Kenney out of line speaking out on Sovereignty Act
By Lethbridge Herald on September 10, 2022.
Editor:
I was appalled that Jason Kenney would speak out on one of the key issues in the current leadership campaign.
Surely with his lengthy tenure in the political arena he should know that it is totally unethical for a person in his position to speak out on proposals by any candidate in a leadership campaign of which he is not a candidate but still holds a leadership position.
Neither Jason Kenney nor the Lieutenant Governor have any business commenting on promises made in an election of any sort. Certainly the LG has an obligation to examine legislation if she has concerns with its constitutionality but not before it has passed through the legislative process.
At this point the Alberta Sovereignty Act is purely hypothetical and if it comes before the Alberta Legislature will be scrutinized by legal experts and will be subject to debate therein.
It is noteworthy that as Danielle Smith has explained in detail the proposal is to challenge the federal government’s unconstitutional actions by putting the shoe on the other foot and let the feds take Alberta to court rather than Alberta challenging Ottawa’s moves in court.
Ken Allred
Blairmore
9-8
Agree, political interference is rife in the US and apparently here in AB as well. Kenney knows better, however he has another candidates back and therefore jumped on the smear the front runner bus. The masters are trying to control the game and make the population believe they have a say. Like George Carlin so eloquently put it, it is all one big (insert swearing) game by our “owners” and we ain’t in it, WE AIN’T IN IT.
Ken Allred was my MLA in St. Albert and had nothing but praise for what Ralph Klein did to us and was one of the MLAs we blamed for putting Albertans in financial ruin by letting the rich steal our oil and tax wealth, like they did. I can assure Allred the true conservatives in my world don’t care what he says we know what he did to us. Even members of Klein’s own family were smarter than Allred. .
The “Smear” Daniel Smith campaign is well underway. She will be a target for the anti-Alberta-pro-Ottawa crowd that calls Alberta home! The last thing they want is Alberta to gain any traction in developing its own natural (clean) resources so lets go after the one candidate that can put a tool in our tool-box that has some real teeth. Like her “Sovereignty Act” or not she is the only one that has truly stood-up for this province with some balls. Kenny’s less than sad attempt to do this was a miserable failure!
This should be obvious, but disagreeing with Smith’s position on the Sovereignty Act does not make a person anti-Alberta. It’s time to resurrect the idea that serious and honourable people can have honest disagreements on any manner of questions.
“clean natural resources” — How is it possible that a person in 2022, with so much credible information at our fingertips, could be so misinformed?
Follow this link: https://www.statista.com/statistics/481142/greenhouse-gas-emissions-in-canada-by-province/
You know as well as the rest of us our net CO2 is irrelevant when it comes to world wide emissions. I will take our resource mining any day over your cobalt and lithium mining any day. At least we are not using children.
Maybe you should get up off your ass and find yourself some oilmen and lawyers to talk to, or would you rather have people laughing about how stupid you are?
Lawyers have taught me, over the years, that if you can’t prove, without a doubt, what you are saying in court you had better not say it and that applies to all of us. The facts prove you dead wrong, yet here you are making an ass of yourself with stupid comments, and only one you are fooling is yourself.
Canada’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions currently represent about 1.6 percent of the global total. Canada is among the top 10 global emitters and one of the largest developed world per capita emitter of GHGs.
Of the 255,000 Congolese mining for cobalt, 40,000 are children, some as young as six years. Much of the work is informal small-scale mining in which laborers earn less than $2 per day while using their own tools, primarily their hands.
As usual You bully people and attempt to intimidate. Chew on these.
Redneck’s point was this: The assertion that resource extraction in Alberta is “clean” is factually incorrect. You can divert and re-frame all you like, but that fundamental and demonstrable fact will not change.
Of the 255,000 Congolese mining for cobalt, 40,000 are children, some as young as six years. Much of the work is informal small-scale mining in which laborers earn less than $2 per day while using their own tools, primarily their hands.
Canada’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions currently represent about 1.6 percent of the global total. Canada is among the top 10 global emitters and one of the largest developed world per capita emitter of GHGs.
Whatever.
The oilmen certainly agree with you that something has got to be done and that’s why oil executives wanted the Carbon Tax implemented they know it works. yet Harper wouldn’t work with them to see that it was done and these stupid Albertans believed Kenney’s lies that it would financially destroy all of us. It’s been in place in Sweden since 1991 and hasn’t destroyed anyone. Feeding the people the lie that the Carbon Tax was dreamed up by Trudeau and Notely to steal all their money made those that believed it look like damn fools, yet many still do.
7 facts on the oil sands and the environment (nrcan.gc.ca)
Or we can do this. The game appears to be over. Divest your investments.
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2022-9-10-california-and-new-york-do-not-back-off-your-insane-green-energy-schemes
Can you and Johnny 57 try a little harder to keep your eyes’ on the ball? Red Neck made no reference to alternative energy.
Well, even if this half baked idea came up for a vote to pass it, it would be unlikely that it would be passed in the first place. When guys like Jason Nixon are against it pretty much says it all. Even if the motion passed, “it would be reviewed within two years, or within 90 days of a court ruling that says the special motion is unconstitutional.”
This really is another display of the stark disunity of the UCP….and this sort of thing would be fit to, or even know how to, govern? They haven’t been, and would not be.
Re Kenny: A politician, and a citizen for that matter, commenting on a political question. Imagine that.
As for the LG wading into the children’s pool on this one, I think she was offside. Some may remember when Lois Hole got in hot water for comments aimed at Klein’s budget cuts. Not that her criticisms were wrong, in my opinion, but the LG must stay above the political fray. Maybe she’s just hoping to avoid a replay of the King-Byng Affair.
I don’t find anything wrong with pointing out the truth no matter who they are saying it. I had known Lois Hole really well before she became our LG and was furious with her when she signed some of the stupid things Klein did to us and I made my feelings known to her. I think she could have made a difference to what Klein did to us.