Last night we had another great meeting in Southwestern Alberta. Same results as always, our ladies walk away w/ an understanding of what the problem is & what the solution will be. More meeting dates & locations to be announced tomorrow!

Canada is officially the laughing stock of the world. My husband and I walk into the laundromat here in Williams, Arizona and old Vietnam army vet who noticed we are from Canada by our license plate on our vehicle said I heard that Canada thinks we're gonna invade them and then he couldn't stop laughing. Him and a few other guys at the laundromat couldn't stop laughing honest to God I told him a couple things that are going on in Canada like the government is taking away our guns and also how we can be charged for posting things online that are considered hate speech. His response was get out of Canada. That's communism.. I like this, Bruce fellow.

It is with great concern for some of my fellow countrymen, inching precariously toward the edge of utter lunacy, that I write this post. Prime Minister Mark Carney this week, in an interview with the New York Times, went on record saying it would be “irresponsible” not to plan for the possible contingency of a military invasion of Canada by the United States. Unfortunately, Mr. Carney didn’t misspeak or fall victim to a cherry-picked quote taken out of context. His concern was later reiterated by Defence Minister David McGuinty and Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Soloman. We all know that Donald Trump has a colourful history of spouting off some truly outrageous whoppers from time to time, but even he has never disseminated something as fatuous, dangerous or dishonest as this. And while he seldom backs down from his outrageous claims, whenever he pushes the envelope too far, at least his entourage goes on damage control to walk back some of his excesses – Carney’s guys are doubling down. Despite these idiotic statements, these are intelligent men. The odds that all three of them would simultaneously become afflicted by the same psychotic delusion is infinitesimally small. The only rational conclusion, therefore, is that they believe, or rather their polling data shows, that enough Canadians are so possessed by Trump Derangement that engaging in such asinine demagoguery is politically expedient. Sadly, they may be right. The vast coalition of useful idiots and true believers after effectively having their intelligences insulted by their dear leader, are coming out of the woodwork to express gratitude online for the Prime Minister’s caution in preparing for all, including the most remote, contingencies. Others are retreating slightly to hold the line at the fall-back position articulated by Minister McGuinty that, this kind of paranoid delusion is perfectly normal and, “all militaries in the world spend time analyzing risk scenarios.” I assure you, this is not normal. Back on planet Earth, the situation is tense and acrimonious (and there is plenty of blame to go around for that), but this is not the more than two centuries of peace along the 49th parallel that followed the signing of the Treaty of Ghent in 1815 drawing to an end. Trump has imposed tariffs on $20 billion (or 2% of the $400 billion per year) of Canadian exports to the US. In other words, amid this unnecessary, escalatory, and foolish trade dispute, the United States will still purchase 200% more Canadian goods and services this year than the rest of the world combined. This situation is like a restaurant’s picky regular customer complaining about an overcooked steak to a prideful chef who, fortified in his own mind by the knowledge he cooked the steak perfectly, refuses to comp the entree. This is not the start of World War III. We are so far removed from a military incursion at our southern border that we may as well be strategizing the response to the equally plausible threat of Santa Claus leading an invasion of elves from the north. If we woke up tomorrow in some parallel reality where the United States actually was contemplating a full-scale military campaign against Canada, with all due respect to our brave men and women in uniform, the only preparations to be made would be negotiating the terms of our unconditional surrender. Some brave and patriotic Canadians may refuse to submit and instead choose to conduct, as a matter of principle, a brutal and bloody guerilla warfare campaign against the strongest conventional and nuclear military force in the history of the world. Unfortunately, they would be in the precarious position of having to rely on our miserly European allies, or countries like Russia or China, whose recent actions have been significantly more hostile and provocative challenges to our sovereignty than the US tariffs, to supply us with weapons, and they would not remotely be adequate. It’s all so desperately preposterous. But for the sake of argument, let’s suppose that Donald Trump was indeed the terrifying bogeyman haunting the dreams of the most extreme and hopeless sufferers of Trump Derangement Syndrome and its frightful sister affliction, Andrew Coyneism, a rare and especially acute form of tweet-induced psychotic maladjustment. Even in this scenario, why would Trump use the military to annex Canada? All he would have to do is offer Alberta statehood, liberation from transfer payments, excessive regulation and carbon taxes, carte blanche to exploit its natural resources, a generous welcome bonus in the form of a $100,000 tax credit to every adult Albertan and replace their Canadian dollars with equal amounts of US currency. They would effectively be acquiring Alberta for the knock-down bargain price of roughly 1x annual GDP. Simultaneously, the US (including the newly acquired Alberta) would immediately cut off all trade with the rest of Canada. The net impact to Canada of this manoeuvre would be a cataclysmic economic collapse, while the newly composed United States would take a net GDP hit (loss of all trade with Canada, mostly offset by the acquisition of Alberta) of 0.8%. Next would come a full package of sanctions, a naval blockade, and when the rest of Canada became desperate enough, a Chinese belt-and-road style offtake of all of Canada’s resources at bargain prices, which by then, the Canadians would be desperate for. In the meantime, the US would revamp its immigration policy to recreate the brain-drain of the 1990s on steroids, welcoming the top 20% most productive Canadians to flee what had overnight become the third world. Harvard Alumnus Mark Carney might well be among those at the front of the line seeking this emigration opportunity, rejoining 91 percent of his own investments already located there. There would, no doubt, be a fearsome contingent of Canadians refusing to bend or break in the face of American tyranny, and elbows would be flying up to vertiginous heights with such vigour that the Canadian healthcare system would be overwhelmed by millions of spontaneous emergency room visits of patriotic patients with dislocated shoulders. I suspect many of you reading this are thinking to yourself that this is so completely far-fetched and absurd that, if serious, I must have lost my mind. Allow me to reassure you that while this is all bunk, it remains at least ten times more likely than the United States military executing a boots-on-the-ground invasion of Canada. Anyone who spends more than one second worrying about such an outcome should immediately proceed to the nearest sink to splash some cold water in their face and pull themselves together.

