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Posted by Herman
 - Today at 07:00:07 PM
First Scott Moe and now Danielle Smith.

Posted by JOE
 - Today at 11:07:20 AM
Quote from: Herman on May 11, 2025, 10:51:00 PMLet's talk about Justine's impact on Alberta's economy:

 • He praised the cancellation of Keystone XL.

Trudeau may have been incompetent on many issues, but he didn't praise the cancellation of Keystone XL hey avatar_Herman Herm.

That was entirely Biden's doing:

https://youtu.be/IXZ6ml0j5gY?si=en8xMvZ1wcv4JCWq

Trudeau wanted it but the left leaning Democrats in the US told Biden to cancel it.
Posted by DKG
 - Today at 09:25:10 AM
Quote from: Shen Li on Today at 12:00:00 AMThe US doesn't rob from Peter to buy Paul's votes like Canada does. You don't see resource rich states getting fucked in the ass like Alberta and Saskatchewan do even when the Democrats are in power.
Equalization didn't change even when Harper was in power. To end it would be political suicide.

In the US, it doesn't matter which party is in the White House or congress. They do not throw smaller states under the bus wheels to secure votes in bigger ones as blatantly as Canada does.

It is insanity and a recipe for breaking up a country.
Posted by Shen Li
 - Today at 12:00:00 AM
Quote from: DKG on May 11, 2025, 10:10:03 AMAlberta's frustration with a decade of Liberal-NDP policies that have cost the province over half a trillion dollars in investment and countless jobs by blocking pipelines, imposing production caps, and driving away global investment.

All of this while that province sends $20 billion to other provinces that bite the hand that feeds them.

An American state would have voted to leave long ago if Washington strangled them the way Ottawa has Alberta.
The US doesn't rob from Peter to buy Paul's votes like Canada does. You don't see resource rich states getting fucked in the ass like Alberta and Saskatchewan do even when the Democrats are in power.
Posted by Herman
 - May 11, 2025, 10:53:23 PM
Alberta and Saskatchewan's land is not just resource rich. It is freedom rich. That is what scares Eastern progs.
Posted by Herman
 - May 11, 2025, 10:51:00 PM
Let's talk about Justine's impact on Alberta's economy:
 • He forced the carbon tax on us.
 • He passed Bill C-69 — the "no pipelines bill" that scares off investment.
 • Bill C-48 — the tanker ban — targets Alberta oil while letting foreign oil tankers come and go in Eastern Canada.
 • He backed Bill C-59, another step in restricting resource development.
 • He killed Northern Gateway.
 • He praised the cancellation of Keystone XL.
 • He handed Quebec $10 billion for green hydrogen while blocking Alberta energy projects.
 • He pays Quebec equalization from Alberta's pocket — then calls us greedy.
Shall I go on? Because your buddy Trudeau has been sabotaging Alberta's economy for years — and pretending it's all in the name of progress.

The frickin ignorance of Eastern Canadians. Give me Americans anyday than those assholes.
Posted by DKG
 - May 11, 2025, 10:10:03 AM
Alberta's frustration with a decade of Liberal-NDP policies that have cost the province over half a trillion dollars in investment and countless jobs by blocking pipelines, imposing production caps, and driving away global investment.

All of this while that province sends $20 billion to other provinces that bite the hand that feeds them.

An American state would have voted to leave long ago if Washington strangled them the way Ottawa has Alberta.
Posted by DKG
 - May 11, 2025, 09:55:12 AM
Quote from: Shen Li on May 11, 2025, 01:32:47 AMGawd help the US if they admit anything East of Manitoba.
Canada will collapse without Alberta. That province has an oversized contribution to confederation. For Canada to continue another province will have to pick up the slack. BC would become the richest province, but their resource base is not enough to support buying seats in Quebec.

Canada would ask to be admitted to the US out of necessity. Most of Canada's economy is a basket case and they would be of no benefit to the US.

Politically, it would be good for the Dems and the admission of all of Canada would make that party a permanent governing one like the Grits are in Canada.

