Henri Lemire

[Dean Blundell🇨🇦 @ItsDeanBlundell]

Before you share this one, know what you're sharing.
Every "fact" in that Daily Mail piece comes from one person. One. The granddaughter. No court. No coroner finding. No police conclusion. The care home hasn't said a word and the clinicians involved say she consented. The Daily Mail wrote "euthanised against her will" in the headline as a settled fact when it's the exact question two Ontario regulators and Belleville Police are still trying to answer.
Now look at who's carrying it. Breitbart. LifeNews. Daily Caller. The Blaze. Rebel. Slay News. Not one major Canadian newsroom, in a country where a story this big would be on every front page if it held up. It started on a MAID activist's Substack in July, got laundered through a UK tabloid in September, and by Monday US Republicans were using it to campaign against Canada.
That's the pipeline. Same one that gave you "Canada euthanizes veterans for PTSD" and "MAID for the poor." Take a grieving family, strip out the words "alleges" and "under investigation," add a prayer photo, and ship it south so people who've never read the Criminal Code can tell Canadians how our healthcare works.
If a nurse botched an IV and a confused 83-year-old was walked into MAID without valid consent, someone should lose their license and maybe their freedom. That's what the investigation is for. Until it reports, this is an allegation with a marketing budget, and the people screaming loudest don't want the answer, they want the story.
Jason Kenny is nothing but an attentions seeking twat.

[David Climenhaga @djclimenhaga]

UCP voters’ list change shows ‘fundamental misunderstanding’ of scrutineers’ role in democracy, former elections official says. https://t.co/8UoPiEfoRT… #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

Wherein Jeffrey Rath claims that Matthew Altheim (Danielle Smith’s former campaign manager and beneficiary of a major sole sourced contract)…

Offered a bribe of $4 million of government legal work to stop criticizing Danielle Smith.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[Lucy 🇨🇦 @TheBlueGem3]

It’s clear Smith has been buying off people for her own gain..O Leary now Rath (both sumbags) have said so.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

We are dealing with some seriously twisted people.

From a Canadian perspective, I have to say: this is not normal.

Look at what is being put out through official U.S. government channels. One picture was posted by the White House. Another came from the U.S. Department of the Interior press. These aren’t random people on the internet. These are official institutions of the United States government, speaking to the world on behalf of the American state.

And as a Canadian, I find that deeply disturbing. Because the whole world is watching this. Not just Canadians. Not just Americans.

All of us.

People around the world are watching how the United States chooses to use its enormous political power, its influence, and its institutions.

I don’t believe I’ve ever seen another country engage in this kind of openly vindictive rhetoric in quite this way. Not Russia. Not China. Not even North Korea.

For generations, Canadians have looked to the United States as our closest neighbour, our largest trading partner, and one of the world’s most influential democracies. We may disagree with American governments, and Canadians certainly have plenty of opinions about American politics, but there has always been an expectation that, beneath the political battles, there was a certain standard of conduct.

This feels like something different.

There is a difference between defending your country and taking pleasure in humiliating someone. There is a difference between strong rhetoric and rhetoric that appears designed specifically to hurt, provoke, and degrade.

There is a difference between protecting your own country and wanting to tear down another for no reason.

It wasn’t enough to drive in the knife; they had to twist it too.

And from outside the United States, it is difficult to watch this and understand how anyone can consider it appropriate for a government to behave this way. This isn’t about being Canadian versus American. It isn’t about left versus right. It isn’t even about whether you agree with the person being targeted.

It’s about standards.

If a foreign government behaved this way, many of the same people would be outraged. They would call it cruel, undignified, or authoritarian, and rightfully so.

Canada and the United States have had disagreements for generations. We have argued over trade, foreign policy, borders, energy, defence, and countless other issues. But disagreement between neighbours does not require contempt for one another.

In fact, precisely because Canada and the United States are so closely connected, what happens there matters enormously to us.

Anybody who thinks this is acceptable behaviour simply because it is coming from “their side” has lost the plot.

Because governments are supposed to represent more than anger, vengeance, and political tribalism.They are supposed to represent their people.

And I would hope that Americans, regardless of their political beliefs, can still recognize the difference between strength and cruelty.

The whole world is watching.

