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Originally Posted by bizaro86
It isn't even that they're wasting time on this when they could be doing something more important.
It's that they don't have the jurisdiction to change this - it's a provincial decision. Given their relationship with the UCP they don't even plausibly have influence on this.
If they want to try and make the UCP look bad to try and get change to happen (which would be a reasonable strategy) this issue is probably ineffective. Taking free money from the feds and issuing press releases about how the UCP is stopping us from getting our fair share would be better.
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Over the last ten years a number of cities across Canada have passed motions on PR voting rights or have asked the provincial governments to change requirements including Vancouver, Victoria, Toronto and Halifax (maybe more as well.) It hasn't gone anywhere but maybe Calgary/Alberta are different and we can set a precedent. Or it's just Calgary's turn to virtue signal.