Conservative MP Mike Dawson rejected his $10,000 annual pay raise in April 2026, citing 6% food inflation and government spending while Canadians face rising costs. Sheila Gunn-Reid and Chris Sims of the CTF criticize automatic MP raises, even under Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals, and oppose Canada’s $300B EV mandate, calling it unsustainable. Canada Post’s $4B losses over seven years—despite $2B in bailouts—highlight inefficiency, with Sims advocating for privatization amid $1B weekly debt interest costs. A viewer’s email links Alberta separatism to Trudeau-era policies, framing 1950s–60s Canada as a lost era of stability. The episode urges public resistance against spending and carbon taxes while pushing for market-driven solutions. [Automatically generated summary]
One MP in the House of Commons is doing the right thing and rejecting his April 1st pay hike.
I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you're watching The Gunn Show.
Well, guys, today's very full show.
I'm joined today by my friend Chris Sims of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation and we are talking about conservative MP.
He's a rookie, Mike Dawson.
He's from Miramichi and he's rejecting his nearly $10,000 annual tax hike on April 1st, which is the day where the joke's on the Canadian taxpayer because all them MPs are getting a, well, it's about an $8,000 a year tax hike, four and a bit percent, while the rest of us are dealing with 6% inflation thanks to government spending.
We're going to talk about that.
We're going to talk about how Carney has backed off of the electric vehicle mandate, but he hasn't necessarily backed off.
He's just doing the thing that he does and hiding his bad ideas where you can't really see how bad they affect you.
And then we're going to talk about Canada Post and how they got a billion dollars in bailouts in 2025.
They're getting another billion in 2026 and they are nearly insolvent.
So I guess good luck with that.
Anyway, here's my friend Chris Sims in an interview we recorded earlier.
take a listen.
So joining me now is my good friend and good friend of the show and good friend of taxpayers everywhere, Alberta Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, Chris Sims.
And Chris, first I want to talk to you about this announcement that happened yesterday by Conservative MP Mike Dawson, doing the right thing by taxpayers and rejecting his pay raise.
I think people forget that MPs get like mandated pay raises, no matter what they do, no matter what the economy looks like, no matter what inflation looks like for regular people, they get a pay raise.
These are not performance raises.
It's just here.
Thank you.
Here, you exist.
Have some more money.
Right.
So it's April 1st.
No joke.
It's such a pain that it's April 1st because it feels like it's rubbing salt in the wound.
But yeah, they get automatic pay hikes.
I will remind folks, and this sucks, but I have to remind them that all during the lockdowns, all during that time that was so hellish for so many people when they were losing their jobs and their industries are shut down, MPs never missed one pay hike.
Not one.
Not one.
It pains me to say this, but New Zealand, remember New Zealand during the lockdowns?
Jacinda Ardern took a 20% pay cut.
Like they cut their pay in New Zealand at that same time, but nope, not in Ottawa.
So this is why my colleague and friend Franco Terrazano has been pulling his hair out for years saying, will anyone, any member of parliament, please stand up and say no more pay hikes?
This is wrong.
We can't afford this.
It's gross, especially considering how many Canadians are struggling to pay for basics.
So good on Mike.
Be like Mike.
Refuse the hike.
I love that he's Mike from Miramichi because there's a little phrase that I like to use of like our people, like your viewers and stuff who I love.
They're like my family.
Some of them are my family is Rick from Red Deer.
I love Rick from Red Deer, but now we've got Mike from Miramichi and I got a hold of him yesterday, actually, Sheila, and I talked to him.
And so I'm going to be interviewing him later today.
I'm super stoked.
I'll try not to cry, but what got me in his letter. was when he said he's a drywaller.
Yeah, I'm just my brother's a drywaller.
I'm looking for his letter.
Maybe we can read a little bit of it.
But yeah, he doesn't forget where he came from.
He did not.
My brother's a drywaller, lives in Arnprior.
He gets up at around 3.30, 3.45 every morning in the dark and just to make rent, right?
He drives into Ottawa to do his joiner jobs, as they say in the drywalling world.
And to hear, to hear Mike say, because he said, call me Mike, that he doesn't want this because when he was door knocking, he never heard from any of his constituents saying, you know what, those politicians need a pay hike.
So good on him.
Like we're so proud of him.
Like I feel like flying there and washing his car for him.
I'm so happy.
Yeah.
