To the barricades! The perfidious Albertans dare to threaten us? We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
Or, being British Columbians, we shall sit in Starbucks nursing a latte and feeling deeply wounded that Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, who seems like such a nice person in so many respects, is acting like the second coming of Stephen Harper.
Notley — who claims to be a New Democrat, but talks like Peter Lougheed — cut off negotiations about buying electricity from B.C. because our government wants to put restrictions on the amount of heavy oil that could cross our province. And then on Tuesday, she announced Alberta would stop importing B.C. wines. The loss of electricity sales would cost our province $500 million a year. And Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — that false friend — stands with her in these outrages.
Think what you will about pipelines, bitumen and oil tankers, no British Columbian worth the name could hear such ultimatums without a surge of patriotic outrage. It’s not about the money, it’s a matter of pride. How could we look at ourselves in the mirror if we yielded to such flagrant bullying?
Now is the time to forget our differences and unite against the common foe, because, let’s face it, this proves they’re all against us.
We knew in our hearts that we were alone out here in the true west. The Easterners start at Fernie.
You don’t want our electricity, Premier Notley? Fine, we won’t send you any — and you and your constituents can drink Alberta wine while you freeze in the dark.
(That didn’t sound too harsh, did it?)
