Just as long as we can bring back the old gun laws from the wild west.
... I hope you come prepared
Enjoy sending your goods from the West coast through the US.
I'd expect a ton of tariffs and duties on that
ABEXIT - is it time for Alberta to think about leaving Canada?
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Just as long as we can bring back the old gun laws from the wild west.
... I hope you come prepared
Enjoy sending your goods from the West coast through the US.
I'd expect a ton of tariffs and duties on that
The "old gun laws ftom the Wild West" were from another country's wild west and a lot of that was a twentieth century Hollywood invention, written by Jewish refugees from Eastern European pogroms.
Canada's West was anything but wild. It was "Peace, Order and Good Government" before the white settlers ever got to our West.
It goes with the silver fecking belt buckles and ten gallon hats. Gene Autry ...
The settlers wore bowlers.
Perfect.. What I'm hearing is that there were no laws re: guns at all.
Let's call that the old gun laws then, we'll go by that
Yeah, that was exactly the way it was, a real Utopia
No, it was the Imperial Order from the World's greatest superpower of the time, who controlled the settlement of Western Canada with the rule of law arriving before the settlers did.
The rootn' tootin' shootin' Westerner thing never happened in Canada and hardly did in the USA, either. It is a media contrivance from the early 20th century.
Here you go, as it appears that you never studied any history outside of of a movie theatre. No wonder there are separatists in Alberta. You're not very well educated.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace,_order,_and_good_government
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Consider for one moment that there are a ton of problems today in rural BC, AB and Sask (i'm sure elsewhere) that have made the news re: shootings in response to burglaries in the rural communities.
Way back when in the times of Peace, Order and Good Government, there might have been 1/100th the scope of protection from 3rd parties like the RCMP.
Don't think for 1 minute that there wasn't all kinds of conflicts, crime and violence that went on and although the phrase was coined by Ralph Klein, I'd wager that the practice of shoot, shovel and shut-up was in full swing back in the day.
PS - We have never, at any time had any semblance of Good Government.
So, why did you make so many problems for yourselves, there?
One issue that you may not be aware of is that Alberta was heavily settled from the US States and those immigrants had adding what became Alberta to the States in mind. The attitudes from that time and those peoples linger on.
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/...topresent/settlement/american_settlement.html
When the Quebec Separatists really threatened, over 400 of them were arrested and held. I think that the same would be an appropriate response to a wide-spread separatist insurgence in Alberta. I'm sure that some of the tuff-gize TV cowpokes will hole up, here and there with their big stacks of guns but shooting it out with the Mounties and the Army will give us the reason to lock them up for a very, very long time if their not shot dead, outright.
This Confederation is not divisible. If Quebec votes to leave, they will not achieve it without a fight. If any part of Quebec succeeds, it will be a little snippet in the St.Lawrence-Saguenay valleys and utterly orphaned from what it would take to become an independent country. The same applies to Alberta. It will be fair game for the legal entity Canada to take control of the Crown-owned oil reserves, there. Without that cash flow, there is no "Alberta" nation.
If Alberta goes we in B.C. will be right behind . Be careful what you wish for .
Billy Miner .
Well they're digging a deep "debt" hole that we'll never recover from if we don't get rid of them. I think that the UPC has learnt their lesson and, hopefully, will come back to govern. Fingers crossed!! The recent budget will triple our debt in one term - Notley is trying to outdo Wynne LOL
I see.. So, there weren't any referendums on that in Que i guess.
Thanks for setting the record straight
Oka... A fine example of your Peace, Order and Good Government trumping all
Sure it is.
hehehehe
Enjoy Banff, but the oil reserves producing today are on Provincially controlled land
This is such old news. There have been several let's leave Canada movements in Alberta and also in Western Canada and none of them mustered more than a few votes and that was prior to the huge influx of immigrants that now live in Western Canada. I'm quite sure someone who emigrated to Canada is not interested in any sort of separatist movement.