@poopedcoin@DramaAlert Have you ever met someone with down syndrome? They are some of the most wonderful people on the planet. They certainly don't deserve a death sentence for being different.
I’ve walked with women who had this diagnosis. They were pressured to abort at every appointment. They were told catastrophic stories about how difficult their lives would be and, of course, how much the child herself or himself would suffer.
They were devastated. But they acknowledged that despite the miscarriage risk—which two of them experienced—despite the heart defects, which one child had, and despite the impact it would have on the parents’ lives, which it did in every case, they rightly determined that they are not God. They do not make life, so they cannot take life.
So they loved those children for as long as they were able: one for 21 weeks, one for 34 weeks, and one for 14 years and still going strong.
Each one is a testimony to the worth and value of every human being. Each one is esteemed more greatly in my sight. Each child is a testimony to the miracle of life and our responsibility to nurture and steward it for as long as we are able. Each scenario is an example of the strong sacrificing for the weak rather than the injustice of sacrificing the weak for the sake of the strong.
Wanting Alberta to separate doesn't necessarily mean a person hates Canada.
I love my truck but I would still jump out if it were on fire, or about to fall off a cliff.
Albertans don't have the means to save Canada but they CAN save themselves.
Imagine Alberta was already an independent country.
Now imagine Canada approached us with an offer:
Join our federation.
You will send tens of billions of dollars to Ottawa every year, but you won’t control how that money is spent.
National elections will be decided by voters in other regions.
Your Senate representation won’t be equal.
You won’t be able to negotiate your own trade agreements.
You won’t control your own foreign policy.
Major infrastructure projects can be delayed or blocked by politicians and regulators outside Alberta.
Policies that directly affect your economy can be decided by people who don’t work in your industries, don’t live in your communities, and don’t experience the consequences of their decisions.
The constitution won’t guarantee our rights rather it will grant us privileges at the discretion of woke politicians in Ottawa.
Constitutional reform will be so difficult that meaningful change will be impossible.
You will be told this arrangement is permanent.
Would you sign that deal?
Would you vote for it?
That’s the question this meme is asking.
Not whether Canada is good.
Not whether Canadians are good people.
Not whether Alberta has benefited from Confederation in the past.
The question is simple:
If Alberta were already independent today, would you voluntarily choose the arrangement Alberta currently has?
If the answer is no, then you support Alberta Independence.
The Halal Monitoring Authority (I kid you not this is real) are going around demanding restaurants and grocers to only sell meat that is slaughtered according to Islamic dietary laws.
WTF is this?
Did Jews go around and demand everything be kosher?
Did Christians demand restaurants only serve fish on Friday?
These people are supposed to come here and assimilate. Not the other way around. I’m not Muslim. I don’t want to eat animals that had their throats cut while they were conscious.
Why are we allowing this?
@AlbertanAFk It would definitely be nice to have them fighting on the side of the majority of their members instead of trying to fence sit and pretending they can somehow make everyone happy.
@JamesMcPherson@MikeWingerii@farmingandJesus Death would do them part if the government did it's job and punished wrongdoing accordingly. The death penalty is biblical. If someone kills a 2 year old, they would rightly receive the death penalty and the marriage would be dissolved. Why should it be any different here?
I am native Albertan, 70 years old and have gone from an ardent Canadian nationalist to an independence seeker.
Why?
Because I see no path to revamp the country, clean up its constitution, balance its electoral representation and fix the structural economic transfers embedded in the Charter.
I see no way for the Maritimes, Quebec, Ontario, the West and First Nations to ever come to agreement on the kind of fundamental changes necessary to "fix" Canada.
I see no interest from the rest of Canada to undo the horrid changes made by P. Trudeau that changed the highest power in the land from Parliament to the unelected courts.
So, more in sorrow than in anger, its time to leave.
Feel free to rebut my points as you see fit. To date, there has been nothing but fear-mongering in response, never concrete plans to actually fix Canada.
Carney is wrong about the law.
The 1998 Secession Reference is a seminal constitutional ruling of the Supreme Court of Canada. The Clarity Act is a later federal statute.
Where the two conflict, the SCC’s constitutional ruling prevails.
The SCC held that a clear majority on a clear question would trigger a duty to negotiate. It did not hold that Parliament must pre-approve, bless, or veto a province’s referendum question before the Alberta vote is held.
That “Parliament reviews the question first” mechanism comes from the Clarity Act — not the Secession Reference.
Albertans have the right to decide their own future. The Clarity Act cannot be used to extinguish that right.
Albertans will decide. Not Ottawa.
Two completely different set of rules
No ID required for the "Forever a colony of Canada" group
No address required.
Meanwhile Alberta Patriots had to verify all signatures against government issued ID & matching address. Collecting in -30 degree weather
We are not the same.
Canada to Alberta: You can't leave because we're assholes to you. If you do, we'll be even bigger assholes to you. You think we abuse you now? You don't know what abuse we are capable of! We will hate you more than we hate Trump, so why don't you leave and join America you traitor! But we won't let you leave. Besides, you need us, you can't make it without us. Know your role, Alberta, and stop whining.
Now that that's settled, give me some more money. I want to start a sovereign wealth fund.