J Lumley

Father, husband, brother, son. Fiscal Conservative with a social conscience. Personal accountability makes the world a better place!

[Keith Wilson @ikwilson]

Alberta should study what worked for Quebec.

Quebec did not gain influence in Canada by quietly accepting a system that disadvantaged it. It created leverage. It made Ottawa understand that its place in Confederation could not be taken for granted.

Alberta should learn from that.

Today, Albertans pay heavily into a federal system while Ottawa continues to make decisions that affect our jobs, our resource development, our housing pressures, our services, and our future — often without meaningful Alberta consent.

That is the unfairness at the heart of the Oct referendum.

This is not about anger. It is about whether Alberta has the power to make the decisions that affect Albertans.

Quebec voted for a better deal and became impossible to ignore.

Alberta deserves the same seriousness, the same respect, and the same chance to decide its future.

[Aaron Pete @Aaronpete_]

I'm prepared to go to jail over this.

My grandmother Rita Pete went to St. Mary's Indian Residential School. She experienced terrible abuse. As a consequence, she struggled with alcohol use most of her life.

My mother was born with FASD as a consequence of her using alcohol to cope with her trauma.

I am Chief of my community Chawathil First Nation. I am working to address the longstanding impacts of these past policies through renovating homes, building new homes, creating childcare, and growing businesses through economic development.

I have interviewed people who went to Indian Residential Schools. I have interviewed people who believe Indian Residential Schools were awful, horrible schools, meant to remove the Indian from the child.

I've also interviewed people who believe they were well intended, generous investments by Canadian taxpayers meant to assimilate a society and had shortcomings.

Like with many things, the history is dark, complicated, and with any policy that existed for a long time, across a whole country - there were different experiences.

No one story tells us everything. No report shares the full experience of the individuals who went. No commentator today can disprove someone's lived experience with statistics.

The path forward is not to criminalize speech, questions, or debate.

The path forward is empathy for past attendees.
The path forward is truth based on facts.
The path forward is real conversations.
The path forward is to lean into complexity.

If the government criminalizes this, then I will be a criminal for having these conversations.

If I am a criminal by the laws definition, then I am committed to going to jail over this.

[Brian Lilley @brianlilley]

This move by Carney to not allow media in for the photo op and to only allow state media in is rather disturbing.

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

DERNIÈRE HEURE : Mark Carney est le SEUL leader du G7 à avoir conduit son économie à la RÉCESSION. Tous les autres pays du G7 sont confrontés aux mêmes problèmes avec les tarifs et aux mêmes défis mondiaux, mais aucun n’est en récession.

Les excuses, les discours, les belles paroles et les cérémonies de signature ne font pas croître l’économie.

Le Canada est le seul pays du G7 en récession parce que les libéraux de Mark Carney ont augmenté la taxe carbone industrielle, maintenu des lois anti-développement et doublé le déficit de Justin Trudeau.

[Nick Osmond-Jones 🇨🇦 @Nick_Decap]

I remember about 20 years ago a cabinet minister resigned over an $18 glass of orange juice. Now Carney spends almost $100k on luxury airplane food on 1 trip, and it's hardly news. We didn't tolerate this before, but somewhere over the last 20 years the Canadian public has lost it's balls.

National Post https://t.co/GDpdBDOgaz via @nationalpost

[Keith Wilson @ikwilson]

Professor Bratt: I trust you will point out the error in the city councillor's proposal to have a city vote to secede from Alberta.

The claim that “if Alberta can leave Canada, then Calgary or Edmonton can leave Alberta” is not correct.

The Supreme Court of Canada’s secession decision dealt with provinces. It did not say municipalities have a right to secede.

Provinces are constitutional actors. Municipalities are not.

Calgary and Edmonton exist because Alberta law creates them. Their powers, boundaries, councils, duties and legal status all come from provincial legislation.

That is why a city is not legally comparable to a province.

A clear vote by Albertans on independence allows Alberta to become an independent country. A city council resolution would not turn Edmonton or Calgary into a separate province, country or constitutional actor.

People can support or oppose Alberta independence. That is democracy.

But we should debate the issue honestly. The “cities can leave too” argument is not law. It is fear dressed up as law.

[Brian Lilley @brianlilley]

So let me get this straight.
Doug Ford is hounded to trying to buy a plane and incurring $200K in costs for returning.
Mark Carney buys 6 jets at $115 million each and spends $200k on catering for three flights and it is all good?

[Kirk Lubimov @KirkLubimov]

You can see in real time when Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew runs out of juice to power his remaining brain cells;

"This is a moment to get big things built in Manitoba. And I would say, now is the time to work together.
Why don't we hold off on this referendum talk for a year or two and see if we get these pipelines under construction?"