Just over 3 weeks to go before the referendum! We’re amping up our social media presence to help get the word out. If you are on Instagram or have friends or family who are, be sure to give us a follow, some likes and comments. Thanks! instagram.com/abwomensindepe…

Calgary on Tuesday night!

So often we are asked “where are the young Albertans?” They are here and they’re paying attention. Check out this interview John Bolton did this morning. piped.video/KH2Z3Zn7Bd0?is=29b3…

Alberta introduced health-care premiums with the Alberta Health Care Insurance Plan after joining national medicare in 1969. By the mid-2000s the rates were roughly $44 a month for a single person and $88 for a family. Employers were required to collect the fee, and in practice most of them paid it on behalf of their employees as a work benefit. Seniors were exempted in 2004. The Stelmach government abolished the premiums in '09, citing a surplus. A later attempt to revive an income-tested version never took effect. I think it made sense to have a modest premium. It brought visibility to the fact that heathcare is not "free". A modest premium still makes sense for non-permanent residents, especially in the first year or two after they arrive. Temporary workers, students and other newcomers come without a long tax-paying history in Alberta. General-revenue funding therefore shifts the full cost of their hospital and physician care onto permanent residents from day one. A time-limited premium, payable on arrival or through the first 12–24 months, recovers a share of that cost while they establish residency, start contributing through their taxes. It is the same logic the United Kingdom uses with its health surcharge for visa holders. Because employers historically absorbed most of the old Alberta premium, a similar arrangement for temporary workers would probably occur. Make the companies applying for TFW pay their premium Coverage would remain universal. After a short qualifying period the premium could lapse. That is a targeted, time-limited user contribution, not a barrier to care. Smith is on the right track with this one.

The Premier has been going to home meetings to talk about the referendum questions. (What a great idea!) Kathy got to attend one of them. In this video she shares a bit of what was talked about. piped.video/JOBQ3G0t61Q?si=JHTY… via @YouTube

Press release: new reports find Alberta could afford the transition to independence and have billions left over each year. One-time transition cost: about C$5 billion. Room remaining every year after that: C$22.2 to C$32.1 billion. Full release and both reports ⬇️ albertatransitioncouncil.com…

Hey Canada, thanks for the assisted suicide brochure. She chose chemotherapy instead. Kristin Logan had stage 4 ovarian cancer, and according to her husband, Donovan James, while they were desperately trying to get her treated in Canada, they were confronted with MAID, Medical Assistance in Dying, Canada’s assisted dying program, while her actual cancer treatment was going nowhere. So they came to the United States, where she received chemotherapy and HIPEC surgery. Today she’s living in Texas, in remission, lifting weights and hiking mountains. Imagine that. A woman with stage 4 cancer wanted to LIVE, and instead of helping her die, American doctors helped her fight to stay alive. Crazy concept, I know. Canada, you can keep the assisted suicide brochure. She’ll keep climbing mountains, because I think she made her choice pretty clear. 🇺🇸

Paying no money to Quebec is not the same as not subsidizing Quebec. We pay the money to Ottawa, and then Ottawa pays it to Quebec. That's the tiny little technicality that the left's entire stupid argument rests on. It's ridiculous, but it's enough to trick enough people.

Looks like @ElectionsAB is having a hard time filling positions, especially in rural areas. If you want to make sure this referendum is done correctly, consider getting involved. Check here to get started elections.ab.ca/jobs/electio…

We are three days out from Capitalism & Morality Calgary and have only a dozen spots left. Do not miss this opportunity to learn from the most provocative slate of thinkers ever featured in Alberta. econamericas.com/capitalism-… That includes @preta_6 @FrancesWiddows1 @NadineWellwood.

When a Canadian filmmaker has to go on Fox News Digital to say the quiet part out loud — that years of bad policy wrecked healthcare, affordability, and public safety — the indictment isn’t just the government. It’s the media that spent a decade treating those failures as a branding problem... instead of a country problem You don’t need a conspiracy theory. You need a pattern Record ER waits. People dying on lists. Housing that prices out the middle class. Drug deaths treated like a weather event. Strained hospitals, strained cities, strained patience. And the official reflex is always the same: deny the scale, smear the messenger, change the subject to American politics and Orange Man bad So the director of Broken Country sits down with US media because the domestic press would rather protect the narrative than investigate the wreckage. That’s not journalism. That’s reputation management for a Liberal governing class that still wants applause for announcements pretending to fix a model that is visibly broken A serious country would argue over causes and fixes. A captured one lectures you for noticing the line at the ER, the tent encampment, the grocery bill, and the sense that competence got replaced with slogans If your own media won’t tell the story, don’t be shocked when it airs somewhere else. The humiliation isn’t that Americans heard it. The humiliation is that Canadians had to hear it from a foreign outlet @FNCDigitalDesk