@jeanne_lauck@AbJrogg Why are you on Twitter? Oh yeah, you're a TROLL with fake followers and your fake followers have more fake followers, I doubt you're even a Canadian ๐คฏ
You know, I wasn't going to snark on this, but you need an education.
Please, let's review who signed Canada up to spend $6.4 billion on the Gordie Howe International Bridge without any guarantee of when, or even if, we'd recover the investment.
It wasn't Mark Carney.
The agreement was negotiated and signed under Stephen Harper's Conservative government. Canada agreed to finance construction because the Michigan Legislature refused to appropriate the money. In exchange, Canada receives the toll revenue until its costs are recovered.
That wasn't being "taken to the cleaners." It was the only way to break the decades-long monopoly of the privately owned Ambassador Bridge, which handled roughly a quarter of all CanadaโU.S. trade and had become a strategic bottleneck.
Today, Canada has a modern publicly owned international crossing that strengthens supply chains, improves border resilience, creates economic growth on both sides of the border, and generates toll revenue over time.
If you're going to criticize the deal, at least criticize the government that made it. Conservatives negotiated it. Conservatives signed it. Conservatives defended it.
Facts matter more than campaign sound bites.
BTW Pierre, this is why you lost the election. This is why you'll continue to lose.
WOW. Big news.
The Assembly of Treaty Chiefs just dropped a bomb on Danielle Smith.
Treaty 6, 7 & 8. United. Unanimously calling for an RCMP and Auditor General investigation into whether the Premier and her UCP government committed TREASON under Section 46 of the Criminal Code of Canada.
The Chiefs met on Treaty 7 territory in Calgary on June 16 and voted as one โ pushing a separation referendum that puts Canadaโs sovereignty at risk, trampling the Treaty relationship, ignoring privacy violations affecting millions, and opening the door to foreign interference. Thatโs the case theyโre laying out.
And theyโre going back to the source. When Treaty was signed, the Northwest Mounted Police โ now the RCMP โ made a promise: protect First Nations, protect these Territories. The Crown guaranteed peace and goodwill in exchange for sharing this land.
The Chiefs are saying: eff around and find out.
#TreatyRights #Treaty6 #Treaty7 #Treaty8 #AlbertaSeparation
@rita_rewerts Self control, awareness of their strategy, recognition of their humanity and pity for their failure to recognize their own inherent strengths in a democratic society is how we win.
Are you in favour of expelling Hoekstra US Ambassador supporting Alberta separating from Canada?
If so - keep passing this on - until we get a response from the politicians
Alberta joined Confederation in 1905, not 1867. The founding deal was already written, the rules were already set, and Alberta signed onto an existing arrangement. Then Alberta struck oil.
Now Alberta wants to rewrite the constitution it inherited. Think about that dynamic for a second.
You are the new hire. You did not build the company. You did not negotiate the founding partnership agreement. You showed up decades later, accepted the terms, and were handed a desk. Then you hit a massive sales streak and suddenly you want to vote like the CEO and renegotiate the partnership from scratch.
The original partners, Ontario and Quebec, built the institutional framework, absorbed the risk of Confederation, and carried the country financially for generations before Alberta was even a province. The equalization system Alberta despises today exists because the founding provinces understood that regional economies are uneven, and a country only holds together if the arrangement is broadly fair over time.
Albertaโs contribution to Canada is real and significant. The oil revenues that flowed east supported federal revenues and transfers for decades. That deserves acknowledgment.
But โwe generate revenue nowโ is not the same as โwe designed this institution and therefore get to unilaterally change its rules.โ Every new partner in any organization brings value. That does not automatically translate into governance authority that overrides the foundational agreement everyone else built and agreed to.
If Alberta wants more weight in Confederation, the path is constitutional negotiation with the other partners. Not threats. Not sovereignty referendums. Not pretending the founding compact was illegitimate because it predates your membership.
You want a seat at the head table? Earn it through the process that exists. You do not get to flip the table because you are currently the top salesperson.
@PierrePoilievre Let's be clear.
The only reason Pierre Poilievre is going to campaign for Canada in Alberta is because if Alberta separates (it will never happen), Poilievre would lose his seat & conservatives would be 3rd party status. Once again Pierre is fighting for his job NOT CANADIANS.