How do we garner respect without showing it in return?
By Lethbridge Herald on May 9, 2025.
Editor,
So, here we are post federal election and the “dreaded” Liberals have been elected for a 4th term. I say “dreaded” jokingly because I voted Liberal.
Those who voted Conservative in our province are disappointed and our premier is demanding respect from the Liberal government or else. But how do we garner respect when we do not show respect? Quebec could see the writing on the wall and elected Liberals to represent them even at the expense of some Bloc Québecois incumbents who were replaced with Liberal candidates.
Why doesn’t Alberta see what is going on like Quebec? Scott Moe of Saskatchewan is talking unity with the federal government, but Alberta keeps demanding respect with no reciprocal agenda.
Like the old saying, “you get what you give.” Change will be happening in our country and I would have liked to have seen more Liberals elected in Alberta as a show of respect and to have a voice in the inevitable change.
Hopefully, one day we will begin to see the forest in spite of the trees!
Kent Perry
Lethbridge
9-8
Quebec elected liberals to keep their western gravy train running. Just on the news they will back the minority government. Respect that.
There you go speaking to others’ motives again.
You are such a glaring example of the typical Alberta Selfservative(the new name for you “Conservatives”).
You have all handily earned it.
Just as an aside- This text is directly from the Government of Canada website- Feel free to peruse at your leisure.
I’ll happily share the pertinent information with you, though.
It reads as follows:
Equalization is financed by the Government of Canada from general revenues, which are largely raised through federal taxes. Provincial governments make no contributions to the Equalization program. All Canadians are subject to the same federal income tax system and its progressive rate structure, regardless of where they live.
Pay attention to the second sentence, it’s important; and it means your dear Dani has been lying to you.
Enjoy!
that;s not what the trucker guy told me whilst lolling in his hot tub that cold day in ottawa. he also told me smitty is a saint. 🙂
Surely you are smarter than that? Yes I know what you mean. It certainly explains why the people in Ottawa kicked Poilievre out doesn’t it. You can’t be any dumber than this guy.
haha! seriously, it is nuts how so many people in alberta think they are having their pockets picked by the feds, and yet they fail to acknowledge how they have had their pockets picked by klein and the oil robber barons
Boy have you got that right. I keep get criticized for mentioning Klein. They tell me he’s all in the past and I should be ignoring what he did, yet I remind them of all the things Klein did to them that they are still paying for and will be for years to come and that shuts them up. The fact is thanks to Klein our children and grandchildren’s future has been destroyed.
When we ask any of them to explain how Ottawa is stealing all their money like Smith keeps harping about they can’t tell us, because they aren’t.
exactly! that past continues to hurt us today, and for too much time to come. as much as i am disgusted by the sleaze that the likes of mulroney and justin brought to us, klein seems to have outdone each of those crooks.
It’s not hard to lie to buckwheat he believes everything these Reformers feed him. Like Ralph Klein was overheard saying to one of his MLAs. “I could tell these senior idiots anything and they would believe it”.
That’s exactly how it works but when Ralph Klein was asked by a reporter why Alberta was so broken and Norway and Alaska weren’t he told them that it was because Alberta was required to send billions to Ottawa and Quebec in the form of Equalization Payments and of course these morons bought it hook, line and sinker just like he knew they would, and are so stupid they still do.
These reformers have all used it because they know how well it works on these morons supporting them, don’t they?
It might sting them more to know that the current iteration of the Equalization Payment formula was written by one of their own.
Who wants to let facts get in the way though, yeah?
Yes it was Reformer Stephen Harper who gave a huge increase to Quebec to buy votes and it worked. It remains me of the fools who bad mouthed Liberals when they were supporting one in Ralph Klein who always bragged about being a Liberal to our family and Jason Kenney who was a Liberal in Saskatchewan for years. They both knew they had to switch to get elected.
Ralph Klein started that lie. He didn’t look at his own very costly debacles and mistakes as being the cause.
So why is there a resurfacing of a separatistic movement? The PQ applauded the rhetoric of Alberta’s Dear Leader. Nothing to “respect”. Simply selfish aspirations from both provinces.
Many Albertans think Smith wants Alberta to separate so she can make us Trumps 51st state and give him our oil industry, do you trust her not to? God only knows what deals they have been making behind closed.
Of course it would allow her to force her privatization of healthcare and education systems onto our backs like Reformers have alway wanted to do. It would also allow her to kick out the RCMP and to privatize our police force and dump the total cost onto the backs of taxpayers. How stupid does she think we are?
Kent the conservatives in my world are sick of these Reformers bad mouthing Trudeau but can’t tell you why.
The facts prove he was an Alberta hero with the billions he poured into this province while these Reformers have helped the rich steal $1.2 trillion from us and that’s how they try to hide it from the ignorant Albertans and of course it works proving how stupid they are.
You are correct. The older generations tell their younger relatives to vote for the Conservatives, not realizing that the only thing Conservative about them is their name.