- cross-posted to:
- news@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- news@lemmy.world
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced just one day after the U.S. officially withdrew from the World Health Organization (WHO) that his state would become the first to join the organization’s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, in a seeming rebuke of the Trump administration’s withdrawal from international collaborations.
Newsom traveled this week to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he was scheduled to speak at an event but was canceled at the last moment. During his trip, he met with WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
It’ll never happen, as nice as it sounds.
So I’m Canadian and we have separatists in, now 2 provinces.
Whether the latest is a conservative US psy-op, is up for debate. But that is probably part of it.
The Quebec separatists have been angry for the total of my lifetime and being from BC I’ve mostly ignored their plight of “different culture” but I never wanted to lose that chunk of the country and to me it’s part of the greater Canadian culture.
The Alberta “separatists” are different, they are more like traitors.
Citing stats like, “Alberta (oil and gas province, the “Texas” of Canada) contributes more in equalization payments to other Canadians provinces!”, which is true, as a total sum.
But the morons don’t understand that equalization payments are taken from federal taxes in a bracketed tax system, so it just means on average, Albertans are richer. The rich they cry that they’re not getting fair share…
Epitome of greed.
They believe because they were simply born there, moved there, that all the mineral and oil and gas profits belong to them. They’re even more idiotic to believe the producers will share these profits with them.
They’re not taking that away from our country, and it’s worth going to war over. I think California would end up falling into the same situation of belief, though reversed between conservative and left-of-conservative views.
They’d go to war over it. So bit of a dangerous play.
Yep, and the equalization payment garbage really sums up the right-leaning mentality that’s pushed on society lately as well; if the results aren’t immediate, it’s not worth doing. These traitors scream about how they pay more than other provinces and get nothing back. The fact is they get a lot back, it’s just not immediately apparent.
Equalization payments help “have-not” provinces who need the boost, which strengthens those provinces. Strengthening the “have-nots” makes Canada stronger as a whole and more united, which very much helps Alberta (and every province). The “fuck you I got mine” attitude that gets pushed by Conservative gov’ts is a toxic cancer that’s spreading through the population and makes it easy for them to push their division politics, like Danielle Smith does. You’re meant to get sucked into it to fight the culture war so you don’t look up and fight the class war.
also, if we didnt just let these multinational oil companies just siphon off all the profits and leave messy orphaned wells for the public to clean up, albertans would be better off
If they had started a sovereign wealth fund like norway, instead of shipping all the profits overseas, they would be better off…
I would actually support oil and gas if it actually benefitted the nation.
Canada got rid of the british, but not the corporations that are the true colonizers still extracting from the land and the people and sending the wealth overseas
The Heritage Fund was our Noway fund, it was just mismanaged to the point of nonexistence. Smith “brought it back” but I suspect it’s going to just be a slush fund to increase pension payments for the first couple years after dumping CPP to make it seem like the APP performs better.