All Things AB Separatism (split fm Liberal Minority Government 2025 - ???)

[foresterab]

So who exactly do they wish to exclude? Or is the real goal to break the provinces growth off at the knees?

The second asks whether the province should refuse to provide programs to non-citizens and non-permanent residents "unless they have been granted an Alberta government-approved immigration permit."

When I think of...I don't know....the TransCanada Highway beside me....and the number of travellers who break down/need assistance due to poor luck....do they qualifiy?

When I think of the companies who play the HR OT rules between provinces to cut down employee pay (lower OT threshold in BC so you start your shift there) but they didn't immigrate to AB. Oh wait we want inter-provincial trade barriers down so that also means you don't have to have your HQ in Alberta to work there...

I have many words...a scarce few over 4 letters...to describe what a dumpster fire of an idea this is.

 

[MilEME09]

Amazing that a combination of 0.8% of the population (Mennonites) and 0.4% (Hutterites) account for such a low vaccination rate. It must be the Mormons then (1.7%); wait, their church leadership came out during the pandemic that it was okay to be vaccinated. [/sarcasm]

Given that 19% of the population isn't rural, and the majority of that is over th age of 54, access is possibly an issue as well, and education.

 

[Blackadder1916]

ANOTHER referendum question in the air?

Alberta Next survey asks if province should withhold social services for immigrants

CALGARY - Whether Alberta should withhold social services from immigrants is among the issues Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is tabling for debate this summer when she travels the province to

www.thecanadianpressnews.ca

From the site, intriguing that separation isn't mentioned as something input is being sought about ...
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... although "constitutional changes" could mean almost anything by the time it gets to a question, right?

One of the people appointed to the Alberta Next panel was the recently elected (in Monday's by-election) MLA for Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills, Tara Sawyer. On this morning's 'Calgary Eyeopener' (CBC Radio), she was briefly interviewed about the panel as well as her recent election, with a specific question about the separation issue and the showing of the Alberta Republican Party in her riding. Her response (which I've transcribed here) caught my attention.

"We need to stay a strong United Conservative Party and there is no need to be fractured into another party that frankly isn't offering anything we aren't already offering."

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-5-calgary-eyeopener/clip/16154505-tara-sawyer

As the "other party's" primary platform is separation, what exactly is the new MLA suggesting?

 

[The Bread Guy]

... As the "other party's" primary platform is separation, what exactly is the new MLA suggesting?

That UCP still needs to feed a bit of (even-diluted) red meat to keep enough of the base to keep going?

 

[Blackadder1916]

My question was mostly rhetorical. I see the pandering to the base but I become less and less of the opinion that Ms. Smith is only pandering and this will get out of hand.

 

[RangerRay]

My question was mostly rhetorical. I see the pandering to the base but I become less and less of the opinion that Ms. Smith is only pandering and this will get out of hand.

There’s pandering, but what happens when those being pandered to demand satisfaction?

 

[MilEME09]

Well the Alberta next panel survey is out, and once you get past the lovely propaganda video thats full of falsehoods, you start getting to each question... but with a pre determined outcome because just like the Russian referendum in crimea, you aren't allowed a negative opinion.

 

[RangerRay]

Well the Alberta next panel survey is out, and once you get past the lovely propaganda video thats full of falsehoods, you start getting to each question... but with a pre determined outcome because just like the Russian referendum in crimea, you aren't allowed a negative opinion.

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Oh I hate those kind of surveys! Makes it a useless exercise in that case.

 

[MilEME09]

Oh I hate those kind of surveys! Makes it a useless exercise in that case.

This part is even more hilarious , here take our survey but we aren't liable for it

https://twitter.com/x/status/1938308298383757378

 

[lenaitch]

My question was mostly rhetorical. I see the pandering to the base but I become less and less of the opinion that Ms. Smith is only pandering and this will get out of hand.

I've always felt her pandering was towards federalism. She's watched Quebec get all sorts of first-among-equal concessions from the federal government for years and wants in on the action.

 

[The Bread Guy]

This part is even more hilarious , here take our survey but we aren't liable for it

https://twitter.com/x/status/1938308298383757378

Good catch - refreshingly honest for a government information machine