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Harold Buchner's avatar

Who said he will open parliament . He has more power than Trudeau who consistently broke laws and did what ever he wanted . This guy is just as bad and even worse in some ways . He has full power and if there is no parliament who can do anything . Can you even have a non-confidence vote if there is no parliament .

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Untitled's avatar

That's a question I mentioned last December.

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Dennis Cross's avatar

I am soon to be 80, and quite frankly this has been going on for as long as I can remember. Do you really think that politicians, who make money from the system, will change anything.\? Mr. Einstein said that continuing to do the same thing and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity yet here we are talking about the same old stuff. Great reason for Alberta to split.

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David's avatar

Yes, Alberta is my last hope. Should they leave their only regret would be that they didn't leave sooner.

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Harold's avatar

To form a new country, it needs a new name, a new flag, and a ratified constitution, that is signed by those who were once known as Albertans, but no longer are. The benifit: By the people of Alberta "leaving", the Canadian Constitution, the federal laws, the federal Court's, along with Alberta's provincial Laws and Court's, would no longer have jurisdiction. Further Benifit: Once the constitution is ratified, foreign ownership of the new counrty's resources, formerly known as Alberta, would become null and void, and cease to exist. (no contract) "The people's" ownership of the land and it's natural resources, that by politcal will was stolen from us - is restored.

Three of the smallest countries in the world are: The City of London, The Vatican City, and Washington DC. If Albertans were to separate, does the initial size of the new State matter? No, not at all.

To separate, you don't need the will of the entire province nor the will of those living on the treaty lands granted to them by the entity, that once the constitution has been ratified, will have no jurisdiction within the new Country.

Start small: all you need is one Village, one Town, or one City to separate, and a new country within Canada is borne. The laws of both the provincial and federal government will no longer apply within the borders of that Village, Town , or City, whatever the case may be. Once others see the benifits, they will join; the State will increase in size, accordingly, eventually encompassing the western provinces and territories.

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David's avatar

Thank you Harold.

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Ron Morey's avatar

While I agree that power corrupts and I support greater sovereignty for AB I am not sure why you would think Alberta politicians would be different? Lacking a moral compass only ensures more complex laws. The last ten years have shown what can happen when there is no belief in God with a total lack of self reflection. By the way I am 73 with too much experience to be .naive

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Dianne Skagen McBeth's avatar

Carney believes in the globalist WEF agenda. The globalists think they’re better than God because they seek to eliminate nation states.Nation states are a means of preventing one-world government and the ultimately world-wide tyranny. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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Dennis Cross's avatar

If we get a do-over the people can decide how they want to be governed. With a Constitutional Republic there can be checks and balances that can't exist in the Parliamentary System. You are right though, if we make God the foundation it can be the best.

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David's avatar

I'd like to 2nd God as being the most logical choice for the long term. How many thousands of years have we been promised peace by mortal man? Yes, God is the answer.

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Untitled's avatar

You're one of the younger ones on here.

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Don Hrehirchek's avatar

Good thing You said one of the younger, as I am74 . What a morale boost!

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Untitled's avatar

😁,78yrs.

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David's avatar

75 here.

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Harold's avatar

If you as a man are sovereign, your Country is sovereign. If you as a man are not sovereign, your Country is not sovereign. Our Rights are God given, not awarded to us by some moron acting as a Prime minister, nor by any man or woman costumed in a Black Robe, acting as a Judge. Who are these men and woman, who think they can take away from us what God has given to mankind? Are they above the creator?

The Laws of God are freedom; the laws created by mankind are slavery. The Laws of God are not complex, they are very easy to understand. "Do no harm and treat thy neighbour as thyself." Beyond this law, how many Laws do Canadians need? A: ZERO. With God's Law in place, the corrupt politcans, the robber barons, would be placed behind bars.

The Lawyers, the Prosecutor, and the Judge, are all members of a private society known as the BAR; they are all on the same team. They have their own language - called "legalese", a language that the general public - by design, and deliberately so, does not understand; moreover, the BAR is accountable to no one.

For the purpose of a demonstration, if we can call legalese the french language, it is akin to an english speeking person trying to read contracts and laws that have been written in French; for that, you need an interpreter $$$$$$$$$$$, and that is what the Lawyer is for. In contrast, if contracts and the laws were written in English (not the law dictionary, but websters dictionary) you would not need a Lawyer to represent you in a Court of Law.

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Untitled's avatar

Uhuh!

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Terry Froats's avatar

What will Carney do??

I predict nothing, absolutely nothing.

He will be absent during question period and create a new crisis. Then he and his minions will pretend that he is the only person that can solve it. He’s so talented, so worldly, so European.

Sound familiar?

The liberals have been hyenas and jackals since 2015.

The head hyena taking the chair from the commons with his tongue sticking out was a class act and very apropos . Perfect representation of the liberal direction we have received for our tax dollars for a decade.

Come back Canada, right the course.

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Don's avatar

The "Liberals" have blocked every ethical/ legal/ peaceful way to stop them...

