@Patrick-l2g3g Equalization payments were first introduced in 1957/58 in order to sweeten the pot for Quebec to stay somewhat happy with Confederation. Yes Alberta did receive an equalization once in 1964.
Why do you think the LIEberals and ndp DESTROYED the Immigration System? They are FLOODING the East, in Particular, and the rest of Canada in General with Illegal Migrants, Refugees and Millions of other less desirable? WHY? NUMBERS. BIGGER Population means MORE SEATS. They are also reasonably sure, that those that "settle" in the WEST will VOTE LIEberal as well because they let them in. Again NUMBERS. it's about many things, but one of the MAIN Ones is RIGGING the Elections in their Favor.
in communism there's no private property. if it was truly communist it would last about 5 minutes before it was gone, the downstairs neighbours wouldn't tolerate that for a second.
Quebec tried to leave twice, and you guys cheated the polls, so we can't go. You now stay and pay. Despite this, I gave you a thumb because yeah Quebec needs to leave Canada, liberal are flooding us with 3rd world, and to them, you pay subsidies, not us.
It's time we all parted ways. Europe has dozens of countries with smaller populations than many of our provinces. What we need is the courage to do the right thing and form 13 small independent and free countries.
There are many many problematic people outside of Quebec ruining this country. Of the many problems one of the main ones is how lefty ideology has seeped into our society... like a cancer. If Quebec was to leave, we'd still be in serious trouble. Better to have Western Canada leave and create a new, successful, common sense-based nation. If it was only Alberta then sobeit. I'd move back there in a heartbeat... despite the harsh weather. I'd rather plug my car in than have to continue dealing with marxist idiots.
Alberta Independence is the only path forward. A Republic with a Constitution written by the people for the people. We need a Constitutional Convention.
@@albertapatriot3877 sure it is, haven't you noticed the wars? haven't you noticed all the countries avoiding using the world reserve currency? haven't you noticed the $36 trillion in debt and growing fast? haven't you noticed the insane politics and mental health issues?
@@albertapatriot3877 please, he's a joke and his warhawk cabinet is too. the deep state will twist him up like a pretzel again. he can't sort out anything of substance as the empire is in steep decline and that not a secret.
We Canadians are far too nice to politicians. Trudeau's natural intelligence places him in the borderline simian range but nobody has ever told him so. The result is that Trudeau is absolutely bewildered that Canadians would reject his moral superiority and natural leadership abilities. As for other politicians, we let them get away with offering more and more bribes until they resort to identity politics which, obviously, destroys cohesive societies in short order. If Alberta wants out of confederation to chart a new course for itself, it would have to limit terms for elected officials. No more jobs for life.
I'm from Ontario and I see like this: Quebec, the province in Canada, should receive NO equalization subsidies until they sign on to our constitution. The bloc separatists should be removed from parliament and designated persona non grata. If the population of Quebec wants to leave Canada and become independent; then GO! If it's just bloc political hacks using this threat then; piss off!
When the French and British war finally ended and they become friends they started to build Canada so they made a friendly race to see who would connect every province first so they both set out to build railways across Canada. Now that leaves 2 railways French and English. One got stripped of their railway amongst other things so they threatened to separate. Since they divided Canada in half which no one wanted they ended up settling on a type of royalty. And then the equalization payment was formed. But hey politicians wouldn’t misname something on purpose now would they? Way too many bias media puppets can’t put 2 and 2 together to figure out the simplest of things. Unfortunately if anyone built something like cn rail I’d want to be compensated nicely as well.
The fundamental Canadian problem is a flawed constitution which gives a couple of provinces far more political representation in both our houses of Parliament (the Senate and House of Commons). We need a Triple-E Senate. In other federations (Australia, Germany, Argentina, USA), the Senate directly represents the states and the lower chamber (House of Commons) directly represents the people in proportion to provincial populations. In the USA, each state is represented by 2 elected senators. In Australia, each state get 12 elected senators. In Canada the Prime Minister appoints Senators. Ontario and Quebec get 24 each; Nova Scotia and New Brunswick get 10 each; BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Newfoundland, get 6 each; PEI gets 4. The western provinces will always be less equal that the other provinces. In addition, Quebec is granted special status with respect to the number of MPs and numerous extra powers such as guaranteed at least 3 of the 9 Supreme Court judges, that gives it undue powers over the other provinces. Granting special status to only some citizens causes divisions, not unity, among Canadians. Since the Canadian constitution cannot practically be amended in order to provide political fairness to every Canadian citizen, independence is the only option.
And don't forget that Quebec is sitting on a lake of oil or gas. They're not digging a hole for it to supply themselves. Much easier to collect the Western cash...
I am 64,live in Saskatoon,retired business owner,failed experiment ,i said this over 30 years ago,the west needs to wake up and stop all the BS talking and actually do something .With a few growing pains Sask. and Alberta could be as rich as those Saudi oil barons,we just need to ditch the dead weight (REST OF CANADA)!
We gotta go. The Reform Party was the last attempt at conciliation. Its failed. We can't leave tomorrow so what we need is to form a Western Block party...not a western independence party because that gets to much negative press. We start with getting all the seats in the west and leverage that just like the Bloc Québecois does.
Our elections are almost always a known quantity, before the west finishes counting. A western block just means that the Liberals will always win. It's Wexit or nothing.
Me think the federal government. Has grown too bloated and big that it has over reached their original mandate. The provinces and territories must review the function of federal government and take back more control
But not lower mainland BC and Vancouver Island. Those places are right-offs. The mind virus has infected everyone and they cannot be saved. Let northern BC and the BC interior come over to the new country if they want to, but anyone who has every had a mailing address in either Vancouver, Victoria, or Nanaimo should be immediately and permanently deported to Canada.
I have talked to a number of people who would vote to separate the West from the east if they could. They would love to have a referendum on this point. It would send a loud message to the east.
I believe it was Sir Winston Churchill who said: “A democracy is 3 wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.” Alberta is better aligned to American culture and government. Best served as the 51st state of the Union.
no don't want to be a state just a small country pull out our share of the pension fund put it in a new Alberta pension fund freeloader said that would bankrupt the rest of Canada but oh well
The US is a democratic republic. Which is with all it's short comings is currently the best version of what we need up here in a western Canadian country seperate from the east.
@@blackberrythorns Yes it is an empire in decline. that is only because it has been currupted by evil people that don't follow the laws. What needs to happen is better safe gaurds to hold bad players to account. That being said the basic out line of the US constatution is about as good as there is. They just need to close some loop holes to get some accountability. I know this is hard to do when you got the people that are making the rules are the same people breaking the rules. The one big change that needs to happen is term limits not just for elected officials but also for unelected bureaucrats that get intrenched in positions of power for way to long. One thing that has to stop is the infux of people we can't support. the border needs to be closed or at least greatly reduced. Both in Canada and the US.
US is a Constitutional Republic, it is not a Democracy. The Constitution defines the extent of the Federal Government. However, the Federal Govt has exceeded its power.
