While I did vote for Danielle Smith, I reserve judgement on her policies and attendant political moves. I do not trust Carney to honour any supposed commitment in that infamous MOU. His abrogating his own prime ministerial responsibility and cavalierly granting pipeline vetos to B.C. Premier Eby and various first nations groups tells me that, by Carney's own quiet calculation, an oil pipeline to the northwest B.C. coast is already dead in the water. The MOU only gives Carney a superficial out that the mainstream media will wave and trumpet when the proverbial 💩 hits the fan when Danielle Smith realizes, by next summer, that Carney's played her for the fool. Mark Carney is fully committed to his green agenda, to the profit of his holdings in Brookfield and elsewhere. Frankly, any political neophyte can figure this out. If Carney was serious about an Alberta oil pipeline to the Pacific coast, other than the existing TMX lines to the lowered mainland, he would never have told Eby and the various B.C. indigenous leaders and groups that they have veto power over any future interprovincial pipelines built into and through B.C. This goes against the Canadian Constitution and Carney cannot actually grant such powers. But Mark Carney can and will actually bypass this neatly by refusing to exercise his own actual powers under the Constitution. So, Paul Brandt is a closet separatist. That would make me happy if it's true. Danielle talks about changing Alberta's place in Confederation but that really not possible without real, meaningful constitutional change which won't happen under the current constitutional amendments structure, the bar is too high, requiring seven provinces, which won't happen, not with 50% of the vote as well. As an example, equalization payments. Ontario might side with Alberta and Saskatchewan and even B.C. certainly would. That's over 50% of the population, but the Maritimes, Manitoba, and Quebec would be dead set against losing any part of their equalization money. That leaves Newfoundland which mostly gets some payment and has for most of the last 60+ years. With their oil and hydroelectricity revenue they have occasionally been on the have side of the equation during the past 30 years or so but is that enough for NL to vote for such a dramatic change, I doubt it. A vote for a 3E senate, Ontario and Quebec would oppose that so no 50% of Canada's population would be in favour of such change. You can go down the list and see that nothing about the Constitution that could be changed to better align with Alberta's values and desires will ever be changed because the system is rigged against the outer provinces, particularly in the west. I do hope Paul Brandt is an Alberta firster.
I do agree with you,, but make no mistake, Danielle S., is no fool, she's quite capable of holding more cards up her sleeve. Keep watching and be vigilant!
I wrote Danielle off after her infamous floor crossing, I voted Wildrose in that election, the P.C.s lost the narrative after Ralph Klein. I did vote P.C. in support of Ed Stelmach but after the health care administration fiasco back then, under Liepert, I'd seen enough. My ex was head of the lab at our rural hospital, served 22,000 people back then, and I was in the health care loop and in the know. They'd spent 25 long years, finally getting regionalization to function smoothly and going from 17 regions to 12 regions. The bugs were mostly worked out and then Liepert, who was a lawyer who'd been given the health portfolio, blew it all up. A lot of people were furious. Anyway, that's what Wildrosers were livid about, along with other P.C. miscues and outright blunders and failures. So Danielle and her floor crossers were all trounced and we got the 4 years from hell with the NDP. I'd written Danielle off back then but before Covid I'd heard of her media situation and how she left QR77. I found out she'd started a Locals channel so I started to follow her there. She took some real shots, on her channel, for those historic political miscues, including from myself, but she took it all in and did not seem to block any of us who vented, so long as we stayed civil in our rants and comments. Fair enough. Then Covid happened and all the attendant insanity, the straw that broke the proverbial camels back was Jason Kenney's vaccine passports that he refused to acknowledge as being such. The rumblings grew louder in the UCP membership as Kenney's government became increasingly authoritarian in their actions and we, on Smith's Locals channel, got some inkling of her musings regarding taking a run at the UCP leadership should Kenney be turned. I don't know if her followers had any effect upon her thoughts from this time, though some of us did float the idea that she should take a shot at the UCP leadership should Kenney be ousted. I'd like to think we'd maybe had some small bit of impact. After all she took flack from us, over past political mistakes, with good grace and apparent contrition. She'd been fed a heaping helping of humble pie and I believe it still colours her political judgement and maneuvers to this day. That is why I still support Danielle, though my own convictions are solidly in the separatist camp, I do respect her and do believe that she A) truly has the interests of Alberta and all its citizens in her heart; and B) has learned a humiliating and humbling lesson that too few politicians ever learn, and of those that do, very few ever have a viable career in politics after the fact.
