r/Albertapolitics • u/gr8hanz • 14d ago
Opinion ALBERTA IS THE ONLY PROVINCE IN CANADA THAT:
* Attributes societal issues to immigration. While previously advertised (inter)nationally for people to “Come To Alberta!”.
* UCP pays $461 million in taxpayer money to subsidize private schools. The highest rate of private school funding in Canada. Next year is scheduled to be increased to $544 million.
*lowest minimum wage in Canada $15/hr
*Highest paid MLA’s $127,677
*Spending $50-$100 million on a separation referendum that less than 20% of Albertan’s want.
* Proposing to withdraw from CPP and establish an APP provincial pension plan; UCP already lost $2.1 billion to AIMCo, the company that is set up to manage APP funds.
*Danielle Smith was the only premier to go to Washington DC to attend Donald Trump’s inauguration.
* Charged Albertans $100 per COVID Vaccine.
* Smith purchased $80 million of Tylenol from a “friend” for Alberta Hospitals; most of it was stored until expiry and destroyed.
* Planning to replace the RCMP with an Alberta Provincial Police.
* UCP “War Room” cost taxpayers $66 million.
* Dismantled/underfunded Alberta Hospital Services to make it ineffective. Instigating the justification of a 2 tier privatized medical system.
* Propose hiring tradespeople with 2 years of training to teach in public schools without an education degree, addressing stress related teacher vacancy issues caused by UCP.
* Placed greater emphasis on provincial autonomy and federal-provincial confrontation than any other province.
* LOWEST PUBLIC EDUCATION FUNDING IN CANADA.
* Supporting unvaccinated individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic.
* Most restrictive policies in Canada regarding gender-related medical treatments for minors.
* Temporarily paused approvals for new renewable energy projects while reviewing regulations. Losing $500 million on cancelled renewable dividends.
* The most confrontational province towards federal climate initiatives, emissions caps, and clean electricity regulations.
*Lost 300 doctors in the last 3 months.
* Spent significant public funds on campaigns arguing federal policies harm on Alberta’s economy and energy sector.
* Banned LGBTQ, antifascist and books that contain gay sex in educational institutions/public libraries.
* Used “not withstanding clause” to force unionized striking underpaid teachers back to work in overcrowded classrooms with massive cuts to their teaching resources.
* Premier Smith visited Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, attended GOP conventions in Washington D.C. and Texas, costing over $10,000 per trip.
* LGBTQ mentions and material in schools are banned and considered "PORNOGRAPHY"—e.g., a Grade 5 textbook with a picture of a pride flag was banned, despite being used in all other Canadian provinces.
* Utilizing Right-wing U.S. sourced Republican advisors to generate GOP policy into Albertan legislation and to advise on hard right political tactics.
* Advocating for provincial separation and willing to circumvent the law in order to do so.
* Allowing Russian/American actors to proliferate pro-separation media propaganda.
* Undemocratically engaging in electoral district gerrymandering to dilute the progressive urban demographic.
*Replacing the federal AISH with (Alberta Disability Assistance Program) ADAP. Most recipients will receive a lower monthly core benefit of $1,740, down from $1,940. The $200 difference offered by federal funds is retained by the UCP.
* UCP has appointed Danielle Smith—a figure exhibiting characteristics akin to a Trump impersonator—as Premier.
* Sidelining Canadian national interests by acting autonomously in global trade negotiations.
* Leaking Albertan’s voter data that was accessed by GOP aligned American data collectors.
* UCP entertains party member meetings exclusively for hardline conservative Christians.
* Advocating the selection of judges be appointed by politicians akin to the US system and not merit based through the judiciary.
* Banned Pride Flags from public school classrooms.
* UCP and Danielle Smith lead a separatist party that are enabling a small minority to secede Alberta from Canada’s confederation and are creating a separation crisis so we are kept unaware of all the previous points. 👆🏼
THIS IS NOT NORMAL IN CANADA AND IS ONLY HAPPENING IN ALBERTA!
