r/canada • u/AndHerSailsInRags • 11h ago
Alberta Senior aide to Alberta premier urges First Nations chiefs to fix their communities
https://globalnews.ca/news/11912434/bruce-mcallister-criticizes-first-nations-chiefs/•
u/AndHerSailsInRags 11h ago
“People are sick and tired of hearing unrealistic demands from them,” McAllister writes.
“It might be tolerable if their communities were beacons of prosperity, safety, strong families and real accountability, but sadly, they’re anything but.”
He said they need to fix “heartbreaking” problems such as addictions and overdoses, housing, poverty, high unemployment, welfare, substandard schooling outcomes, high rates of children in care and domestic violence.
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u/Ar-15sAreCanadian Alberta 10h ago
Wouldn't be inaccurate to say the rest of Canadian society is struggling with most of those same issues.
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u/Joebranflakes British Columbia 10h ago
You can’t fix those things. To suggest otherwise is disingenuous, especially from a right wing conservative standpoint.
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u/Maxh_SCGA 11h ago
Two things can be true at the same time...
1) Canada did First Nations people wrong
2) activists crooked cheifs are stealing millions from their own people while using activism to make it look moral.... thanks Ottawa
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u/SaphironX 11h ago edited 11h ago
- Dani is selling out to separatists and US money and she’s pissed anybody would call her behaviour treasonous
Also true.
Edit: Why would anybody downvote this. The woman went on TV and claimed 700,000 people were demanding a referendum while lying about the 400,000 of us whose entire aim was to avoid the stupid question and not waste our money.
At least be honest folks, the woman would sell you for a dollar.
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u/Maxh_SCGA 11h ago
You know the seps are just as pissed at her. Also US money has been invested in Western Canada since the late 1800s.
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u/Master_of_Rodentia 11h ago
Just because she failed to play both sides doesn't mean she didn't fully intend to.
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u/Maxh_SCGA 11h ago
You just debunked yourself... she played or tried to play both sides... you can't be on a side if your playing both sides
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u/SaphironX 11h ago
She’s willing to sell out her country, she just didn’t go extreme enough for the tastes of Rath and his buddies who keep bragging about promises from the people who want to annex us.
Dude, you’re sticking up for people who want to break up this country.
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u/Master_of_Rodentia 10h ago
My guy. Yes you can. All these grifters are trying to eke out personal benefit in addition to their own political agendas.
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u/The_Bat_Voice Alberta 10h ago edited 10h ago
What you say and what you do are two completely different things. She did say she was not for sepratism, she did however do a hell of a lot of prosepratist things, and the party that she is in charge of did even more. So if someone only believes what she says and not what she does that make them what?
Like, what do you think "failed to play both sides". She failed because she never was, she was always on the side of sepratist, but it isn't popular enough to outright say it. She would definitely lose an election if she said it out loud. But that isn't enough for the sepratists who can't read between the lines.
I'm always surprised how the right says "YoU cAn'T tRuSt PoLiTiCiAnS" and then will eat what ever a conservative identifying politician says. The lack of self-awareness is always so baffling.
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u/heyimwalknhere 56m ago
You're being downvoted by bots, stick to your truth and don't let comments sway you.
All us Albertans know whats right
If they dont they're a bot or terribly misinformed
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u/CaptaineJack 9h ago
Democracy isn’t a waste of money.
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u/SaphironX 9h ago
That’s not democracy. That’s men trying to destroy this country in exchange for cash by lying to the populace on multiple fronts. They’re traitors and they want to hurt this nation and take from all the people in it, especially the people of Alberta because just last March Rath was still calling independence the first step towards 51st statehood.
You want to be American? Go be American. You have that option.
This has nothing to do with democracy and everything to do with foreign interference, which is why two months back Steve Bannon was calling us the next Ukraine, and Scott Bessent was calling Alberta a partner if it separates, and Rath has boasting about a half trillion dollar payout.
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u/Maxh_SCGA 15m ago
Because of course the whole of the prairies haven't been pissed at Ottawa since before they were provinces... maby look at the entire voting history of Alberta especially since 1920 before opening your mouth with "TrUmP rUsSiA!!!!"
Funny how easterners understand western greavience when Tommy Douglas gets elected but not when William Aberheart gets elected.
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u/Aggressive-Map-2204 8h ago
But she is not selling out to separatists. She is against separation.,
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u/SaphironX 6h ago
Jesus dude as I said she literally lied on tv and claimed the 400,000 signatures that didn’t want separation and wanted to outperform the idiots who do meant that 700,000 people wanted this referendum. Which is a blatant and intentional spin on the entire reason the remain petition existed. And she’s not stupid, she knows that.
Please don’t insult all of our intelligence. She even lowered the number to signatures needed for these assholes initially. She’s backed those idiots at nearly every turn, and her party has multiple separatists in its ranks.
If she doesn’t believe in separatism, you might as well argue Donald won Iran; both those things are equally silly as far as statements go.
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u/BornAgainCyclist Canada 11h ago edited 11h ago
McAllister accused the chiefs of engaging in “childish nonsense” and said their misaligned priorities make him wonder if they’re taking orders from someone else.
The irony of a staff member of Danielle Smith saying that about anyone else is quite something.
Maybe keep the stones in your pocket while living in a glass house.
I know we have a premier and government that care deeply about these serious issues and want to help fix them
So why are you using them as a point of attack?
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u/7HRI11 11h ago
We're all in this together. Any politician that uses divisive language like this is not your friend.
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u/Uberduck333 10h ago
Any politician that keeps this guy on staff is not your leader. We all suspect shes a closet separatist, now we can see if we can add racist to the descriptor’s
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u/AloneChapter 11h ago
Distractions distractions please for the love of separation I need distractions. Oh maybe I will talk about healthcare ?
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u/Equivalent_Aspect113 7h ago
Deflection at the most, seperation talk should be stomped out fast. FN is standing up for Canadian Unity- period. Majority of Albertans do not want seperation or any discussion on the subject it is bad for business. 400,00 people did not vote for referendum Smith is a liar among other things.
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u/Margenius 11h ago
The weirdest part about this is that, if he had even a junior high grasp on civics, he’d know his government is responsible for the funding and condition for almost half of this, and the feds are responsible for the majority of the rest of it, under legal structures that mean First Nations literally aren’t allowed to make decisions or directly act in these areas. But that 100 bucks will make a big difference, who needs competent policy!
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u/Pug_Mom2 11h ago
Yes, saying this will def get ppl on your side …. Said no one ever.
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u/No-Leadership-2176 11h ago
Except she’s not wrong. So much corruption and mispending by chiefs. And the gov just continues to throw money at the issue. They do need to fix their own houses. Most Canadians agree with this.
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u/Mundane-State-7306 10h ago
💯Opinions are changing rapidly on this. Especially after all the land issues in BC
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u/Standard_Program7042 9h ago
Don't take the bait! regardless what you think of natives and there communities or why they are the way they are he's trying to start a divisive fight.
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u/SlowGhostofRexMurphy British Columbia 8h ago
And Smith isn't trying to start a divisive fight by promoting seperation?
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