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[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

What you repeatedly tolerate, your rulers will eventually treat as consent.

Why I think the federal Carney Liberals, the NDP in BC/Manitoba and Doug Ford’s Liberal-lite government are disasters

They count on political exhaustion.

Most Canadians are not stupid. They are busy earning a living, raising families, paying mortgages and trying to keep ahead of rising costs. They do not have time to study every budget, regulation, backroom agreement or government contradiction.

Politicians understand this. They rarely impose the full damage at once. They add another tax, another fee, another subsidy, another restriction and another layer of debt. Services weaken. Costs rise. Accountability disappears. Each individual change seems tolerable, but the combined result is national decline.

The federal Liberals govern through spending, secrecy and carefully packaged excuses. The NDP keeps them politically respectable by demanding even more government control and spending. Doug Ford talks like a conservative at election time, then governs like a Liberal whenever spending restraint, institutional reform or political courage is required.

Different elbow-zo slogans. Similar habits:

More government.
More debt.
More corporate welfare.
More bureaucracy.
Less transparency.
Less personal responsibility.
Less respect for taxpayers.

The boiled-frog comparison fits because decline becomes normal when it happens slowly. Canadians adjust to higher food prices, longer medical waits, worsening productivity, weaker public safety and governments that refuse to release the details of their own agreements.

We should not become bitter or contemptuous. Anger without discipline achieves nothing. Our duty is to pay attention, examine incentives, demand evidence and judge politicians by the consequences of their decisions, not the intentions they advertise.

Pierre has been pointing out that Government failure survives on public distraction. It ends when enough citizens stop accepting each new loss as the unavoidable price of living in Canada.

[Alberta Radio! @albertaradios]

Metis & First Nations Standing Strong for Alberta Independence!

Proud Indigenous voices are rising with Alberta

— for real self-determination, true nation-to-nation respect, and a future that protects our lands, resources, and generations to come.

Strong Nations. Strong Alberta. Our Future. Our Choice.

Economic Self-Determination — Keep more of our resources here to build stronger communities, jobs, and families.

True Self-Government & Respect — Nation-to-nation relationships, not top-down Ottawa policies.
Better Care for Our Lands & Future Generations — Decisions rooted in Alberta values and Indigenous knowledge.

Rooted in our past. Focused on our future.

Alberta Strong. Alberta Free.

What do you think? Share this if you believe in a stronger, freer Alberta! 🇨🇦

#AlbertaIndependence #StrongNations #AlbertaStrong #FirstNations #Metis #OurFutureOurChoice

[Jes_in_GP @NunyaBidnezJes]

Quite often I find myself reflecting on how I left my family and friends behind. I came to Alberta to find the prosperity I wasn't able to obtain in the East. I moved here from Ontario, with no money, an old Kia Rio, and all my worldly belongings of 34 years in a tiny Uhaul trailer.

I can tell you with actual lived experience that the East is dependent on the government. Whether they admit it or not, that's their underlying mindset. People strive to work for the government, have contracts with the government, or try to have the government take care of them in someway.

We continue to see this with the recent announcements and platitudes. They have no qualms or objections about taxpayer funded projects and applaud these endeavours. They merely expect this is the norm and are bewildered by our disagreement with their mindset. We are obviously quite different.

Those very announcements are riddled with continued arbitrary regulations imposed from 3000 km away. Regulations imposed with tolls on existing oil flowing through BC as well as any future oil flowing through. Regulations subject to unrealistic environmental policies no other place in the world is required to uphold.

Look no further than statements about Canada owning the oil. Or Canada owning the mineral resources. Or Canada owning the wood, the water, the land, and even the darn air you breathe. And make no mistake, the East would immediately give it to someone who agrees with their mindset.

We send letters, send email, show up on their doorstep in trucks, inform our friends and family, share social media posts, all trying to explain our values and the mistreatment of the west. We have voted conservative in the last 93 years (except for that one horrible time when we mistakenly spilt the vote). Nothing has changed federally even though we consistently engage in democracy.

We send transfer payments but are subject to caveats or virtue signalling social programs we do not vote for. And, if we refuse those, they withhold federal funding for federal programs. I don't mind helping our neighbours if it was a reciprocal arrangement but it is not. The lack of reciprocity is quite evident from everything explained above and more.

I quickly found that I aligned more with Alberta culture than Ontario , however that wasn't my original intention for leaving. The Easts' culture has changed fundamentally, we all see it. Most would agree that Canada is not the same and many reflect on those days long ago. It's a hard truth to bear, but this is not the Canada we once knew.

Time for your reflection; Is this the Canada you remember? Could we ever get those days back considering the current trajectory of Canada? Does Alberta align with the Canada you once knew? Could Alberta remain the last bastion of what we remember about Canada?

I think it could. I think we have a unique opportunity to enshrine the Canada we all knew. I think we can remove the arbitrary laws imposed from 3000 km away. I think we could create viable regulations within our own borders. I think this encourages private investment. I think choosing option 2 would finallysend a clear message that can no longer be ignored by Ottawa. I think #AlbertaIndependence is our viable path to true prosperity.

I think this vote truly matters. Finally.

[Keith Wilson @ikwilson]

The choice in October is becoming clearer.

Option 1 means more Ottawa control, rising costs, higher debt, and Alberta waiting for permission.

Option 2 means taking the next step toward control over our future.

Alberta can do better.

Vote Option 2. https://t.co/6KggCRVc1E

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

Charles Adler calls Pierre Poilievre a “desperate loser,” then blocks ordinary Canadians who might challenge him.

That tells you everything.

A senator should be able to defend his arguments without hiding behind the block button. Adler is free to disagree with Poilievre. He is even free to be rude.

