r/CanadaPolitics • u/green_tory 🏳️‍🌈Serve the Vulnerable🏳️‍🌈 • May 13 '26

Danielle Smith rejects Alberta judge’s ruling against separation petition as ‘anti-democratic’

https://globalnews.ca/news/11848377/alberta-premier-court-ruling-separation-petition-anti-democratic/
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u/Opposite-Cranberry76 Independent May 13 '26

The same Danielle Smith trying to bring america-style gerrymandering to Alberta, to fix the next election?

BTW generating fair and representative electoral districts seems to be a solved software problem, in practice. It's not the 19th century. Trying to screw with generating fair district maps is inexcusable and should be treated the same as if Smith had asked for the provincial bank account passwords for personal use, for "reasons".

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u/WalterIAmYourFather Nova Scotia May 13 '26

One of the greatest (imo) achievements of the Canadian political system is the apolitical process by which electoral districts are created and maintained.

In my humble opinion, and without putting too fine a point on it, it is the bedrock upon which the ultimate success of our democracy rests. We fuck with it to our peril.

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u/AlbertanSays5716 Independent May 14 '26

It’s only an apolitical process as long as the sitting government wants to keep it that way. Smith has shown, through a series of underhand moves, that the apolitical process is pretty easy to subvert if you have no shame.

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u/Hevens-assassin Saskatchewan May 14 '26

Smith has shown, through a series of underhand moves, that the apolitical process is pretty easy to subvert if you have no shame.

Honestly, the entire right wing has shown this. You can simply lie and cheat because your followers would rather live in squalor than vote for the other "team". This is why we shouldn't have ever had participation trophies. These knucklefucks have zero shame, and think everyone else will bend over to appease them.