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Originally Posted by Makarov
I agree that a diligent, competent and earnest premier might carefully weigh all of the potential benefits and costs and risks to Albertans and might arrive at the position that, all things considered, breaking ranks with fellow premiers and advocating to the US President alone is the best path forward for Albertans. However, I have zero confidence that Premier Smith is diligent, competent or earnest. I have zero confidence that she engaged in any sort of consideration or weighing of the above risks. I have zero confidence that she had any real prospect of success by talking to Trump alone.
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OK, then we're on exactly the same page on everything with the exception of the bolded, and I don't think it's a difficult risk analysis to perform overall. But maybe I am somehow underestimating the negative impact of having one premier "break ranks" here... it seems like either she is successful (agreed, unlikely prospect) or her attempt has no real effect on anything.
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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Except that it wouldn't be best for the RoC, unless things really really got out of hand. And I think most of the premiers are smart enough to see that(and would listen to their advisors).
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This is a fairly insane take given that the premiers of other provinces
routinely take asinine anti-Alberta positions for local political purposes that are, on the whole, economically harmful to the RoC by virtue of throwing Alberta under the bus.