According to the latest figures from Statistics Canada, unemployment in Alberta is up again -- and so is the number of people who have stopped looking for work.
The situation will get even worse when NDP Premier Rachel Notley announces more tax hikes while refused to cut even one unionized government job.
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Of alberta motley is not going to go away quietly she is throwing it in albertans faces and making us pay for our mistakes of voting her in. Look at what she did over the weekend giving hawks worth a job yet he was defeated twice Goes to show she is not for alberta. Yet albertans won’t take responsibility for their choice. We are all given a choice to chose and yes albertans chose wrong majority will say that now. But if albertans really want their province back they have to stand up and make their voice heard not just on media outlets but publicly. Unfortunately motley is an admirer of Guevara Well albertans if she wants a revolution then we have to revolt against government and give her a revolution she can’t control or overcome. People need to dictate to a government. Sing petitions to have her removed. It’s need to be 100,000 of thousands of people doing it. If the body speaks the leader will listen. Why can’t we have here how America gets Middle East people to revolt against its leaders. We can do it here too and have a revolution. They’re not going to throw hundreds of thousands of us in jail are they? People want notley and her party out. Force them out revolution stile.
My hat off to you! I wish more parents would do that. We have such a spoiled generation that does not seem to understand what real life is like, how to work to survive.
Now as adults and see if social media can support them and pay their bills. My kids are saying it’s hard and their barely making it and I say you got 4 more years of this. Buckle down and figure it out. They say can we come back and I say you haven’t learnt your lesson yet. You thought it was better to vote against your fathers bread and butter now struggle
Like we are.
These people need to be held accountable for this. And taught tough love. No one gives free hand outs you have to work and earn everything you accomplish in life. Only socialists ask for free handouts.
I am certain the federal election has left many Albertans with a sense of impending dread, for good reason. We were witness to an electorate that gave the most powerful seat in Canada to a man with the mental acuity of a turnip. A liberal party that ran on a platform of the most ridiculous platitudes, massive debt, massive increase to bureaucracy, carbon tax (read: tax on everything), UN lapdog foreign policy, and a national security policy of ‘dialogue’ with ISIS psychopaths. So, what now?
I believe for Alberta it boils down to 2 options:
• Albertans have to give up conservative values and accept that the liberals are indeed the natural governing party and be content with the policies and governance that flow from Ottawa.
• Albertans fully embrace conservative values, which ultimately means, Albertans will be continually battling against Ottawa.
Option 1:
If leftist government is indeed the best option then it follows that conservatism is the worst option. In which case, we in Alberta have been on the “wrong side”. If indeed conservatism is the “wrong side” then the only logical next step is to renounce conservatism and accept the leftist position that control must be centered in government, not the individual.
Option 2:
Albertans fully embracing conservative values will mean that we accept Albertans are different people than in the rest of Canada (as demonstrated for generations of consistent conservative voting). If we accept that premise then the question becomes; do we want to continually have to fight a losing battle with a leftist federal government? Or, if we accept that the individual supersedes the government the only path forward that allows for any semblance of peace is separation.
Before anyone immediately launches into the “we need to stay in confederation and fight to be heard” I refer you to my opening statement. The notion of appealing to Canadians ‘sound judgement’ has been proven a non sequitur. Combine that with a far left biased media party, and you have no reasonable expectation of even a moderate centrist federal government, only government that will continually move further left.
The electoral map of Canada has now returned to pre 1980. Any gains that have been made for Alberta, federally, in the last 30 years have been erased and we are once again faced with a liberal government that views Alberta as the enemy. Or more specifically, views Alberta as the last bastion of individual freedom that has to be removed. The attack will come guised as an ‘environmental imperative’ in order to assault the greatest generator of private wealth on the planet, the energy industry. But let us be clear, the liberal government doesn’t want to kill the energy industry, they want to control it, for the benefit of the leftist elite, or more accurately, the Laurentian elite, and too once again consolidate power in Ottawa and render Alberta a serf outpost beholden to a liberal government. This is not new. The sole purpose of Trudeau sr.’s NEP was to collapse the energy industry, and by extension Alberta, so that it could be nationalized (see; creation of Petro Canada) to stem the flow of power and economic control from east to west. Had it not been for Peter Lougheed, Trudeau sr. may well have succeeded.