Someone needs to grab a few crayons and explain to him that Alberta independence isn't about Manitoba.

We will be glad to cooperate with him on projects, the movement is bigger than pipelines.

His province will get $4.7B in equalization this year. Time to pull up your socks and contribute, Wab.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

I dislike and mistrust all closed systems of thought

I particularly dislike Islam because it demands child marriage, female genital mutilation, the beating of
wives, the killing of infidels, the unending promotion of the worst aspects of the male ego, and a complete refusal to contemplate multiculturism

All of which are contrary to the values I hold

Are you telling me, Maliq, that this all is caused by a fear of the truth ?

[Melanie In Saskatchewan @saskatchewan_in]

"Did they vote for this in the last provincial election? No, they didn't."

That line from @MarkJCarney deserves to be framed and hung on a wall somewhere, preferably over the entrance to the "National Museum of Political Nerve & Hypocrisy."

Because now I have questions.

⁉️ Did Canadians vote for #Carney to pivot Canada toward a more European economic and defence model?
🙅🏼‍♀️ No, they did not.

⁉️ Did they vote for him to start loosening Canada from its most important trading relationship with the United States after campaigning as the only adult in the room who could handle Trump?
🙅🏼‍♀️ No, they did not!

⁉️ Did they vote for new strategic partnerships with China?
🙅🏼‍♀️ No, they did not!

⁉️ Did they vote for a revived industrial carbon pricing regime and carbon markets dressed up as competitiveness?
🙅🏼‍♀️ No, they did not!!

⁉️ Did they vote for "no Pathways, no pipeline" as national energy policy?

🙅🏼‍♀️ NO, THEY DID NOT!

Apparently #democracy only requires itemized voter consent when #Albertans want to ask an #Alberta question.

When #Ottawa changes the direction of the country after election day, they call it leadership.

When citizens want a direct say on the future of their own province, suddenly it is reckless, divisive and dangerous. Does this clown pretending to lead FOR Canadians even hear himself?

People asking people what people think.

Terrifying stuff.

#cdnpoli #CarneyIsALyingHypocrite #WesternAlienation
https://t.co/DN2vTrQnhL

[Bradshaw @myabradshaw78]

Here’s a good account to follow. Keeping track of Carney’s carbon footprint…

[Peter McCaffrey @peteremcc]

@anniedufour99 The federal government did not “give” us a pipeline.

The federal government took a pipeline that the private sector was already building with no taxpayer money and blocked it.

Then they taxed $34 billion from us to build the thing the private sector was already building.

[Tokyo Rosie @RosieRocks28]

Mark Carney says Albertans didn't vote to have a referendum.

Well, Canadians didn't vote for a majority Liberal government either, yet here we are.

[J Lumley @lummer1]

If only the rest of Canada understood this!!!!

[Peter McCaffrey @peteremcc]

If Canada wants Alberta to stay, it's actually quite simple - just treat Alberta fairly.

Here's how Ottawa could do that:

1) Fix the House of Commons so it's proportional to population.

2) Fix the Senate, so it's elected and there are an equal number of seats per province.

3) Repeal the multiple pieces of legislation preventing pipeline and energy project construction and let the private sector get to work.

4) Get rid of the equalization program.

5) Convert transfer payments using a tax point transfer.

6) Give up the "spending power" on issues that are provincial jurisdiction.

Note that literally none of these would change things to favour Alberta, they would simply remove existing inequalities to make things fair for all provinces.

If the rest of Canada isn't willing to even consider making things fair, why should Alberta stay?

[Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 @ryangerritsen]

Each and every time Alberta separatism is brought up in the media they go after Danielle Smith for stoking the separatist movement.
They rarely if ever bring up 11 years of being ignored & basically left out of the Canadian conversation by the Liberal Government as the true cause of Alberta Separatism.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

💯

[Peter McCaffrey @peteremcc]

Trudeau lit the fire.

And Ottawa, the taxpayer funded media, and elites like Arlene who look down on Albertans for wanting fairness, are the ones who keep fanning it.

[Neo @Realneo101]

Iranian politician Romina Pourmokhtari:

“Pedophilia is legal under the Islamic Republic of Iran. They legalized child marriage with girls even younger than 13.

“We are trying to raise awareness, but Western feminists are completely ignoring us.”

[Brian Lilley @brianlilley]

This bad boy just arrived in the mail from @integrity_to
Can’t wait to annoy city officials by wearing it to city hall.

[Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy]

The man who let the pipes burst in. Calgary wants to lead Alberta to a slough.