Enough!

The last time I blogged was January, 2021, like most people I have been busy finding my mask, walking back to the truck for my mask or washing my hands. 

I don't care about masks or conspiracy theories or whether or not Bill Gates is planning wholesale  population reduction to save good old mother earth.

Failure to deliver on your obligations:

What I care about today is the apparent solution you elected foks have prescribed and the complete and total lack of leadership,  provincially and federally that we are seeing in getting it.  We are told the vaccine is the cure, yet none of our leaders, not Justin Trudeau, Peter O'Toole, Jagmeet Singh, Jason Kenney or even  Rachel Notley have delivered or attempted to work with anyone else to get it done.

They are too busy in their own myopic little worlds to dare join forces and deal with the issue.

I read a statistic today that Canada has provided first immunization to 16% of it's population and the USA has provided immunization to 32%. So we are half way there, well no, we are not. 

In the USA they have approximately 331,000,000 citizens so in round numbers 100,000,000 have been immunized. Compare this to Canada where we have a population of 37,000,000 people of which, again in round numbers 5,000,000 have been immunized.  This doesn't even jive with what they tell us about how much vaccine we have.

Canada's response can only be generously described as awful, because what is forgotten is that  when someone's death is attributed to  Covid, they are first and foremost a person not a statistic and as often as not somebodies Grandma or Grandpa. 

Now onto death: 2,001 people have died as a result of this disease in Alberta, which means each Alberta MLA is complicit by their inaction in the death of 23 people. In Canada 23,141 people have died which makes each MP complicit in 68 deaths. 

Because of the way party politics work, Jason Kenney is responsible for 2.001 and Justin Trudeau for whole 23,141. 

At what point does this become serious to these people? At what point do our elected officials stop behaving like dogs humping a football and get to work? 

So where are the vaccines in Canada? Well apparently, aside from the ones we borrowed from the Congo, Justin Trudeau forgot to place an order, maybe his visa was maxed out I don't know, the point is we went to the third world for help because our leaders were too ill equipped to see the crisis coming. Who does Justin blame? Brian Mulroney for starters, then Stephen Harper and I think he went as far back as Sir John A MacDonald. 

Jason Kenney blames Trudeau, Notley blames Kenney. The federal Conservatives and federal NDP did nothing to help with this, they just spent their time like dogs humping those footballs, felt good but accomplished nothing. 

So I say unequivocally, regardless of your party affiliation but if you are a provincial or federal elected official you personally are accountable for the deaths of over 20,000 people from Covid, now lets talk about the rest of the damage you have done.

Other damage you have done:

While people are surviving on CERB and welfare,  not a single elected official in this country has lost dollar one during this pandemic. You still have your travel card, your free car washes and your salaries all intact, just so people can hear your say "we are all in this together". Bullshit.

90% of you have never signed the front of a pay cheque, nor struggled to find work, you drive around in  a  pickup truck to pretend you are one of the 'aw shucks" common folks. But like Napoleon said; "while I intend to  govern fairly, I intend to govern" and like Napoleon you are terrified that Covid might be your Waterloo and yet you remain undoing and hope to distract us with bullshit or bribe  us with our own money come the next election, an election all of you deserve to lose.

I was elected to the Alberta Legislature in 2008, I ran because I have a great deal of respect for former Premier Ed Stelmach. Ed was and is a farmer, he lived  the struggles of the early 1990's with low commodity prices and 22% interest rates on bank loans.  He came within a hair of losing the farm his parents homesteaded at Andrew. He knew real pain and struggle and  because of it had genuine compassion for his constituents.  I served one term, that was lots.

Party politics is dirty and ultimately as a back bench MLA, one is largely  responsible for making speeches and handing out giant plastic cheques. The real decisions are made by the Premier/ Prime Minister and his/ her cabinet, but ultimately the Premier, or Prime Minister's  only real qualification is the ability to sell party memberships and get votes out during leadership races.  Nobody dares ask if they are smart enough to do the job.

So now we have unemployment numbers not seen since the great depression,  new carbon taxes and interparty fights over the dumbest shit imaginable. And yet, people continue to die, go bankrupt or lose their jobs while you  argue about dinosaurs in the new K-6 curriculum. It's a good thing financial planning is in there because some kid in grade two is going to inherit this mess and I really hope that kid is better with decision making than you are.

760,000 Canadians deferred mortgage payments in 2020 (cbc 11/16/20)  

The unemployment rate is 7.5% in Canada, in Alberta it's over 10% (economic dashboard Alberta) TEN PERCENT! how many MLA's or MP's are in the group? ZERO percent.  And this does not tell the tale, I know of a place where 30 people are waiting to start work but can't,. It's not just those 30 people, it's their partner, their kids, the guy at 7-11, who are affected by this because you cannot get vaccine into the arms of people so they can go back to work.  You tell us it's the solution yet you are incapable of delivering it.

So I lay before you, the wreckage you have inflicted on your constituents because you are too arrogant to actually sit down with each other and do what is best for the people you serve. If as, you claim, vaccine is the cure then where the fuck is it?

As leaders, I know you forget this sometimes, it is after all a trifling detail,  but your job is to serve.  What we have instead are elected officials of all parties whos hands are covered in the blood of the dead because you are either incapable or unwilling to serve your constituents and get them the thing you say they need. 

You are  Willy Picton on a grand scale. He fed dead prostitutes to his pigs in Abbottsford BC   and for years and those little piggy's all went to market.  

Bacon anyone, anyone? 

Your crime is no less heinous, actually it's worse, because you are supposed to be the people with foresight who do what's best for their constituents and you fucked it up royally. 

Get  this job done, or admit you can't do it and get the hell out of the way of those who can.

I will wear a mask when I have to, maybe we should all drive to Great Falls Montana and get the covid vaccine at the Walgrens for $10.00 ($13.00 Canadian)  because they seem to know how to get it into peoples arms. Unlike our elected officials here who are too busy not telling people what's really in the pork chops.