Comments on: Central Canada’s Politics Offensive to Alberta, and other Westerners

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Thu, 08 Sep 2005 23:56:16 +0000

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By: Albertonaire

Albertonaire — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 00:51:51 +0000

I cannot wait until we seperate from Canada - lets see you divde up your “wealth” without us. Keep on voting in your corrupt, gay-loving, gun-controlling, mone spending Libranos.

By: George Freeman

George Freeman — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 00:25:36 +0000

I think the tokenism of the Liberal approach speaks more to the degree of interest they WANT to have Western Canada when they can GET their seats elsewhere. And given the regional differences in Canada, especially on the self-understanding of what Canada is and what it should about, the Liberals find it far to difficult to step away from the Central Canadian mindset—it’s not often in their strategic interest to do so. Hence, the focus they have on federalism as necessitated by a pact between “two founding nations” and the implications of that in lavishing attention on Quebec and Ontario. Hence, their abject failure to respect traditional and constitutional lines of provincial jurisdiction.

By: Peter Rempel

Peter Rempel — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:13:17 +0000

I like Rutherford’s tokenism comment. It is tokenism. How is holding a closed-door meeting in the west supposed to be a “constructive step” toward addressing western concerns? Do they really think we’re that fickle?