Trouble in Canada?

[Chobham]

Alberta and Saskatchewan are pushing back against Ottawa. Has all the makings of a real cat fight.

 

[SubzeroGirl]

Keep the maple syrup safe

 

[Chobham]

Keep the maple syrup safe

National treasure.

 

[Chobham]

Slow “end of times” news day?

I was watching the presser with the Albertan PM re. soy boys gun ban(s).

A little tid bit I picked up elsewhere was about the Albertan secessionist movement. When the whole thing started there was only about 14% support, that support is now up to 42%. I sure a change in the Ottawa government can tamp that back down but the big question is whether they will or just double down?

 

[schism666]

I was watching the presser with the Albertan PM re. soy boys gun ban(s).

A little tid bit I picked up elsewhere was about the Albertan secessionist movement. When the whole thing started there was only about 14% support, that support is now up to 42%. I sure a change in the Ottawa government can tamp that back down but the big question is whether they will or just double down?

this is the rambling of a pickled liver.

 

[Chernosoth]

Canada will eventually split apart. I count five likely pieces: west coast, prairie provinces, Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritimes. The far north will eventually be more populated with climate change, so that could be a nation much later.

 

[JohnEBbad]

Honestly, I don't even pay attention to politics of any sort north of Nebraska. I have no idea whatsoever as to what's going on in South Dakota politics, let alone Canada.

My views on Canada have been highly colored by South Park.

 

[Chobham]

It’s great to see Americans take an interest in Canadian politics!

What’s happening right now is most Provinces have non-Liberal Party governments and we have a Liberal Federal government.

There’s a current rumour of a possible Federal election in ‘23, so the anti-liberal provinces are doing their part to be ready to help give Trudeau the boot and get Polievre elected.

Canadians rarely keep a Prime Minister for more than 8 years or thereabouts, so even though Pierre Polievre is a much bigger twat than Trudeau, he could get elected.

Bottom line is that both major parties usually wind up running things basically the same way, as Canadians are a center left people anyway.

Live in Ontario for a bit once upon a time so I pay a little bit of attention. And that's why I find Soy Boy's behavior shocking, not Canadian at all but more like a self-entitled little twit. And then there's C-16.

 

[lanceGibs]

Alberta and Saskatchewan are pushing back against Ottawa. Has all the makings of a real cat fight.

From your name think you wear some sort of armour to keep your butt safe

 

[Chobham]

Not that stuff, it was the bank account freezing and the jumping on the "Nazi" bandwagon that made me sit up.

 

[schism666]

If you wave a nazi or confederate flag in Canada or are in a crowd where it happens and you don’t immediately go home, expect attention from the authorities.

If you are part of a plot to overthrow the Canadian Government, expect to have your accounts frozen and await trial in jail without bail.

That’s the way we roll.

sounds like nazism.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Eight teenage girls who apparently met on social media have been charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of a 59-year-old man, Toronto police said Tuesday.

Investigators allege that the girls assaulted and stabbed the man in Toronto's downtown core early Sunday morning. Police said medics took the man to a hospital, where he died.

According to police, the eight girls were arrested near where the attack happened. Three of the girls are 13 years old, three are 14 and two are 16.

Canada seems like a very violent place.

 

[Martles]

"Canada will eventually split apart. I count five likely pieces: west coast, prairie provinces, Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritimes. The far north will eventually be more populated with climate change, so that could be a nation much later."

The Maritimes are dependent provinces, they would be economically unsustainable outside the federation.

 

[JohnnySavage]

You should definitely stay away!

You know... I've been all over the world, but I've never been to Canada. Odd that.

 

[JohnnySavage]

If you're ever looking for me... no need to look there. I'm at the point in life where I don't have to go any place that has more than 10 people per square mile.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Handsome, smart and a moderately successful ass-wrangler?

 

[HisArpy]

Eight teenage girls who apparently met on social media have been charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of a 59-year-old man, Toronto police said Tuesday.

Investigators allege that the girls assaulted and stabbed the man in Toronto's downtown core early Sunday morning. Police said medics took the man to a hospital, where he died.

According to police, the eight girls were arrested near where the attack happened. Three of the girls are 13 years old, three are 14 and two are 16.

Canada seems like a very violent place.

Canada should ban and confiscate all the guns. That way those 8 girls couldn't have killed that man... oh wait... someone ought to tell Ogg about this...

 

[HisArpy]

Not that stuff, it was the bank account freezing and the jumping on the "Nazi" bandwagon that made me sit up.

I think it made a lot of people do that.

It's not the particulars, it's the fact that leadership seized powers under the rubric of "an emergency" and has now turned into a little Hitler. For Canada's own good of course.

 

[HisArpy]

Dare to Compare?

Canada - The Emergency Act was enacted by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney’s Conservative Government in 1988 to deal with temporary emergencies of up to 30 days.

All actions are subject to the Canadian Charter of Rights & Freedoms and the Canadian Bill of Rights.

It’s been used once, for 10 days, to clear seditionists from our main border crossings and from the streets around capital buildings.

USA- The Patriot Act

( do i need to type anything?)

So much lol here...

 

[Rainblow]

Alberta and Saskatchewan are pushing back against Ottawa. Has all the makings of a real cat fight.

Ms. Smith's Act will eventually face constitutional reality before the Supreme Court of Canada who has final say on all provincial and federal matters. Not a cat fight just court proceedings. As to Alberta seceding? I'm down, bunch of asshats and fuckwads in Alberta. I'd happily trade Alberta for Minnesota who, with the Angle, are practically Canadian anyways.

 

[Rainblow]

Also, s'up with the fractured thread discourse? Is Lance deleting posts again?

 

[Chobham]

Hmm, some more.

Seems a little aggressive for merely "politics as usual."

I am taking note of the fact that the press is categorizing anything from the conservative side as "far right."

 

[JohnEBbad]

I didn't realize how bad things are. If this has any validity to it, it's very bad:

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/david-solway-2/2022/12/26/whither-canada-2-n1656418

Indeed, the judiciary now regards itself as the de facto framer and not merely the interpreter of laws. Former Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Abella referred to herself and her colleagues as “the final adjudicator of which contested values in a society should triumph.” As Bruce Pardy cogently writes, “The Supreme Court has read the Charter over its 40-year life largely through an ideologically ‘progressive’ lens, slowly transforming what was drafted as a roster of autonomy rights into a mandate for collective values, group rights and the priorities of the expansive managerial state.”

 

[Chobham]

I didn't realize how bad things are. If this has any validity to it, it's very bad:

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/david-solway-2/2022/12/26/whither-canada-2-n1656418

Indeed, the judiciary now regards itself as the de facto framer and not merely the interpreter of laws. Former Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Abella referred to herself and her colleagues as “the final adjudicator of which contested values in a society should triumph.” As Bruce Pardy cogently writes, “The Supreme Court has read the Charter over its 40-year life largely through an ideologically ‘progressive’ lens, slowly transforming what was drafted as a roster of autonomy rights into a mandate for collective values, group rights and the priorities of the expansive managerial state.”

Sounds like Canada's version of the Islamic Ruling Council.

 

[JohnEBbad]

My suspicion is that our Liberal Left has wet dreams over a court-ruled nation...