All that said, I am a separatist and thus, I watch what Alberta's premier does with intense interest. I still vote UCP, mostly because, unlike in Quebec, there is no viable political separatist option in Alberta politics. They're all too damned busy fighting amongst themselves to ever get organized enough to be a credible political voice in this province. So, I await the reaction of Danielle Smith and our UCP government to what I anticipate will be a successful petition for a referendum question on Alberta separation. Danielle is limited in what she can say and do regarding a separation referendum as she is the leader of a province in Canada. She has to tread carefully and I get that. And as our political reality currently exists, she is Alberta's best option at this point in time. One things certain, 2026 will be a very interesting year in Alberta politics.
What side of the arena do you stand? If you're American you don't have to worry. If your Canadian then your f@cked, carney isn't dissing' trump, he's simply playing a part in a bigger deal. Carney is' the trump card to permanently screwing Canada into a really shitty deal with the US and once this happens, we might as well be a slave because the US will take everything Canada has like our oil. Whether we are trading or an 51st state and I'll never give allegiance to America, just like our province of Quebec won't be part of Canada. History repeats itself. Under the conservatives leadership, none of this would happen. That's all you get for now.
Althought I love this lady; our Premier, i'm not throughly convinced, she's speaks for the majority of the Independence movement. But, the truth will prevail, as what Albertans really wants. And, not get caught up in noise and rhetoric of what the "establishment" wants. We need see through this referendum, once and for all, what the people want, for the people, by the people. But, All Roads Lead to Independence!
Carney loves China. If Alberta really wants to be free. Do it. But go with the U.S. not staying with Canada and CARNY'S NEW WORLD ORDER. what the he'll is he talking about he could care less about the UNITED STATES . He's going to do all trading with Europe! Why? Isn't he man enough to be a grown man to talk to our LARGEST trading partner in the World??? The U.S . . He is proving he can't stop antagonizing Trump. After all Canada only does 85% trade with that country. Grow up Carney . With the rest of the world all we do in total is maybe 30 to 35% trade. Wow that's really going to get our country back up and running . Separate Alberta Canada is a sinking Ship, Carney is just taking over where Trudeau left off. Wish FORD WOULD GROW A SET, PUT HIS HAT IN HIS HANDS BOW HIS HEAD STOP SCREAMING AT TRUMP, and save us FROM THIS SINKING SHIP also. But he's way to busy spilling out good whiskey that's made in MANITOBA CANADA proving to the U.S. GOVERMENT HES PISSED AND NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE. ELBOWS UP 🇨🇦 THIS COUNTRY IS A LAUGHING STOCK. seems all our supposed leaders lost their frigging brains during the COUNTRY SHUT DOWN CALLED COVID 🙄 WHO THE HELL SHUTS DOWN A COUNTRY DURING A FLU!!!! NOW WE'RE paying for it. And hopefully this insanity stops soon!
I don’t know why Paul Brandt, and other musicians/high profile people just don’t stand on their principles and convictions, instead of “vaguely” putting something out to make people wonder.🙄
The new relationship with Canada should be as a trading partner we could SELL our goods to. No more freebies while they bite the hand that feeds them! ALBERTA INDEPENDENCE!!
Love Paul's music, but it is time to take a clear stand on this. The fence belongs to the Devil. Things are not going to change; 120 years at the table and Alberta does NOT have Rep by Pop. Never will. As for Smith WTF carbon sinks, and carbon taxes and net zero targets. NO, you do not negotiate with the devil.
That MOU is just like everything else that Carney says.....LIES! I found it very hard to believe that smile on your face as you signed it, for I believe you smarter than that. I also found it very hard to believe that you agreed to us paying more carbon tax, almost immediately, before any indication of a start on a new pipeline. What it boils down to is we pay right away on a MAYBE!!! Not looking very good on you!
Seems as though the premier is lying to us now. The mou was nothing but a trick to get more co2 tax, and she suckered right in. What happened to her promise saying that the 7 destructive fed regulations were going to get cancel or there will hell for ottawa. That time frame she set ended last fall. And nothing has happened but more tax, more communist regs. It appears that conman has turned her into s a liar just like he is. Come next election she will be feeling the crunch, if she lasts that long. I am thinking the feds got her drinking the lieberal cool aid.
Is Premier Smith still committed to raise the industrial carbon tax on April 1 ?
NOT WHAT I VOTED FOR!
It’s federel
Wrong. It is administered by the provincial government and revenues flow to the province.
Scott Moe refused the federal mandate, so Saskatchewan has no industrial carbon tax.
Premier Smith is also a booster of carbon capture. This will be funded by carbon taxes.
She also has said many times that she wants Alberta to be net zeroe by 2050.
Good luck paying for that.
