There is an independence movement in Alberta.  Currently Canvassers are collecting signatures on a Petion requesting that the Alberta government hold a referendum asking Albertans if they want to leave Canada.  Alberta has a law that states any petition with enough signatures (approximately 5% of eligible voters) must be considered by the government.  The petition has already unofficially crossed that admittedly low bar which along with polls like this has the federal government very concerned.

A further 15 per cent say they might vote to separate as a way to “send a message to Ottawa,” meaning that as many as 42 per cent of voters could be in play for the separatists in an independence referendum.

There is a very real chance that Alberta will separate.  This is of great concern for the federal government because Alberta is the only province that consistently contributes more to Federal tax than it receives back in services.  Alberta leaving will put a multibillion-dollar hole in Canada’s financing.  Losing their cash cow has prompted the federal government to resort to their old playbook.  They got one of their lavishly funded special interest groups to challenge the petition in court.

On Tuesday, a judge in the Court of King’s Bench of Alberta is scheduled to oversee a three-day hearing involving a demand by the Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation to shut the separatist campaign down.

The First Nation has sued the provincial and federal governments and the province’s chief electoral officer, saying the separatist petition should be suspended on grounds that separation is impossible without First Nations’ consent.

The federal government likes to use courts to do their dirty work because they own the courts.  In Canada judges are appointed based on political ideology.  The appointments are for life and there is no mechanism to remove them.  They are the most reliable weapon in the federal government’s arsenal in their war against anyone who lives outside the original borders of Canada.

The judge in this case is Justice Shaina Leonard.  She was born in New Brunswick, educated in Quebec and worked for the federal government for years before being appointed by the Trudeau liberals.  So, a woman with no connection to Alberta, who owes her allegiance to the federal liberals presided over the case.  She got to decide whether Alberta had the right to stop being abused by her friends and paymaster in Ottawa.

Justice Leonard did not disappoint her friends in high places.  She found that a petition might cause harm to people who think they still own land their ancestors gave up decades ago.

The judge also found the applicants demonstrated the potential for irreparable harm that the signature gathering process poses. Lawyers for the ACFN and the Blackfoot Confederacy argued the absence of a stay could result in a loss of consultation, damage to treaty relationships between First Nations and the Crown and the undermining of treaty promises.

Justice Leonard knows there is no justification for allowing one small group to hold a whole province hostage, so she did not stop the petition.  She just ruled that the signatures can’t be counted for 30 days.  If that sounds stupid it is because it is stupid.  But that is just how Canada rolls.  When politicians want to do something, they find a WOKE moron in black robes to make a decision that has no basis in law or common sense.

Activist courts are a serious problem in Canada, but they are only one of many reasons that Alberta must leave.  This morning I would like to consider some of the more important reasons why voting to remain in Canada would be a huge mistake.

1. Canada is not a democracy.

This will come as a surprise to many Canadians, but I really don’t see how you call Canada a democracy.  In a democracy the people decide.  Any major decision would be decided by referendum.  You know like the referendum the courts just tried to block.  This can work in smaller countries, but larger countries often choose representative democracy.  Each area elects someone to represent their interests and vote on their behalf. Canada isn’t that either.

On paper Canada is a representative democracy but like so much else in Canada it is an illusion.  Canada is not a representative democracy because the representatives are not distributed evenly or even in some cases elected.  Canada uses a bastardized system that stacks the deck against Alberta.  To start with Alberta has the lowest number of MPs per capita (members of Parliament) in the country so a vote in Alberta is worth less than a vote in any other province.

The situation in the senate is even more uneven where Alberta is the second least represented province.

One can argue that Alberta is not represented in the senate at all.  In Canada Senators are appointed by the Prime Minister until the mandatory retirement age of 75.  They cannot be removed.  Currently in Canada 100 out of the 105 Senators were appointed by the same man: Justin Trudeau. So, the least intelligent person ever elected to public office in Canadian history appointed 100 of his friends to the senate.  Trudeau also appointed 7 out of the 9 current members of the supreme court, none of whom can be removed until they reach the mandatory retirement age of 75.

That brings us to the second reason why Alberta must leave

2. Parliament is a broken ineffective system

There is no separation of powers in Canada’s system.  All power lies with one man, the Prime Minister.  It is senseless that we even vote for people to represent us because they don’t represent us.  They represent the party that is completely controlled by the party leader.  They are just trained seals that vote when and how they are told to vote.

This concentration of power has very real consequences.  A prime minister with a majority or a cooperative minority party has the powers of a dictator.  That is why so many decisions that affect the country are never debated or voted on in parliament.

In December, the Liberals extended Canadian citizenship to everyone in the world over the age of three months who can prove that one of their ancestors was born here, no matter how far back.

One user reported that their children became citizens by way of a great-great-great-grandparent born in Ontario, who died in the United States in 1922. Another person, five generations down from someone born in New Brunswick, claimed they were approved in one week without submitting baptism or birth records for that original ancestor.

Without a vote in Parliament Mark Carney just extended citizenship to millions of foreigners.  One man just decided to change the rules about who is and is not Canadian.  In the Canadian system it is all but impossible to put limits on the prime Minister or any government for that matter.  That is why government has grown uncontrollably.  1 in 4 Canadians now work for government.  Government is the only growth industry.  Canada will not survive the burden this large, privledge, growing, parasite class puts on taxpayers.

