What makes western separation so appealing?

 Mark Slapinski, who I follow on X.COM, @mark_slapinski, asks, "Just for fun: Do you think Alberta should become its own country? A - Yes  B - No"

This got me thinking, and talking:

Technically, Alberta is a sovereignty.

It has a democratic government that taxes and builds infrastructure within borders, and it has authority over police, courts, schools, roads, and it has a government with departments covering all aspects of life, including international relations.  

The idea that separation would be difficult is absurd. It would be liberating. The federal government has fallen to corruption. It's really non-essential to begin with. Think about it. British Columbia was a separate colony and thriving, as were all the separate entities, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick Quebec Ontario. Even Manitoba was forming a nation. The notion the federal government is anything but power for power's sake is idiocy perpetrated by satraps and mugwumps in Ottawa.

NEWFOUNDLAND WAS ITS OWN DOMINION (nation) UNTIL THE GOVERNMENT run by NFLD Liberals BANKRUPTED THE DOMINION.  Then they held a referendum to join another country, Canada, and a promise of Family Allowance cheques bought NFLD. Sad, because Newfoundland alone today would be one of the richest countries on earth. Instead, it's Newfoundland, Canada's hind end. That's on Liberals.

I would hardly speak for separation, except the federal government is criminal, or at the very least criminally negligent in running this country.  

 If another generation comes along and ferrets out the criminality which has infested the federal Liberal syndicate, and smashes the phony artifice pretending to politics when all they intend is to rob the taxpayer blind, I would suggest staying in Canada.

But. No. I hope the next generation will crush the criminal syndicate growing like weeds in the Liberal apparatus. The Boomers, sad to say, figured out, the best way to steal is to control the government.

Open revolt against Federal tax intrusions in Canada

🚨MAJOR BREAKING

ALBERTA REFUSES TO ENACT CARNEY'S FEDERAL INDUSTRIAL CARBON PRICING INCREASES

The Republic of Alberta is in open revolt!

Buckle up. pic.twitter.com/P28OLjipVf

— Tablesalt 🇨🇦 (@Tablesalt13) May 12, 2025

Why doesn't Quebec stay in its lane?

 💞Trina LaGüerita🇨🇦🇲🇽 @LivinTheFringe said, on X.com, "No transfer payments? Thank you. We’re tired of supporting you welfare jackasses.  We’re first and foremost Albertans and the idea of not being associated with idiots who repeatedly vote for corruption, crime, drugs, inflation, wasteful spending, against free speech, net zero climate scams, and unacceptable immigration is quite appealing, actually.  We don’t need O&G subsidies, we need to work without the Government’s lead food on our necks.  Our passports will be one of the most sought-after in the world, because we’re not freedom-hating, prosperity-rejecting Liberals."

Which got me thinking, and talking:

Not to mention persecution of Western Canadians and Albertans like Tamara Lich @LichTamara  for protesting illegal shutdowns by unrepresentative government. 

The Liberal Crime Syndicate has infiltrated to the core of society. Best to leave them to their ways, and form a new country. They are beyond redemption and any association with bad people is bad association.

There is practically nothing to be said for the federal government that isn't invasive and obstructionist to western Canadian values, those of people who want to raise families in homes in stable communities.

The provinces are in charge of these matters, literally constructing and sustaining ALL the elements of civil society, from  democratically represented government, to grassroots communities sustaining first rate schools, all the way to universities, graduating doctors and lawyers, and engineers and scientists. 

The entire apparatus of a well-governed society in Alberta is grown from the grass roots.

Forming a nation in western Canada is practically the easiest thing in the world. Put up a fence at Manitoba and start charging a fee to come in.

I mean this sincerely. I take provincial elections seriously, far more seriously than federal elections involving cheating, conniving bastards who want to strip the nation of it's power.  SO fuck you. You had your shot. You missed. Western Canadians are running their own game from now on.

Here's a question that I asked Grok but which is easy to answer.  How much does Alberta spend on Healthcare for its citizens?

{ANSWER

In 2024, the Alberta government's health care operating budget was $26.2 billion, a 4.4% increase from the previous year. This includes $475 million for primary care, $4.4 billion for acute care, and $1.13 billion for mental health and addictions. Total health spending, including public and private sectors, reached $45 billion, or $9,370 per person. For 2025, Budget 2025 allocates $28 billion in operating expenses for health care, up $1.4 billion or 5.4%, with $22.1 billion aimed at improving access to quality health services and $644 million for primary care.}

I ask you, why do Alberta citizens pay $13 billion a year to Quebec. Albertans have their own bills to pay.

