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Originally Posted by Slava

The royalty review matters because a competent government would’ve done what every party does when they campaign on dumb things. They could’ve reversed their course. When the federal Liberals campaigned on removing the GST, they bailed on that, because it was the sensible thing to do.

Competent government, competent leader.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1194693739802849280

https://pressprogress.ca/calgary-rad...tish-columbia/

With talk of Alberta separatist sentiment running high, right-wing Calgary radio host Danielle Smith spent part of Wednesday’s broadcast pondering whether Alberta could expand its territory to the Pacific Ocean — by taking over half of British Columbia.

Smith, the former leader of Alberta’s Wildrose Party who now hosts a daily radio show on Calgary’s News Talk 770, welcomed a guest to start a “conversation” about whether Alberta could “redraw” its provincial borders.

Gerard Lucyshyn, a senior fellow at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, told Smith about a recent report he authored at the right-wing think tank which advocates “redrawing” Alberta and Saskatchewan’s borders in order to “secure tide-water rights for the Prairie provinces.”

At one point in the show, Smith said Alberta’s boundaries are “totally arbitrary.”

“We only established our boundaries in 1905,” Smith noted. “If it’s only been 120 years or so, 115 years, why couldn’t we reconsider what our boundaries are and redraw them once again?”

Smith further suggested Alberta could “renegotiate our borders” in order to “correct this historic problem.”

While she conceded she does not know “if this would fly,” the former Wildrose leader ended her segment by concluding that the idea of a “new province of Alberta” that includes territory taken away from BC deserves some serious thought.

“Jeepers, if it’s as easy as an Order-in-Council, I say let’s maybe look at doing this,” Smith said.