OT: The OT Thread Part 5: New HF Talk

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Fixed to Ruin

Come wit it now!
Feb 28, 2007
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It's just 30 year old dads hiding in the corner of a room with two claymores set up listening to your footsteps 100 yards away now.

How i feel about campers in COD

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Cloned

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Wexit is the worst idea I’ve heard in quite some time. Some people get so fixated on one issue and ignore the millions of other issues that would make separation highly impractical.
 
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Fixed to Ruin

Come wit it now!
Feb 28, 2007
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Wexit is the worst idea I’ve heard in quite some time. Some people get so fixated on one issue and ignore the millions of other issues that would make separation highly impractical.

It is. But at the same time i don't think it's a bad outlet to make a bunch of noise to force the federal government to treat us more equitably.
 

Senor Catface

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Jul 25, 2006
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Wexit is the worst idea I’ve heard in quite some time. Some people get so fixated on one issue and ignore the millions of other issues that would make separation highly impractical.

lol Wexit

A prairie land locked province. I wonder what would happen with customs/duties/trade agreements with no leverage.
 

SK13

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Jul 23, 2007
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It is. But at the same time i don't think it's a bad outlet to make a bunch of noise to force the federal government to treat us more equitably.

lol in what way will this make them treat us more "equitably". There is no real threat here.

All it does it make everyone else in Canada, and anyone who notices elsewhere in the world, think of Albertans as dimwitted rednecks.
 
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Fixed to Ruin

Come wit it now!
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lol in what way will this make them treat us more "equitably". There is no real threat here.

All it does it make everyone else in Canada, and anyone who notices elsewhere in the world, think of Albertans as dimwitted rednecks.

Canada already thinks Albertans are dimwitted rednecks so we aren't creating any new with Wexit.

I was thinking that the "squeaky wheel gets the grease" type of message might get us some sort of minor/barely meaningful olive branch from the Fed somewhere down the road.
 
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SK13

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Canada already thinks Albertans are dimwitted rednecks so we aren't creating any new with Wexit.

You're doubling down on it. Making it news. Making it LESS likely that anyone out of this province will take the few legitimate gripes Albertans actually have seriously.

Instead all of that is going into the same pile as pipeline misinformation and ignorant equalization payment whining.
 

Little Fury

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You're doubling down on it. Making it news. Making it LESS likely that anyone out of this province will take the few legitimate gripes Albertans actually have seriously.

Instead all of that is going into the same pile as pipeline misinformation and ignorant equalization payment whining.

This exactly. To the casual observer, it sure looks like Albertans are mad that the rest of Canada didn't vote the same way they did, which makes it mighty hard to drum up any sympathy, especially given the Albertans on average still enjoy the highest wages and lowest taxes of anyone in the country.

Also I really hate how both the media and the people pushing this separation shit flatten Albertans into this monolithic group of rural, blue-collar white people with I *heart* Alberta Oil stickers on their F350s. We're a young, diverse and educated province with more than 80 per cent of us living in urban areas and this crap makes us all look like rubes.
 
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Jimmi McJenkins

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Jan 12, 2006
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My problem with the wexit organizers is that many are also part of the christian heritage party and part of the platform is highly un canadian.
My problem with them is the sheer stupidity and entitlement of it, plus their lack of resolve. If they're going to be this we want to leave because we're entitlement whiners, they should detach themselves from any and all Federal benefits they receive, make a real commitment to the "cause"
 

Jumptheshark

Rebooting myself
Oct 12, 2003
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My problem with them is the sheer stupidity and entitlement of it, plus their lack of resolve. If they're going to be this we want to leave because we're entitlement whiners, they should detach themselves from any and all Federal benefits they receive, make a real commitment to the "cause"


I think the guys running wexit are con artists who are going ride the wave of people being pissed of for a few months get some money in the bank and the fall back into the wood work
 

Jamin

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Kenney looking at pulling out of the CPP and starting the APP (currently Quebec only province with no CPP they have QPP)
 

oilers'72

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Kenney looking at pulling out of the CPP and starting the APP (currently Quebec only province with no CPP they have QPP)

The CPP was well funded but under performing over the years. I imagine a APP (or a plan shared with Saskatchewan, and possibly others, woul yield a better return. Just have to see how a transition would be handled, as in if CPP monies would be put into the APP or if future CPP contributions would just go into the APP (2 separate funds).
 
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