And what they are seeing is not strength.

It’s something much uglier.

Source: Canadian United

[Laura Babcock 🇨🇦 @LauraBabcock]

Wow. Shame on Danielle Smith! Thanks for this Bob - loved our chat on 🇨🇦 The OShow about the propaganda being used in this trade war with the USA and the Alberta separation movement! https://t.co/tFWPunIjGM #cndpoli #Ableg

[Bob Pickard @BobPickard]

Smith is using a recognizable technique. Propaganda analysts identified it in the 1930s and called it “transfer”: take the emotional charge already attached to one thing and carry it over to another by associating the two.

Trump is a foreign president attacking Canada’s economy, threatening key Canadian industries and talking openly about annexation. Trudeau was Canada’s elected prime minister, and he left office eighteen months ago. Smith is now asking Ontarians and Quebecers, in the middle of an active attack on their livelihoods, to attenuate their anger about Trump by dredging up legacy resentment about a former PM.

Her framing is profoundly cynical. Only Smith could try and disguise a deliberate and manipulative redirection of anger as an appeal for empathy.

Her sequence: exploit resentment, blur unlike things together, be unnecessarily divisive at the exact moment solidarity is worth most. The central move is to manufacture an internal enemy while an external one threatens us. The effect is to weaken one of Canada’s strongest assets in confronting Trump: a united national front.

Smith talks about others' anger while she is the one who is now stoking it on purpose (to divide Canadians rather than directed at the outrageous American tariffs).

After the sad spectacle of Smith's self-serving communication and weak leadership this week, the more justified anger in Alberta may be directed at a premier whose instinct, when Canada is attacked by a foreign power, is to gratuitously revive old regional resentments and signal more sympathy for the aggressor than solidarity with her own country.

[Daina Janitis @DJanitis]

Our former Prime Minister, Jean Chrétien, turned 91 today. This is HIS "post":

