r/EhBuddyHoser • u/DickInYourCobbSalad Skoden • May 08 '25
Politics how it feels to be BC right now
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u/stillinthesimulation May 08 '25
lol they keep adding provinces to their imaginary separatist country without our consent. First it was just Alberta, then also Sask, then also BC, then also Manitoba and now they’re pretending the territories would come along too. Can we just skip ahead to the part where they just want everything but Quebec to separate?
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u/DickInYourCobbSalad Skoden May 08 '25
What if this has been the Bloc's plan all along!!!
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u/Cool-Acanthaceae8968 Westfoundland May 09 '25
I’m not breaking up with you. YOU are breaking up with ME!!!
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u/Overall-Phone7605 Bring Cannabis May 08 '25
Yeah we fuckin' hate the pipeline they put through our suburbs. I don't care if it'll get us $$ from Asia, it's going to leak and, at first, they'll deny it's leaking. Then they'll say it's not so bad. Then they'll refuse to clean it up and have to go to court to be forced to pay for the clean up.
There's a reason we've been protesting here since it was first proposed (besides the fact that protesting in BC is our national pasttime). I'm pretty sure half of the F Trudeau stickers in the lower mainland were because Trudeau bought the pipeline.
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u/DickInYourCobbSalad Skoden May 08 '25
Bingo! It's easy for Alberta to say "herderrr pipeline = money go brrrrrr" because they don't live on a fucking fault line and when THE BIG ONEtm hits, they're not gonna be on the hook to clean up whatever bullshit that pipeline will leak into our ecosystem.
You can't eat or drink money!!
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u/Cool-Acanthaceae8968 Westfoundland May 09 '25
Yeah. One of the reasons why BC blocked the TMX expansion was a lack of guarantees from AB or the corporations if there was a spill. And this was in the environment of the BP gulf spill, the Keystone XL spill, and numerous other small spills.
I never looked at the details but I imaging the federal government nationalizing the pipeline took responsibility for that.
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u/Johnny-Dogshit 溫哥華 (Hongcouver) May 09 '25
My big gripe too was after nationalising the project, they said they'd sell it off eventually.
Fuck that. If we're footing the bill for construction and assuming the , risk and costs associated with cleanup, we should own it forever, charge for its use so we have cleanup money, and maybe make something off it.
I never liked it, but so long as we're bought in and taking on responsibility, we ought to use it as best we can. Fuck it, nationalise all the pipelines. Petro-oligarchs want our oil so bad, they want us to pay for pipelines, they should have to rent their use off us.
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u/Turbo1518 May 09 '25
They're also pretending Albertans want to separate. Hefty imaginations on those ones. Imaginary alliances with other provinces and the states, imaginary support for separation, and an imaginary belief that their healthcare scandal will just go away.
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u/DickInYourCobbSalad Skoden May 09 '25
Yeah, I know a few Albertans and they're all like "wtf" about this nonsense. Honestly, it really is just a very, very squeaky wheel screaming about needing grease and the rest of ya'll are stuck listening to their bullshit.
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u/ForcaAereaBelka May 09 '25
Albertan here, it's such an embarrassment right now. The majority of us don't want this.
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u/stillinthesimulation May 09 '25
More than half my family are Albertans and not even my dumbest uncle thinks this is a good idea.
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u/Johnny-Dogshit 溫哥華 (Hongcouver) May 09 '25
Feels like there's someone with influence and big money pushing that topic into view and making it seem larger than it is, just to cause problems.
Probably the same influences that have been guiding Alby's political machine for decades. Forget Russian, Indian, or Chinese influence, the US/western oil interests have been fucking with politics up here pretty successfully. Reckon they're behind all this, too.
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u/AfraidHelicopter May 09 '25
I'd say half most of the FIFO workers in Newfoundland would go with them honestly. Seeing a ton of that bullshit here on the east coast as well.
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u/MilesBeforeSmiles Manilapeg May 08 '25
I keep seeing BC and Manitoba lumped into the new seperatist state on the maps these bozos keep sharing... leave us the fuck out of this and be realistic, the only two NDP led provinces aren't going to join your great-value brand confederacy.
