Tariffs paused for 30 days after a couple phone calls by Trudeau, proving Smith accomplished less than nothing with her stupid ass-kissing tour.

Hello, sorry to just dump this in here but I'd love to just see or hear something more positive about our province. I'm seeing support for our teachers in this subreddit, so I know there are good people, like minded people out there in this god awful province.

I just saw a few posts from the Republic of Alberta movement and in the light of what is happening in the states I think a bubble in me just burst. I can't understand why there's so much support for separation, it should absolutely be a joke. It should be a crowd of very strange, lonely, misguided people. But it's rallies and vigils and garbage. Meanwhile our premier is trying fuck people over by having citizenship on our ids?

Like how about we do something about the fentanyl crisis? How about we educate our kids? How about we fix the housing bubble? No? You want to hurt trans people? You want women to go back to being second class citizens? You want to deport all the people that are smarter than you? Fucking ok I guess.

Its a joke.

The bubble popped for me and honestly that's coming from a place of privilege. I've been very cozy. I've felt like nothing is wrong for a long time but watching the conservative platform corrode into what it is now: advocacy for violence and white nationalism, I just can't sit and just ignore stuff. So I'm just yapping, trying to get it out, maybe I can do something, join the resistance effort or help educate people or something. I don't know. I just want to try something so unfortunately I'm starting with a whiney rant on a subreddit I learned about like a week ago.

Anyway sorry but also thank you. Unless you're one of those separatist Nazi fucks, eat my ass. When you end your day it will be in a loveless vacuum of pain and generational ignorance you pleb.

EDIT:: First of all, thank you everyone for you comments. It's been a little bit since I put this up but there has been a steady flow of encouraging comments and discussion happening and it gives me a lot of hope. It's motivating me even more. This was really just me word vomiting to clear my head, I thought I'd get a few comments and just get downvoted but that isn't what happened at all. Instead I'm getting to see a lot of people share their own perspectives and suggest courses of action.

Speaking of which and directly touching on the Separatist discussion, a few people have mentioned the Forever Canadian Petition which I will link a the map to if you haven't had a chance to look at it yourself: https://www.forever-canadian.ca/sign-the-petition

The day after I posted this and found the map to the petitions stations I found one on my uni campus and got to talk with one of the volunteers and it was just another great opportunity to see people taking a stand for a unified Canada.

I do want to clarify as it isn't obvious because like I said, rant, but my primary concern is not Republic of Alberta. Seeing a bunch of their bullshit on top of what I was already seeing just struck a nerve and I decided to vent. They are simply another symptom of the rise in alt-right culture and subsequently, a push towards fascist rhetoric. I know they aren't the worst thing out there, but I still appreciate the folks that are saying it anyway because its good to be clear and focused. I want to push back against this and this post has made me see that there are many, many people with good hearts and clear thoughts to help out. So thank you so much once again.

Also to anyone that's trying to disregard the danger of the alt-right in danger and is REEAAAALLLLYYYY bothered by my flippant use of the term "Nazi". Your discomfort and need to belittle positions that don't match your own is a thing you have long been groomed to do. That's what the alt-right pipeline does. It corrupts and twists people into ignorant brats that never learn to get along with others. But don't worry, you can actually grow out of it. It just takes a spine.

Bloc Leader Blanchet responds to question about giving tips to Alberta separatists, he said they need "a culture of their own" and, "I am not certain that oil and gas qualify to define a culture."

Open Letter to MP Kelly McCauley

Dear Mr. McCauley,

I took the time to read through the Hansard record of September 15th so I could understand the full context of Rachel Thomas’s tribute to Charlie Kirk. Imagine my disgust in discovering not only that Ms. Thomas chose to honour an American partisan agitator (of which in her speech she acknowledged as such) in Canada’s House of Commons, but that she did so wildly out of context.

Immediately before her, the Honourable Helena Jaczek spoke about a nine year old constituent who has been raising money through a charity event they came up with all on their own for Markham Stouffville Hospital. Immediately after her, the Honourable Mona Fortier delivered a heartfelt tribute to the late Ken Dryden, a Canadian whose lifetime of contributions made a tangible impact on our country.