His letter is, I mean, I love that he is just a blue collar guy who finds himself as an MP.
Yeah.
And so he didn't forget where he came from.
He said, and he sent this to the clerk of the House of Commons.
He said, I was elected as a member of the House of Parliament for Miramichi, Grand Lake on April 28th, 2025.
So he's a new part of the new batch.
It has come to my attention that all members of parliament are set to receive a 4.2% raise on April 1st, 2026.
And let's just remember, Canadians are paying 6% inflation on food alone.
That's right.
At a time when everyday Canadians are struggling to keep up with the rising cost of living, I cannot in good conscience accept the pay raise increase of nearly $10,000.
What would your family do with $10,000?
Which every member of parliament is set to receive, which points out that he's the only one to decline this.
It is frankly distasteful that parliamentarians are set to receive a raise while the working man and woman in this country hasn't seen a decent raise in decades.
Before becoming a member of parliament, I was a drywaller and a contractor.
So this is a topic which I know a thing or two about.
Therefore, please make the necessary arrangements with the payroll and benefits administration to ensure that this is done.
Respectfully, Mike Dawson, Miramichi, Grand Lake.
I don't know why I love that last part so much.
Me too.
It was like, figure out this payroll computer thingy.
Deal with it.
Because I don't want this.
And good on him.
You know, he reminds me of some of the old school reform MPs that were first getting elected back in the day.
I remember the late, God rest his soul, Chuck Cadman, would talk like this quite a bit.
So he came into parliament for a different reason.
It was because his teenage son, Jesse, was murdered.
And so that's why he felt the call to become an MP.
And here we are hearing from Mike Dawson saying that he felt the call because he wanted to help the working man and woman, especially in his riding.
And he can't with good conscience take this pay hike.
So like, I'm just so proud of him.
Like, we've been begging and pleading now for like five straight years for any MP of any party, frankly, to stand up and do this.
And so a little inside baseball.
Can I get into inside baseball?
Of course.
Okay.
So as of tape time while we're talking right now, they're all in the middle of, will just be finishing their caucuses.
So what happens on Wednesday mornings, folks, in Ottawa on Parliament Hill is all of the parties get in their own little party group behind closed doors and all of the members of parliament from that party, they have like a meeting and it usually lasts around three hours and there's a microphone in the middle of the room and they all kind of it's like the airing of grievances every Wednesday.
Festivus.
Wednesday festival.
It's wonderful.
And so apparently they can get pretty gnarly.
Good.
And, you know, which is good.
And that's where they bring up issues related to their constituents.
So like, this is what my folks are saying back home.
And this is what I think we should be focusing on.
Or I think the way you answered that question in the question period was stupid or whatever it is.
Our supporters and other people outside of the taxpayers federation.
I talked to Mike on the phone.
By the time we talked yesterday, he already had more than a thousand emails.
Oh, I'm so glad.
Thanking him.
And it's not just CTF, like regular riding folks who were hearing the news.
Like I'll cry.
But he had already gotten more than a thousand emails.
And I'm just so proud of people, of regular people standing up and being heard because it matters to him.
So he's going to be getting some gears, I imagine, in caucus.
A bit of significant.
Right, because he made everybody else look bad.
Sure did.
You know, there's a good solution for that, though, eh, Sheila.
The rest could do it too.
Yeah.
Seriously, they could all do it too.
All the conservatives should stand up and do this.
Frankly, all the NDP should stand up and do this because they're the party of the working man, I thought, right?
So they say, so they say they're more of the academics and the weirdos at this point.
I'm so glad we got to talk today.
But to your point, what you were talking about earlier, seriously, a backbench member of parliament.
And by that, we mean they don't have any extra house duties.
They're not sitting on any committees.
Okay.
No admin stuff that they have to do.
They're already paid more than $200,000 a year.
Yeah, I think it's $200,000.
It'll go, it'll be $208,000, I believe.
Like this is enough.
And on top of that.
Plus expenses.
Their expenses.
So many of their expenses are paid.
Again, I know people love these like little anecdotes from the Hill.
But even like during, okay, well, the parliament is in session.
Okay.
So what we see is the House of Commons with the green grass, like representative carpet and people sitting in their chairs.
Behind them, behind those golden curtains you see in the back sometimes, that's where they're called the lobbies.
That's where they go, like, you know, go get a drink and come back in or pass notes to each other.
