@funtomvids So far, 323 Canadians have liked this comment that is completely made up BS. There are so many stupid people in this country - and they vote Liberal. No wonder the country is about to implode.
@CTV_PowerPlay Another Lie-beral and notice how easily he lies, one lie after another 🤥 They’ve been doing it for 11 years and there’s the diehard Canadian Liberals who will continue to give them enough rope until we are all hung
“… Canadians elected a statesman who would travel the world” … and signed meaningless empty memoranda of understanding. Canadians are so easily impressed by someone’s polish and degrees. Didn’t bother to check if there was ever anything he actually accomplished other than look good and sound good.
@MikeTheNavyGuy1 Carney has offered a Canadian passport to anyone who has had any familial connection in Canada. Why would you discriminate against Albertans who were born in Canada?
@JM_Whiteside Referring to every conservative politician as “Trump” isn’t political analysis. It’s a way of turning a discussion about British Columbia into a discussion about the United States.
@Cliffor18175753@IM_EROS_ You’ll have to be specific. Which part? That treaties contain surrender language? They do. That individual citizens vote in referendums? They do. Or that chiefs don’t vote on behalf of their members? They don’t. Simply saying “the courts ruled otherwise” isn’t an argument.
They’ll still be on treaty land. However, you need to understand that a treaty does not pertain to ownership of the land. The treaties include language that First Nations “cede, release, surrender and yield up” rights to the land while retaining specific treaty rights such as hunting, fishing, and other treaty benefits. So they would still have access for those purposes. If there’s a referendum, every eligible voter gets one vote. Chiefs can speak for their communities, but they don’t vote on behalf of individual members.
@Cliffor18175753@IM_EROS_ First off, you don’t care a jot about treaty rights. You’re just trying to throw up barriers and fears. Second, no one has said that treaty rights need to transfer to Alberta from Canada.
You’re overlooking a simple point: Alberta controls municipal legislation today.
If a separation process were ever pursued, Alberta could amend the Municipal Government Act or other provincial laws before any separation occurred. Municipalities exist under provincial legislation, not the Constitution.
The idea that Calgary and Edmonton could simply decide to opt out while remaining creatures of Alberta law is a political slogan, not a legal argument. There is no basis in Canadian constitutional law.
And with regard to your inaccurate statement regarding treaty rights, no one is proposing to change treaty rights.
Poilievre was talking about food inflation and grocery affordability. And the reality is that Canadians are paying substantially more for groceries today than they were a decade ago.
Food prices in Canada are roughly 40% higher than they were in 2015. In practical terms, if a family’s weekly grocery bill was $100 in 2015, that same basket of groceries would cost about $140 today.
The inflation you’re talking about measures how fast prices are rising today. It does not tell us how much prices have already risen over the past several years.
A lower inflation rate doesn’t make that $140 grocery bill go back to $100. It simply means the $140 bill is increasing more slowly than before.
And for the record, Canada’s inflation rate is about 2.8%, not 2.2%. The U.S. rate is about 3.8%.
But when we’re talking about affordability, the more important question isn’t whether inflation is 2.8% or 3.8%. It’s whether families can afford groceries, housing, and other essentials. That’s why people care about the actual cost of living, not just the latest inflation rate.
Cities can’t secede. Calgary and Edmonton exist because Alberta created them. Provinces are constitutional entities; municipalities are creatures of provincial legislation. Comparing Alberta leaving Canada to Calgary leaving Alberta shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how Canadian federalism works.
In fact, Alberta has the authority to change municipal powers, boundaries, governance structures, or even reorganize municipalities through provincial legislation. Cities do not have a constitutional right to separate from the province that created them.
@Reil76 The real question is why is the Ottawa Hill Times verbally assaulting Poilievre about the Liberal’s recession and not Mark Carney. Oh right, the Hill Time has received $800,000 from the Liberal government.
@RodAVanier RV doesn’t realize you need a pipeline to get the gas to the terminal. Here’s how it works, Rod and followers: The LNG process is: gas field → pipeline → liquefaction terminal → ship → Europe.