JuungleJim

Dear Premier Smith, A referendum to have a referendum… after two justices told you, you could call Mitch Sylvestre’s question under Section 1 of the Referendum Act is hardly decisive or honest leadership. On Thursday you lied to everyone in Alberta when you falsely claimed you couldn’t use either Lukaszuk’s question or Mitch’s question because of “the courts”. The courts in fact said the opposite. Chief Alan Adam had his picture taken SIGNING the Lukaszuk petition. How would he oppose THAT question. The simple fact is that you promised Mark Carney that there wouldn’t be a vote on independence this year. By stabbing 301,620 of YOUR VOTERS in the back you delivered on the promise as part of the package to sell out Alberta for a Chinese pipeline to Asia. No binary choice for Albertans as you promised. Only political sleight of hand. You have lost the ability to refer to yourself as “Right Honourable” . You have lost the moral authority to lead the UCP. Please resign. Sincerely, Jeffrey R.W. Rath B.A. (Hons.), LL.B.(Hons.) Foothills, Alberta

We can walk and chew bubblegum at the same time. DANIELLE SMITH NEEDS TO GO NOW! Dani will do everything she can to kill independence. She has declared for Carney, Lukaszuk, Kenney and Nenshi. If you believe that even if we win she will give us a referendum before the 2027 Election you are dreaming. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing (trusting Dani) over and over again and expecting a different result. She has lied to us and misled us ever since the bait and switch on the Sovereignty Act becoming the Sovereignty within a united Canada Act. Separatists elected her leader but Kenney has been using her as a hand puppet for years. A new interim leader of the UCP before October can kill the stupid question to have a question and all the other dumb questions and have a referendum on one question. DO YOU AGREE THAT ALBERTA SHALL CEASE TO BE A PROVINCE IN CANADA TO BECOME AN INDEPENDENT STATE?

For the record. No More Free Ride for Canada The pause of the Permanent Joint Board on Defence is not just a bureaucratic squabble; it is Washington’s opening move in a larger strategic game is to force Canada out of its free‑rider equilibrium. For 86 years, the board has been the institutional expression of Canada’s privileged status under the American security umbrella, a quiet assurance that Ottawa would always have a seat at the table when North America’s defence was planned. Putting it on ice is how the United States turns that privilege into leverage. The strategic game is simple. The United States wants Canada to undergo a structural adjustment that Canadian politics has spent decades avoiding: higher, sustained defence spending; faster delivery of real capabilities; and a serious industrial base anchored in energy and critical minerals. By pausing the PJBD rather than gutting NORAD or daily operational cooperation, Washington creates a reversible but highly visible penalty. The message is: the shield stays, for now, but the status, influence, and symbolism that Canadian elites prize are conditional on Ottawa finally behaving like a hard power rather than a moralizing stakeholder. Mark Carney has, belatedly, read this room. He knows a world of Iranian missile swarms, Russian attrition wars, and Chinese naval expansion will not indulge a G7 country that treats 2 percent of GDP on defence as heroic while treating its vast resource endowment as something to be constrained rather than exploited. The problem is that most of Canada’s political class, and the majority of its public, have not caught up. They still act as if the post WWII rules based era lives coupled with geography, good intentions, and ESG‑branded virtue restraint on resource development are a strategy that is sustainable. In that context, the PJBD pause is best understood as a forcing mechanism. It is designed to make clear that Canada must choose: either adapt, by rapidly ramping up defence spending, rapidly developing and processing its natural resources as strategic assets, and embedding itself more deeply in U.S. planning and production, or accept a future as a protected but marginal player, lecturing from the sidelines while others set the terms. The strategic game is to end Canada’s era of cost‑free virtue and make hard power, not slogans, the price of continued privilege. No one should be surprised.

This should piss a few people off!!!

David Cochrane: Are you leading a separatist party? Danielle Smith: No, I'm leading a party that believes that we need to have Albertan sovereignty within a United Canada. (But also... Justin Trudeau ...)