Their meals are served to them in there.
Right.
It's like three hot meals a day.
And I mean like fancy stuff, all the juices you could imagine and steamed fish and like you name it.
And like all their per diem lunches are covered.
All their transportation for work is covered.
Like they're not hurting and they're paid 200 grand a year.
So good on Mike Dawson.
We really hope that he starts a trend here.
Now I see some naysayers saying online, well, he can't do this.
Like he can't reject it.
I believe he just did.
Yeah.
I believe he just did.
And even if, and he asked the payroll department to deal with it, which I thought was kind of cute.
But let's say he can't.
I firmly believe that Mike, if they make him take the money, he will do something good with it.
It won't end up in his pocket.
So two things.
And I'm not talking about Mike here.
Mike's a beauty.
Okay.
But when you hear more, how do I put this nicely?
More experienced members of parliament say something cute like what you just said of, oh, what are we to do?
We can't do anything, but I will promise Scout's Honor, donate this money to charity.
So on that, A, what that allows them to do is continue to collect their max pension afterwards.
Oh, because they get the tax credit.
Bingo.
So sorry to be a Debbie Downer, but yeah, because you take the best, I think it's the best four years or whatever it is of their earnings.
Once they're out, and that's how they calculate their big fat pensions.
And what you just said, they get the tax credit on top of it.
So while it is good-ish for them to say, oh, well, I will donate it to charity.
Okay.
But there's some catches there.
And two, this is what gets me.
And I'm talking directly to the liberals who hate watching your show for some reason.
I don't know why.
God bless you.
I'm talking directly to the governor.
I don't care.
Hi.
So I'm talking directly to you here.
Okay.
Again, we gave it a, we gave an award to former Prime Minister Paul Martin for slaying the deficit.
Okay.
We actually don't care what color jersey you're wearing.
We want good government.
So directly to the liberals who are watching this, who support Prime Minister Mark Carney, he can stop these MP pay raises now.
Right.
Now.
So when, especially when you hear a liberal member of parliament stand up on his or her hind legs and say, well, what are we to do?
These are just automatic pay increases.
You are legislators.
Legislators.
You make laws.
You're literally standing in the house where you create law.
You're the one in charge.
You can change all of this if you want to.
And frankly, if they can't figure out how to stop their pay raises, they probably don't deserve pay raises.
Well, I mean, this is the typical liberal thing where they're like, what do you want us to do?
Well, you're in charge.
You could like, you guys are the ones in charge.
You know, like you always see them say, well, you know, things are bad, but we're going to fix them.
You broke them.
Like, you broke them.
They always act like they don't know who's in charge of anything.
I know, like pitter patter.
Like, do it.
Yeah.
Fix it.
Like, this is like, this is like a janitor, which no janitor would do this because janitors actually do their jobs.
But this is like a janitor standing there, literally in a hallway with a broom in their hand.
And somebody like spills over a bunch of sawdust.
And it's like, well, what am I supposed to do?
Well, maybe get sweeping.
You're right there.
Like, and again, a janitor does a way better job than most members of parliament.
So, but straight up, kudos to Mike.
Like, I imagine be like Mike, refuse the hike.
We're so happy to see this.
And for folks who are saying numerically, like this doesn't really matter compared to the massive deficit, which is close to $80 billion with B, or the debt, which is over a trillion dollars.
I understand what you're saying.
But this is really important, okay, for leadership.
It's like the broken windows theory with crime.
Okay.
If you get leadership at the top of them saying, I'm going to freeze or cut pay for me and all of my boss colleagues, that changes the culture of entitlement.
It does in Ottawa because the fish rots from the head down.
And conversely, if they show leadership at the top, it changes the culture, man.
You'll start seeing bureaucracies reining in their spending, getting cut, reducing all their costs.
Like all it takes is a couple people to do it.
And I'm really hoping, honestly, that the liberal government does read the room and say, whoa, like we should probably like tap her cool here.
Government Meddling in Vehicle Choices00:06:39
Yeah, I mean, what did we get from the liberals?
Uh, Christy Freeland told us she canceled her Disney Plus, like that was the moral leadership that we got from the liberals on inflation.
So i'm really happy to see a, a rookie mp, taking this moral stance.
Uh, just switching lanes, something you wanted to talk about, and that is the ev goals for the federal government.
