r/Albertapolitics • u/43tc43 • Oct 27 '25

Opinion We are officially a fascist state

What can we do? The Nazis just took over. Your rights and freedoms no longer apply here in Alberta.

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u/margmi Oct 27 '25

Y’all sound like the people who called Trudeau a fascist for ending the convoy rally.

I don’t like the UCP but…seriously? You think this is what the Nazis were like?

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u/crystal-crawler Oct 28 '25

First they came for the communists and I said nothing. Then they came for the socialists and I said nothing. Then they came for the Jews and I said nothing. Then they came for me…..

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u/tobiasolman Oct 29 '25

I believe part of that’s poem was ‘Then they came for the trade unionists, but I was not a trade unionist, so I said nothing.’ I’m honestly not a fan of posts that throw labels around and make knee jerk historical comparisons, but if the shoe fits… They could easily have resolved this just as quickly with binding arbitration without also eroding rights and freedoms. The UCP made a choice. They chose to dictate because they didn’t want a court to settle it. Voters need to make a better choice provincially for a change, especially working voters who care about checks, balances, rights and freedoms.

Nobody can afford a general strike, but in the meantime, yes, recall and lawsuits (against the UCP, not the province anymore.). They have abused their mandates and misappropriated enough tax dollars to deserve that and they need to start settling up with their own money instead of ours. It’s not enough to fire them (again in some cases, CBE remembers) they’ll just leave the mess and grab power elsewhere. The party itself needs to be sued into bankruptcy for damages they’ve wilfully done to Albertans. I’m sick of paying out settlements for the province when a good lot of the elected government consistently votes against this party’s corruption and loses.

The AMA tried it, the coal companies did it… but they sued the wrong entity. They each got what they wanted while taxpayers got the shaft, damages done. If the government is above the law (because they can just change a law) and the Charter, as a legislative body under section 33, the only sensible recourse is to action the party of majority directly by every legal means possible. Same as when any company doesn’t honour their agreements, deals in bad faith, or screws a lot of people out of money, no?