Friday, February 05, 2021

Secession?!!-----Whither Alberta—and the Rest of Canada?

Whither Alberta—and the Rest of Canada?
"It was a good deal all around. 
The Keystone XL pipeline... was the safest and most efficient way to ship crude oil in measures of scale—some 830,000 barrels a day—to the United States.
...At least 10,000 American jobs will be lost and another nail has been hammered into that territorial coffin called Alberta...
The consensus is that Biden, following in the footsteps of Obama, is catering to his woke-progressivist base and its environmental extremism...
Donald Trump Jr. has a different or collateral explanation for Biden’s precipitous action. 
It is a gift to Warren Buffet and other Democratic Party donors.

...Rex Murphy, Canada’s premier conservative columnist...poses the question of the hour to the rest of Canada:

Justin, it's for you.

If you allow the savaging of our economy, if you ignore what we in Alberta have contributed to you during the good times, if you side with rabid environmentalism, pour on carbon taxes and fuel emission standards, if you bar every effort to build even one damn pipeline: Why are we in this thing?”

He concludes: “And you know what ‘this thing’ refers to.”

This thing, of course, is Confederation, and although Murphy does not use the word, the only option, in the absence of a complete “re-imagining” of the country along fair and rational lines, is secession...Read all!

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