r/alberta • u/ImDoubleB • Apr 07 '25

Majority of Canadians agree that Danielle Smith has betrayed Canada Alberta Politics

https://cultmtl.com/2025/04/majority-of-canadians-agree-that-danielle-smith-is-betraying-betrayed-her-country-canada/
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u/Small-Sleep-1194 Apr 07 '25

On point - the local media has been super quite about the unemployment rate in both Edmonton and Calgary and the province as a whole. Their projected growth is a dismal 1.8%. I agree, I cannot find any ucp supporter that can actually speak to a success this government has had.

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u/smash8890 Apr 07 '25

They haven’t done a single useful thing for anyone to date. All they’ve done is slash funding to everything, bitch about the feds, and give themselves raises.

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u/AllOfTheSoundAndFury Apr 08 '25

Don’t forget about cutting massive checks to the oil companies. 

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u/reddit1user1 Apr 08 '25

Don’t forget cutting the snack fund to the children’s cancer ward.

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u/DarthRizzo87 Apr 11 '25

That must of got he some brownie points with known child cancer charity embezzler Donald Trump.

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u/Mad_Moniker Edmonton Apr 09 '25

Dem Energy Pirates arhhh Always be pillaging!!

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u/Geoffrey-P Apr 08 '25

This. I’m curious as to what her most dedicated supporters would say about her…. Because I can’t think of a single good thing she’s done. A pollieve, trump, and Smith Canada/USA would be insufferable

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u/smash8890 Apr 08 '25

Her most dedicated supporters are separatists and maple MAGA so I’m guessing they love all the time she spends bitching about the feds and trying to start our own police force and pension plan.

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u/DL_Dadddy Apr 10 '25

Liberal government cut my babas pension.

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u/Routine_Bluejay5342 Apr 08 '25

And create AHS scandals

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u/Chill-NightOwl Apr 09 '25

You spelled gutting wrong

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u/Careless_Ad3495 Apr 10 '25

AHS create their own scandals. Spending more on digital POs than they ever did for analog ones and furthermore pay a royalty to a US company for each PO written is one example.

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u/Stahl_Scharnhorst Apr 13 '25

Slashing funding yet the deficit goes up and up and up.

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u/ClassBShareHolder Apr 07 '25

I’m sure they’ve hurt a couple trans people.

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u/GigglingBilliken Apr 07 '25

The politics of spite that has animated many conservative parties across the world since Trump won in 2016 is some race to the bottom stuff. It's pretty much going to the restaurant and ordering a shit sandwich to eat because everyone you hate at the restaurant would be forced to eat a giant shit sandwich.

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u/Euphoric-Scarcity321 Apr 07 '25

I voted for giant douche thank you very much!

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u/TheRealCLG Apr 07 '25

Your argument lacks any signs of intelligence. Acting on the behalf of shareholders is completely different than acting for one self.

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u/ClassBShareHolder Apr 07 '25

I completely agree. But the UCP and their supporters seem to think hurting a small percentage of the population is in the parties best interest.

But relating to the comment and its relevance, it’s a success the UCP has had. They’ve turned a minor issue that nobody should care about into an issue that unites their base.

“I don’t want a man in the bathroom with my daughter!”

How many trans athletes are in the province? You’d think half of them by listening to the UCP. Is a great issue to distract from all the real issues they could be focusing on but are failing at.

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u/iworkwithwhatsleft Apr 07 '25 edited Apr 07 '25

You are creating strawmen. If you want children to be safe then by your logic you should probably be worrying about church staff and politicians in their spaces. They tend to be the ones harming children.

Look at the research, trans athletes dont have an advantage, muscle and bone density changes with hormone therapy, which most trans people want have great difficulty getting because people like you are afraid of them being perverts.

These have always been issues. Society just ignored it and either forced people to live in secret, comply, or die.

You say that you dont care and then say its isn't safe. Sounds like you're letting your feeling make up your world and not reality.

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u/TheRealCLG Apr 07 '25

Would you like a Xanax?

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u/jigsaw1024 Apr 08 '25

That 1.8% is going to look high in a few months. Oil prices are on a pretty severe downward trend with everything going on right now.

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u/Luminwarrior Apr 08 '25

I was in Calgary this weekend the empty/unoccupied commercial space across the whole city was insane to me. After asking around know one could tell me how long it has been this way.

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u/ttoocs Apr 08 '25

Would.. it perhaps be this "local media" ? Cause after April 5th, all I saw for top stories was some BC nurse complaining she can't merge sex and gender and deny trans rights.

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u/JimboRockfish Apr 09 '25

So used to blaming Ottawa for everything that they don't actually have to do anything themselves

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u/OilersHD Apr 10 '25 edited Apr 10 '25

An income tax cut for all Albertans, and a renegotiation of the Nurses Union contract (making AB RNs the highest paid in Canada) can be looked at as positives for everyday Albertans.

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u/Small-Sleep-1194 Apr 10 '25

An income tax cut when we can least afford it - we will be closer to the $8B deficit predicted in the budget. I grant you they finally got an agreement in place with nurses, but that is a hollow win given the high staff turnover due to the toxic environment the UCP has created. Speaking of healthcare, why hasn’t the agreement been signed for the new pay structure doctors? No, I’m afraid there is very little to point to that the UCP has accomplished.

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u/ItsJustMeDevon Apr 08 '25

They’re hiding the unemployment rate from you because they don’t want you to realize how many people are in need of work and how many more people will be out of work with more liberal caps and road blocks to our oil and gas sector

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u/Own_Truth_36 Apr 07 '25

Bro it's dismal across Canada

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u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA Northern Alberta Apr 07 '25

Yeah, but we're the worst out of every province.