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Willow's avatar

The damn Liberals got in because of Harper’s 1O years of bad policies and huge deficits…how soon we forget that both parties are corrupt.

The Great Conservative Sellout: How Harper and Poilievre Betrayed Canada

Danny I.P. – No Retreat. No Surrender.

April 9, 2025

Conservatives love to talk about “fiscal responsibility,” but when they’re in charge, it’s all slogans, spin—and the most expensive lies in Canadian history.

Let’s talk receipts.

Stephen Harper served as Prime Minister from 2006 to 2015. And during that time, he didn’t just mismanage the economy—he sold it off, ran up massive debt, and left Canadians worse off. From 2008 through to the end of his tenure, Canada ran eight straight federal deficits, racking up $158 billion in new debt—the equivalent of $4,400 for every man, woman, and child in the country.

So much for “Conservative fiscal management.”

And while they were burying us in debt, what did the Harper Conservatives do? They sold off Canada’s economic future like it was a garage sale. No nation-building. No protection for workers. Just short-term political optics disguised as economic policy.

Here’s what they gave away:

• Nexen to China: Sold to CNOOC, a Chinese state-owned energy giant. Harper handed over oil sands access to a foreign dictatorship with zero national benefit.

• Inco to Brazil (Vale): Our mining powerhouse sold to Vale, resulting in brutal strikes, job losses, and gutted union power.

• Stelco to the U.S. (U.S. Steel): Another industry sold off—U.S. Steel shuttered Canadian operations, broke commitments, and Harper’s government let them.

• Nortel to Sweden (Ericsson): A crown jewel of Canadian innovation broken apart and handed to foreign firms. We lost patents, jobs, and an entire tech future.

• Falconbridge to Switzerland (Xstrata): Turned over to Glencore—now one of the most controversial mining conglomerates in the world.

• Canadian Wheat Board to Saudi Arabia: The end of farmer-controlled grain marketing. Sold to foreign investors. Prairie farmers lost control of their own product.

• China FIPA: A 31-year deal letting Chinese corporations sue Canada in secret tribunals if our laws interfered with their profits. We couldn’t exit the agreement without a 15-year notice clause.

The context?

While other G7 nations were reinforcing their domestic economies after the 2008 financial crash, Harper’s Conservatives were gutting ours. They chased foreign capital while weakening Canada’s industrial, technological, and agricultural sovereignty. No long-term vision. No protection for workers. No strategy. Just submission to global capital.

And the damage didn’t stop at the economic level. One Harper-era policy decision—a change to the federal transfer payment formula—cost Ontario $8.1 billion over a decade. That money should’ve gone to hospitals, classrooms, and infrastructure. Instead, it vanished thanks to Harper’s political spite.

And now he’s back—but from the shadows.

Stephen Harper is Chairman of the International Democrat Union (IDU), an alliance of global right-wing parties that includes Donald Trump’s Republican Party. He’s gone from quietly shaping Canadian conservatism to cheerleading authoritarianism on the world stage. He’s endorsed Trump’s return to power—even as democracy is under siege in the U.S.

And here at home, Harper is endorsing Pierre Poilievre—his ideological heir and political apprentice. Same playbook, same dogma, same anti-worker, pro-corporate obsession.

Poilievre was right there for it all.

He voted for Harper’s budgets. He supported the sell-offs. He backed FIPA. He stood by while Harper gutted Canada’s self-determination. And now he’s doubling down—promising deregulation, privatization, and more corporate giveaways.

Worse, he’s calling Mark Carney—a man who helped stabilize the world economy through two global crises—a “grifter.”

The projection is staggering.

The only grift happening here is Pierre Poilievre pretending to be a fiscal genius while helping Harper torch the Canadian economy for a decade.

They didn’t build. They dismantled. They didn’t lead. They liquidated. They didn’t protect Canada. They sold it off.

And now, with Harper still pulling the strings and the IDU pushing far-right authoritarianism around the globe, Poilievre is here to finish what Harper started.

We can’t afford to forget it—and we sure as hell can’t afford to let them do it again.

Sources:

• “Harper approves CNOOC-Nexen deal,” CBC News, 2012.

• “Vale’s takeover of Inco: What went wrong?” Financial Post, 2015.

• “U.S. Steel Canada files for bankruptcy protection,” CBC News, 2014.

• “Ericsson buys Nortel’s wireless assets,” Reuters, 2009.

• “Glencore’s takeover and Canada’s mining sovereignty,” Toronto Star, 2013.

• “Saudi Arabia owns majority of Canadian Wheat Board,” Globe and Mail, 2015.

• “Canada-China FIPA: A raw deal for democracy,” Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2014.

• “Eight straight Harper deficits,” Fiscal Reference Tables, Budget 2015; Parliamentary Budget Officer.

• “How one Stephen Harper decision cost Ontario $8.1 billion,” TVO, 2020.

• “Stephen Harper endorses Trump and global conservative movements as IDU chair,” Guardian, 2023.

