Today Canada celebrated its 150th birthday. And of course the celebrations were best in Ottawa. Out west, it gives us reason to pause and take stock of our place in this country that is taking the road to a society that values immigrants that may or may not be here legally and hold cultures radically different to what has grown in Canada over the past 150 years.

I, for one, am ever more convinced that this country is becoming more and more a failed experiment where citizens have to be told why they are proud and the penalties for not complying with the governmental dictates of what makes a “good” Canadian.

Often, I am asked, “Why separate? Why is the west so upset?”

Well, at our 150th Canada Day here are 50 reasons for the West to be amicably parting ways. Not in any particular order although it might appear to be…

1. Pierre Elliot Trudeau
2. N.E.P.
3. Justin Trudeau
4. Low political representation
5. Politicians pandering to the east
6. Equalization
7. Taxation without adequate representation
8. Undue attention to Quebec at the West’s expense
9. Isolated from the seat of power in Ottawa
10. Geographic difficulties for travel
11. Forced Multiculturalism
12. Official languages
13. Gun Registry and excessive control
14. Protection of the guilty over the victim
15. M-103
16. C-6
17. Triple E Senate / Senate reform
18. Creeping Shariah
19. Socialism
20. Open hostility to Alberta Oil
21. Lack of support in emergencies
22. Clarity Act
23. Westerners treated as hicks and knuckle draggers
24. Canadian Constitution favours Quebec
25. Uncontrolled immigration from Islamic countries
26. Quiet Western majority want it
27. Tired of eastern platitudes
28. Western trade policies dictated by the east
29. No property rights
30. Separation of executive powers to end Prime Ministerial dictatorship
31. Desire for an Elected and accountable Judiciary
32. Equality and treatment of all people
33. Lack of recall legislation
34. Term limits
35. Carbon Tax cash grab
36. Concern for our children
37. Biased media
38. Outside interference in internal affairs
39. Ideological split between east and west
40. Votes west of Manitoba Ontario border meaningless
41. Blockading our products from international markets
42. Medical controlled by Ottawa
43. Controlling our destiny
44. Islamic terrorism
45. Court action against veterans
46. Political correctness
47. Interprovincial trade barriers
48. Leftist infiltration of Universities
49. Using the police to enforce cultural destruction
50. The CBC

Hopefully there isn’t any significant repetition, I do try to be accurate.

Think about it, and Happy Canada Day.