As a loyal Albertan for the last 40 years (give or take), I fear the end of our glorious Province’s position as a leader in Canada, is nigh! Our current Alberta government is more interested in being an outlier and antagonist, rather than leader within confederation.
The Smith government continues to vilify the the Federal government and our Prime Minister, but does not tells what specific CRIMES to Alberta have been committed. They seem to want to blame them for all of the problems in Alberta without actually saying what those problems are or what they have cost Alberta.
Smith and her government are acting like petulant children, and their blaming the FEDS is a way of covering up the errors and mistakes that they themselves have made since coming to power.
Albertans had better pay attention. This Alberta Sovereignty Act is nothing more that the UCP consolidating power, so they circumvent the legislature, anytime they want to push through policies that benefit them or their cronies.
If you don’t believe me, just look at the 180 degree turn around of the the UCP candidates who were against it during the leadership campaign and what they are now saying. COWARDS!!! One and all! So much for their integrity.
I also believe this is a way for the UCP to bring in things, like private health care, using the act to circumvent the CANADIAN HEALTH ACT, because they can say it doesn’t benefit Albertans. Getting rid of the RCMP, using the act to say they don’t act in the interest of Albertans, because they are a federal police force. Of course using the act to not have to answer what happened to 8 billion of Federal money they received during the pandemic, but can’t explain where it went or even provide a reasonable accounting. They can use the to say it’s none of the Feds business.
YEP, we are in for an interesting 6 months, until the next election. I want to encourage everyone to hold their MLA’s accountable. Ask them to explain “in detail” what they think about the ACT and more importantly if the even read it before voting. It has already been discovered that some of the UCP MLAs did not read it and are simply going along to protect their jobs, not what is good for the people of ALBERTA.