She’s a filthy disgrace to this great nation. She should not have any role in taking charge and leading citizens.
Throw her out. Traitor.
And yet Albertans remain fine with her election interference and helping foreign govts take over Canada.
They do not. Please quit with the stereotyping of all of Alberta as being some kind of “Texas North.” Last election was a near 50/50 split between Conservative and NDP, and we’ve had an NDP government in the recent past. Would not be at all surprised if we have an NDP government next election, most Albertans are not fine with foreign governments taking over Canada.
How do you explain Danielle Smith then? I know the citites go NDP but most of AB is conservative.
I said it was a near 50/50 split. It happened to fall on the Danielle Smith side of that split, and so she won the election. If just a few percent more had gone NDP then it would have been the other way around. This is fairly typical of how elections work, I’m not sure what more needs to be explained.
The actual popular vote split was 52.63%/44.05%, though of course thanks to first-past-the-post the split of the number of seats in the legislature wasn’t as close as that. The maps look bluer because of the huge sparsely-populated rural regions that voted Conservative, but remember, land doesn’t vote. Those huge sparsely-populated rural regions don’t have as many representatives as the cities.
I’ll have faith in AB again if you guys vote in Nenshi next time.
I’m not asking anyone to “have faith.” I’m just asking you to recognize that statements like:
Albertans remain fine with her election interference and helping foreign govts take over Canada
Are an inaccurate and frankly downright offensive stereotype. Albertans are not “fine” with helping foreign governments take over Canada. That statement is tarring an entire population with a vile accusation.
I’d imagine most of Alberta is left leaning like the rest of the country and similarly has their left votes split over multiple parties, making it a lot easier for conservatives to win. Same problem we all have really. It just takes a really small nudge of conservatism to tip the scales
Is that what’s up?
Nope, there’s currently only really two parties. In fact, vote splitting between the UCP and Greens might actually have given the NDP some seats. About 52 percent wanted the UCP and about 44 percent wanted the NDP.
What can AB feasibly do about Marlaina right now though?
The fact that we have no legal method of stopping her doesn’t mean we’re fine with what she’s doing.
We hold elections every once in a while, like other provinces. It’s unfortunate there isn’t one in the immediate future, but eventually there will be one and right now I’m not liking her odds.
Unfortunately… https://338canada.com/alberta/
Hopefully though once a more recent poll is run we’ll see UCP support collapse. And it’s still about 2 and a half years until the next election.
Yeah, I’m skeptical about those numbers. They’re from February 9, and that’s about when Trump’s 51st-state bullshit first started making headlines. Nobody would have known what Smith’s reaction would be yet.
Since we’re in the doldrums between elections I don’t imagine a whole lot of polling is being done right now, so no idea when that will update. But even with the numbers as they are, it’s really not bad - NDP got 44% last election so 41% is still in the same ballpark, and the NDP has a new leader that obviously hasn’t done any campaigning. He’s a former mayor of Calgary and Calgary’s the battleground that the election hinged on last time around.
The same thing we do to Murcans. The all need to burn because they voted for Trump.
They encourage it in fact.
They do not, and this is an offensive stereotype. Half of Albertans didn’t even vote for her, and I’m sure a substantial portion of those who did are not “fine” with her helping foreign governments take over Canada.
According to a recent poll 12% of Albertans would “definitely consider” joining the US. Sounds bad, yeah? But Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario come right behind at 11%. Should we also say “Ontarians are fine with helping foreign governments take over Canada”?
Smith herself was a 6th round pick.
The worst people on the planet are saving a nation by unambiguously showing Canadians what to reject. It’s too early for me to feel relief, but the way things stand at the moment, national politics are mirroring my province’s recent outcome in a way that I hadn’t even dared to hope.
Carney himself has said he wants to run a clean campaign and not do attack ads, I know how often politicians renege on that, but i hope Carney sticks to it, i think it will ruin the unifying atmosphere that has him polling so well. Let her crazy speak for itself.
I also hate attack ads, but… Is it really an attack ad if you simply play the recording of what someone else said without editing it to make it worse (because it’s already sufficient bad in its whole, truthful self)?
As much as I want to sea traitors like her burn, I do agree on the principal of a clean election. People have been turning against PP precisely because he openly and only fights dirty, purely talking about how bad everybody else is without putting up a single point of good he will do the country if elected.
We need positive forward-facing politicians in power, with anybody more interested in pulling others down be put into the dirt. Winning the election with a purely positive platform without attacking anybody is the best election we can have, even if it doesn’t actually change the system in the short term.
Hated Attack ads, attack ads are only create bigger division. as if it is not divided enough now. however its gonna be tricky when the opposite side are playing dirty.
God if I had the funds to head up to the legislature I would be protesting this shit endlessly.
My MLA is with the NDP, so clearly against this, but I should probably find the nearest UCP office and put up signage or whatnot.
Same boat here. Don’t have the time or money to go to Edmonton to protest and my MLA is NDP, so there’s no point voicing concerns there. Probably going to start sending letters to other UCP MLAs.
You can protest Marlaina’s AHS procurement fraud while you’re there!
The funny thing here is that the Liberals winning depends on Trump staying front and centre in the public eye.
Which means that either way, Canadians win.
Maybe. I am worried that If trump backs off enough for the conservatives to slip in, he’ll come back even harder with a leader that will hand him Canada.
Can you imagine Trump “backing off?” His idea of backing off was to say that he’d be happier to work with the Liberals than the Conservatives.
Yeah, we thought that she would be Rachael Notley’s secret weapon too.
We can’t make the mistake of continuing to give them enough rope to hang themselves, then doing nothing once the noose is firmly affixed.
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