If anything the last decade or so should demonstrate the relying on "tradition" or public pressure to stop people from infringing on rights is a bad idea. IMO the problem re NWC has more to do with rights in Canada not being inalienable.

Is it? Or is it just that terrorism is an accepted a common form of radicalism now? I'm inclined to the latter as even nowadays right wing parties use stochastic terrorism with apparently no pushback

The number of cons that have looked me in the eyes and said that Canada was founded on catholic values is way too high. They get especially angry if you respond "oh, so you're francophone?"

Grassroots is when foreign countries fund your convoy, not when regular people pay elections Alberta $500 to turf you because you didn't listen to them. Obviously, this is basic stuff cmon.

Let them lmao. If the cons want to keep shooting themselves in the foot and blaming Trudeau, who are we to stop them?

Never forget that when the NDP took office in 2015, the Cons were literally shredding and burning papers up until the second the government was sworn in.

I want them out as much as the next guy but I seriously doubt the recall petitions will actually work to get a member ejected. The legislation was designed to have an impossible bar to clear.

That said if niccolaides loses his job it will be the funniest thing I've seen in politics.

Probably scraped from the dataset they used to stuff ballots in 2023.

Probably wouldn't hurt. SGI rates are a lot better than anything in AB. Likewise with ICBC...

Do you have a write up of your story? Interested to read it.

That's part of it, but insurance in Alberta has been a decades long trainwreck. 15 years ago it was still insane. When the NDP were in power, they offered rate caps, and it was just a bandage on a gaping wound.

I don't understand why the ANDP is so hot for rate caps. They clearly aren't sustainable. Why don't we look into the core reason why our insurance is so expensive: tying everything to tort, and all-comer laws,no?

Bad case of BSTL. Happens to the best of us.

People have no idea how many functional addicts there are walking around. In 50 years when we look back at now, I'm almost certain that we will look back at now like the Chinese look at the opium wars

Its easy, they just roll over and light up their meth pipe.

They're trying to goad the Feds or the supreme court into disallowing or nullifying the law to stir up separatism