All it takes is an agenda like the present government under Trudeau and Trudeau's total ignoring what the Constitution says. The Constitution is just worthless piece of paper if it is not adhered to.
@@ToddSauve “Russian commentators welcomed this development, viewing it as a positive shift in the global correlation of power and as an appropriate response to America’s sponsorship of NATO’s expansion. Some even sounded gleeful that the Sino-Russian alliance would give America its deserved comeuppance. However, a coalition allying Russia with both China and Iran can develop only if the United States is shortsighted enough to antagonize China and Iran simultaneously.” ― Zbigniew Brzeziński, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives (1997)
Yes, Alberta should absolutely be looking at either a Democratic Republic or just an independent Alberta. We need to start focusing BACK on the family. I would even go as far as tax incentives to start/expand the family. As it is right now, we do not have a sustainable birth rate. Whatever we do, we best figure out a dollar system. The USD will be replaced as the world reserve currency if BRICS picks up too many more countries. They are already at 38%(ish) now with only a hand full of countries.
Alberta is the only province in Canada above replacement level reproduction. We still need to have more children, cause the number is barely above replacement. This also should make us wonder why alberta is taking so many immigrants? The excuse was because of low birth rates, but as I previously have stated, alberta has a positive birth rate. No need for immigrants.
Max Bernier and the PPC thought that Quebec recieved too much money from the equilization payments, which prevented Quebec from developing it's economy because they would lose money. The PPC wanted to change the formula to reduce any money Quebec or other provinces recieved and reduce the amount Alberta or other provinces paid. This is the discussion we all keep having, but, when given the opportunity for change, the PPC got so few votes. Why? Also, I am from Ontario. I lived on Alberta for a few years. Us "old stock Canadians" that Justin Trudeau hates so much, have the same "cultural values" from coast to coast to coast - more than most of us realize because we don't travel in our country and talk to each other to see it. Canada is such an amazing country and could be the best on the planet if we work together to do it. Giving up won't fix it. Separating the country into tiny states won't fix it. Electing competent leaders with good policies and holding them accountable will. If Daniel Smith ever runs for Prime Minister she has my vote!
Quebec subsidizes the Hydro power to their residents. The money that they loose doing this is used against what Quebec Hydro could get if they had exported that power to an external customer. That makes it appear that they are a "Have Not" province so they get transfer payments and not only that they get the majority of those transfer payments while Quebec residents enjoy some of the lowest power costs in Canada. Thanks to Alberta. Meanwhile Alberta who is the major contributor to the transfer payments was running a Deficit in their provincial budget. The New Brunswick Premier asked the others at the table "Why is Alberta paying for 35% of New Brunswick's civil service salary payments". As to the natural gas reserves in Quebec the CEO of Quest Energy is on record that his company has found 18 TRILLION Cubic Feet of untapped gas in central Quebec and the government does not want to develop it. Meanwhile Alberta gas is supplying Montreal and western Quebec with natural gas. The amount of gas it takes to get that gas to Quebec is brutal and one of the reasons Canadian's are some of the worst energy users per capita in the world is the amount of fuel it takes to pump that gas from Alberta to Quebec. Confederation is a failed experiment and the west should leave as soon as possible.
Alberta needs to leave Canada and become an independent constitutional republic! Albertans have the opportunity to create the best nation on the planet if they just wake up!
NO...Alberta will not except others voting on Alberta's future...neighbors , partners , cooperators...Alberta will stand alone......We will work with you....but our constitution will be Alberta's choice....
Historically democracies last approximately 200 years. The trouble I think is people;e get complacent, then it becomes anarchy until they pendulum swings again
For those with the land locked BS answer ,money talks,the oil and other goods will move regardles,the people saying this dont want the gravy train to stop,they are afraid.
Good point. It’s also international law that land-locked nation states be granted access to ports, so this could potentially even lead to *less* encumbered access to the pacific via BC than whatever interprovincial treaties and practises exist now.
@@TheCriticalCompass really, you want to get rid of Canadian law and think the rest of Canada will not treat you like the annoying parasites people on this site sound like
Canada's constitution is too weak. I used to be against it. But having Alberta/British Columbia join the USA republic might be the most beneficial for the west.
@@Helen-s6b I had a great Aunt who was into family history, and went back to the mid 1600s when my fathers ancestors arrived on the east coast. They only got up to Canada 3 generations ago, And doing my mothers side, about 1680, not to Canada till 1800s. The family joke was we were kicked out of Europe early.
Thank you for such a frank and honest discussion about the issues currently plaguing Canada. What we need now is a plan to present to Ottawa that will amend our constitution in order to bring about true equality for every province. Otherwise Alberta should discuss independence.
Our environment makes life expensive. Expensive lives require a society of trust and excellent organization so that people can develop and protect highly productive skillsets and capital. To accomplish this over a vast area is a very big ask. It's difficult to find a responsible landlord who lives down the street, let alone a politician or employee of theirs who lives 800 miles away.
We must leave this Ontario Quebec beat down to be able to realize our true value as a people’s and province. Dancing to to the east must end let’s embrace the President Trump wave of leadership.
Quebec's behaviour is simply abominable and if their was no equalization payment going to them, they would have to carry their own weight financially. That the entire federal government is controlled by Quebec through bilingualism laws and you cannot get into any influential position if you don't also speak French is completely unfair and let's them have way too much representation in the bureaucracy. That is how the Dutch took over South Africa and imposed apartheid on that country. They managed to pass legislation where you could not just speak English but had to speak Dutch as well, and once they got control of the federal government imposed apartheid on all the black people there.
K-Beck has Held this country hostage for to long. Ontario gets most of the manufacturing jobs along with K-Beck. The province’s outside of Ontario & Quebec are just colonies to Ottawa wa wa.
We also need to find a way to balance rural and urban divisions. Even in Western provinces the rural areas are dominated by the cities. It wasn’t so bad 50+ years ago when more people lived in the rural areas and the people in the cities where still connected to relatives in rural areas or recently came from there themselves. While there is a necessity for the more abstract thought patterns of urban dwellers, ‘common sense’ is made by coming up against the elements and other limitations that are much more prevalent in rural areas. The more generations that live just in the city, the more they become disconnected with reality and come up with all sorts of delusional ideas to foist on everyone, including those outside the cities due to their domination of electoral votes. Have thought sometimes that there could be different bylaws for the city folk and the country people. IE. Maybe you don’t need guns in the city and everyone get around in electric vehicles, but these things won’t work well in the country.
Unfortunately Canada has become dysfunctional with totally different beliefs and financial structures between eastern and western Canada! It is time to think about the political restructuring of the make up of Canada and perhaps the formation of new countries and governments within Canada as the smaller countries in Europe have done! Unfortunately,Trudeau has driven a hatred within Canada and will be remembered along with his incompetent coalition government on the Canadian Wall of Shame for Canadians and their families for many decades in the future!
