LoveCanada

Illegal and necessary are two different things. Philosophically, Im from a long line of pacifists. Practically, if Im Gerald Stanley and someone is on my yard and threatening my wife, Im pointing my gun at him and telling him to get the hell off my property. I'll deal with the charges later.

I see the title, but where's the actual article. Not there even without the paywall?

Generally true. The one difference is for people who are rural. I dont have a loaded firearm but I do have a powerful .22 airgun right by my front door. Its mostly there for protection against animals - several times we've had black bears walk across our front lawn, only a few feet from our door and we've had a bear tear the side off a trailer to get at the food scraps inside.

Having said that, I know that many of my neighbors have real firearms for the same reason. Two bears have been shot after they no longer were scared off by warning shots and unfortunately Fish and Wildlife generally refuses to relocate them (they were here first). And there have been sightings of grizzlies within 2 kms. NO ONE wants to mess with a grizzly.

But the unspoken thing about living this far from the nearest RCMP station is that we all know that even in an emergency, the officers aren't going to be here in any less than 30 minutes and that's IF they happen to be patrolling on this side of the county. And a lot can happen in 30 minutes. So we all keep some kind of protection around because we can't rely on being protected in a reasonable amount of time.

He fearmongered far more on the 'threat' of Trump. That was the main point of his campaign and people actually believed that the US might invade Canada during the campaign. Its amazing what people will fall for - totally ignoring the fact that Trump is blustering loudmouth who will say anything as long as it gets him attention.

So, block the main income producer in western Canada, so that the province that imports its oil and gas from other countries and has an abundance of hydroelectric as IT'S main natural resource can be happy?

Yup, that's exactly the kind of attitude that has made western Canada so resentful. Especially when we know we're sending that 'blocking' province 14 billion a year out of the revenues of the resource they love to block. Make it make sense.

What part of it is dying? The demand for natural gas, keeps going up. We literally had two countries come to us when Russia shut down their gas lines, asking us to supply them and our (not so smart) PM at the time not only said no, but that there was 'no business case' for shipping more gas. Im pretty sure when there's a customer knocking on your shop door asking when you're gonna open up that there's a business case.

A news team did this check in Calgary many years ago. There was a Mazda dealer advertising a basic model at an unbelievably low price under $10,000. After a reporter with a hidden camera tried to buy that car the dealer eventually admitted that they not only didnt have a car at that price on the lot, but they couldn't even order one. It was a scam to get people in the door.

Here's looking at you Sunridge Mazda. We remember.

So an ex member of a union? Not exactly odd. I take your point that the union didnt *initiate *the recall. They cant, it has to be citizen. But they are obviously fully in support and any time the AFL boss says yes lets bring down this government and wages are on the line in future negotiations, union members are going to listen.

The truly odd part is that when the union's bedmates, the NDP, were in power, teachers got no increase in pay at all, except for the one that had already been passed by the previous conservative government. So Im not sure exactly sure where the unions get the idea that if someone else were in power, they'd be in a better position.

So how do you logically explain Alberta Federation of Labour president Gil McGowan last week advocating for recalls to “topple this government” as payback for the government’s use of the Charter’s notwithstanding clause to end a province wide teachers strike and then the first petition out of the gate was for the Education Minister's job? Those two things are totally unrelated?

I think its a bit naive to think this is SOLELY a grassroots thing. The NDP and the unions (AFL) are definitely hoping to inflict as much damage as they can to the UCP. They're not likely to put their name on the recall but they will definitely be doing anything they can behind the scenes to give it momentum.