'I don't have another country to belong to yet': Wexit Canada interim leader won't give up federal pensionProvincial Politics | 207172 hits | Jun 25 5:54 am | Posted by: DrCaleb Commentsview comments in forum Page 1 2 You need to be a member of CKA and be logged into the site, to comment on news. |
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If you're trying to tear the country apart you still get to be a member of Parliament. If you're trying to tear the country apart and get lucky enough to secure your place at the trough in Parliament not once but twice, you get to keep your pension.
Those rules will apply till you're successful in tearing Canada apart where upon you'll be gently asked to do the right thing and either return or stop receiving your pension. But, Canada being Canada you'll then be able to tell your former country to politely "fuck off" and keep your pension because you earned it representing the people who wanted Canada torn apart.
By the way pensions come from the pension fund, which is funded as employees earn their entitlement, not from tax dollars collected in the year the pension was paid. So it�s not like he would be getting anything from taxpayers after he leaves.
Amusingly, the Bloc doesn't want anything to do with the Western separatists.
Who'd have guessed that throwing all that shade at Quebec and the French language over the years would have soured the Quebec separatists on working with them?
Wexit will fail and nothing will change. It is not possible to change Canada because the foundational viewpoint is too deeply entrenched. Give it twenty years and Wexit will be as much forgotten as the Quebec referendums now are, and life overall will go by without skipping a beat.
It's a two-way street with the nasty rhetoric. Quebec's long made it clear that they'll do absolutely nothing to help another province, as shown most recently by the sabotage of the Energy East pipeline that was done mostly by Quebec politicians. The departure of the Alberta tax base from Canada would be a massive revenue hit, which means Quebec would see a shrieking halt to most of their equalization pogey. As such, for Quebec separatist or federalist alike Alberta leaving Canada would be their nightmare scenario, so it makes sense in a twisted way for a Quebec separatist to be the bitterest enemy of an Alberta once.
Well, Irving Oil was going to continue importing from Saudi Arabia even if Energy East went ahead.
And there were reports that the business case for Energy East was significantly weakened by the free marketand this from guys who didn't exactly have a lot of leftist street cred. If you ever knew Mel Hurtig, you know how much he despised the C.D. Howe Institute.
Not much point in discussing any of this all over again. Canadian O&G is dead, with no hope of recovery whatsoever. And Alberta's been effectively destroyed, reduced to Rust Belt status in what was basically a blink of an eye. The Laurentians got what they wanted. Time to move on to whatever else comes next.
I'd love to argue this point with you-- but I can't. The Province better pivot post haste; but we won't so long as the UCP is in power. Ottawa's inaction brought us to our knees and Edmonton's catering to the O&G destroyed us.