OTTAWA — Quebec’s new Parti Québécois government could work collaboratively with Alberta to decentralize some powers from Ottawa, Alberta’s Wildrose leader Danielle Smith said Sunday.
There’s a lot of “common cause” between Alberta and Quebec in terms of the kind of transference of power the provinces want to see, and in terms of wanting the federal government to back out of areas of provincial jurisdiction, Smith told CTV’s Question Period.
“I’m hoping that Alberta and Quebec can work collaboratively with a Prime Minister who I think, quite frankly, shares a vision of a more decentralized country,” Smith said.
“This could, in some ways, be very positive. Not only for Quebec but also for Alberta.”
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So Danny, sleeping with the enemy.
I do very much hope the voters of Alberta, will next time, give you the sound drubbing you now so richly deserve.
Marois’s English is lousy and I expect your French is on par.
Were you NOT LISTENING to what the “unimpressive bag-lady” was vomiting everything she opened her pie hole?
Under our constitution, the feds stay out of provincial matters, something that our federal governments have not done since day 1, 1867. I lay it all at that other province’s feet, Upper Canada for the constant interference and meddling in other provinces’ affairs, all done to benefit Upper Canada at other provinces’ expense. Crow rate comes to mind, CWB, dairy subsidies, “managed trade” policy that picks political favourites over sound economic sense, or local best practices, that benefit the local provincial populace.
Federal policy has forced the shifting economic power from eastern Canada, to Lower Canada, to Upper Canada (Ontario). Now it’s shifting west on it’s own and the original “Canadians” don’t like the Milch Cow getting uppity, so keep them saddled with distorted inter-provincial trade relations, while stifling their trade because your outdated industrial models rust out, or in Ontario’s case your own government seeks to drive out industry through driving up the cost to do business in your province, meanwhile collecting EI and welfare payments from workers in other provinces.
Alberta is going to do to Ontario (seat of the federal government and home to most of the federal seats in our HoC) what Quebec has always done – defend it’s own interests using the same weapons Quebec has, under our constitution. So, suck it up!
Ontario is an “up and comer” to the equalization trough, busy elbowing the others aside, for their “fair share” of other’s wealth. Where have we heard that before? I’m not paying taxes in Alberta to fund central Canadian provinces “milking” the system, without a vote on what these provinces stick into their economic action plans, while they raid Albertan’s and other provinces’ paychecks to do so, without the Alberta government sticking up for our interests.
If that’s “sleeping with the enemy” then I’m one of 4 million guilty of that out here, sport, not counting our next door neighbours who feel the same way. We constantly hear that we aren’t “value adding’ our resource production, or have you lecture us on the badness of our ways, or ship resources to you for processing, but every time I go to the grocery store I see “produce of Ontario”, Saputo, Unico, Loblaws company products, when we grow and could outstrip central Canada on a variety of agri products regulated and trade distorted from outside of our jurisdiction, but sold in our grocery stores.
I’ll support an Alberta government that seeks to limit other provinces or the federal government interfering in our trade or production, and if it means using tactics that Quebec has employed, successfully I might add, then they’ll get my vote. And, yes, separation is well up high on my list of tactics to use if I don’t see any further advantage to remaining joined at the hip with the likes of you!
Actually, the enemy is the federal government created by decades of Liberal imposition onto provincial governments. Danielle is absolutely correct in her push to take back the constitutional powers of the provincial government from the federal government.
Redford is the problem….she is a centralist…like all red Tories (i.e, Liberals)