So They've apparently switched and they've backed off from the EV mandate.
So they say.
So if you get all your news from the mainstream media, and I know people watching this don't, the Canadian federal government has shifted its policy from a hard 2035 ban on new gas car sales to a new regulatory approach aiming for 75% zero emission vehicle sales by 2035 and 90% by 2040.
And then they've built in some incentives, of course.
So we're going to subsidize rich people to buy their hobby cars into this.
And I think even they had to admit that it was unsustainable and crazy, but it still remains unsustainable and crazy.
And as you point out, this is just shifting from hard targets into regulatory nonsense.
Exactly.
So thank you for giving me a chance to talk about this because so much of it got carried away in the ban is gone.
Yay, like the witch is dead.
But it's, I don't like saying this, but I think it could be worse, actually.
So first the good news, the government is in retreat on this.
Okay.
It's in reverse, so to speak.
So they realize that this is super unpopular, stupid, and they can't really get away with it up front.
Super similar to the consumer carbon tax.
So the consumer carbon tax win was better, though, because, you know, my gas is about 20 cents cheaper per liter here in Lethbridge because that consumer carbon tax is gone.
Of course, the devil's in the details where we still have two big hidden carbon taxes, but straight up, the consumer carbon tax is gone, which is very good.
With this, it's like, okay, they were going to outright ban them.
So starting in 11 months time, they were going to make it so that two out of every 10 cars sold at a dealership had to be a battery-powered vehicle, an EV.
Now they're like, oh, we're going to regulate it instead of mandating it instead, which is worse.
So instead of, you know, the bad guys metaphorically speaking coming up over the ridge wearing red coats, they're all now hiding in the bushes.
Okay.
We got to change.
And there's more of them.
Exactly.
We got to change our tactics here because Carney's trying to hide it in regulation.
And again, if people have not read this book yet, go read this book.
I know, like, blah, blah, blah.
You don't want to spend money on it, but take it out from the library, borrow it from a friend or something.
Read this book because Mark Carney wrote this.
All through it are things like why we need battery-powered vehicles, why carbon taxes are the best thing ever, ever, ever, why we need personal carbon accounts, which I don't understand yet.
So this guy wrote this book and he's got your wallet.
He's got your wallet.
Read this book.
So if you read that book, you understand that this is all just shifting to regulation now.
And so essentially what's happening is not forcing you, but taking away all your other vehicle choices until you comply.
Right.
Right.
So that's one.
Two.
Definitely not coercion.
Definitely not coercion.
So that's one thing.
And two, from the money side of things, this is where the taxpayers federation, we were like, wait, what?
Like, this is not going to work.
Like, not going to work.
Even the federal government, Sheila, so Natural Resources Canada did a huge study on this.
They're estimating that the transition to electric is going to cost more than $300 billion with a B. That's the feds estimating that.
Tack more money onto that one because they always underestimate.
And so his announcement didn't solve for that problem.
Right.
Like, okay, but you still want all of us driving battery-powered vehicles.
Where is the energy going to come from?
And where is the money going to come from to build the infrastructure?
Because when we all started driving gas-powered vehicles and when we want to stop at a local gas station, the government didn't build the gas station.
Right.
The economy and the market created it due to demand, convenience, and affordability.
Like, we're really worried that this is just shifting it so that it's camouflaged.
Right.
So again, I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but folks really have to keep paying attention to this because they're still going to try to dictate what kind of vehicle you can purchase and drive.
And essentially from the taxpayers' perspective, like we have unmoney.
Yeah.
Like the government can't afford this because taxpayers can't afford this.
So they shouldn't be doing this.
They shouldn't be meddling in the market this way.
And this is what liberals do.
They, particularly this batch of them, Mark Carney himself, they remove the consumer carbon tax, which we love, but then they move to hide it upstream in an industrial carbon tax that doesn't show up as a line item that enrages you on your gas bill.
And they're doing the same thing here.
It's exactly the same play.
So we're still going to be poorer because of it and have fewer choices and have government up in our grill dictating what kind of vehicles and stuff.
But again, like we don't have the money.
Like I'm starting to, in fact, I'm not going to say I'm starting to worry.
I think that a lot of humanities grads have gone into government and they've actually infected like econ now.
And I think for sure.
I think math is a social construct.
Yeah.
Or like money is a social construct.
It's not, but I think that's what they're thinking.
