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[Amie Archibald-Varley @AmieVarley]

Manitoba just became the first province in Canada to legislate nurse-to-patient ratios — and this week their implementation committee released their first roadmap for how it rolls out. This is massive. This is historic. And every other province should be doing the same. When

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

"Russia alone has the power to end the conflict immediately, but it has no interest in doing so..
The answer to Russian aggression is not appeasement.
An aggressor has no right to dictate conditions.
Peace cannot be built on Russia's demands.."

- Petr Pavel
President of the Czech Republic 🇨🇿

I absolutely agree with this..!

[WizardofWhy$ @WizofWhy]

@acoyne @CailinasEirinn It is time to tell Danielle Smith & the anti-Candian that Alberta has it as good as everybody else in the Country. The difference is we do not spend all day whining. It is also time for PM Carney to let her know in very clear terms that she, her Party & followers are not special!

[Avaline Darling @Avaline_Darling]

I confidently speak for ALL Canadians when I say that we, the entire beautiful country of Canada, have zero intention nor desire to join the US as their 51st state. Trading partners? Sure! BFFs? Done!

51st state? Not on your life. No thanks.
Nope.
Never.

😘

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

We made a commitment to rebuild, rearm, and reinvest in the Canadian Armed Forces — and we’re getting it done.

[WizardofWhy$ @WizofWhy]

@sarobertson_ It would be really helpful if diplomatic appointments included a review on the qualifications of the candidate.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Heather McPherson: I think what Danielle Smith is doing in Alberta is weaponizing and giving fuel to a separatist movement ... It's a mistake. It's a premier that is trying to distract from her failures.

[WizardofWhy$ @WizofWhy]

@nexta_tv @WiseGuy32639663 Disappointing that Ukraine is not in the 1st group. They have been defending with their lives the ideals Europe values.

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

“Finland will never consider occupied Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk to be part of Russia…

Only the Ukrainian people can choose the future of these territories.”

— Alexander Stubb
Finnish President

... one of the most respected leaders in Europe 😉

[WizardofWhy$ @WizofWhy]

@WabKinew This man is the best leader this country has to offer. The remaing Premiers really need to step up their game.

[Wab Kinew @WabKinew]

☕️☕️ Two-coffee morning and 100% worth it to get our budget passed. Starting July 1 🇨🇦

🛒 No PST on grocery foods

🚌 Free transit for youth

🏥 Investments in health care

🏫 Investments in schools

📉 Lowest deficit in Canada

A lot done. A lot more to do. #OneManitoba

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

Cuba is out of fuel, strangled by the US fuel chokehold.

People are dying, systems are breaking down.

This is collective punishment against a people who have done absolutely nothing except live their lives under hard conditions imposed by the US blockade for decades.

It’s a blatant violation of international law, a crime in progress.

Canadians are connected to Cuba: we’ve been welcomed, had great holidays, heard incredible music, done business and made friends.

We need to help Cuba right now, even if it bothers Trump: Canada should send immediate humanitarian fuel aid, in as much quantity as we can quickly assemble.

And we should be speaking out loudly on the international stage: US military action against Cuba is absolutely unacceptable!

It’s time for the countries of the world to rally and stop this impunity before it takes another sovereign country into chaos.

We have to come to Cuba's aid. What's happening is too cruel, too horrible.

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

- Donald Tusk
Prime Minister of Poland
About Ukraine-Russia war

"There are moments in history when compromise becomes cowardice, when silence becomes acceptance, and when neutrality becomes support for the aggressor. In times like these, democracies must find the courage to defend their values, even when the cost is high. Peace cannot survive if fear is allowed to dictate our decisions."

I couldn't agree more...😉

[WizardofWhy$ @WizofWhy]

@raghu_venugopal PM Carney is only partially right. We are going forward on Defence. We are moving forward on major projects. We are far too timid in shutting down traitors & right-wing American puppets. We are back sliding on enviro protection, civil rights & transparent governance.

[Ksawery @Ksawery_Kreft]

Premier Meloni: „Jeśli nie potrafisz się bronić, jeśli prosisz kogoś innego o gwarantowanie twojego bezpieczeństwa, zapłacisz za to utratą autonomii, suwerenności i zdolności do obrony własnych interesów narodowych.”

