Alberta government thread

[Lumber]

Careful @CBH99 @QV @Jarnhamar

Also curious what their opinions are on circumcisions.

 

[Altair]

Also used for precocious puberty defined as going into puberty before age 8, affecting 1 in every 5000 girls, slightly less frequent in boys. You can imagine how self concision a 8 year old or younger might get if they started going though puberty so early.

The cruelty is a feature, not a bug.

 

[Halifax Tar]

Also curious what their opinions are on circumcisions.

 

[MilEME09]

and then there were 14, more recall petitions approved today, totaling almost 1/3 of the UCP's MLA's. In reality with the current make up of the legislature, if 5 of these are successful the UCP would lose its majority government. Setting a show down of either a general election or the NDP forming government

 

[Altair]

and then there were 14, more recall petitions approved today, totaling almost 1/3 of the UCP's MLA's. In reality with the current make up of the legislature, if 5 of these are successful the UCP would lose its majority government. Setting a show down of either a general election or the NDP forming government

Taiwan has shown me to not have high expectations of these things.

 

[brihard]

and then there were 14, more recall petitions approved today, totaling almost 1/3 of the UCP's MLA's. In reality with the current make up of the legislature, if 5 of these are successful the UCP would lose its majority government. Setting a show down of either a general election or the NDP forming government

Meh. It’s theatre. A succesful recall petition requires 60% of the number of votes cast in the last election. If succesful, that triggers a recall vote- kind of a byelection for just that riding, where it’s a strict thumbs up or thumbs down on the current MLA. Only if that succeeds on a majority of votes cast is the seat vacated.

 

[MilEME09]

Meh. It’s theatre. A succesful recall petition requires 60% of the number of votes cast in the last election. If succesful, that triggers a recall vote- kind of a byelection for just that riding, where it’s a strict thumbs up or thumbs down on the current MLA. Only if that succeeds on a majority of votes cast is the seat vacated.

indeed its a high bar, but take for example the education minister, the bar is about 16000 votes, last election he only got about 11, so if he gets recalled successfully, and they all then show up to vote against him, he's gone

 

[RangerRay]

Taiwan BC has shown me to not have high expectations of these things.

FTFY

From Wikipedia:

Twenty-six recall petitions have been launched as of 2020; of the six completed petitions returned to Elections BC, five were rejected for having too few valid signatures.<a href="Recall election - Wikipedia"><span>[</span>14<span>]</span></a> The sixth, on the recall of MLA Paul Reitsma, was halted after Reitsma resigned in 1998 during the secondary verification stage.

Reitsma was unique in that he was embroiled in a scandal where he was writing fake letters to the editor and embarrassed the constituents. The rest were partisan activists trying to run the last election.

Recall election - Wikipedia

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