Why doesn't Quebec stay in its lane?

More to the point: Does Quebec really need to take $13 billion a year from Alberta's children and Seniors?

Then reply to our faces, "You cultureless Albertans stink of oil," which in fact they steal from Alberta as well. So really, and seriously, western separation is becoming imperative. Westerners are being shoved out of the country.

NDP wants unwarranted Parliamentary status

There was a special chair for Stanley Knowles in the House of Commons. Perhaps the NDP would settle for one of those special chairs, because nobody wants them to have any power. By nobody, I mean nobody who walks into a poll to cast a ballot.

NDP's zealous embrace of Liberal…

— Citizen X (@MackMcColl222) May 10, 2025

Spirit Bears are a N.W. Pacific phenomenon

 

Image by Ben Robinson 

Fernwood 2 Nite

The pain of Liberal progress

 

The Federal Liberals did not make progress on improving any environment because they did the exact opposite. (Not to mention, the environment is none of the Federal Liberals business.) They stopped progress on every path. For example, the Liberals defunded training programs for wildfire volunteer firefighters across the board, and they wiped out the tree-planting industry by making a carbon tax plunder out of greenhouse operators, which put them out of business, so nobody has trees to plant in the burned out areas, nor the harvested areas. That's one tiny look at their forestry practices on the Federal interventionist level. (They never belonged in forests to begin with, but their blanket taxation practices don't recognize the obvious provincial jurisdiction of forests.

How about foreign policy? Carney has been in Washington, D.C., with Trump, all day today, May 6, and people are asking, what is the rancor of Trump versus Canada all about? Is it really $200 billion in donations from the U.S. to Canada, and the defense apparatus of the U.S. carrying Canada? 

Could be.

I reply:  Is the U.S. self-declared Anti-Israel? Because Canada is blatantly Anti-Israel as a government policy introduced under Justin Trudeau and perpetrated for the past decade, including during this period of all out war on three fronts. Liberal anti-Israel policy is carried on in explicit detail by Carney in election speeches, even in face of horrific terrorist atrocities by Hamas, attacks by Hezbollah, attacks by Iran, even as we speak, but especially since Oct 7, 2023 and every day since. Hostages, mass murders, and, IN CANADA, rampant hatred of Jews roiling in the streets unopposed.

So there's that.

Now there's word of an NDP interim leader, supposedly an anti-Semitic one. Sounds right. And this 'leader' will hold the balance of power without anybody acknowledging it, which means nothing is happening according to what you think. Which is more of the same Liberal criminal garbage. But hey, somebody finally stated the obvious, which is, nothing about Canada is for sale. That's simply fucking stupid.

Now when Carney said to Trump about meeting the owners of Canada, it might have been interpreted as a euphemism for chasing an electorate. More likely, it was the owners of Canada and nothing to do with democracy.

Quebecois live on Alberta Petroleum

Notice the flow of oil from Alberta to Quebec. Used to be Quebec obtained a vast amount of its oil by shipments from tankers. They bought Saudi and Nigerian and Venezuelan. Not any more. Quebec now buys exclusively from Alberta shipped to Montreal from Michigan.  This is important to weigh in discussions because it means Quebec is now married to Alberta for energy security but no one acknowledges this.

In a united Canada this would be standard operating procedure for Alberta to conduct commercial enterprise with Quebec. If the nation was governed by national interests instead of regional interests Alberta wouldn't feel separated from the proceedings of running the country and prospering in it.

https://t.co/E492GRRPIK The Oil In Quebec Comes From Alberta.

— Citizen X (@MackMcColl222) May 4, 2025

Economic and Financial Impacts of the Draft Transition Plan for B.C. Salmon Farms

Science cannot convince everyone. Take the Science of agriculture. It's probably the first science. But on Canada's west coast where a tidy salmon farm industry produces beautiful pathogen-free fresh daily, and activists stop the food safe year round scientific product for a gamey, wormy, unpredictable seasonal unsustainable invasion into nature's preserve.

"Going directly to a ban by 2029 will result in significant long-term negative socio-economic impacts in British Columbia and Canada. It will reverse and harm once positive Indigenous economic development and reconciliation efforts and severely impact employment in areas with a history of underemployment. An unjustified ban and push to unproven technology on salmon farming in B.C. will reduce Canadian agri-food production by 400 million healthy meals per year, eliminate B.C.’s top agri-food export, destroy 4,560 jobs, and cost Canadian taxpayers at least $9 billion."

VISIT:

Three or more squirrels is a scurry

 Springtime in Canada