Alberta
A Toronto Take on the United We Roll Convoy
When you live in the world’s second largest country it’s easy to understand how people from one part might have difficulty understanding people from another region thousands of kilometres away. Undoubtedly that’s one of the issues facing the United We Roll Convoy. Oilfield workers from the prairies just don’t make a lot of sense to, say a banker from Toronto. What does that banker think when dozens of big trucks clog up traffic in front of the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa? Is that person likely to take a bit of time and get to know why they’ve taken their big trucks half way across the continent? Or is that banker just appalled at them for promoting the oil industry in such a demonstrative manner.
The brave workers (and former workers) who headed out on the United We Roll Convoy knew they were taking a substantial risk before setting out. They knew this could go sideways, but they were desperate to send a message. Alberta’s oil is landlocked and certainly hundreds of thousands of people are affected. Families, businesses, and communities wait for an indeterminate amount of time for Canada’s pipeline issues to work themselves out with no guarantee it will ever happen. So they gassed up and gathered at Gorts Truckwash in Red Deer and they launched this project. They didn’t have a marketing firm formulate a message for them. They didn’t clamp down on any of their drivers and insist that their messaging go through a single spokesperson. They just hoped..
Their reception was not what they were dreaming of. But they did get a few chances to get their message worked in there with whatever the nation’s media wanted to talk about. It may be that the passing of time will help Canadians focus in on what it was that they wanted to say. But there’s no guarantee that it will ever get through to that banker in Toronto. Well. That’s not totally true. There’s one banker from Toronto who really backs these people. That’s because like a reporter embedded with a military battalion, he’s been embedded in the middle of Alberta’s Oil Country for some time now. Here’s an opinion Canadians haven’t heard yet. From a banker. From Toronto.
From the YouTube channel of Alberta Premier Danielle Smith
Members of the media join Premier Danielle Smith for a round table on January 21, 2025.
Yakk Stack By Sheldon Yakiwchuk
Prior to Trumps inauguration event and announcement was made that Trump would not be imposing the 25% tariffs…
Which means, Canada seriously dodged a bullet here.
And while the Liberals will most likely frame this as, their success in showing, Bad Orange Man, that they’re tough and ready to burn down what is left of our economy, throwing Alberta under the bus, first…through a nuclear option…
Premier Smith rode this challenge out like the true champion we knew that she would be.
It’s hard to say if this was a legality matter in the grander scheme…or if the 25% tariffs would have truly been as big of an impact on the US…
One thing is clear, however…
Smith was ready to go to the tables with the Trump administration and opt for diplomacy over threats…which should be what we expect from our leaders.
And should these 25% tariffs have gone through…I’m more than sure a Plan B would have been brought out in civil conversations, over screeching rhetoric.
“She’s treasonous”, they screeched.
“She’s supporting her friends in Oil and Gas”, they relent.
“She should put Canada first”, they echo…
And let’s just address these…
Is Walmart beholden to Campbells soup? Fruit of the Loom? Kraft?
Or does Walmart sell products that helps keep their doors open?
Walmart is not beholden to any product…just like Premier Smith isn’t. We have 26% of our GDP – the largest portion – owed to Alberta O&G, something that we have a limited trade partner with, due to the Liberal – Anti-Alberta/Anti-O&G/Anti-Pipeline attitude that wants to spend us further in debt with unreliable and expensive “Renewables”.
What does Alberta get from renewables?
A higher cost for energy, in an affordability crisis, created by the same people who continue to push them…sounds like a terrible deal, for Albertans, and something a true leader would Not Favor.
When Walmart sits down to hash out a deal with Heinz, are they committing treason because they haven’t shown their allegiance to their own, ‘Great Value’ brand Ketchup?
No…other provinces have their own industries and resources, which they are free to continue developing independent of the federal government, as is suitable and supportive of their own economies…Alberta isn’t competing with them, nor Canada as a whole.
Alberta through industry and resource, actually supports Canada through a grand imbalance on “Equalization Payments”…
As do we through paying 50% more into the Canada Pension Plan, than we actually get out of the Canada Pension Plan…to the tune of a $334 Billion Dollars.
And as for this “Team Canada”, horseshit…
The title Premier of Alberta, should hold some clues as to who Premier Smith should be advocating for…as she is the Premier of Alberta and Not the Prime Minister, nor leader in the Liberal Party that has created this fiasco, to begin with.
Rail, as they may…other provinces can’t cast a vote in her support, either way…
None of the other provinces, through Members of Parliament, nor through Premiers, came to support Alberta and our economy through a number of Federal Bills that railed on our provincial resources…
Worse yet…these hypocrites cash cheques from our province, while telling us how to diversify our economy…to which I’d state one thing unequivocally…
If we wanted to be a Have Not Province…like you are…we’ll come and ask you for your advice.
Until then…
I’ll hold my Alberta Flag Higher than my Canadian…
And be proud today, of having the only Premier in the country of Canada, worthy of any praise today!
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