This guy is ####ing insane. Worse, I can see how morons would find his arguments extremely compelling, even if though they contain more tonnes of horse #### than the Stampede produces every year.
The caption at the bottom should say “Man who has never been elected by a majority of people pretends he has been.”
If these ideas are as popular as they claim they are, one has to wonder why so much money has to be put into getting the message out there.
I honestly wouldn’t care if we separated if it made sense to do so but I have yet to see any arguments that make a weak case for it, let alone a strong one.
Let me give Berta Proud Dad a call and see what he thinks about it, hopefully he’s not a work…wait, what does he as a “hard working Albertan” do for a living again?
No kidding, let’s trust that unpredictable country who has been tariffing friend and foe countries around the world, breaking deals etc. but has for some suspicious reason has a soft spot for Alberta. I’m sure there’s no ulterior motive involved…..
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The campaign by Alberta’s United Conservative Party to remake the province’s health-care system has created chaos with patients dying in overcrowded hospital emergency rooms.
But there has also been a steep financial cost to the overhaul. A Tyee analysis of Alberta Health financial data found at least $30 million has been paid out in severance between 2019 and June 2025.
The data shows the government paid out about $29.45 million between 2019 and June 2025 to 150 former employees. But that figure doesn’t account for payouts made in the second half of 2025, nor does it capture the payouts for executives and others who opted out of the#public reporting of their severance.
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The campaign by Alberta’s United Conservative Party to remake the province’s health-care system has created chaos with patients dying in overcrowded hospital emergency rooms.
But there has also been a steep financial cost to the overhaul. A Tyee analysis of Alberta Health financial data found at least $30 million has been paid out in severance between 2019 and June 2025.
The data shows the government paid out about $29.45 million between 2019 and June 2025 to 150 former employees. But that figure doesn’t account for payouts made in the second half of 2025, nor does it capture the payouts for executives and others who opted out of the#public reporting of their severance.
This is what "Fiscally Conservative" really means. Not balanced budgets, just rampant spending on the wrong things to drive an agenda that no one agreed to.
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Can anyone name a policy that has made their lives better? Not in the abstract, like 100% the UCP put in a policy that improved their day-to-day lives.
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Can anyone name a policy that has made their lives better? Not in the abstract, like 100% the UCP put in a policy that improved their day-to-day lives.
I find it hard to find a policy that I don't entirely hate. Like not just that I think it mediocre, but I think I'm outright against everything that they've done or how they have it done it.
Can anyone name a policy that has made their lives better? Not in the abstract, like 100% the UCP put in a policy that improved their day-to-day lives.
Removing the second driver's test for class 5 licenses and making it an automatic upgrade after 2 years. Lots of people just took the GDL test and never advanced beyond that because the restrictions weren't a big deal (lower demerit threshold for suspension, zero alcohol, can't teach other drivers). They saved money not having to do the second test and didn't have to practice up for the test. There were only 2 paths to make this a meaningful step - make people do the BC thing where you need to put the magnet on your vehicle (the "N") or stricter restrictions on the GDL license to encourage people to pursue the full class 5 license.
It felt like a common sense decision since the old system wasn't actually making roads safer. The only change I would make is increasing the time to automatically get the full license from 1 to 2 years with no suspensions or demerits (total 3 years) to encourage them to drive more attentively.
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Removing the second driver's test for class 5 licenses and making it an automatic upgrade after 2 years. Lots of people just took the GDL test and never advanced beyond that because the restrictions weren't a big deal (lower demerit threshold for suspension, zero alcohol, can't teach other drivers). They saved money not having to do the second test and didn't have to practice up for the test. There were only 2 paths to make this a meaningful step - make people do the BC thing where you need to put the magnet on your vehicle (the "N") or stricter restrictions on the GDL license to encourage people to pursue the full class 5 license.
It felt like a common sense decision since the old system wasn't actually making roads safer. The only change I would make is increasing the time to automatically get the full license from 1 to 2 years with no suspensions or demerits (total 3 years) to encourage them to drive more attentively.
Except that instead of fixing the problem of under-qualified drivers, they just did this. It was an easy exit to program that wasn't great, but did nothing to make our roads safer. At the same time they nerfed testing for professional drivers, which is why Uber and taxi drivers don't just appear to be getting worse, they are.
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Incredible! Him doing this interview, in my opinion, is fantastic simply for exposing the lunacy behind this movement on a national and potentially international level. I'm sure there are a few "separatist" Albertans that will watch this and go, "Yikes!".
Quite embarrassing for the Albertan government to not immediately denounce this.
You'd hope so, but in reality what do you really expect out of the AB UCP Government? The crazies are running the roost now like Premier Kenney predicted and it's starting to become clear that nobody is going to do anything about it. Smith is just doing whatever she can to cling to power for now.
All the recall petitions are stalling out because people really just don't care as long as their own bottom lines and way of lives are relatively unaffected. Pretty sad reality that Nurses and Teachers are the only people willing to take a real stand at their own peril and hardly anyone bats an eye at it when the dust settles.
If this referendum comes to fruition, the masses better be prepared to show up and vote or you might be witnessing a POS like this Rath guy as your supreme leader. Everyone who voted UCP better also remember the events that have transpired over the last 2-3 years regardless as well. There is zero excuse that this government doesn't get whipped in a landslide in 2027, but again Berta is already Berta'ing showing a slide back to indifference in the polls.
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Can anyone name a policy that has made their lives better? Not in the abstract, like 100% the UCP put in a policy that improved their day-to-day lives.
Definitely not anything that improved day-to-day life.
I think the one policy that they put forward (under Kenney) that was good was the one to entice movies and filming to come to Alberta. But it hasn't done anything to materially make life better and its not like it created permanent jobs at any great scale.
All it really did was create tax credits to try and lick the boots of another industry of mega rich corporations to do occasional work here. It would have been better if the incentive had been attached to creating permanent jobs and satellite studios here that maybe could occupy some of our empty office space.
I think ACCIP is a good policy, if they would actually enforce it. I also think the MOU and related requirements imposed on the province are good policies.
Both of these are things the UCP was essentially dragged kicking and screaming too.
Removing the second driver's test for class 5 licenses and making it an automatic upgrade after 2 years. Lots of people just took the GDL test and never advanced beyond that because the restrictions weren't a big deal (lower demerit threshold for suspension, zero alcohol, can't teach other drivers). They saved money not having to do the second test and didn't have to practice up for the test. There were only 2 paths to make this a meaningful step - make people do the BC thing where you need to put the magnet on your vehicle (the "N") or stricter restrictions on the GDL license to encourage people to pursue the full class 5 license.
It felt like a common sense decision since the old system wasn't actually making roads safer. The only change I would make is increasing the time to automatically get the full license from 1 to 2 years with no suspensions or demerits (total 3 years) to encourage them to drive more attentively.
Are they the ones who made the change that teenagers(not sure if it’s adults too) need to have their learners for a full year before they can get their drivers license or was that there before?
Can anyone name a policy that has made their lives better? Not in the abstract, like 100% the UCP put in a policy that improved their day-to-day lives.
If you’re a business owner who really enjoys keeping your employees under your thumb you could probably think of a few.
If you’re a business owner who really enjoys keeping your employees under your thumb you could probably think of a few.
That's my point though, their policies are all about making "other" people's lives worse. UCP voters don't care about having the most expensive insurance and electricity in the country as long as they can point and laugh at disabled people losing funding.
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I don't hate banning phones in schools. The law is toothless and leaves all enforcement up to the school but it's the only think I can think of that's not actively making life worse.
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