that Niall absolutely nailed it. I wish every single Canadian could watch that interview. It would put so much of this Canada vs. USA rhetoric into perspective. The reality is: It’s not them, it’s us. Americans wake up everyday & forget that Canada even exists. Many Canadians wake up every morning pledging to hate the USA more by the hour.
The Guys’ brillante.
Everyone that listens to his explanation of Canada, Trump and the US.
Needs to forward it, to every independent FREE THINKING Canad🇨🇦ian!!
A lot of Canadians up here need to get a life.
Americans don’t hater us.
A lot of Canadians were “gullible”enough to have Trudeau make us believe that Trump wanted Canada as a 51st State😂
He would love it if it ever happened, but it was a joke.
Carney being greedy, saw the opportunity and amplified it.
Making us Shit in our pants that the big bad Orange man was going to take our way our country and independence😂🤣😂
Trump is doing EXACTLY what the American people Voted him to do! The DemoRats are LIARS an will destroy the America we know & Love the first chance they get. We Canadians need to get off our A$$ & take our Canada back from the Liberals. VOTE the LIBERALS out Next Election!! Before Canadians Debt reaches 2 Trillion.
One problem that defies any simple fix is that we lose so many of our talented young people to the United States. Perhaps Scotland loses them to England too. We are left with the enthroned mediocrities who helped drive them out.
All my 3 children have talked about leaving, 2 quite seriously.
Several young people in my group have left. They don't talk about it but I understand.
American executives LOVE talented young Canadians. But after a certain point, advancement can become awkward if they don't have American citizenship.
In fairness, it would be the same here, wouldn't it? We would say, if you care so much, take out Canadian citizenship.
I offer no judgment but would say this: Being governed by mediocrities who endlessly prop up failure and - just for example - want to ban X is a double whammy for us because there is no escape from the mediocrity in a small system.
I wish Brian would sponsor a larger discussion of this.
Niall has great points.... when were in the middle of what Trump is doing its hard to stay ojective. I like what he has said, cant be upset and make good decisions..
we have what we need.. except Carney is putting up road blocks? Or fancy MOUs to stall us..
This opportunity came along, and Carney took it or planned it ..Brookfield makes car batteties.. great on the stock exchange for Trump. Why hes not upset?
Carney is 100 % into green energy, as we see now with China and Trump is 100% not! so !!
True, we cant blame the Americans for our leaders wanting green energy..Liberals.... Were not on the same page..
it looks like Trump is the bad guy here but its really Canada.. GOT IT!!!!
Were the ones changing course..
Thought provoking article.
With regard to Green energy renewables as the only way to go, there was a fantastic explanation in the Amazon Production of Landman with Billy Bob Thorntons character explaining to his naive gullible lady lawyer colleague for the oil company who totally was Green in both senses of the word, as he took her to the wind farm with literally 109s of wind turbines, the problems with said turbines and the fact to make em, you still need oil and the futility and stupidity of the anti oil brigade. I recommend if you look for that clip on YT then forward it to your green/ lefty friends, it will promote an interesting topic of conversation cos what BBTs character says, is irrefutable truth. And Carneys rush to renewables ain't gonna do shit to save the world that don't need saving from the perceived threat the leftists talk about. Even Bill Gates finally admitted that truth.....And the UN and Left and WEF hate him for it.
Im conservative mr.. its carney thats pushing green energy. My green friends.. ?? Lol i supose you think im elbows up too.
I voted for pierre.. ...!!!!!
Hi Verna, sorry if I offended you if you thought I thought you were a lefty.. the issues with the imposiing of the global warming scam/greening of not just Canada but the whole crazy push in the developed world irrespective of ones political beliefs needs a lot more discussion than the MSM will ever allow.
I really enjoy that series ( Landman) cos it's not PC, far from it and it pokes massive holes in the argument that's been forced upon us. I've never had an issue with trying to reduce pollution in fact everything we can do to reduce that is to be lauded but the crap re: Co2 being the cause of global warming when you use common sense to realise the planet in the past was hotter, a lot hotter and Co2 was in much higher volume when compared to where we are today and humans weren't around to cause it but irrespective of that, the point was fluctuations are a normal part of climate change which always happens.
All the Co2 market is is a scam to generate $ because I'm sure you'll agree, I don't really see anyone changing behaviours to reduce Co2 and certainly all the elites, politicians and bad actors (literally and figuratively) who castigate us all for our failure to go along with their BS are flying everywhere in private jets with a massive Co2 footprints basically saying do as I say, not do as I fo and we don't have to comply but you do.
Everyone is equal but some are more equal than others....
Not offended..maybe i sounded like i like carneys policies . Hrs our pm. I like him to a degree.. but....
its a very touchy subject. Right now.. iv watched a few docs on the climate change and its. A joke.. this all started with RICH Al Gore!
