I alternate between despair and hope. Despair because of public acceptance of government encroachments on our freedoms; we are slipping towards a new ‘Dark Age’ where we will be oppressed and subject to faceless government workers.
Hope and Despair
Protect the Citadel
Why do I suggest we need Alberta Police, Alberta Pension, Alberta tax collection, Alberta immigration and Alberta health care management?
“Fight at the outposts, and the citadel will be secure.”
A North American Cold War With a Rush’n Ottawa
A North American Cold War With a Rush’n Ottawa During the Cold War, everyone agreed that a nuclear exchange between Russia and the US was not a good outcome. Russia and the US developed tripwires that came between a conflict…
A continuation of Politics
War is a continuation of politics by other means. Clausewitz The threat of war will keep parties talking and coming to a mutually satisfactory landing. War is not the desired outcome, merely a possible outcome. Separation of Alberta from the…
Practicing Cultural Sensitivity
The Alberta Law Society requires all lawyers to take training in North American Indian history and social habits; ostensibly, a lawyer cannot serve a client without this history and background.
A new relationship with Canada
Separation is not desired, but it is an option. I don’t want to separate from Ontario and Quebec, but to quote a Quebec separatist leader, “I do want a new relationship.” And let’s be clear, that new relationship will mean…
Fixing the marriage
Jason Kenney and Preston Manning both want to take the possibility of separation from the rest of Canada off the Alberta conversation table.
Approval seeking
The sad state of public policy thinking is on display in
Alberta.
The craving of our public figures to be seen taking advice
from a 16-year-old girl is astounding and distressing.
Blue Ribbon Commission
A Government Commission I would like to see.
The Alberta government has, in the past, created blue-ribbon commissions to review oil and gas royalties.
Why not convene a blue-ribbon commission review of Civil Service payment and benefit rates?
Absenteeism
The Federal Government did not send lawyers to defend the Trans Mountain Pipeline at a recent Federal Court hearing. I suppose there are number of possible explanations.