The people who wanted Jimmy Kimmel to be fired over a melania joke are suddenly ok with a UFC fighter's disgusting 'joke' about Michelle Obama on White House grounds.
Every time I post about Alberta separation someone shows up with โwell what about Quebec?โ
Quebec has been threatening to leave for 50 years. Two referendums. Billions spent on national unity. Constitutional chaos. The Clarity Act exists specifically because of them.
And theyโre still here.
Canada bent over backwards accommodating Quebecโs grievances for decades and the country paid an enormous price for it politically, economically, and constitutionally.
You want Alberta to follow that playbook? Fine. Spend the next half century extracting concessions, holding the country hostage, watching investment hesitate, watching your own province divide along urban/rural lines, and still end up inside Confederation anyway because secession is legally and economically ruinous?
Quebec at least had a distinct language and culture as the foundation of its national project. Albertaโs case is what exactly? You pay taxes and donโt like the guy who won the election?
โBut Quebec gets special treatment.โ Yes. Because Quebec played hardball for generations and Canada panicked. If thatโs your model, congrats, youโre admitting Albertaโs strategy is to hold a gun to its own head and hope Ottawa flinches.
Works great until it doesnโt.
Quebec actually had the cultural, linguistic, and demographic weight to make the threat credible, and even they couldnโt close the deal.
Alberta doesnโt have that. It has oil revenue, a grievance narrative, and a provincial government thatโs running out of wedge issues.
Bill Clinton: I balanced the federal budget
Barack Obama: I won a Nobel Peace Prize
Joe Biden: I passed the largest long-term investment in US infrastructure since WWII
Donald Trump: I can identify a camel
WOW!
Today Smith tried to perpetuate her spin on what duty to consult means and how it applies...
And Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew was having NONE of it!
#abpoli#ableg#cdnpoli
@cspotweet Difference between Quebec and Alberta. Quebec has an actual separatist party and Alberta has a Conservative Bait and Switch party that did not run on separation. Albertans DO NOT want this.
my heart is genuinely breaking knowing that the vgk are most likely heading to the stanley cup finals, with not only a rapist as their goalie but with a man who lied on the stand to protect him and four others.
heartbroken and devastated are the only words that i have right now.