OLD MAN MIKULA’S CONTROVERSIAL OPINIONS: Cancel Culture Claims New Victim
The PC police have won another victory by not only firing elections commissioner Lorne Gibson, but dissolving his position entirely. Here is a man who was doing his job, extremely well at that. It appears that level of straight-shooting integrity doesn’t sit well with the UCP. All Gibson did was issue a little over $200,000 in fines related to Jeff “Always a Kamikaze, Never a Candidate” Callaway’s role in the UCP leadership race.
The thought police would have you believe these fines are the equivalent of saying that the UCP are a recklessly corrupt buffet of malice and incompetence so shitty at their jobs they aren’t capable of even a minimum standard of ethical governance. I never heard Lorne say that, but then again I’m just a severely normal Albertan. I don’t have a fancy salary, a staff of well-paid helpers, or more than one suit. Alls I have is a self that needs pulling up via my bootstraps. Maybe this is what happens when the rest of your “job” consists of twiddling your thumbs on a panel exploring a fair deal for Alberta that doesn’t do anything more than dredge up pie in sky, money hemorrhaging, passion projects that were considered and discarded years ago. You have plenty of time to dream up new ways to feel threatened and offended.
Anyhow, UCP didn’t like what they heard, so they fired him. They were so afraid of any feedback they had to limit debate on the bill to three hours. What happened to conversation? To discussion? Everyone is fine with an echo-chamber circle jerk on social media sites like MySpace and Nexopia, but honest conversation with a differing worldview? Forget about it.
All the while Jason Kenney, the leader of the party, was in Texas. He was proving to potential investors what a big man he was by participating in the southern tradition of lubing up with barbecue sauce and wrestling in a mud pit. While not grappling with semi-nude Texans in tangy mesquite competition, he was tweeting about trains and whining to Trudeau. We’ve not heard a peep from the Premier about the sacking of Lorne Gibson. We Albertans respect your right to live in a fantasy world, Mr. Kenny, but please respect the rest of us who need to work for a living.
Finance Minister Travis Toews would have us believe this is merely a cost cutting measure and nothing more. It will save the province $1 million over five years. This is what we’ve come to? Nickel and diming hard working Albertans for the amount of money Patrick D Daniel fishes out of his folds after he falls asleep on his couch? I guess they needed to find a way to pay for the $900,000 sole source contract that horrid sycophantic ghoul Steve Allen to bequeath to his son’s law firm for an inquiry into a foreign smear campaign against Alberta oil. I can tell you where that foreign smear is coming from. It’s not the Rockefellers, it’s the fact that you’ve been expecting an underpaid staffer to wipe your ass for you. Case closed. That will be $2.5 million, please.
Anyway, many of the crepe-paper skinned MLAs were made extremely uncomfortable by Lorne Gibson, and these days when someone’s precious land of fairy tale ideals is challenged this is what happens. Sad.
Top photo: Jason Kenney Instagram
