Avi Lewis says the separatist movement in Alberta has no comparison to Quebec’s separatist movement.
Calls them MAGA aligned.
For the record, the NDP, since the 2005 Sherbrooke Declaration, has advocated for 50% +1 for Quebec to separate.
The party has also advocated for asymmetrical federalism, meaning give Quebec whatever they want while dictating to the rest of Canada.
The federal NDP does not have a good position on this issue.
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1/ 🚨 BIG NEWS from one of the last living fathers of Canada’s Constitution: Brian Peckford — ex-NL Premier who helped patriate the Charter — says the Carney government is acting UNCONSTITUTIONALLY by asking the Supreme Court to gut the Notwithstanding Clause.
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2/ Background: Quebec’s Bill 21 uses Section 33 (the Notwithstanding Clause) to protect its law on religious symbols for public servants. The Carney Liberals filed a factum + made oral arguments last month demanding the Supreme Court LIMIT how provinces can use it. Peckford is furious.
3/ Here’s what the Carney government told the court:
“The temporary character of the use of s. 33 confirms that it cannot be used to cause an irreparable impairment...” They want judges to decide when a province can renew the clause every five years.
Justice Suzanne Côté called it out: “You are asking us to make a constitutional amendment.”
The CBC is misleading Canadians again on trade talks with the US. Their headline screamed that Trump’s team is demanding an “entry fee” from Ottawa. Sounds like a shakedown, right? It’s not true. Here’s what’s really going on 👇
CBC claimed Canada already gave big concessions and got nothing in return — rolling back tariffs and scrapping the Digital Services Tax (DST). Wrong. Those weren’t concessions. They were us finally living up to the CUSMA agreement we expect the Americans to follow.
Quick facts:
• Canada kept retaliatory tariffs on U.S. consumer goods long after the U.S. clarified CUSMA-compliant goods were exempt.
• The DST was a blatant violation of CUSMA Article 19 — something both Biden and Trump opposed.
Liberal MPs like Chris Bittle want to brand the whole Toronto protest with this man.
I ran into him just before 6pm with protest supporters & opponents.
Both sides told him he was wrong & should leave.
The exchange was fascinating.
Then someone stole his sign & destroyed it.
The two men to my left who supported the protest said they were Jewish and asked the man if he knew how wrong he was. They also tried to ask why he was putting the message out there and if he understood how racist it was.
The woman to my right opposed the protest and this man.
She was also pleased to see everyone around this man telling him how wrong he was.
I honestly can’t tell you if this man is just a racist, a complete idiot or a plant.
He had trouble explaining why he was there and what he believed. He just kept pushing the website.