Here’s Diane Ablonczy (left), the Conservative MP for a Calgary area riding in the House of Commons today:
Ms. Diane Ablonczy (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance, CPC) :
Mr. Speaker, a Liberal has slipped up and given Canadians a glimpse of the Liberal's secret agenda.
The member for Ajax—Pickering made a direct attack on a success story of our nation's economy that just so happens to be located in a region the Liberals have written off for the next election.The member let it out of the bag that the future Liberal government would be ordering oil energy companies to just simply stop it; they could put their plans on hold because if it cost too much energy to get out of the ground, to get it out of the oil sands, then so be it. In fact the member said if the energy companies do not cooperate there will be consequences.
Bullying, threats, pitting one region against the other in a shallow trade-off for votes, that is the Liberal way.
However, Canadians know that the strength of one is the strength of all and the whole is important. Our governments wants all sectors of Canada's economy to grow and prosper, for the benefit of all Canadians.
Scolding Liberals again and again is sluffed off. So, as long as scolding is the only option, the Liberals will
continue to behave as they behaved.
Vive l'Alberta libre!
Ablonczy is absolutely right. Mr. Holland bloviates all the time and his big mouth revealed the hidden agenda of the Liberal party and its feckless leader, Mr. Dion. The other resource based provinces should pay heed as well. If they are prepared to limit the growth of the Canadian economy by stalling oilsands growth what will they do in B.C., NFL. and Nova Scotia. This party cannot stand the fact they are in opposition and so even if means lying to the Canadian people about Kyoto they will do it. The only way Kyoto targets can be met is to buy hot air credits and pretend we are in compliance. There will still be no reduction in GHGs in Canada by buying these credits. However, the dirty little secret is out and people, including the media, are beginning to catch on. The Liberals don't like to be reminded of their record while in government, particularly on the environment, but the truth hurts. They sat with 3 majority governments and were not prepared to hurt the Canadian economy the way they are proposing that the Conservatives should do. Hypocrisy of the highest order. Do the Liberals have any shame at all? BTW Ralph Goodale needs to see a shrink. He looks like and sounds like he has lost his mind the way he acts in the House these days.
Alberta votes tory in a block so why should Liberals do them any favours when they can win votes easier in Ontario and Quebec. If the tories had any competition for seats the Liberals would be all over the population for votes. Albertans need to think through their lack of choice in voting preferences.
Terry Quinn
Ontario
Probably because Redneck, Maverick Alberta sees the emasculation of men being the norm east of Brandon, and frankly we like the differences between men and women.
So, as long as the Liberals view the Canada forged at Vimy Ridge as impossible to redeem, then they will have maintained their distancing from the West.
Terry…when the 416 area code votes in a few Tories, then we'll vote in a few liberals in Edmonton.
Ah but 416 is no longer the only area code around southern Ontario..there is 905 but Harper's prize in Halton, Turner, couldn't stand him so left him and the Aberta reform party for a truly national one…….too bad alberta doesn't count as part of “National”.
Ah, so the rest of us who do not go along with the remaking of Canada from Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto – we are to be put in our place. Namely to be
perpetual colonies forever and ever to those who are pessimists regarding the dead white men.
That's not my point which is that Alberta would vote Tory no matter what.
Terry….the only point here is your fear of a transfer of power from Upper Canada to the West. Canada ends at the Manitoba Ontario border for you. Know what Terry….watching the deterioration of what used to be a great and proud Canada by liberal goverments over the last 50 years has convinced me that you are right. You lose!!!
Ken, show me the facts about Liberals lessening the “great and proud Canada” you used to know 50 years ago. I have no problem with an ascendent western Canada and in fact I'm all for it. I simply don't like Harper and it worriesd me that there is no real democracy at work in Alberta. One party rule is not healthy and nor is the herd mentality that appears to be part of the social fabric there.
As long as Alberta is being chastized for being like the GTA – a one party state, you will have to do better than that.
As long as differences are the accepted norm when men and women are compared, as long as people accept that people go through various stages of life – and the initial stages take place before birth: all is hunky-dory.
But, when those positions are challenged and the opposite are enshrined in law – then we see a degradation take place which substitutes subjective truth for objective truth.
For, there is a price to be paid for saying I have my truth, and you have yours, and it is okay that there are differences. For, frankly government has a role to play so that people gauge their actions by objective truth.
One example of objective truth is: 2+2=4, and it is just as true today in any school as it was when Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon.
So, call this an example of putting government in its place – rather than
a segment of the population in its place. For, frankly the price of admission is too high for Alberta and the West to stay in a Confederation when anything which comes close to objective truth is sneered at, made fun of, is held in contempt, and other exhibits of what
is wrong with the human race.