Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[Syt]

I feel like we've seen that one before.

They blend into each other for me at this point.

[Maximus]

I believe this image was originally created about the Kavanaugh confirmation.

[Maximus]

Not Facebook, but my brother informed me today that if Trudeau wins this election Western Canada will likely secede because they can't survive another 4 years of Trudeau. Also the Green and NDP parties have vowed to utterly destroy Alberta.

[crazy canuck]

Not Facebook, but my brother informed me today that if Trudeau wins this election Western Canada will likely secede because they can't survive another 4 years of Trudeau. Also the Green and NDP parties have vowed to utterly destroy Alberta.

Alberta is not Western Canada.....

[Barrister]

Not Facebook, but my brother informed me today that if Trudeau wins this election Western Canada will likely secede because they can't survive another 4 years of Trudeau. Also the Green and NDP parties have vowed to utterly destroy Alberta.

All true.

[crazy canuck]

Not Facebook, but my brother informed me today that if Trudeau wins this election Western Canada will likely secede because they can't survive another 4 years of Trudeau. Also the Green and NDP parties have vowed to utterly destroy Alberta.

All true.

The only thing that is worse than a person who thinks Toronto is the center of the universe is an Albertan who thinks that province is synonymous with Western Canada.

[Maximus]

Not Facebook, but my brother informed me today that if Trudeau wins this election Western Canada will likely secede because they can't survive another 4 years of Trudeau. Also the Green and NDP parties have vowed to utterly destroy Alberta.

Alberta is not Western Canada.....

Are you sure? After all, Alberta bankrolls the rest of the country.

[crazy canuck]

Not Facebook, but my brother informed me today that if Trudeau wins this election Western Canada will likely secede because they can't survive another 4 years of Trudeau. Also the Green and NDP parties have vowed to utterly destroy Alberta.

Alberta is not Western Canada.....

Are you sure? After all, Alberta bankrolls the rest of the country.

yeah, so they like to tell themselves. 

[Habbaku]

Why is Alberta not Western Canada?

[crazy canuck]

Why is Alberta not Western Canada?

BC is the western most province.  Under our constitution (for the purposes of Senate seats and SCC appointments) Western Canada is every province west of the Ontario border.

If I may ask, why did you think Alberta was synonymous with Western Canada?

[crazy canuck]

Another term often used is Prairie Provinces.  That gets more to what they might be thinking about but that usually includes Manitoba.  So really when you hear about Western separatists, that normally is something coming out of Alberta dressed up in the conceit of speaking for the "West"

[Habbaku]

Why is Alberta not Western Canada?

BC is the western most province.  Under our constitution (for the purposes of Senate seats and SCC appointments) Western Canada is every province west of the Ontario border.

If I may ask, why did you think Alberta was synonymous with Western Canada?

Alberta, to this American, is very much part of "Western Canada". At first, you guys seemed to be saying that Alberta, for some reason, is not part of "Western Canada" which strikes me as absurd. If you're instead saying that Alberta isn't the only thing in Western Canada, that makes much more sense.

[viper37]

Not Facebook, but my brother informed me today that if Trudeau wins this election Western Canada will likely secede because they can't survive another 4 years of Trudeau. Also the Green and NDP parties have vowed to utterly destroy Alberta.

All true.

The only thing that is worse than a person who thinks Toronto is the center of the universe is an Albertan who thinks that province is synonymous with Western Canada.

Well, when we think of the Western provinces, it's usually the AL-SA-MA provinces.  BC is Pacific, not just West.

But I'd like to see Alberta secede.  I just don't understand how they will export their oil as an independant country if BC and Quebec don't want a pipeline?  They will build it through the US and export from Seattle?  Manitoba will build facilities in Churchill and export Alberta's oil from there?

[viper37]

Hopefully, it's a troll... but with vegans, you never know...

[viper37]

Alberta isn't the only thing in Western Canada, that makes much more sense.

that's what he's saying.  He considers BC part of Western Canada.