Look at how the Canadian government is ignoring the Chinese tariffs affecting the Canola farmers in Saskatchewan and giving so much attention to the  American tariffs affecting the auto workers in Ontario.

Eastern Canadian prog power and money are going to lie and defame us.

Brampton has more representation in Conman Carney's cabinet that Alberta and Saskatchewan combined.

Quote from: Herman on May 14, 2025, 04:00:08 PMBrampton has more representation in Conman Carney's cabinet that Alberta and Saskatchewan combined.

Even if you do get representation from your province in cabinet, it will be some sycophant who supports Bills C-48 and C-69 which prevent the prarie provinces from reaching their potential.

Quote from: DKG on May 14, 2025, 07:13:09 PMEven if you do get representation from your province in cabinet, it will be some sycophant who supports Bills C-48 and C-69 which prevent the prarie provinces from reaching their potential.

I know that. They will bring Conman Carney's views to the prairies instead of the other way around.

The sooner we leave Canada the better off we prairie folks will be.

Let's face it, as Ottawa holds back the country, only Alberta shines
'Busy as a beaver, no more. Thanks to ruinous Liberal economic policies, Canada is stagnating. Instead of all the anxiety about the dreadful economic fate facing Alberta should it leave Canada, perhaps Canadians should imagine the fate of Canada without Alberta.

By Western Standard Guest columnist
There are reasons why Alberta going it alone could be a walk down a potentially dangerous path. But thinking we'd be turning our backs on an economic powerhouse isn't among them.

That's because Canada is stagnating. But the rot rate grew deepest during the debacle of Justin Trudeau's decade of national governance. Years from now it'll be remembered the way the Dirty Thirties still are across the prairies.

But already a majority of Canadians know this in their bones. They feel it on every visit to the grocery store, or while wondering if they'll ever afford a new vehicle again.
It's toughest on our young people, who look at today's property market with something approaching horror. Unless they have especially rich and generous parents, any hope of eventually affording a home of their own looks increasingly forlorn.

It's only those fortunate older Canadians who feel any sense of security: those who've amassed a big chunk of home equity or paid off the mortgage entirely. They can relax and watch that assessed value ratchet ever upwards, although those annual big rate increases, courtesy of greedy civic governments, might curdle their Cheshire grins a tad.

Those same lucky folk were in their working prime when Canadian companies were much more competitive and could therefore offer defined benefit pension plans to employees. Nowadays such plans only exist for cossetted public sector workers and hens with teeth.

This age gap in wealth, security and future aspirations is why younger Canadians, along with recent immigrants, switched their votes to the Conservatives in the recent election. Those two demographic groups were once the Liberals' bread and butter, but when the future doesn't look as golden as promised, you act accordingly when marking a ballot.

However, those Canadians happy enough with the status quo and hoping to ride such security through a cosy retirement were left shell-shocked by the recent bullying tactics and ceaseless bombast of US President Donald Trump.

So, they turned tail on the Conservatives, while totally abandoning the NDP with its annoying blathering that only resonates when times are so good we can accept such moral indulgences. Thus the oldies voted Liberal.

Yep, they picked that most unlikely Captain Canada: global banking superstar, Mark Carney. (Superheroes don't usually have two additional passports in their back pocket in case things don't work out.)

As a result, Alberta's at the crossroads and a vote on separation seems inevitable by 2026. And no, it's not just some wild-eyed fringe players that support such a move.

According to a recent Angus Reid poll 36 per cent of Albertans either want to leave Canada, or are leaning that way. And those startling numbers come while Carney's still paying lip service about kick-starting industrial development across this country.

Of course he won't. Not when push comes to shove. There are too many noses in the national trough to allow diversion from our dreary economic route ahead. The debilitating status quo will continue.

Imagine the reaction among those Albertans still optimistic about the future, once it becomes painfully obvious the Grits' won't follow through on their pre-election chatter. And if those separation intentions subsequently hit the 40 per cent mark things will get mighty interesting in one hell of a hurry, as talk of this being nothing but a fringe movement unravels.

So, just how weak is Canada's economic performance? How about 'dreadful?' It was sickly even before Trudeau arrived, but he took mismanagement to a whole new level of absurdity: far more concerned with personal pronouns than productivity.

For example, between 2014 and 2023, our national per capita GDP grew by a miserly 1.9 per cent in real terms, by far the worst performer among the G7 group of countries.

Meanwhile the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development estimates by the end of this decade Canada will suffer the lowest GDP growth of the leading 32 global economies.

Yet the Liberals want to curtail our energy industry, which is easily the best performing sector of the economy. Imagine how woeful those stats would read if oil and gas exports were removed from the GDP ledger.

Maybe today's fear merchants, endlessly screeching about the dreadful economic fate facing Alberta outside of Canada, should instead imagine the fate of Canada without Alberta. Ouch.

An interesting analogy from Alberta's Premier. She's probably not far off.

