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Index:

November 25, 2005: Western Block Party Meeting Planned

November 22, 2005: In Answer to My Critics

August 9, 2004: Price of Vigilance (Comment on the Helicopter Purchase)

December 27, 2002: Thoughts on the Year 2002

December 26, 2002: Supreme Court Ruling On Surrey School Board's Right to Control Views Promoted in its Schools

December 21, 2002: On the Future of Alberta

December 13, 2002: Kyoto, Gun Registry, Immigration -- No Choice for the West in Canada!

November 19, 2002: Harper Against the Tide!

November 10, 2002: How to Avoid the Mistakes of the Past as Support Rises for the "S" Word

November 6, 2002: U of A drops out of debate on Kyoto

November 2, 2002: Why the farmers should remain in jail & how we can support them

November 1, 2002: Thoughts for the Jailed Farmers

October 31, 2002: Farmer's Rally in Lethbridge & Kyoto Accord

December 23, 2000: "Chretien vows to salve the West"


November 25, 2005: Western Block Party Meeting Planned

The Western Block has planned a meeting for Friday, December 2nd, at 7 p.m. at the Howard Johnson Inn & Suites on Elk Lake Drive, Victoria, B.C. 

The Western Block Party has decided to move into full-scale election mode. We will not allow our enemies to define the debate. We are entitled to certain free-time national broadcasts. As soon as we have registered one candidate with the returning officer of one constituency, we will be entitled to issue tax-deductible receipts. We need as many candidates as possible. Anyone who is interested in our principles, and indeed shares them, could be considered for candidacy with our party. Everyone who possibly can, should attend the meeting set out above. 

Even those people in Alberta who decided they want to start a new political party separate, apart from the Western Block Party, should consider that if they want a credible candidates in their ridings who can issue tax receipts, who can identify with the cause of Western Independence. Perhaps they should consider becoming one of our candidates. 

The enemies of Western Canada, our freedom and our prosperity, desire that the only alternatives available to Western Canadians should be fundamentally Eastern-dominated parties like the Conservative party or the Liberal party or the NDP. No one else is going to create the alternative of a Western separatist party if we do not. Therefore we have to offer a new alternative. 

The one thing that makes our party significantly different is that we stand clearly for the independence of the four western provinces by referendum. In addition, we stand for the proposition that parties have all failed and direct democracy is the only solution. Therefore we would propose a Constitution , which would guarantee the constitutional right of referendum, initiative, and recall, readily available to all the populace at all times. By this means, all controversial decisions would be under the control of the majority, even between elections. With modern technology, the Internet, television, and other mass means of communication, voting on major issues can be done from your home as quickly as dialing a telephone number. By this means power could be returned to the hands of the people. 

By the means of a referendum, independence can be, and is, legally possible. We need to carry this message to the people of Western Canada to give them hope, away from the corruption of the Ottawa government and all that stands for. 

If we don't do it now, when? If we don't do it here, where? If this job is not done by us, by whom will it be done? We are the authors of our destiny and the origin of our fate. For too long Western Canadians have struggled between various Toronto-centered options. The Western Block Party is a wave of the future for Eastern Canadians. By all means attend the meeting on December 2nd at Howard Johnson Inn. If you can’t be there in person, somehow send a message of support. Somehow send us the money we need to advertise our cause, to buy the signs, to buy the radio ads, to buy the newspaper ads, and to get our message out to the vast number of Western Canadians waiting for the solution to their grievances.

Yours for Independence,

Douglas Christie


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November 22, 2005: In Answer to My Critics

I know defending Dr. Ahenakew, Mr. Keegstra, Mr. Zundel and others has made me a target for my enemies. It is a lever to trick people into condemning me. But I reasoned that if I did not have the courage to defend the unpopular, free speech would die and Western Canada would be as corrupt and shallow as Canada has become. 

Separatism achieves nothing if we don't have personal freedom. The Ottawa religion seems to have infected minds so deeply that everyone believes it cannot be opposed, much less contradicted. Many people need to be shocked out of this illusion. We are not trying to be like all the politicians of the past. 

My character hasn't changed much since I came to the defense of smaller kids, bullied in the schoolyard of Chapman School in Winnipeg, in the early 50's. I can't stand to see an individual attacked by overwhelming power when all they have done is express their opinions, or be themselves. I will always defend such people. 

I find bullies repulsive and gang violence most offensive. The one thing I find in common among the thousands of people I've defended in the past 35 years as a lawyer, was the fact they needed a defender because they were weak. I became their defender so they would not stand alone against the mob. It seems some people would like leaders who join the mob. Rather like Canada really, isn't it? 

In defending the most unpopular, I have realized what is missing in people, generally. It is simply intellectual courage and principle. To stand for a new nation, at a time when the old one is sinking into the cesspool of discarded ideas, it does no good for people to follow the old patterns and believe the lies of your enemies. 

To defend the unpopular is to realize the value of courage and the meaning of discipline. These two lessons are essential to break free of the patterns of the past. I also learned that the most unpopular people are most frequently lied about. To be baited into defending those people might be foolish, the nature of politics being devious, but I believe I have exemplified the high price necessary to pay for freedom and the willingness to pay it. 

I could have let the noose of conformity be tightened around all our necks while I quietly pursued my personal political advantage. I could have stayed a Conservative. I could have played the devious games. 

But had I done so, by the time I had the popularity to be elected, it would have had no power to change anything. Silence on controversial matters would have been universally imposed by law and conformity to regulations. I concede I have often failed, but have you any idea how much worse for freedom it would have been, if I had not fought? 

Stay in the cesspool of organized crime called Canada, reject me, and condemn me, and you just might find out! 

It is utterly amazing to hear someone approve of political handlers crafting a policy. Is this the attitude of a separatist or a political opportunist? 

