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.
Statistically speaking, Albertans are as likely to vote NDP in a provincial election as people from BC are.
Serious question…even after the Exodus of people from other provinces who affected the provincial election outcomes previously?
This is the data from the 2023 provincial election, so I guess that depends on what exodus you’re referring to.
Considering the NDP only needs to flip 6 ridings for an AB majority, and there are at least 6 to flip in Calgary, and that Nenshi is the leader of the NDP now… I think AB will likely see an NDP government next time based on that math alone. Smith being a fucking national embarrassment is just the icing on the cake.
Thank you. I wasn’t looking at when the numbers were from. Silly old guy stuff. Careful it happens to everyone eventually.
I’m an old guy so I get it. Also there is a narrative about AB at a national level that’s hard to shake.
Flipping (the ideally located) 1380 votes in AB in 2023 would have produced an NDP majority. I don’t think Canada really understands the razors Edge that AB sits on.
I lived in Alberta for a long time. My wife is from there. The oil and gas boom really changed the political landscape. Lots of folks do not understand that happened at all. They just run with the typical Alberta Redneck sentiment. The influx of folks from all over made Alberta a lot less conservative and more open.
It also pushed out some wealthy individuals into BC who now seem to be also affecting that political landscape now that one can only assume they have set their claws in the conservative party of BC.
Shit, the NDP via the CCF originates in Calgary, IMO Notley was premier because of Albertans, not because of us who were only there for a few years.
I disagree with that. I had been there already well over a decade as were many of my friends and coworkers during the rise of the NDP. We moved there during the Klien government. Alberta was our home at that point though we were from away and many of us ended up moving out of Alberta during the downturn years.
It’s possible that transient voters helped push the needle, but the “deconservativeing” of AB may also be a result of the less exciting explanation of urbanization. In general, urban populations trend “left”, and simply put, the share of the total voters (and seats) in urban areas has grown meaningfully since Klien.
Could be a lil’ of both, too.
Fair enough, I was only there for a handful of years, but did get to see an NDP premier so was happy with that. I was more meaning that the history is there, Alberta has historically supported NDP politics (especially since as I said, the CCF originates there) and the people I know who were born and raised there definitely still do. Alberta’s work/corporate culture I do legitimately miss compared to the bay street one I deal with now, I found it more open and willing to try things for example.
Yea younger generations seem to be typically more forward thinking. Thankfully. I don’t work anymore but I enjoyed it. I did a lot of things I wouldn’t have been able to elsewhere without a ton of formal education. I learned a lot living there. It really was home and still is in a way.
They encourage it in fact.
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.
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.
I would like to see an implied message that PP is a traitor, which he is with his “respect” for the white house.
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.
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.
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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Yeah, we thought that she would be Rachael Notley’s secret weapon too.