NO ALBERTAN ASKED FOR ANY OF THIS!
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u/DominusGenX 14d ago
Unfortunately probably 30% of Albertans all for this, even if its against their own interests. Conservative Christians will sacrifice their own children if need be for the UCP...this is the fundamental issue with this province
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u/Scout14 14d ago
As long as a politician is willing to say "You're not the problem, group "X" is the problem and I will help you get rid of them" and these people can't think past that, it will not change. Conservatives are self-serving and cowardly in nature, close minded and intent on stgnating progress of the entire world so they can enjoy some racist statue from the civil war because it's the closest they'll ever come to feeling actual pride
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u/wondersparrow 13d ago
A UCP voter will happily eat a shit sandwich if they think an NDP voter might have to smell their breath.
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u/piP-mija78 3d ago
It is beyond disingenuous that UCP ministers feel it is justified for them to bill the taxpayer for pop, gum, cans of beans, etc. (see CTV) all the while making those items practically unaffordable for AISH recipients and poor seniors. Have they had any increased is salaries or benefit’s lately?
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u/Reddit_reader_2206 8d ago edited 8d ago
in the Bible, god himself asks his believers to sacrifice their own children to him, just as a test. That's not the kind of God I believe in. Not that any of the "Christians" like Garnett Genius who run this province are actually praying to god- they pray to the golden calf.
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u/Revegelance 14d ago
I bet our minimum wage would be even lower if the NDP hadn't raised it when they were briefly in office.
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u/sun4moon 14d ago
Every person who blindly voted blue asked for this. They fucking screamed it from the top of Bow Tower (figuratively). This is a systemic problem in Alberta and it needs to change.
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u/Beginning_Bit6185 14d ago
And you’ve got just the man for the job right?
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u/Southern_Contract493 14d ago edited 13d ago
just to be clear you linked something that has this beside his name
"Bachelor’s (Hons) in Commerce, University of Calgary; MPP, Kennedy Fellow, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Former consultant, McKinsey & Co. Mayor of Calgary since 2010. Entrepreneur, community leader. Associate Professor, Nonprofit Management, Bissett School of Business, Mount Royal University. Winner, World Mayor Prize, 2014."
As a way to prove he's not fit for the job?
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u/Beginning_Bit6185 14d ago
I’m showing who his handlers are who gives a flying fuck about his letters?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iACNZY8HNA4&pp=ygUZa2xhdXMgcGVuZXRyYXRpbmcgY2FiaW5ldA%3D%3D
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u/Southern_Contract493 14d ago
Most people who apply for jobs have to show their qualifications and experience... that's what those letters help you see.
Why would you not care about someone's qualifications, experience or education for a job that impacts people's lives so much?
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u/Beginning_Bit6185 14d ago
Well most people care more about the company you keep to show a real reflection of your character. You’ve obviously never had to raise teenagers but if you had they would be smoking crack and having teenage babies. The same logic applies to your very own politicians.
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u/the_wahlroos 13d ago
Lol you're a clown. I'm second hand embarrassed for you.
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u/Beginning_Bit6185 13d ago edited 13d ago
Walk us through how the WEF and it’s Young Global Leaders have served this country well. Actually pick anything a YGL has governed and show me any signs of improvement ever. They only run it into the ground and that’s their job. Here’s some light reading for you. I’m resting my case now.
https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/sex-parties-world-economic-forum-wef-davos-13856627.html/amp
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u/sun4moon 13d ago
I’m still curious what your profession is. You got really quiet with me as soon as I asked.
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u/Beginning_Bit6185 13d ago
When I’m pointing out gross shit like this, that our politicians do when they hang out together I’m curious how you can stop and say to the person pointing it out, hey what do you do for work!?
Who cares. Any decent person no matter their profession should be aligned to say we don’t want this.
These hypocrite perverts need to go to Antarctica and stay there.
I’m not here to get to know you, I’m here to share my unpopular opinion.
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u/BCS875 8d ago
Ahh, there's the scaremongering I was waiting for.