This is the type of scumbag the Alberta NDP is using or rather paying.

"A prominent First Nation leader in northern Alberta, Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN), is facing criticism after records revealed he received $55,000 from the American Tides Foundation to oppose oilsands development.

The payment, disclosed in a US tax filing, was made to a numbered company linked to Adam and other ACFN officials.
The money was used to support political activities against the oilsands, including Adam's appearance alongside singer Neil Young at an anti-oil event in Toronto.

Despite the controversy, Adam's remains an outspoken critic of Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's push toward a potential independence referendum.

Adam's has been highly vocal against Bill 54, which makes it easier to trigger referendums, including one on independence from Canada.
Adam has not publicly addressed the $55,000 payment."

I would assume foreign left wing dark money would be giving money to the anti AAlberta side. Eddie posted that DOgwood is using Donald Trump to block a natural gas pipeline in BC.

Quote from: Herman on May 18, 2025, 11:03:49 PMThis is the type of scumbag the Alberta NDP is using or rather paying.

"A prominent First Nation leader in northern Alberta, Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN), is facing criticism after records revealed he received $55,000 from the American Tides Foundation to oppose oilsands development.

The payment, disclosed in a US tax filing, was made to a numbered company linked to Adam and other ACFN officials.
The money was used to support political activities against the oilsands, including Adam's appearance alongside singer Neil Young at an anti-oil event in Toronto.

Despite the controversy, Adam's remains an outspoken critic of Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's push toward a potential independence referendum.

Adam's has been highly vocal against Bill 54, which makes it easier to trigger referendums, including one on independence from Canada.
Adam has not publicly addressed the $55,000 payment."

WOW! He's cheep AND easy!!!

Quote from: Lokmar on May 19, 2025, 11:27:17 AMWOW! He's cheep AND easy!!!

Most chug chiefs are for sale.

Should freeze his bank account, see if he falls into line as easily as the participants of the trucker convoy were supposed to and didn't.

What? It's a perfectly reasonable response (according to liberals) and one which they clearly have reason to believe will shut down any opposition... which I dare say was based off their own fears since the truckers certainly didn't seem to let it throw them in their stride. Freeze his bank account, remind what's left of Truedeaup's support base that this is pretty much straight out of their playbook..... hell, you can even thank them for showing us the way to fucking with their heads if you really feel like sticking it to them. It'll be a total hoot!

Quote from: . on May 20, 2025, 08:10:03 AMShould freeze his bank account, see if he falls into line as easily as the participants of the trucker convoy were supposed to and didn't.

What? It's a perfectly reasonable response (according to liberals) and one which they clearly have reason to believe will shut down any opposition... which I dare say was based off their own fears since the truckers certainly didn't seem to let it throw them in their stride. Freeze his bank account, remind what's left of Truedeaup's support base that this is pretty much straight out of their playbook..... hell, you can even thank them for showing us the way to fucking with their heads if you really feel like sticking it to them. It'll be a total hoot!

It certainly would be fair. But the Supreme Court of Canada ruled Trudeau's draconian measures under the Emergencies Act was illegal.

Even support for Alberta having it's own pension plan is now in majority territory.

If Alberta opts out of CPP and takes the share they have contributed, that is the immediate end of CPP.

Say what?! Alberta Pension Plan now backed by most Albertans

As part of a poll commissioned by the Alberta government, the question is posed.

If a provincial referendum vote was held today, would you vote for or against the following?

Replacing the Canada Pension Plan, the CPP, with an Alberta Pension Plan, an APP, that guaranteed all Alberta seniors the same or better benefits.

A drum roll, please. This needs a drum roll.

Yes to replacing the CPP with an Alberta Pension Plan. 55 per cent. No and keep the CPP. 45 per cent.

For the record, this hot-off-the-press poll was commissioned by the Alberta government.

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The poll was conducted by Trend Research under the direction of the well-respected Janet Brown.

In February of this year the Leger firm had a poll where 23 per cent were in favour of an Alberta Pension Plan, 55 per cent were opposed and 22 per cent didn't know where they stood.

Only 23 per cent backing an APP is the exact same number of support as a Leger poll found last summer.

After the 2019 election win by the Liberals under Justin Trudeau, when many Albertans were angry at the prospect of more years of grief from Ottawa, then-premier Jason Kenney struck a Fair Deal panel.

The panel said Alberta was putting more money into the CPP than it was getting out. A younger population, higher incomes played a big part in that.

Some said it was like the much-reviled equalization with Alberta on the short end of the stick.

The panel's recommendation was to develop a plan for an Alberta Pension Plan and put the idea to a referendum vote of Albertans.

But the idea of the APP didn't take off.

That was then, this is now.

Apparently, if this poll is on the money, it has taken off.

We live in interesting times in Alberta.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/bell-say-what-alberta-pension-plan-now-backed-by-most-albertans/ar-AA1ERTtr