If you know anyone more capable -- intellectually and morally -- to explain, advocate, and defend Western Separatism, I suggest you let us know so we can all follow them. Do you have a name? Is it yourself? What have you done in the last 30 years to make Western Canada a new nation? Do you know someone with the intelligence, moral courage, knowledge and experience, more than I have, to stand for our cause? 

If so, please expose this paragon, so I will be able to retire in peace, knowing I have done my duty. To whom should I throw the torch?

Yours for Independence,
Doug Christie


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August 9, 2004: The Price of Vigilance

One has to wonder at the level of vigilance or resistance to corruption, which is current among Western Canadians.  The typical Liberals like Mr. Ouellet, former Trudeau cabinet minister, who lives on as president of Canada Post is a classic example.  Hundreds of thousands of unaccounted personal expenses, trips to Paris for Alphonso Galiano at post office expense and nobody blushes, least of all Mr. Ouellet.  How many hundreds of millions in untendered contracts? We are only left to speculate.  We should not be alarmed however because Glen Clark’s NDP Government of British Columbia purchased $500,000,000 dollars worth of fast ferries (later sold for $6,000,000) without contracts and no one got fired.

Perhaps people now are just accustomed to corruption and incompetence.  Over time, corruption becomes more acceptable the more it is practiced with impunity.  Take for example the F-18A repair contracts, which were the subject of a successful bid by Bristol Aerospace of Winnipeg.  Well, when we say "successful," we mean before Brian Mulroney and the Quebec mafia went to work.  It was the bid to do the job for less and would have saved the taxpayers millions.  But it was not to be.  The contract had to go to Montréal, the home of Gagliano-style politics.  Please understand, this is not the people of Québec, i.e. separatists.  It is the federalist fraud artists who bow five times per day to Ottawa, the source of all favours.

What was different about that time in the 1980’s was the level of public awareness and reaction.  The reaction was swift and strong.  Western Canada was being robbed and people spoke out.  Separatism was revitalized.  The atmosphere was electric and memberships to the Western Canada Concept poured in.  Contrast today and the Sikorski Helicopter deal worth $4.5 billion.  Just look at who gets what:  Atlantic Canada’s aerospace industry gets $1 billion.  Ontario gets $2 billion.  Québec gets $1 billion.  The West gets $390 million or about 10% of the total contract price.  That is for ½ the country worth 30% of the population – 10%!

The more ominous sign in this, however, is the silence in the West.  Other than 25 lines of commentary by Gillian Cosgrave on July 31, 2004 in the National Post, I saw it mentioned nowhere else.  No public outcry exists.  Nobody asks why!  Stephen Harper is in his usual sober silence.  The opposition says nothing in Ottawa.  With the level of corruption and division in the Liberal Party on June 28, 2004, if they couldn’t win Ontario then, they never will - so silence is probably appropriate for Conservatives.  Maybe the Liberals will throw them a small patronage position somewhere down the line if they are nice.

The depressing fact is that Canada’s family compact has made corruption so acceptable that all parties actually accept it.  SIRC (Security Intelligence Review Committee) the spy regulator of Canada has members from Alliance (Ray Speaker), Baljet Chadha (generous Liberal and NDP donor), Gary Filmon, former Conservative Premier, Roy Romano, former NDP Premier, and they all tacitly agree to keep Ernst Zundel in jail without charge and with the secret trial like the Star Chamber handled by an ex-Tory Solicitor-General, Pierre Blais.  Nothing seems wrong to them.  On both issues, the helicopter and the secret trial there appears to be an ominous silence.  Well, not from me!

Yours for Independence,

Douglas Christie

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December 27, 2002: Thoughts on 2002

As the year 2002 draws to a close, I think back over all the things that have happened during this year, related to the subject of Western separatism.

There have been so many reasons for Western separatism that have emerged in the previous year that I really wonder why there isn't a general uprising, at least in Alberta. Farmers have gone to jail for selling their own wheat, and gun owners are going to be turned into criminals for simply retaining the right to their private property. The Kyoto Accord has been passed without the slightest regard for the long-term effects on Alberta.

The Alliance party, (the Western Canadian protest party), has been steadily eroded and ridiculed in the eastern media. And for all of its posturing and bragging, this political party has never achieved one iota of significant change. It is very appropriate that it changed its name from the Reform Party. They would be embarrassed to have to realize that nothing has ever been or ever will be reformed in Canada. This situation drives home the necessity -- to any reasonable person -- of achieving Western independence by the simple, logical, democratic and legal means provided for us in the Clarity Act passed by the parliament of Canada in the year 2001.

And yet we see a reluctance in the people of Alberta, at least as reflected by their elected government, to move toward building a new alternative.

I think the real reason why this has not become an overwhelming tidal wave of public support is simply that no one has been going out among the people to raise the banner of Independence.

I feel personally responsible for this failure. I have persisted in the cause of justice for individuals in hundreds of cases before the courts. For some of these people I have succeeded. But as I succeed for a few individuals, the cause of freedom, prosperity and Independence for us all, slips away.

Time is not on my side. In April 2003 I will be 57 years of age. I have been publicly advocating that the western provinces separate from Canada and form a new nation since 1975. Although the subscriber and supporter base of the Western Canada Concept is growing, and continues to be a widespread movement, it has not had overwhelming success for the simple reason that I have failed to take up the cause and effectively advocate for it since approximately 1980.

I've always thought that if I didn't do the job, someone else would do it, and perhaps would do it better. I have waited and waited, and no one better has come along. In February I intend to take two weeks and try to push the movement forward as a mass movement. I hope that you, the reader, will see the importance of this occasion and commit yourself to helping make these meetings a true renaissance of hope for our fellow citizens here in Western Canada.

If not you and me, then who? If not now, when? If not here, then where will the cause of liberty find its reason and hope? We are the source of our destiny and draw the boundaries for our life's achievements by what we do, or fail to do.

