I just finished watching this (2005) CBC documentary about the 1995 Quebec referendum.
It’s fascinating history, especially for Albertans.
Two things stood out.
First, around the 25-minute mark, Quebec separatists are shown building relationships with France and reaching out to the United States before the referendum. They were seeking recognition and discussing future economic relationships in the event Quebec voted to become independent.
CBC presents it as a matter of fact.
No panic.
No accusations of treason.
No outrage.
Just a recognition that if a region is considering independence, its leaders will naturally want to know what recognition, trade, and diplomatic relations might look like afterward.
Today, when Albertans have similar conversations with Americans, many of the same people immediately scream “traitor.”
Why?
What exactly is the difference?
Second, around the 50-minute mark, several political leaders discuss how important it is that a referendum question be clear and understandable.
That struck me because we’re seeing many of the same arguments in Alberta today.
Democracy works best when voters know exactly what they’re voting for.
Not when questions are engineered to create confusion.
Not when the goal is to muddy the waters.
Not when politicians try to manufacture a result.
History matters
And if you support Alberta independence, you should study Quebec.
Canada came far closer to breaking apart than many people realize.
For generations, Quebec maintained a strong identity, a distinct culture, and a vision for its future that often differed from the rest of the country.
English Canada understood that Quebec was different.
Yet when Albertans say we have our own culture, our own priorities, our own economic interests, and our own vision for the future, we’re told to stop asking questions and fall in line.
This documentary is worth watching; and I am nostalgic for when CBC had a semblance of journalistic integrity.
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My friend just created a website that tracks every single immigration NGO in the west with their funding $ numbers, phone number, names and addresses
https://t.co/0Z8VMrBsOM
3 Killers, originally from India, could get off easy after murdering an elderly 🇨🇦 couple in Abbotsford, BC
Abhijeet Singh, Gurkaran Singh & Khushveer Toor filmed themselves on the victims roof a month before killing the occupants, and posted one of the murder weapons on Tiktok.
Fun Facts : Newfoundland was allowed to have a referendum to join Canada in 1948 & joined Canada in 1949.
Quebec is legally a nation within Canada & had 2 referendums on separation.
Canada has 634 recognized First Nations governments or bands.
Albertans are told even though they met the legal threshold for a referendum on separation, they can only have a referendum, to see if they want a referendum.
Meanwhile Alberta pays all the bills & gets an insignificant fraction of political representation in Canada.
The Canadian Senate is unelected and considered the chamber of sober second thought.
Never have I seen a country that intentionally divides itself into hundreds of nations, with an increasingly autocratic centralized government, that refuses to allow a referendum based on region.
🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺 So Russia was right about the bio labs!?
“The US Has Relocated Ukrainian Bio-Labs to Africa and Are Planning to Release Avian Flu a bioweapon To Start Another Pandemic, and Blame It On Putin.
The U.S. bioweapon operations was relocated due to Russia’s liberation of the labs in Ukraine.
Biden-owned Metabiota and other intermediary NGOs are running cover for the U.S. State Department and DoD, posing as humanitarian organizations to conceal their true objective of pathogen production for Big Pharma.“
While we all watched Marc Miller yesterday tell Canadians that the Government is moving to ban kids 16 & under from social media to “keep them safe” I need to remind you of what else they consider is “keeping them safe”
They tell us kids are too easily manipulated, confused & naive to be on social media, but when it comes to making life altering decisions about their body, they are good to go.
These people are ghouls.
In shocking news.... said no one...
The Canada Dental Plan is
$5 billion over budget.
It is now expected to cost taxpayers $18 billion over 5 years.
But just wait. It will balloon even higher when the final tally for the Liberal NDP plan comes in https://t.co/kMRsqyiyHP
Nigerian migrant Adedapo Adegbola, 40, who only arrived in the UK in 2022, stabbed 23-year-old British psychology student Stephanie Irons to death in her own home after she ended their brief relationship. He slit her throat. And Keir Starmer wants you to remain calm.
At 87 years old, Richmond senior Lance Evans says he spends his days at the library and his nights trying to sleep in Tim Hortons because he has nowhere else to go.
His story shines a light on a growing crisis facing elderly Canadians, as rising housing costs, long waitlists, and a shortage of care options leave some seniors struggling to find even the most basic security and shelter.
Oh. My. God.
Look at what these Biolabs were MANUFACTURING…
Anthrax, Tularaemia, Tuberculosis, Swine Fever, New Castles Disease, MERS, SARS, Marburg and Ebola
THERE MUST BE ARRESTS
🇨🇦🇫🇷👁️📱 : Mark Carney commends French President Emmanuel Macron for helping to roll out the WEF agenda of tracking what everyone can say, see, hear & share online.
WEF nations want to sculpt what people think, by tracking and censoring content, like we saw during covid-19.
We must never allow these 21st Century fascists to dictate what our rights are, in their "new normal".
This kind of politics ends in violence.
When governments label their political opponents as traitors, it always does.
And that's the angle the Liberal party is taking.
Labelling the official opposition as people who do not love the country.
As enemies of the nation rather than critics of its policies.
There is a reason democratic systems have rules against framing political disagreement as betrayal of the nation.
The rules exist because without them, the other side stops being an opponent.
They become an enemy.
Putin labels his opposition as foreign agents.
Orban listed organisations as enemies of the state.
Authoritarian governments throughout the 20th century called their critics traitors.
It always begins with language.
You do not love the country.
You are not one of us.
Your criticism is betrayal.
The Liberal Party of Canada is using this language right now.
Even posting it on the official social media accounts.
This is not normal.
This is not acceptable.
This is getting dangerous.
DETACHED FROM REALITY
Mark Carney just claimed the average FAMILY spends $800 per month on groceries or $10,000 per year.
Has he gone to the grocery store?
4 steaks 🥩 is $100 only one meal
If you ate BEEF 20 days a month x $100 that’s $2,000 without veggies, fruit or carbs
Last year, a video went viral of a scared, 12 year old girl in Dundee.
She was waving weapons, shouting at a migrant to leave her alone.
Almost immediately, many on the left were calling this girl a liar (and worse). They were saying the “far-right” were whipping up ‘anti-migrant hate’.
People like @HumzaYousaf & many more called it ‘bullsh*t’.
Many, including people like @jdpoc while calling her a liar & talking about her ‘hatred’, showed pictures of the little girl. Just to make sure everyone knew who the ‘liar’ they were talking about, was.
A fundraiser for the girl was mocked, suggesting she’d use the money to buy “machetes and IronBru”
She was a child. Their posts were seen by hundreds of thousands of people.
She wasn’t ‘hate-filled’, she was scared.
Yesterday, her version of events was proven to be true. She was sexually harassed by a migrant and another child physically assaulted too.
The man and his sister were prosecuted.
How shameful that children need to arm themselves for protection.
How shameful that adults will deny their reality.
How shameful that some people are so desperate to defend migration into this country, that they will literally mock children who are victims of their crimes.
Shame on you all.
I’ll be fascinated to see how many of you publicly apologise to the girl, in the same public way that you called her a liar.
I won’t hold my breath…
I hope this girl is ok.
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