Alberta Politics & Government Thread 3.0

[#-3]

Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts

https://twitter.com/user/status/1906114131025146240

Up next, photo of PP pretending to work at a pizza place, and DT pretending to work at McDonalds side by side. you can't even distance yourself from him properly.

[puffnstuff]

Red Deer-South#MLA#Jason Stephan#recently sent a letter#to his constituents claiming Canada is broken and Team Canada is a “fake team.”

Wouldn't it be wonderful for Albertans to stop being exploited, transferring hundreds of billions to Quebec and other hypocrites who attack and hold Alberta back?

And wouldn't it be wonderful to stop having to fund an entrenched SWAMP in Ottawa who glut themselves on our labors and are often jealous and hostile to Alberta's freedom and prosperity?

Concluding his letter to residents of Red Deer-South, Stephan asked:

Other than taking many billions from us every year, attacking, and holding us back, what does Canada offer Alberta?

Albertans share a desire for freedom and prosperity for themselves and their children. That is good.

The status quo is unacceptable and that is the truth.

https://daveberta.substack.com/p/dan...ens-a-national

[The Big Chill]

I genuinely worry that we will separate in the next few years if we let this party stay in power.

[Fuzz]

They should never have been given power. It was obvious from the start where this disaster was heading.

[Drak]

Stating Canada is broken is the same playbook as Trump’s Make America Great Again. All working on the same team. These fake Canadians seeking to rip us apart and join Trump are traitors.

[puffnstuff]

Only the best people...

https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/03/28/A...ians-Surgeons/

In the end, Dr. Roger Hodkinson, one of world’s most high-profile contrarian COVID-19 medical “experts,” meekly submitted to the authority of the regulatory college he had vehemently derided for years as having no right to limit his dangerous public statements.

At a College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta disciplinary hearing in November, Hodkinson, a pathologist, admitted he was guilty of unprofessional conduct. The CPSA tribunal ruled he had made statements outside his scope of expertise, and that he had breached the college’s code of ethics.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

They should never have been given power. It was obvious from the start where this disaster was heading.

Just makes me laugh harder at the UCP voters who can only seem to find the Canadian politics thread and spend 90% of their time criticizing issues that pale in comparison to the ones they voted for and actively support.

Little cowards.

[CliffFletcher]

Originally Posted by The Big Chill

I genuinely worry that we will separate in the next few years if we let this party stay in power.

There might be a push. But 35 per cent support is a long way from the 50+1 that would be needed to win a referendum. And that’s before we’ve even hit the stage where businesses threaten to relocate, First Nations weigh in, etc. Having seen it play out a couple times in Quebec, it’s a long, fraught process, and not something that a government can just spring on the electorate.

[Fuzz]

It'll do wonders for investment in the province though. /s


If you support this, you'd have to be so dumb that you'd end up looking like this guy.

[Slava]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

There might be a push. But 35 per cent support is a long way from the 50+1 that would be needed to win a referendum. And that’s before we’ve even hit the stage where businesses threaten to relocate, First Nations weigh in, etc. Having seen it play out a couple times in Quebec, it’s a long, fraught process, and not something that a government can just spring on the electorate.

yeah, the boundaries become a question both with regard to First Nations and with regard to national parks and things like that. It's not this smooth and easy: "Here's the boundary laid out in 1905, so we get all that," which seems to be what proponents would have you believe.

[Muta]

I hate the fact that these right wing nut jobs / sterotypical angry cowboy chuds think the majority of Albertans want what they want. Disgusting, and regular people should publicly criticize and silo these extreme positions routinely in the media.

[bizaro86]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

There might be a push. But 35 per cent support is a long way from the 50+1 that would be needed to win a referendum. And that’s before we’ve even hit the stage where businesses threaten to relocate, First Nations weigh in, etc. Having seen it play out a couple times in Quebec, it’s a long, fraught process, and not something that a government can just spring on the electorate.

I don't think 50%+1 gets a new country.

The clarity act is (ironically) unclear on the threshhold, but says that Canada's Parliament decides if it's enough AFTER a vote, which sort of implies something more than that could be required.

[Fuzz]

It's just such a destructive pointless divisive thing to spend any time on. "Does not work well with others" should be on every Smith campaign sign. Figure it the #### out already.

[CliffFletcher]

Originally Posted by bizaro86

I don't think 50%+1 gets a new country.

The clarity act is (ironically) unclear on the threshhold, but says that Canada's Parliament decides if it's enough AFTER a vote, which sort of implies something more than that could be required.

True. Just pointing out that Alberta is a still a long way from reaching the stage Quebec was at in 1980 and 1995.

[Monahammer]

Y'all are thinking too much in "legalities" which Trump and team have proven to actively disdain and abhor.

- First nations rights almost certainly have not been/will not be considered valid by the parties in question
- The rights of canadian Parliament are unlikely to be taken seriously in a scenario such as the following:

- Liberals win federal election; Carney unable or unwilling to meet Smith's pre arranged demands
- Smith bleets until there's some sort of referendum
- Referendum will not be held in a fair manner.
- Referendum result will show slight edge towards sepearation. Simultaenously, de jure government in Alberta applies to congress for protection (maybe consideration as state)
- President orders US military to "defend Albertan rights" due to vote and application. May be palatable as this wouldn't be "an invasion" and may be able to be sold as keeping the piece in some way.
- In this scenario, no doubt they would use current legal boundaries of the province as the defacto territorial claim of the state.

How would such a scenario play out internationally? With great difficulty, I imagine, but it will be hard for anyone to claim a cassus belli out of it.

[White Out 403]

AHS is getting rid of free snacks for kids with cancer

#### these people.

[The Big Chill]

Originally Posted by White Out 403

AHS is getting rid of free snacks for kids with cancer

#### these people.

Not a huge shock, Smith says getting cancer was their own fault anyway.

[D as in David]

Originally Posted by White Out 403

AHS is getting rid of free snacks for kids with cancer

#### these people.

I guess MHCare couldn't source these for $5,800/bag.

[iggy_oi]

Originally Posted by White Out 403

AHS is getting rid of free snacks for kids with cancer

#### these people.

I wonder how the cost of these snacks compare to the cost of Smith’s trip to visit her buddy Shapiro.

[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

There might be a push. But 35 per cent support is a long way from the 50+1 that would be needed to win a referendum. And that’s before we’ve even hit the stage where businesses threaten to relocate, First Nations weigh in, etc. Having seen it play out a couple times in Quebec, it’s a long, fraught process, and not something that a government can just spring on the electorate.

And the 50+1 only means you have a mandate from Albertans. It doesn't really mean anything with regards to separation