While I did vote for Danielle Smith, I reserve judgement on her policies and attendant political moves. I do not trust Carney to honour any supposed commitment in that infamous MOU. His abrogating his own prime ministerial responsibility and cavalierly granting pipeline vetos to B.C. Premier Eby and various first nations groups tells me that, by Carney's own quiet calculation, an oil pipeline to the northwest B.C. coast is already dead in the water. The MOU only gives Carney a superficial out that the mainstream media will wave and trumpet when the proverbial 💩 hits the fan when Danielle Smith realizes, by next summer, that Carney's played her for the fool. Mark Carney is fully committed to his green agenda, to the profit of his holdings in Brookfield and elsewhere. Frankly, any political neophyte can figure this out. If Carney was serious about an Alberta oil pipeline to the Pacific coast, other than the existing TMX lines to the lowered mainland, he would never have told Eby and the various B.C. indigenous leaders and groups that they have veto power over any future interprovincial pipelines built into and through B.C. This goes against the Canadian Constitution and Carney cannot actually grant such powers. But Mark Carney can and will actually bypass this neatly by refusing to exercise his own actual powers under the Constitution. So, Paul Brandt is a closet separatist. That would make me happy if it's true. Danielle talks about changing Alberta's place in Confederation but that really not possible without real, meaningful constitutional change which won't happen under the current constitutional amendments structure, the bar is too high, requiring seven provinces, which won't happen, not with 50% of the vote as well. As an example, equalization payments. Ontario might side with Alberta and Saskatchewan and even B.C. certainly would. That's over 50% of the population, but the Maritimes, Manitoba, and Quebec would be dead set against losing any part of their equalization money. That leaves Newfoundland which mostly gets some payment and has for most of the last 60+ years. With their oil and hydroelectricity revenue they have occasionally been on the have side of the equation during the past 30 years or so but is that enough for NL to vote for such a dramatic change, I doubt it. A vote for a 3E senate, Ontario and Quebec would oppose that so no 50% of Canada's population would be in favour of such change. You can go down the list and see that nothing about the Constitution that could be changed to better align with Alberta's values and desires will ever be changed because the system is rigged against the outer provinces, particularly in the west. I do hope Paul Brandt is an Alberta firster.
I do agree with you,, but make no mistake, Danielle S., is no fool, she's quite capable of holding more cards up her sleeve. Keep watching and be vigilant!
I wrote Danielle off after her infamous floor crossing, I voted Wildrose in that election, the P.C.s lost the narrative after Ralph Klein. I did vote P.C. in support of Ed Stelmach but after the health care administration fiasco back then, under Liepert, I'd seen enough. My ex was head of the lab at our rural hospital, served 22,000 people back then, and I was in the health care loop and in the know. They'd spent 25 long years, finally getting regionalization to function smoothly and going from 17 regions to 12 regions. The bugs were mostly worked out and then Liepert, who was a lawyer who'd been given the health portfolio, blew it all up. A lot of people were furious. Anyway, that's what Wildrosers were livid about, along with other P.C. miscues and outright blunders and failures. So Danielle and her floor crossers were all trounced and we got the 4 years from hell with the NDP. I'd written Danielle off back then but before Covid I'd heard of her media situation and how she left QR77. I found out she'd started a Locals channel so I started to follow her there. She took some real shots, on her channel, for those historic political miscues, including from myself, but she took it all in and did not seem to block any of us who vented, so long as we stayed civil in our rants and comments. Fair enough. Then Covid happened and all the attendant insanity, the straw that broke the proverbial camels back was Jason Kenney's vaccine passports that he refused to acknowledge as being such. The rumblings grew louder in the UCP membership as Kenney's government became increasingly authoritarian in their actions and we, on Smith's Locals channel, got some inkling of her musings regarding taking a run at the UCP leadership should Kenney be turned. I don't know if her followers had any effect upon her thoughts from this time, though some of us did float the idea that she should take a shot at the UCP leadership should Kenney be ousted. I'd like to think we'd maybe had some small bit of impact. After all she took flack from us, over past political mistakes, with good grace and apparent contrition. She'd been fed a heaping helping of humble pie and I believe it still colours her political judgement and maneuvers to this day. That is why I still support Danielle, though my own convictions are solidly in the separatist camp, I do respect her and do believe that she A) truly has the interests of Alberta and all its citizens in her heart; and B) has learned a humiliating and humbling lesson that too few politicians ever learn, and of those that do, very few ever have a viable career in politics after the fact.
