People reading this are already thinking, “Who the hell is Markham Hislop, and why is he worth writing about?”
Both are fair questions, and I will answer both.
Markham Hislop is a failed digital news media producer who rebranded himself a few years ago as an energy expert. He tried formed an outlet called Beacon News about a decade ago. The content was uninspiring and he used what he called “advertorials” where paid space was dedicated to OpEds. I believe Craig Chander’s PGIB used that service.
The Beacon failed and Hislop retreated to the West Coast where he formed Energi News from the table of a McDonald’s outlet. That’s all fine. Many startups are lean and it’s a free market.
Hislop is a bitter little man, though,h and holds successful media outlets in contempt. He was howling online and threatened to report the Western Standard to AHS for COVID violations because the Standard remained in operation during the pandemic for example. He really gets upset seeing outlets succeed where he failed.
The problem is he didn’t and still doesn’t know a damn thing about energy. He has no experience or education in the industry, yet he chose that niche to carve out a little spot for himself on the internet. From there, he has blathered about an energy transition that hasn’t happened and continues with failed peak oil predictions.
Now, that’s not a problem in itself. The internet is loaded with bullshit artists.
The problem with Hislop is that some legacy media outlets give him oxygen and some people may be fooled into thinking this guy has a clue what he is talking about.
He appears regularly on a talk radio show in Alberta and the host gets roasted for it every time. Alberta is jam packed with real energy experts. Why does this outlet insist on bringing Hislop on?
Further, how does Hislop pay his bills?
His website isn’t subscription-based and appears devoid of any advertising of substance. His YouTube channel barely registers a blip.
Still, he continues to produce content and share it with any platform willing to give him time. Is his site sponsored by energy transition activists perchance?
That certainly would explain some things.
Either way, it’s important that folks like Hislop are documented online. When people are scratching their heads and wondering who the hell the guy they listened to on the radio was and Google the name, it’s important that they find a source to explain his background and his presence.
If it sounds like he doesn’t have a clue what he is talking about, it’s because he doesn’t. Your ears don’t deceive you.
OK. Maybe a literary masterpiece is a bit of a stretch. It’s pretty damn good for something I created in a month though.
My reasons for writing the book are threefold.
1. No prime minister in history has managed to say so many stupid things during their reign in office. It needed to be compiled and documented together in one spot so people in the future can never forget just how vacuous the man leading Canada really was. It was tough keeping it down to just 24 quotes.
2. Trudeau is showing no sign of stepping down despite a catastrophic drop in support. In Canada’s system, even if the prime minister manages to sink to single-digit support levels, there isn’t a damn thing we can do about it until an election is called. That election may be as distant as the fall of 2026 but we can’t begin early enough in reminding Canadian voters why this imbecile must be removed from office. Polls are just polls and things change. The only thing dumber than the prime minister is the voting inclination of a large bloc in Laurentian Canada. Every effort to undercut electoral support for Prime Minister Hammerhead will count and hopefully, this book contributes at least a little to his eventual electoral downfall.
3. I wanted to make a few bucks. It’s been a long winter. I also have been playing with AI image generation and wanted to see how well it works out in creating a book.
The book isn’t long and it isn’t deep. Just like Justin. The images for the most part were created by me with AI generation. The quotes were created by Trudeau and the commentary was indeed written by me.
The book is good for a few chuckles and reminders of who and what Justin Trudeau is. It could be a fantastic gift for your Liberal friend (we all have one), and will nicely grace any coffee table.
The Alberta NDP leadership race is heating up.I recently wrote and offered some background on Naheed Nenshi as many people may have forgotten how bad he was as Calgary’s mayor and what sort of political tactics he used.
