Alberta Politics & Government Thread 3.0

[ignite09]

Originally Posted by Looch City

Lol people still complaining about NEP and Trudeau Sr. It's the ultimate "okay boomer".

His son bought and built you a massive pipeline for your beloved O&G.

The NEP is the best thing that's ever happened to the UCP of Alberta. It gave them their boogeyman to blame everything on when #### goes south. Whether they contributed to the problems or not.

[MRCboicgy]

Originally Posted by BigThief

MRCboicgy did it to me.

[D as in David]

Originally Posted by Daradon

Forgive me if this has been discussed recently, but where's the NDP amidst all this nonsense? They've have gotten so much to work with over the last month or so but aside from one press conference about the AHS scandal, we haven't heard much from them.

They're out there and making statements but with the shrinking of media, the ANDP are finding it difficult to grab the media's attention.

[curves2000]

Everything can still be true, it's not that everything is false.

The Trudeau Liberals were not exactly friendly to the energy sector in Canada (mostly AB obv) Untold billions in national wealth has been squandered. Some people may be able to make a case for a trillion dollars. Large international firms have effectively abandoned Alberta and Canada, how much that was the energy crash of 2015/ Liberals/ Conservative politics etc is up for debate but it's not like the big dogs in the energy sector went out of business, they just aren't in Canada to the same degree.

The Biden administration, Democrats and Republicans have effectively worked closely to allow states that thrive on energy production to also become hot beds of clean energy production. Dollars flowed significantly to states like Texas cause that is where a lot of technical knowhow is. Where did tens of billions of dollars in clean energy subsidies go in Canada? To foreign firms for a shocking low amount of jobs and job protection for things like a battery plant for 3000 jobs.

The feds did buy and built a pipeline, after an insane amount of roadblocks put in place to private industry (Kinder Morgan) and other pipeline related companies. That was the deal with Premier Notley, AB would get a pipeline to the west coast, AB would implement a carbon tax and the Liberals would be able to sacrifice a few westcoast seats as opposed to Energy East.

The fact that Transmountain cost probably close to $40+billion when it had a budget of $4.5 is not a good look for anybody. Nobody should be bragging about that.

Canada is an energy nation but we have no policy in place on having a national energy conversation or framework. It's beyond absurd and shows you just how stupid of a nation we really are. With the madman in Washington, Canada needs to make sure our energy security is a priority, we have the ability to heat our own homes and power our own economy and we need to look at other markets. There is no BS this time and that goes for whomever is elected in April. Serious nations have serious policies in place for a country. Here we pat ourselves on the back for allowing some booze to flow down the street.

Job well done leaders!

[PepsiFree]

The same people who still cry about an NEP will turn around and whine that we don’t have an NEP.

Get over it one way or another.

[Looch City]

Smith's treasonous interview is being picked up more and more in the news. How'd you think backpedal? Lol

####ing traitor.

[mogg]

Originally Posted by fotze2

Has anyone ever changed their mind on a message board on anything ever? My tribe is the best and yours is nazi, communist, corrupt, treasonous, mouth breathing. Rinse and repeat fourteen trillion times over. Same when Trudeau senior was in power and Mulroney and Chrétien and Harper and new Trudeau and carney and Klein and notley and dubya and the Clintons.

Everyone should be tried for treason these days. Right wingers it’s Trudeau and boisenault and guillibault and Ford. Other side it’s Saskie guy and Marlaina. Every generation is a boring as the last but thinks they are different.

I mean you have to admit Danielle Smith is uniquely demented.

[Texas]

This would be the perfect moment for a few more ministers to step down from their roles and express a lack of confidence in her leadership, just like the minister of transportation did. Right now is the political moment to strike - her leadership might not actually survive this one.

[Hemi-Cuda]

Danielle Smith is now the top topic in the /worldnews subreddit. I don't think I've ever seen anything Alberta related trend that high before

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/c...sking_america/

[iggy_oi]

Originally Posted by Texas

This would be the perfect moment for a few more ministers to step down from their roles and express a lack of confidence in her leadership, just like the minister of transportation did. Right now is the political moment to strike - her leadership might not actually survive this one.

Many of her ministers are just as bad as she is.

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

Danielle Smith is now the top topic in the /worldnews subreddit. I don't think I've ever seen anything Alberta related trend that high before

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/c...sking_america/

But keep in mind more than half our provincial voters are brain dead dumbasses that don't understand a single thing that happens in our province other than "conservative = good, NDP/liberal = bad". We're living in a province of R words and you should know this by now. I interact with many of them daily and we're not getting out of this and it's only getting worse as Russian led misinformation pushes our dummy province towards populist stupidity.

[jayswin]

Remember when "Nazi Adjacent" was a terribly offensive term attached to conservative voters/supporters in the early stages of US Republicans and Alberta provincial politicians CLEARLY hinting at or in most cases outlining plans of heading down Nazi paths?

It was obvious to many back then and I hope at least some people can see how they were wrong back then to dismiss what was happening.