On the provincial penson, we have to see the hard numbers first before its put to Albertans. Then and only then will we know what the final numbers are to vote on!
Dear Alberta, Just start printing your own money and set up “state bank” system backed by silver and gold. No interest rate on loans and no USURY bankers . No special group benefits! No benefits for freeloaders! That is how you restart….!
i would argue that canada still does not have a functioning & reliable charter. the pandemic was a good example of unchecked government over-reach. i want a charter that is bullet-proof - something we can depend on when things get difficult.
I think one of the first things on the "to do" list is a provincial police force. Another is the pension plan which HAS to be explained properly so that the idea doesn"t scare the bejeezes out of people.
Alberta needs to separate from Canada and join the US. More freedoms, a better Constitution, no more supporting Ottawa and Quebec and being abused by them. More money in your pocket.
We have had a Liberal government for many years now which has slowly become a corrupt government. It has been the people of Canada who have voted in this government each time and finally those who did vote Liberal are starting to see the flaws. The Liberal party has slowly divided this country and thus weakened it. It has also created issues with provinces, like Alberta, that were not there prior to this Liberal government. If the federal government had worked closer and with more interest the Alberta government would not be so focused on programs like equalization payments, pensions and a provincial police. Time will tell at the next election as to whether Alberta stays in the mode of push back or not.
WTF! You mean Quebec could be heating all their homes with domestically sourced LNG, instead of piping it in from the US or Western Canada and they’re refusing to develop it? If there is enough of a reserve it could be a major revenue source by selling it to foreign nations that need a safe, stable supply and they’re not even looking at it? All because the federal government is providing transfer payments from more prosperous provinces and they, the province not the people of Quebec, want to risk a sure thing for something they might actually have work to for? The immediate thought that went through my mind, how much is the money being transferred is being pocketed by provincial politicians because Quebec has a long history of incredible corruption in the provincial government, does anybody remember the Duplessis years and the aftermath of that regime’s affect on the province ever since?
@@TheCriticalCompass they want to soak as much money as they can from the west why develop your own resources when you gave hit the jackpot with Alberta's money
The first minute intro given , is exactly what I have been preaching for years. Canada is like a microcosm of globalism when one considers the major social and cultural differences and attitudes between our different regions.
Alberta needs to go and go now, we do not need Canada, Canada need us. I worked in PQ for 35 years, they actually do believe they are literally superior to the rest of Canada. We need to go or become the 51st state.
Canada was set up all wrong from the start and the Canadian government made it worse. In the USA the larger states were broken into smaller states: Virginia, Massachusetts, at least. They were too big and had too much clout on the nation as a whole. Here in Canada we did it in reverse. The Ottawa government increased the sizes of the dominating Ontario and Quebec. In 1867, Central Canada WAS Canada and the West was just a huge empire to be plundered for the enrichment of "Canada." The Equalization Program" in a continuation of this thinking, courtesy of PET. Our Senate seats do not reflect any equity in the provinces, as it does in the USA, and the most populous provinces obviously control the Commons. The power in Canada was vested in Central Canada and doomed the rest of Canada to junior partner status. The whole West should just leave and do develope what we have and concentrate on those issues that are important to us, and NOT Ontario and Quebec, and beyond.
"The Equalization Program" in a continuation of this thinking, courtesy of PET." - Utter nonsense. A formal system of equalization payments was first introduced in 1957, 11 years before Trudeau was first elected.
This was informative and with this being true then yes we need to stop, look at and make changes involving the equilization payments. I live in Ontario and can see there are problems with this that need to be dealt with.
Leaders do not like to be criticized. Absent exemplary moral character, the descent to authoritarianism is inevitable. Civics is key... i dont even remember ever talking about the distinction of legislative, judicial or executive power, nor constitutional distribution of power between federal, provincial or local. Until relatively recently (2015) i heard about federal overreach but didnt really understand the basis that defined what overreach was and why it was a problem. Watching American congressional investigations gave me my first insights into what a constitution is supposed to do
"Absent exemplary moral character, the descent to authoritarianism is inevitable." - Except that the British parliamentary tradition that Canada is heir too went the other way. It started out as an authoritarian monarchy and became a representative democracy and there was not always an exemplary moral character present.
The foundation is democracy is representation by population. In Canada's case The Greater Toronto area has more people than NF, NS, PE, NB, MN, SK, NT, YK and NU Combined. To offset this regional power balance created in the House of Commons Canada the USA and GB and others have a Senate or House of Lords. Canada's first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, described the Senate as a body of "sober second thought" that would curb the "democratic excesses" of the elected House of Commons and provide regional representation. He believed that if the House of Commons properly represented the population, the upper chamber should represent the regions. Since the '70s, there have been at least 28 major proposals for constitutional Senate reform, and all have failed, including the 1987 Meech Lake Accord, and the 1992 Charlottetown Accord. The appointment is made primarily by four divisions, each having twenty-four senators: the Maritime division, the Quebec division, the Ontario division, and the Western division. Newfoundland and Labrador is not part of any division, and has six senators. Each of the three territories has one senator, bringing the total to 105 senators. Any constitution reform to pass requires the agreement of 7 Provinces and must represent 50% of the population. So that either Ontario and Quebec or Ontario and BC together can block any senate reform. And what government would vote to restrict their power?
Senators are appointed by the sitting government, what we have now is a bunch of Liberals. They support anything Trudeau wants. The Senate is a failure.
Stop the equalization payments until a fair deal is reached - if Alberta / Sask stop the payments what are they going to do? nothing! because the supreme court has already said that the federal government can not forcibly take money from the Provincial bank accounts - as already determined in the case between Saskatchewan and the Fed govt - Sask does not collect the carbon tax nor does it send it to the Feds... so lets start and end the fight now!
Of course, natural resource revenues form a major component of the fiscal capacity used to calculate the payment, which is why AB over-contributes relative to higher population provinces like BC, ON, and QC, which if “general revenues like income taxes and GST” were the only relevant factors, you would expect ON to be the primary benefactor province, which it is not.
@@TheCriticalCompass You have that backwards. The fiscal capacity calculation is used to determine the federal payment to the provence, not from the provence to the federal government. Equalization payments are funded by the Government of Canada from general revenues, which are primarily raised through federal taxes on all Canadian citizens and businesses. Provincial governments do not contribute to the Equalization program directly.
I would love to see Canada go with a Constitutional Republic with an ABSOLUTE electoral collage. Its so insane that if you are a party, you win most of Ontario and a bit of Quebec and Lowermainland BC, you win a majority? And I say electoral collage type system and always state to Americans who think its stupid, no. Its the majority vote of that state and you win the majority vote you win the states points. Otherwise California and New York would rule the USA. Much like Ontario, Quebec and Lowermainland BC rule Canada.
That would actually make Ontario's importance even greater. In the US states get a number of electors based on their population. About 40% of Canada's population lives in Ontario so it would get 40% of the electors. Having all of those votes going to one party as a block would mean that the party that wins Ontario is almost guaranteed to win the election.
