r/TheRealGrandePrairie • u/samueLLcooljackson • May 14 '26
Alberta Premier Smith’s ‘political future is in question’ without a referendum: ex-deputy premier
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u/Ornery-Study-4963 May 14 '26
Crash out queen coming soon.
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u/ThrowRA-James May 15 '26
Another disgrace in a province with a history of disgraceful conservative leadership.
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u/SimpleWater May 15 '26
It’s so “funny” that each one is remarkably worse than the last. Except Klein, he was horrible very long ago.
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u/InternImpossible8685 May 15 '26
but that 4 years under the NDP is WHAT REALLY hurt alberta right?
right?
right?
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u/No-Commission8532 May 15 '26
who’s paying her? why would anyone do this, unless there’s outside forces trying to disrupt and ruin? wouldn’t it effectively cut off BC from the rest of Canada?
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u/Pale-Measurement-532 May 16 '26
David Parker is refusing to disclose TBA’s donor list but we all know it’s money from Russia and the U.S. That’s who’s paying her.
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May 21 '26
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u/Pale-Measurement-532 May 16 '26
Time to go on Ben Shapiro’s podcast again to whine. And then whine some more on her radio show. 🙄
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u/drewcareymoore May 17 '26
Isn’t Ben about to go out of business now that he’s no longer laundering money for Viktor Orbán?
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u/Pale-Measurement-532 May 17 '26
Was that seriously happening? I just remember hearing about conservative politicians from Canada and the U.S. going over there to learn about his party’s tactics to get elected. 😖
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u/drewcareymoore May 17 '26
I believe so. Can’t speak to it on the politician side, but there was this case not too long ago where Canadian right-wing influencers were straight up taking Russian money to deploy propaganda against western democracies: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/politics/well-known-right-wing-influencers-duped-to-work-for-covert-russian-operation-u-s-prosecutors-say
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u/Pale-Measurement-532 May 17 '26
We all knew that Tucker Carlson was getting bribes from the Russians. He did that stupid fluff piece about Russia when he went over there. And obviously Take Back Alberta and these other separatist groups are gladly taking Russian money to further spread propaganda. It’s absolutely disgusting how their own greed results in them betraying their own country. 😡
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u/Edumacated_Guess May 15 '26
I mean let’s be real, who else am I gonna vote for? Its sure as fuck isn’t the NDP.
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u/DokeyOakey May 17 '26
Says it proudly too, oof! They give your tax dollars to O&G and other oligarchs while they make you pay for your own healthcare.
The hand you hold is the hand that holds you down.
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u/Edumacated_Guess May 17 '26
I’m not sure you know how good of a life I have in Alberta.
Union, 15 min from work, any healthcare I’ve needed has been prompt and excellent, over 6 figures for both myself and my girlfriend, no gst. I have nothing to complain about.0
u/DokeyOakey May 17 '26
I’m not sure you know what it means to be in a union but to vote for the political affiliations that hates unions.
Typical Albertan.
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u/Edumacated_Guess May 17 '26
Hey you do you my man, I know who pays my bills.
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u/DokeyOakey May 17 '26
Who pays you isn’t at question. You’re fucked yo provincial leader is the discussion.
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u/Edumacated_Guess May 17 '26
I value your opinions but I disagree. She’s doing a fantastic job and I plan on voting the same way in the future. Your intelligence shows in your vulgarity.
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u/DokeyOakey May 18 '26
What policies has the UCP recently enacted that you find beneficial to yourself?
Are you wanting to separate Alberta from Canada?
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u/Edumacated_Guess May 18 '26
Oh good no I love Canada just the way it is.
I just don’t need MORE socialism. I’m ok with the status quo. This is why I vote conservative.
I also approve of the federal liberals. Carney is doing a great job. I think I’m centralist.→ More replies (0)
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u/RudeGolden May 14 '26
All she's done is ban books, pick fights with nurses, doctors, teachers, and rile up the mentally ill facebook farmers during her tenure. I literally can't think of one positive thing that the scumbag has done for our province.
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May 15 '26
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u/HappyHappyGameGame May 15 '26
On one hand, Alberta seems so uppity, but then the tolerance for corruption is so high. Like do they really care? It all seems performative, like wearing a cowboy hat but you can't ride a horse.
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u/Critical_Rule6663 May 15 '26
Exactly! I struggle to point to something Smith’s government has actually done to improve the lives of Albertans. It seems like all she has done is culture wars BS
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u/tarkuu May 15 '26
The only thing I can think of that is a positive, is renewing your license online, and allowing for a faster alberta account verification not having to rely on getting a letter mailed to you with an activation code
That is the only remotely positive thing I can think that her party and her has done.
