Of course Danielle Smith conveniently ignores the Treaty Rights of the First Nations peoples. If anyone in Alberta has the right to complain it is the First Nations. Her ignoring them is a fine example of exactly that.
Then, of course there is the fact that Alberta, from the days of Ralph Klein on, has placed all its chips on oil, giving away their black gold for pennies. They have never made any meaningful effort to diversify their economy, that’s for sure. They certainly play the victim card, conveniently ignoring their failures.
Rachel Notley did try to diversify, but the Albertan’s got scared because they only know about oil and gas and oil and gas is their God so diversification could mean taking a risk. Why would they wanna do that when they were perfectly happy doing what they always do and blame the federal government for everything.
Most energy groups state that need for oil and gas will decline sharply by 2030. That is in five years. They have done nothing to prepare the province re diversification. Smith prefers to follow the OPEC estimate of decline by 2050. Most say that is too generous an estimation. Of course as a supplier they would hope to keep it going into 2050. OPEC is increasing production whuch will lower the gas prices so Alberta’s revenue is already declining and their budget had the price of oil higher which screws up their revenue estimates. We are going from the boom to the bust now on top of the tariff issue causing global cost increases and wackadoodle thinks lets allow 10% of the voters to raise separation to add to the financial pain. It will also affect PM Mark Carney’s ability to push forward with his plans for Canada as it will risk investment and interest in Canada re,domestic separatist threats and chaos within. Smith is like a hurricane … like Trump … everything they touch they destroy. Imagine blowing up your life, livelihood and financial situation all to support wealthy US oil and gas firms that Albertan’s do not even benefit from.
She, a convicted arsonist, innocently sells tickets to a pile of matches and a can of gas and wants us to believe she’s uninterested if they are used to start a fire?
Hell, all I want from her and her useless as teats on a boar administration is a laminated plastic Alberta Health card!
I suspect that’s too tall an order from such a collection of raging incompetents.
Yes wonderful idea 💡….. Treaty 8 referendum to separate from Dancin Dani … in all seriousness if this separation referendum gains traction then the Treaty 8 and oil sands should hold their own referendum…. Be careful what you wish for …. Further hills are not always greener just further
Thank you for synthesizing my own views into such precise and completely relevant rhetoric. It would have taken me weeks to find words beyond my amazement at Smith's gaslighting skills. Her disingenuity is truly remarkable.
Many thanks :) it took me the better part of the day, and some rewrites, but I got there — and with far fewer words than I expected after all that time too haha
No one does. She claims figuring out what to do will be a problem for if they get signatures, and then if it passes. I’m sure Rob Anderson has it ready to go, it just goes off brand if she pretends she’s thinking about consequences.
They can have the tailing ponds. They can pitch their American and Confederate flags all around to make it seem more like home.
Smith is so ignorant. The most dangerous thing to do is to encourage the base to vote to leave Canada without providing them with the long list of consequences. If they think they have it bad now just wait until they realize how much they actually benefited from being within Canada. For one thing they would have to pay for their own pipelines but then again I doubt Canada and the provinces would be too keen to allow a non Canadian separatist country to put a pipeline that leads through each province disrespecting the indigenous rights and environmental laws. I mean how stupid and short sighted can anyone be?
As was clearly spelled out to Quebec that if they voted they would separate they would loose all access to Canadian currency, They would need to set up their own currency and banking system.
They would need to set up their own trade partnerships as they would not benefit from Canada’s trade agreements.
They would need to set up their own social supports, ie unemployment insurance, OAS, etc.
They would need to set up and fund their own disaster recovery services.
They would need to set up their own military/defense department and stock ammunitions and military equipment and personnel.
They would need to find their own border services/immigration system.
The lost was very long. Indigenous told Quebec the land was not theirs so they would need to set to live the land as it is not owned by Quebec. The refendue vote was no thankfully but still my company moved its headquarters from Quebec to Alberta. Oh the irony of it all. Corporations do not like instability. Investor’s do not like instability. So many head offices left. My company transferred out a large percentage of the employees and the remaining who were closer to retirement were terminated. Those who did not wish to transfer were terminated.