The maritime are purposefully held down. It's a location that is incredibly fertile, has a strong independent culture and would be better off with the rest of the country. I'd rather be poor and independent than under Ottawa's yoke. We used to live on small colonial farms, and were fully independent. Ottawa has done everything it can to make that impossible with regulations.
Alberta independence is an idea that had a chance 30 years ago. In today's Alberta it will never happen. In order for Alberta independence to be successful you need the majority of the population to have the mental and physical fortitude to make it happen. Look around you? do you honestly believe the majority of people could manage during the early days of Alberta independence? These people can't survive without food delivery let alone take care of themselves in the real world.
Alberta can't have independence, without the rest of western Canada. If you had solo independence, your pipelines would be going through Canada, to go to market. When will you understand that it's Wexit or nothing? Also, it's amusing that you'd use a Sask Party infographic, while pedaling solo Alberta independence.
It's against international law to land lock other countries resources. So just take Saskatchewan and Yukon NTW and northern BC. Become our own country or join the US..
Secondly, our largest trading Partner happens to be Directly South of AB. Thirdly, we seem to be okay with Iran moving their Resources around Europe/World?
@@Old-biker how about you just move to the us and leave the rest of us out of it? we'd be far better off without our southern imperial 'neighbour'. things like avro canada may have suceeded but that's not allowed as it is. canada - hewers of wood and drawers of water for empire.
@@Old-biker "Take". See? There's your problem. The other western provinces aren't your enemies. It's not you against the rest of Canada. It's the entire west against the east, and until you can finally realize that, nothing will happen. And I never said that it would stop your resources, you'd just have to pay for use of the land.
The only way I could support Alberta and Western Canada separating is if Trudeau or the liberals got back in. I feel for Pollieve in the mess he has to clean up. Liberals should never be allowed to surface again. They are socialist just like the NDP. If the Bloc ever formed government that would spell the end of Canada.
I believe the majority of Canadians just want “common sense” decisions by all of our governments not a radical ideology that creates both economical and social chaos for the majority of Canadians.
Whilst I agree to a degree with the foundation of your perspective, and yes, representation of the Provinces is truly a concern (at times, BC has been holding up the country), I would suggest that: 1. We need a leader to fix the systematic issues of the maritimes. 2. The Milk, Bread and Egg board should be reinstated. Farmers are the only industry that is allowed to pay below minimum wage, so the rest of the country can enjoy cheaper food. 3. We need to change the nature of our economic system. 4. Keeping Canada whole is important as a united nation, we have more bargaining power and protect our sovereignty from outside/external forces. 5. The reason why I would suggest that the maritime solutions must come from the federal level is because they haven't solved their issues in decades. It must be changed to make the country stronger. Similar to Singapore and other less developed counties who have fixed their economies by focusing and specializing in an area, so too here.
Ontario and Quebec have too much power. Equal representation for every province.
Ontario snd Quebec ARE Canads - then there's the rest of us.
You Got That Right.. Quebec gets way too much money from the equalization payments..
@Patrick-l2g3g Equalization payments were first introduced in 1957/58 in order to sweeten the pot for Quebec to stay somewhat happy with Confederation.
Yes Alberta did receive an equalization once in 1964.
The eastern islands have too much power with voting too
Why do you think the LIEberals and ndp DESTROYED the Immigration System?
They are FLOODING the East, in Particular, and the rest of Canada in General with Illegal Migrants, Refugees and Millions of other less desirable?
WHY?
NUMBERS. BIGGER Population means MORE SEATS.
They are also reasonably sure, that those that "settle" in the WEST will VOTE LIEberal as well because they let them in.
Again NUMBERS.
it's about many things, but one of the MAIN Ones is RIGGING the Elections in their Favor.
Alberta needs to leave communist Kanada ASAP. We are getting screwed over by the East.
if it was truly communist the empire would overthrow the gov't in a heartbeat.
if it was really communist the gov't would be overthrown immediately by our imperial overlords.
if it was truly communist it would be immediately overthrown by the neighbours to the south, regardless of party.
in communism there's no private property. if it was truly communist it would last about 5 minutes before it was gone, the downstairs neighbours wouldn't tolerate that for a second.
Unfortunately never gonna happen.
Imagine if Quebec had to acknowledge Albertan transfer payments.
We wanted to leave 2 times and you guys refused it only because you were mean now pay!
@@ElDoobee You're a child
@@ElDoobee..get bent. Tell us one time the separatists won a referendum on separating… I’ll wait
The sooner Quebec leaves Canada so much the better..
I have talked to Quebecers that claim to have no Idea. No doubt their politicians take credit while ignoring their incompetence.
Quebec needs to leave Canada ...Quebec is the root of the problem.. The sooner Quebec leaves canada so much the better..
Quebec tried to leave twice, and you guys cheated the polls, so we can't go. You now stay and pay. Despite this, I gave you a thumb because yeah Quebec needs to leave Canada, liberal are flooding us with 3rd world, and to them, you pay subsidies, not us.
I hope the Bloc runs in all of Canada on a Quebec seperation platform. Maybe a Toronto and Vancouver seperation party could be next.
Sorry but I hope Quebec never leaves Canada.
It's time we all parted ways. Europe has dozens of countries with smaller populations than many of our provinces. What we need is the courage to do the right thing and form 13 small independent and free countries.
There are many many problematic people outside of Quebec ruining this country. Of the many problems one of the main ones is how lefty ideology has seeped into our society... like a cancer. If Quebec was to leave, we'd still be in serious trouble. Better to have Western Canada leave and create a new, successful, common sense-based nation. If it was only Alberta then sobeit. I'd move back there in a heartbeat... despite the harsh weather. I'd rather plug my car in than have to continue dealing with marxist idiots.
We need term limits for politicians.
And a Gallows to enforce their honesty.
The idea that equalization is necessary in 2024 is one that promotes and rewards laziness.
Welcome to Communist Canada.
So glad people are finally talking about it!
Stop these payments now. Time to tell Ottawa where to go.
Alberta Independence is the only path forward. A Republic with a Constitution written by the people for the people. We need a Constitutional Convention.
you'd still be overwhelmed by the stars and stripes empire (which is collapsing).
Collapsing, 😂🤣 ,
@@albertapatriot3877 sure it is, haven't you noticed the wars? haven't you noticed all the countries avoiding using the world reserve currency? haven't you noticed the $36 trillion in debt and growing fast? haven't you noticed the insane politics and mental health issues?
@blackberrythorns, have you noticed there’s a new game about to be sworn in?
@@albertapatriot3877 please, he's a joke and his warhawk cabinet is too. the deep state will twist him up like a pretzel again.
he can't sort out anything of substance as the empire is in steep decline and that not a secret.
We Canadians are far too nice to politicians. Trudeau's natural intelligence places him in the borderline simian range but nobody has ever told him so. The result is that Trudeau
is absolutely bewildered that Canadians would reject his moral superiority and natural leadership abilities.