Now I will profile the next top contender for the NDP leadership. Ol’ Gil McGowan,
Gil isn’t as well known as Nenshi. He has been active in Alberta political circles as the president of the Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) for nearly 20 years. It’s a nice gig as the AFL takes a bite from the union dues of workers in many unions, but doesn’t actually have to do the work that unions do with things such as collective bargaining and representing workers. The AFL can then dedicate resources to lobbying for things such as opposing pipeline construction and boycotting Alberta businesses. The AFL also has a spot at the NDP party table guaranteed by the party constitution. Ol’ Gil doesn’t even have to run for an NDP board position. He has one built for him.
Nenshi is a complicated character who makes strategic decisions and plans.
By comparison, Gil McGowan is a simple man. There aren’t many layers to him. That is characterized by his thuggish, in-your-face tactics such as when he assailed a reporter while crashing a demonstration in support of the Alberta Sovereignty Act. Gil is an old-school union type who prefers intimidation over nuance.
One thing Gil and Naheed have in common is thin skin. That can be seen on X where Gil likes to have explosions. He is quick to get upset, especially if one pokes at his simple nature. McGowan is a bit self-conscious of that.
Now just think of how well the debates will go when Naheed Nenshi who self-characterizes himself as the smartest man in the room raises his face to the sky, closes his eyes, and offers Gil the condescending type of pat on the head he loves to offer opponents. I hope the podiums are far apart.
Gil has a realistic shot at the leadership. He has the ear of the labour unions, and the NDP party loyal. Not every NDP member is enamoured with Nenshi barging in and telling them he plans to save them from themselves. The four women running for the leadership who have now been pushed into the also-ran category by Nenshi and McGowan will likely direct their voters toward McGowan as a second choice. Nenshi will doubtless sell many new memberships, but if he doesn’t win it in the first ballot, he could be in trouble. It’s a very competitive race.
If Gil wins the leadership, he will keep the NDP true to its socialist, labour roots. The party will remain ideologically pure, and will remain unelectable. McGowan’s shallow, belligerent nature won’t win support from common Albertans.
If Nenshi wins the race, Gil will return to the AFL and to his seat at the NDP table on the party executive. He will have some seriously ruffled feathers and Nenshi is going to have a tough time calming McGowan and garnering his support after the race. The NDP is going to be quite divided.
The race is just warming up and will prove to be politically entertaining even if not productive. The contrast between Nenshi and McGowan is outstanding and potentially explosive.
Party leadership races can build parties and they can rip them to shreds. The risk of the latter is great with the current NDP leadership race. I am investing in popcorn to see how it all unfolds.
I have been critical of the recall effort against Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek. The bar for recall was purposely set impossibly high by former Premier Jason Kenney and I still think the proponents of the recall, no matter how well-meaning are pissing in the wind if they think they will get over 500,000 signatures. I wrote as much in the Western Standard last week.
That said, I am always impressed by citizen engagement efforts and took the time to go downtown to see the recall kickoff event for myself. I understand fully why people want to get rid of Gondek as soon as possible. She is the least popular mayor in Calgary’s history and for good reason.
Strangely but perhaps not surprisingly, the powers that be didn’t allow the event to be held in front of city hall and they kicked the group onto the backside of the building. This caused confusion and the location is in a much lower traffic spot with limited visibility. City officials never dare to punt the pro-Hamas protesters to the back of the building when they hold unsanctioned protests, but in light of Gondek’s track record of antisemitism, I guess that isn’t surprising.
Still, hundreds of people found their way to the back and got in line to sign the petition forms. I don’t know how many people came in total as it wasn’t a rally. It was a signing event. People didn’t tend to stay around as there weren’t speakers or chants and such. They signed the forms and perhaps took blanks so they could help garner more signatures on their own. I never saw fewer than a couple hundred at any given time from about 1 pm to 3 pm. With people coming and going, the number of attendees surely passed 1,000 over the course of the event.
Having a thousand or even a few thousand people come out still wouldn’t strike fear into the hearts of the establishment. Getting the 514,000 signatures on physical forms from eligible Calgary voters in 60 days is going to require a much bigger initiative.