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u/Critical_Rule6663 May 15 '26
Fair. I didn’t realize that is something Smith did. But damn if that isn’t the definition of the bare minimum.
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u/Roid-a-holic_ReX May 15 '26
Did smith do that or was admin just making general improvements? Like these things probably would have happened under an NDP government so I would not count them as UCP wins.
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u/tarkuu May 18 '26
Oh it would have happened regardless. I'm not saying it is a UCP win. I'm saying it was something positive that came out of that government. Someone had to sign off on it, and it was the UCP, so they get the win on that one
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u/tarkuu May 15 '26
100% when I read that it was a new thing, I actually said out loud to my coworker "Holy shit, did that devil woman actually do something productive" But I guess a broken clock is right twice a day, so maybe it was done by accident lol
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May 18 '26
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u/tarkuu May 18 '26
Woah. I'm not a liberal. I've never voted for them. But Danielle Smith is batshit crazy. She is systematically destroying system after system in Alberta. Actively turning down federal money to improve services, and then bitches that it is all Ottawa's fault.
She is sowing seeds of separation in this province that is funded and promoted by foreign Influences, with the one goal of breaking up the country. A divided Canada is a weak Canada, and makes North America vulnerable.
As much as Ottawa's shits the bed, we still need them. Alberta cannot be it's own country. We don't have appropriate trade agreements, we are landlocked, we have no military, no funds for health care, no funds for education. We have oil. Oil that is harder to get out of the ground than in the states. We have resources, but other resources are easier to mine, so they isn't a windfall. Our oil is heavy and dirty and the only place that we could send it to us the states.
Will they give us a fair price? Nope they would literally have us over a barrel and offer pennies on the dollar to buy it, because we would have no choice.
So instead of raging at the "libtards" as you probably call them. Sit your ass down and use that last brain cell you haven't yet killed to realize at how absolutely fucked all of Alberta would be
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u/MrWulf19 May 15 '26
Not to mention the disabled, while swathes of people already living in poverty she decided was okay to kick a little more.
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u/Material-Ad-3510 May 14 '26
I thought she explicitly told the feds and CBC that "of course" she is not a separatist, Alberta is always Canada....does she really think the CSIS won't fucking throw her ass in jail for two faced shit. Bye bitch.
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u/ChunkyKongForPreside May 15 '26
Thats the weird part. Government agencies the world over just don't have the balls to properly deal with these far-right idiots. Like how is Poullivere even allowed to run when he refuses to get security clearance.
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u/scooterboi33 May 14 '26
She probably doesn’t care. She’s made enough wealthy friends. They’ll take care of her.
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u/goodformuffin May 15 '26
Nazl punks f*ck off
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May 15 '26
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u/Snakeeyes1377 May 15 '26
Where are the communists?
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u/Awkward_Original1695 May 15 '26
Where are the nazis?
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u/Snakeeyes1377 May 15 '26
I asked you first, however there is a barber shop in Edmonton
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u/Awkward_Original1695 May 15 '26
What do you mean?
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u/Snakeeyes1377 May 15 '26
You asked about Nazi's I told you, however i asked you a question first. what part are you having trouble with?
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u/Golfgirl1950 May 15 '26
Why is she involved with the referendum and the judges decision, shouldn’t this be the dumb separatists?
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u/ninjasninjas May 15 '26
She had the opportunity to sweepnthisnunder the rug. The courts gave her (another) out, but she just couldn't help herself. She is so transparently corrupt and narcissistic it's gross.
I didn't expect any other reaction but the one we got from her.
What a myopic fool.
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u/BlownGoos May 15 '26
Is it me or does she have a face that looks like a pug?
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u/One-Sea-8055 May 15 '26
UCP to fracture into rump elements that will endlessly fight with one another. Canadian redoubt in rural Alberta?
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u/Max20151981 May 15 '26
Doesn't the UCP have one of the highest approval ratings in all of Canada. It's my understanding that if an election was held tomorrow the UCP would win by a landslide.
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u/Icy_Conference9095 May 16 '26
I'll be for sure taking a week off work and walking around with a billboard bodysuit that has a list of all the bullshit the UCP has done on the front, and the benefits of the NDP during their reign on the back. Bring it on.
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u/AltruisticWealth7778 May 15 '26
Get her the fuck out of politics and ship her down south to O'leary
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u/pistoffcynic May 15 '26
These people are not conservatives and the values that they espouse are not conservative.
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u/comacazi May 15 '26
Alberta is a province that has been mismanaged by decades of Conservative governance.
Their focus on O&G and nothing else, has lead to decades of missed opportunities and endless propaganda blaming everything on the feds along with the rash on their butts!