If we are to achieve our great goal of a new nation, we must remember the immortal words and then feast upon them in our hearts:

"By oppression, woes and pains, for your sons in servile chains, we would shed our dearest veins, but they shall be free!"

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December 26, 2002: Supreme Court Ruling on Surrey School Board's Right to Control the Views Promoted in their Schools

The Supreme Court of Canada has seldom been clearer in its denunciation of all moral or religious claims.  It is now mandated that a "gay" schoolteacher has the right, contrary to the wishes of parents and school board, to read gay literature to kindergarten and grade 1 students.  

This, Madame Justice McLachlin assures us, is necessary because "a school board must not allow itself to be dominated by one religious or moral point of view."  Consider for a moment, the implications of this profoundly amoral and anti-religious statement.  Simply put, if one religious or moral point of view cannot be allowed to dominate, then how can any religious or moral point of view which asserts moral or religious correctness, be allowed to express itself.  In a word it cannot.  

What the Supreme Court of Canada has done by  this dictate is to state that in the name of liberal tolerance, no morality or religion will be tolerated.  It is the epitome of liberal tyranny.  This is a prime example of what happens when courts make judgments on morality and religion.  No judges are especially qualified in either of these two important spheres.  For this very reason, there was originally intended to be the maintenance and supremacy of the Christian religion in our society as previously constituted.  This was never a legalistic principle, since it was never established in any constitution, but it was a generally accepted principle by the vast majority of people that this was a Christian country.  This did not mean that many people agreed on matters of doctrine, dogma, or even faith at times.  However these matters were left implicitly in the hands of the theologians.

How ironic it is that Madame Justice MacLachlin and six other Supreme Court justices could never tolerate a teacher who expressed any doubts about the Holocaust.  How ironic it is that they could also never tolerate the teacher who expressed his Christian principles, and beliefs or principles outside the school, as Malcolm Ross did.  They could never teach tolerance of the views of James Keegstra for instance.  He was not allowed to discuss his views of the origin of the Bolshevik Revolution for instance.  It seems clear from this latest decision that the Supreme Court has certain views that it wishes to tolerate, and certain other views of which it does not wish to approve and therefore believes should not be tolerated.  It boils down to the personal preferences of the various justices of the Supreme Court of Canada.  Such is the nature of tolerance in the so-called liberal society.  Liberals tolerate liberals and obliterate everybody else.

 In a democracy it was always assumed that people were  to be trusted with moral and religious decisions.  Pierre Trudeau decided, and the brilliant legislators of his day agreed, to entrench into a  new constitution a Charter of Rights which would give judges the power to define the limits of the elected representatives of the people.  By this means they effectively removed any moral responsibilities from the Legislature and put it into the hands of the judiciary.  But who educated or qualified the judiciary to make decisions about religious or moral matters?  They had no special training, skill, or ability in any of these fields.  Therefore, in effect out of a  fear of imposing their own somewhat inarticulate ideas, they have chosen to make a religion of tolerance and obliterate all religious and moral values.  The principle of equality  means in the end that no one is right, and no one is wrong, and nothing is right, and nothing is wrong.  Sadly, in such as state, everything is wrong.  And such a state is Canada today.   

When ethnical relativism is mandatory, ethical absolutes become impossible. In practical terms, when right cannot condemn evil, evil will need an equal opportunity to indoctrinate ("educate") even the most vulnerable.


December 21, 2002: On the Future of Alberta

Today on the 21st of December 2002, I have the opportunity to write again on the whole subject of Western Canada’s situation in confederation. We see that the Kyoto Accord has been approved. All Western Canadians are now aware that implementation is the next step in the process. This will effectively destroy the resource-producing sectors of Alberta. It will effectively increase the opportunities for coal-fired electrical generation in South China. There, Mr. Chretien and his friend Mr. Demarais have financial interests. They stand to benefit on a global scale.

What would they care, after Mr. Chretien’s term of office is over, for the disappearance of the economy of Alberta? Obviously this is only going to matter to the people who live in Alberta.

But what will Albertans do? If they do not separate and form a new nation, then they show Chretien has won again. The Liberal party will be in power for the next 50 years. And Paul Martin or some other Quebecer will be the prime minister for another long period of time. They will always make laws to the benefit of the political elites.

In the Supreme Court of Canada, where the laws are really being made, they just ruled the Surrey school board cannot exclude a reading by a teacher in the class of kindergarten students of stories about the wonderful benefits of homosexual life. Madame Justice McLachlin has said that in view of our need to tolerate diversity, no school board can restrict access to the widest possible ideas of sexual orientation. This is the direction of the new Canada. Soon will it be possible for all homosexuals to demonstrate their lifestyle in class as well as to read stories about it?

No doubt in order to overcome intolerance and homophobia, kindergarten students will have to see their teacher demonstrate his affection to his boyfriend in their class. Such is the caliber of judgment of the Supreme Court of Canada, that there is really no limit to its application. And yet we have no say in who is to be appointed to the Supreme Court. That was, and remains, the prerogative of the prime minister. That is the Canadian way.

And yet Albertans do nothing about it. When the Supreme Court of Canada forced a religious institution to hire an openly homosexual teacher (the Vriend case), likewise the premier of Alberta did nothing. This indicates the betrayal of the fundamental values of the basically European Christian population of Western Canada. We are being betrayed by our leaders in Ottawa and by the premier of Alberta as well.

But what will you do? Albertans have many options. They could, of course, vote for some replacement for Ralph Klein who would be equally disingenuous in his assertion of fundamental European Christian values. This however has been done before, when they replaced Premier Lougheed with Klein. The result has been obviously to eliminate any effective voice for the people. Their values are trampled by their leadership and no new leadership emerges to give them any real choice.

That's referred to as “the democratic way.” However it need not be the only alternative for Albertans in effect to surrender.