Why We're Broke00:05:58
And like, we can't keep this up, my friend.
No, no.
I think we're all going to get mugged by reality real quick.
That's a good way to put it.
Speaking of companies that should be mugged by reality or agencies that should be mugged by reality, but just aren't, let us talk about Canada Post because they have consumed another $1 billion in bailouts just recently.
And I think they lost already a billion dollars in 2025.
So and then over the course of seven straight years, they've lost a combined total of nearly $4 billion.
I think even last year, their like Canada Post itself was saying, we might be insolvent.
In a real, like in a real economy, they would just be closed.
And their persistent strikes and blackmail have caused people to move away from them because they are unreliable.
Like you can't go on strike as they did during the Christmas season when businesses rely on you and then think those businesses are going to come back.
They didn't.
No, they won't because they'll opt for a business that doesn't delay them doing business.
Right.
It doesn't hamstring them.
So I know people are bruised right now and it's not really a nice time and they don't like thinking about like losing an institution.
So I just wanted to preface that.
I get that.
I'm not nostalgic for Canada Post.
Are there people nostalgic for Canada Post out there?
There are.
You'd be surprised at the mail.
So I understand.
And I like the people who work for Canada Post.
The Ardrosson Post Office ladies, if you're watching, you are delightful.
My mother-in-law and the lady who works at the Canada Post Office, they share banana bread recipes.
Okay.
This isn't about you.
No.
This is about the big, the organization as a whole.
And this is not about my auntie, who is a postmistress in a taxicone in Maritimes.
I get all of that.
So that said, a company whose job it is to deliver stuff needs to be able to deliver stuff while turning a profit.
Yeah.
That's really the end of the sentence.
Yes.
It shouldn't be up to the taxpayer, okay, to try to subsidize and squeak it out and back you up and all this other stuff.
Like Canada Post needs to figure out how to make money delivering things.
There are other countries, Western countries that have figured this out.
Now, my data is a couple of years old.
So if it's changed, please forgive me.
But the Royal Mail, okay, in the UK, again, an iconic symbol, they apparently figured this out.
They figured out a way to keep their branding and keep their name and revitalize and change the way they do stuff and turn a profit so that they aren't tapping the UK taxpayer.
Now, again, something could have turned into a dumpster fire in the last couple of years, but last I looked, they were able to figure it out.
So at least they tried.
These people aren't even trying.
They can't.
And while they've always got daddy government or mommy, mommy taxpayer to go to, they're never going to get out of the basement.
So like, again, if we were flush with cash, like if we were just swimming in like an oil and gas fund like Norway or had big surpluses or something, okay, we could at least entertain a conversation about having like a hobby of having a government run postal service for some reason.
But we don't.
We are more than a trillion dollars in debt.
The interest on our debt alone is costing us a billion dollars a week.
So we are in like the triage moment right now of they need to stop all excess spending.
So we need to stop trying to run a delivery company that can't deliver things.
We need to stop trying to run a train company like with VIA.
They need to get rid of all of their hemorrhaging crown corporations, including the CBC, and severely cut spending.
Canada Post is another example of this.
Yeah, I mean, I guess if we existed in a world where there was nobody else who could move your parcels and letters, maybe, but there are other companies that seem to do it successfully and on time.
Likewise, with the news and television, there are other companies that do it without, you know, the taxpayer backstopping everything.
But I guess there's some portion of the population that might be a little bit older that remembers a Canada that just really doesn't exist anymore.
I know, and I'm sorry.
I am.
Yes.
As a student of history, I'm sorry, but that doesn't exist anymore.
And it used to be back in the day in Ontario, they had to like write a little note and hand it to the person behind the counter that would then like quietly hand you your alcohol in a brown box.
Like that was the case right up and through the 60s and stuff.
So like we used to have government telecoms.
Okay.
AGT, AGT in Alberta, Alberta government telephones.
We had BC Tel in British Columbia.
Like I get it.
I get it.
But we cannot afford nostalgia on the backs of taxpayers, especially when it's run by the government, which is terrible at doing things.
Like the last thing we should ever want is the government trying to run something or the government trying to backstop something because they're awful at it.
Like again, they have already spent, I think it last I looked, I couldn't believe it, Sheila.
I think it was $5 billion trying to fix the Phoenix payroll system.
Rebel's Call to Action00:04:04
Yeah.
Which is their own government payroll software.