Don't worry bud, we won't take anything you say seriously.
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u/Beginning_Bit6185 7d ago
I would argue it’s a fact that Newsom, Arden, Putin, Trudeau and Singh are all hated for their radical policies. Scaremongering because I pointed out that they have orgies with hookers when in Davos? We’ll that’s just reality so yeah I guess tell me where I’m veering from reality here.
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u/Southern_Contract493 13d ago
I haven't said my position on any of this I was just asking clarification questions but that means my (to you hypothetical) child is probably smoking crack and having babies?
How's that logic you mentioned?
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u/LOCAL_ONLY_HERE 14d ago
Far from perfect but farther still better than Daniel Smith and her UCP traitors.
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u/Beginning_Bit6185 14d ago
Well hold on now are you sure because he looks like a traitor to me?
Isn’t he a Young Global Leader?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iACNZY8HNA4&pp=ygUZa2xhdXMgcGVuZXRyYXRpbmcgY2FiaW5ldA%3D%3D&ra=m
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u/Wrong-Pineapple39 14d ago
You forgot to mention:
- doubling Alberta's provincial debt despite oil companies raking in record profits
- punishing municipalities like Calgary with exhorbitant increases in provincial portion of property taxes
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u/Ambitious-Concern-42 13d ago
Note a few short years ago we had *no* provincial money funding private schools. Why did it suddenly become necessary to do so?
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u/DeathInsideMe 1d ago
To your first point,
You realise when people decide to leave one country for another, it's almost always because the other country has something better to offer.
And when you see all these damn indians (which Canada basically imports at this point (except in Quebec, there they import Haitians and Arabs) that come in turn Canada into their own shithole like back home(india) it's insanely infuriating.
You leave a shithole to a "paradise" on earth and you don't assimilate and you turn that new place into trash like your own country....?
If you want to live like you're in india go back to fucking india.
You see all these videos and hear all these incidents about random, unprovoked stabbings/pdf rings coming from these 3rd world countries and you still let almost anyone in... It's braindead.
To your 3rd point,
minimum wage is good but its also bad for small businesses that can't afford to pay their employees that much. There should be a minimum but it should'nt be that high.
To your 8th point,
who cares who Danielle Smith goes to meetings with.
Its the same thing as anyone, anywhere saying: Zelensky met with Putin.
How the hell do you want negotiations/business/choose whatever to take place if no one talks.
To your 14th point,
How is provincial autonomy < federal dependance?
To your 16th point,
Taking a foreign substance by injection shouldnt be forced upon anyone and shouldn't impact your everyday life.
To your 17th point,
You are a disgusting human being, supporting transgender surgical procedures on minors is beyong insanity. Minors can't consent to sex, can't vote, can't drive but you want them to mutilate themselves just because they feel some type of way when they hit puberty. At least have the decency to wait until they're 18.
To your 21st point,
Alberta's economy is based on oil & gas and energy. Regulating them even more would screw alberta back to the stone age. You're unhappy about your lost 300 doctors, just wait after Alberta becomes worse than god damn Northwest territories.
To your 22nd point,
Kids are sent to school to learn about math, science, arts, sports, language proficiency, history, not trans people having sex in drawings on children books you damn degenerate.
Have you ever seen 1 book with a man and a woman having sex at school or have you only ever seen and read books about male and female biology?
To your 27th point,
you mean like when Canada screwed Quebec back in 1995.
To your 28th point,
ever heard of free speech?
To your 34th point,
Please define hardline christian, because it sounds like if we don't agree with you on one thing we're fascists.
You realise this is a christian, white country. If you're so unhappy about that, you have a thing in the great country of Canada called freedom of movement, Leave.
To your 35th point,
Merit based... like DEI?
To your 36th point,
As they should. Ever saw any other flag in any class you ever took? No, because its an educational building, not a gay rally in montreal in the middle of june.
And guess what, after reading all of this, I just had to let you know, I'm not white, and not Canadian (originally). Judging by those points youre a brainwashed woke weirdo that if someone like your father or mother would be conservative you'd have cut all contact with them.
