Rockpile I don't suggest we can just change parties and resolve the issue although the Wild Rose and NDP are actually in agreement this has to be overturned. The lawyer indicates this can't be resolved in court - remember it's clearly spelled out that this act is over and above the law - the cabinet ministers are now a dictatorship.
You say "why aren't people going after the current bunch of bandits to force them to reverse" - Exactly what I am trying to initiate.
It's tough in Western Canada though - the attitude is to shrug their shoulders, bitch a little and do nothing. The irony of just coming through Remembrance Day and pledging to "never forget, so they did not die in vain" seems lost on modern Albertans. Would today's average Albertan working in the oilpatch and shopping at Walmart just shrug their shoulders and let Hitler overrun Europe if conditions were to repeat themselves?
As a European I'm often branded a trouble maker here because I try to get involved to make democracy work. The difference for us Europeans is we have grown up seeing democracy working, people power working... I well remember listening to the radio as Lech Walesa took on the might of the Soviet block when he was in the Gdansk Shipyard as a Union leader. I remember the growing movement of people risking their lives that eventually led to the Berlin wall crumbling. I remember Mrs Thatcher dispatching the British forces to the distant Falklands to repel the invading Argentinians with almost no support in the worldwide political community. Sometimes you need to draw a line in the sand and say "NO MORE" I think this is one of those occasions - will anyone join me?
You say "why aren't people going after the current bunch of bandits to force them to reverse" - Exactly what I am trying to initiate.
It's tough in Western Canada though - the attitude is to shrug their shoulders, bitch a little and do nothing. The irony of just coming through Remembrance Day and pledging to "never forget, so they did not die in vain" seems lost on modern Albertans. Would today's average Albertan working in the oilpatch and shopping at Walmart just shrug their shoulders and let Hitler overrun Europe if conditions were to repeat themselves?
As a European I'm often branded a trouble maker here because I try to get involved to make democracy work. The difference for us Europeans is we have grown up seeing democracy working, people power working... I well remember listening to the radio as Lech Walesa took on the might of the Soviet block when he was in the Gdansk Shipyard as a Union leader. I remember the growing movement of people risking their lives that eventually led to the Berlin wall crumbling. I remember Mrs Thatcher dispatching the British forces to the distant Falklands to repel the invading Argentinians with almost no support in the worldwide political community. Sometimes you need to draw a line in the sand and say "NO MORE" I think this is one of those occasions - will anyone join me?
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