Smaller companies moved as well leaving staff jobless. Unemployment skyrocketed. Housing market crashed with thousands upon thousands of homes hit the market at the same time. I recall my street rows and rows of homes with for sale signs up. Values dropped significantly as folks who did not want to be part of a separatist province packed and left even of their company didn’t. The tax base drops significantly when corporations and citizens pack up and leave. The costs then fall in the shoulders of those who remain.
Quebec has never really lost the stench of separatist threat so Investor’s avoid it as do companies. They just go to other provinces within Canada that are not governed by chaos and threat. It also affects the financial rating of the province whuch in turns makes it more expensive to borrow. The lower rating the higher the borrowing rate.
Smith did not explain the fallout at all when announcing her extortion plans. Folks who are all fired up based on her lies re all the supposed injustices will not bother to do fact checking to see if what she says it’s true. Steve Boots on his YouTube debunked many of her claims against the Liberals. She even took a jab at the NDP.
Sadly ill people making emotional decisions based in lies that at the end of the day only benefits the US oil companies as they have been robbing Albertan’s forever and a day between the reduced pricing below market value and the low royalty payments and they complain against the carbon tax. Energy Media shared a post the other day and carbon taxing costs Suncor 47 cents a barrel …. but they do not pay 47 cents a barrel because once they deduct the subsidies they receive both federally and provincially and as well their carbon credits,that 47 cents is reduced down to nothing …. So next time an oil and gas company tries to gaslight re the burden of the carbon tax on them you know they are bs’ing.
Great piece! As usual if one wants to expose fallacies take them to their logical conclusions and then ask if it is truly what they wanted. Problem is we rarely do see these idiotic ideas taken to their logical conclusions and we rarely see good examples of it. This is one of those! Loved it from first line to last. Well done!
This still seems to be the 'great distraction' from the growing corruption investigations and complete dismantling of AB health. And of course the season of fires is already threatening people and property. But ... leaving confederation would make all these issues disappear ... governance is so complex.
Question for all - if the threshold for passing one of these patently ridiculous referendums is all of 178,000 signatures, what is to prevent me from filing a referendum to pass a "Clarity in Presentation" resolution - whereby the Premier must be wearing a tall white conical hat, heavy rimmed glasses, fake nose and snaggle-toothed false teeth and draped in a voluminous cape with alternating vertical white and black stripes whenever she is on the floor of the Legislature, or giving any public speech on any media platform.
I mean if we end up up electing gibbering idiots, we should clearly indicate to the unaware world such an idiot is standing up and blithering on our behalf.
To be honest, as I was editing it, the thought occurred to me that part of her might be absolutely giddy thinking this is payback for the vaccine mandates. She was in extremely high spirits during her speech yesterday and it really belied the importance of what she was talking about. When I think about how she might be just tickled to make the rest of us squirm over this... I wouldn't put it past her.
I have always defended Smith, at least on the question of her sanity, but now I am seriously starting to be concerned. Specifically, this ever-more right wing take on everything is very odd for a woman as intelligent and educated as she is. So I can only assume she is being coerced or controlled in some manner, or that she sees this as a winning gambit. As it so clearly isn't, I have to ask, what is her end game, and is it her game or someone else's?
Yes. Be better than she is! She never debates! She accuses, she lies, she bullies, she whines, she has a laundry list of imaginary grievances, she’s a crook under investigation, she hates Canada. What the fuck is supporting this greedy power seeking hag and her fascist bullshit going to get you??!! Debate it. YOU decide what you want, not her. And don’t fall for the momentary diplomacy coming out of her mouth. That’s a smoke and mirror event right there. If you don’t agree with her far right agenda, she hates you 100%
Of course Danielle Smith conveniently ignores the Treaty Rights of the First Nations peoples. If anyone in Alberta has the right to complain it is the First Nations. Her ignoring them is a fine example of exactly that.
