Juno News - December 23, 2018Trudeau's approach to Alberta is damaging national unity
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While elites in central Canada fret over abstract issues like climate change and gender-based analyses, the problems facing many working Canadians are far more real. A 26-year-old waitress from Northern Alberta reminded Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about the urgent and dire problems faced by so many people in her province.
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While elites in central Canada fret over abstract issues like climate change and gender-based
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analyses, the problems facing many working Canadians are far more real. A 26-year-old
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waitress from Northern Alberta reminded Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about the urgent and
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dire problems faced by so many people in her province. As you probably saw, Trudeau was
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recently defending his reprehensible bill, Bill C-69, which inserts identity politics and radical
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feminism into the pipeline approval process. And he took a cheap shot at hardworking men in
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the construction industry. Watch this. You might not say, oh, what does a gender lens have to do with
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building this new highway or this new pipeline or something? Well, there are gender impacts when
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you bring construction workers into a rural area. There are social impacts because they're mostly
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male construction workers. How are you adjusting and adapting to those? That's what the gender lens
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in GBA plus budgeting is all about. Now, in response to Trudeau's boneheaded comment,
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the 26-year-old waitress from Grand Prairie, Alberta named Sarah wrote a scathing rebuttal on
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Facebook that has been shared almost 60,000 times. She says that as a woman living in one of these rural
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areas, she can attest to the social impact of men working in the energy industry coming to her town.
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Quote, because of these men, I was able to go grocery shopping and get everything on my list.
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I didn't have to stand at the checkout line and figure out what to put back. I was able to fill
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up my tank at the gas station, not just $20 to get by. I was able to live comfortably in an apartment
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knowing my bills were paid on time and I wouldn't have to worry about choosing between the water or
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electric bill. When these men leave, we have to cut staff. We have to tell someone they can't help
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support their families. They have to tell their kids they can't afford extracurricular activities
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such as hockey, soccer, etc. Unquote. Instead of assuming that blue collar men are sexual predators,
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Trudeau should try putting himself in their shoes. When was the last time Justin Trudeau had to worry
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about buying food for his family, heating his home during a cold Canadian winter, or worrying about how
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to pay for his kids to play hockey or soccer? Well, that's a trick question, of course, since Justin
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Trudeau was born both rich and famous. Ironically, the last Trudeau man to pay his own way was Justin's
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grandfather, Charlie Trudeau, who was a staunch conservative. Charlie Trudeau became rich by building
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an empire of, get this, gas stations in Montreal. Now his grandson is engineering the end of oil and gas
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production in Canada. How sad. We can't shut down the oil sands tomorrow. We need to phase them out.
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Trudeau may be too smug to recognize it, but there's a major crisis in Alberta. It isn't just an oil
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crisis. It goes far deeper than joblessness and fleeing investments. In Alberta, there is an
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existential crisis about the province's future. Calls for Alberta's separatism are on the rise,
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and they're louder than ever. Veteran radio host Charles Adler, who always has his finger on the
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pulse, had this to say, quote, Alberta has an 8.2% unemployment rate. Massively uncomfortable
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question. What do you think the rate would be if Alberta was a US state? Unquote. It's a good
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question, Charles. South of the border in the US, the economy is booming. Pipelines are being built,
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energy prices are soaring, and the country is enjoying its lowest unemployment rate in decades,
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3.7%. In oil-rich North Dakota, which is very comparable to Alberta, the unemployment rate is only 2.6%.
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Now back to Charles Adler, who asks, quote, how could I blame Albertans looking at an 8.2% unemployment
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and billions of dollars of investment they aren't getting, and ask questions like, what are our
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options? Is there a better path forward? Is our powerful connection to Canada much more about our past
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than our future? As a Canadian patriot, I wish I didn't have to ask, unquote. Charles Adler is echoing
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the concerns I've been hearing for months from folks of every walk of life in Alberta. Under Justin
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Trudeau's leadership, many Albertans just simply don't feel at home in Canada. They don't feel like
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they have a voice. They don't feel like they matter. Perhaps it's because Trudeau doesn't recognize
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Alberta values as being Canadian. Here's a quote from the Prime Minister back in 2012. He said,
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I always say, if at a certain point I believe that Canada was really the Canada of Stephen Harper,
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maybe I would think about wanting to make Quebec a country, unquote. Trudeau doesn't really respect
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Alberta. In fact, he'd be willing to break up the country if it ever resembled Alberta too much.
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Well, increasingly under Trudeau's leadership, it seems that many Albertans feel the exact same way.
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