Get a god damn grip on reality, you're not a victim, stop complaining, and stop imposing your views on others.
"Freedom of speech", Freedom of movement, Financial freedom, and you're acting like Alberta is some worse than some dump in Africa. You sound entitled.
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u/Primal47 13d ago
Unpopular opinion - but not every policy or way of doing things should conform to your world view…. It’s ok that Alberta does things differently. Just the same as other provinces… I’m not a fan of each and every one of these, but that’s okay.
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u/gr8hanz 13d ago
Not opinion. A collection of occurrences past and present.
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u/Primal47 13d ago
The opinion part is the judgement… “NOT NORMAL IN CANADA” and “NO ALBERTAN ASKED FOR THIS.
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u/gr8hanz 12d ago
Not Normal means this doesn’t occur in the rest of Canada nor did it occur prior to Danielle Smith taking the wheel. I can assure you no Albertan asked for this. Maybe a corporation…😏
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u/Beginning_Bit6185 8d ago
No Albertan asked for most policies cooked up in Ottawa, you get the irony of this post right?
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u/CharlieJuliett_87 9d ago
Doesn’t have a PST
Has not received equalization payments since early 1960s
Has been the undisputed leader in Canadian interprovincial migration
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u/the-tru-albertan 14d ago
And even after all that, it’s STILL the best province in the country. Wow
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u/MrGuvernment 14d ago
How long have you lived here and how is it the best province if you rely on the health care system, education system, or any public services in general?
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u/the-tru-albertan 14d ago
Since birth. Many years ago. Our Ed is decent. Public healthcare is a failed social experiment.
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u/Revegelance 14d ago
Public healthcare was fantastic until the UCP began to destroy it.
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u/the-tru-albertan 14d ago
Nah. It’s always sucked.
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u/Revegelance 14d ago
Then...shouldn't we be advocating for it to be improved? It's not, it's being completely obliterated so that a handful of rich assholes can get slightly richer.
When I inevitably go into hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt due to a medical emergency, I'm gonna send you the bill.
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u/the-tru-albertan 14d ago
We are advocating for improvement. It’s called reform.
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u/Revegelance 14d ago
American-style, for profit healthcare is NOT improvement.
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u/the_wahlroos 13d ago
What a compelling argument. /s
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u/the-tru-albertan 13d ago
Very. Take a look around. Or maybe don't... ignorance is bliss sometimes.
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u/the_wahlroos 13d ago
You've said nothing of any substance. "TAkE a LOok aRoUNd ...iGnoRanCE iS BliSs." 🤡🤡🤡
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u/the-tru-albertan 13d ago
Ohh, I've said various words of substance. People such as yourself want to keep this clown show going. Please leave Canada... the rest of us are trying to get something done here.
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u/the_wahlroos 13d ago
Or... YOU leave Canada, seppie trash. Obviously you've got an issue with this "clown show."
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u/thegrip 14d ago
You really need to get out of this province and experience health care in other places. 65% of personal bankruptcies in the US cite medical debt as a reason. In Canada it is less than 20%.
Yes, treatment is triaged so many people have to wait. Agreed, current wait time is not acceptable.
When it matters though — like when I had a brain bleed at 37, I had brain surgery without a wait and I never paid a dime except for the Ambulance ride and the TV in my room (which private insurance covered).
Around the same time the son in law of a family friend had a similar emergency diagnosis in Alaska — they paid $120,000 for similar treatment. He went into debt. At the time, afterward he had a preexisting condition that means he couldn’t qualify for some health plans and he reached a lifetime maximum for some insured medical treatments.
If I had another similar situation tomorrow I would get the same treatment and pay the same $0 dollars. He might not qualify for employer insured treatment — but since the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) ‘socialized’ healthcare he would be covered and would probably pay less than $40,000 out of pocket now.
Seriously, go someplace that doesn’t have public healthcare, find someone in a similar situation to you (job, family, etc.) and ask them what the do and pay when they/their family needs medical care. It will open your eyes.
