Klahowya, sikhs tillikum!
Hello, friend!
Figure BC should regain our independence? You're not alone. Have trouble explaining why to others? Maybe some of the material on the site will help. Help yourself to anything. Print, pass around, maika tumtum-whatever you like. I hope you find something useful.
David in North Burnaby
Okoke naika illahee, okoke maika illahee, okoke nesaika illahee.
This is my country, this is your country, this is our country.
FEATURED ARTICLES
Think an independent BC is a new idea? Think again. Check out this bit of op/ed from a 1934 Vancouver Sun.
Rafe Mair on Canada's attitude toward BC and the inevitability of separation.
An exclusive Western Standard poll shows more than a third of those west of Ontario are thinking of separating from Canada. And its far from the "fringes" now.
Michael Campbell on the economic benefits of separation.
Gordon Gibson lays it on the line.
The Government of British Columbia on the cost of confederation with Canada (courtesy LGilbert in Harrop)
In Canada West Foundation polls in 2003 and 2004 an average of 70% of British Columbians agreed BC's interests were poorly or very poorly represented in confounderation.
In Canada West Foundation polls in 2001, 03 and 04 an average of 20% of British Columbians agreed BC would be economically better off with independence.
My two cents worth essays: on independence
The Folly of the "New Reformers
Thoughts on the election of BC's President and the Houses
"They treat us like a damn colony!"
The Independence Movement and BC First Nations
Humbly submitted for your consideration:
Voices from elsewhere:
EXPLODING THE MYTH OF "CANADA THE GOOD".
Was Canada Just Too Good to Be True? The NY Times questions Canada's image of itself. " ... But even as the "sponsorship scandal" has unfolded, one unseemly chapter after another, Prime Minister Paul Martin has held fast, in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, to a cherished Liberal Party script: Canada as a singularly virtuous country that adheres more than most to values like honesty, decency, fairness and multiethnic equality, not to mention publicly financed universal health care. ..."
Imagined Nation -An Ontarian who sees through the lies. " ...We are reduced to waving a Canadian flag--and that is itself an imposture. The current Canada is something that was invented from scratch, in Liberal party advertising agencies, and dates approximately from the invention of that flag, in 1964. But successive Liberal governments could think of nothing with which to replace the old symbols. Hence, a "new Canada," defined by a bunch of nothings. ..."
The Oil for Food Scam - The Canadian Connection: "... Power Corporation, an appropriately named Canadian company that has a shocking track record of 'business' relationships with the worst gangsters and tyrannical regimes in the world. BNP Paribas also has one other distinguishing feature: a direct corporate and familial relationship with the persons running the government of Canada for the last 20 years. ..."
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