“Alberta has always welcomed newcomers who possess our shared values,” Premier Danielle Smith says in a statement published on the Government’s official web page yesterday.
“Who possess our shared values!” What values would those be, pray?
I don’t know about you, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard a louder dog-whistle from an elected official since I came to Alberta decades ago, and there have been plenty of dog-whistles around this place since the United Conservative Party now led by Ms. Smith came to power in 2019.
Premier Smith was barely trying to conceal her message to the UCP base in the usual coded deniability as she ginned up another attack on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s federal Liberals for trying to find a way to ensure asylum seekers are settled in all parts of the country.
“Alberta’s government is opposed to the federal government’s plan to relocate tens of thousands of asylum claimants to Alberta, especially without any financial assistance to support the province in doing so,” Ms. Smith huffed in the opening of her statement, repeating a lie being spread by New Brunswick Conservative Premier Blaine Higgs.
Mr. Higgs faces an election next month, and polls suggest it’s a tight race that’s shaping up to be a referendum on his divisive style of conservatism. His claim Wednesday that federal officials are considering sending more asylum seekers to his province without financial assistance was quickly dismissed by federal Immigration Minister Marc Miller as “fictitious.”
“We at no time have said that we would impose asylum seekers on provinces without financial compensation,” Mr. Miller told reporters at the Liberal caucus retreat on Vancouver Island.
That fictional element didn’t stop Ms. Smith’s commentary, of course. “We are informing the Government of Canada that until further notice, Alberta is not open to having these additional asylum seekers settled in our province,” her statement concluded defiantly. “We simply cannot afford it.”
That’s pretty rich coming from a premier who’s been talking for months about her ambition to increase Alberta’s population to 10 million people by 2050. And so much for those subway cars in Toronto that her predecessor, former premier Jason Kenney, paid to have wrapped in photos of the Rocky Mountains telling Ontarians that “Alberta is Calling.”
Apparently “the dream of home ownership is alive in Alberta” only until people with the wrong sort of values, whatever her base has in mind when she says that, might move here.
“When I was a refugee from Poland, I never had to pass a ‘Shared Values Test,’” observed former Progressive Conservative Thomas Lukaszuk in a tweet responding to meme published by the premier. He asked: “You mean No Muslims?”
You have to wonder what Ms. Smith is going to say next? Is she going to warn us that asylum seekers will eat the dogs, eat the cats, like that batshit old Republican con running for president south of the Medicine Line?
I wouldn’t put it past her. Donald Trump did mention the Keystone XL Pipeline in passing on Tuesday night, after all, as Democrat candidate Kamala Harris pummelled him into insensibility.
I’m not joking about this. Because, like Mr. Higgs, the fictionalist, Ms. Smith has an election problem of her own. The far right extremists who used to be her party’s base and are now about all that’s left of it just might skid her, just as they dumped Mr. Kenney, if she’s isn’t MAGAfied enough for their taste.
She’s desperate to keep them sweet, at least until the vote on her leadership at the UCP’s annual general meeting in Red Deer on Nov. 1 and 2.
That’s why she’ll be sitting down for a live, in-person interview with their favourite “news” source, Rebel News, on Oct. 5. That’s why she’s publishing dog-whistling nonsense about certain kinds of immigrants in official government statements. And it’s certainly not going to stop until the AGM is over.
It may not stop then, either.
Ms. Smith understands that the party’s MAGA base now poses the biggest threat to her political survival. And when it comes to Conservative premiers, the National Observer’s Max Fawcett observes, “the call almost always comes from inside the house.”
This is likely to keep getting worse until Alberta voters take it upon themselves to purge the UCP by electing a different government.
Other stuff that’s hitting the fan this week …
Meanwhile, a lot of stuff keeps hitting the fan this week, too much to write about in detail.
The trial of former UCP star Derek Fildebrandt, accused of threatening to shoot a group of three young teenaged boys outside his home in the toney Crestmont neighbourhood last spring, continued yesterday in Calgary. Here’s the CBC’s report.
A Law Society of Alberta panel released a decision yesterday finding former Conservative Alberta justice minister Jonathan Denis guilty of two counts of professional misconduct for events that took place in 2020 and 2021. It said he deserved sanction. Details here.