Still, the very prospect of people organizing against Gondek appears to have drawn the ire of the legacy media outlets in Calgary. They went out of their way to grossly understate the turnout. Global, CTV and the Herald all reported an estimated 100 people based on the report of some unnamed police officer and it was referred to disparagingly in quotations as a “rally”.
I know Global had a reporter there. I saw them. Why then did they use a stock photo of Gondek giving a speech rather than a picture of the event? Why did other outlets parrot that ridiculous lowball figure for the turnout?
Even if the turnout was limited, it still appears to have made the establishment, including legacy media outlets nervous for some reason. Legacy media outlets are always overjoyed to report on any gathering of over 12 people from the rainbow crowd as a groundswell of support, yet they fell over themselves to try and dismiss the recall event turnout. Even if they honestly reported the number as being in the hundreds, it still shouldn’t be such a fearful thing to do should it?
This sort of trash reporting is why viewership and readership numbers for legacy media outlets are swirling the toilet. The turning point for many was during the vile, biased coverage of the Trucker’s Convoy event in Ottawa, and trust in legacy media outlets has only continued to drop ever since.
I was impressed by the attitudes of the people who came out to the event and have nothing but admiration for the gumption and effort made by Landon Johnston. He appears to be a genuine, concerned citizen who decided to get up and try to use the democratic tools at his disposal to make change and good on him! That is true, grassroots activism at its best. It’s too bad Kenny rendered those tools inoperable.
If legacy media outlets went that far out of their way to try to dismiss this movement, the movement must be on the right track.
I still don’t think the petition has a hope in hell of succeeding, but it is engaging people. It is offering Calgarians a means to express their discontent with a terrible mayor and hopefully, those people are networking. The people working on the petition today should be working on the election to replace Gondek next year. They also have exposed just how bad Jason Kenney’s recall legislation is and perhaps it will encourage Premier Smith to fix it.
I think we always knew Naheed Nenshi couldn’t stay out of the spotlight forever. I figured he would pursue federal politics with the Liberal Party as only the Prime Minister’s chair could truly satisfy Nenshi’s outsized ego. Nenshi is also a pragmatist too though and he can see that whoever replaces Justin Trudeau will likely be a placeholder leader sitting in opposition. Naheed doesn’t want to be the next Michael Ignatieff.
With the resignation of Rachel Notley as Alberta’s NDP leader, Nenshi sees an opportunity to strike for the premier’s throne and he is preparing to go for it. While he is a familiar name to most Albertans, not everybody may know him as well as they should.
Nenshi will say or do whatever it takes to win. He presented himself as a conservative when running to be the mayor of Calgary though he was anything but. With some clever campaigning, a split vote, and some push-polling, Nenshi managed to pull off a win. Thanks to the apathy of Calgarian voters, he managed to remain in office for several terms despite bloating the bureaucracy, wasting millions on pet projects, constant tax increases, a dysfunctional city council and pressuring business owners to the point of having them come out to protest at city hall.
Let’s talk about Nenshi’s campaign techniques as he will surely use some of them again.
I used the term “push-polling” because it describes an unprincipled campaign method heavily used in Nenshi’s first campaign. Nenshi’s Weasel in Chief Stephen Carter (pictured below) would always get upset when push-polling was called out for what it was.
Mass dialing systems called Calgarians for weeks with a “poll”. Folks would be prompted to answer a series of questions on several issues using their touch-tone dials. Then, it seemed no matter how people answered those questions, the automated call would finish with a voice telling them that due to their answers, Naheed Nenshi was the best-suited candidate for them. Yes, all roads lead to Nenshi. In a race where people didn’t really know who was who, the dialing was effective in establishing Nenshi as the candidate of their choice.
Not an illegal means of campaigning, but hardly an ethical one.
Political parties don’t officially exist in municipal politics in Alberta. Unofficial parties exist though in the form of unions and activist groups.
One such group that appeared when Nenshi popped up on the political scene was called CivicCamp. The group modeled itself as being a non-biased volunteer group that wanted to help people become engaged in politics. Somehow, every action of the group appeared focused on engaging people to get out to vote for Nenshi.
