Vote No to WG/2026-G-2
Bonny Miekle: “There's a governance resolution being presented at the UCP AGM on Friday, November 27.
I'm campaigning AGAINST it, and ask you to vote it DOWN.
The resolution calls to add Permanent Residents back into UCP Membership.
That resolution is WG-2026-G-2

Last year I successfully submitted a resolution to limit UCP membership to citizens only, so this is clearly a bit of a hot button issue!

Some people who I respect very much are behind this submission but I'm holding FIRM to my opinion that we need to have Canadian Citizens only to hold UCP memberships.

If only Citizens can vote in our elections, than why can Non Citizens select our MLAs via Constituency Association Nomination contests?

This is not a matter of disrespecting hardworking, lawful, taxpaying people who have contributed to Alberta even for decades.

What limiting UCP membership to Citizens does is to eliminate the possibility of having foreign influence affect the selection of our MLAs; a big concern at present is the very persistent and expanding Communist Chinese influence into our political structure.

We don't see it too much in Alberta yet but we MUST do our best to ensure that our politicians are Canadian Citizens, elected by Canadian Citizens.

The UCP can create Associate Memberships for Permanent Residents and create programs tailored for them.”