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Danielle Smith is hosting two constituency townhalls next week for her riding of Brooks-Medicine Hat!
Medicine Hat
Location: Medicine Hat Public Library
Date: Friday, February 2, 2024
Doors Open: 4:30pm
Time: 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Please Note: Seating is limited
Brooks
Location: Heritage Inn and Convention Centre
Date: Saturday, February 3, 2024
Doors Open: 2:00pm
Time: 2:30pm - 4:00pm
We hope to see you there!
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I spent a lot of time reading the Canada West Foundation’s new report on Alberta separation, and I think Albertans should read it too.
Not because I agree with where it ultimately lands. I don’t.
But because something interesting happens when you work through the report carefully: parts of it make a remarkably strong case for why Alberta is having this conversation in the first place.
Decades of attempted reform. The same constitutional frustrations resurfacing again and again. Alberta’s enormous fiscal contribution to Canada. Legitimate questions about debt, assets, trade, pensions, investment, and what a transition could look like.
Those questions deserve serious answers. But identifying things that would need to be negotiated is very different from proving they cannot be negotiated.
And there’s one question I think deserves just as much scrutiny as every risk associated with leaving:
What happens if Alberta stays?
Because staying is a choice too, and it comes with its own assumptions, ...