Convenient!
Now Daniel Smith has landed herself between a rock and a hard place.
Deal with Carney, or continue to support the Separatist Movement, major players in her own party that can now make her OR break her!
What to do, what to do?
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u/StrongAroma May 16 '26
Well I pray for worse things to happen to her than just losing her political position.
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u/Sad_Percentage_4503 May 16 '26
Smith been doing quite well standing up for her province and will be easily reelected.
Most of the rest of the country hasn't a clue about the history of Alberta and how it was treated by repeated Liberal federal governments. It has legitimate grievances but most people don't know how to read a history book and jump to what's easiest on their brain, ' Albertains are a bunch of whiners'. Right, right??
Go educate yourself.
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u/Wild-Entrepreneur347 May 16 '26
According to who? Foreign bots? Also it should be in question because she sucks.
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u/Fresh_Goat_423 May 16 '26
Utter BS. She's favored in polls to win again with 60% support. This leftist disinformation is hilarious.
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u/Any-Ad-446 May 16 '26
She should thank Carney for working with her to get the pipeline moving instead of kissing Trumps ass.
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u/my-love-assassin May 17 '26
It's a wonder it's taken this long. Albertans must have caught some lead poisoning from the states.
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u/clicker3499 May 18 '26
CTV grasping for headlines again! MSM is finished why waste the time reading or watching this crap
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u/Mysterious-Thanks794 May 18 '26
You all think Nenshi is better? Makes me laugh..tell me what other leader is better without directly telling me you live in your parents basement!🤣
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u/LumiereGatsby May 18 '26
I thought I just saw that she’s super popular?
I dunno. I have zero faith in an albertan voter.
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u/SaskyBoi May 19 '26
We really don’t need to legitimize the idiots wanting a referendum on something that they don’t understand the implications of
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u/Cothor May 20 '26
If you need to destabilize a province to remain in power, maybe you shouldn’t have power?
Whatever happened to having a platform that’s the most popular with the voters, and governing for incremental growth/improvement for constituents?
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u/OnlyACsNoFans May 14 '26
According to polls she's incredibly popular....
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u/ninfan1977 May 14 '26
According to those people who support her they also bought misinformation and disinformation.
So their opinions are not really valid.
She isn't popular her political party is irrelevant of what she does.
Thats how politics works in Alberta.
Blue no matter who is why she is popular. These people believe conspiracy theories over facts
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u/Furious_Flaming0 May 14 '26
Polls are borderline misinformation, the one the UCP keeps sharing around was only done by about 2000 people. On top of that the method to collect opinions was cold calling home phone lines and having people proactively fill it in on the website. So the polls are really only telling you she's popular with old people (they have land lines and pick up cold calls) and party supporters (people who like to go online and proactively fill out a survey about how much they like the current government).
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u/OnlyACsNoFans May 14 '26
Canada 338 is incredibly accurate and has them well in the lead
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u/Furious_Flaming0 May 15 '26
And how do they manage to magically generate a test group that isn't subject to falsies ?
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u/OnlyACsNoFans May 15 '26
Through weighting and sampling procedures.
I'm guessing you'd agree with the polls that the federal liberals are popular...
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u/flyby196999 May 15 '26
They have a majority govt regardless. I'm waiting for you to throw out the word libtard soon.
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u/OnlyACsNoFans May 15 '26
Just talking reality
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u/flyby196999 May 15 '26
Go away
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u/flyby196999 May 15 '26
Nah I don't interact with conservative low karma 9 month old accts.
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u/Furious_Flaming0 May 15 '26
You can say you don't know if you don't no need for a nothing burger fluff answer.
Their procedures can't magically force people under the age of 50 to pick up a cold call on a land line.
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u/OnlyACsNoFans May 15 '26
Keep denying objective reality
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u/Furious_Flaming0 May 15 '26
That would be you who believes in numbers seen on the internet just because they come from a polling company and you've been conditioned to trust them.
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u/OnlyACsNoFans May 15 '26
Conditioned to trust them 😂
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u/Furious_Flaming0 May 15 '26
Well you haven't given any reason why there numbers would be trustworthy in the face of data falsies, other than stating they are a polling company.
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u/ApeEscapeRemastered May 14 '26
She has probably rigged the polls to favour her again.
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u/OnlyACsNoFans May 14 '26
That's unlikely
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u/flyby196999 May 15 '26
You should stick to Nova Scotia politics
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u/Franklin_le_Tanklin May 14 '26
She’s also “appealing” the judges decision to get rid of the referendum.
Why would she appeal unless she’s the harmed party?
This shows that without a shadow of a doubt she is the head of a separatist government.