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I just sent this letter to Paul Jackson, the author of the subject article. I hope this list finds it to be informative.

Sun, July 17, 2005

Wake-up call

Separatist scholar makes case for Alberta split from Canada

To: Paul Jackson -- Calgary Sun

Kudos to you on your Article!

In 1979 a young , new, graduate of the University of New Brunswick Law School was in a private practise in Newfoundland. It took him 3 years of reading the writing on the wall of politics. Unlike most Canadians he had the choice to emigrate to the USA and begin a whole new life. He did so, with only the regret that he missed the pristine shores of his native New Brunswick , and the fine people he grew up with.

That person was me.

We raised our children in Northern Vermont, a peaceful state with no gun contol
except for hunting laws, few police officers to watch the population, and a legislature that has no full time, paid politicians. It was a breath of fresh air despite also laboring under a similar liberal malaise as Canada's. The social engineering quotient is very small compared to that of Canada, I admire the patience of Canadians, and it is wearing thin I know. I am a teacher at one of the best private schools in the USA. I also started and now run a very successful pipeband at school which has become a regional jewel.

Looking back I know I had made the best decision, but I am still a patriot of the Canada I once knew, prior to Trudeau. I have analyzed the devolution of a free Canada and I believe it started with the fall of Deifenbaker and the electoral term of office of Lester Pearson. The heart of New Brunswick's Anglo communities which assured a balance in liberal and conservative politics was ripped out by two huge developments necessitating the death of many commmunities in New Brunswick. They went with hardly a wimper and the inhabitants forced to seperate from their Anglo culture and submit to living in a comfortable, colorless, urban environment.

These two Liberal government federally funded New Brunswick projects were :

1) The construction of Canadian Forces Base Gagetown, taking about 20% of the land area of New Brunswick

2) The Mactaquac Dam Project, taking about 10% of the land area of New Brunswick.

Virtually the heart of Anglo, loyalist New Brunswick was ripped out by expropriation, houses and churches put to the torch, graveyards exhumed and reinterred in meaningless locations. If it had been done to French communities , there would have been cries of cultural genocide. Some protested , but were branded as politically incorrect heretics. [I know first hand all about political correctness. Liberals try to use it in the US to circumvent political debate,and are being stopped now.]

In retrospect the policies which were pursued by successive federal liberal administrations in Canada were designed to rearrange electoral power in the province away from its community , conservative roots, and their ties with England and Scotland. Even the Blackwatch regiment was later drummed down and the 2000 men in kilts which had graced Rememberance Day each year were to be no more. Those were the saddest of times in my youthful memory.
The French under Loiuis Robichaud took power and all the grant money they could get from Ottawa, assuring that the old poltical balance in NB was destroyed forever in a rush to bilingualism in school and government.

Now the whole country suffers from an effective 17% sales tax between many provincial and federal consumer taxes ( punitive). In the province of Quebec alone in 1996 it became public knowledge that over 50% of the jobs
consist of positions paid by tax dollars or the earnings of monopolistic crown corporations. There is 100% gun control, as if the feds know that some day the people will have had enough. The police to population ratio is very high. A large percentage of the GNP is spent on assuring that cereal boxes and other labeling is published in two languages, not that I personally object to the French language, but to the the incredible waste that such "hitorical justice" represents for the nation economically. Canada has incredible resources and wonderful, hardworking people. It has a federal government full of scumbags who have been controlled for too long by federal politicians from Quebec. Even the criminal conduct of civil servants and government contractors cannot be brought to conclusive justice. Now liberal judges have tried to dictate that culture must change to include same sex marriage as a matter of right. The people are being even further removed from the culture of their own aristocratic government.

How can the people of Canada throw off this incredible burden? Alberta maybe does need to be independent. It also needs to lead a movement of patriots nationally. The province needs to control its own media which can evolve to a national force. The changes need to be made at the ballot box and Professor Craigs truth needs to be realized by a majority of Canadians. The alternative is revolution, and many would die in that attempt. The liberals are false aristocrats who continually let the whole nation " eat cake." The conservatives and NDP little better.

Newfoundland, The Maritimes, Alberta and British Columbia could easily become part of the United States, but there would be armed conflict before that would be allowed to happen by the feds.

I can describe the day I decided to move to the US. I was on a wharf with a group of fisherman in 1980 in a small outport called Lewisport, Newfoundland. Romeo LeBlanc had assigned the fishing quotas all to Quebec and the Francophone parts of Newfoundland, New Brunswick and Cape Breton for herring. This was based on alleged scientific surveys by the dept. of fisheries. We all knew better as we watched herring shoals work there way up the bay, so thick you could almost walk on them. The men around me were silent, some shaking their heads, one or two cried......good men, hard workers who built their own boats. Most of them lost their homes through forelosure, their fishing gear also , and had to go on the dole, hunting Moose in the winter to get by, poaching lobster for sale to tourists, many drinking too heavily. That was my signal to either become a revolutionary, and I would likely be defamed or economically as a result, or to leave as quietly as possible. I chose the latter but my heart still bleeds for Canada, and what she could be. It is my fault that I did not love my "new Canada " enough and loved only the memory of the old, as I do now. I blame no others but myselfand hold no bitterness . I just feel a profound sadness for the people of Canada.

Yes, professor Craig is right. The liberals have been a curse upon Canada and have sown the seeds of either revolution or a prolonged political battle which itself will be violent and bloody. People need to believe Professor Craig, for he speaks the truth. When that happens the first step toward change will have occurred. Alberta has the reources , but not yet the will to lead the way. Perhaps it will take another export tax on petroleum products
and a little more attempted social engineering of the people of Alberta. I would love to again see a free Canada, as it was in my youth. Perhaps it cannot happen in my life time. I know the adage." the government which governs least, governs best," is true.

Thank you for your article, it was a breath of fresh air that means a few Canadian patriots still breath in the press and in the halls of academe.

Yours,

Candor7
Vermont, USA