"A gift to Canada from Jean Chrétien on his 91st birthday. LOVE this guy!!!
"Jean Chretien is 91 today and he gave himself a birthday present. He told Donald J. Trump to piss off in the The Globe and Mail. Here's his column:
* * *
Today is my 91st birthday.
It’s an opportunity to celebrate with family and friends. To look back on the life I’ve had the privilege to lead. And to reflect on how much this country we all love so much has grown and changed over the course of the nine decades I’ve been on this Earth.
This year, I’ve also decided to give myself a birthday present. I’m going to do something in this article that I don’t do very often anymore, and sound off on a big issue affecting the state of the nation and profoundly bothering me and so many other Canadians: The totally unacceptable insults and unprecedented threats to our very sovereignty from U.S. president-elect Donald Trump.
I have two very clear and simple messages.
To Donald Trump, from one old guy to another: Give your head a shake! What could make you think that Canadians would ever give up the best country in the world – and make no mistake, that is what we are – to join the United States?
I can tell you Canadians prize our independence. We love our country. We have built something here that is the envy of the world – when it comes to compassion, understanding, tolerance and finding a way for people of different backgrounds and faiths to live together in harmony.
We’ve also built a strong social safety net – especially with public health care – that we are very proud of. It’s not perfect, but it’s based on the principle that the most vulnerable among us should be protected.
This may not be the “American Way” or “the Trump Way.” But it is the reality I have witnessed and lived my whole long life.
If you think that threatening and insulting us is going to win us over, you really don’t know a thing about us. You don’t know that when it came to fighting in two world wars for freedom, we signed up – both times – years before your country did. We fought and we sacrificed well beyond our numbers.
We also had the guts to say no to your country when it tried to drag us into a completely unjustified and destabilizing war in Iraq.
We built a nation across the most rugged, challenging geography imaginable. And we did it against the odds.
We may look easy-going. Mild-mannered. But make no mistake, we have spine and toughness.
And that leads me to my second message, to all our leaders, federal and provincial, as well as those who are aspiring to lead our country: Start showing that spine and toughness. That’s what Canadians want to see – what they need to see. It’s called leadership. You need to lead. Canadians are ready to follow.
I know the spirit is there. Ever since Mr. Trump’s attacks, every political party is speaking out in favour of Canada. In fact, it is to my great satisfaction that even the Bloc Québécois is defending Canada.
But you don’t win a hockey game by only playing defence. We all know that even when we satisfy one demand, Mr. Trump will come back with another, bigger demand. That’s not diplomacy; it’s blackmail.
We need another approach – one that will break this cycle.
Mr. Trump has accomplished one thing: He has unified Canadians more than we have been ever before! All leaders across our country have united in resolve to defend Canadian interests.
When I came into office as prime minister, Canada faced a national unity crisis. The threat of Quebec separation was very real. We took action to deal with this existential threat in a manner that made Canadians, including Quebeckers, stronger, more united and even prouder of Canadian values.
Now there is another existential threat. And we once again need to reduce our vulnerability. That is the challenge for this generation of political leaders.
And you won’t accomplish it by using the same old approaches. Just like we did 30 years ago, we need a Plan B for 2025.
Yes, telling the Americans we are their best friends and closest trading partner is good. So is lobbying hard in Washington and the state capitals, pointing out that tariffs will hurt the American economy too. So are retaliatory tariffs – when you are attacked, you have to defend yourself.
But we also have to play offence. Let’s tell Mr. Trump that we too have border issues with the United States. Canada has tough gun control legislation, but illegal guns are pouring in from the U.S. We need to tell him that we expect the United States to act to reduce the number of guns crossing into Canada.
We also want to protect the Arctic. But the United States refuses to recognize the Northwest Passage, insisting that it is an international waterway, even though it flows through the Canadian Arctic as Canadian waters. We need the United States to recognize the Northwest Passage as being Canadian waters.
We also need to reduce Canada’s vulnerability in the first place. We need to be stronger. There are more trade barriers between provinces than between Canada and the United States. Let’s launch a national project to get rid of those barriers! And let’s strengthen the ties that bind this vast nation together through projects such as real national energy grid.
We also have to understand that Mr. Trump isn’t just threatening us; he’s also targeting a growing list of other countries, as well as the European Union itself, and he is just getting started. Canada should quickly convene a meeting of the leaders of Denmark, Panama, Mexico, as well as with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, to formulate a plan for fighting back these threats.
Every time that Mr. Trump opens his mouth, he creates new allies for all of us. So let’s get organized! To fight back against a big, powerful bully, you need strength in numbers.
The whole point is not to wait in dread for Donald Trump’s next blow. It’s to build a country and an international community that can withstand those blows.
Canadians know me. They know I am an optimist. That I am practical. And that I always speak my mind. I made my share of mistakes over a long career, but I never for a moment doubted the decency of my fellow Canadians – or of my political opponents.
The current and future generations of political leaders should remember they are not each other’s enemies – they are opponents. Nobody ever loved the cut-and-thrust of politics more than me, but I always understood that each of us was trying to make a positive contribution to make our community or country a better place.
That spirit is more important now than ever, as we address this new challenge. Our leaders should keep that in mind.
I am 91 today and blessed with good health. I am ready at the ramparts to help defend the independence of our country as I have done all my life.
Vive le Canada!
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[🌊 Wayne Rothe 🌊 @rotheneway61743]

To the Carney haters/MAGAts slamming our PM for walking away from a trade deal with the U.S., why TF would we agree to these demands? This an attempted hostage taking.

[Princess Consuela Banana Hammock🍁 @Angeline19781]

What the actual fuck?!

Some of you are actually pissed off we didn't agree to this?

Hold.
The.
Fucking.
Line.

[Peter Kelly 🇨🇦 @PeterKellyBC]

So the record of the last minute American bait-and-switch was worse than the rumours. #cdnpoli

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

You seem to forget the part about "using economic force" to "annex or acquire Canada," @GinnyRothTO.

Or the part about the "imaginary line" (ie border) based on "a fake treaty."

Or the Oval Office maps showing Canada as part of the USA.

Or the constant ridicule and denigration of our country and its sovereignty, and endless talk about making Canada the 51st state.

The attacks on the honour of our Afghan War dead ("they stayed a little bit back, a little bit off the front lines.")

Or our reliability as an ally ("they've never been there for us") after incurring some of the highest per capita casualties in defence of the United States in Afghanistan.

Or the threats to invade a neighbouring NATO ally (ie Danish Greenland.)

