The size of the audience intrigues me. Have people just tuned all of this out?
Interesting side note… “his friend Tom” was the guy from the Whistle Stop crashing a party. I was there. The Unity Van from Forever Canadian was making a visit to my town so Chris Scott and his iPhone film crew showed up. True… he wanted to engage Thomas Lukaszuk. So began this one on one discussion right in front of me. Scott’s one point that he returned to several times was that he would still be a Canadian even after separation. Mind boggling awareness. Thomas gave him more than a few minutes and then with practiced political skills extracted himself.
The problem is- if you watch and listen , it’s clear a lot of separatist belief , in Alberta, comes from people who are ill informed, perhaps admire loud, glib politicians because they see loud and glib, and rude, as strength.
Even their grievances are not based on them understanding all they need to understand, around what the federal government has done over the years, related to Alberta, it appears.
I think they are not “bad ass adults”. I think they’re immature and misguided people.
As long as they gather to listen to the fanatical, and the opportunists, they are having their personal needs met, whatever those may be.
But when anything is run on emotion, city, country, province, you have what we have in Alberta; and what just happened in Germany.
To see all of the MLAs in BC leave that awful new “Conservative “ leader was encouraging. There’s hope sanity can prevail.
In Alberta? I don’t think we know how dangerous Danielle and her fanatical and/or opportunistic organization is.
It serms like a very big, irrational number of people that are widespread around the world. -Stephen Harper and his IDU…..
Stephen Harper being placed in the AIMco chair suggests that, in my view.
The events that are targeting separatists will bring more of those individuals in for sure, but some people really are looking for assistance with those questions. I have my thoughts on why they're there and after seeing these two events I'm really thinking "so why don't I try, too?"
The covid mandates were all provincial. The federal government just supplied the vaccines, the funding to help support businesses, etc. The masking protocols, social distancing, were all managed at the Provincial level across Canada. They are angry re masking, social distancing, school policies but all these was provincial jurisdiction under Public Health. Had nothing to do with Ottawa.
This post convinced me to become a paid subscriber but I'm still disheartened and stressed out about this whole moment in time. Living in rural AB is not very encouraging for me right now. 😒
I so admire you, Ma’am, for going where angels and many men fear to tread in order to gather and spread the truth about these scoundrels who have infested AB for far too long, ahem, NOTWITHSTANDING the historical if vacuous belief that there are no rats in this province. Ever notice that “The Rat-free Province” has NEVER been on AlberDUH’s license plate? I wonder why that is!
Alberta has real issues with the federal government, as do many provinces, but Alberta's solution, like Quebec's, is a bit peevish. Negotiate or do as you please. Canada's provinces are some of the most powerful non-federal jurisdictions in the world. Alberta can create alternative services for everything that bothers it about Ottawa, and it's constitutionally free to do so. Instead, they act aggrieved. If we are being honest, Alberta is upset that the Federal Conservatives can't get elected in Ottawa. That's their real beef.
The Fraser Institute, a conservative think tank, says this.
The study finds that federal transfers to the provinces and territories have grown substantially in recent years, increasing by 62.3 percent from 2005/06 to 2015/16—a rate much higher than would have been required to keep pace with inflation and population growth. Furthermore, the share of all provincial revenues that come in the form of transfers from Ottawa has increased significantly between 2005/06 and 2015/16.
The size of the audience intrigues me. Have people just tuned all of this out?
Interesting side note… “his friend Tom” was the guy from the Whistle Stop crashing a party. I was there. The Unity Van from Forever Canadian was making a visit to my town so Chris Scott and his iPhone film crew showed up. True… he wanted to engage Thomas Lukaszuk. So began this one on one discussion right in front of me. Scott’s one point that he returned to several times was that he would still be a Canadian even after separation. Mind boggling awareness. Thomas gave him more than a few minutes and then with practiced political skills extracted himself.
Nice— thank you for that!
Thomas is a class act!
I can't say the same for any of the separationists I've had the displeasure of meeting or reading about.
Ouch that sounds like a rough couple evenings. Thanks for attending and sharing, and for throwing in a good question or two.