And The Progress Report has broken a story showing that Alberta Health Services officials pressed two downtown Edmonton mental health clinics to transfer patients’ prescriptions to Shoppers Drug Mart. Current and former health care workers at the clinics say Shoppers pharmacists have disrupted their relationships with patients.
Danielle Smith is going more and more off the deep end. The UCP seems like a combination of the Social Credit Party (who Peter Lougheed defeated in 1971), Ralph Klein, and the Reform Party, and the Republicans in the United States. What does Alberta values even mean? I wonder how possible it would even be to get a UCP membership and dump Danielle Smith at her leadership review?
Beware: Lay down with Smith and her pack of hounds and …
TENET: Eeeewww! DJC
It might be better to keep her where she is. While she will continue to do a lot of damage as her tenure continues, in the end, she’ll take her miserable excuse for a party down with her when Albertans have finally had enough.
And the very real possibility that TBA would install someone even worse (hard to imagine, I realize, but these guys are resourceful and have an extensive stable of crazies to draw upon) if Smith is forced out it should give us all pause. After all, for quite a while there, it was hard to imagine someone worse than Kenney, but the UCP succeeded.
First of all I have to say, I don’t feel Smith actually shares a lot of values with many Albertans, so I’m not sure what she is talking about here. But it does seem likely the words shared values have become the modern version for her and her supporters of when people used to say coded things like “the right kind of” or “our kind of” people.
She is full of contradictions, one day she ones to bring in millions and the next she is restrictive. I do agree the looming leadership review is pushing her messaging to be more extreme, but those who are her base do seem to be who she is most comfortable appealing to in general.
Fidebrant sure seems to get into a lot of trouble with guns and Denis seems to have a lot of his own troubles. Neither are good examples for Alberta Conservatives.
I do agree the ongoing MAGA extremism and foolishness has probably encouraged some more extreme UCP behavior recently. They might not be trying to immigrate to Alberta from the US but their messaging seems to have seeped across our border. I wonder if Smith would say they shares our values?
It’s sickening that anyone would spout this racist rubbish, let alone the premier. Does she really think she’s fooling anyone? Every single day she embarrasses Alberta with her displays of ignorance. I thought Kenney was bad, but at least we knew he was a weasel.
a) We should at this point know what kind of human Smith is. No need to insult non-humans.
b) While Smith is indeed a daily embarrassment, the ignorance of those who voted for her and her party is a more profound source of shame for the province.
c) And no!!!! She’s not fooling anyone. She’s not trying to fool anyone. She’s speaking directly to the fringe support she needs.
d) see a) and b)
@djc
While I would truly love to see Smith hoist on her own petard, what proof is there she is at risk for a “Kenney railroading”?
I recall the run up to Kenney’s denouement, and I’m just not seeing the same chatter. Is Dave Parker keeping his powder dry, or are there others actors involved?
Gerald: This is an excellent question. The evidence is mixed. But Ms. Smith’s behaviour, which increasingly involves actions that are of serious concern to a large number of Albertans (breakup of AHS, takeover of CPP, elimination of RCMP), is clearly intended to appeal to a group that makes up a large part of the UCP’s core support but is less well represented in the general population. Why would she risk losing the support of traditional Progressive Conservatives? Obviously (in my opinion) because she believes the immediate risk from the Take Back Albertans is greater now than danger from less committed citizens. In particular, she has a pretty good idea who is actulally going to pay money to show up at the AGM, and it’s not old PCs. But is her removal if she misbehaves from TBA’s perspective a slam dunk? I don’t think so. Parker, I think, is increasingly marginalized, even among other TBA cadres, because he’s just too weird. DJC
I’m not buying, and nor should anyone believe the racist dogwhistling will only be on display “until the vote on her leadership at the UCP’s annual general meeting in Red Deer on Nov. 1 and 2.”
It’s part of the UCP’s very reason to exist.
When you add in the overt racism endemic to the TBA cult, it’s like the UCP is a cookie that’s 99.99% feces.
Ok ok! “Alberta Health” (comically branded to confuse the rubes) required the recently neutered Alberta Health Services to do their bidding while the Ministry defenestrates our health care system to advantage their donors. I’m surprised they didn’t move the prescriptions to some fast food drive through! Dani’s big yap doesn’t blow a dog whistle! She’s got a Souzi Phoney! https://youtu.be/jft3BVoxqjo?t=1
Great clip, there, Pogo, thanks for the link.