They could, of course, separate. They could, of course, establish their own Constitution, build their own identity and preserve their own culture. They could, of course, control their own immigration. They could, of course, create their own money. They could, of course, establish their own transportation policies, linguistic policies and other policies. They could establish their own flag. They could establish their own national anthem. They could, of course, create access to the Pacific Rim through British Columbia for their oil, natural gas, freshwater, forestry, fishery, and agricultural production. They could, of course, do all this peacefully, legally, and democratically by a referendum that has been initiated by them, and forced upon their government when a majority of them say to the rest of the world "we have had enough!"

This moment in eternity is a moment of decision in which you can say those very words for yourself. If you refuse to make a choice at this moment, you are surrendering your destiny into the hands of those who have already indicated a deliberate intention to destroy you and everything you stand for.

But what will you do?

Yours for independence,

Douglas Christie

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December 13, 2002: Kyoto, Gun Registry, Immigration -- No Choice for the West in Canada!

On Thursday the 12th of December, after spending the past week and a half in Vancouver on the Seifert case before Mr. Justice Romilly, I am finally able to put on paper my thoughts over this amazing last 14 days.

On Tuesday, December 10th, the Liberals, like a flock of sheep, approved the Kyoto Accord in principle. Previously Ralph Klein had started his little wiggle worm dance and proclaimed to the whole world that he thought Paul Martin might be a savior. It is, sadly, so typical of the premiers of Alberta that they have continually made loud defensive noises and when the chips are down they negotiate away the rights of the people of Alberta.

When Mr. Chretien was asked whether Mr. Martin would be expected to uphold the Kyoto Accord he replied with unusual bluntness.

"He has no choice, because it's an international obligation we have. And Canada is a country with a great reputation that when we are involved internationally we respect our word." This clearly signifies what has happened. Canada and all its citizens have been sold into bondage by an international agreement entered into by a handful of people who were never elected and whose identity remains a mystery even today.

In this way is freedom destroyed. In this way have the people been hamstrung and hand-cuffed. And what does Ralph Klein propose to do? He proposes to have us wait until the Liberals pick a new prime minister from Québec, Paul Martin, at which time he proposes to negotiate with a new prime minister. How very typical of the treachery of a politician who speaks in terms of "wiggle room". Canada is required to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 6 percent below 1990 levels by 2012. At the same time from 1990 to 2012 our population will have increased by 20 percent exclusively from immigration from the Third World.

Any rational person should realize that reducing carbon emissions which reduce greenhouse gases while increasing your population by 20 percent means a substantial reduction in the standard of living and a vast increase in federal taxes and controls on the way we burn oil and gas in our cars, in our home, and in our farm machinery.

What it amounts to is a vast increase in government control of our lives and was celebrated by the same pompous arrogant fat and overbearing Liberals who ruled the country for 70 of the last 100 years. And then what will the people of Alberta do? That remains to be seen . They are in fact the prime targets of the Liberal government’s arrogance and pomposity. In the past Alberta has put off the other inevitable confrontations. If Alberta does not fight now with a massive uprising of separatism, its future is that of the Maritimes. In a short time it will be begging for federal handouts.

In the gun control registry fiasco there is no limit. The Liberals in the leadership mode are attacking each other for a change. This of course will happen, and the moment the new leader is chosen he will consolidate power among his other Liberal friends, as they always do. More interesting appears to be the fate of Warren Kinsella, the “anti-racist" who used to advertise his position as a Chretien confidante. He early on tied his star to Alan Rock, the founder [or flounder] of the gun registry. It appears both will now go down in flames together.

In the real news is the totally ineffectual demands of the opposition for an “explanation.” Ask as they repeatedly do, the simple question: “How much is it going to cost to finish the registry?” and “How much will it cost every year to maintain it?” They just get no answer. The auditor-general can’t get any answer, either. She has quit even asking. The opposition isn't able to get any answer. So who is accountable to the taxpayer for this $1 billion loss? The answer is “No one is!” The Liberals say there's enough blame for everybody. This is the true sickness of the Canadian system. No one is ever accountable and the money just disappears in a tax gobbling haze.

But the gun registry is only the latest symptom. The real tragedy is the lack of public awareness.

Most people think this is just about guns. It's really about government and the lack of public control upon spending. Guns are merely the latest example. Bilingualism, the Mirabel Airport, the 1976 Olympic Games, which cost 3.5 billion or 30 times more than they were estimated, the Olympic Stadium which at completion cost 5 times the $310 million estimated, and the BC fast ferries, the Skytrain to nowhere in Vancouver, the Alberta Swan Hills waste treatment plants, the Skydome in Toronto, even the F-18A repair contract which should have gone to Winnipeg, the National Energy Policy of Trudeau, and now the Kyoto Accord . Each and every one of these demonstrates that Canada is a corrupt and incompetent federal system which cannot and should not survive.

Dear Reader, if you are gun owner and think that if the registry is defeated you can go back to sleep and all is right with the world, please wake up!. Not only will they be back for your guns, they will be back for your hard-earned cash and your freedom as they continue to spy upon you, tax you and take away all that was yours and which you had worked for. If you don't peacefully rise up and demand a referendum in your province and get together now to build a new nation in Western Canada, you will never have another chance. We can create a country where the people have the real power because they all are really awake.

In the December 11th issue of the Times Colonist newspaper a story entitled "Asians change the face of urban Canada" drove home the fate of each of us if we allow Ottawa to continue to control immigration policy. It states "immigrants from China, India and the Middle East are changing the face of Canadian cities, while traditional European groups are fading and greying, data released Tuesday by Statistics Canada show." Since 1996 Canada has 70,200 more Punjabi speakers, 54,400 more Arabic speakers , and 43,100 more people speak Urdu the language of Pakistan.

In total, 5.3 million people in Canada speak neither French nor English, an increase of 12 percent since the last census in 1996.

