Quebec hates you and the mincing little hand puppet accused you of ruining Canada.
Leave and take your oil dollars with you:
The government ran over that motion with one of its older ones, dusted off and approved for the occasion.
Much milder, the UCP motion doesn’t condemn separatism at all.
It said the assembly “should affirm its loyalty to a united Canadian federation, and urge the Government to obtain a fair deal for Alberta within the Canadian federation.”
That’s been Premier Jason Kenney’s approach all along. On Monday he told the house you “don’t win people over by calling them ‘deplorables,'” a backhanded reference to a certain election down south.
Ultimately, the NDP motion was kicked to the bottom of the order paper and the government motion will prevail.
But the NDP was poking a sharp stick into a genuine UCP sore spot.
Some UCP caucus members are said to be growing impatient and starting to lean toward more overt sympathy for separatism.
Cypress-Medicine Hat MLA Drew Barnes is making his feelings highly public.
He’s challenging the government’s defence of federalism with regular blogs and Facebook posts.
In June, Barnes publicly criticized the fair deal panel’s findings as too moderate, even though he’d been a member.
Without a better deal from Ottawa, he wrote, “the majority of my constituents in Cypress-Medicine Hat and from across our land have made clear that we must seek another relationship, as a sovereign people.”
On Oct. 29 he told the legislature that Quebec got a fair deal with “credible threats,” obviously referring to the two provincial votes on separation.
Then he asked “how far are we willing to go . . . to make sure Alberta families and Albertans get the deal they deserve as part of this federation.”
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