“Batshit old Republican con” says, “They’re taking the geese! You know where the geese are? In the park, in the lake.”
Well, of course “they” (hunters) are, Elmer Fudd. It’s hunting season. They’re in the fields in Hanna, Alberta, home of the three giant Canada Goose statues. Everybody’s taking them legally (geese, not the statues), even the kids, with hunting licences and proper certification (but please don’t take Goosy, the briefly-famous, real-life international avian celebrity).
This seems like an opportunity for Alberta’s own MAGA Republicans. Perhaps Danielle Smith could travel to Hanna and hide out there until her own Ideas of November. She’d have to say something even stupider to get the attention of Albertans, like, “They’re taking the whooping cranes!” Maybe she was already hiding there among friendlies when the LRT Green Line fiasco went down. Who knows? Bug out where you can when it’s time for the apocalypse. If all else fails, take the Green Line to Airdrie, because you certainly won’t be able to take it anywhere else. While there, she can take some time out to engineer her Alberta Values Test, like the one for immigrants to Quebec. It could have questions like, “Is it legal to force drug addicts into medical treatment? (Y) Is it legal to deny medical treatment to transgender children? (Y) Does Alberta legalize discrimination? (Y — do not have a problem with that?)” Anyone who fails the test twice will be forced into re-education camps.
Now back to reality. Did Grandpa Simpson really chase some kids while waving his cane, then call 911 to invite police out to his house for a chat? Is that really something lonely old people do? Off to the care centre with you, gramps, before you crash your truck.
Am I the only one wanting to know more about the Russian propaganda scheme and whether it has Canadian tentacles that extend far beyond Montreal? It’s making some people edgy and unpredictable, IMO. Can we expect an October surprise?
Abs. The Ides of November are on the 13th. The Festival of Jupiter occurs on that day, which I suppose will be interpreted in Alberta as an assault on Christianity. What Ms. Smith must beware are the Kalends of November. Moving on to Grandpa Simpson, why would any sane person call 911 and tell the operator it was not an emergency but they wanted someone given a “talking to”? Is it just me, or does this make no flippin’ sense. DJC
Until the 11th hour of the 11th month, we all suffer the Ideas of November. Goose Goose is dead? Long live Goose Goose!
UCP advertising campaign ” Alberta is Calling!*”
(*unless you are vulnerable and brown)
Thanks for the link to the progress report. I’m sure you covered that strange press release where the Alberta government celebrated its non relationship with Shoppers Drugs. When was that? I’m really going to have to start taking notes.
Gail: I wrote about it in late January. https://albertapolitics.ca/2024/01/danielle-smith-struggles-to-pump-up-new-drugstore-clinics-as-primary-care-no-slur-on-pharmacists-but-that-dog-wont-hunt/ and https://albertapolitics.ca/2024/01/it-turns-out-shoppers-drug-mart-clinic-plan-does-nothing-to-improve-access-to-primary-health-care-in-alberta/ But there are a lot of moving parts to that deal, and I may not have commented on them all. DJC
As there are alternatives to voting for the the UCP so there are alternatives to financially supporting Shoppers Drug Mart. Hitting ’em where it hurts is very easy.
The current premier’s micro management, bullying, lying and gaslighting continue. All are hallmarks of a charismatic cult leader that far right fanatics long for. There’s likely a few aspirants whose names have previously been mentioned in this blog and possibly more yet to emerge. The Maga phenomenon shows that intellect, reason and good government can be made subservient to the rants of a boorish buffoon spouting irresponsible lies and drivel founded in hatred and used to generate anger and division.
“….our shared values”
Reminds me of Stephen Harper’s “old stock Canadians” for some reason….
Hana: There’s a good reason for that. DJC
Batshit says what? Oh, hum – soo predictable, it borders on boring.
Does she know hat Alberta has no authority over Canada’s immigration policies?
Of course she does not welcome non white, non Christian, non UCP supporters to settle in Alberta. She also doesn’t support anything that is public, or anything that would mitigate the ravages of global warming. She’s essentially against anything that is sensible, correct, or compassionate. She is for oil & gas, and billionaires, and especially hockey billionaires.
One has to wonder if the ignominious Craig Chandler has the Premier’s ear.
David, you bravely go where other “journalists” fear. I do not share anything resembling UCP/TBA values. Should I fear the coming Danni cops and deportation?