As for other politicians, we let them get away with offering more and more bribes until they resort to identity politics which, obviously, destroys cohesive societies in short order.
If Alberta wants out of confederation to chart a new course for itself, it would have to limit terms for elected officials. No more jobs for life.
I'm from Ontario and I see like this:
Quebec, the province in Canada, should receive NO equalization subsidies until they sign on to our constitution.
The bloc separatists should be removed from parliament and designated persona non grata.
If the population of Quebec wants to leave Canada and become independent; then GO!
If it's just bloc political hacks using this threat then; piss off!
I like Ontario. I dislike Ottawa. Thd entire city is run by people from Gatineau anyway. Ottawa can go with Quebec
When the French and British war finally ended and they become friends they started to build Canada so they made a friendly race to see who would connect every province first so they both set out to build railways across Canada. Now that leaves 2 railways French and English. One got stripped of their railway amongst other things so they threatened to separate. Since they divided Canada in half which no one wanted they ended up settling on a type of royalty. And then the equalization payment was formed. But hey politicians wouldn’t misname something on purpose now would they? Way too many bias media puppets can’t put 2 and 2 together to figure out the simplest of things. Unfortunately if anyone built something like cn rail I’d want to be compensated nicely as well.
@@tyleroliver5571 when?
The fundamental Canadian problem is a flawed constitution which gives a couple of provinces far more political representation in both our houses of Parliament (the Senate and House of Commons). We need a Triple-E Senate. In other federations (Australia, Germany, Argentina, USA), the Senate directly represents the states and the lower chamber (House of Commons) directly represents the people in proportion to provincial populations. In the USA, each state is represented by 2 elected senators. In Australia, each state get 12 elected senators. In Canada the Prime Minister appoints Senators. Ontario and Quebec get 24 each; Nova Scotia and New Brunswick get 10 each; BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Newfoundland, get 6 each; PEI gets 4. The western provinces will always be less equal that the other provinces. In addition, Quebec is granted special status with respect to the number of MPs and numerous extra powers such as guaranteed at least 3 of the 9 Supreme Court judges, that gives it undue powers over the other provinces. Granting special status to only some citizens causes divisions, not unity, among Canadians. Since the Canadian constitution cannot practically be amended in order to provide political fairness to every Canadian citizen, independence is the only option.
And don't forget that Quebec is sitting on a lake of oil or gas. They're not digging a hole for it to supply themselves. Much easier to collect the Western cash...
I am 64,live in Saskatoon,retired business owner,failed experiment ,i said this over 30 years ago,the west needs to wake up and stop all the BS talking and actually do something .With a few growing pains Sask. and Alberta could be as rich as those Saudi oil barons,we just need to ditch the dead weight (REST OF CANADA)!
Yes and put up borders . Keep all the rest a Canada out . Yes .Great .
People haven't got time to live . No time .we are all slaves . No accountability in our institutions
We are fools to.break up this country Because of dumb politicians with no accountability .
.shameful country Canada
We gotta go. The Reform Party was the last attempt at conciliation. Its failed. We can't leave tomorrow so what we need is to form a Western Block party...not a western independence party because that gets to much negative press. We start with getting all the seats in the west and leverage that just like the Bloc Québecois does.
This $13 billion to quebec bothers me
Our elections are almost always a known quantity, before the west finishes counting. A western block just means that the Liberals will always win. It's Wexit or nothing.
I really like this idea! A lot! 👍🏻
This one worth spreading, keep reposting this one!
Check out the CHP
Me think the federal government. Has grown too bloated and big that it has over reached their original mandate. The provinces and territories must review the function of federal government and take back more control
NORWAY. !!!!! They did it the right way.
I am for the separation of the western provinces (AB,BC,SK, and MB) to form its own country.
But not lower mainland BC and Vancouver Island. Those places are right-offs. The mind virus has infected everyone and they cannot be saved. Let northern BC and the BC interior come over to the new country if they want to, but anyone who has every had a mailing address in either Vancouver, Victoria, or Nanaimo should be immediately and permanently deported to Canada.
Sounds good. I would offer the yukon and Northwest territories for stratigic reasons.
BC will never leave.They are own by the WEF,UN and who.The people there welcome the NW order and communism.
BC is too communist
@col.callan7961 No BC.
I have talked to a number of people who would vote to separate the West from the east if they could. They would love to have a referendum on this point. It would send a loud message to the east.
I believe it was Sir Winston Churchill who said: “A democracy is 3 wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.” Alberta is better aligned to American culture and government. Best served as the 51st state of the Union.
no don't want to be a state just a small country pull out our share of the pension fund put it in a new Alberta pension fund freeloader said that would bankrupt the rest of Canada but oh well
@ A small landlocked country is very vulnerable. There are incredible advantages to being a state.
Equalization is a disincentive to resource development, and Poilievre should change the rules when he becomes Prime Minister.
The US is a democratic republic. Which is with all it's short comings is currently the best version of what we need up here in a western Canadian country seperate from the east.
it's an empire in steep decline.
@@blackberrythorns Yes it is an empire in decline. that is only because it has been currupted by evil people that don't follow the laws. What needs to happen is better safe gaurds to hold bad players to account. That being said the basic out line of the US constatution is about as good as there is. They just need to close some loop holes to get some accountability. I know this is hard to do when you got the people that are making the rules are the same people breaking the rules. The one big change that needs to happen is term limits not just for elected officials but also for unelected bureaucrats that get intrenched in positions of power for way to long. One thing that has to stop is the infux of people we can't support. the border needs to be closed or at least greatly reduced. Both in Canada and the US.
The word Democrat has been sullied by the Obama's Clinton's Biden's and Harris .
US is a Constitutional Republic, it is not a Democracy.
The Constitution defines the extent of the Federal Government.
However, the Federal Govt has exceeded its power.
An important distinction to make! In our full-length interview with Marty we discuss more about our mutual admiration for the American system.
@@TheCriticalCompass if you love your imperial overlords so much just move there.
All it takes is an agenda like the present government under Trudeau and Trudeau's total ignoring what the Constitution says. The Constitution is just worthless piece of paper if it is not adhered to.
@@blackberrythorns Seriously? That is the extent of your knowledge and ideas?
@@ToddSauve “Russian commentators welcomed this development, viewing it as a positive shift in the global correlation of power and as an appropriate response to America’s sponsorship of NATO’s expansion. Some even sounded gleeful that the Sino-Russian alliance would give America its deserved comeuppance. However, a coalition allying Russia with both China and Iran can develop only if the United States is shortsighted enough to antagonize China and Iran simultaneously.”
― Zbigniew Brzeziński, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives (1997)
I'm a proponent of taking east and northern BC with us.
Rural bc isn’t represented by our provincial or federal politics.
The Land belongs to the Indigenous people.
@@christinesmith1499 What tribe?
