Ronald isn’t running for office, I am sad to say, although his son Brian is, or might be, depending on whether the New Democratic Party picks him as a candidate in the Alberta riding of Edmonton-Sherwood Park. Brian says he’d prefer not to talk about his dad, who is doing time on 31 counts related to firearms and threatening Premier Ed Stelmach and his cows, plus threatening to dig up the premier’s potatoes or something, which was a bogus bust anyway. Besides, he’d had a couple of drinks at the time. But Ronald’s speech from the dock was as ripping a stemwinder any New Democrat has delivered in quite some while, let me tell you:

As I stated on September 7, 2007 – Somebody should shoot his cows and livelihood right down the pipeline to the United States in the exact same fashion that he is sending perfectly good jobs down the pipeline. . . The same concern for Alberta’s labor force was not displayed after he won that leadership election. On September 12, 2007, then Labor Minister Iris Evans threatened Union Laborers with a “Go back to work or go to jail” order. . .I believe it is important to mention that I have been found guilty and will be held accountable for the threats I made, but as of this date, Iris Evans has not been arrested or even charged for uttering threats of jail time against the construction workers of this province for their refusal to work for what they believed to be unfair wages, paid by oil companies operating in this province who are currently making profits as high as twelve hundred dollars per SECOND, on the back of their labor and are highly subsidized by the government to do so.

The rest here.