If she’s speaking in terms of grey-scale values she is speaking very plainly. One end of the grey-scale white, is an acceptable Albertan value and all other values are unacceptable. “They’re eating the rodeo animals, they’re eating the churches!” future DS or next ucp leaders quote.
Two points: 1. I’m an immigrant who has never shared her twisted f*****g values but I’ll bet with my gender, skin and education no screening process she could dream of would’ve kept me out. 2. I immigrated to Canada not Alberta and Ms. Smith can take her sovereignty and her arrogance and shove it, as we say in my native land, where the sun don’t shine.
Here here!!
What, if any, do you see as the difference between Ms. Smith’s “shared values” and Mr. Trudeau’s “Canadian values” when deciding to call it a dog whistle?
It’s pretty clear what the difference is: Trudeau stated what he believes Canadian values are: a commitment to pluralism, inclusion, and fairness, and continuing efforts to right past injustices and pursue reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. You can disagree, as I’m sure you do, Fred, but he’s been perfectly clear about what he has in mind. Smith’s “shared values” are a dogwhistle, left undefined so her followers can fill in the blanks while the rest of us miss the implied racism. Happy to be of help.
Dog whistle? No. Wrong animal, wrong instrument. It’s a bullhorn to her bigoted xenophobic rural base. Next thing we’ll be seeing them out in white sheets and pointy hoods.
Sane people are well aware of the difference.
Seriously Fred. Ummm, inclusive versus exclusive. How’s that?
fred–
Mr Trudeau’s “Canadian values” are (imho) that we all should care for each other, work together for our future, help each other in times of need (the pioneer principle) respect each others religion and most importantly don’t mix religion with politics.
Ms Smith’s/ TBA “shared values”…
“Basically they both share far right misoginy and racism TALABANGELIST FAKE CHRISITIANITY and authoritarian goals and lie every time they open their mouths “***
*** from Ian Chadwick– whom I’d personally like to thank for a very apt description. He was answering to similarities between JD Vance and PP, but it fittingly applies to DS/TBA.
Hello DJC and fellow commenters,
Or, maybe I should address this to Danielle Smith. Values such as destroying health care that is essential to a decent life in Canada, disregard of public health by saying that vaccines are there for those who want them, sort of like saying you can choose tea or coffee at Starbucks, if you want to, encouraging firearms ownership so we can be like the U S killing a large number of citizens annually, lying unabashedly, giving money to their friends such as the TC Energy that was denied a permit to continue TMX in the US as expected, enabling well-off oil companies to evade their legal requirement to pay royalties to municipalities that desperately need the promised revenue, legalizing bribes in the form of permitting politicians to accept gifts of larger value, misleading about the supposed excess contributions to CPP without pointing out that Alberta offers generally higher wages and the fact that the more you contribute to CPP the greater the CPP pension when you retire, deducting all payments paid by CPP Disability from AISH payments while AISH provides below poverty benefits. I think that gives you examples of the “shared values” and attitudes that Danielle Smith, presumably, hopes new immigrants will bring to Alberta. In effect, ways to damage our social system including health care and education and to drive poorer people further down the poverty ladder.
This is the same dog whistle that the state Republicans in the US have been blowing for decades. The end results have been widespread impoverishment in the local economies, degraded public institutions, and an epidemic dependence on cheap labour. (Migrant labour) Keep em stupid and they’ll keep voting UCP, right? But at the same time, Queen Danielle wants Alberta’s population to triple for … reasons. Since the numbers of people immigrating from the Scandinavian countries is really thin, is Smith looking for Ukrainians to bump up those numbers? Considering the way she (was) throwing around those Kremlin talking points, there could be a problem there. Of course, immigrants from Russia maybe more to her liking. But failing that, it’s back to all those undesirables from Africa and Asia, racial and religiously speaking, of course. Which brings us back to that mental giant, Craig Chandler’s assertion that there would be all kinds of purity tests in Alberta. Unless he expects a huge migration from Texas and Florida to Alberta (Never gonna happen) there is no way he’s going to get his version of crazy Gilead.
Smith’s “Alberta-values” preposterousness notwithstanding, it probably typifies the dynamics inside what might be accurately called The Land of Gorm. The word is better known by its modernly-suffixed, or ‘fossilized’ form, but its root —the Old Norse ‘gaumr’—which means something like ‘taking care’, ‘paying attention’, or ‘heeding’, fairly describes the radicalized Take Back Alberta. From the outside, TBA appears the single most influential faction of the United Conservative Party (collectively aka by its Reformed bananagram, TUBCRAP, although patently dys-“United” and vehemently anti-“collective”) which, we sometimes need reminding, is the governing [?] party [?] of a Canadian [?] province [?]