After the election, CivicCamp continued to “engage” by providing budget presentations to council that amazingly fit into every one of Nenshi’s policy goals. The group then took responsibility for the debates in the next election. Rather than having a conventional mayoral debate where audience members may present questions, CivicCamp provided 12 questions, all of which may as well have been written by Nenshi’s mother. Nenshi had a ready and well-prepared answer for every one of them of course. It was as if he already knew what they would be.
While CivicCamp made presentation to Calgary’s city council and even somehow got a grant from the Calgary Foundation, as far as any records go, the group didn’t exist. It wasn’t registered in any way and not a single person’s name was attached to it. No leader, president, treasurer, founder or anything. It was very odd.
Due the group not actually existing, I took it upon myself to register CivicCamp as a non-profit society with myself as the president. Nenshi and his allies in legacy media were outraged. I was called every name in the book and accused of maliciously breaking up a volunteer group. I had to keep asking, “Who are the volunteers?” Who did I take the group from? Give me a name!
They never provided a name of course. I told media, I would hand over the reins of the entire group if they would just tell me who the president of it actually was.
They never did of course because if the people behind the group were named, the list would look a lot like Nenshi’s campaign team. The group faded away under my leadership I am afraid. Nenshi’s allies would rather let it die than admit they ran the group.
We can expect some groups to suddenly spring up as Nenshi enters provincial politics. I suspect they will be wise enough to register them in some way this time.
Nenshi’s ego and his mouth are his own worst enemies. He will never hesitate to viciously attack rivals and has gotten himself into legal soup multiple times due to it.
The worst was with Calgary philanthropist Cal Wenzel. Nenshi implied that Wenzel was an organized crime figure. That led to Nenshi getting his ass sued and he was eventually forced to apologize to Wenzel, retract his remarks, and pay Wenzel’s legal bills. Taxpayers sat on the legal bill until Nenshi managed to find enough donors to pick it up for him.
Nenshi also went on a bizarre tirade where he lied about sex offenders being placed as Uber drivers while he was riding in a car in Boston. It was recorded and led to fury on the part of Uber of course. Uber didn’t sue Nenshi, but the ride-share company was suddenly fully approved to operate in Calgary after Nenshi had worked hard on behalf of taxi companies to keep them out. I suspect a deal was reached and Nenshi couldn’t afford to lose another lawsuit.
Now, Nenshi is back. He is going provincial.
Look forward to more less than savoury campaign practices, torqued rhetoric, deceptive policy stances and attacks upon opponents from Team Nenshi. That leopard won’t change its spots.
Hopefully, Albertans know what Nenshi is about this time and won’t fall for his empty campaign promises.
Just imagine what he could do with his hands on the provincial leadership. He made enough of a mess as a simple mayor.
Chapter 8. How to counter common arguments against independence.
Landlocked is not hamstrung.
A common, shallow argument made against western independence is to claim, “You would be landlocked!” How awful! Why, we could end up just like Switzerland, only with massive reserves of natural resources!
Landlocked nations are nothing new and being landlocked doesn’t mean, by any measure, a nation will be poor or dysfunctional. Austria is doing well. Hungary and Slovakia are coming along, too, after having shed the yoke of socialism. Having a coastline doesn’t ensure stability or prosperity for a nation.
How well have things been working out for Venezuela, or most African nations? Is Bangladesh nearing prosperity and has Vietnam enjoyed a history of peace?
A coastline is certainly an advantage for a nation, but it doesn’t guarantee poverty or riches, peace or conflict. The system by which a nation is governed is far more important than its geography.
Let’s imagine for a moment Saskatchewan and Alberta both seceded and united as a new nation under a new system. It would be critical to the collective economy that natural resources reach foreign markets and, yes, the new nation would indeed be landlocked. Why, though, is it assumed Eastern Canada, BC, or the US would block the export or import of goods and services?
