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🇨🇦 Moderate Mike 🇨🇦 retweeted
After a thumping defeat in Calgary-Shaw and the $200 million referendum for her separatist friends, Danielle Smith knows Albertans have had enough of the UCP. That's why they're trying to rig the next election by gerrymandering the province.
We can't let them. We are fighting for fair elections.
Watch live:
youtube.com/live/QSKG1fY89uY…
Let's call it what it is:
When a governing party ignores the non-partisan process for electoral ridings to expedite a map that gives them a political advantage, it is political corruption - plain and simple.
Many of my fellow Albertans voice deep frustrations yet vote for the same leaders while blaming others. Though manipulated by politicians like Premier Smith, accountability matters. Don't fall for the same old culture war bullshit; it's time to outgrow grievances.
Banning a school from flying a flag that acknowledges a vulnerable community is not going to help you with the cost of living crisis, get you to a doctor sooner, or help your kid land a job.
Culture wars & gov over-reach is all the UCP have - on real issues, they have nothing.
After the referendum ass-kicking, the UCP are back with more culture wars and divisive rhetoric designed to secure that angry old man base. This strategy risks alienating moderate voters in major urban areas, where economic priorities and mainstream governance matter most.
Majorities in Edmonton & Calgary opposed all nine of the convoluted questions which saw significantly more support in rural areas. Smith & the UCP are starting to understand they have a serious credibility problem with urban Albertans. We can do so much better.
🇨🇦 Moderate Mike 🇨🇦 retweeted
SCOOP: The RCMP is investigating fraud, breach of trust, and money laundering in connection with Alberta's health care procurement controversy, according to a letter filed in court
theglobeandmail.com/canada/a… w @tom_cardoso
As the Premier muses about more referendums, consider that they can undermine public policy by reducing complex legislative decisions to binary choices. Voters can treat these ballots as partisan tools to send a message to gov. ignoring policy merits & risking minority rights.
🇨🇦 Moderate Mike 🇨🇦 retweeted
Smith said she did not win the UCP leadership in 2022 because of support from separatists. The separatists disagree.
🇨🇦 Moderate Mike 🇨🇦 retweeted
On question 8 of Alberta’s referendum 58% of respondents voted that they do not want Canadian provincial governments to amend the constitution to opt out of federal programs ie healthcare, education and social services.
UCP has previously announced that they intended to leave the federal Canadian dental program by 2026.
The UCP also rejected participation in Canada’s national pharmacare program.
Danielle Smith is already taking the liberty to interpret what individuals intended when they placed their referendum votes and is planning to pass a law requiring proof of citizenship at Alberta’s next provincial election.
Albertans now need to demand that Danielle Smith @ABDanielleSmith pass a law that Albertans can access all federal programs in healthcare, education, and social services.
Qualifying Albertans should be able to access the federal dental program as well as the national pharmacare program.
🇨🇦 Moderate Mike 🇨🇦 retweeted
.@ABDanielleSmith Really?
Is this what desperation and drowning look like?
Separatists, who got you elected, are the same ones as your antivaxxers (Dennis Modry and Mitch Sylvestre), convoy and border blockers (Chris Scott) and many others.
These are your supporters own it.
Just a constitutional reality check for those celebrating Smith’s narrow referendum win on immigration: Under Section 95 of the Constitution, if a provincial law conflicts with a federal immigration law, the federal law wins. Smith cannot unilaterally rewrite the rules.
If the UCP attempts to implement legislation based on the five immigration-related questions from the referendum, they face profound constitutional, jurisdictional, and international legal limitations that heavily restrict what a province can unilaterally enact.
Is populism beginning to fracture?
Alberta separatists failed completely, Trump’s approval sits at historic lows, and Poilievre is yesterday's man. The US midterms are predicted to bring political moderation, and in Alberta we have had enough of Smith's chaos and incompetence.
🇨🇦 Moderate Mike 🇨🇦 retweeted
@ABDanielle told AB separatists to “find another home” or keep their opinions to themselves.
1. Why didn’t she make this statement prior to the referendum?
2. So, you will continue to welcome separatists into your govt, “as long as they are not vocal a/b it”?
Seriously?
Maybe it was worth the $125 M if Smith's time as Premier comes to an end, and / or the UCP fragments and a new right-wing party is formed.
🇨🇦 Moderate Mike 🇨🇦 retweeted
This is so bad faith and dishonest that it causes physical pain in my body.
🇨🇦 Moderate Mike 🇨🇦 retweeted
Albertans are dying because they can't get timely care in emergency rooms.
And how has Danielle Smith responded? She's done nothing but waste all of our time and $200 million on a separation referendum we all knew would fail.
Albertans deserve a government that will make life better for them.
cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/…