TUBCRAP indeed takes extreme care about and pays extreme attention to far-right, white tsirhCytinai (Christianity, inside-out), gender, sexual, and reproductive choice, JT Liberal-ttOawa, federalism, government, and vaccinations, and with extreme unction yells at outsiders to heed its warning. It has also issues with taxes, the rule of law, policing and stand-your-ground fire-arm rights, et cetera. Suffice to say it has earned the “extremist” descriptor. But with respect Canada’s constituted federalism, protected rights and freedoms—including Section VI of the Charter, Mobility Rights—TUBCRAP is redoubted in a sort of wagon laager wherein the ingredients of a fantasy world are incessantly stirred. It might as well be called “The Land of Gorm” whence old white men warn tatted and pierced teenagers of inscrutable identity to get off their prairie.
“Shared values” is as moot from a Canadian perspective as TUBCRAP fantasizing rapturously is about the far-right fringe of independence, idiocy. But given our Alberta compatriots continue to regret consciously electing The Smith&Parker Gang to govern them, we also need reminding that keeping the TBA faction sweet absolutely demands that such mootiness be pronounced with bellicose fervour to the outside world. Thus Smith —who, remind, is supposed to be premier of Alberta—is obliged to sally forth and make statements to the outside that only make sense to the inside of the TBA Redoubt—that is, she comes off as gormless, literally. Unfortunately, that forces us compatriots to ask what “shared values” means to the Jim Bowies and Davy Crocketts of Alamo North.
“Shared values” only makes sense inside the TBA Redoubt. It means if one doesn’t vote for (or, I suppose, look like) TUBCRAP, one doesn’t share in its most-valued ideal, a one-party theocracy. Its pseudo-democracy allows for challengers, but only if they remain a minority handy for the tyranny of the supposed “majority”: whipping-boys-and-girls, low-wage healthcare workers in a privatized system, or any minority who will dance to any laughing gunslinger as he empties his irons into the dust around their feet. The question for us outsides isn’t really what those “shared values” are supposed to be or who is supposed to define or judge them; rather, the question is how this phantasmagorical state would be achieved.
There are only two ways: withdraw the franchise Canadians in other provinces and Territories enjoy, restricting it to TBA voters, or keep a broad franchise but only in a province where non-TBA voters have been deported or otherwise encouraged to leave Alberta, yielding TBA majorities by default —which, strangely, would be the only Canadian way since the former would require secession from our federation (not particularly unCanadian but very improbable; qv the Clarity Act, SCoC reference opinion, and geographical facts of life in Landlockia).
Indeed, many progressives and professionals have already ‘voted with their feet’ and migrated to other provinces (certainly many Albertans have recently settled in my home province of BC). Coupled with the UCP’s semi- or unconstitutional policies which defy political possibility and the public good, and Smith’s utterly gormless psephological sense, a purgative policy doesn’t seem so far-fetched.
Alberta secession is technically possible but so improbable that for all intents and purposes it is rendered moot. Smith is quite likely affecting a TBA-mandated performance by proclaiming “shared values” but it’s more than curious she spends precious time on that when her province and its citizens are suffering serious challenges on a number of fronts which her government could and should address.
Comedy meets tragedy in TUBCRAP’s Alberta. Pray one of the real values which all Canadians truly share will remedy this most anti-democratic, anti-Canada, and—while outside its circled wagons—totally gormless party. We can only hope that a government that’s so good at screwing up can’t possibly screw up too badly.
Be brave, my Alberta compatriots!
When I read Smith’s comment regarding “shared values” it left me wondering, what are shared values, when she says it. Are it just values that she has or does it include others? What I’ve seen of smith’s values, they aren’t much nor would I want them to become sort of a government law as to who came into Alberta. Now of course Smith may have difficulties invoking any game rules regarding “shared values” unless she uses the ‘not withstanding clause” and then it still might be “see you in court”. How does she plan to keep people who don’t share her values out of the province? Will it apply to tourists, people of religions she doesn’t belong to, people who may be of a different orientation, political values, etc. I do want to know. Planning a trip to Calgary. If I don’t “share” her values, will I be put back on the plane for Vancouver Island or will there be a road block to keep drivers with the wrong values
Canada does have values and what Trudeau said is different from what Smith said. It’s what Canada stands for. Some may believe that isn’t much, but we do have a Rights and Freedoms clause which pretty much outlines what is a go and what isn’t.
