As a proud Albertan who supports Alberta Independence here’s some of my reasons.
Alberta and Saskatchewan were not invited into confederation, never voted to join confederation, we were colonized into confederation. Clifford Sifton said and I’ll quote: “ We desire, and all Canadian patriots desire, that the great trade of the prairies shall go to enrich our people to the East, to build up our factories and our places of work, and in every legitimate way to our prosperity”.
To this day Alberta has been the province that supports the East and we get shit on by the East, by the federal government, by other provincial governments. In order for Alberta to get anything we have to beg, borrow and steal just to get anything related to our economy, our freedoms and just about everything else. Alberta residents are some of the most patriotic people in Canada, we are just done having to beg for everything.
It doesn’t matter who’s in government, Liberals or Conservatives, we are always fighting to get anything. It was the Conservatives, under Harper, who amended the equalization formula, in an attempt to get the East to vote for the Conservatives. The equalization formula is so skewed that it favours every Liberal province and Quebec.
Then there’s equal representation within the House of Commons, the Senate, the Supreme Court, Federal Courts, etc. Alberta has fewer seats than the maritimes yet we have close to double the population of the entire maritimes, this is House of Commons and the Senate. The federal judges we have in Alberta are all Liberal appointees, judges who have made big donations to the federal Liberal Party. The Supreme Court judges are also all appointed instead of elected. Let’s make the Senate at a minimum a triple E Senate, equal senators for every province.
I can keep going on and on about why I support Alberta Independence but I’ll stop here. Most Albertans can see the direction that the Liberals are taking Canada and we don’t like it.
Old Canada is dead, the Canada that Pierre is talking about in his speech, nostalgia for the veterans and what they fought for is not a reason for Alberta to stay.
I disagree. I believe an Independent Alberta would do very well on its own. Alberta would still be a good neighbour and trade partner to Canada.
An Independent Alberta would be able too negotiate from a position of strength instead of always having to beg for things and having to live with the status quo.
Since 1990 there’s been 30 plus countries that have separated and they are doing just fine. It’s not like Independent Alberta needs to reinvent the wheel, everything is already known.
That was a well said speech by PP Brian, but it was just a speech. PP is a very well spoken man and can make a speech with hardly an "um" every 3rd word or a pause like crooked Carney does. PP holds himself very well during off the cuff speeches or while he's taking questions from the press who are always trying to get the "gotcha question" so they can embarrass him on the nightly news or in the press, unlike crooked Carney who is very uncomfortable making speeches or heaven forbid he gets asked a question that he wasn't told about ahead of time. That all being said, this speech WAS NOT given by our CURRENT PM, so basically as far as I'm concerned as an Albertan that it was just a bit of a puff piece to make us feel good.
Our PM should be out doing this instead of the Leader of the Loyal Opposition. This tells me that our PM and his cabinet MP's (including the traitors who crossed the floor to give him his illegal majority government and to pump up their bank accounts), could really give a damn about Alberta and Western Canada. As long as we keep sending money to Ottawa to help prop up Eastern Canadian provinces then they are satisfied.
I'm sure Carney will grace us with his presence some time this summer (most likely wearing a hockey jersey with a hockey stick and skates slung over his shoulder) to tell us "once again" that he's a "good old boy from AB", which will make me puke once again. He thinks we are just a bunch of hockey loving rubes. Well, Mr. Carney I have news for you. A lot of Albertans are really pissed off right now and reading about your lavish trips to god knows where costing us more than the price of a house, and your total ambivalence to building a pipeline because you know it will help Albertans so you can't have that has our hackles raised.
You mentioned in your article Brian that according to the polls the desire to separate is waining in AB. That is not necessarily so as I know dozens of people (me included) who support separation and when asked if they support separation they basically shrug their shoulders and don't really have an opinion because we don't want to be berated. The decision will be made in the polling booth and I think the result will surprise the government and the rest of Canada. We might not win but I suspect that the numbers will be very eye opening. Thanks for letting me voice my opinion.
