Harper is Right. To Hell with the Separatists.
Harper is right. Those goddamned separatists, with their unending complaining…
A stunning 35.6 per cent of Western Canadian respondents agreed when asked “Western Canadians should begin to explore the idea of forming their own country.” (32.1 in BC, 43 in Alberta, 33.6 in Saskatchewan, and 28.8 in Manitoba).
their utter contempt for Canada…
Western Canada voted overwhelmingly for the Conservative Party of Canada and for Stephen Harper to be become the Prime Minister. Despite the fact that Prime Minister Harper was democratically elected, Ontario and Quebec once again united against us, to take our voice away. Financially and politically Western Canadians would be better served in a separate nation.
their incessant, petulant tantrums…
We are being forced to leave for the insatiability of others for power at any cost. We have never asked or been given a thing. Even during the grea6t [sic] Depression. No equalization payments for us or even when the NEP destroyed our economy than latter [sic] Canada’s by the progenitors of this trio. Alberta has sent billions East. Has lent billions for no interest loans, none of which some how never [sic] get repaid. This is how loyalty is rewarded while the Separatists get the gravy at our expense. The very one vowing to destroy Confederation are there to feed on its corpse. Even deciding our PM. Because of unjust biased language laws most of the bureaucracy is now most runs [sic] the Nation. 17% of a group has total power. The green candidate gets a Senate seat while Quebec will suck billions with its Senate seats as well. Jack Layton will be the ruin of the economy. If you think its bad now, you have no idea what’s coming from this communist. I don’t even care anymore. It survival now for the West. What would you do to defend your lands, culture, your very families? The Dominion is dead, with only Central Canadian leftists to blame. You severed it, skin, muscle, & bone. Thanks for nothing. Good run though, of a 100 years of looting. Right after you finished with the Maritimes. Happy trails too the lefty’s. My condolences to the people of Central Canada , even the duped. A Long night has begun for you our ex-Countrymen.
and above all their amazing handwringing hysteria..
Mark this day well. Liberal Fascism reared its ugly head and destroyed anything of value or purpose to be found in Confederation. I can hardly believe the scope of the hubris needed to conspire to create a coalition government which hands over veto power to a Quebec separatist party. I have become a stranger in a strange land without ever leaving my home. Canada is no longer my country nor is Toronto my home. I was planning to leave for the west at the end of June, and beyond my personal reasons for leaving, I realized today there was absolutely no future worth having or reason to stay here. Once my family gets safely off the plane, I have only one thing to say to the people of my new land – PUT UP THE FIREWALL.
How on earth can we even think about sharing power with people who so obviously loathe my country?
Seriously though, my oil-sodden, nouveau-riche children – it’s not the Twilight of the Gods. Have some nice warm milk and a cookie. And I sincerely hope none of you ever have to deal with a real crisis in your lives.
Which is why I signed off for a day, didn’t want a post highlighted here that I’d have to live with
You were smart. At least one blogger I intermittently respected, quoted above, went completely bonkers.
Do these people actually believe this crap, or are they, like, rehearsing for a pageant or something?
Oil is at $41/barrel. Albertans aren’t going anywhere except to the unemployment office.
And trouble further down the road perhaps?
Harper IS a separatist. Time to spin the message back.
And I sincerely hope none of you ever have to deal with a real crisis in your lives.
Yeah, if they keep going on like that, they’ll have a crisis awlright.
As much as I hate to say it, Harper and his message of hate is selling. His message of framing a constitutional reality as undemocratic is selling.
People who would normaly support at least one member of the coaltions see someone else in that coalition they hate and that is turning them against it. I’ve talked to Libs who don’t want NDP or “treasonous” imput. NDP who don’t trust libs. There are many NDP and Lib supporters who like many westerners don’t think the Block should have the right to be in parliament.
This coaltion is a PR nightmare which is going to sour people on the the center left for a decade and the fact the Liberals have a precieved incompentent Dork for leader is certainly not helping.
The Coaltion is not controlling the message, Ed was good the other day but where is everyone else documenting the lies, not only about our democracy and system but also about “fundamentaly sound economy”, “no deficit”, “no recession” On a friday that record job loses were announced every MP should have been preaching to thier local papers and the national media about the economic lies.
Even that is not enough however, people would rathter have, (as I’ve been told) a competent liar than a incompetent saint. Dion is not a saint and his election campaign and that shitty video the other night nails the incompetent label right to his forehead.
Dion replaced by a Westerner as interm leader NOW is imperative to save this mess from totally poisoning the political scene
The biggest nightmare of all begins to loom: a Parliament dissolved in January, followed by an election and Conservative majority.
Thanks, Stephane.
I’m no longer convinced they’re wrong.
Westjet fare Ottawa – Calgary: $299.00
Average Annual Wage in Calgary: $26,260.00
Value to everyone else of not having to listen to how miserable you are in this awful, horrible country: PRICELESS.