In response a Mr. Morton Beiser, director of the Center for Excellence in Research on Immigration and Settlement [typical of an Ottawa bureaucrat] says "and not only how do we help immigrants settle but how do we help the receiving society receive and not feel threatened, but feel that they have a place as well?"

My comments as an English-speaking person are first, why shouldn't they feel threatened? They are threatened. We are threatened. Our way of life is threatened. We will soon be a minority in our own country.

15 percent of Vancouver's population speaks Chinese as a mother tongue. In Calgary, in Edmonton Chinese speakers are the most numerous foreign language group, surpassing the traditional immigrant tongues of German and Ukrainian. The new immigrants are integrating into Canadian society but unlike those in the past they have learned that they can keep their traditional culture. There is no pressure to assimilate because the language pools are now sufficiently large to function in the foreign language without any need to adopt English or French.

These "new immigrants" are transforming Canada from predominantly Caucasian society into a multiracial country.  This in the attitude of the New World Order is inevitable in the age of globalization.

What the globalists fail to recognize is that not every society values individual freedom as the traditional society of Canada did. Not every society will be as tolerant to us as we have been to them. Soon we will learn that discrimination against us will not be prevented by the politically correct Liberals or the equally obsequious Human Rights Tribunals or thought-police and commissars the Liberals have established. In fact, the Liberals have sold our heritage and our birthright for a mess of political potage.

It is not my desire to disparage the Chinese or Indian culture which motivates me to desire to protect my own. It is a right of every people in their land and territory to maintain their language, their culture, their traditions, and their values. Otherwise each and every country becomes subject to the most prolific population of the world in a mass of homogenization and in cultural disintegration.

It is only by the preservation of a distinctive national identity that any ethnic diversity and cultural uniqueness can ever hope to survive. It was wrong of the British, French and other European nations to attempt to impose their cultures on China , India, and Africa or other countries in colonial times. It is equally wrong now in our own country to subordinate our culture to theirs.

In short we have a right to survive as a people just as they do, and it should never be regarded as racism to say so. But to the Liberal any attempted self-preservation in the maintenance of our traditional culture is anathema. This because they know the Liberals have always been elected by immigrant populations in Canada. That is predominantly why those in Western Canada who desire to preserve our way of life are always going to be attacked by the Liberals of Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritimes. Toronto today is predominantly a non-European city. Stay in Canada and so will Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Regina, Saskatoon, and Winnipeg.

We must separate soon or surrender forever the identity of our traditional culture. This is an hour of decision. Our destiny depends on what we do today.

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November 19, 2002: Stephen Harper Against the Tide

The following excerpts are from The Edmonton Sun of November 18, 2002, in an article by Michelle Mark:

Kill Kyoto or we'll go -- Accord stirs separation talk: survey

Most Albertans would rather talk separation or seek to join the U.S. rather than take the Kyoto protocol lying down, results of a new poll show.

In fact, more than 55% of the 1,204 Albertans approached by JMCK Polling said they would be open to those possibilities if Kyoto is ratified against Albertans' wishes.

. . .

Respondents were given the following answers to choose from:

1) There's nothing we can do.

2) Albertans should begin to explore other options such as independence from Canada.

3) Alberta should seek to join the United States.

. . . 

Nearly 47% opted to explore the separation option.

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In a follow-up article in the Edmonton Sun on November 19, 2002, by Maria McClintock of the Sun's Ottawa Bureau,  the following excerpts occur:

"Resist separation, says Harper"

Albertans are mad as hell over Kyoto but they should resist separation and fight it from within Confederation, Canadian Alliance Leader Stephen Harper says.

. . . 

Harper's comments come as a new poll by JMCK Polling shows that 55% of the 1,204 Albertans surveyed would be open to the possibility of separation rather than having the Kyoto accord rushed through Parliament.

But Harper urged Albertans to work toward a made-in-Canada solution.

"I don't think the response of separation is an appropriate one to this particular issue. There is all kinds of chances to build widespread opposition to this agreement across the country."


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Doug's Comments:

Stephen Harper says separatism is not the appropriate response to the Kyoto Accord! Could it be he is worried about the loss of his federal pension if separation results? 

If not separation, what is the appropriate response to a government willing to slip hand-cuffs on all future generations and make them pay more to keep warm in winter, pay more to get their food, pay more to travel, pay more to do everything, with a tax to pay the government, also growing daily?

Some time ago I enumerated the things the federal government has done, compared to what started the American Revolution against George III of England. Albertans are finally waking up. They don't need Canada, although perhaps Stephen Harper does. 

Albertans should now ask if they need Stephen Harper.

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November 10, 2002: How to Avoid the Mistakes of the Past as Support Rises for the "S" Word

Now that Western separatism is becoming popular you can count on our old adversaries to trot out the same strategies they used 25 years ago. They can count on a new generation of separatists not knowing or remembering how it works. That's why I would like you to think about what I have learned from experience.

In a phrase it is called: "Divide and conquer!" It was done very effectively in 1982 to the Western Canada Concept in Alberta. 

This is how it works: First, they look for potential leadership material in the mid-level of the movement who might have political ambitions. They give them lots of media exposure and promote them to the public. Next, they look for differences to exploit between the existing leadership and the previously-mentioned ambitious newcomer. If they find none, they move to Strategy "B".

This strategy involves stimulating new and competing organizations whose function it is to draw off support from existing and dedicated separatist organizations. This is best used with those who say such things as "separatism if necessary, but not necessarily separation." By such means, they can move the debate back thirty years or more, while again dividing the real threat. By this means the creation of the Reform party was stimulated.

These are by no means the only strategies that can or will be used to attempt to upset us, but they are for now the only ones we need to watch. I intend to comment further in future on other likely strategies. To know them goes a long way to defeating them. 