If Albertans chose to stay, they would choose to stay inside a broken system that is slowly bankrupting the country.  Choosing to stay is choosing to commit slow suicide along with the other provinces.

Sadly, it is not just the government that is broken in Canada.  Many of the people are as well.  Which brings us to the last reason for Alberta to leave.

3. Canada is irreparably WOKE

Canada outside of Alberta is the WOKEST country on earth.  Canada was WOKE before the term was even coined.  Being WOKE means to accept absurdity.  Canada has that in spades.  Canada is the land of Orwellian double speak.  Liberals are not liberal, Conservatives are not conservative, there is no truth in truth and reconciliation and equalization supports inequality.

Canada has an equalization program.  The federal government gives money to poorer provinces to help them provide a level of services comparable to wealthier provinces.  But Canada runs deficits, so the government borrows money to give to some provinces and not others.  The money is used to cement inequality.

Estimated Cumulative Equalization Payments (1957–Present) 

• Quebec: ~ $250 billion+ (representing over 50% of all payments since 1957)
• Atlantic Canada (NS, NB, PEI, NL): ~ $120 billion combined
• Manitoba: Consistently a high recipient, though specific total is lower than Quebec
• Ontario: Became eligible in 2009–10; a major net contributor overall, but a recipient for over a decade
• Alberta, BC, Saskatchewan: Have received virtually no equalization payments for over 15 years, and in Alberta’s case, since 1964–65

On a per capital basis the Atlantic provinces receive the most but on a cumulative basis Quebec always gets the lions share.  This money is not sent to Quebec so that Quebec can offer a similar level of services as the other provinces because Quebec already provides more benefits than any other province.  Equalization payments are made to Quebec to make sure that no other province can ever be equal to Quebec.

Canada is dysfunctional.  It can’t be fixed because some provinces like Quebec benefit from the dysfunction.

 

Nostalgia and fear of the unknown is the only real enemy to Alberta Independence.  Many Albertans don’t like the status quo but are fearful of changes and hold on to the childish belief that the Canada from their youth can be revived.  Those people need to understand that Canada has never been a good deal for Alberta, and the old Canada is gone.  If you choose to stay you are not choosing that Canada.  You are choosing this Canada.  A country where home prices increase 10 times faster than incomes.

A country where anything you say can be classified as hate and land you in prison.

 if the commission of the included offence is motivated by hatred based on race, national or ethnic origin, language, colour, religion, sex, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation or gender identity or expression

Talk about the ultimate in WOKE.  You don’t need to do anything to go to prison if someone thinks you are motivated by hate.  That means anything you do or say can be used against you even when you quote factual statistics.

The complaint alleges that the professor “has explicitly said that Black individuals’ IQ scores may be lower because of genetics,” adding that he has also “presented data showing that Black people are 4.5x more likely to commit murder than White people.”

The truth does not protect you in Canada.  Neither does the law.  In Canada the law is what a judge feels it should be in the moment.

A Nigerian man convicted of breaching a no-contact order with his former partner has convinced a New Brunswick judge to grant him a conditional discharge to avoid deportation.

 

Why would Albertans want to remain part of this mess?  I have watched Canada become slowly worse with time.  Albertans can’t fix this.  All they can do is leave.  Leaving is the right thing to do, and it is not really a big deal.  Canada isn’t a real country anyway.

 

 

A few weeks ago, I discussed the new provisions of British Columbia’s health care law that were to come into effect April 1^st.  I admitted that I had not read the whole document, I only highlighted a couple of very concerning clauses that eliminated informed consent.  This morning I found this video.  I do not know who this woman is, but she obviously spent way more time reading the document than I did.

So, BC’s version of Dr. Mengele, Dr. Bonnie Henry, has not just decided to control what doctors are allowed to say and eliminate informed consent.  She has also decided that medicine should no longer be a profession.  Professional is a word used a lot.  Most people don’t realize that it has a legal definition and a legal designation.  In a legal context Professional Engineers are Professionals, professional hockey player are not professionals.  There is a reason for this.

This will come as a surprise to people under 40 but there was a time when governments were not entirely composed of sociopaths concerned with only their own personal fortunes.  At one time there were at least some people in government genuinely concerned about finding the best way to govern for the benefit of all.  One of the problems they dealt with was how do you tell when a doctor or an engineer has done something wrong?  They realized the average person does not have the training to make that judgment.  Their solution was professional associations.  To practice Engineering or Medicine you must be part of a professional organization that would regulate your activities.  A jury of your peers so to speak.

Those days are over in the Province of British Columbia.  It is the government that will sit in Judgment of Doctors.  This is insane but it is the reality of modern governments that believe they are all knowing.  Why let a panel of doctors regulate other doctors when a single bureaucrat knows more than all the doctors on earth combined?  The hubris of modern government is off the charts.

The problem with modern governments is that politicians and bureaucrats like Bonnie Henry believe they are demigods.  They believe they have both divine knowledge and a divine right to rule.  They do not believe the public has a right to question them.  We are just to shut up and obey.

But we need to do far more than just question these megalomaniacs.  We need to get them out of office and build a structure that never again allows the government to be captured by sociopaths.  It is that or you can let some delusional bureaucrat decide how to treat you when you are sick.  You decide but you better hurry because these delusional bureaucrats are quickly removing your right to choose.