Canadian values include things like, a woman’s right to control her own body without interference from the state; people can worship in other forms of religion or non at all; a national health care system, a federal pension plan, keeping people from starving to death, etc. The basics of life. Not all areas of the country are meeting the “standards” but most provinces do try. Alberta standards, are a tad different. They seem to have different views on guns, people of non Christian faiths, people of colour, people with mental disabilities, etc.
When Smith says, “shared values” what I hear is her saying is the values that she and her supporters have, not those of everyone in the province. Regardless of what faith or no faith you belong to, what cultural back ground you have, etc. a lot of those values are similar.
In related news: Close Donald Trump ally Laura Loomer told a white nationalist conference in 2022 that she considered herself a “white advocate”…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/14/trump-ally-laura-loomer-audio
I moved to the Netherlands about 10 years ago. To become a citizen here, a person must pass a cultural test. Everyone must take it. It involves language proficiency, a bit of history, and some random questions around ‘shared values’.
A recent question reported to be in the test was ‘My wife wants to go to a movie with a friend, but I don’t want her to, is she allowed to go?’
Some failed the test because they answered ‘no’, not recognizing that in the Netherlands women make their own decisions about what they do with their time.
There’s nothing wrong with making sure new Albertans / Canadians share the same morality and principals that the society is built on.
I’m a liberal voter but these things go beyond right and left. I think Canada is a couple years behind where we are in Europe, which is getting more and more tense.
Being sanctimonious just to be ‘right’ isn’t going to solve these issues.
A response to Thomas’ comment about Polish people vs Muslim people is to ask him how he’d answer the above example question. And remind him that not all people instinctively answer the same way — which is the point of it.
AiE, I’m not sure how long you’ve been away or how much you know about our current disaster of a goverment, but this isn’t your grandpappy’s conservative party. Furthermore your info about the Netherlands is good to know but in this case you’re referring to a country’s “shared values”, whereas Smith is talking about “Albertan values”, whatever the hell that means. Last I checked Alberta is not a nation so unless she is presuming to speak for all Canadians (hint: she’s not) then it’s simply a dogwhistle to her deranged base.
I think it also important to point out that the concept of a “cultural mosaic” is indeed a Canadian value that has been around for decades. The whole idea of a melting pot, where FIFO (fit in or f**k off) is the ruling principle, is an inherent American concept, one that Smith and her MAGAt supporters would be ecstatic to import to this side of the border.
Here’s the thing, we already aggressively screen immigration, like cmon, it’s a pretty white supremacist country and it was founded as such. What she’s saying is only ubermensch should be allowed to settle in alberta, not the riff raff. Ukrainians yes, Hatians no. While we are here let’s take the notion that she’s talking about any sort of progressive values at all behind the woodshed and put two behind it’s ear, they don’t care about women, children (other than as a possession) minorities or even people who live in the two major cities in the province.
They want to be known as hateful little bigots, let them. “Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake” – Sun Tzu
“give ‘em enough rope” – Joe Strummer
“Shared Values” I assume she’s talking about non-indigenous values. One set of my Grandparents came with Ontario values in 1905, the other came in 1921 from Ireland. Canada has always prided itself on being a cultural mosaic. We have had immigration from around the world and taken in refugees from wars. We are stronger because of that.
Smith is just chirping a dog whistle to those that think it should be an American white Melting Pot.
I haven’t forgotten what former Conservative MLAs taught me. Unlike us true conservatives these Reformers are all about destroying jobs and don’t care who gets hurt in the process. They show no concern for the wellbeing of the people. Only themselves and their friends. These are the American Republicans of the north and show no respect for our children’s and grandchildren’s lives, supporting the right to bare arms, while bashing Trudeau for trying to protect us from Assault Rifles and Handguns, or financial ruin by racking up massive debts for their future to deal with. They are a pathetic group of human beings and their supporters aren’t smart enough to realize it.
Well, I would like to share their values. I understand the Loyal Leader of the Federal Opposition had a full pension by the age of 31.