@@christinesmith1499 LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Riiiggghhhhhtttt
The NDP tribe.@@Old-biker
Yes, Alberta should absolutely be looking at either a Democratic Republic or just an independent Alberta.
We need to start focusing BACK on the family. I would even go as far as tax incentives to start/expand the family. As it is right now, we do not have a sustainable birth rate.
Whatever we do, we best figure out a dollar system. The USD will be replaced as the world reserve currency if BRICS picks up too many more countries. They are already at 38%(ish) now with only a hand full of countries.
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they have more wealth than the g7 now, a lot more.
Alberta is the only province in Canada above replacement level reproduction. We still need to have more children, cause the number is barely above replacement.
This also should make us wonder why alberta is taking so many immigrants? The excuse was because of low birth rates, but as I previously have stated, alberta has a positive birth rate. No need for immigrants.
I am from Manitoba, and I am ready to go.
I am from Manitoba and we are going. just got back from scouting out the land. Okotoks here we come!
Same for Saskatchewan..
Ditto, we lived in edmonton and moved to Winnipeg. I want to go back.
Good for you
Winnipeg probably thinks differently
Confederation gives provinces and territories the freedom to respond to local needs. They are not the same as each other
Criminal governments.time for a reckoning
If CANADA could possibly become a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC and put the capital in YELLOWKNIFE
Utter and complete nonsense. Any formal study on these issues?
The centre has been ripping off Alberta and taking as much as they can from us.
Max Bernier and the PPC thought that Quebec recieved too much money from the equilization payments, which prevented Quebec from developing it's economy because they would lose money. The PPC wanted to change the formula to reduce any money Quebec or other provinces recieved and reduce the amount Alberta or other provinces paid. This is the discussion we all keep having, but, when given the opportunity for change, the PPC got so few votes. Why? Also, I am from Ontario. I lived on Alberta for a few years. Us "old stock Canadians" that Justin Trudeau hates so much, have the same "cultural values" from coast to coast to coast - more than most of us realize because we don't travel in our country and talk to each other to see it. Canada is such an amazing country and could be the best on the planet if we work together to do it. Giving up won't fix it. Separating the country into tiny states won't fix it. Electing competent leaders with good policies and holding them accountable will. If Daniel Smith ever runs for Prime Minister she has my vote!
Quebec subsidizes the Hydro power to their residents. The money that they loose doing this is used against what Quebec Hydro could get if they had exported that power to an external customer. That makes it appear that they are a "Have Not" province so they get transfer payments and not only that they get the majority of those transfer payments while Quebec residents enjoy some of the lowest power costs in Canada. Thanks to Alberta. Meanwhile Alberta who is the major contributor to the transfer payments was running a Deficit in their provincial budget. The New Brunswick Premier asked the others at the table "Why is Alberta paying for 35% of New Brunswick's civil service salary payments". As to the natural gas reserves in Quebec the CEO of Quest Energy is on record that his company has found 18 TRILLION Cubic Feet of untapped gas in central Quebec and the government does not want to develop it. Meanwhile Alberta gas is supplying Montreal and western Quebec with natural gas. The amount of gas it takes to get that gas to Quebec is brutal and one of the reasons Canadian's are some of the worst energy users per capita in the world is the amount of fuel it takes to pump that gas from Alberta to Quebec. Confederation is a failed experiment and the west should leave as soon as possible.
Alberta needs to leave Canada and become an independent constitutional republic! Albertans have the opportunity to create the best nation on the planet if they just wake up!
I have lived in rural south alberta for my entire life but I always thought of myself as a Canadian first, never an Albertan
good for you, I agree
not me have lived all my life in rural northern Alberta and have been ready to separate from Canada when the first trudope was pm
Alberta Saskatchewan Manitoba and NWT must separate and form a New Republic of WOOD BUFFALO 🐃
NO...Alberta will not except others voting on Alberta's future...neighbors , partners , cooperators...Alberta will stand alone......We will work with you....but our constitution will be Alberta's choice....
@@albertaman6390 lol, hilarious. delusional stuff in a globalized world. who globalized it, who's the empire?
Take Newfoundland with you. All are Resource’s are squandered by Quebec as well.
@albertaman6390 sounds great 👍 for all parties GLY SMALL GOVERNMENT NO DEBT AMEN AMEN 🙏
I'm from BC I want to go too, but I understand why you didn't include us.
You can’t have a country that is skewed towards one province it’s time to go.
Historically democracies last approximately 200 years. The trouble I think is people;e get complacent, then it becomes anarchy until they pendulum swings again
Democracy in practice is barely 200 years old. So how is this known?
The republic is the best system.
@ Democracy has been around since Roman times, Do some research
Government gives nothing. Without charging you. Be self sufficient
For those with the land locked BS answer ,money talks,the oil and other goods will move regardles,the people saying this dont want the gravy train to stop,they are afraid.
Good point. It’s also international law that land-locked nation states be granted access to ports, so this could potentially even lead to *less* encumbered access to the pacific via BC than whatever interprovincial treaties and practises exist now.
@@TheCriticalCompass really, you want to get rid of Canadian law and think the rest of Canada will not treat you like the annoying parasites people on this site sound like
Canada's constitution is too weak. I used to be against it. But having Alberta/British Columbia join the USA republic might be the most beneficial for the west.
The wester states provide more money per capita in government income, while getting less per capita in spending. That can not go on.
How can you give and give and get kicked in the nuts ... that is what this confederation is all about.
Alberta's independent and competitive view has kicked us in the butt. Equalization tax has never been good for my province.
you sure liked it in the thirties when you were a have not province.
@dalelore2725 ??? The thirties? You are going back 94 (NINETY FOUR) years??? Srfu
You must be from the east 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@dalelore2725 my ancestors weren't even here then yet. I guess you must be tipping 100 to remember those poor days eh?
@@Helen-s6b I had a great Aunt who was into family history, and went back to the mid 1600s when my fathers ancestors arrived on the east coast. They only got up to Canada 3 generations ago, And doing my mothers side, about 1680, not to Canada till 1800s. The family joke was we were kicked out of Europe early.
Thank you for such a frank and honest discussion about the issues currently plaguing Canada. What we need now is a plan to present to Ottawa that will amend our constitution in order to bring about true equality for every province. Otherwise Alberta should discuss independence.
Time for discussion is long past
Separate now!
I’m all for separation from Canada eastern Canada offers nothing in return for all it takes from western provinces.
Our environment makes life expensive. Expensive lives require a society of trust and excellent organization so that people can develop and protect highly productive skillsets and capital. To accomplish this over a vast area is a very big ask. It's difficult to find a responsible landlord who lives down the street, let alone a politician or employee of theirs who lives 800 miles away.
We must leave this Ontario Quebec beat down to be able to realize our true value as a people’s and province. Dancing to to the east must end let’s embrace the President Trump wave of leadership.
Quebec's behaviour is simply abominable and if their was no equalization payment going to them, they would have to carry their own weight financially. That the entire federal government is controlled by Quebec through bilingualism laws and you cannot get into any influential position if you don't also speak French is completely unfair and let's them have way too much representation in the bureaucracy.