Then, of course there is the fact that Alberta, from the days of Ralph Klein on, has placed all its chips on oil, giving away their black gold for pennies. They have never made any meaningful effort to diversify their economy, that’s for sure. They certainly play the victim card, conveniently ignoring their failures.
100 per cent
Rachel Notley did try to diversify, but the Albertan’s got scared because they only know about oil and gas and oil and gas is their God so diversification could mean taking a risk. Why would they wanna do that when they were perfectly happy doing what they always do and blame the federal government for everything.
Most energy groups state that need for oil and gas will decline sharply by 2030. That is in five years. They have done nothing to prepare the province re diversification. Smith prefers to follow the OPEC estimate of decline by 2050. Most say that is too generous an estimation. Of course as a supplier they would hope to keep it going into 2050. OPEC is increasing production whuch will lower the gas prices so Alberta’s revenue is already declining and their budget had the price of oil higher which screws up their revenue estimates. We are going from the boom to the bust now on top of the tariff issue causing global cost increases and wackadoodle thinks lets allow 10% of the voters to raise separation to add to the financial pain. It will also affect PM Mark Carney’s ability to push forward with his plans for Canada as it will risk investment and interest in Canada re,domestic separatist threats and chaos within. Smith is like a hurricane … like Trump … everything they touch they destroy. Imagine blowing up your life, livelihood and financial situation all to support wealthy US oil and gas firms that Albertan’s do not even benefit from.
She, a convicted arsonist, innocently sells tickets to a pile of matches and a can of gas and wants us to believe she’s uninterested if they are used to start a fire?
Hell, all I want from her and her useless as teats on a boar administration is a laminated plastic Alberta Health card!
I suspect that’s too tall an order from such a collection of raging incompetents.
Yes wonderful idea 💡….. Treaty 8 referendum to separate from Dancin Dani … in all seriousness if this separation referendum gains traction then the Treaty 8 and oil sands should hold their own referendum…. Be careful what you wish for …. Further hills are not always greener just further
I’ll admit I had a little fun with the possibilities 😏
Thank you for synthesizing my own views into such precise and completely relevant rhetoric. It would have taken me weeks to find words beyond my amazement at Smith's gaslighting skills. Her disingenuity is truly remarkable.
Many thanks :) it took me the better part of the day, and some rewrites, but I got there — and with far fewer words than I expected after all that time too haha
I think most, if not all, of Alberta is on treaty land so I am not sure what part she is considering for separation? https://www.maptown.com/Alberta-Treaty-Boundaries-Provincial-Base-Wall-Map-p/210701.htm
No one does. She claims figuring out what to do will be a problem for if they get signatures, and then if it passes. I’m sure Rob Anderson has it ready to go, it just goes off brand if she pretends she’s thinking about consequences.
They can have the tailing ponds. They can pitch their American and Confederate flags all around to make it seem more like home.
Smith is so ignorant. The most dangerous thing to do is to encourage the base to vote to leave Canada without providing them with the long list of consequences. If they think they have it bad now just wait until they realize how much they actually benefited from being within Canada. For one thing they would have to pay for their own pipelines but then again I doubt Canada and the provinces would be too keen to allow a non Canadian separatist country to put a pipeline that leads through each province disrespecting the indigenous rights and environmental laws. I mean how stupid and short sighted can anyone be?
As was clearly spelled out to Quebec that if they voted they would separate they would loose all access to Canadian currency, They would need to set up their own currency and banking system.
They would need to set up their own trade partnerships as they would not benefit from Canada’s trade agreements.
They would need to set up their own social supports, ie unemployment insurance, OAS, etc.
They would need to set up and fund their own disaster recovery services.
They would need to set up their own military/defense department and stock ammunitions and military equipment and personnel.
They would need to find their own border services/immigration system.
The lost was very long. Indigenous told Quebec the land was not theirs so they would need to set to live the land as it is not owned by Quebec. The refendue vote was no thankfully but still my company moved its headquarters from Quebec to Alberta. Oh the irony of it all. Corporations do not like instability. Investor’s do not like instability. So many head offices left. My company transferred out a large percentage of the employees and the remaining who were closer to retirement were terminated. Those who did not wish to transfer were terminated.