Quebec would almost certainly become an independent state out of cultural survival.
Posted by JOE
 - May 11, 2025, 06:56:24 AM
Quote from: Shen Li on May 11, 2025, 01:32:47 AMGawd help the US if they admit anything East of Manitoba.

Saskatchewan has a Great Economy with plenty of job openings.

Trouble is, nobody wants to move there avatar_Shen Li Shen.

Saskatchewan is about the only place global warming seems to have forgotten. Its actually getting colder there.
Posted by Shen Li
 - May 11, 2025, 01:32:47 AM
Quote from: Herman on May 09, 2025, 03:22:53 PMIf both prarie provinces exit, Canada will be begging the US to admit them. And if the democRATs control the White House and congress, they will make that happen.
Gawd help the US if they admit anything East of Manitoba.
Posted by Herman
 - May 10, 2025, 06:46:30 PM
Our premier, Scott Moe would make a good Republican governor of the new great state of Albertchewan.
Posted by Herman
 - May 09, 2025, 03:41:36 PM
Alberta's NDP are frickin sleazebags.
Posted by Herman
 - May 09, 2025, 03:22:53 PM
Quote from: Shen Li on May 08, 2025, 08:20:58 PMAlberta could be the richest jurisdiction in the world if they leave Canada.

It doesn't matter if they became a US state or independent. Either option makes Albertans a lot richer and freer. Canada on the other hand would be desperately poor.
If both prarie provinces exit, Canada will be begging the US to admit them. And if the democRATs control the White House and congress, they will make that happen.
Posted by .
 - May 09, 2025, 06:15:42 AM
Quote from: DKG on May 07, 2025, 09:53:17 AMThe NDP collapsed across Canada. Their seven seats do not even give them official party status. The Green Party vote was down too.

That is terrible news for the Conservatives if Canada becomes a two party state with all the leftists under the Liberal tent. In a centre-left country like Canada, the corrupt Liberals are a permanent governing party.
The NDP were going after the middle class lefty vote in 2015, having abandoned their friendlier stance towards the welfare basket cases, so yes - they were dividing the boat then, And yes, it would appear they lost their quest to win over the middle class and lost their traditional base in the process. Aesop's "Dog With Two Bones" and all that.

The Greens... yeah... I'm not surprised they are losing ground. The tree hugging hippie movement of the 1960s has aged out and is getting down to the business of pushing up daisies at this point. Explains why they are shifting their focus towards neutering the human population in so many jurisdictions.

However, there is an upside to this you might have missed. Take a look at the US democrat party; they've already become the rallying point for an innumerable count of disparate activist movements, so much so that the level of internal bickering about policies to suit the various movements that at the last election there was only one thing they could all agree on; namely "orangeman bad". Anything else they might have shoehorned in as genuine policy ran the risk of offending enough of their voter base and they couldn't risk that. The Liberal Party in Canada will likely fall prey to similar political ennui if they subsume any more "fringe interests" and you will doubtless find more of the Canadian electorate voting conservative as a result.

You have to ask yourself if you want those people voting alongside you for your ridings. Knowing a good number of them are activistic crybabies, I'd suggest you wouldn't want them dragging the conservative party any further left than it is already, because the average conservative has demonstrated a willingness to "go along to get along" to the left. You need to get as loud as the left I suspect... louder even. Yeah, it's not something you want to do, but then neither is being forced to live as some filthy leftie commie animal either.
Posted by Shen Li
 - May 08, 2025, 08:20:58 PM
Quote from: Herman on May 08, 2025, 03:55:44 PMChatGPT estimates Albertans pay about $20 BILLION / year more to Ottawa than we get from Ottawa.  If Ottawa gave back that $20 Billion they take from us every year instead of transfers to Quebec, etc., then Alberta could cut personal tax rates to ZERO, with billions to spare!  This is like 9 US states (Texas, South Dakota, Wyoming, etc.) who do not have to subsidize the rest of a country.

Alberta could be the richest jurisdiction in the world if they leave Canada.

It doesn't matter if they became a US state or independent. Either option makes Albertans a lot richer and freer. Canada on the other hand would be desperately poor.