That is how the Dutch took over South Africa and imposed apartheid on that country. They managed to pass legislation where you could not just speak English but had to speak Dutch as well, and once they got control of the federal government imposed apartheid on all the black people there.
If the west was smart we would separate
K-Beck has Held this country hostage for to long. Ontario gets most of the manufacturing jobs along with K-Beck.
The province’s outside of Ontario & Quebec are just colonies to Ottawa wa wa.
We also need to find a way to balance rural and urban divisions. Even in Western provinces the rural areas are dominated by the cities.
It wasn’t so bad 50+ years ago when more people lived in the rural areas and the people in the cities where still connected to relatives in rural areas or recently came from there themselves.
While there is a necessity for the more abstract thought patterns of urban dwellers, ‘common sense’ is made by coming up against the elements and other limitations that are much more prevalent in rural areas. The more generations that live just in the city, the more they become disconnected with reality and come up with all sorts of delusional ideas to foist on everyone, including those outside the cities due to their domination of electoral votes.
Have thought sometimes that there could be different bylaws for the city folk and the country people.
IE. Maybe you don’t need guns in the city and everyone get around in electric vehicles, but these things won’t work well in the country.
energy is energy electrical should be included in equalization
WEXIT or FORGET IT
The West is a colony exploited by Ontario and elections are decide before the Manitoba border and whether the candidate can speak french.
Marty, I’m with you. I think the restart is going to happen, this is very untenable.
AB should have left when the NEP was announced. Lougheed screwed AB.
Unfortunately Canada has become dysfunctional with totally different beliefs and financial structures between eastern and western Canada!
It is time to think about the political restructuring of the make up of Canada and perhaps the formation of new countries and governments within Canada as the smaller countries in Europe have done!
Unfortunately,Trudeau has driven a hatred within Canada and will be remembered along with his incompetent coalition government on the Canadian Wall of Shame for Canadians and their families for many decades in the future!
Trudeau is 90% of the problem, his Cabinet are the other 10% of the problem simply because they support Trudeau 100%.
On the provincial penson, we have to see the hard numbers first before its put to Albertans. Then and only then will we know what the final numbers are to vote on!
I agree with the first speaker. Canada has failed. The commonality that allowed for our formation is gone.
Dear Alberta, Just start printing your own money and set up “state bank” system backed by silver and gold. No interest rate on loans and no USURY bankers .
No special group benefits! No benefits for freeloaders!
That is how you restart….!
i would argue that canada still does not have a functioning & reliable charter.
the pandemic was a good example of unchecked government over-reach.
i want a charter that is bullet-proof - something we can depend on when things get difficult.
Alberta really needs to become more autonomous before we separate!
You Got That Right
I think one of the first things on the "to do" list is a provincial police force.
Another is the pension plan which HAS to be explained properly so that the idea doesn"t scare the bejeezes out of people.
how's that "heritage fund" doing?
@blackberrythorns As of June 30 of this year $ 23.4 Billion
Step one, get rid of the RCMP.
There was some interesting discussion last year by Danielle Smith on a provincial police force, not sure where that is at currently
Alberta needs to separate from Canada and join the US. More freedoms, a better Constitution, no more supporting Ottawa and Quebec and being abused by them. More money in your pocket.
BC best bet is wexit. This confederation sucks.
We have had a Liberal government for many years now which has slowly become a corrupt government. It has been the people of Canada who have voted in this government each time and finally those who did vote Liberal are starting to see the flaws.
The Liberal party has slowly divided this country and thus weakened it. It has also created issues with provinces, like Alberta, that were not there prior to this Liberal government. If the federal government had worked closer and with more interest the Alberta government would not be so focused on programs like equalization payments, pensions and a provincial police. Time will tell at the next election as to whether Alberta stays in the mode of push back or not.
We've needed independence for decades...trudeau just compounded long existing western alienation
One of the biggest problems in Canada is that Canadians mistake obedience for goodness
WTF! You mean Quebec could be heating all their homes with domestically sourced LNG, instead of piping it in from the US or Western Canada and they’re refusing to develop it? If there is enough of a reserve it could be a major revenue source by selling it to foreign nations that need a safe, stable supply and they’re not even looking at it? All because the federal government is providing transfer payments from more prosperous provinces and they, the province not the people of Quebec, want to risk a sure thing for something they might actually have work to for? The immediate thought that went through my mind, how much is the money being transferred is being pocketed by provincial politicians because Quebec has a long history of incredible corruption in the provincial government, does anybody remember the Duplessis years and the aftermath of that regime’s affect on the province ever since?
Yup. Make it make sense!
@@TheCriticalCompass they want to soak as much money as they can from the west why develop your own resources when you gave hit the jackpot with Alberta's money
Good electoral platform. Equalization payments hamstring industrial development. End Equalization payments.
The first minute intro given , is exactly what I have been preaching for years. Canada is like a microcosm of globalism when one considers the major social and cultural differences and attitudes between our different regions.
Alberta needs to go and go now, we do not need Canada, Canada need us. I worked in PQ for 35 years, they actually do believe they are literally superior to the rest of Canada. We need to go or become the 51st state.
go not be a state
Canada was set up all wrong from the start and the Canadian government made it worse. In the USA the larger states were broken into smaller states: Virginia, Massachusetts, at least. They were too big and had too much clout on the nation as a whole. Here in Canada we did it in reverse. The Ottawa government increased the sizes of the dominating Ontario and Quebec. In 1867, Central Canada WAS Canada and the West was just a huge empire to be plundered for the enrichment of "Canada." The Equalization Program" in a continuation of this thinking, courtesy of PET. Our Senate seats do not reflect any equity in the provinces, as it does in the USA, and the most populous provinces obviously control the Commons. The power in Canada was vested in Central Canada and doomed the rest of Canada to junior partner status. The whole West should just leave and do develope what we have and concentrate on those issues that are important to us, and NOT Ontario and Quebec, and beyond.
"The Equalization Program" in a continuation of this thinking, courtesy of PET." - Utter nonsense. A formal system of equalization payments was first introduced in 1957, 11 years before Trudeau was first elected.
The moment Canadian provinces separate from one another is the day we become part of the USA . Maybe good maybe not .
We would enjoy more rights as states than provinces.
Guess who started the equalization payments.
Nobody wants to compromise. It's soo exausting.
I've found commonality with the Christian Heritage Party of Canada 🇨🇦 ❤🎉
Great discussion fellas. Sadly, Canada has evolved into a broken promise.
Separation is the only way forward. What’s the definition of insanity? 🍻
This was informative and with this being true then yes we need to stop, look at and make changes involving the equilization payments. I live in Ontario and can see there are problems with this that need to be dealt with.