Well, if PP was Prime Minister this would be both rousing and encouraging. He’s not, and won’t be for a while. The Canada he describes was a spectacular country. It no longer exists and the conversation should be about whether it can be recovered. I do not believe it can, and will be voting leave
Sorry Pierre, the current state of the Canadian government and the electorate that keep them there is to much for me. I was once a proud Canadian but the past decade erased any pride I had. Alberta and Albertans deserve better. Our children deserve better
Every Promise started on a downward cycle when Trudeau, no not Jr, he just picked up where Senior, Pierre left off when he ran the country.
I firmly believe there were those who saw the writing on the wall and pushed to craft the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Considering it was created to protect citizens from an overreaching, overzealous, government desiring to rule instead of serve.
It's been toilet paper in Ottawa for a number of decades now.
The powers that be are hell-bent on destroying everything that was, to usher in the next era.
The era of A.I, dominance, and control. Nope not a conspiracy theorists. It's what Carney has stated... The Old way is done, the (shinny) New World Order is here. Kinda makes you think, was the old "chaotic" since we now need Order.
I am also a "Believer/Follower of Christ" for a number of decades and all of this fits what I understand.
Bottom line, we can't vote our way outa this and we can't stop it, maybe delay it a bit. But, even the consequences for that are going to evolve.
No fear, just an awareness.
Yep, evil has reared its head in every generation and it has been squashed too.
This time is different.
It's Global and coordinated Globally.
Qnd they've also been forthcoming with everything they are doing and going to do. Books, Podcasts, Recorded Meetings... Some just aren't joining all the dots.
I am from Ontario and this entire speech made sense for all Canadians not just Alberta or Quebec but Ontario, Manitoba and all Canada. We need to govern this country with logic and ideals much as we all would like too, it won't pay the bills. The federal government spends too much money with programs then more money giving us rebates this makes no sense at all
As a proud Albertan who supports Alberta Independence here’s some of my reasons.
Alberta and Saskatchewan were not invited into confederation, never voted to join confederation, we were colonized into confederation. Clifford Sifton said and I’ll quote: “ We desire, and all Canadian patriots desire, that the great trade of the prairies shall go to enrich our people to the East, to build up our factories and our places of work, and in every legitimate way to our prosperity”.
To this day Alberta has been the province that supports the East and we get shit on by the East, by the federal government, by other provincial governments. In order for Alberta to get anything we have to beg, borrow and steal just to get anything related to our economy, our freedoms and just about everything else. Alberta residents are some of the most patriotic people in Canada, we are just done having to beg for everything.
It doesn’t matter who’s in government, Liberals or Conservatives, we are always fighting to get anything. It was the Conservatives, under Harper, who amended the equalization formula, in an attempt to get the East to vote for the Conservatives. The equalization formula is so skewed that it favours every Liberal province and Quebec.
Then there’s equal representation within the House of Commons, the Senate, the Supreme Court, Federal Courts, etc. Alberta has fewer seats than the maritimes yet we have close to double the population of the entire maritimes, this is House of Commons and the Senate. The federal judges we have in Alberta are all Liberal appointees, judges who have made big donations to the federal Liberal Party. The Supreme Court judges are also all appointed instead of elected. Let’s make the Senate at a minimum a triple E Senate, equal senators for every province.
I can keep going on and on about why I support Alberta Independence but I’ll stop here. Most Albertans can see the direction that the Liberals are taking Canada and we don’t like it.
Old Canada is dead, the Canada that Pierre is talking about in his speech, nostalgia for the veterans and what they fought for is not a reason for Alberta to stay.
Alberta Independence
Strong and Free
Sorry Independence is unmanageable and costly let's stay in Canada and figure it out
I disagree. I believe an Independent Alberta would do very well on its own. Alberta would still be a good neighbour and trade partner to Canada.
An Independent Alberta would be able too negotiate from a position of strength instead of always having to beg for things and having to live with the status quo.
Since 1990 there’s been 30 plus countries that have separated and they are doing just fine. It’s not like Independent Alberta needs to reinvent the wheel, everything is already known.
