Wexit A, Wexit B and Counting ...

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Wexit A, Wexit B, and counting ...

Both Albertans and British Columbians are sick of Ottawa

But, for the moment, Alberta is becoming rather more bizarre:

CBC: Anger, anxiety and the 'deep story' behind Wexit

• Feelings of being left behind are driving Albertans into 'dangerous' territory

Here's the Man Behind Alberta Wexit A: ***

• An ex-RMCP officer who spent almost two years on leave after serving a probationary period for uttering threats against his now ex-wife, [Wexit Founder, Peter] Downing then enlisted in the military reserves in Edmonton before delving into the world of political advocacy.

Scroll down through the CBC article and take a good look at him; would you feel comfortable passing him on a dark, lonely street? If he's allowed to wield any kind of real political power, and Alberta supports him, then I say good luck and good riddance, Alberta.

• "If you want to call me a kook, that's fine, I don't care," he said.

I say, "Downing, if you were just a kook, I might not feel so repelled by you."

• When pressed about what the group means by removing funding from special interests, he gets combative, and without answering the question directly, says most of what gets called racism in the world isn't racism and that everyone should just be treated equally as long as they're an Albertan first.
• He says the only racism that actually exists is against First Nations people.

Oh, well, no problem then, eh?

Then there's Jason Kenney having finally found his true niche, thanks to the Con Party's growing tendency to eat itself alive due to its split personality, having been birthed from an amalgamation of Progressive Conservatives and Canadian Alliance (alias Reform Party), while roundly protested by an entity now called the Progressive Canadian Party.

• The Progressive Canadian Party was founded by Progressive Conservatives who foresaw that the ‘new’ Conservative party formed after the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was removed from the ballot in the 2003 hostile takeover of the Tories by the Reform Party’s ‘Canadian Alliance,’ led by Stephen Harper, would not be a “merger” or Progressive Conservative.

For location of the above paragraph, scroll down the website's main page to the article titled: Progressive Canadian Party candidate Brian Marlatt confirmed in Nanaimo-Ladysmith)

Kenny has achieved infamy at the protest site: kenneyscuts.ca authorized by the Alberta Federation of Labour:  

• Jason Kenney is slashing health care, education, emergency services, and more to pay for a multibillion-dollar giveaway to his corporate friends.
• If you’re against Kenney’s cuts, now is the time to fight back. Workers across Alberta are joining the resistance.
• That’s no way to fix the economy, and it’s going to cost Albertans.

Time will tell what the apparent instability in Alberta might cost Kenney personally, if not financially. If one can believe what's reported at Wikifame.org, Kenney is an extremely wealthy man possibly due to his history of apparent lack of certain internal organs, such as a heart and a brain.

From Wikifame re Jason Kenney:

• Financial Assets:  $19,000,000.
• Secondary Education: St. Ignatius, San Francisco -- Motto: "Change the World from Here"

According to Wikipedia, Kenney wanted to ban from the university anyone who was not against abortion, but his proposal was vetoed by the Jesuit administration who, quite rightly, saw this as an attack on freedom of speech, whereupon Kenney snatched up his marbles and, quitting school entirely, immersed himself in politics, which, if Wikifame's numbers regarding his assets are correct, turned out eventually to be quite a financially rewarding move on his part.

So, if Kenney succeeds in taking Alberta into infamy, does that mean the rest of Canada will be rid of him for good?

He's never struck me as anything more than a far right status seeker, much like John Baird ** (see sketch at left) who was seen by some as a "strong communicator" but to some others (including myself) as a mouth that was always open with little of much good use coming out.

Wikipedia: Kenney graduated near the middle of his class from Notre Dame * in 1986 and failed to graduate from University.  He then went straight into politics, and now is financially worth $19 million?

Either both Wikis are incorrect or my view of politicians running for office essentially for the moola and the perks is dead on.

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* Notre Dame, Saskatchewan, is the Athol Murray school of movie fame (YouTube). It's an excellent Canadian movie, by the way.
 
** John Baird was such a caricature of himself that he made it easy for me, a realist artist, to sketch him exactly as he was ;-).  If you want to know the real John Baird, read the Wikipedia section entitled: Foreign Affairs Minister during the Harper administration.

NowToronto suggested that, despite rumours, the reason Baird ultimately resigned from federal politics had more to do with collecting an early pension than a falling out with PM Harper.

*** Will Alberta actually Exit?

660CityNews: 'Wexit' should heed pitfalls faced by other separatist movements: experts

• “Quebec is the best example of a would-be state that has achieved the greatest degree of autonomy within a federal system,” says [political scientist Paul] Hamilton.
• Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has rejected secession and formed a “fair deal” panel to look at ways to reduce Ottawa’s influence.
• Hamilton says: “Political elites are saying, ‘This isn’t going to happen, but we’ll use it to extract benefits from the central government.'”

Wexit: Alberta
https://wexitalberta.com/
https://albertafightsback.com/

Wexit: British Columbia
https://wexitbc.org/wexit-bc-party-constitution-principles/
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