Secession will surely come with some hard feelings and there will be bumps in the road as new trade agreements are formed, but it’s absurd to assume the rest of Canada would be so bitter and self-destructive as to blockade the new nation.
If BC decided to block Alberta and Saskatchewan from getting goods to the coast, the new western nation would of course immediately retaliate by blocking BC’s goods from crossing to the East. It would cripple its ports and decimate its economy. Canada’s remaining provinces in the East would be in a crunch, too. The impasse wouldn’t last long, if indeed it ever happened at all.
European nations have trade disputes all the time, but they don’t blockade and starve their neighbours in order to resolve them. It would be too harmful for all involved and modern nations simply don’t do that anymore. The US certainly wouldn’t want to get into a trade mess by refusing the exchange of goods and services and the flow of people from the new nation. Economic reality trumps hurt feelings. Just look at how Europe continues to buy Russian natural gas while condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
There are international accords established to deal with landlocked nations that could be appealed to at an international tribunal, if it ever came to that. Canada itself could face trade sanctions from other nations if it acted unfairly against the new western nation. International trade relies on these agreements being respected and other nations wouldn’t support Canada’s attempts to starve its new neighbour into submission.
Let’s not forget we are already landlocked. Canada has allowed Quebec to dictate pipeline access and has been hostile to western efforts to seek alternative markets through eastern coastal access. Our Confederation is already dysfunctional since provincial governments hinder goods from other provinces under present policies. There is no free and open trade of oil—or even beer—in Canada. If anything, a new nation might have more leverage for potential trade agreements with regions than it did while within Confederation.
The case against independence holds no water on the basis the new nation would be landlocked.
I know. It sounds odd hearing from a dedicated independence advocate who literally formed an independence party back in 1999 saying we need to stop creating these parties.
Think about that though.
It has been over 24 years since I founded the Alberta Independence Party and neither that party nor the many other independence-leaning parties have made so much as a significant dent in an election. In fact, they are polling so low when they go to the voters, it is embarrassing.
Independence parties keep coming and going and people are investing a lot of political and literal capital into them which could be more effectively directed elsewhere.
Support for provincial independence has been polled as high as 25% and even a little more in Alberta. Independence parties struggle to break 2% when they go to elections.
Last fall, in the constituency of Brooks-Medicine Hat a by-election was held. That is prime territory for independence supporters. The Wildrose Independence Party garnered 0.44% of the vote while the Independence Party of Alberta took 1.77% of the support. Even combined, that is barely enough to be called a toehold of support.
It doesn’t help that independence parties love ripping themselves to pieces with infighting. The Independence Party of Alberta fired, then apparently rehired their leader Artur Pawlowski in the last few months. Likewise, the Wildrose Independence Party split and turfed their leader Paul Hinman and for awhile, they had two boards and two leaders all claiming to represent the party.
As the 2023 Alberta general election approaches, no independence party is in any kind of condition to seriously contest even a single seat, much less the election as a whole.
Support for independence in the West exists and it is ready to be fostered and grown. We won’t hit the tipping point of independence support through an independence party though and we have to quit wasting time on that approach.
Independence supporters need to participate in party politics but they need to do it within existing parties. They are just hitting their heads on the wall by constantly creating and imploding new parties.
Independence-promoting groups are essential and while they may come and go as well, they don’t hinder the movement like parties do.
We need to promote independence as individuals and in groups. Quit pissing around with new parties though. That path has been more than proven as a failure now.
Progressives will never learn. They will utterly bankrupt a state before admitting their ideology is fundamentally flawed. That’s why Trudeau appears permanently entrenched as Canada’s Prime Minister no matter how many scandals plague him. Central Canada just won’t vote any other way.
There is hope though and we need only look south of the border. The United States has its share of progressive fools and we are witnessing them destroying the entire West coast and the Northeastern seaboard (with a couple exceptions).
Taxes are exploding while crime is out of control in Democrat-run states. California, Oregon, and Washington have allowed their major cities to become war zones due to permissive policies enabling crime and addiction. Chicago, New York and Detroit are enjoying the same situation.
