Klein warns Ottawa of separation threat

[Asher]

Tingkai

You remind me of Giancarlo after he spent a few nights with a thesaurus.

[Ben Kenobi]

Tingkai-

You don't need to insult Asher to make your point.

There are plenty of difficult questions regarding western seperation that have been touched upon in this thread that you could elaborate upon to confront Asher.

He says there is nothing he can do, and you try to show him his options.

But to call him a spoiled brat?

That's uncalled for.

[SirTweek]

Wow! This thread sure exploded since I visited last. Great post flubber as an Albertan I totally agree with you on all points. I don't understand the way some people speak about western alienation, they dismiss it as whining when there are real issues. I would never want to join the US but like I said I would be all for a seperate country of western provinces at least we would have a say in how we control certain issues and our money wouldn't go to the Ottawa black hole.

As for the person that said we are doing it for the blackmail/threatning value like Quebec, well unlike Quebec who sucks money out of Canada we actually can threaten by witholding money.

[Flubber]

Thanks Sirtweek . . . I was trying to get some discussion ( and would be interested to see Frogger's response) in around some of the rants . . . speaking of which . . .

Tingkai

-- unnecessary personal insults all over the place there-- you usually are better than that

Asher

- While I agree with you on the difficulty of a single person making meaningful change , the attempt can be made if someone is passionate enough-- many real changes are brought about by an individual that makes an effort and gathers other like-minded people

. . . and while I did skip most of the posts back and forth between you and tingkai , I did find it interesting that you stressed your age and student status when discussing your inability to do anything. These are the same factors that seem to highly offend you if people mention them as a reason to discount your arguments. You cannot have it both ways.


In other news

The markets seem to like the latest budget as the looney is at a two-year high despite some bad trade news.

Manley is quoted as saying he wants to bring Canadian taxes lower than the US. Its an interesting contradiction when he just brought down a spending budget.