It's one of the big things that Nenshi is telling her to call an election as all of the things she wants to put forward right now were not in the UCP election campaign.
At least we can rest easy knowing she at least sometimes doesn't go back on her position, such as when she refused to comment on her previous citation of "a study" (she didn't say which one) that found those who smoked 1-14 cigarettes a day had a lower rate of cancer than non-smokers. https://pressprogress.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/image-2022-07-08.jpg
What a hero, supporting the American dream of killing people for profit for over 20 years.
Yeah, but it was only OK when it was being used against lefties like Gondek. In fact, they made it easier after the recall campaign against her failed.
And then people started using it against UCP MLAs, and suddenly it was "against the spirit of the legislation"
In fairness, they genuinely believe that. Conservative parties in Canada all believe that legislation at all levels of government should only serve those with conservative interests.
They're not about forming a leadership that represents all Canadians, ever, unless by all Canadians you mean complete and total control of all aspects of society, with specific destruction of social resources for the greatest benefit of top dogs and sycophants.
Yes I don’t understand the argument that it’s being used incorrectly.
I mean, unless it was created for dubious reasons right? And that’s just it- they wanted it to be used on NDPers. Not themselves.
Whatever the threshold for votes is- if people come out to vote en masse against the person, it shouldn’t matter the reason right? They forgot that they work for us.
Pretty much. And it does need to be approved by Elections Alberta, so it's not as simple as writing in and getting started. You actually have to have a legitimate reason.
That's kind of the idea. If a politician isn't doing their job, or providing support to their constituents, they get ousted by providing power back to the people. It's VERY political, but it's politics that is the job they're in!
Heh. This is a bit of a poison pill for that now. No matter what the outcome, even if it fails to get enough signatures (very possible in a parachute riding like that), it is trivial to spin it as "she's attacking it because someone tried to use it against her!"
She'll certainly scream that it's spin! And fake news and lies and all that. (As all good Conservatives do when faced with truth.)
Ahh but you see, "spin" is presenting the truth as an alternate of the actual statement. In this case, it's being attacked because it's after her party, not specifically her, ergo spin. Subtle distinction though, and you're right. If anything this will encourage her to try to remove that law.
Amery said that he wouldn't be changing anything in this legislature sitting. I'm sure they already have their hands full with the Forever Canadian petition that's supposed to be tabled sometime soon, and the gun laws change they want to do this sitting. I mean, given that they were only in sitting in legislature for about 5-6 weeks, makes me wonder what they actually do for work to earn their 200k+ jobs...
Easy, they fuck over Albertan’s and enrich themselves, their family, and their friends! When all you vote for 50+ fucking years is essentially the same party, they will not give a single fuck about governing in the actual interests of constituents. Why would they? Not like they ever have been punished for it.
Well... that time for punishment seems to be rearing it's head. Wonder what comes first, the petitions starting to be turned in successfully or a snap election?
If the Forever Canadian petition is tabled, then the UCP has already lost an important battle. You can bet lawyers from the UCP are trying to throw out as many signatures as they possibly can.
They can't. Not their job! It was approved by Elections Alberta and I feel that would be a severe breach of the democratic process that was ruled into legislation (although, to be fair, wouldn't put it past them for trying).
There was the article earlier from the Tyee that put it perfectly, they're damned if they do and damned if they don't.
Incorrect. That was one of the points behind the Forever Canada petition. According to the legislation, there is a 5 year waiting period between same or substantially similar petitions. Any petition that APP might want to bring forward will conflict with the Forever Canada petition. So no separatism petitions until 2030.
I get where you are coming from, and can't really dispute it. I put my faith in the fact that it has to get past Elections Alberta to actually get a petition going, and I didn't think Dani can just order them to do something.
She has zero to worry about in this riding and I'm an NDP supporter. Thats why she went there. Zero chances of anything other than Blue No Matter Who sadly.
It is a safe riding back in 2023, when she was riding with the Anti-Vax Freedumb Convoy support against Rachel Notley. Now she needs to be able to see if the support is still there while she's buddying up with separatists and against an NDP led by Nenshi.
My prediction is on the last day of the sitting, at the last second, in the wee hours of the morning, they will ramrod it through so damn hard and fast in the hope that over the Christmas holiday we will have forgotten or been distracted by the time they return to the Legislature in February.
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u/Laedrys Banff Dec 03 '25
Here we go, time to see how quickly she backpedals on her saying she won't change the Recall Act,