For those of you who wish to be true to our cause and dedicated to its success, knowledge is power. It is necessary to put the cause above any kind of personal political success. Good will toward honest separatists in any political party is essential to educate for change. In this light, an approach should be made to the same Rob James referred to in the November 10th by Neil Waugh in the Edmonton Sun. In that article James is quoted as saying: "Recent events prompt me to examine why Alberta continues to be part of this confederation." And he noted that Albertans really do have a different national identity than other Canadians. He said, "Eastern Canadians have different beliefs and values than those of most Albertans....We wanted in, but we also wanted some say in our destiny." Rob James is the man who ran the PC's southern Alberta campaign in the 2001 election, and also held other numerous party positions over the years, in Alberta provincial politics. We should ask him to comment and perhaps advise us on the substance of our petition. Perhaps he could support it. You can and will succeed with support for the only dedicated movement which has stayed the course and knows the battlefield. We are the one they chose to ignore.....for a reason.

There is clear evidence we are on the right track. All parties -- Tory, Alliance and even Liberal -- are beginning to realize that the "S" word is a popular factor. The people are leading the politicians. The people have nothing to fear from the truth. Their politicians do. We have the knowledge to give them. We have the method to liberate them. We have a new nation to empower them. We have the hope of a whole new nation to share. No wonder the power elite of Canada should fear us!

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November 6, 2002: UofA drops out of Kyoto debate

According to a story in the National Post today:

University of Alberta backs out of joint sponsorship with feds of Kyoto forum

EDMONTON (CP) - Politics has prompted the University of Alberta to back out of jointly sponsoring a forum with the federal government on the controversial Kyoto climate change treaty. University officials said they decided against taking part in the Nov. 12 event after federal Environment Minister David Anderson refused to include anti-Kyoto speakers on the panel.

Mike Percy, the dean of the U of A's business school and a member of the Alberta government's anti-Kyoto advisory committee, said it would be wrong for the university to be involved in such a one-sided event.

Percy was one of the people the university wanted to name to the panel.

"Once an issue becomes politically charged generally you find that you get this sort of strategic behaviour where groups are trying to forcefully present their ideas," he said Wednesday.

"Balance is important, debate is important if a university is involved in hosting such an activity."

University officials said the federal government was still free to book space and hold the forum on campus.

However, the school will not endorse or take part in the evening event that is to be open to students and the public, said Susan Green, the university's vice-president of external affairs.

Green once ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Alberta legislature for the Progressive Conservatives and is a longtime Tory party member.

"If we are going to co-host something we believe we must be true to our principles on what a university represents," she said.

"We want to make sure that both sides of the Kyoto argument are represented."

Anderson's office was still negotiating Wednesday with the school about the event. The minister was not immediately available for comment.

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Can it be that academics at the University of Alberta are waking up to apply the principles of fair play, even against the state religion of environmental theology espoused by MP David Anderson? Can it be that even in academia there is a respect for two sides to the argument on the Kyoto Accord. This is even more profound than Peter Lougheed referring to it contemptuously as the "Kai-ota" Accord and some people on talk shows called it the "coyote" accord. Is it possible with academia and the political establishment stepping out of their liberal stupor and self-inflicted inferiority complex, that separatism may not be far behind? Who knows, the intelligentsia might begin to realize that the Emperor has no clothes and we might even be able to govern ourselves in the West!

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November 2, 2002: Why the farmers should remain in jail & how we can support them

The farmer’s diary from jail, published in the National Post, minimizes the injustice of farmers being jailed for selling their own grain (when this would not happen to a farmer from Central Canada), because like all Western Canadians, he has no shame or outrage. He is a nice guy, so he accepts it, toughs it out and makes the best of it. Sort of a metaphor for Western Canada, as a whole, isn't it?

It reminds me of the runaway slave captured by the plantation owner, who upon being returned to the bunkhouse said that he was glad to be back, that the food’s good, the overalls are warm and he was only joking when he ran away.

Every obedience to a bad law is condoning tyranny. To pay a fine to escape the punishment of a bad law not only condones tyranny, it feeds the tyrant! How could four farmers who believe the Wheat Board has no right to control where they sell their wheat be so intimidated as to pay the fine rather than go to jail? They betray their own cause. They condone tyranny. They betray their families best interests in the long run. They effectively allow all of us to escape from the realization of the injustice. They perpetuate the Western Canadian slave mentality. As in the movie “Braveheart” when asked will they fight or will they run, they chose to run so they could live. And, yes, they will live for a time, until someday dying alone in their bed they will willingly give all their days, from that day to this to come back and do the right thing. Unfortunately, they will never get another chance.

For those who stayed, they make the state pay for the evil tyranny of the state ownership of production. They force our consciences to either support them or confront our own cowardice. There should be enough money in Western Canadian hands to support all their families by donation during their absence. We should pay them for their time in jail. They are in jail for our sins. 

What is our sin? The sin of indifference to the corruption that is Canada, is our real sin. Until we escape this evil government by the legitimate, lawful means of a Clarity Act Referendum, we are accomplices in its tyranny. Until we wake up to the need to achieve freedom for ourselves and our descendants, we are like the four who paid the fines. They paid $1000, plus $2500, plus $5500, plus an undisclosed amount, so the government could imprison their comrades. Will we look on and do nothing, so the next time the Canadian government attacks one of us to take away our freedom, no one will help us? Not for those of us who already say, “Free the West!” 

The cold reality of prison is sometimes needed to force us to think of the importance of freedom in our lives. The mistake is to deny or temporarily buy our way out of it. 

We should all donate to the trust fund for the farmers in jail:

See the Bolt Supply House Ltd website. They have set up a trust fund for the farmers. Donations can be made at any of the Bolt Supply House Ltd. locations in Western Canada with cheques payable to the “Friends of Alberta Farmers.” The Western Canada Concept is donating $100 immediately. 

For information on where you can donate to this campaign see: www.boltsupply.com 

Let’s show the solidarity of Western Canada to Ottawa’s totalitarian Wheat Board! For once let us stand together on this!

