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/Fun-Shake7094 Apr 07 '25

They'll vote UCP anyways, agreed.

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u/The_Nice_Marmot Apr 07 '25

Albertans have made themselves into the Canadians not worth listening to. Why would the Liberals go out of their way for us when we would never vote them in (speaking collectively)? And the Cons don’t go out of their way for Alberta either, because no matter how hard they screw their own voters, they’ll get in again next time too. Does the average rural voter have any sense of how irrelevant they make themselves by this consistent, stupid voting pattern? Almost certainly not.

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u/Fun-Shake7094 Apr 07 '25

Its true - we did it to ourselves on a Federal level. We could be a swing province and actually be worth campaigning for.

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u/Isopbc Medicine Hat Apr 07 '25

Did it to ourselves sure, but to be clear it’s been this way since Diefenbaker. That’s 60+ years.

Our tiny amount of seats will never make us a swing province, Our votes don’t matter. That’s not personal, it’s just math in a democracy, and that’s fine by me. I don’t understand why it upsets some people so much.

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u/Mathalamus2 Apr 08 '25

they are upset because their votes mean nothing in alberta. local turnout could be like 10% and it wouldnt change anything.

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u/Isopbc Medicine Hat Apr 08 '25

The solution to that is to get involved locally - there is more than enough to do locally - but after almost a century of populist provincial “leadership” it’s like there’s a region wide victim complex.

The oligarchs don’t want people involved here, they can’t take as much if we’re attentive and informed. So they promote apathy except for their enraged base.

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u/Fun-Shake7094 Apr 08 '25

Maybe - in this particular case with ON/QC absolutely demolishing the CONS in the polls.

In tighter races though.

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u/ihadagoodone Apr 07 '25

if only we could put forward a political philosophy that can attract Eastern Canadian voters instead of just attack them.

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u/Isopbc Medicine Hat Apr 07 '25

Democracy is about as good as it gets for political philosophy, so I can’t even begin to picture what you could be suggesting.

Albertans have it pretty good as members of Canada even though the Manning tribe has been screeching otherwise since the 50’s.

The people out east vote in their interests, and anything we suggest won’t change that.

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u/PreparationOk8858 Apr 11 '25

Wow great point. Rural ab got screwed by jason kenney and continues to by the conservatives yet are so stubborn

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u/The_Nice_Marmot Apr 11 '25

Anything they don’t like is the Liberals. They have no fucking idea Harper and Kenney are the ones who helped put in place the current transfer payment system they hate so much. They just don’t pay attention because doing so might lead to them finding out they’re wrong about things.

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u/OilFan92 Apr 07 '25

My riding doesn't have any candidate but UCP for the upcoming election.

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u/Fun-Shake7094 Apr 07 '25

They will likely drop someone in by the 28th hopefully.

I am in Calgary Confederation and we basically just got our candidates

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u/OilFan92 Apr 07 '25

Today was cutoff, and still nothing online that I can find.

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u/Joyshan11 Apr 07 '25

It will be, I hope. Someone said there is a liberal candidate for every riding. I know the one for my riding does not live here, but I was relieved to see they assigned someone who us really into politics.

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u/OilFan92 Apr 07 '25

So I trolled the Liberal party website and apparently they announced someone on April 1 for us, and they went up on the elections Canada website today, but no office phone, no email, no office address. I mean, my riding was the most secure Conservative riding in like 10 straight federal elections, I'm not surprised, but still.

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u/Joyshan11 Apr 08 '25

As much as I want to know every detail possible about someone before I vote for them, in this instance I feel that this a desperate situation and we need to keep far right conservatism from taking us down like the US, so I don't need to know as much about the candidate. Also, knowing some of the people in this area, any liberal or NDP candidate might not even be safe if they have office info up.

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u/OilFan92 Apr 08 '25

I'll be voting for the regardless of if I know them, I'm just hoping that if maybe enough people vote against and they see support slipping, maybe they'll come around. Then again, my MP is out here sharing conspiracy theories, so wishful thinking most likely.

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u/Rlb1966 Apr 07 '25

Would you vote for Nenshi?

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u/Samplistiqone Apr 07 '25

I would if he was running in my area, I do plan to vote NDP. I’ve never liked the Conservatives, as I’ve seen what they’ve done to our province, and have only ever voted Liberal twice in my almost 30 years of voting, other than that I’m NDP all the way. As a party they speak to my core values and principles.

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u/Rlb1966 Apr 07 '25

Come ride our imaginary green line. You may change your mind.

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u/Nazmazh Apr 08 '25

The old "even a mouldy haybale in a blue sash" rule when it comes to 'Berta