People are voting with their feet and the trend is both striking and inspiring.
Look at the map below and note the clusters of Democrat states in blue.
Now look at the list of states losing population due to interstate migration from 2020-2022.
Almost a million people fled California where Gavin Newsom’s reign of error has decimated the economy and turned the cities into war zones. Businesses and citizens of ambition are getting the hell out while they can.
New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Mayland, Michigan, Ohio…. All losing population. Match that with the map and the trend is pretty clear. Democrat states are driving away their own citizens.
So where are these interstate refugees going?
Well as the image below indicates, the trend is undeniable. They are heading for Republican managed states.
Just look at that. Florida, Texas are taking in nearly as many folks as California and New York have lost. North Carolina appears to be an exception. Arizona was gaining population until 2022 but they just went Democrat so let’s see how that trend holds.
The trend is clear as day. Republican states are drawing in far more interstate migrants than Democrat states.
This will lead to bigger divides. The people fleeing Democrat states sure won’t be voting for more Democrat governments in their new homes. Likewise, the Democrat states having lost conservative citizens, will continue to drift left. Until their economies totally crash at least. When you specialize in gathering the addicted, the entitled and the non-ambitious, your future doesn’t look bright.
Now, back to Canada.
The Western provinces will continue to draw enterprise and the ambitious while Central Canada continues to try and subsidize its way to prosperity. Vancouver has become a dystopian nightmare in the West.
While parts of the West will naturally draw ambitious migrants, it can still do better. Western provinces need to work harder to court new citizens from central Canada. Let’s speed up the process of population redistribution based on values such as ambition, individualism, and personal responsibility.
Western Canada can be the last bastion of common sense and prosperity as the rest of the nation sinks itself with failed progressive policies. We have our share of work to do first though.
We need to flush out the progressive civil governments we have apathetically let entrench themselves in our major cities. They are turning the urban areas into ghettos with their enablement policies and hindering prospective new immigration of both people and capital.
Provincial governments can also do their part by taking over law enforcement and offering policies of addiction rehabilitation and mental health supports to counter the addiction epidemic enabled by progressive politicians. We are already seeing that happen in Alberta as treatment-based policies for addiction have led to a reduction in overdoses while other provinces have seen them only rise. We need to carry on with that path and create safe healthy cities ready to embrace the incoming refugees from progressive cities.
The West will continue to be bled by the East of course. Progressive governments will punish Western provinces for daring to prosper while progressive policies fail in the East.
That is when the independence movement will truly blossom. It’s not a matter of if the West will seek independence, it’s a matter of when. We can’t start preparing for the transition fast enough though.
We need to prepare and build the base required to win a referendum. Part of that will be through drawing in conservative Canadians and part will be through organizing on the ground.
Did you know if you bought a cow and sold even a litre of milk without being issued a government-issued quota you would be criminally charged?
Did you know if you own more than a few hundred chickens or turkeys and tried to sell the meat without a government-issued quota you would be criminally charged?
Did you know if you tried to become an egg producer beyond having a few hundred laying hens and you sold the eggs without a government-issued quota you would be criminally charged?
All the above statements sound absurd but they are all true in Canada. No other industries are as coddled and protected at the expense of consumers as dairy, poultry, and eggs.
All of these policies fall under a system simply called Supply Management. The name sounds innocuous enough and most people don’t even know what it is. That is just how the dairy cartels like it. As long as Canadians don’t know about how badly they are being ripped off by supply management, they won’t demand an end to the policy. The dairy cartels are very effective political lobbyists.
Once in a while, something brings supply management to the attention of Canadians. This happened recently when Ontario dairy farmer Travis Huigen posted a video showing himself dumping 30,000 litres of milk down a drain because it would be illegal for him to do anything else with it. If he even gave it to a foodbank he would be charged.
It is a stark demonstration of just how horrible and wasteful supply management policies are.
