According to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, who describes herself as a Canadian patriot, she’s enabling a separation referendum out here in Wild Rose Country only to keep a separatist party from becoming as successful as the Bloc Québécois.
“We do not want a permanent feature of Alberta politics to be parties that send representatives to Ottawa whose sole purpose is to break up the country,” Smith said last week in the legislature in response to a question by Opposition leader Christina Gray.
The Canadian Press interpreted this and similar statements the premier made to mean Smith was prepared to roll the dice on a separation referendum “in part to avert the emergence of a political rival.”
As Albertans have come to know, Smith has a casual relationship with the truth, so it’s not always easy to be certain what she has in mind when she blurts out stuff like this. In this case, though, it seems more likely she was trying to frame her party’s legislative effort to make a separation referendum easier for a “citizen” group to get on a ballot as a way to prevent a separation movement from growing in Alberta.
Smith is doing this because she doesn’t want to be subject to whatever the RCMP are going to dig up over the healthcare scandal that she’s trying to suppress. If Alberta isn’t part of Canada, the RCMP have no standing.
She’s Trump in a skirt.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ewY0b-isvu0 Canada’s social studies teacher explains it
She’s effectively changed the channel from the investigation into overpaying on health contracts to whatever this is.
I don’t follow Alberta politics, but it does seem to be a convenient time for her to take control of the conversation.
She really is a manipulative pos.
https://newsletter.doomberg.com/i/162615065/oh-canada
This seems to be whats happening, they pushed Carney to win so he could build a pipeline east, likely in order to help defund Russia.
One of the few things she says that I believe. She wouldn’t want a seperatist party to form because it would split the right wing vote
If the UCP splits, she especially risks handing an election over to the NDP. The only reason why the NDP ever won in 2015 to begin with was because the right-wing vote was split between the Wildrose and Progressive Conservatives. If there was proportional representation rather than first past the post, the NDP and Notley would have been handily beaten by Conservatives.
Unless the polls are way off then the threat of Alberta seperating isn’t real for now.
The play here is to stir up more outrage along with the probably soon to be collapsing oil prices to pin on all her political opponents creating this die hard frothing at the mouth voter base that has worked well for Trump.
Eerily reminiscent of David Cameron and the Brexit Referendum…