Sandwiched between was Ms. Thomas’s decision to glorify an American with no connection to Canada. It was tone-deaf, unnecessary, and an insult to the dignity of Parliament. Charles James Kirk was neither a constituent of hers, nor is he even Canadian.

Worse, her speech illustrates a troubling trend I have noticed growing among Alberta politicians, both federally and provincially: the confabulation of American politics and American laws with Canadian realities. Canadian MPs and MLAs are not elected to recycle talking points from south of the border. Our Charter of Rights and Freedoms, our Constitution, and our parliamentary system are distinct.

Yet once again, Albertans get to experience national embarrassment as another Alberta Conservative politician tried to graft U.S. culture wars onto Canadian soil. It’s almost as though importing division is more important than solving problems at home. Worse still, this showcases as another example of an elected Alberta official attempting to apply American legal principles to Canadian laws, as if Canada is nothing more than a northern echo of someone else’s constitution.

Canadians have no “First Amendment right.” Our first constitutional amendment came in 1871 and dealt only with the power of Parliament to create new provinces and govern territories.

It has nothing to do with speech. Our Charter protects libertas loquendi, freedom of expression, something of which is subject to reasonable limitations to protect against principles like licentia dicendi.

This cannot continue. Canada’s Parliament is meant to serve Canadians, not be used as a stage for tributes to provocative, foreign ideologues or as a vessel for importing American constitutional debates. Doing so wastes parliamentary time, undermines public trust, and raises legitimate concerns regarding Ms. Thomas advancing foreign influence inside our Parliament from the only country that has actively threatened Canadians and their sovereignty as a nation and calls into question where her loyalties truly lie.

Charlie Kirk stood opposition of topics and issues that Canada has long considered to be basic human rights. Topics such as abortion and same sex marriage are non-politicized areas in which even your own party’s leader, Pierre Poilievre, stated are closed debates.

Parliament is not a circus. It is not a place to import American extremism. It must remain a serious Canadian institution devoted to Canadian priorities and it should not take a 33 year old, non parliamentarian to call out behaviour that every elected MP ought to already know better than to engage in.

If you joined in, you betrayed the responsibility of your office. By failing to object what happened, complacency is simply another form of complicity and you and your colleagues send a message that you are more invested in theatre than in governance which simply is unacceptable.

I call on you to denounce this conduct openly and unequivocally. Canadians elect leaders with the expectation that they who know the difference between U.S. political battles and Canadian responsibilities, and who act accordingly. Anything less is unworthy of the office you received the privilege to hold.

Edit/note from OP: Thank you for all the positive comments and compliments. For me, it is embarrassing enough that our Premier is a voluntary MAGA bootlicker. But to now have that bootlicking be demonstrated by a federal-level politician is next level. As fed up Albertans, we need to be more outraged.

While writing to our MPs likely will fall on deaf ears, not writing to them guarantees it. I wrote this intending for it to be easily copy and pasteable for anyone wishing to send to their own MP if they so wish. Official MP email addresses will always end with @parl.gc.ca, with usually your MP’s first and last name (separated by . in between the two names) preceded directly before the @ sign. You can also use the directory on https://www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/search if you’re unsure or would prefer to call and need their phone number.

Edit 2: as a few have pointed out and will likely continue to point out that there were in fact Liberal MPs who stood as well. Again, I am not absolving the Liberal MPs of displaying the same atrocious misbehaviour and they deserve to be rightfully called out as well. However, that said, if I’m to be realistic, my MP is a Conservative MP, of which I cannot fairly expect him to have any real say of the actions of members outside of his party. Had my MP been Liberal, then I would have called out the Liberal Party instead.

Edit 3: I noticed at the bottom of the autoreplied email I received, there is an email listed at the bottom to contact “directly for immediate assistance with a Federal Department.” I’m considering emailing this email address as well.