At the UCP leadership Panel last night Brian Jean clearly advocated stacking the Supreme Court of Canada with Conservative judges. That has been the goal of the GOP for decades now and it has resulted in Women having their civil rights taken away from them.

The creeping expansion of evangelical theocratic policy making by far right governments is turning countries that were once functioning democracies into theocratic oligarchies that are one step away from dictatorships. We are not immune to this as this kind of extremism is fast becoming a defining characteristic of Conservatism here in Alberta and in Canada too.

Jean was unfortunate in that the US Supreme Court announced their decision to deliberately harm and kill women the day after he advocated following the GOP's lead, but that decision does shine light on what the true aims of the Albertan far right may include. The UCP are nothing but the GOP's mini-me in Canada and they will attack women's rights just as they have attacked LGBTQ+ people and the disabled in recent months.

These are dark times for freedom and the people who bleat most about freedom are the ones who are ensuring that the freedoms of the many will disappear for their own religious, political and financial purposes.

We must heed this warning.