Włochy też nie chcą być 51 stanem USA

[@RGBAtlantica @RGBAtlantica]

Keep airports and ports Canadian owned only!! @MarkJCarney Don't become a Stephen Harper who sold Canada's assets to foreign countries and consumers paid the price. No privatizing what taxpayers built. @liberal_party

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

"Ukraine should be integrated into NATO as quickly as possible. It's in our own interest. Ukraine has one of the strongest armies a robust defense industry, and advanced modern technologies.

Ukraine now holds the strongest cards, even in the American sense".

- Elina Valtonen
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland

This is true..!

[Elisa Mosini 🇪🇺🇮🇹 @MosiniElisa]

Around 50 UN member states, including EU countries, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and South Korea, signed a statement condemning Russia’s threats of systematic strikes on Kyiv.

The US did not sign.

The true free world has made its position clear.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Avi Lewis: "The separation movement in Alberta has no point of comparison with the historic sovereignty movement in Quebec. This is a MAGA aligned, potentially funded, disruptive movement that has been really thrown into national prominence by Danielle Smith."

[Energi Media @EnergiMedia]

“You have a right to leave Canada. You do not have a right to take a piece of it with you.”

Andrew Coyne delivers a sharp response to separatism.

Watch the full interview on the Energi Media channel.

#Canada #AbLeg #Separatism

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

Of course it would not be in the commercial interests of the federal government to suspend shipments on Trans Mountain (TM.)

But that’s not the point.

The point is that in a worse case scenario, such as an Alberta unilateral declaration of independence (UDI,) Canada would have enormous leverage, including the ability to block Alberta energy exports.

This is most obviously the case re: federally-owned TM. Apart from their ability to reduce or stop shipments, do you really think the federal or BC governments would continue to advance Trans Mountain optimization, which is currently the best bet that we have for increased egress?

Do you really think the federal government would maintain its MOU commitment to support the construction of a de novo West Coast pipeline? Even if it wanted to, federal paramountcy over interprovincial pipelines, grounded in 92(10)(a) would cease to exist following secession, so BC governments could find ways to block operation or construction of pipelines going through their territory, with Alberta having no recourse to Ottawa.

Currently all of our pipelines exports to the US pass through other Canadian provinces first. That includes the incomplete KXL route, which passes through Saskatchewan. Since the Republic of Alberta would be starting without an equivalent to the 1977 Canada-U.S. Transit Pipelines Treaty, Ottawa could also suspend the operation of those other pipelines, e.g. the Enbridge Mainline.

Canada and BC could also extract further concessions (eg tolls or tariffs) in order to allow Alberta natural gas to feed into the growing number of West Coast LNG terminals.

Separatists respond to these realities by saying “don’t worry - we’ll build pipelines to the US and export from there!”

First of all, who is “we?” What companies are going to risk tens of $ billions to spend years building a new system of pipelines in the midst of such massive political and legal uncertainty, including the risk of a Biden style revocation of pipeline permits by the US?

Secondly, the separatists seem completely unaware that the left wing US West Coast governments have effectively blocked the export of carbon intensive fuels from their ports. That’s why US produced thermal coal is exported from the Port of Vancouver, BC. Strange but true: Canada’s West Coast ports are far friendlier to hydro carbon exports than West Coast US ports!

All of this effectively gives Ottawa the clear upper hand in prospective negotiations over everything, e.g.:

-debt allocation;

- valuation & sale of federal assets (such as military bases, RCMP facilities, federal lands, including airports, etc.;)

- allocation of CPP assets;

- continuation of OAS / GIS benefits;

- termination of citizenship;

- export access to the Canadian market;

- partition of Alberta per the predictable demands of democratic majorities in Edmonton, Calgary, Indian Reserves & elsewhere;)

- support for or blockage of Alberta’s accession to critical international bodies & treaties, like CUSMA, or IATA to allow for international flights, etc.; and

- countless other issues.

I agree that exercising its massive leverage in such a scenario would be damaging to Canada. But it would be far more damaging to Alberta.

Whatever grievances Albertans have with Ottawa cannot be remedied by becoming a landlocked statelet.

The vast majority of Albertans know this.

It is beyond absurd that we are going to spend the next several months, and possibly years to come, arguing endlessly over this.