You mention Jason Kenney’s "Fair Deal Panel" failing as a safety valve. We see this exact dynamic in federal committee transcripts. Governments often create special committees to let people vent steam. But instead of cooling things down, it gives the angriest voices a microphone and a budget. Your data shows only 20% of Albertans actually want to leave. Yet that minority now drives the agenda because the government gave them a formal platform to organize on.
Excellent analysis, but I can't help thinking that a lot of positioning is based on a lack of or distorted information - particularly financial - mainly that AB is 'hard-done-by' Ottawa financially. It's actually the AB UCP doing the citizen fleecing. Certainly, the Kenny & Smith governments have blatantly supported the O&G industry to the detriment of citizens. (abandoned wells, free-loading on private property and not paying rent for access; not paying any municipal taxes, citizen, tax-payer funded pipeline; and likely other financial handouts.)
Of course changing the AB provincial status would leave AB with no one to blame.
Back when the PCs and Wildrose first joined together the first thing that popped in my head was “Why do I feel like this might make things worse?” But even the basic metrics of that question couldn’t have prepared me for what the next 8 years would bring
I know it wasn’t going to be “my grandpa’s Conservative Party” as the old saying goes but ya this does not feel like the same province I was born and raised in
In what way has or is the federal government harming Alberta? I do not see Alberta being treated differently from any other province.
You mention Jason Kenney’s "Fair Deal Panel" failing as a safety valve. We see this exact dynamic in federal committee transcripts. Governments often create special committees to let people vent steam. But instead of cooling things down, it gives the angriest voices a microphone and a budget. Your data shows only 20% of Albertans actually want to leave. Yet that minority now drives the agenda because the government gave them a formal platform to organize on.
Excellent analysis, but I can't help thinking that a lot of positioning is based on a lack of or distorted information - particularly financial - mainly that AB is 'hard-done-by' Ottawa financially. It's actually the AB UCP doing the citizen fleecing. Certainly, the Kenny & Smith governments have blatantly supported the O&G industry to the detriment of citizens. (abandoned wells, free-loading on private property and not paying rent for access; not paying any municipal taxes, citizen, tax-payer funded pipeline; and likely other financial handouts.)
Of course changing the AB provincial status would leave AB with no one to blame.
Back when the PCs and Wildrose first joined together the first thing that popped in my head was “Why do I feel like this might make things worse?” But even the basic metrics of that question couldn’t have prepared me for what the next 8 years would bring
I know it wasn’t going to be “my grandpa’s Conservative Party” as the old saying goes but ya this does not feel like the same province I was born and raised in
Alberta is treaty land.
Never 51 👍😎🇨🇦🪶💪🏽
Brilliant
Attention Alberta Separatist before you decide your fate!
“Alberta Separatist” be careful what you wish for!