What a bunch of drama queens. Levant’s disease is apparently contagious.
(ahem) It is Levant’s Syndrome – not a single disease but a slew of ailments.
@balbulican –
Adding to your list:
Chance of finding affordable residential housing in Calgary: Slim and none, and Slim just left town.
Oh dear, poor Balb. He seeks out opinions that annoy him and ends up annoyed.
Annoyed, dear boy? No. Amused. Thus, a joke in response. “Annoyed” generates a demolition. Don’t worry, you’ll know.
An explosion, while noisy, doesn’t mean demolition.
But, I’ve distracted you from my own best interest. Please continue to belittle, demean and dismiss.
Heh. Thanks, I shall.
Whooee! I reckon a big part of the reason the Grits done so pitiful on Oct 14 was on accounta the hapless Dion. I’m sure Dion’s leadership cost the Grits a seat here in Diane Finley country.
Folks are latchin’ on to the idea that they resoundingly voted against the idea of a PM Dion and now it’s being foisted on them.
I figger the smartest thing the coalition could do is start plotting the next election. They need to work out non-compete agreements in any riding where they can whip the Con’s. Instead of uneducated voters trying to vote strategically to game the unfair FPTP system, we’d have the parties doing it.
The next election could be next March or April, if the Con’s can’t pass the budget. Instead of tryin’ to sell the coalition, they oughta be tryin’ to work together on winnin’ coalition seats by not running against one another in strategic ridings.
JB
Election in March or April is good possibility, JB, if the coalition holds. Could be a rather large ‘if’ and I honestly think that an election might be Harper’s endgame in this 6 or 7 prorogation.
But, there is another possibility yet. That the Liberals hammer out some sort of budget compromise with the Conservatives. A compromise that could include Harper stepping down as Conservative leader. Seems the Liberal Party might not hold the monopoly on ‘anonymous party insider sources’.
Green Assassin: “There are many NDP and Lib supporters who like many westerners don’t think the Block should have the right to be in parliament.”
Actually, it’s not so much their right to be in Parliament. They did, after all, win their ridings in the election.
It’s holding the gov’t hostage that I have a problem with, i.e. “won’t vote against budgets” which really means the budgets will have to contain things “good for Quebec” or no vote.
It didn’t help that on DAY ONE, Duceppe talked about the coalition being good for Quebec and ultimately good for sovereignty.
And as an ex-card-carrying member of a separatist party, I would never have wanted that party to have their hands on the federal chequebook, EVER. Serious conflict of interest.
Had the Liberals & NDP, combined, held 155 seats I suspect many Canadians (myself included) wouldn’t have liked the coalition idea but would have STFU as obviously, it is legal. However, by relying on support of a party whose stated goal is to remove a province from Canada, it’s a completely different picture.
How do you think the Anglophones in Montreal, that have supported the Liberal Party through thick & thin seeing them as the last line of defence against the separatists, are feeling about the Liberals joining forces with them? I’d be friggin’ furious, probably even more bugged than I, as a CPC supporter, am about the whole thing.
Very very tacky and unCanadian.
@FrankFrink: a quote from your link – “No less a political sage than former Progressive Conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney has privately told at least two of his vast network of friends that he is disappointed in the man who was briefly his protegé.”
That’s worth GOLD in the CPC party. GOLD. And LOTS OF VOTES.
Many CPC supporters, myself included, were uncomfortable with Mulroney having the ear of the new PM. Personally, I was happy to see him cut asunder during the whats-his-name chronicles (the German guy, you remember).
To paraphrase Margaret Wente, Canadians will vote for arrogance over incompetence every time.
To paraphrase others, I’m not interested in having a beer or being friends with my PM. I want him to run the country. Unrelated skillsets.
@Frank Frink – I do like that “pathologically partisan” phrase found in your link Frank…. two words that describe so much about so many these days.
Yes, after spending a couple of hours this morning checking out the MSN and sites across the spectrum, I’m left with the impression that the 20% of the population that loathes Harper and the Cons and the 20% that loathes the Libs/NDP think that if they each gather all together and convince themselves they loathe the other side twice as much as they did before, somebody somehow will let them govern the country.
As to Harper’s partisanship, he is beginning to remind me a bit of Dief in that respect. Every day was : “Libs to the right, Libs to the left, but still I stood firm!” It may have driven him slightly mad in the end.
@stageleft – Personally, I think they all gotta go. All the parties, with the exception of – and it pains me greatly to say this as a French-Canadian and a federalist – the Bloc, need fresh leadership, new ideas and far less partisanship. Their supporters, too.
We need a thorough and massive house cleaning, and yes, that was meant as a double entendre.
I finally understand this @name thing. It’s from Twitter. I’m a late arrival.