Liberal Minority Government 2025 - ???

[brihard]

Not you, her.

I think you were right on the money about her deliberately tanking PP, because thats the deliberately inflamatory demand list you throw on the table in order to A. Inevitably point to not everything getting met. B. Provoke responses from well, everyone, that you can use to manipulate your populace.

C. Distract from a growing corruption scandal in your health ministry.

 

[MilEME09]

C. Distract from a growing corruption scandal in your health ministry.

 

[daftandbarmy]

C. Distract from a growing corruption scandal in your health ministry.

D. Your 'Royal Rug'

‘Stains, rips and tears’: Alberta government defends $280K carpet in Smith’s office | Globalnews.ca

The government says the previous carpet in the 6,500 square foot legislature space was more than 20 years old and riddled with rips and stains.

globalnews.ca

 

[lenaitch]

Alberta wants the feds to butt out of provincial matters, but wants the feds to guarantee transportation access to all points of compass for a land locked province, and repeal laws that are clearly within the federal mandate like ocean tankers restrictions.


Hmmm.

 

[RangerRay]

As Jen Gerson said, she’s being a coward for not coming right out and saying where she stands. She’s winking and nodding to the seppies while saying she wants “sovereignty association”. She’s managed to talk out of both sides of her mouth and was as subtle about it as a 2x4 between the eyes.

You know what Danielle? Just come right out and declare you’re a seppie. You’re not fooling anyone with your “I’m just asking questions” routine.

 

[MilEME09]

There is a prevailing opinion in the general public from people I have talked to that they believe Smith trying to ditch the RCMP is her trying to derail the investigation by kicking them out so they do not have jurisdiction in AB. She really isn't fooling anyone here, except maybe reporter Rick Bell.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Alberta wants the feds to butt out of provincial matters, but wants the feds to guarantee transportation access to all points of compass for a land locked province, and repeal laws that are clearly within the federal mandate like ocean tankers restrictions.


Hmmm.

Meanwhile, Oil prices are heading south. Without higher oil prices, Alberta will quickly adopt the posture of a failed state...

U.S. crude oil closes at lowest level since 2021 after OPEC+ agrees to production surge in June​

Oil prices in April posted the biggest monthly loss since 2021, as U.S. President Trump’s higher tariffs have raised fears of a recession that would slow demand for oil at the same time that OPEC+ is quickly increasing supply.

“Our key conviction remains that high spare capacity and high recession risk skew the risks to oil prices to the downside despite relatively tight spot fundamentals,” Daan Struyven, Goldman’s head of oil research, told clients in a report on Sunday. The investment bank has cut its forecast for U.S. crude prices this year by $3 to $56 per barrel.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/04/us-oil-prices-tumble-after-opec-agrees-to-surge-production-in-june.html

 

[MilEME09]

Meanwhile, Oil prices are heading south. Without higher oil prices, Alberta will quickly adopt the posture of a failed state...

U.S. crude oil closes at lowest level since 2021 after OPEC+ agrees to production surge in June​

Oil prices in April posted the biggest monthly loss since 2021, as U.S. President Trump’s higher tariffs have raised fears of a recession that would slow demand for oil at the same time that OPEC+ is quickly increasing supply.

“Our key conviction remains that high spare capacity and high recession risk skew the risks to oil prices to the downside despite relatively tight spot fundamentals,” Daan Struyven, Goldman’s head of oil research, told clients in a report on Sunday. The investment bank has cut its forecast for U.S. crude prices this year by $3 to $56 per barrel.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/04/us-oil-prices-tumble-after-opec-agrees-to-surge-production-in-june.html

Wonder how fast Smiths tune would change with Pink slips in the oil patch

 

[McG]

Wonder how fast Smiths tune would change with Pink slips in the oil patch

She will blame the federal government for the price of oil in Alberta, and double down on her separatist ambitions.

 

[Maxman1]

It’s also one thing for someone to be offering positions and policies from a chair that’s not at the head of the table. Advisors offer advice within their portfolio, from where they sit.

Like when British politicians complained about Carney constantly making unsolicited advice on Brexit as governor of the Bank of England?

There are mutterings that the summer recess may be abbreviated or abandoned.

Good. They've had over six months off.

Are you familiar with the concept of a blind trust? You no longer know what assets are in there; the administrator is a fiduciary, and acts as such, but you have no control over those assets.

Are  you familiar with a blind trust? It's not an amnesia ray, you don't magically forget what you put into it. A beneficiary can leave general instructions on what they want, and it's absolutely unheard of for a trustee to unilaterally liquidate the holdings in a trust.

 

[Maxman1]

Also, these clowns are at it again…

Longest ballot group takes aim at Alberta byelection where Pierre Poilievre plans to run

Group says it’s trying to get attention to push for electoral reform

www.theglobeandmail.com

My biggest question is why? Their motivation is supposedly from Trudeau backing out of electoral reform, something Poilievre had no involvement in and never promised. And they didn't target any other leaders' ridings.

 

[Jarnhamar]

My biggest question is why? Their motivation is supposedly from Trudeau backing out of electoral reform, something Poilievre had no involvement in and never promised. And they didn't target any other leaders' ridings.

It's almost as if their electoral reform "protest" is a cover for trying to stymie Poilievre.