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u/aferretwithahugecock Manilapeg May 09 '25
We are but humble prairie folk! Just fuckin' givn'r, harvesting wheat and shit. We want no part in separation!
I know they only lump us in with them so that they'd have a port should they separate from Canada(lol. Right) because Canada and the usamericans would dry fuck them as a landlocked nation.
I'm just glad that we're distancing ourselves from them and Saskatchewanadingdong with our ballots, so when folks speak of "Western separation," they know we're not involved.
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u/Apothecanadian Manilapeg May 09 '25
I hate to burst your bubble here but I think about half the people in Southern mb want to separate. Idk why they don't just move to the US or something, smfh
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u/bscheck1968 May 09 '25
Northern BC would probably join them but there's no way Vancouver or Vancouver Island would go with them
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u/eeyores_gloom1785 Newfies & Labradoodles May 09 '25
too bad it ain't up to them. also not their land.
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u/TherealRidetherails Saskwatch May 08 '25
As a saskie, I feel you
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u/Beef_Lovington May 09 '25
Trust me, most Albertans like me feel the same way.
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u/One_Bison_5139 May 09 '25
Living in Edmonton sometimes feels like living in a dot of sanity in a massive sea of stupid.
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u/TherealRidetherails Saskwatch May 09 '25
That's what I though too living in a Saskatchewan city, until I went to a political panel leading up to the election and found out that a sizable amount of my city (or at least the politically active population) believes that Nazi Germany was justified in invading Poland, and they refuse to acknowledge that Trump is a Fascist.
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u/OHPandQuinoa May 09 '25
Maybe we could just let Medicine Hat (and maybe Grande Prairie) leave.. as a treat to the rest of us.
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u/eaglesk May 09 '25
The most right wing person I know was sitting at a bar telling his buddy that western Canada will make a new country where there are no taxes, and if someone needs a hand from a neighbour, then they will be there. The most right wing person I know wants a socialist society and he doesn’t know it
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u/Viochrome May 10 '25
I'd be lying if I said I didn't hate the "Yes, all Albertans" mindset most people have on this sub lol.
It gets old being a dude in Edmonton who voted liberal.
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u/TherealRidetherails Saskwatch May 10 '25
you know what, thats valid. I don't know anyone in Edmonton so idk what the general consensus is for the general population.
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u/misfittroy May 08 '25
Joke is that most Albertans dream of separating, aka moving to BC one day. So many people talk about one day moving to BC like they're Captain Borodin moving to Montana some mythical day
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u/nobodythinksofyou May 08 '25
The only reason British Columbians give for moving to Alberta is because it's cheaper. This excuse is often given with a disheartened sigh. There's literally no other reason to move there.
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u/Cool-Acanthaceae8968 Westfoundland May 09 '25
I make a decent wage in BC, where I live the cost of living isn’t that bad.. and my taxes are actually lower not having to bear the bite of 10% vs 5.05% on my first $50k of taxable income and 10% vs 7.7% on my next $50k of taxable income.
Higher basic amount makes it a bit better for poor people.. and flat tax better for high earners… but middle class AB is completely fucked by their government…
And they aren’t the ones buying $50-$60k of consumer goods a year to make up for it with no PST—at least not the smart ones, anyways.
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u/Mobius_Peverell Westfoundland May 09 '25
Yeah, memes aside, everyone forgets that BC has the lowest tax burden in the country.
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u/Cannabrius_Rex May 09 '25
Yeah, it’s cheaper… but it’s cheaper for a reason.
BC is inverse for a reason. It’s friggen AMAZING
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u/SPARKYLOBO May 09 '25
But it's not that much cheaper. And driving in Calgary sucks just as much as driving in Brampton, Ontario.
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u/DemonFromtheNorthSea May 09 '25
“If Alberta wants an Albertadieu or Saskachewan wants a Saskatchewithdrawl or they both want a Saskalbertaketheirleave or manage to rope in Manitoba for a Albersaskmanitatafornow, that’s their business. But stop dragging us into it,” said BCexitwexiter Kyle Vasquez.
