In answer to your questions.
First off, NRW, I don’t expect anything from you, or for that matter, anybody from Ontario. Why would you, as a province want to change anything? You have the best of both worlds, you are the home to Ottawa, the head of the country, and you also have the center of the universe, Toronto.
While you seem to see that there are problems with the current system, and are even involved with trying to make changes, the majority of the population of your province seem to prefer an alleged corrupt regime over one that wants to make changes.
Whether or not Stephan Harper is the person to lead our country, is in my opinion a mute point. He is willing to try and make changes towards the better.
As far as giving up on Canada goes, HELL YES I have given up on Canada! Only after Canada gave up on the province where I now choose to live, and by default, has also given up on me.
The landmass that is now the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan were never asked about voting to join confederation. The Canadian government bought them (Rupert’s Land and then dividing the land mass in two parts, fearing too big an area to keep under control, use the divide and conquer theory) for a song from the Hudson’s Bay Co. Fearing too great a distance between what was then eastern Canada and the western province of British Columbia.
Our illustrious federal governments have had multiple opportunities to include the peoples of the west into their circle, and have ignored the opportunities. I guess they fear that if they share the power with the west, there’s no telling what the REDNECKS and MOUTH BREATHERS might do, and who can forget the ever famous one finger salute that P.E.T gave to the west.
In some ways, we are similar, we both want changes to occur, and looking back on what Quebec’s threats of separation have done for that province. Maybe the threat of Separation from Alberta will have a similar effect on our government. I doubt that it will happen. The government will probably just send in the troops instead.
For the past little while I have maintained that this experiment called Canada is a failure. We have had far too many governments that just look our for their own best interests, ignoring the wishes of us the subjects, choosing instead to cater to big business.
I for one would like to see the way we are governed re-worked, taking the best ideas of government from many different countries, and putting them together in what could be called the “ new Canadian form of government”. Getting back to what could truly be called a democracy.
As that is something that I don’t see happening by choice, I am therefore going to continue working towards Alberta separating from Canada, and working towards the best ideas from different forms of government, forming in the end a government that will work for the peoples of Alberta.
Jamle Riks and Tom Greening, not much I can say about the two of you, though using spell check does come to mind.
Jamle you say that the idea of a separate nation of Alberta can’t work, you may be right, you may be wrong. History will ultimately be the judge. You say that we will have to form new alliances with our neighbors. NO SHIT Sherlock. How long did it take you to come up with that one?
If you want to post comments on my blog telling me that what I am working towards is bound to fail, at least have the cajoles and sense to come up with arguments that make sense.
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