Comments on: Ready to Freeze in the Dark?

By: not again

not again — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:50:00 +0000

The west will not stand for NEP-II. Particularly when it’s being pushed by a Frenchman (Dion is a citizen of France), who can’t speak the language that’s spoken here. The natural flow of trade is north-south, we can do just fine without eastern canada. Look at the cash we’ll save just by losing Bombardier alone. The fact is we don’t need the east. Westerners are willing to split, its becoming more common every day to hear people say that they think its time to do so.

To Alan (post#4): The west has no objection to paying a fair share. What the idiot Dion is suggesting is that the Sask and Alberta should pay 40% of the Green Shi*t tax, while his spending of that money would only return 3%. That’s out and out ROBBERY. What Dion doesn’t tell Ontarians is that you will pay too. He won’t put a carbon tax on fuel, he won’t need to. The producers are going to add it to the price you pay. They will also reduce production, which will increase the price you pay. Actually, the east is in a lose-lose situation. If we leave, you will pay through the nose, if the carbon tax were to become reality, you will pay through the nose. The difference in the two is that if we leave canada, WE WIN, if we stay, we lose. Hell, between oil revenue, and gambling we probably won’t even have an income tax.

By: Just Me

Just Me — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:24:26 +0000

Alan, you must be referring to Alberta’s willingness to contribute far far more per capita to Tranfer Payments than Ontario, all while being underrepresented in parliament and the senate.

Right……?

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:32:02 +0000

Yes, it would be tragic if someone other than Ontario paid more than its fair share to maintain the Confederation.

By: Ben (The Tiger)

Ben (The Tiger) — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:58:01 +0000

No worries.

Harper will win.

By: EBD

EBD — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:33:12 +0000

Ten or fifteen years ago the notion of western separation was the province of parochial individuals with a stick up their ass. That has really changed quickly due to Dion’s green plan. A lot of people I talk to — and in two cases, have overheard in restaurants — who are saying a big “nuh-uh” to the Liberal green plan are reasonable, un-angry Albertans who never had a separatist bone in their body, but whose attitude now to Dion et al is “sorry, but that’s just not going to fly.”

Separatism was a rare and extreme position, now it’s more commonplace, simply matter-of-fact. Calm. I think it’s been slowly sinking in to a lot of people across the spectrum that the Liberals’ having no principles other than gaining power. They will happily take a crap on as many regions as would be helpful to the cause of holding Ontario and picking up just enough seats elsewhere to get them back in; unfortunately for them the provinces being robbed and raped aren’t going to just let it happen this time around.

By: jwl

jwl — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:36:34 +0000

I was wondering when the watermelons would expose themselves. Dion’s plan is a massive transfer of wealth from successful to not so successful and has nothing to do with fixing environment. He only spun it this way because he knew msm had his back. However, he made error by introducing this policy well before election and people can study his plan at their leisure.

‘Screw the west, we’ll take the rest’ still seems to be a governing principal of the Libs.