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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith confirmed the her plan to invoke the Sovereignty Act on Your Province Your Premier on Saturday.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith confirmed the her plan to invoke the Sovereignty Act on Your Province Your Premier on Saturday.

  • CanadaPlus@futurology.todayEnglish
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    2 years ago

    No, I was pretty involved, so I’m sure about this. I was told 1309, to be exact, distributed across the close Calgary ridings.

    In rural areas, it wasn’t even close, so that drives up the UCP numbers quite a bit. People are crazy loyal to anything labeled “conservative” out in the boonies, it’s not even a question of policy (which is why they’d vote Republican). Still, if you look at those numbers, 52.6% isn’t exactly a landslide. The NDP were a hair from winning.

    As for the far right, that stuff is brewing up in conservative parties all over the Western world. I seem to remember leaving bodies in dumps being the centerpoint of the Manitoba campaign, and the leading party federally is full of MPs that supported the trucker convoy. That’s not an excuse, but I think it’s a stretch to say that because people narrowly voted Danielle Smith in, they’d be okay not having government healthcare, which I can’t imagine a Republican candidate would abide.

    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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      2 years ago

      You’re mixing the way first past the post works with popular votes (which is the important part of this discussion), that’s two separate things and no, the NDP wasn’t even close to the conservatives, they were 8.6% behind in popular support.

      Alberta leans conservative, the popular vote is the proof of that.

      • CanadaPlus@futurology.todayEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Alberta has first past the post.

        Yes, Alberta leans conservative. I of course can’t prove it, but I expect if suddenly in an environment with a centerline much further to the right, it would lean left. That’s all I’m saying.

        • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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          2 years ago

          Smith would be in the Republican party if we were in the US and she would be one of the MAGA COVID deniers libertarian wackos and she got over 50% of the vote, I think you need to start facing reality…

          • CanadaPlus@futurology.todayEnglish
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            2 years ago

            Hey, you don’t even live here, how would you know the reality better than me?

            Plus, you’re not even presenting new information at this point, you’re just repeating what you’re arguing for.

            • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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              2 years ago

              I’m presenting statistical facts, no need to live where you are to interpret those and guess what, we are able to find articles about Smith, it’s not 1923 anymore even if 52% of Albertan electors would like it to be!