Leaders do not like to be criticized. Absent exemplary moral character, the descent to authoritarianism is inevitable. Civics is key... i dont even remember ever talking about the distinction of legislative, judicial or executive power, nor constitutional distribution of power between federal, provincial or local. Until relatively recently (2015) i heard about federal overreach but didnt really understand the basis that defined what overreach was and why it was a problem. Watching American congressional investigations gave me my first insights into what a constitution is supposed to do
"Absent exemplary moral character, the descent to authoritarianism is inevitable." - Except that the British parliamentary tradition that Canada is heir too went the other way. It started out as an authoritarian monarchy and became a representative democracy and there was not always an exemplary moral character present.
I'm from Ontario get rid of them. But we paid payments back tobthe 80s
The foundation is democracy is representation by population. In Canada's case The Greater Toronto area has more people than NF, NS, PE, NB, MN, SK, NT, YK and NU Combined. To offset this regional power balance created in the House of Commons Canada the USA and GB and others have a Senate or House of Lords. Canada's first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, described the Senate as a body of "sober second thought" that would curb the "democratic excesses" of the elected House of Commons and provide regional representation. He believed that if the House of Commons properly represented the population, the upper chamber should represent the regions. Since the '70s, there have been at least 28 major proposals for constitutional Senate reform, and all have failed, including the 1987 Meech Lake Accord, and the 1992 Charlottetown Accord. The appointment is made primarily by four divisions, each having twenty-four senators: the Maritime division, the Quebec division, the Ontario division, and the Western division. Newfoundland and Labrador is not part of any division, and has six senators. Each of the three territories has one senator, bringing the total to 105 senators. Any constitution reform to pass requires the agreement of 7 Provinces and must represent 50% of the population. So that either Ontario and Quebec or Ontario and BC together can block any senate reform. And what government would vote to restrict their power?
Senators are appointed by the sitting government, what we have now is a bunch of Liberals. They support anything Trudeau wants. The Senate is a failure.
"And what government would vote to restrict their power?" - Ontario approved both the 1987 Meech Lake Accord, and the 1992 Charlottetown Accord.
I think that Canada should join the Union.
Quebec is the tail that wags the dog! It’s time for Wexit!
Stop the equalization payments until a fair deal is reached - if Alberta / Sask stop the payments what are they going to do? nothing! because the supreme court has already said that the federal government can not forcibly take money from the Provincial bank accounts - as already determined in the case between Saskatchewan and the Fed govt - Sask does not collect the carbon tax nor does it send it to the Feds... so lets start and end the fight now!
Equalization payments are from the federal government to the provinces. They are funded from general revenues, like income taxes and the GST.
Of course, natural resource revenues form a major component of the fiscal capacity used to calculate the payment, which is why AB over-contributes relative to higher population provinces like BC, ON, and QC, which if “general revenues like income taxes and GST” were the only relevant factors, you would expect ON to be the primary benefactor province, which it is not.
@@TheCriticalCompass You have that backwards. The fiscal capacity calculation is used to determine the federal payment to the provence, not from the provence to the federal government. Equalization payments are funded by the Government of Canada from general revenues, which are primarily raised through federal taxes on all Canadian citizens and businesses. Provincial governments do not contribute to the Equalization program directly.
Politicans greed
100 percent! Could not agree more!
It's time for us to go.
Alberta needs to seek retribution for the billions of unwarranted equalization payments.
Canada should just be part of the U.S.A
Awesome show
I would love to see Canada go with a Constitutional Republic with an ABSOLUTE electoral collage. Its so insane that if you are a party, you win most of Ontario and a bit of Quebec and Lowermainland BC, you win a majority? And I say electoral collage type system and always state to Americans who think its stupid, no. Its the majority vote of that state and you win the majority vote you win the states points. Otherwise California and New York would rule the USA. Much like Ontario, Quebec and Lowermainland BC rule Canada.
That would actually make Ontario's importance even greater. In the US states get a number of electors based on their population. About 40% of Canada's population lives in Ontario so it would get 40% of the electors. Having all of those votes going to one party as a block would mean that the party that wins Ontario is almost guaranteed to win the election.
Alberta needs to look after ourselves first this Trudeau liberals ndp government can screw off.
The maritime are purposefully held down. It's a location that is incredibly fertile, has a strong independent culture and would be better off with the rest of the country. I'd rather be poor and independent than under Ottawa's yoke. We used to live on small colonial farms, and were fully independent. Ottawa has done everything it can to make that impossible with regulations.
Alberta independence is an idea that had a chance 30 years ago. In today's Alberta it will never happen. In order for Alberta independence to be successful you need the majority of the population to have the mental and physical fortitude to make it happen. Look around you? do you honestly believe the majority of people could manage during the early days of Alberta independence? These people can't survive without food delivery let alone take care of themselves in the real world.
Alberta can't have independence, without the rest of western Canada. If you had solo independence, your pipelines would be going through Canada, to go to market.
When will you understand that it's Wexit or nothing?
Also, it's amusing that you'd use a Sask Party infographic, while pedaling solo Alberta independence.
It's against international law to land lock other countries resources. So just take Saskatchewan and Yukon NTW and northern BC. Become our own country or join the US..
Secondly, our largest trading Partner happens to be Directly South of AB.
Thirdly, we seem to be okay with Iran moving their Resources around Europe/World?
@@Old-biker how about you just move to the us and leave the rest of us out of it? we'd be far better off without our southern imperial 'neighbour'. things like avro canada may have suceeded but that's not allowed as it is. canada - hewers of wood and drawers of water for empire.
@@Old-biker it would be easier if you moved there and left the rest of us out of it.
@@Old-biker "Take". See? There's your problem. The other western provinces aren't your enemies. It's not you against the rest of Canada. It's the entire west against the east, and until you can finally realize that, nothing will happen.
And I never said that it would stop your resources, you'd just have to pay for use of the land.
The only way I could support Alberta and Western Canada separating is if Trudeau or the liberals got back in. I feel for Pollieve in the mess he has to clean up. Liberals should never be allowed to surface again. They are socialist just like the NDP. If the Bloc ever formed government that would spell the end of Canada.
I believe the majority of Canadians just want “common sense” decisions by all of our governments not a radical ideology that creates both economical and social chaos for the majority of Canadians.
what about making the politician for the people, Have them stand up in the HoC an talk about the WEF
you mean denounce
Whilst I agree to a degree with the foundation of your perspective, and yes, representation of the Provinces is truly a concern (at times, BC has been holding up the country), I would suggest that:
1. We need a leader to fix the systematic issues of the maritimes.
2. The Milk, Bread and Egg board should be reinstated. Farmers are the only industry that is allowed to pay below minimum wage, so the rest of the country can enjoy cheaper food.
3. We need to change the nature of our economic system.
4. Keeping Canada whole is important as a united nation, we have more bargaining power and protect our sovereignty from outside/external forces.
5. The reason why I would suggest that the maritime solutions must come from the federal level is because they haven't solved their issues in decades. It must be changed to make the country stronger. Similar to Singapore and other less developed counties who have fixed their economies by focusing and specializing in an area, so too here.