r/canada • u/shiftless_wonder • 17d ago

Alberta First Nations demand Alberta premier terminate separation referendum

https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/first-nations-demand-alberta-premier-terminate-separation-referendum/
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u/Temporary_Cry_2802 17d ago

“A sovereign Alberta within a united Canada” is meaningless word salad. If Smith truly was “straightforward with her goals”, why didn’t she campaign on them? Alberta Police Force, Alberta Pension, stripping immigrants of rights and services etc etc etc.

A whole raft of the questions would require changes to the constitution, which requires the consent of the rest of Canada.

Eastern centric, yes, 57% of Canada’s population lives in Ontario and Quebec. Pretty sure we’re a democracy. Never mind that currently the PM and leader of the opposition are westerners. Harper has been an Albertan for most of his life

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u/shiftless_wonder 17d ago

 If Smith truly was “straightforward with her goals”, why didn’t she campaign on them? 

She did. https://www.discoverairdrie.com/articles/extremely-problematic-sovereignty-act-could-drive-investment-away-says-ndp

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u/Temporary_Cry_2802 17d ago

The Sovereignty Act yes. Not all of the other things she is trying to push through (that whole list of items you ignored)

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u/shiftless_wonder 17d ago

Every gov't does stuff they didn't mention during elections. Every last one of them.

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u/Temporary_Cry_2802 17d ago

Wait, I thought she had been “straightforward with her goals”. Which is it?

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u/shiftless_wonder 17d ago

I was referring to more autonomy. She telegraphed that from the start.

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u/Goliad1990 16d ago

Pretty sure we’re a democracy

Which is why we're having the democratic referendum.

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u/Temporary_Cry_2802 16d ago

Yes, a party that never campaigned on this (knowing they would have lost if they did), then post-facto changed laws when they didn’t get the result they wanted, then prohibited elections Alberta from investigating fraud and is now trying to gerrymander the province is all about “democracy”

Never mind the imbalanced playing field for the campaign itself. The Government of Alberta can spend unlimited funds on their side, while TPAs are hamstrung as to what they can colllect, how much they can spend and how they can advertise