On another topic in today's news: 

In the news today is also a story that in Canada 40% more people are depressed than in 1997. Could this be a sign people are resigning themselves to the Liberal tyranny which runs Canada? That’s enough to depress anyone. Dr. Kim Maertz, a psychologist at the University of Alberta Student Counselling Services says competition is so tough and pressure on students is too great. Could this be partly the result of immigration, with foreign students putting pressure on local students, in some cases pushing them out?

When we control our own destiny and govern ourselves and empower people through the right of referenda, there will be no more reason to be depressed.

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November 1, 2002: Thoughts for the Jailed Farmers

On Friday November 1st, 2002, and All Saints Day, some historic and profound thoughts occurred to me.  As in the case of any long sea voyage, in order to ascertain where you're going, it is essential to draw a line from where you have been.  By extension of the line you can usually get an indication of your destination, that is, if the course remains the same.  Over a long period of time even though the course may have changed occasionally from time to time, you get a fairly good description of your long-term destination from the two points in question.

In this regard I was thinking again of the 13 farmers who went to jail in Lethbridge yesterday. The media has already moved on to another story.  In the jail, the farmers will wake up to the realization that they are really in jail.  They wake up in a different country than I thought they would ever live.  How do we communicate the tragedy of their circumstances?  Well, let me try.

Suppose someone had said to the Americans of the 13 colonies, in about 1770 or 1776 that you will now be restricted in the following way:

1.  You will now be restricted to only burning the amount of coal that you burned for fuel ten years ago less 10 percent.

2.  You will now be required to register all your firearms and keep them locked in a secure place to which the government will have access at any time for the purposes of inspection.  Only those of you of whom the government approves will be allowed to have a license to keep firearms.

3.  If you are farmers, you will not be allowed to sell your wheat to anyone the government does not approve. If you do, you can be sent to jail.

4.  You will now be required to publish everything of public nature in native Indian languages as well as English.

5.  You will be required to pay half of all you earn any year to your government.

6.  You will be required to pay various Indian tribes tribute in lands, legislative power, and taxes, to support them forever in their culture, because of what you've taken from them.

7.  In the future you'll never again say anything disparaging against any Indian tribe, and will pay compensation for all past wrongs or perceived injuries.

8.  In future you'll restrict your speech to only those statements which do not offend any race, religion, ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, or marital status.  And if you do, the fact that what you say is the truth, will be no defense, and will be utterly irrelevant.  Quoting parts of the Bible about homosexuality will also be unlawful.

9.  In order to foster an attitude of religious tolerance, and avoid offending any religious group, no mention will remain in any public ceremonies of the name or person of Jesus Christ .

10.  You will in future be required to file documents which accurately tell the government, whenever they shall so demand, exactly how much money you have earned, where and how you earned it, and where you spent it.

11.  For the purposes of traveling from place to place in America on your horse on a public road, you will require the approval of the government and you will be required to carry a license with your photograph on it.  To travel to any other country you'll need the government's permission on a sign document called passports.

12. In order for you to believe that these rules are made by your government and you live in a democracy, you will be allowed to elect to the parliament at Westminster in London less than 10 percent of the Members of Parliament.  To ever bring about a change of that percentage will require the approval of the majority in the house. 

What would the citizens of the 13 colonies say about such dictatorial rules? We will never know the answer to this question.  We do know how they reacted to paying tax on tea.  We do know that in Canada, at one time we were relatively free.  We do know that each of the above 12 points reflects a reality in which we in western Canada live today. If the present state of affairs continues as it has in the past, we can draw a line from the place of freedom where we started out, to the place we are in today. 

 Now, extend this line into the future realizing that those12 points above reflect our present location in Canada and take a look at where we're going.  Without separation and the building of a new government dedicated to freedom, you will soon live in discouraging tyranny.  Our children deserve better and we received better from our forebears. 

To achieve a better protection of our former freedom and to enshrine that any constitution dedicated to our land and heritage, we do not need to take up arms, become violent, or harm anyone.  We merely need to exercise our democratic rights, recognized by the Supreme Court of Canada, ratified by the parliament of Canada, and the Clarity Act in the year 2000, and conduct a referendum with a clear question.  On this website we have drafted such a referendum petition.  All it takes for you to make a difference is to take the petition printed off and circulate them with a clear conviction that we must liberate ourselves again, just as people United States liberated themselves in 1776.  Why we do not want to make a difference?

Doug Christie  

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October 31, 2002 -- Farmers' Rally in Lethbridge

An advertisement appears in the Report magazine's September 4th , 2002 edition. It reads "Alberta farmers are being jailed, attend the Lethbridge rally. Show your support." Speakers were to include Ted Morton, Link Byfield and the agriculture critic of the Canadian Alliance Party. They were to speak at 12 noon on October 31st of the corner of 4th Street South and Third Avenue South in Lethbridge, Alberta.

All very commendable, I thought. It reminded me so very much of the outraged protest of the gun owners of Manitoba, which I once attended in Brandon Manitoba, years ago. There I witnessed speaker after speaker condemn the outrageous position of the federal government taking away our freedom, and making criminal a group of honest citizens. I listened as some clever politicians told the incensed multitudes that all that was necessary was for this great crowd to nominate them as the next candidates for the Liberal party, the "Perpetual Party of Canada", in the next federal election. It immediately made me realize how politicians usually exploit public outrage as a vehicle for their own advancement.

At this meeting I waited and waited for a chance to speak. Finally towards the end of the meeting, as people were drifting away, I got to say something for about a minute. I said "if this law passes -- which I believe it will -- will you then realize that Canada is corrupt and then become separatist and form a new nation to protect your freedom?" There was a stunned silence. There were some noisy shouts from the Liberal candidates. Then the meeting dissolved in the usual chaos. On the way to the parking lot a few people said I was right. An old friend who had been a magistrate quietly agreed with me. They all went home. The law passed. They have not yet become separatist. How many more outrages does it take before this solemn truth is declared: "separation is necessary!"