Fast forward to 2015,
We have a newly minted Trudeau liberal government with a majority and a grudge. Unfortunately, this time around Trudeau doesn’t have to deal with an Alberta premier that will stand up for Alberta. This time Trudeau has only Notley and company (who, thanks Danielle, also have a majority) to deal with. I am confident this confrontation will amount to nothing more than some dramatic grandstanding from Notley followed quickly by outright capitulation and swooning at the dazzling repartee of Trudeau. Because, let’s be honest, Notley hates the private energy industry even more than Trudeau does.
For those that don’t believe that liberals view everything outside of central Canada as colonial outposts to be economically controlled for the benefit of liberals, I would suggest you study the fisheries industry in the maritimes or the now defunct Canada Wheat Board. It will give you all the insight you will need to understand how the liberals have made an art form of manipulating provincial industry to ensure those provinces stay economically indentured to Ottawa and ultimately perpetuating the myth that provinces ‘need’ Ottawa and the liberals.
To those that hold to the idea that ‘in the next election with the right leader’ conservatives will again win control of the government, I will go on record right now: the cadre of extreme leftists hiding behind Trudeau will make sure that the bloated bureaucracy and government regulation will be so entrenched and intrusive that even if Margaret Thatcher herself was our prime minister it will be impossible to undo the leftist quagmire. We already have Trudeau on record this election saying he will institute electoral reform doing away with ‘first past the post’ for ‘proportional representation’. While this is not a completely bad idea the devil is always in the details with liberals. We can all be certain that any electoral reforms will be designed and/or rigged to benefit liberals not Canada.
So once again Albertans are faced with a choice. The same choice our parents and grandparents faced. Stay in confederation or separate? The notion of Alberta separation is hardly a new idea and it is most certainly not the easy path, but, to quote my late Dad, “it is time to shit or get off the pot”. Albertans either accept that it is time to take matters into our own hands, to which there is no guarantee of success, or, accept that Albertan interests are secondary to liberal Ottawa interests and just ‘go along to get along’
As for me personally, I would choose to honor the example of my Alberta homesteading family forbearers. I would choose to take the uncertain path and work hard to build a better independent Alberta rather than take the easy path and become an Ottawa liberal indentured Alberta.
I’m not sure we need to separate from Canada, but a new deal concerning the union should be considered. It doesn’t benefit the country when one province dictates policy simply because they outvote everybody due to population. The country is too big and diverse for that. I mean, what the hell does Toronto know about fishing, farming, forestry and oil wells anyway? Can one learn all that by reading school books?
Regardless, the population of Ontario dictates the government we have and they seem to be easily misled by the Liberal party who is careful not to bite the hand of the votes that feed them.
Which makes me wonder why would we want to be part of this confederation,
Alberta should have gotten out years ago when it had the chance.
I honestly do not think she could live in my brother’s Alberta neighbourhood after she is tossed – she is hated enough that her safety would be an issue.
Toronto is Canadas Anus
And Deborah, I don’t think you’ll ever see the premier any where near the common folks, not anymore, she will stay in the company of her commie cronies and live in fear for the rest of her life in Alberta
Factoring in not only the lost jobs (Let’s say it is 100,000) we can toss in the reduced hours (F/T jobs suddenly becoming P/T to avoid layoffs) I’d put the number at closer to 250,000. Wow. At that point people will just start running from Alberta.
But I’m okay with that.
Notley and the NDP are digging their own graves faster than thought. And if oil doesn’t meet projections (The NDP estimate was $68/bl – really?) that grave will get deeper and wider pretty fast. But it’ll be all good. Notley will run from re-election and her caucus will drop out soon enough. The NDP will be wiped out come the next election and gone from the face of the Earth.
But with no other credible parties capable of running let alone forming a government, I predict a WR sweep of the entire legislature. You heard it here first: Alberta will become a single party province.
What will be the population, what will be the unemployment rate, how many will have just given up and live on welfare.
You’re joking right? Ontario and Quebec IS Canada to the Liberal Elitists, the rest of the country are merely peons to finance the Liberal Elitists’ lifestyles and decadences. We have the Trudeau Dynasty in action now so expect to have even the lint stolen from your pockets in the coming months.
Oil worker = $200,000 plus
Solar Panel maint. = $35,000 ish
Yup. Notley’s world view.