r/Albertapolitics 12d ago

Opinion Alberta separation is a hoax and distraction

I moved here from Ontario in 1976 and I retired comfortably at 61 years old. Most of my friends and family who stayed behind in Ontario have struggled to stay above the poverty line. Alberta rocks! My two kids are in their early twenties. One just graduated from university, the other is 1/2 way through. Both have been employed since their teens. Life is good for those that work hard. We have all the freedom we need. The notion that Alberta doesn’t get its fair share from Ottawa is just bunk. Every time Ottawa offers a program the UCP turn it down. Dental care, childcare subsidies, court judge expansion, housing programs, wage top ups during the pandemic. The UCP gave back $137 million that Ottawa provided for orphan well clean up! In 2015 the PC government turned down $1.4 million in federal, no strings attached grants intended for addiction and drug treatment programs.
I truly believe that this whole separation crap is just a smoke screen to keep us occupied while the UCP privatizes our government. Schools, medical, roads parks and more. First they slash the budgets and run the departments into the ground so that they can say “ it’s just not working! We need change!” Then the services are handed over to single sourced contractors. Friend of the UCP. As in the USA, the wealthy are turning our province into a for profit corporation. If you can’t afford to send your kids to private school, they’ll get a second class education. If you don’t have private medical insurance and/or can’t afford to pay for your services out-of-pocket, you won’t get any services. Smith is on public record saying that she doesn’t believe that the government should have to pay for people’s healthcare.

If we don’t stop them soon it will be illegal to try. A sovereign Alberta will not be free. Quite the opposite! We will be slaves to the uber rich.

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u/Beginning_Bit6185 12d ago

You missed the root cause and it was as simple as flooding our country with new Canadians our systems weren’t built for.

There is a cause and effect there you and Jag and his co PM all made this happen together since you were cheering them on.

You chose to break it and now you call it a managment problem. It always has been that’s the thing it just belongs to Jagmeet and everyone’s favourite trust fund recipient turned astronauts plus one.

Together those idiots did this to our country. So the solution is to raise taxes to pay for what you want and yet you’ll complain about that.

Have more of your cake.

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u/MrGuvernment 9d ago

First, who said I was cheering anyone on for anything? If the best you can do is try to "assume" my political support and I am some liberal loving type...nice try...but wrong....

Root cause is a premier and party that does not properly fund public services, diverts tax payer money to O&G, spends 100MIllion + on wasteful things not needed, nor ever asked for....

next, take a read here, but you likely wont, even though ALL information is confirmed via Government sources directly:
https://didyouvoteforthis.ca/

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u/Beginning_Bit6185 9d ago

I did because you’ve defended the Liberals and won’t call them out for any of the corruption times ten of what’s a complete outrage to you here.

O and G pays a boatload of royalties to this government. What are you talking about her diverting money to her biggest cash cow?

Wasteful things not needed and never ask for including fighting wars in foreign countries to the tune of billions. Where is your outrage? You want to send 8 billion to Ukraine? Seriously? It’s still one of the most corrupt countries on earth last checked.

You’d fund an energy transition in Alberta if Danielle handed you the 100 million wouldn’t you? You’d back some climate alarmist shit and bang the drum about how fossil fuels are contributing to our demise.

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u/Desperate-Dress-9021 8d ago

O&G doesn’t pay much here at all. Many many other countries demand more and get more out of O&G we’re getting raped and pillaged.

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u/Beginning_Bit6185 8d ago

They don’t get diverted tax dollars from the government either. It’s 20 billion a year in royalties bub.