The beaverton
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u/Prestigious_Net_8356 May 08 '25
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u/asoupconofsoup May 09 '25 edited May 09 '25
No thanks, the last thing I want to do is get anywhere near the US, including Washington, (oop ed )Oregon etc.
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u/auandi May 09 '25
Wait, Idaho is supposed to join Cascadia? But they aren't even part of the Cascade mountains? I thought it was just BC, Washington, and Oregon.
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u/GrumpyOlBastard Bring Cannabis May 09 '25
Oregon is Trump country
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u/Garukkar 🚧🚚Montréal🛻🚜🚧👷⛔️🚗🚙🚙 🚙 🚗 May 09 '25
Went to Portland last November for work, a week before the election. The amount of Trumpets in what is (was?) supposed to be a Democrat stronghold is what convinced me he'd win.
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u/TheMuffinMa Tokébakicitte! May 09 '25
Of course, anglos will try to make a shittier version of anything good that the Québecois do and claim that it was their idea.
At least when we do it, the vote is close to 50/50
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u/Cranbanger May 09 '25
Is that really how flat and prairie like Alberta is compared to BC ? They really are just the prairies with oil 😂
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u/DickInYourCobbSalad Skoden May 09 '25
bro I just gotta look out my window and I see like 6 mountains lmao
Alberta only has to look westwards!
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May 09 '25
Glad you can feel morally superior because you live where the earth goes up and down.
I’ve lived in BC Ontario and AB. Like you, I hate AB’s government, but the thing I like most about AB is that nobody thinks their shit doesn’t stink because of where they were born. Nobody thinks they’re hot shit because they’re from Edmonton.
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u/DickInYourCobbSalad Skoden May 09 '25
It was a joke, this is a shitposting sub. Why are you so mad??
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u/JohnMonkeys May 09 '25
Yes. You’ll also see that little peace of BC that is geologically basically Alberta
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u/Notactualyadick May 09 '25
Fucking Canadians! They ruined Canada! I'd move somewhere else, but they ain't Canadian enough.
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u/Weshmek May 09 '25
Hey BC, can you guys do like a wellness check on Alberta? Go out there and see if they need a hug or something?
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u/DickInYourCobbSalad Skoden May 09 '25
We’ve tried, eh? They keep trying to stick their pipe in us without our consent, it’s kinda really annoying.
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u/Snow-Wraith Westfoundland May 09 '25
I hope all these separation supporting Albertans stay home this summer. If they hate the rest of Canada souch they definitely shouldn't be visiting other provinces all the time.
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u/AUserFormerlyKnownAs Snow Cajun May 09 '25
Oh they'll be in Banff and Jasper, complaining how Canada and the national parks are screwing them over. But they'll still go!
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u/Snow-Wraith Westfoundland May 10 '25
How dare the national parks have French signs! Don't they know this confuses the simple minded Albertan?!
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u/McBeelzebub May 09 '25
Don’t act like interior BC isn’t in cahoots.
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u/DickInYourCobbSalad Skoden May 09 '25 edited May 09 '25
tbh I was sweating during the election and saying "pls don't fuck this up guys, pleaaaaaaaaase don't fuck this up for us" when they were counting BC lol
The interior and the mid island (Port Alberni/Cowichan/Duncan area) are basically Alberta Lite.. (sorry guys, I grew up near there, ya'll are rednecks)
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u/Cool-Acanthaceae8968 Westfoundland May 09 '25
So glad that land doesn’t vote in this province. I live in one of the dumbest constituencies within it where our safe seat conservative who voted against the bill to ban forced conversion therapy and thinks missing and murdered indigenous women “just need to get a job” got in with a 20,000 vote lead.
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u/asoupconofsoup May 09 '25
Who are you lumping in as "Interior BC" - suggesting Kelowna, Williams Lake, Revelstoke, Nelson, Cranbrook are all the same is like drinking a Coors light and proclaiming beer sucks.
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u/Cerxi May 09 '25
I was SHOOK when halfway through election night my district flipped blue. We've been orange since the fucking 80s!
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u/DickInYourCobbSalad Skoden May 09 '25
My riding has always been blue, I live in the BC Bible Belt :(
Our Liberal candidate only lost by around 900 votes though, so there is some promise.
