Trent Ferguson ❤️🛢️

Let’s do some math. CO2 is 0.04% of our atmosphere. Humanity (all of it) is responsible (generously) for 5% of that, equaling 0.008% of our atmosphere. Canada, if we stopped emitting ALL sources of CO2, including exhaling, is 1.6% of that equaling 0.005%. 5 parts per billion.

Hell yeah.

@JosephB1823 @globeandmail Nope. There’s always another Trudea disciple waiting in the wings. Alberta out.

@globeandmail There is only one path forward for that. The removal of Liberals and their Net Zero. Until we elect Pierre, we will continue to suffer.

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@globeandmail Too little. Too late. Bye.

@TristinHopper Keep that in mind this October, when Alberta votes.

As a Canadian, I have an extremely jingoistic view of both Irish and American history. In that I think they were both silly for getting a bunch of people killed for independence when we did it for free.

This is how I read Trump’s plan. I think the strike on Iran is part of a larger American effort to stop acting like the world’s full-time policeman and return to being a dominant regional superpower built around Fortress North America. That only works if China can be contained to its own region and denied a smooth path to becoming a fully secure global rival. From that point of view, pressure on Iran, pressure on Gulf shipping, and pressure on Russia all serve the same larger purpose because they make China’s long-term energy future more fragile, more expensive, and less secure. That is also how I view Israel in this picture. A lot of MAGA supporters think Trump is simply Bibi’s puppet. I do not buy that. However, the Trump administration has a horrific optics and messaging problem with this relationship. I think Israel is, for now, the enemy of America’s enemy, which makes it useful to Washington in this phase. That does not mean the U.S. government is confused about Israel’s own agenda, its own ambitions, or its own willingness to pull America deeper into conflicts that serve Israeli interests more than American ones. It means that, at this moment, their interests overlap enough for the relationship to hold. If this really is Trump’s plan, then the long-term goal is not endless global empire. The goal is to pull the United States back from overextension, abandon the burden of carrying the GCC forever, and focus instead on securing North America as the core American sphere of power. Given China’s economic weakness and dependence on large-scale energy imports, I think Washington may believe this is achievable. That is where Alberta becomes so important. If the United States wants secure oil close to home from politically aligned territory, then Alberta stops looking like just another Canadian province and starts looking like one of the most strategically valuable energy jurisdictions in the Western world. Arctic sovereignty and defense is key for America here too. Add U.S. oil and Venezuelan oil to that picture, and you can see the outline of a North American energy fortress taking shape. In my view, that is why an independent Alberta would be enormously attractive to Washington. Alberta would not just be another producer. It could become the safe, stable, large-scale energy anchor inside Fortress North America, something close to the Saudi Arabia of that bloc. For Alberta taxpayers, the benefits could be enormous. More wealth could stay in Alberta. Taxes could come down more aggressively. Infrastructure could be built at home. Savings could grow. Alberta could also avoid carrying the defense burden of a fully isolated state if it sat under a broader American security umbrella while still maintaining its own serious border, cyber, intelligence, and internal security capacity. The biggest obstacle would not be Washington. It would be Ottawa. If Alberta independence ever became a real possibility, Ottawa would use every political and legal tool available to stop it. One of the clearest questions is how aggressively Ottawa would try to use Indigenous politics and land claims against Alberta separation, because nobody should doubt for a second that this would become part of the fight. My view is simple: if Trump’s plan is Fortress North America, then Alberta is not a side issue. Alberta is one of the main prizes on the board. @RogerJStoneJr

@CoryBMorgan At this point, I’m convinced that Parker is a Lukaszuk plant. He has to be. There’s no other reasonable explanation for his actions.

Mitch was wise enough to smell what could happen if he associated with Parker. Sylvestre has been solid for the independence movement.

@ABJeffBerube @rathslayer @coreyhoganyyc

@rathslayer @coreyhoganyyc By your logic, it could be argued that Canada has broken ties with us, not the other way around.

Nobody ran on separatism. Or on lowering citizen initiative thresholds. Or on weakening Elections Alberta. Or having such a serious question be 1 of 10, added at the 11th hour. Albertans have been subjected to separatism by subterfuge.

@coreyhoganyyc By are you scared of democracy? Oh right. You’re a fucking Liberal shill.

@Chuckwagonracer @david_parker This. Absolutely b

@david_parker Gotta assume at this point that you're an NDP plant with all the damage you're doing.

I am aware of the media reporting and the materials filed by Elections Alberta regarding the Centurion Project. The allegations that I personally received or distributed any unauthorized voter data are false. These issues involve active court proceedings and investigations. I will not be commenting further on the operations of the Centurion Project or the media speculation. We will let the legal process unfold.

@CoryBMorgan @LiveFreeHoney He’s a grifter. He literally doesn’t give a fuck about independence.

Just this morning you said you would be explaining yourself. Now you put out a statement saying nothing. It has put a pall on the movement on what has been otherwise a great day. If it wasn't electoral lists you used, what was it? Enough BS. Clear the air. You are damaging the movement.

@BlueCollarKell Yes. He is.

Are you retarded?

@JeffreyRWRath @kmhboiler @nenshi Pity that David Parker threw a pall over the entire process. Today should be celebrated. Instead it’s being undermined by a grifting asshole.

BREAKING NEWS ! @Nenshi held a news conference to lie to Albertans about the StayfreeAlberta Independence Petition. Unlike the phoney Lukaszuk petition that had access to NDP and Union lists and signed up Disney Characters and Tourists, every Stay Free Alberta was made with valid photo ID held by actual eligible Alberta voters. All of the signatures were delivered in sequentially ordered file folders with each canvasser badge number assigned its own folder for identification of serial numbered canvassing sheets by canvasser. Any misbehaviour by any individual canvasser can be immediately identified on verification. For that reason it is beyond belief that any impropriety occurred due to the stringency of the process. Nenshi’s allegation of fraud on the part of 7000 hard working Alberta Independence Canvassers and the 301,620 Albertans who signed the petition is defamatory. Nenshi’s suggestion that Danielle Smith should ignore this petition is ludicrous and completely in keeping with his generally anti-democratic tendencies and beliefs. Danielle Smith will ignore 301,620 potentially former UCP voters at her political peril.

@coreyhoganyyc You get a vote. Are you scared of democracy?

@___brittanyxo Gay. Not blind.

@Bratt_world He lowered the consumer carbon tax to zero. He didn’t end it. The CT law is still on the books, and can be raised by the govt at any time. The INDUSTRIAL carbon tax is very much alive and well, costing you thousands of dollars a year.

What carbon tax ? Carney ended that didn’t he ? And also paused the excise tax 🤔

@TristinHopper Albertans are engaged. The petition to save ourselves gets delivered this afternoon.

If you aren't regularly having thoughts of giving up on Canada, it's probably because you're not realistically engaging with the state of your own country. But it's that very engagement that this country needs more than ever.

@Martyupnorth The original. None of the Disney crap.

Are you a Star Wars fan?