• “Pierre Poilievre gets Harper’s blessing as new Conservative frontman,” Global News, 2022.

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Maxwell's avatar

Democracy is dead

Like the mind of a typical liberal voter

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Dianne Skagen McBeth's avatar

What we see clearly now in Canada is that democracy devolves into mob rule. That’s why a constitutional republic - “the rule of law”- is superior to a democracy.

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J Holden's avatar

As long as the NDP communists and Quebec separatists support Carney there will be no end to the lunacy.

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David's avatar

This is no longer my Canada. Who knew our hold on democracy could be so fleeting?

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Rob Anderson's avatar

This nonsense has been going on for 80+ years. Now we use 100% of the GST take just to pay interest on our debt!

Our system is designed to allow corruption with no accountability and needs drastic change to laws governing how parliament works. If voting counted they would not allow us to do it!!

Time for massive revolt Canadians. Control the media and you control the people- time to take control back.

If none of us votes in the next election what happens? Time to test.

Rob Anderson

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Harold's avatar

Control the MP's - you control the government. The duty of controling the MP's rests upon whom? Answer: YOU. You are electing a Servant, not a Master - YOU ARE THE MASTER. Does a Master hire a servant and then go on a vacation for four years, or does is a Master keep tabs on the servant 24/7, and 'kick their ass' when needed? If you are not in your Servants face daily, weekly, or monthly, you are on vacation - your vote means Jack shit.

Once cast, your vote is your responsibility.

When an MP is not attending the House of Commons, they are to be holding Townhall meetings throughtout their constituancy - not idling around, nor fucking off on vacations. Carney is to be holding townhall meetings all accross Canada, not idiling around, nor fucking off on personal time, or vacations. For their wages, are these elected servants doing their job? To set the MP's straight, whose job is it? Are the electorate doing their job? No one is doing their job yet complaining about the outcome; very Canadian.

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Dianne Skagen McBeth's avatar

Bad idea and just what the liberals would drool over. The most effective revolt is to shut down the economy. Pick a day, or a week, or longer if necessary and no one leave home. Don’t go to work. Silent and oeaceful revolt! Or, get your torches, pitchforks and bring a guillotine.

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Don Hrehirchek's avatar

I like that idea, I could go for it!

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Wanda Lambert's avatar

The quiet 'Gutting of Canada' by the Liberals since 2015.

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John's avatar

He doesn’t have a majority he’s got him minority so he doesn’t have full power. He has to open the house. They have to come back and have the conservatives in the blocked and get together. They can get rid of Kearney and they can do it right away just on the $624 billion that he borrowed I don’t know where the hell he borrowed it because like where the hell do we have that kind of money and what is he done with it so far I’m pretty sure Canadians would really like to know where the hell their money is going because let’s face it this guy is such a corrupt banker that the Prime Minister of England when she was in power lost her position because Kearney did a whole lotta bullshit with the liberal party and they got in so man’s corrupt we all know he is corrupt he hit his money before anybody could actually find out what his net worth is so they’re saying is not worth a 7 million I’m sure his net worth might be 70 million but the thing is he has to open parliament if he had a majority then he wouldn’t have to open Parliament, but he doesn’t have a majority so as long as pure poly can talk to Premier of Quebec or the block to come together with him we can get rid of Kearney and then we can start with the pipelines the mines, and we’ll have to sell as much shit as we can to get this far out of the hole and then we’d have to find out where Kearney keeps on getting this idea of sending Ukraine money When Trump’s got negotiations for peace with Putin and they’re trying to work out a deal that all settle this war why would Carney be sending troops to the Ukraine and why would we send troops to Ukraine as Canadians? We have nothing against the Russians so we don’t need our Canadian troops fighting with the Russians and getting into it with Russia because right now as we stand, we don’t have the Americans protecting our ass anymore because of Kearney.

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susan gerbes's avatar

you don't know where carnage 'borrowed' that money???....I'll bet Ch-Ch-Ch-China!!!

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Untitled's avatar

I have been seeing this corruption going on for 40yrs. The only difference now is that in the last decade the corruption has multiplied by at least 150%. And the blame falls completely on the lieberals. All of which is obviously intentional. The lieberal freebie seekers have been lapping it up. They had best enjoy it as that will all come to an end in the near future. And maybe sooner than we think. The piggy bank is near to broke.

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JGP's avatar

Gas ain’t any cheaper in BC this summer. Let’s be clear, politicians treat Canada like a tax farm, especially western Canada.

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Concerned Male's avatar

Mess things up even worse. Carney has just picked up exactly where Trudeau left of in the destruction of Canada with a cabinet of stale Trudeau leftovers

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Christina Munn's avatar

Time to get rid of Carney by any means necessary

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Ron Morey's avatar

I predict that either the NDP will pull a Jagmeet or we will se another prorogation. Carney loves enriching the elites too much to give up.

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Indrek Sarapuu's avatar

Saw the header, and thought:

"Nothing".

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BRIAN FOURNIER's avatar

As usual bugger all

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