Smaller companies moved as well leaving staff jobless. Unemployment skyrocketed. Housing market crashed with thousands upon thousands of homes hit the market at the same time. I recall my street rows and rows of homes with for sale signs up. Values dropped significantly as folks who did not want to be part of a separatist province packed and left even of their company didn’t. The tax base drops significantly when corporations and citizens pack up and leave. The costs then fall in the shoulders of those who remain.
Quebec has never really lost the stench of separatist threat so Investor’s avoid it as do companies. They just go to other provinces within Canada that are not governed by chaos and threat. It also affects the financial rating of the province whuch in turns makes it more expensive to borrow. The lower rating the higher the borrowing rate.
Smith did not explain the fallout at all when announcing her extortion plans. Folks who are all fired up based on her lies re all the supposed injustices will not bother to do fact checking to see if what she says it’s true. Steve Boots on his YouTube debunked many of her claims against the Liberals. She even took a jab at the NDP.
Sadly ill people making emotional decisions based in lies that at the end of the day only benefits the US oil companies as they have been robbing Albertan’s forever and a day between the reduced pricing below market value and the low royalty payments and they complain against the carbon tax. Energy Media shared a post the other day and carbon taxing costs Suncor 47 cents a barrel …. but they do not pay 47 cents a barrel because once they deduct the subsidies they receive both federally and provincially and as well their carbon credits,that 47 cents is reduced down to nothing …. So next time an oil and gas company tries to gaslight re the burden of the carbon tax on them you know they are bs’ing.
Look how Brexit went for the UK.
Great piece! As usual if one wants to expose fallacies take them to their logical conclusions and then ask if it is truly what they wanted. Problem is we rarely do see these idiotic ideas taken to their logical conclusions and we rarely see good examples of it. This is one of those! Loved it from first line to last. Well done!
Many thanks, Frank! Glad you enjoyed it!
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This still seems to be the 'great distraction' from the growing corruption investigations and complete dismantling of AB health. And of course the season of fires is already threatening people and property. But ... leaving confederation would make all these issues disappear ... governance is so complex.
Question for all - if the threshold for passing one of these patently ridiculous referendums is all of 178,000 signatures, what is to prevent me from filing a referendum to pass a "Clarity in Presentation" resolution - whereby the Premier must be wearing a tall white conical hat, heavy rimmed glasses, fake nose and snaggle-toothed false teeth and draped in a voluminous cape with alternating vertical white and black stripes whenever she is on the floor of the Legislature, or giving any public speech on any media platform.
I mean if we end up up electing gibbering idiots, we should clearly indicate to the unaware world such an idiot is standing up and blithering on our behalf.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/982093453910757/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v
Why be respectful about separation?
To be honest, as I was editing it, the thought occurred to me that part of her might be absolutely giddy thinking this is payback for the vaccine mandates. She was in extremely high spirits during her speech yesterday and it really belied the importance of what she was talking about. When I think about how she might be just tickled to make the rest of us squirm over this... I wouldn't put it past her.
I have always defended Smith, at least on the question of her sanity, but now I am seriously starting to be concerned. Specifically, this ever-more right wing take on everything is very odd for a woman as intelligent and educated as she is. So I can only assume she is being coerced or controlled in some manner, or that she sees this as a winning gambit. As it so clearly isn't, I have to ask, what is her end game, and is it her game or someone else's?
Yes. Be better than she is! She never debates! She accuses, she lies, she bullies, she whines, she has a laundry list of imaginary grievances, she’s a crook under investigation, she hates Canada. What the fuck is supporting this greedy power seeking hag and her fascist bullshit going to get you??!! Debate it. YOU decide what you want, not her. And don’t fall for the momentary diplomacy coming out of her mouth. That’s a smoke and mirror event right there. If you don’t agree with her far right agenda, she hates you 100%
Many are. Smith and her MAGA fan prefer the US
Yes, Albertans are.
Danielle Smithh is not.
https://substack.com/profile/91548269-callura-michael/note/c-115093345?utm_medium=ios