This kind of wasteful dumping has been happening for decades. My wife Jane grew up on a farm that had a small dairy element to it. Her father had a quota for cream, but not for milk. He would skim and sell the cream from his small herd. The remaining milk would be consumed by the family, and dumped in the ditch. A family can only drink so much milk even in a small operation.
Speaking of small operations, those don’t exist anymore. Supply management was supposed to protect the family farm. When supply management was imposed in the 1970s, there were 145,000 dairy farms in Canada. Today, there are less than 9,000. It is big business dominated by cartels and producers who hold those precious quotas.
Smaller farms that may want to diversify their production through poultry or dairy products must by quotas from other producers. Those producers aren’t eager to sell.
Can you imagine any other industry operating like this?
What if you owned a restaurant and had the government ban any other restaurant from operating within ten miles of your establishment?
What if you owned a bakery and the government banned competing bakeries from opening up unless they bought a quote of daily loaves allowable from you?
In such a circumstance, consumers will be screwed by the lack of competition among providers and that’s just what is happening with supply-managed industries.
Producers don’t have the incentives to be competitive or creative when they hold quotas protecting their income. They are artificially protected from having to deal with competitors who may have better ideas and more efficient production methods.
Years ago, it was estimated that the average family was paying $600 per year extra on their grocery bill due to supply management. With the current rate of inflation, that number is likely well past $1,000 now.
The cartels are powerful and it will take pressure for politicians to take this on. During the last Conservative Party of Canada leadership race, I interviewed every contender for the job on my show and made a point of asking about supply management. Only Scott Aitchison had the courage to say the policy had to be ended. What kind of conservative can support such terrible policies?
Conservatives that rely on campaign donations from dairy cartels. That’s who.
Consumers and voters need to wake up and pay attention on this issue. Instead of blaming Loblaws for grocery inflation despite their having only a 3.8% profit margin, have a look at supply management policies.
New Zealand and Australia had similar supply management policies and both nations got rid of them. Dairy cartels howled and claimed it would kill the industry. Instead, the dairy industries got stronger, new export opportunities opened up and the consumers won.
Put the pressure on your politicians. Food security is a complex issue but not when it comes to supply management. The policy is screwing Canadians and the fix is easy.
Dump supply management. Not milk.
On a final note, most of Canada’s dairy operations are in Quebec. That of course explains much of why politicians are terrified to deal with the issue as well.
They would rather people go blind or die on waiting lists before having access to a private medical procedure. And that is just what is happening as Canada’s socialized monopoly health care system is becoming overwhelmed and crumbling in every province.
Below is a picture of some union activists being led by an NDP MPP in Ontario protesting outside the Herzig Eye Institute in Ontario. They feel that surgical centres like this should be banned and are trying to intimidate and hinder people from going to them or working in them.
Yes, these ideologues really are that cruel and unthinking.
Had this protest been outside a private abortion clinic, police would surely have been dispatched.
In fact, many jurisdictions brought in laws making it illegal to protest outside of medical facilities since anti-vaccination advocates had been doing so during the pandemic.
The Herzig Eye Institute has been doing procedures for over 25 years without issue. The NDP suddenly feels it should be protested and banned.
Communism is indeed about the equal distribution of misery.
This garbage has to end. Most general practitioners are in private for-profit clinics. Dentists, optometrists, sports specialists…. The list goes on.
Canada’s health care system is failing and the NDP with their unions know it.
Polling has indicated that the majority of Canadians want to see an increase in private provision of care as they do in Europe to help reduce the waiting lists.
The NDP and unions don’t care what works. They only care about ideology.
The MPP who proudly organized this idiotic demonstration is named Joel Harden. Below is a picture of him wearing his glasses in the legislature. Do we really think he got his eye examination in some non-profit facility and the glasses were hand-crafted in some mom-and-pop fair-wage facility down the street?
Hypocrite
The hypocritical ideologues of the NDP are showing their true colors.
It doesn’t get much lower than trying to shut down medical centres, but they seem to have no bottom.