Cant stand those wind turbines.. the birds! And the farm land...
i didnt watch the whole doc. Its just too much media.. sometimes..
Landman...looked great.we wanted to watch but it was another pay to watch. We have netflix.
Cheers have good night !
When Canada was founded, we were worried about America. Than we united and started building, punching above our weight. If we start building again, we will have confidence again. Sadly, pouting from the sidelines seems like more fun for too many today.
Eastern Canada and Western Canada are in no way alike. This article and thoughts therein really belong to you, not us. That is a small part of why we are leaving.
There is a difference, but as someone who spends a lot of time on the prairies, I'll disagree to a point.
Some of the same inferiority complex exists in Western Canada as well. It may not be as deep, it may not affect as many people, but it is there. I've heard it in Sask, I've heard it in Alberta - as recently as this past summer in both. And really, you are talking about West Central Canada, because BC is another matter completely.
Brian, as a proud Albertan [actually, my nation is Alberta and I hold Canadian citizenship by accident of birth, i.e. the Republic of Alberta did not exist when I was born], I absolutely agree that we on the prairies have an inferiority complex when considering Upper and Lower Canada.
I contend that it arises because our worsers [dammit! definitely not our betters] in Upper and Lower Canada control substantially ALL media and keep telling us that, oh, the Blue Jays are "Canada's team," [not! my whole life I have cheered for the now world series champs]; all elections are decided by the time Upper Canada votes [sadly true]; our opinion just doesn't count [wrong! but the "East" ignores us, even if our opinion has great merit]; the G & M is Canada's "national" newspaper [it is to laugh]; the Ceeb is a national broadcaster [well, in terms of having stations across the country, yes, but in terms of reflecting the country, particularly this part of the country, absolutely not [unless the country is exclusively Upper and Lower Canada]. And so on and so forth.
So, yes, we have an inferiority complex and we are a) aware of it; b) resentful of it; c) very much aware that the sneering of Upper and Lower Canada at the prospect of Western independence simply makes that action much more important to accomplish.
I enjoy the comments coming from eastern Canada where they tell us that Albertans want to be Texans. I can only assume that they also think Texans are strong, independent, resilient and productive therefore these people prove the point that they are insecure.
Carole, I do like how you think!
That is NOT an inferiority complex. It is people who are flexing their Superior Muscles. We WILL leave. Quebec did not have the guts back in the day. We Albertan’s have no fear. We want OUT. This Confederation does not work for us.
I agree, but BC should consider how they are connected to Canada once AB is a big middle finger sticking up from the 49th parallel. For me I'm not voting unless we can convince 50% of all four plus Yukon, NWT and at least 70% of the indigenous communities to agree. AB by itself is a US state of they're lucky, more likely a territory getting milked just like they are now. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss...
I read American history regularly and T is a product of of how the US has operated(very successfully) for the last 250 years. Until I heard this guy, I thought Brian and Conrad Black were about the only two people in Canada that I knew that had actually read(or in Conrad's case written) a book about the US. We have been condescendingly smug about the US for my entire life.
Canada sadly is now a sinking ship that millions will flee. NWO alignment with communists, globalists, and Islamists is not the way forward. New US visa programs like one for trades will be devastating for Canada’s economy.
I read that Chinese EV cars were denied entry by Israelis for containing spyware… is this true?
US is going to keep punishing us for being anti-American.
But delusional leftists are happy to jump on Carney’s Chinese EV train and ride off into national ruin. Elbows Up, losers!
Canadians (liberals/socialists) have an inferiority complex... they didn't have the nerve to leave British rule like our American friends did, nor are they quite good enough to be "European" (despite what Carnage considers himself). So they scream and carry on about the horrible orange man and the terrible Americans who voted for him and cut off their nose to spite their faces thinking that a "deal" with the PRC, an actual authoritarian dictatorship, is better than the "fascist" bent on world domination to the south of us who is shaking up the WEF oligarchs and changing the rules for the betterment of his country.
Three now-provinces were invited to join the united States in our revolution. Primarily due to Parliament pandering to the special interests of the Quebecois, they opted against it (though at least two regiments of Canadians did valiantly fight for American independence).
Still, the Articles of Confederation allowed a special exemption for any willing Canadian colony to join the Union without a vote by the States. They had plenty of time to reverse their decision but, given the cultural issues of the day (French language and Catholicism), I understand why they refused - but they made their bed.
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That is, of course, history, and Quebec’s cultural concerns were never really supported by the Commonwealth’s promises. As a die-hard Habs fan, this makes me sad. Still, they’re lying in the bed they made.
Of course, Alberta wasn’t around to take advantage of those offers. I’ll welcome Albertans with open arms if they ever choose to cross that metaphorical medicine line.
What a deeply thought-provoking conversation with Niall Ferguson - I suspect he hit all the right buttons.
Excellent interview! Thank you for providing the opportunity to listen.