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I really encourage folks to consider the comments Ranjit Bath, Tina Lynn, Chris Scott and Daryl Burroughs have written in this thread. These folks understand the context of Premier Smith’s aspirations for growth in Alberta’s population.
Some folks have mentioned “10” or “15 minute cities” in here. For all its criticism, Bill 20 is a direct response by the Premier Smith government to restrict left-leaning municipal government’s like Edmonton and Calgary currently have from taking this route. And Premier Smith pushed for this because she heard clearly that Albertans do not want 10 or 15-minute-cities.
Marco… I’m sure you remember Premier Smith saying at her Town Hall in Calgary a couple of weeks ago to Calgary - Lougheed constituency association President Darrell Komick that her goals of increased population are not AT ALL “short term”, but a long term strategy to ensure Alberta has the voice within our nation to match or exceed Quebec. She also talked about immigration being supported by initiatives like the Temporary Foreign Workers program that ensures a job and a place in our economy. That population growth is measured and sustainable. Why don’t you mention that in your sharing of “sound bites”?
If you are going to grab “a little” of what the Premier says for the purpose of getting folks riled up, I think that’s quite irresponsible.
Please, fellow conservatives, go to these Town Halls and engage with our Premier. I don’t believe we have had a leader in our province in my lifetime who listens and cares more what their fellow citizens think than Premier Smith.
If you think she’s not listening, I am happy to debate you.
I learned many years ago that being heard and getting your way are two different things. Albertans are being heard. I believe you’ll see that very clearly in the legal changes forthcoming in the Alberta Bill of Rights.
Premier Smith is very much about CHOICE.
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https://open.substack.com/pub/thequillstrikes/p/carneys-pipeline-trap?
“Carney did not free the West. He made the cage more comfortable, gave Alberta the language of progress, and kept Ottawa’s hand on the lock.
That is not a pipeline victory.
It is the oldest trick in Canadian politics: permission dressed up as partnership.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/cnm5000/p/the-beginning-of-the-end-for-danielle?
🎯 “Most importantly, she needs to remember that Alberta did not ask her to improve the management of our economic decline.
It asked for a premier who would fight back.
She was elected to push back. She was not elected to manage Alberta’s decline more efficiently.
That is why the political shift now underway is dangerous for her. The issue is not simply that some Albertans disagree with her. That is normal.
The problem is that many of the people who once saw her as Alberta’s strongest defender now see a Premier drifting back toward the same old Canadian compromise machine.
The language has changed.
The early message was defiance. The current message is “a sovereign Alberta within a united Canada.”
That may sound clever at the speaker’s podium, but to many of us it now sounds like a slogan designed to contain anger rather than act on it.
A sovereign Alberta within a united Canada may be a constitutional ...
