Albertans4Freedom

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Work harder they said as canada simply created Alberta without consultation, air dropping in a liberal Lieutenant Governor, premier, and gerrymandering the ridings to favour the Liberals. canada isnt perfect they said as they forced Albertans to pay a 35% tariff on farm equipment and imposed a mountain freight differential that was 50% higher than what the East paid. Work harder they said as Alberta sent 52% of its men to fight in the First World War. canada isnt perfect they said as they treated Alberta like a resource colony for the first 25 years of its existence and are still actively trying to milk our resources for themselves. Work harder they said as the federal government imposed the Wheat Board in 1935, kneecapping Alberta farmers until 2012. canada isnt perfect they said as the federal governments refusal to relinquish power forced Alberta to declare bankruptcy in 1936. Work harder they said as canada gave more support to the eastern provinces than to Alberta during the Great Depression. canada isnt perfect they said as the federal government threw up roadblocks to necessary reforms that would have allowed provinces a freer hand to govern their own people. Work harder they said as Alberta took eight years to become a have province so it would no longer burden the rest of Confederation, only for five other provinces to never reciprocate. canada isnt perfect they said as they remained perfectly comfortable with the gross imbalance in House of Commons and Senate representation. Work harder they said as envy of Alberta’s success led them to create the National Energy Program (NEP), wrecking Alberta’s economy for a generation. canada isnt perfect they said as Alberta tried to make structural changes in the 1980s and 90s by working within the federal system, only for every attempt to fail. Work harder they said as canada once again tried to wreck Alberta’s economy with the Kyoto Accord and carbon taxes. canada isnt perfect they said as federalists called Albertans sewer rats and told them to find work in B.C. while their economy struggled. Work harder they said as Albertans give more per capita than we take from this confederation with CPP, EI, equalization, CHT, and other confederation entitlements. We are done with work harder. We are done accepting the imperfections of this corrupt Confederation.

To say Canadians are oblivious would be an understatement. If you listen closely in Canada you can hear footsteps in the distance, resonating in compliant unison. We are obediently marching into totalitarianism. Bill C-8 and C-9 have already received royal assent. This gets way worse from here. Bill C-2 → Warrantless sharing of your digital information at the border. Bill C-22 → Mandatory data retention, government backdoors in every app and service, and mass metadata collection on all Canadians. Bill C-8 → Federal power to control, throttle, or shut down cyber systems, networks, and critical infrastructure. Bill C-9 → Vague “hate” definitions weaponized to criminalize dissent. Bill C-11 → Direct government regulation of what you can see and share online. Bill C-63 → The “digital safety” trap that lets them police your thoughts, speech, and online life — with prison as the penalty. Bill C-34 → The digital "Safety" Act, This is an age restriction on internet access, which alows them to force everyone to upload government issued ID for internet access. This has NOTHING to do with safety and everything to do with control. With NO democratic mandate to lead, and a majority government assembled through backroom deals far from public scrutiny, Mark Carney is changing our country into something unrecognizable. We either resist this with the fury of a people pushed too far, or we lose everything.

We continue to get mixed messages from this provincial government. We are told Alberta should become more self-reliant and that government wants to unleash the entrepreneurial spirit that has always defined this province, yet we continue to tie that entrepreneurial spirit to decisions made in Ottawa. We are told Alberta will have greater autonomy like Quebec, yet we continue to hesitate when it comes to exercising the provincial powers we already have. Quebec has long negotiated and exercised greater control over its own affairs. It administers its own pension plan, maintains its own provincial police force, and has significant authority over immigration. Rather than waiting for permission, Quebec has consistently asserted provincial jurisdiction. Meanwhile, Alberta is rich in natural resources, innovation, and hardworking people. We have everything needed to build a strong and prosperous future. What we need is the freedom to develop and export our resources without Ottawa attaching ideological conditions that increase costs, undermine competitiveness, and leave Albertans paying the price. A pipeline is only meaningful if Alberta is free to produce, transport, and export its resources without unnecessary federal interference or conditions that leave taxpayers footing the bill. If Alberta wants greater autonomy, then let’s start acting like it. Self-reliance means exercising our constitutional powers, making decisions in Alberta’s best interests, and reducing, not increasing, our dependence on Ottawa. If Alberta can only have a pipeline by accepting Ottawa’s ideological agenda, that is not free enterprise. If Alberta can only develop its own resources by accepting costly ideological conditions that make those resources less competitive, that is not a real victory. And if those closest to the Premier have to spend their time defending this deal on X and telling Albertans they simply don’t understand how good they have it, perhaps they should take the hint. When the people you were elected to serve are raising the same concerns over and over again, the answer is not to argue with them. It is to listen.