Andrew Scheer resigning as leader of Conservatives

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It's deadline day for Conservative leadership candidates - so who's in?

The first deadline for qualifying to be a candidate to replace Andrew Scheer as Conservative leader passes at 5 p.m. ET today.

As of end of day Thursday, seven candidates had met the first eligibility requirements. In order of their approval by the party, they are:



  • Peter MacKay, former minister of justice, foreign affairs and national defence in Prime Minister Stephen Harper's cabinet, Nova Scotia MP from 1997 to 2015 and the last leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
  • Erin O'Toole, former minister of veterans affairs, MP for the Ontario riding of Durham since 2012 and third-place finisher in the 2017 Conservative leadership race.
  • Leslyn Lewis, lawyer, unsuccessful Conservative candidate in the 2015 federal election in the Ontario riding of Scarborough–Rouge Park.
  • Marilyn Gladu, MP for the Ontario riding of Sarnia–Lambton since 2015.
  • Derek Sloan, MP for the Ontario riding of Hastings–Lennox and Addington since 2019.
  • Jim Karahalios, anti-carbon tax activist who filed a lawsuit against the Ontario PC Party alleging the contest for the provincial party presidency had been rigged against him.
  • Rick Peterson, businessman, finished 12th in the 2017 leadership race.


The last candidate on the list is the only contender from the West. He's an AB businessman. I am not jumping for joy right now.
The western boys are waiting to see how the wind blows . Pretty hard to try and be leader of the opposition and leader of the separatist movement .
 

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Oh hemerHOID............................


the way your idiot Boy Justin is going................................


another 6 months of LIE-beral miss-rule and Brian Mulroney could come out of retirement and WIN BIG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Consider THIS LIE-beral MESS:::::::::::::::::::::::::






Here is some information taken from assorted sources such as the Govt of Canada website and represents information supplied by the Cdn Census Bureau - along with some comments of my own in brackets):::

Community: Wet'suwet'en First Nation

Band Number: 725

(The tribal group is a voluntary politically oriented association composed of a number of bands usually with a similar language and cultural background - thus we are arguing with a FRACTION of the 725 member Wet`suwet`en band!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

(The Wet`suwet`en tribal band and is SPLINTERED - as the article below indicates - as are the various native groups who have either joined the protests or signed on to the pipeline deals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Why some Wet'suwet'en councils have signed pipeline agreements

By Amy Smart, from The Canadian Press Published Sunday, January 20, 2019 7:17AM EST Last Updated Sunday, January 20, 2019 5:22PM EST

Presented on the CTV news media web site.

SMITHERS, B.C. -- It was a difficult decision to sign a benefit sharing agreement with Coastal GasLink that would allow for a natural gas pipeline through the Wet'suwet'en territory, but a necessary one, an elected band council member says.

Joseph Skin is with the Skin Tyee band, a community of about 134 people within the Wet'suwet'en First Nation, and said many members live in "poverty" on the reserve and the agreement offered an opportunity for a better future.

Skin said he spent most of his life living in a home shared by three or four families. There was no running water in homes on the reserve until 10 or 15 years ago, he said.

(But in ancient days - natives DID LIVE in multi family dwellings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

"Decisions like this never came easy, I'm not going to say it was easy, because it was very difficult," he said.

"But like I said, the people who are concerned about our decision, they should come to the reserve and live in these conditions themselves and then have to weigh in on a decision like that."

(It is economic reality that if you wish to live like white men - it is best to also get educated and to WORK like white men -thus you can buy what you need!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Coastal GasLink has said it has signed agreements with all 20 elected First Nations bands along the pipeline route from northeastern B.C. to LNG Canada's $40-billion export facility on the coast in Kitimat.

A blockade and the subsequent RCMP arrests while they enforced an injunction earlier this month set off a firestorm of protests across the country. The blockade was erected to stop the company from accessing a road where it planned to start construction work.

Five Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs say the project has no authority without their consent. While elected band councils like the Skin Tyee are administrators of their reserves, the hereditary chiefs say they are in charge of the 22,000 square kilometres of traditional territory, including the land where pipeline would be built.

(SADLY there is NO MECHANISM within the archaic native political system that would allow for a resolution!! Traditionally if a native did not like choices being made by his band- he would load his canoe and paddle to the other side of the lake and start a NEW TRIBE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

(Native are caught up in the 21st century REALITY - that majority rule is BEST!! It is too bad that some spoil sports are willing to wreck the deal FOR EVERYBODY!)