[GordonBlue]

The Canadian Union of Public Employees released summaries of the nine settled and ratified agreements in the education support workers’ strike.

https://alberta.cupe.ca/2025/03/21/c...n-settlements/

good job by the union.
sure beats the .75% per year the UCP was pushing to give.

for example:

CUPE 40 (Calgary Board of Education)
Term: 2024-2028

Sept 1, 2024 3%
Sept 1, 2025 $1.25/hr or 3% (whichever is higher)
Sept 1, 2026 3%
Sept 1, 2027 $1.25/hr or 3% (whichever is higher)

Dollar range improvement – $3.65-$4.97
Percentage range improvement – 12.55%-17.81%

[troutman]

Canadians should file a complaint with Elections Canada (for non-Canadians, this is the governing body in charge of our elections.) HERE.

https://www.cef-cce.ca/content.asp?s...t=index&lang=e

[stazzy33]

From Reddit:

This is election interference.

Here's the link for Canadians who wish to lodge a complaint with Elections Canada

https://www.cef-cce.ca/complaint-form

Some more guidance for those wishing to report. Her comments in the article fall under "cooperating with or inciting foreign powers to interfere", which is still foreign interference.

To report:

1. ⁠⁠⁠Click here to report
   
2. ⁠⁠⁠Under "When Should I Complain?" Select Foreign Interference
   
3. ⁠⁠⁠Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Online Form (purple button)
   
4. ⁠⁠⁠Read the privacy notice, select your response
   
5. ⁠⁠⁠Under "Why are you contacting us today?" Select ** "to report a potential contravention" **
   
6. ⁠⁠⁠Under "Subject of your complaint" select Foreign Interference and then select Undue Influence by foreigners
   
7. ⁠⁠⁠Fill out the form with whatever information you choose to disclose

Example Text:

As a Canadian citizen and engaged voter, I have significant concerns over Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's comments in her interview with Washington's Breitbart. Her comments around encouraging Trump to pause tariffs until after the Canadian federal election in order to give Poilievre a better chance of winning are inciting foreign powers to interfere with our sovereign democratic process. I am extremely concerned about this influencing the outcome of the election and demand an immediate, thorough and transparent investigation.

[TorqueDog]

I also tagged onto my complaint the BlueSky comment alleging that the CPC may have reached out to JD Vance asking him to get Dotard to apply his own sort of influence.

[Dozer]

Originally Posted by stazzy33

From Reddit:

This is election interference.

Here's the link for Canadians who wish to lodge a complaint with Elections Canada

https://www.cef-cce.ca/complaint-form

Some more guidance for those wishing to report. Her comments in the article fall under "cooperating with or inciting foreign powers to interfere", which is still foreign interference.

To report:

1. ⁠⁠⁠Click here to report
   
2. ⁠⁠⁠Under "When Should I Complain?" Select Foreign Interference
   
3. ⁠⁠⁠Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Online Form (purple button)
   
4. ⁠⁠⁠Read the privacy notice, select your response
   
5. ⁠⁠⁠Under "Why are you contacting us today?" Select ** "to report a potential contravention" **
   
6. ⁠⁠⁠Under "Subject of your complaint" select Foreign Interference and then select Undue Influence by foreigners
   
7. ⁠⁠⁠Fill out the form with whatever information you choose to disclose

Example Text:

As a Canadian citizen and engaged voter, I have significant concerns over Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's comments in her interview with Washington's Breitbart. Her comments around encouraging Trump to pause tariffs until after the Canadian federal election in order to give Poilievre a better chance of winning are inciting foreign powers to interfere with our sovereign democratic process. I am extremely concerned about this influencing the outcome of the election and demand an immediate, thorough and transparent investigation.

Sent my complaint on the weekend

[Cappy]

Originally Posted by fotze2

Has anyone ever changed their mind on a message board on anything ever? My tribe is the best and yours is nazi, communist, corrupt, treasonous, mouth breathing. Rinse and repeat fourteen trillion times over. Same when Trudeau senior was in power and Mulroney and Chrétien and Harper and new Trudeau and carney and Klein and notley and dubya and the Clintons.

Everyone should be tried for treason these days. Right wingers it’s Trudeau and boisenault and guillibault and Ford. Other side it’s Saskie guy and Marlaina. Every generation is a boring as the last but thinks they are different.

I would say several posters on CP have changed my opinion or knowledge on a subject - or at the very least, offered a well reasoned counter that helped understand the nuance of position or policy.

Knowledgeable and well-reasoned is a requirement, though.

[Alpha_Q]

Originally Posted by Dozer

Sent my complaint on the weekend

Submitted just now, including a link to the original Breitbart article.

Now I feel I have to disinfect my computer. (Breitbart's slogan is 'More Breitbart. More Truth. More Fight' and follows that with complaints about a Democrat's reference to 'punching' in order to win elections in Texas.)

[woob]

Submitted. Thanks stazzy!