Thanks for attending these Dierdre.
The problem is- if you watch and listen , it’s clear a lot of separatist belief , in Alberta, comes from people who are ill informed, perhaps admire loud, glib politicians because they see loud and glib, and rude, as strength.
Even their grievances are not based on them understanding all they need to understand, around what the federal government has done over the years, related to Alberta, it appears.
I think they are not “bad ass adults”. I think they’re immature and misguided people.
As long as they gather to listen to the fanatical, and the opportunists, they are having their personal needs met, whatever those may be.
But when anything is run on emotion, city, country, province, you have what we have in Alberta; and what just happened in Germany.
To see all of the MLAs in BC leave that awful new “Conservative “ leader was encouraging. There’s hope sanity can prevail.
In Alberta? I don’t think we know how dangerous Danielle and her fanatical and/or opportunistic organization is.
It serms like a very big, irrational number of people that are widespread around the world. -Stephen Harper and his IDU…..
Stephen Harper being placed in the AIMco chair suggests that, in my view.
The events that are targeting separatists will bring more of those individuals in for sure, but some people really are looking for assistance with those questions. I have my thoughts on why they're there and after seeing these two events I'm really thinking "so why don't I try, too?"
The internet and covid gave all these village idiots a "community", and here we are!☹️
The covid mandates were all provincial. The federal government just supplied the vaccines, the funding to help support businesses, etc. The masking protocols, social distancing, were all managed at the Provincial level across Canada. They are angry re masking, social distancing, school policies but all these was provincial jurisdiction under Public Health. Had nothing to do with Ottawa.
I was referring to the societal event. The Village Idiots are unlikely to understand jurisdictional nuance.
I know these areas you've visited and I'm glad you wrote about those meetings.
Your column may influence me to adjust how I write a few upcoming columns.
It does seem there are the rapid die-hard separatists, but not counted are the ordinary Albertans just wanting answers.
I appreciate this.
A good read.
Bless you for attending these and writing about it.
Ah yes we attended the one in Nanton last month, here was our experience https://substack.com/@jenhandley/note/c-300992511?r=5qpkzc&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Thank you for that— I’m going to add a link to your post. It won’t show up to those I’ve already sent it to but if they share it with anyone, it will.
This post convinced me to become a paid subscriber but I'm still disheartened and stressed out about this whole moment in time. Living in rural AB is not very encouraging for me right now. 😒
Welcome, and I appreciate it!. You can be the first to know that I will have an exciting announcement coming soon :)
Another great article, Deidre! Concise and informative, thank you 😊
Yikes! Sorry to have misspelled your name
No worries— it happens :) thank you!
I so admire you, Ma’am, for going where angels and many men fear to tread in order to gather and spread the truth about these scoundrels who have infested AB for far too long, ahem, NOTWITHSTANDING the historical if vacuous belief that there are no rats in this province. Ever notice that “The Rat-free Province” has NEVER been on AlberDUH’s license plate? I wonder why that is!
‘No to the Nine’ or it’s gonna be a ‘999 emergency’.
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Alberta has real issues with the federal government, as do many provinces, but Alberta's solution, like Quebec's, is a bit peevish. Negotiate or do as you please. Canada's provinces are some of the most powerful non-federal jurisdictions in the world. Alberta can create alternative services for everything that bothers it about Ottawa, and it's constitutionally free to do so. Instead, they act aggrieved. If we are being honest, Alberta is upset that the Federal Conservatives can't get elected in Ottawa. That's their real beef.
The Fraser Institute, a conservative think tank, says this.
The study finds that federal transfers to the provinces and territories have grown substantially in recent years, increasing by 62.3 percent from 2005/06 to 2015/16—a rate much higher than would have been required to keep pace with inflation and population growth. Furthermore, the share of all provincial revenues that come in the form of transfers from Ottawa has increased significantly between 2005/06 and 2015/16.
fraserinstitute.org/stu…
Thanks for doing by this Deirdre!
seems like AWIN selectively drops the "Faith" part of their slogans and replace it with something with broader appeal