Apparently this is controversial, so I have a question.
What the fuck do y’all see?
Because I see a star. Not vaguely a star. Not something that could maybe be interpreted as a star. A giant, five-pointed Converse star in a Converse ad.
If you’re seeing something sinister here, I genuinely need you to explain to me how you got there.
We do not want another “fair deal” from Ottawa.
We want the authority to set our own taxes, develop our own resources, protect our own interests and build our own future.
That requires Alberta Independence.
@Northerngold01 I used to work for Canada Post
It's because they're so short staffed, if they don't work every day with as much overtime as possible the mail and pachages won't get delivered
I've seen as much as 2 weeks of mail just sitting because no one is there/willing to deliver it
I just watched @Martyupnorth & @TroyWestwood debating Alberta separation.
With all due respect to Troy, he displays a surface-level knowledge of what it is that actually irks Albertans to the point that they would want to leave the nation.
His point of view seems to be, no, you can't separate because this is a country, and if you don't like it you can just leave.
He seems to interject arguments with names like Theo Fleury, David Parker and Jeff Raff as somehow being the movers and shakers, none of whom will have any political power should this come about.
He also referred to it as Maga (naturally) and then went on to say how it's a white Christian nationalist movement, falling just short of telling Marty that him and his friends are a bunch of racists. He also claims that he cares a lot about Canadian sovereignty.
Let me help you out a little bit Troy...
If you think this is about a pipeline or some transfer payments, you're wrong.
This is about both historical, and present grievances. We don't have fair representation in elections, the senate, or the Supreme Court.
We pay more than our fair share into the system but get little back ever, all while having our potential economic success blocked by those who are on the take, in a nation so dysfunctional that it can't even trade amongst itself.
If Canada owns Alberta, then likewise Alberta owns Canada, therefore the ports on the British Columbia coast also belong to Alberta.
Where are you on that issue?
And now the rest of the story...
I ask you: What is Canada?
Is it the post national state with no core identity that Trudeau spoke of? If so then what exactly is it that Alberta should be holding on to?
Canada is now largely controlled by foreign ngos that nobody voted for, which is the exact opposite of democracy and sovereignty, yet Albertans get preached to by "patriotic" Canadians every day about those very things.
Our federal government has enacted bills that have killed the energy sector which stifled the economy and our doubled debt now jeopardizes the future of our youth...That matters.
They are now working on bills to stifle Free Speech, plus they want to take our guns and what do they say about governments that want to censor you and take your guns?
They are never the good guys.
Canada shows every sign of creeping communism, and I'm not talking about the Chinese "communism by osmosis" that you mockingly referred to.
Alberta and the West see what's coming and want to save ourselves, and pass on a better world to the next generation before it's too late, because we care about stuff like that.
Just remember that we voted for exactly none of this, because we were never afforded the luxury of having votes that matter...
I hope this helps.
@marknorm William the Conqueror: His "Harrying of the North" involved a scorched-earth policy that caused a man-made famine, killing an estimated 100,000 people. To the Anglo-Saxons of Northern England, he was a war criminal.
@marknorm Genghis Khan: During his conquests, the Mongols would systematically execute the populations of cities that resisted. Chroniclers of the time wrote that it felt like the end of the world.