All that said, I am a separatist and thus, I watch what Alberta's premier does with intense interest. I still vote UCP, mostly because, unlike in Quebec, there is no viable political separatist option in Alberta politics. They're all too damned busy fighting amongst themselves to ever get organized enough to be a credible political voice in this province. So, I await the reaction of Danielle Smith and our UCP government to what I anticipate will be a successful petition for a referendum question on Alberta separation. Danielle is limited in what she can say and do regarding a separation referendum as she is the leader of a province in Canada. She has to tread carefully and I get that. And as our political reality currently exists, she is Alberta's best option at this point in time. One things certain, 2026 will be a very interesting year in Alberta politics.
100% correct!
Why are you promoting measles vaccines in your emails?????
I'm in Ottawa.
I'd like Alberta to separate and show the libtards and the separatist pieces of shyte just how fucked up they are.
I'll fight for Alberta.
Not afraid of the transgender loving retards.
Conservatives didn't start this.
Carney is a con artist.
Don't think this is about carbon.
Never was.
Carney and Trump are your new slave masters.
Thanks assh0les fir voting liberal.
How is President Trump your slave master?
What side of the arena do you stand? If you're American you don't have to worry. If your Canadian then your f@cked, carney isn't dissing' trump, he's simply playing a part in a bigger deal. Carney is' the trump card to permanently screwing Canada into a really shitty deal with the US and once this happens, we might as well be a slave because the US will take everything Canada has like our oil. Whether we are trading or an 51st state and I'll never give allegiance to America, just like our province of Quebec won't be part of Canada. History repeats itself. Under the conservatives leadership, none of this would happen. That's all you get for now.
Althought I love this lady; our Premier, i'm not throughly convinced, she's speaks for the majority of the Independence movement. But, the truth will prevail, as what Albertans really wants. And, not get caught up in noise and rhetoric of what the "establishment" wants. We need see through this referendum, once and for all, what the people want, for the people, by the people. But, All Roads Lead to Independence!
Carney loves China. If Alberta really wants to be free. Do it. But go with the U.S. not staying with Canada and CARNY'S NEW WORLD ORDER. what the he'll is he talking about he could care less about the UNITED STATES . He's going to do all trading with Europe! Why? Isn't he man enough to be a grown man to talk to our LARGEST trading partner in the World??? The U.S . . He is proving he can't stop antagonizing Trump. After all Canada only does 85% trade with that country. Grow up Carney . With the rest of the world all we do in total is maybe 30 to 35% trade. Wow that's really going to get our country back up and running . Separate Alberta Canada is a sinking Ship, Carney is just taking over where Trudeau left off. Wish FORD WOULD GROW A SET, PUT HIS HAT IN HIS HANDS BOW HIS HEAD STOP SCREAMING AT TRUMP, and save us FROM THIS SINKING SHIP also. But he's way to busy spilling out good whiskey that's made in MANITOBA CANADA proving to the U.S. GOVERMENT HES PISSED AND NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE. ELBOWS UP 🇨🇦 THIS COUNTRY IS A LAUGHING STOCK. seems all our supposed leaders lost their frigging brains during the COUNTRY SHUT DOWN CALLED COVID 🙄 WHO THE HELL SHUTS DOWN A COUNTRY DURING A FLU!!!! NOW WE'RE paying for it. And hopefully this insanity stops soon!
I don’t know why Paul Brandt, and other musicians/high profile people just don’t stand on their principles and convictions, instead of “vaguely” putting something out to make people wonder.🙄
The new relationship with Canada should be as a trading partner we could SELL our goods to. No more freebies while they bite the hand that feeds them! ALBERTA INDEPENDENCE!!
Love Paul's music, but it is time to take a clear stand on this. The fence belongs to the Devil. Things are not going to change; 120 years at the table and Alberta does NOT have Rep by Pop. Never will. As for Smith WTF carbon sinks, and carbon taxes and net zero targets. NO, you do not negotiate with the devil.
That MOU is just like everything else that Carney says.....LIES! I found it very hard to believe that smile on your face as you signed it, for I believe you smarter than that. I also found it very hard to believe that you agreed to us paying more carbon tax, almost immediately, before any indication of a start on a new pipeline. What it boils down to is we pay right away on a MAYBE!!! Not looking very good on you!
Seems as though the premier is lying to us now. The mou was nothing but a trick to get more co2 tax, and she suckered right in. What happened to her promise saying that the 7 destructive fed regulations were going to get cancel or there will hell for ottawa. That time frame she set ended last fall. And nothing has happened but more tax, more communist regs. It appears that conman has turned her into s a liar just like he is. Come next election she will be feeling the crunch, if she lasts that long. I am thinking the feds got her drinking the lieberal cool aid.
I'm almost with you there.
Lol, who listens to country music? Not me...
WEXIT is a thing