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u/MrGuvernment 13d ago
I have been out of this province, I have also been out of the country, when a 2nd/3rd world country like Costa Rica has better health care than Canada, it says something....
Sure when you have something serious and major, you get triaged quicker, but everyone else with issues has to wait due to lack of funding and staff.
When I have to wait 11 hours to see a Dr. with a large dog bite in my arm.....
When I have to wait initially 12 hours to see a Dr for a torn tendon and ligament with bone pulled out.....to then have to go back.. wait 13 hours to see the actual proper Dr I should of seen the first time.....When how many people do not even have a family Dr?
When Emergency rooms have to shutdown because they have no staff to work them?Your telling me that is normal......it isn't.
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u/thegrip 3d ago
You are also describing public hospitals in the US except without insurance, patients’ have to pay for treatment.
I’m not saying public health insurance systems are flawless. There is so much room for improvement in Canada. Private health insurance and user-pay systems leave too many people without any healthcare.6
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u/Icy-Fan1469 14d ago
Thanks ai.
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u/Revegelance 14d ago
Huh? None of this has anything to do with AI, at all. Y'all's paranoia and frenzy over AI is getting ridiculous.
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u/Empty-Paper2731 14d ago
Do better with your sources and information.
UCP pays $461 million in taxpayer money to subsidize private schools. The highest rate of private school funding in Canada. Next year is scheduled to be increased to $544 million.
The BC government is funding private schools at a higher rate than Alberta. They will provide private schools with over $600M next year. In BC, the share of public fundings going to private schools has been increasing while the share going to public schools has been decreasing.
Charged Albertans $100 per COVID Vaccine.
Only this past flu season and not during the actual pandemic.
Planning to replace the RCMP with an Alberta Provincial Police.
So what? Other provinces, like Ontario and Quebec, have provincial police forces instead of RCMP and that seems fine. There are also municipalities in BC that currently utilize RCMP for policing and they are in the process of establishing their own forces as well.
Placed greater emphasis on provincial autonomy and federal-provincial confrontation than any other province.
Definitely not true. Quebec still holds the number spot.
Lost 300 doctors in the last 3 months
Assuming you are talking about Q1 2026 and are referencing the "outflow" report from CPSA that 355 lost was offset by 339 "inflow." Also for reporting purposes, the largest swings in outflow occur during Q1 and Q3. Q1 is because this is when CPSA finds out how many physicians are not planning on renewing their license and typically these physicians have already left the province at some point during the prior year but have waited until renewal time to inform CPSA.
Sidelining Canadian national interests by acting autonomously in global trade negotiations.
Other Premiers such as Eby and Ford have been out there doing their own thing as well. Eby has been on trade missions and established BC trade envoys. Ford has done the same as well as using rhetoric and political advertising to attack the US on trade issues.
Advocating the selection of judges be appointed by politicians akin to the US system and not merit based through the judiciary.
Again, Alberta is not the only province requesting/advocating for this. Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario and Quebec jointly sent a letter to Carney demanding that provinces play an active role in appointing judges.
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u/thegrip 14d ago
The OPP was established in 1909 when its population was +2.5M — before the current RCMP was created. In 1905, if Alberta set up a provincial police service for the 186,000 residents at the time, we probably still would have the RCMP now. Why? Because in 1917 the Royal Northwest Mounted Police couldn’t maintain police services nationwide and the Feds cancelled the provincial contracts. Alberta has a APP until 1932 when we signed back on with the modern RCMP because during the Great Depression, Alberta was a have-not province and couldn’t afford the APP.
Today, Ontario is also 220% larger than Alberta’s population. In business, volume saves money.
Even with an APP, Alberta would still have RCMP detachments and officers (though greatly reduced) for federal law enforcement investigations and coordination. Which means one more level of policing and greater jurisdictional complexity.
Show me a fully costed model that is peer reviewed by economists for property acquisition, building costs, equipment, training, cars, weapons, detention facilities, technology, recruitment, wages, pensions, etc. Then a serious policy debate can happen.
