While I was admittedly bummed out when I went to bed Monday evening, I was not surprised that the Rest of Canada had gone full blown Liberal Stockholm Syndrome.However, I awoke in disgust to read that Pierre Poilievre had lost the Carleton seat south of Ottawa, that he had occupied for 20 years. Losing to Liberal candidate Bruce Fanjoy seems above board. Fanjoy receiving 43,900 votes (50.83%) and Poilievre receiving 39,585 votes (45.83%,) giving Fanjoy a respectable 4,315 votes.However, then we learned that an electoral reform group called the Longest Ballot Committee, a group that protests Canada’s first-past-the-post electoral system by flooding ballots with numerous independent candidates, had targeted Poilievre’s Carleton riding with 86 out of the 91 independents on the ballot..The Longest Ballot Committee has done the same thing in several other ridings:The 2024 LaSalle–Émard–Verdun by-election in Montreal (91 candidates) The 2024 Toronto–St. Paul’s by-election (84 candidates) The 2023 Kitchener Centre by-election (18 candidates) 2023 The Winnipeg South Centre (48 candidates)The 2022 Mississauga-Lakeshore by-election (40 candidates) The 2021 Saint Boniface-Saint Vital by-election (21 candidates)With Election Canada charging $1,000 per independent candidate to register on the long form ballot, it is clear that the Longest Ballot Committee has access to some very generous donors.Without going full-blown conspiracy theorist here, I will simply say that the fact that Pierre’s riding was the sole target for this protest shows both intentionality and a disregard for the obvious blow-back this protest would have if it was successful in unseating His Royal Majesty’s Official Opposition Leader from the House of Commons..For me, this was the straw that broke the camel’s back. I respect Pierre Poilievre so much for how he stood with the Trucker Convoy when so many among Ottawa’s elites were labeling them as Putin operatives and Nazi Sympathizers. And for the record, I proudly attended the Canada Day 2020 COVID Lockdown protests in Ottawa and flew there and back on my own dime, even after being laid off like so many in early 2020 when oil briefly went negative out West.Also, I owe Pierre Poilievre a debt of gratitude for fighting as he did to 'Axe the Tax' and for his brilliant advocacy for true nation-building energy corridors. For more than two years, have been fighting for both these issues in my Op-Ed articles for the Western Standard.Twenty four hours prior to the election, I posted on LinkedIn that Preston Manning was right to warn the Rest of Canada that Western alienation would most likely see a resurgence, if the Rest of Canada gave the Liberals a fourth mandate..For the past five years, the Western independence movement has had one foot on the gas and the other on the clutch.As far as I see things, it was the two year lockdown and the rise of Pierre Poilievre that held back the WEXIT Movement, which was an immediate response of the West to the outcome of the 2019 election.Since then, the Western independence movement has held out on hope that Pierre Poilievre would be successful and bring a reprieve from the Laurentian Elite oppression of the Prairies.For me and my family, the objective is clear.As neither Steven Harper or Pierre Poilievre have been able to build the West a protective firewall against the historically adversarial base of power in Central Canada, it is now time for Alberta and Saskatchewan to unite under a Western Canadian independence movement..We now have a unique opportunity to redefine our values, as a people.In 2024, both the Rural Municipalities of Saskatchewan and the United Conservative Party constituencies voted that CO2 is not a pollutant and is in fact the Gas of Life. They also rejected Net Zero as ultimately being anti-human.Albertans must understand and celebrate that cereal crop yields have doubled over the past 50 years and that the CO2 fertilization effect is major factor in improving agricultural yields and overall drought resistance of the entire biosphere.People on the Prairie understand that Net Zero and federal climate policies are just a pseudo-scientifically framed National Energy Program 2.0, aimed at controlling and owning the wealth that belongs to the provinces.We will not give up our cattle, nor will we produce less food to feed the world.We will not deny ourselves or the world the energy security that we are blessed with beyond the wildest dreams of most nations.We recognize the inherent anti-Alberta rhetoric behind the Liberal bromide that 'The Polluter Must Pay' in the context of CO2 emissions from energy production and consumption.Canadians who argue that CO2 is a pollutant and that Alberta is a CO2 polluter, while rejecting the myriads of life sustaining benefits that Alberta energy brings to confederation, are suffering from a suicidal empathy for the misery that defined human existence prior to the Industrial Revolution. We must not bend the knee to these people and we must stop trying to placate them. Ultimately, there is no evidence supporting the claim that our CO2 emissions are giving rise to declining rates of heat flux out the top of the atmosphere. In fact, the opposite is known to be true within the Satellite Era.In other words, the warming over the past few generations is due to increasing sunshine (Global Brightening) and not to increasing heat retention (Global Warming.)In closing, I strongly advocate that the Western independence movement embrace energy humanism as its core value system and that we view energy sovereignty as the tip of the spear of our national security.What this political movement looks like, I will leave to those more politically inclined than I, but it had better have at its foundation a recognition that 90 plus percent of all modern food energy our society depends upon, is derived from geological sources (hydrocarbons) and not from photosynthesis.Thank you Pierre Poilievre, we got this from here.