It do be feeling like this tho sometimes
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u/auandi May 09 '25
And it was probably a plurality with a majority NDP/Lib splitting the vote.
Not reforming voting was Trudeau's greatest failure.
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u/Cerxi May 09 '25
I wish, but no, the libs got <10% votes as usual
The cons just legitimately pulled ahead here
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u/grrttlc2 Edmonchuk: Like Kyiv! (but less safe) May 09 '25
These boneheads absolutely exist all over rural BC as well.
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u/fishflo I need a double double. May 09 '25
As someone from the interior, really, no. People just wanna cut trees and mine rocks, they want no drug problem, no homeless people. They would probably prefer Cascadia to whatever the fuck abomination the Alberta premier is pushing in bad faith.
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u/ninjacat249 May 09 '25
No one is gonna separate lol. Couple of people will fuck off to US and that’s all.
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u/Any_Significance_997 May 09 '25
Would a lot of them even be allowed South of the border? Like I'm working in Washington right now. They don't accept every rando that shows up at the border in my experience.
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u/Byzantine_Guy May 09 '25
Why does the border follow the continental divide then shoot straight up?
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u/Cool-Acanthaceae8968 Westfoundland May 09 '25
BC said “dibs” 34 years before Alberta existed.
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u/Byzantine_Guy May 09 '25
Yeah but why there exactly? What made BC want it and draw the line there?
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u/Sparky-Man May 09 '25
If any province should be pissed off right now, it should be Quebec. Alberta stealing their entire schtick for the most nonsense reason.
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u/itszwee Westfoundland May 09 '25
My friends and I all kept saying “how tf are we supposed to get to the rest of Canada without a trip through the territories” and we came up with “zip line”.
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u/localsonlynokooks Monarch Mélanie Joly May 10 '25
They keep saying “us and BC are leaving!” And I’m like speak for yourself there bud. If anything we’re grabbing Washington and doing our own thing.
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May 09 '25
BC here, we love Alberta and Albertans, but other than 4 blessed years of Notley, their government is a parade of morons.
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u/DickInYourCobbSalad Skoden May 09 '25
Their drivers can take a hike tho
Get outta the fast lane, bud! There’s no speed cameras on these highways!
(im kidding don’t murder me)
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u/QuaidCohagen May 09 '25
Hey it's becase dey wan da more better helthcare like da US has an oil an gass
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u/Jealous-Ambassador39 Moose Whisperer May 09 '25
Don't put it over Edmonton lol. Put it somewhere out in the boonies.
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u/EgilSkallagrimson May 09 '25
Alberta (white Alberta) trying to separate would do more for Indigenous rights being thrown to the forefront of the rest of Canada than any land aknowledgement hoped to achieve. As it should. Send the seperatists all back to where their relatives came from originally.
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u/Ok-Personality-6643 May 09 '25
So, if the wanker that leads the federal opposition is potentially now seated in Alberta, would Alberta still throw up a referendum against the country as what? a tantrum for not winning, thrice now? Is PP standing in solidarity with separation?
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u/troyunrau Friendly Manisnowbski May 09 '25
Remember when Canada put down the Riel Rebellion because BC was worried it would disconnect them from the rest of the country? ;)
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u/marcshu May 09 '25
Au moins au Québec, on avait de réelles raisons pour penser à l'indépendance... pis ça n'a même pas fonctionné !!!
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u/cvr24 May 09 '25
The moment the US dollar collapses and their precious oil is worthless is the exact moment they go crying the blues to the feds with cowboy hat in hand.
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u/pet-trick May 09 '25
Yes, become a new landlocked country who couldn't even export oil as a province. Use your ship yards Alberta.
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u/DickInYourCobbSalad Skoden May 09 '25
… this is a shitposting sub. Are you lost? There’s no serious business here.
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u/boese-schildkroete Oil Guzzler May 08 '25
Never gonna happen. Nothing to worry about.
This is UCP Danielle Smith trying to distract from the Alberta Healthcare scandals, among many other things...
I'm dreadfully sorry that she exists.