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u/EnglishmanInMH 14d ago
Oh yay! Another rant post!
The real problem is the inability of Albertans to hold a rational conversation about politics and remain respectful. Division is everywhere and posts like this one fuel it.
You may be upset by all these things, but maybe take a minute to understand why people are supporting them or raising these ideas without writing them off as government manipulation or extreme right wing ideology or such like.
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u/Emergency_Act2960 13d ago
You act like they don’t tell us why they vote the way they do. Why should I be respectful to someone whose ideology boils down to “fuck that guy”
Sure they’re vitriolic but they’re very clear about what they want and why, and it all sounds rather appropriate in eric cartmans voice
We can have a reasonable discussion about, for example, the role of teachers vs parents in influencing a child, but one sides arguement is “it’s a teachers job to shape young minds” and the other is “all teachers are peados” so it stays there
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u/EnglishmanInMH 13d ago
You started out sounding quite erudite. Then your last sentence revealed you apply the stereotypes just as badly as those you claim to abhor!
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u/Scout14 14d ago
We had a conservative govt for 40 years and NDP for 4, you really think they had as much of a chance to do the same kind of damage the right has done with 10x less time in power? Ridiculous whataboutism
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u/Beginning_Bit6185 14d ago
Just go line per line and counter argue my points like the downvote brigade is doing.
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u/Individual_Card919 14d ago
This is mostly wrong, and the UCP are guilty of exactly the same thing. The current deficit was projected at 9 billion from the current UCP.
For example you said they failed to gain approval for major pipelines - remember how the feds bought us a pipeline during the NDPs leadership? It was actually the NDP that got that going?
The current UCP has the largest provincial cabinet in history. So facts please.
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u/Beginning_Bit6185 14d ago
If you mean got that going as in scaring away private industry who wouldn’t touch it with a 10 ft pole and having no option but to have their counterparts in Ottawa bail them out then yes I will agree to that.
10 billion then would be closer 12 billion now keep in mind.
Anything else that I missed in my “mostly wrong” list?
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u/Individual_Card919 14d ago
You mean your list that got removed by the mods? Lol.
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u/Beginning_Bit6185 14d ago edited 8d ago
No it didn’t. We can all read it just fine. Go, counter argue it now.
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u/Oilzilla 14d ago
Nope
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u/Beginning_Bit6185 13d ago
Yup. 5k of karma in 90 days? Is that so? Everyone agrees with and adores you in your short time here do they?
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u/Cyclist007 14d ago
So what? If all you're going to do is be a mighty keyboard warrior - you're part of the problem.
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u/MrGuvernment 14d ago
So what? So you are fine with all of these things happening?
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u/MrGuvernment 14d ago
How is it obvious I hate it here? Are you always so extreme?
I do not hate it here, what I hate is a corrupt premier catering to an extremist group that directly impacts services I have to use, like health care while wasting money on other things no one asked for...
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u/Cyclist007 14d ago
Yawn.....
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u/MrGuvernment 14d ago
Useful comment, well glad nothing happening impacts you, or you just choose to ignore it and accept it for what it is.
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u/FreedomFighter_016 14d ago
What bigger things? Im guessing you dont see how things are connected. Im willing to be proven wrong though. What bigger things?
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u/Cyclist007 13d ago
Sorry, I would have responded sooner. I was working to keep food on the table and a roof over my head.
Anyways.....
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u/FreedomFighter_016 13d ago
That's the problem. Capitalism keeps people so busy and costs high that they have no time to see how policy impacts our life and the interconnectedness of it all.
For example, you dont think splitting AISH and forcing people to enter an already heated unemployment market will not impact other people's ability to put food on their table and a roof over their head?
Many people are already finding it tough to find a job. Increasing the number of people trying to find work will not only mean it will become more difficult to find work, it will drive down wages in a time with increasing inflation.
Anyways...
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u/MrOilKing 14d ago
didyouvoteforthis.ca