Like, and they haven't figured that out.
So yeah, this is again, we've got kids.
You and I've got kids like they can't afford this.
Like it's already going to be tough enough to pay for the basics that we expect, like border security and military and stuff.
Like government backed up posts.
No, sorry.
Yeah.
It's got to go.
It's just good money after bad over and over and over again.
Chris, tell people how they can support the incredible work that you guys do over at the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
You're really working hard to hold the government to account on so many of their bad ideas from the gun grab to carbon taxes and even conservative politicians calling out Tony Wakem for spending.
So you take no prisoners, you play no favorites.
No, we don't.
I just really want to thank you, Sheila, for having us on your show.
Thank you to all the viewers and listeners of Rebel.
Rebel is independent journalism.
And I've been a journalist my whole life.
And if you're government funded, you're not a journalist.
And so Rebel is independent journalism.
Thank you for watching this show.
Please go to our website, taxpayer.com.
You don't need to spend a dollar.
Okay.
Sign the petitions that speak to you, that matter to you, things like defunding the CBC, things like taking the sales tax off of threshold items.
Yes.
You know, let's stop attacking poor people.
Sign those ones.
And then when it's time for us all to say, excuse me, email a politician or take action, like cutting the MP pay hike.
Or thanking Mike.
Thanking Mike Dawson.
Okay.
Like he's got more than a thousand emails.
When it's time for us all to act at once, now you're part of the team.
And in the meantime, you get updates from our newsletters and stuff.
It's really a form of fellowship and you feel less alone in this fight.
So yeah, thank you, Sheila, and to Rebel for including us.
And for folks who are listening out there, I just want to remind people, like, you're not alone.
No.
Okay.
You're not alone.
We're all in this fight together.
So just sign up to our different organizations' emails and stuff with Rebel and CTF and you'll part of the team.
Yeah, there's a government being bad issue for everybody over at the CTF.
There's, you know, they're all for me, but whatever your problem is with the government, the CTF is fighting for you.
Yeah.
Amen.
Yes.
Chris, thanks so much for coming on the show.
Thanks so much for taking the time.
The world is ugly, but I think wake up every day and just try to straighten out the chaos in front of you is the best that we can do.
God love you, Sheila.
Thank you.
Thanks.
All right, friends.
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Now, today's gun show letter comes to me from someone who had written to me previously.
And I read their email.
I just didn't respond to it.
If I responded to it on air, it might have gotten me in a little bit of trouble that I care all that much, but we did get remonetized on YouTube and I sort of don't want to damage that.
Terrence's Take on Liberals00:02:24
But it comes to me from Terrence.
And Terrence says, Hi, Sheila.
I recently sent you an email outlining my take on liberals.
Further reflection allows me to realize that my comments were obviously abrasive enough to be canceled on YouTube.
While that exercise allowed me an opportunity to vent and hopefully offered you some mild amusement, I now withdraw those comments and offer you a much more sanitized version as follows.
And I'm going to share that with all of you.
This Albertans take on liberals.
I lived my early childhood years in the 1950s and my teens in the 1960s.
What I remember of those formative years was that Canada as a country came closer than any other in history to being an idyllic paradise.
Fathers worked and mothers stayed home to raise the children.
A single income was sufficient for all of life's needs.
We all seemed happy and were deeply patriotic.
We were proud of our country.
Our armed forces were highly respected and state-of-the-art.
Then came the first Trudeau and things started to collapse.
By the end of Justin Trudeau's rule, Canada was no longer the country I grew up in.
We had been indoctrinated into hating ourselves and our country.
Then came Kearney, who is determined to turn Canada into a satellite of communist China.
The Canada I once knew is dead and gone, but we can get it back.
Now Albertans have an opportunity to restore that original spirit of Canada, but it can only exist within the boundaries of a free and separate Alberta.
Then my grandchildren and great-grandchildren will be able to experience the paradise of my youth, the good Lord willing.
Best regards, Terrence, in beautiful Lacombe, Alberta.
Terrence, I'm telling you, lots of separatists, many of whom are reluctant, feel the same way.
They feel that the Canada they once knew doesn't exist anymore, but they do feel the potential for it to regain ground within the confines of Alberta.
So while many separatists still feel nostalgic for Canada, they feel that the only hope to regain what Canada once was is to do it from outside of Canada.
That's a great letter.
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