Alberta Politics & Government Thread 3.0

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by edslunch

Way to keep the temperature down Dani

She needs a grievance to complain about a few times a month to cover up her massive failures in governance here. Trump strategy of distract from what's going on at home by striking out elsewhere.

[puffnstuff]

Sean Fraser said no to dani on judges

https://www.ipolitics.ca/2026/02/04/...-appointments/

[Wolven]

Originally Posted by puffnstuff

Sean Fraser said no to dani on judges

https://www.ipolitics.ca/2026/02/04/...-appointments/

That's awesome. I appreciate that he is calling her out pretty hard in his response:

He added that the existing selection process protects the independence of the judiciary and the rule of law.

“We need to rigorously adhere to the boundaries of the Constitution, including the need to protect the independence of the judiciary,” Fraser said before the weekly Liberal caucus meeting.

“These are values that we have taken for granted for many years as Canadians, but as examples around the world have showcased, nowhere is safe from democratic backsliding, and if we’re going to have a functioning democracy, an independent judiciary is a key part of it.”

The UCP are democratic backsliders.

[TheIronMaiden]

Man I was just telling my American girlfriend how Canadians generally did not politicize the supreme court. Way to go Dani,

[Monahammer]

Originally Posted by Locke

Yeah man...I dont even know. Ultimately I think the separation concept is remarkably short-sighted and inherently flawed.

I wish I could say something along the lines of it being some sort of 5D Chess Political strategy to wrangle some concessions out of Ottawa but even that theory would make a little too much sense for the Pro-Separation crowd.

So...I dont believe that anymore. I think some people genuinely want Alberta to separate and I just cant circle that square in my mind.

It's because their family trees resemble circles.

[Weitz]

I can’t help but think that’s exactly the kind of response the UCP is looking for.

[direwolf]

Originally Posted by puffnstuff

Sean Fraser said no to dani on judges

https://www.ipolitics.ca/2026/02/04/...-appointments/

Good. Smith can take her stupid undemocratic demands and f*** right off.

[woob]

Originally Posted by Weitz

I can’t help but think that’s exactly the kind of response the UCP is looking for.

Exactly. They only care about the constitution when it benefits them.

Same as this whole sovereign Alberta in a United Canada. Its nothing more than "we want to eat our own cake but also want to eat the parts of Canada's cake we actually like. And they have to cut it and present it to us how we like it"

[Wolven]

Originally Posted by Weitz

I can’t help but think that’s exactly the kind of response the UCP is looking for.

I keep trying to think about what the play is. I guess they try to harvest sound bites to make this more bait for the rage farm.

However, what this really shows is more hypocrisy. The UCP cry about overreach but demonstrate overreach in both directions at every chance they get. They mess with municipalities and continuously threaten them with takeover or dissolution. They also attack and meddle with the Feds, fight their programs and their agendas and try to take over and deviate things that the Feds are responsible for.

I would really hope that Carney punches back, hard. It is the only way to deal with these weak wannabe dictators like Smith.

It could be a really short letter:

"We tried to work with the Alberta government but their unreasonable demands and overreach into areas that are not their concern are making us reconsider previous agreements."

Following that, the Feds should trigger Disallowance and strike down all of the Notwithstanding Clause legislation in Alberta.

Then let the fireworks really go. The UCP will quickly find out how little support they actually have to be an embarassment on the national stage.

[Superflyer]

Originally Posted by Captain Otto

Even the equalization payment thing is a mystery. Sure we pay more into the pot because our province has more money generally due to the OG industry.
That's just life living in any country.

Not to mention, Alberta benefitted from those payments in the 60's which helped finance the oil industry.

So they are complaining now that we pay more but we didn't hear a peep out of anyone when we were receiving.

The amount of people that complain about transfer payments is nuts. They all think that Dani actually cuts a cheque to each province from the government of Alberta. Really, when I hear people say this I immediately just ignore them because they have no idea about how things work.
Even this weekend on the news they were talking about a petition signing in Didsbury or someplace and they interview the people signing and two of them bring up transfer payments and the others are just saying generic send a message to Ottawa statements. It seems none of them really have thoughts, its just following the heard.

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by Captain Otto

Even the equalization payment thing is a mystery. Sure we pay more into the pot because our province has more money generally due to the OG industry.
That's just life living in any country.

Not to mention, Alberta benefitted from those payments in the 60's which helped finance the oil industry.

So they are complaining now that we pay more but we didn't hear a peep out of anyone when we were receiving.

Calgary should get transfer payments from the rural areas on their logic.

[Fuzz]

Carney must be so sick of her already. The irony of Alberta being a squeaky wheel, with all this grease around. I haven't heard of any other premiers who have spent the last year relentlessly whinging about everything. Shut the #### up already, you stupid ####.

[GioforPM]

I would bet a lot of money that I could name a judge and Dani couldn't tell me if they are a Chretien, Harper or Trudeau era appointment.

[calgarygeologist]

Nenshi and the Alberta centrists should start a new party if the traditional/national NDP is being a drag. Any of the traditional NDP MLAs or candidates such as Hoffman can stick with the current party if they feel that a more left option is appropriate.

Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi has a blunt message for federal NDP leadership candidates.

Nenshi said he has spoken with the three front-runners — Avi Lewis, Heather McPherson and Rob Ashton — and suggested to CBC News that he asked candidates not to stand in the way of his push to win next year's Alberta election.

"We don't have the luxury in Alberta to get caught up in ideological battles … within our own party."

Nenshi said the Alberta NDP is in a "very different (position), bluntly, than the challenges facing the federal NDP," which is in a rebuilding phase after the last federal election nearly wiped it off the map.

"I just needed all of the party leaders to understand that," he said.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/nah...race-9.7072751

[Parallex]

Originally Posted by puffnstuff

Sean Fraser said no to dani on judges

https://www.ipolitics.ca/2026/02/04/...-appointments/

Good. It's was a short-sighted threat by Smith anyways... I guarantee you she get's big time blowback when the Jordan applications start piling up if she follows through.

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

Nenshi and the Alberta centrists should start a new party if the traditional/national NDP is being a drag. Any of the traditional NDP MLAs or candidates such as Hoffman can stick with the current party if they feel that a more left option is appropriate.


https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/nah...race-9.7072751

wow. who has mentioned on this site that Nenshi and Notley should have told the Federal NDP to goto hell? lol

[edslunch]

I'm curious what our CP legal minds think of this:


Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre gets funding from lawyers accounts, but UCP changed the rules to require minister of justice approval for large grants. They didn’t approve their annual grant.


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[iggy_oi]

Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov

wow. who has mentioned on this site that Nenshi and Notley should have told the Federal NDP to goto hell? lol

Pssst…he wants another party to steal votes from them

[Faust]

Why is the mayor of Wetaskiwin not allowed in city hall?

https://globalnews.ca/news/11653188/...or-joe-branco/

[Whynotnow]

Originally Posted by Faust

Why is the mayor of Wetaskiwin not allowed in city hall?

https://globalnews.ca/news/11653188/...or-joe-branco/

Nobody knows for sure as they aren’t saying, but he is known to be somewhat volatile. Pure speculation would be he lost his temper around city staff and someone filed a complaint and now this needs to be investigated.