The hereditary chiefs have since reached a "temporary truce" with RCMP, agreeing that members will abide by the injunction allowing the company access through the end of January, so long as another anti-pipeline camp is allowed to remain intact.

The issue of who supports the project is not as simple as a division between hereditary chiefs on one side and elected councils on the other. While the five hereditary clan chiefs say they're "adamantly opposed," other hereditary leaders have expressed support, and elected council members have landed on both sides.

(Natives are struggling to catch up to the democratic ideal of one person - one vote and all being equal - with the majority getting its way!! But LIE-berals have been persuading natives for 50 years that natives are MORE EQUAL than other Cdns!!!!! LIE-berals have been feeding natives those nonsense promises for decades now and tempers are boiling over as Our idiot Boy Justin has made MORE PROMISES - and kept less of them than any other leader!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

(The native rail blockades ARE ABOUT THE RULE OF LAW and we NEED TO ASK if a MINORITY WITHIN A MINORITY has the right to disrupt the ENTIRE COUNTRY for the most selfish of PERSONAL reasons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Former Wet'suwet'en elected Chief Ray Morris of the Nee Tahi Buhn band said his council signed a deal with Coastal GasLink based on the advice an elder gave when Enbridge was proposing a pipeline through the territory. That elder died at 96 in 2013.

"He was with us when Enbridge first came around and he said, 'You can't beat this big company. Get the best deal you can for us.' And that's what we did," said Morris, who was the elected chief for 24 years before being unseated in an election last month.

(That now deceased elder HAD A GOOD EYE for details!! Traditional white law dictates that LAND MAY BE EXPROPRIATED - AFTER BEING PAID FOR AT FAIR MARKET VALUE - plus LEGAL EXPENSES and any other legitimate costs -by govt for the good of the community!! Thus expropriating some Wet`sunet`en land to build a pipeline that will AID thousands of Cdns while MILDLY INCONVENIENCING a few biassed RADICAL dozens DOES FIT the general legal definition of land expropriation FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Signing an agreement means funding for things like education and elder care, he said.

"We're no different than any other human, we have the same needs as you do."

(OF COURSE - so why is the RABID MINORITY OBJECTING?? Unless - as I have suggested - the radicals ARE RABID BLACKMAILERS??????????????????)

Morris said even though band members share lineage with the hereditary clan chiefs, that doesn't mean they are under the same authority.

"We're independent of the Office of the Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs," he said. "We've been independent for many years."

(As I have said - there IS NO NATIVE AUTHORITY capable of enforcing a group choice - and many natives are REFUSING to recognize ANY white law!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

(So here are some number about Aboriginal Groups and First Nations)::::::::

(Vancouver Sun writer Scott Brown reports that Wet`sunet`en natives claim
22,000 sq km of B.C. land - so settle that claim by 725 people and we get a land claim of just over 30.35 km per person for the 725 member band!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

(Wikipedia tells us the Province of British Columbia has a total area of 944,735 square Km and Stats Canada tells us there are 200,000 people of First Nations and Metis - all with land claims in British Columbia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

(Thus if EACH native and Metis person received title to 30.35 sq km of land - the total amount of land needed would be 6,069,000 sq km!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

(But Wikipedia says B.C. has a total land area of 944,735 km - meaning the province would need to GROW BY 6.42 TIMES LARGER than it now is in order to accommodate ALL the land claims - thus some native DISAPPOINTMENT is INEVITABLE regarding land claims!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

(In the latest news - as of February 28, 2020, a NEW GROUP of natives called Wet`suwet`en Matriarchs have been granted a seat at the table in talks with the govt!! The SPLINTERED groups are now SPLITTING FURTHER - along GENDER LINES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

( And all this land shortage is WITHOUT DEDUCTING FOR LANDS currently owned and being lived on by white people!! The INSANE TRUTH is that we could deport every single Non native from B.C. and give the ENTIRE province back - AND NATIVES WOULD STILL BE FIGHTING OVER LAND RIGHTS!!!!!!!!!!)
(YES - we could give the province back and natives would STILL BE FACED with the IMMEDIATE PROBLEM - that natives have NO traditional method of reconciling such disputes and that natives SCORN the white democratic process - THAT DOES OFFER A DISPUTE RECONCILIATION METHOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

(Our idiot Boy and his loser LIE-berals ARE DREAMING IN TECHNICOLOUR if they think they can TALK THEIR WAY into some calm and sensible resolution to the pipeline crisis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

(But then Our idiot Boy WANTS to kill the Cdn oil patch for ideological reasons and does not care what political or economic mess he leaves in his wake - thus he deplores the public relations beating he is taking but does not mind the fossil fuel road block!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)