But when a public official insults voters as “imbeciles” and then shuts down replies, he is not showing strength. He is showing contempt.

The Senate already suffers from a credibility problem. Adler is making it worse.

[DWinter @DWinter47461571]

@mario4thenorth 💯

[Mario Zelaya @mario4thenorth]

This is my “secret” that nobody knows.

I’ve never said publicly & instead I took years of abuse for my positions on Indigenous affairs in Canada.

My wife & my three kids: They are First Nations.

But I don’t believe my kids resumes need to be put on the top of a stack because they are First Nations.

I believe in equality. I believe in a merit based system.

I don’t believe we should be asking unelected chiefs for permission to build nation building projects.

I believe in uplifting the country as a whole.

I don’t believe in mass graves of children as a result of genocide.

Facts show mass graves were common for communities as a whole because of Tuberculosis.

I believe Residential schools did exist.

I do not deny them.

I agree - there were flaws. But I don’t believe nuns and teachers were taking the life of children.

I also don’t think it’s sustainable that we spend $30 billion per year on Indigenous Affairs while First Nations life expectancy continues to decline.

Look it up; they die younger.

We must acknowledge that something is broken.

Those who actually need help, are not getting it.

The Liberals created an environment that doesn’t help those in need, but instead helps a consultant Liberal class.

Did you know that when Harper was PM, he created the First Nations Financial Transparency Act?

Since we fund First Nations bands with our taxes, audited financial statements must be provided or face enforcement, fines/consequences.

The public, the First Nations band members, they deserve transparency from their Chiefs.

The Liberals paused the enforcement. Completely.

Ask yourself: Why?

Did you know that a First Nations band, an individual, HAD TO SUE HIS OWN CHIEF because they would not disclose where their money was going? It’s absurd. He & his people have the right to know. So do we, as taxpayers.

I’ve sat back, and seen all the negative comments, threats and how I “hate” First Nations.

And it couldn’t be further from the truth.

There’s a world that exists, where you can fight for truth, honesty, transparency & normalcy, and it not be considered hateful.

I love my wife & my kids.

I want to see First Nations AND all Canadians thrive and succeed.

WE ARE ALL EQUAL.

[DWinter @DWinter47461571]

@cdnrefugee @JonHeron5 @RomanFisher__ This freedom lover moved to Alberta to help win the fight. I’m hoping there’s thousands more!!

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

You and Brian can go fuck yourselves. Pierre Poilievre has faced relentless, 24/7, 365-day character assassination from much of the MSM. When he fights back, you call him smug. When he refuses to become another bland, poll-tested puppet, you claim he does not want to win.

Maybe the real problem is that he will not bend the knee to the political and media establishment that has spent years trying to destroy him.

[Mario Zelaya @mario4thenorth]

🚨 BREAKING: 15 days before Carney announced a $3.2 billion condo bailout, Brookfield, the firm he chaired, became co-owner of a Concert Properties deal in the EXACT market getting bailed out.

Conservatives moved to summon Brookfield, Bob Rennie, and Housing Minister Gregor Robertson to testify.

The Liberal majority killed the motion. 5-4.

Not defeated.

Not deferred.

Buried.

The evidence is there.

The witnesses are named.

The timeline is indisputable.

THE GOVERNMENT RESPONSE IS TO MAKE SURE YOU NEVER FIND OUT THE TRUTH.

Welcome to a majority Liberal Party of Corruption

[DWinter @DWinter47461571]

@KatKanada_TM @AntiWokeMemes Liberals Kill Canada

[Tamara Lich 🇨🇦 @LichTamara]

Accurate.

[FarmGeek @miss_tanyac]

A few questions for Albertans to consider as we approach the Oct 19 referendum.

[The Eagle flies free @Fa21519230]

🚨🚨 "El 80 % de las personas que fueron colocadas en un ventilador murieron"...
El protocolo COVID de Antony Fauci, ventiladores y remdesivir, mató a millones de personas en hospitales de todo el mundo...
Elon Musk: "Llamé a los médicos de Wuhan y les pregunté: '¿Cuáles fueron los mayores errores que cometieron en la primera "ola"?: Pusimos a demasiadas personas en respiradores intubados durante demasiado tiempo"...
"Lo que escuché de Wuhan es que cometieron un gran error al poner a las personas en respiradores intubados durante un período prolongado, y que eso es en realidad lo que está dañando los pulmones, no el COVID. Es el tratamiento... la cura es peor que la enfermedad"....

[Andrew Bridgen @ABridgen]

“This is insane!” — A new vaccine is on the market called VAXELIS lt has 6 VACCINES in ONE SHOT for 6-WEEK-OLD BABIES...6 Infants Died In Trials.
How can this be allowed to happen ?
Dr. Jeff Barke

[John F. Huizing @johnfhuizing]

Alberta Independence from a plumber's view

[Royce Koop 🇨🇦 @RoyceKoop]

NEW COLUMN: Carney is drowning Canada in debt and we'll pay the price

Here's a number that should stop you cold: Canadian governments will spend $94.4 billion this year just on interest on their debts.

Not hospitals. Not nurses. Not tax cuts. Just money for nothing. What a waste.

Carney promised to spend less, then posted the biggest deficit in our history outside the pandemic. Manitoba's no better, with the second-highest interest bill per person in the country.

The bills always come due. And our kids and grandkids are the ones who will pay them back.

https://t.co/OZ7KtrDCF4

#cdnpoli #cdnpolitics

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

China slaps 73.5% preliminary tariff on pea starch from Canada...

So, how's that diversifying trade portfolio thing working for ya, Mark? https://t.co/BdvZCKf17F

[DWinter @DWinter47461571]

@stephenharper @davidbexte Happy Canada 🇨🇦 Day to you both as well