Or the threats to remove Canada from the Five Eyes, and the suspension of the Permanent Joint Defence Board.

Or treating Canada like a greater security threat than North Korea, the Peoples Republic of China, or Putin's Russia.

And now the stated goal of "changing Canada's behaviour." What behaviour? That of a reliable friend, ally, and major trading partner that actually respects its trade agreements?

Yes, we have to approach all of this with a measure of prudence, restraint and patience. Yes, we should seek a modicum of certainty amidst the constant chaos and impulsiveness.

But Canada is not a mere economic zone whose entire national purpose is the minimization of tariffs.

We are not a punching bag.

There is nothing "grown up" about ignoring or normalizing the constant provocations and betrayals.

"lol GUYS," our entire history of sustaining a sovereign Canada next to a global super power has been an act of constant will, of which we should be immensely proud. Because thankfully, our forebears were animated by love of country, not by craven cynicism masquerading as hard headed realism.

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

From the DM’s/Reddit…

Looks like the new Alberta Healthcare rollout is going just as smoothly as the ADAP rollout.

Danielle Smith likes to say that the UCP can walk and chew gum at the same time.

Sure doesn’t look that way…

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[🇨🇦 The Liberal Elite 🇨🇦 @The_Elite_Lib]

As a real Canadian, and a real Albertan, I’m really going to miss the separatists after Alberta body slams their little cosplay revolution on October 19.
All that unhinged passion. The endless petitions. The “this time it’s different, trust me bro” energy. The late night x map redrawing sessions. The pure, distilled main character delusion.
Once the province votes to stay, the free circus packs up and leaves. What’s left? Actual politics. Adult conversations. No more free daily comedy special. Which sucks.

So I’m going to give the separatists their flowers right now.

Things I’ll genuinely miss hearing them say:

• Spotting an Alberta flag that’s been hanging in a grocery store since 2014 and screaming “SEE?! THE PEOPLE ARE RISING!!”
• Treating every mildly annoying federal policy as literal proof that Ottawa is “occupying” Alberta
• Declaring that a single angry Facebook post with 14 likes is “the silent majority speaking”
• Insisting the entire province is one bad day away from storming the border… while 70% of them loudly continue getting conned by their social media influencer of choice. The fat one, or the other fat one that is balding. Or the skinny balding one that owes like 100-200k in fines.
• Looking at a Tim Hortons and somehow reading “this is the last straw, independence NOW”

There’s so many little things you guys did that made me laugh. And there’s probably so much more. I encourage everybody to post your favorite seppy memories here.

You chaotic, chronically online little gremlins. You never had a prayer. But damn if you weren’t the best unintentional comedy act this province has ever produced.

Alberta stays. Canada stays.
Your movement though? Sadly it’s already over. I really hope you guys keep coping for a while after it’s over officially. Because honestly, every single day I look forward to seeing your little crybaby messages on my posts. It’s the best. Don’t change.

Your numbers have been dwindling. Because of course. Oh well. It was fun while it lasted.

RT if you’ll miss the seppies unhinged performative Berta crybaby act.

#abpoli #canadian

[Alberduh Freedumb Fyters @ABFreedumbFyter]

I should have expected Marliana would make us jump through hoops to get her bribe.
GFY Marliana

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

The voter list leak sees its first lawsuit!

This press release announces the launch of a class action lawsuit against the government, the chief electoral officer, the centurion project, the Republican Party of Alberta and David Parker.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[Lucy 🇨🇦 @TheBlueGem3]

Just a reminder that Danielle Smith was once fired as a CBE School Trustee.

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

This.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[Gary Mason 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @garymasonglobe]

This is very well done. Makes Premier Smith look completely out of touch. She seems to just want to pick fights because that’s what she does best

[Alberta Working Forward @ABLabourToday]

Remember when Jason Kenney lost $2.1 BILLION in taxpayer dollars just to cancel Rachel Notley’s profitable crude-by-rail program.

Instead of protecting a project projected to bring in $2.2B in net profits, he took substantial financial loss that left struggling Albertans with nothing to show for it.

Rachel Notley’s crude-by-rail program had overwhelming support from all major players within the oil and gas industry.
https://t.co/OrX16bMqeJ