Queenmandy85

Just make sure you save enough for future generations.

I don't understand that response. When I lost my job in the Yukon, I didn't waste time blaming somebody else. I moved to where there was work and got on with my life. Alberta and BC have great education systems. It means if your work in the forest industry or the oil patch goes south, you have the skills to do something else. I went to work for a major bank in the Kootenays and after that became a peace officer in Saskatchewan. There are lots of jobs in BC. The place is booming. You just have to go where they are.

Not until the oil glut is over and the global price of oil rises. We would be better off, conserving our oil until the supply in the middle east, Russia, the US etc starts to run out and the price goes up.

An interesting bit of trivia I heard on Terry O'Reilly's show. The children of survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs born after the war are statistically healthier to a tiny degree than the rest of the japanese population.

Separatism is not the act of a Conservative.

Me too. That is why I support the Trans Mountain expansion. If we export too much oil, we won't have any left for future generations. Why are you afraid of Fukishima? One guy died from a heart attack.

You don't think Canadians will object violently to some traitor out to destroy our country? When someone is lower than a slug that's too low to kick and too wet to step on, you hurt them. the best way to hurt them is kill their children.

So what do you say about the Slocan spill?

So would having them killed by anti separatists

That is nuts. Why would BC risk the last of its wilderness for Alberta. At least Transmountain is following an existing pipeline. A spill in the Northern gateway route would be a disaster. Remember what happened to the Slocan?

Do you think loyal Canadians would stand by and let someone wreck the country? Whether it is Alberta or Quebec, the new government of the separate state would end up calling on the Canadian Forces to give aid to the civil power. The most efficient way to make a separatist government suffer would be to target their children and other close family members. What would be the benifit to Alberta? There would no longer be any incentive to build any pipelines. Alberta would lose access to the National parks, the oil sands and access to either coast.

So they would cut themselves off from tide water. They would risk the probable ensuing violence that would be delivered on their children. And for what? The power remains in the heaviest concentration of population, namely the Great Lakes basin. Politics cannot compete with geography. A separate Alberta would gain nothing and probably lose everything.

Premier Kenny is dealing with several problems. Firstly is the inconcieved "Wexit" movement that ignores the fact that separation means a hermetically sealed state, cut off from the west coast by BC and a violent backlash from Canadians who won't take the destruction of Canada lying down. Kenny is no doubt trying to defuse that problem. His second problem is the question of his legitamacy from the allegations of cheating in the leadership race.

How many MP's are members of the United Church? I suspect a number of New Democrats. The United Church is against drinking alcohol and gambling. Will the media be grilling them about banning booze and the 649?

No, you and I and future taxpayers paid for them.

I am dubious of Mr. Bernier's conservative credentials. I also question his judgement. I am coming to realise you and I disagree on so many levels that my default is the opposite of yours. OTOH, I don't have much of a track record on being right...although, I did get 10-1 odds that Cassius Clay would beat Sonny Liston in their first fight.

I am leaning towards supporting Mr. Sheer simply because Taxme is making him look better and better.

That is what is called democracy.

It is a bit of a double standard. Women on the campus where I worked had no problem using the mens washroom in residence.

PR encourages the splintering of the smaller parties like the NDP and the Greens and encourages extremist parties like the Marxist Leninists and Social Credit. All you need is a few thousand votes from the crazies across the country and you get a seat. As I said, watch Borgen.

In an election, you are voting for your Member of Parliament. You are not voting for a Prime Minister. Parties already have too much power. PR only creates more small parties trying to cash in on the system and it removes all remaining local control. You end up with some tiny "Dairy Enforcement Party," with only 3 members, controlling the government. Watch Borgen. Canadians place too much emphasis on party. A political party's primary function is to win elections. Policy is way down the list of priorities because there are few options for courses of action available for governments. The claim of ideology is a joke. Roy Romanow was the most conservative Premier Saskatchewan has had in decades. He inherited a massive deficit from my guy, Grant Devine, and paid it down. So much for ideology. Trudeau made some clangers but he got NAFTA renewed and he'd building Kenny's pipeline. Sheer may have lost the election but he stopped Bernier from winning the leadership and totally destroying the CPC.

Doug, if you hate this country so much, why do you come on this forum? It must be very upsetting for you. Is it healthy to put yourself through all the aggravation to read all the devoted comments the rest of us have for this country?

I prefer a leader chosen by God, not some Putin, or Trump, elected by voters. You underestimate the loyalty of Canadians to the Queen of Canada.

Rather than PR, we should have run-off elections in ridings where the leading candidate does not have a majority.

In 1972, Bob Stanfield lost by about 100 votes. That is, if 100 voters in select ridings where the vote was extremely close, voted PC rather than someone else, Premier Stanfield would have become Prime Minister, defeating Trudeau.