That was a well said speech by PP Brian, but it was just a speech. PP is a very well spoken man and can make a speech with hardly an "um" every 3rd word or a pause like crooked Carney does. PP holds himself very well during off the cuff speeches or while he's taking questions from the press who are always trying to get the "gotcha question" so they can embarrass him on the nightly news or in the press, unlike crooked Carney who is very uncomfortable making speeches or heaven forbid he gets asked a question that he wasn't told about ahead of time. That all being said, this speech WAS NOT given by our CURRENT PM, so basically as far as I'm concerned as an Albertan that it was just a bit of a puff piece to make us feel good.
Our PM should be out doing this instead of the Leader of the Loyal Opposition. This tells me that our PM and his cabinet MP's (including the traitors who crossed the floor to give him his illegal majority government and to pump up their bank accounts), could really give a damn about Alberta and Western Canada. As long as we keep sending money to Ottawa to help prop up Eastern Canadian provinces then they are satisfied.
I'm sure Carney will grace us with his presence some time this summer (most likely wearing a hockey jersey with a hockey stick and skates slung over his shoulder) to tell us "once again" that he's a "good old boy from AB", which will make me puke once again. He thinks we are just a bunch of hockey loving rubes. Well, Mr. Carney I have news for you. A lot of Albertans are really pissed off right now and reading about your lavish trips to god knows where costing us more than the price of a house, and your total ambivalence to building a pipeline because you know it will help Albertans so you can't have that has our hackles raised.
You mentioned in your article Brian that according to the polls the desire to separate is waining in AB. That is not necessarily so as I know dozens of people (me included) who support separation and when asked if they support separation they basically shrug their shoulders and don't really have an opinion because we don't want to be berated. The decision will be made in the polling booth and I think the result will surprise the government and the rest of Canada. We might not win but I suspect that the numbers will be very eye opening. Thanks for letting me voice my opinion.
Well, if PP was Prime Minister this would be both rousing and encouraging. He’s not, and won’t be for a while. The Canada he describes was a spectacular country. It no longer exists and the conversation should be about whether it can be recovered. I do not believe it can, and will be voting leave
Sorry Pierre, the current state of the Canadian government and the electorate that keep them there is to much for me. I was once a proud Canadian but the past decade erased any pride I had. Alberta and Albertans deserve better. Our children deserve better
Every Promise started on a downward cycle when Trudeau, no not Jr, he just picked up where Senior, Pierre left off when he ran the country.
I firmly believe there were those who saw the writing on the wall and pushed to craft the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Considering it was created to protect citizens from an overreaching, overzealous, government desiring to rule instead of serve.
It's been toilet paper in Ottawa for a number of decades now.
The powers that be are hell-bent on destroying everything that was, to usher in the next era.
The era of A.I, dominance, and control. Nope not a conspiracy theorists. It's what Carney has stated... The Old way is done, the (shinny) New World Order is here. Kinda makes you think, was the old "chaotic" since we now need Order.
I am also a "Believer/Follower of Christ" for a number of decades and all of this fits what I understand.
Bottom line, we can't vote our way outa this and we can't stop it, maybe delay it a bit. But, even the consequences for that are going to evolve.
No fear, just an awareness.
Yep, evil has reared its head in every generation and it has been squashed too.
This time is different.
It's Global and coordinated Globally.
Qnd they've also been forthcoming with everything they are doing and going to do. Books, Podcasts, Recorded Meetings... Some just aren't joining all the dots.
Yet.
Outstanding speech and a demonstration of true leadership, and a vision of Canadian unity that has been sorely lacking in Canada for far too long.
I am from Ontario and this entire speech made sense for all Canadians not just Alberta or Quebec but Ontario, Manitoba and all Canada. We need to govern this country with logic and ideals much as we all would like too, it won't pay the bills. The federal government spends too much money with programs then more money giving us rebates this makes no sense at all
Haha Not a Chance, why would Alberta want to continue with their ABBUSIVE HANDLERS of Ottawa??? We're done talking! Alberta Independence Right Now!
Glimmers presenting an ethos national leadership can be witnessed in this speech by PP Leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition.
For this rhetoric I say Bravo!