I won't be at the rally at 12 noon October 31st. I can guess what will be said. There will be declarations of outrage, and they will be justified. But there will be no solution. I would like to go and say only one thing:

"Separation is the only way to defeat to corrupt government of Canada and all its evil works, of which jailing farmers is only the latest example. How many more outrages to you have to witness, before you take the peaceful, honest, and lawful road to independence by supporting a referendum which is legally available under the Clarity Act passed by the parliament of Canada in July 2000?"

Unless these various protests are focused on the one and only solution, the formation of a new nation, they are really just letting off steam like the Reform Party did for the last 15 years. They are immature outbursts against a legitimate outrage. We have to grow up and face the fact that every servant and agent of the federal government from the highest of the lowest is a traitor to the interests of Western Canadians, and a servant of corrupt government. These harsh truths have to be told. Otherwise we're simply fooling ourselves and waiting for the next outrage.

The Kyoto Accord:

If the government of Canada is prepared to impose a limit on carbon emissions by 2010 which is 10 percent below levels committed to in 1990, we have to face the fact that it is the consumer who is the end-user and actual producer of any carbon emissions.

Who created all these consumers? Who increased the number from 1990? Statistics Canada can tell you that it wasn't the existing, local population. Whether it is the federal consumer,  provincial consumer, or municipal consumer, it is always the same consumer who drives the car, consumes the energy, and that is the cause of the so-called carbon pollution. Therefore it is the increase in consumers which has actually caused the increase in carbon emissions. Not that the Kyoto Accord is right scientifically, or that I agree with its imposition on the provinces without their consent, or that it is in any way necessary to protect us from global warming, all of which arguments are regarded as either wrong or dubious. But for the sake of argument let's say that the Kyoto Accord were to be imposed and that the government responsible, or claiming responsibility, the federal government, has the power to impose it. What would make it fair, so as not to deprive those living here of a reasonable standard of living?

Why the answer is obvious! If consumers cause the pollution, which they do, if it is pollution, then to achieve 10 percent below the level of carbon emissions in 1990, by the year 2010, we need to reduce our population to 10 percent below the level of population of our country in 1990! Of course the government which was responsible for the increase in our population is the federal government! They and only they were responsible for immigration. The level of reproduction of our native population, (and by this I don't mean native Indians) since since 1990 has never been sufficient to replace the number of those persons dying in that time. It's obvious only immigration has increased our population. Births have not. How then can we reduce our population by the year 2010 to the level of population that existed in 1990 by 10 percent? The answer is obvious and simple. In fairness to all people living here, to achieve the goals set by the Kyoto Protocol, and to avoid a drastic reduction in our standard of living, the federal government must stop immigration. Only by this means will our population be reduced to 10 percent below the level of population in 1990. Otherwise one way or another we're all going to have to share the pain of taking a drastically-reduced standard of living and consumption of energy. Or shouldn't it be referred to as production of energy?

 

This logical argument is really irrefutable, but how likely is it to have any real effect in Canada? With the Liberals in power, as they have been for 70 of the last 100 years, obviously no effect that all. But if logic and reason were to prevail, it should have done so already. So what is the alternative to an unjust and ridiculous situation? The same as it is on gun control and farmers going to jail for selling their own wheat, and 100 other legitimate grievances of Western Canada. The one and only solution of separation in the formation of the new nation dedicated to our future freedom and based upon our own sovereign will chosen in a referendum for the first time by mature people who decide to govern themselves, to free themselves, to free the West!


Quote: "Chretien vows to salve the West" (Times Colonist, Dec. 23/00) In a series of year-end television interviews on Friday, Chretien said his party has a lot of fence-mending to do west of Ontario, where it won only 17 seats. He said, "It is a struggle of any political leader. I want to have more in the West, I will never give up, but it's difficult. ... It is something that is part of the tradition...they've been like that since a long time."

Comment: Jean Chretien is a wily Central Canadian politician; he has 17 seats out of 88 in Western Canada and he knows this signifies Western alienation. But he writes it off as "traditional." He is really quite right. The west has always voted against the Liberal Alliance of Ontario and Quebec, but it never really mattered since the 103 Ontario seats decide the outcome.

He passed the Clarity Act pointed straight at Quebec, where with the large non-French Canadian ethnic vote they can count on a close victory for their federalist friends. What he doesn't worry about is Western separatism.

After all, he and his friend Trudeau through their National Energy Policy extracted billions from Alberta and the separatists acted like a bunch of junkyard dogs, quarreling more with each other than with the thief after he threw them a piece of meat. The thief in Western Canada just threw various separatists meat in the form of media attention. Trudeau drove Alberta into submission by buying support from its Premier Peter Lougheed with a phony revenue-sharing deal. Now the Heritage Fund is gone. The separatists were made a laughing stock. Chretien knows all the media has to do is have an Elinor Caplan accuse the leader of being an anti-Semite and the followers won't stop running until the media tells them it's safe to turn around. No wonder he laughs us off as a "tradition."

The accusation is politics as usual. The running is pure cowardice. Until we stand firm and say, "Don't bother us with the ad hominem attacks; he is our leader and friend," we can't expect more than contempt from the east. Unless we stand up to the smear campaign and stare them down, they will just laugh at us.

Western Canada doesn't need leaders, it needs devoted generous, loyal followers and supporters who will not be scattered, disheartened or intimidated by the inevitable media smear campaign which Central Canadian politicians and their stooges manipulate. They know they only have to discredit the natural leaders and the followers will collapse. One way in the past they have done this is to promote in their media a variety of competing leaders. Let's not repeat the same mistakes of 1980.

Then Chretien will not be able to "salve" or solve the West, and we will be free!

Douglas Christie


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