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[–] 8 points 3 weeks ago (22 children)

No kidding the separatists want her to step down.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)
  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    Somehow I don't think you are a member of the UCP.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)
  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Then he has no say over who is the leader of the UCP.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago (14 children)

    Everyone does, the separatist are the only ones that want her to stay cuz the next person in charge isn't necessaraly going to be an American stooge

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (10 children)
  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    Well, she's a typical Conservative idiot. She held a referendumb no one wanted , with barely 43% turnout, and she then alienated the Separtists by her non support, and the non-separatists saying it was all a waste of time.

    The real winners are the racists keeping brown people out of Alberta.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (8 children)

    Lamo, all she Fuckin talks about is separation, these people really are just a bunch of mental deficients, they're just angry they lost.

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  • [–] -3 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

    She never spoke in favour of separation.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    She secretly sat down with american fascists, is that not enough?

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  • [–] -2 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario all regularly speak to their American counterparts. Is it only wrong if you don't like the admininstration?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Did they meet to overthrow Canada? Did they meet with the likes of Shark tank billionaire boy wonder? Are they trying to hide the fact that they went to mara lago to meet secretly with fascists? Did they make a "deal" to give away strategic resources to a foreign government? I think not. Try again.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    If you actually use reputable sources, you'll notice O'Leary and Smith met because of the data centre he wants to build in Alberta. Now, not a popular thing I know, but it wasn't separation. So please criticize for real events, not some invented events.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    They did not speak with an American funded Think tank focused on succession like she did. This is just a bad faith argument. Even my concervative father finds it laughable that the alberten cons are turning on her for "not supporting sepratists" when quote "thats all she ever talk about"

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  • [–] 8 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    Lmao the tiny minority of Albertans who want to separate are now making more demands. Almost as if you can't give fringe groups an inch or they'll ask for a mile.

    That said, Alberta can do much better than Smith for a Premier.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    25% of a population isn't a "tiny Minority".

    Agree with the rest of your comment.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    25% is a "tiny minority" when the question voted on was "yes or no" statistically. It would appear even smaller when it was reported that if it had been a binding the "yes" vote to leave would have been closer to 10%. However I see your point and I am just happy that the voters of Alberta didn't go down the asinine path of separatism.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Oh, the number I was thinking of was 7% of the total voting poluace. I think I heard it on a Fifth Estate bit about the Alberta seperarist movement. I didn't realize the referendum "Leave" numbers were that high...

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  • Probably time to call an election 🤭

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    [–] 22 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

    Get bent, Danielle! I can’t wait for these separatist fucks to form their own party and rid Alberta of UCP once and for all.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    aaaahahahahahha, there's no way alberta doesn't continue voting in conservative shits.

    Like the PQ got fucked in their separatist attempt decades ago. They still in power, still talking separation, and still telling Canada to get fucked every chance they get. And the people keep electing them.

    It'll be the same in Alberta. Maybe we'll see a federal party that's a provincial voting block, similar to the PQ, spring up in the west in the semi near future.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago

    25% is way higher than I expected though. And she voted to stay right? Wasn't this whole thing her doing? I'm so confused. Anyway, it doesn't make me happy that she might get kicked out because thay just means they'll find someone more effective... Fuck these people so hard.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Cons don't resign after they fuck up anymore.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    I'm no fan of Danielle Smith, but was this really a defeat for her? She hedged her position on separatism all the way along until eventually settling on the winning side before the vote. Meanwhile, although the separation question got all the media attention, she has won on most of the other questions she asked in the referendum.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    People kept making it sound like there was any question whatsoever to the outcome here.

    Before question 10 was even added, I received TWO polling calls on rough versions of the questions, including question 10. Polling on Q10 specifically was consistent after it was officially added, and those results were public. Sensationalist media reporting making it sound conceivable as an outcome was completely self serving click bait.

    The answer was in plain sight before it was even added.

    It was a stunt. She didn't have to wait to see which was the wind was blowing, she knew how it would land before the question was even asked.

    She didn't count on the depth of the stupidity of her useful idiots. She stoked a fire she expected them to applaud her for tending, regardless of the result. She's learning the lesson that if you fire up irrationality, they're loyal to the irrationality, not to you.

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  • [+] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)
  • [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago

    She should have been recalled after she tried to meet with Trump at his inauguration. Her goal was always to be Governor of Alberta.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago

    She should have resigned for many better reasons already.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago

    She should resign. Why was a Provincial Canadian leader meeting with a Federal american leader anyways? That in itself should be enough to cause her to resign, if she had any shame that is. Shame is a rare commodity nowadays.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    Ta-ta, cowgirl!

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Aren't we supposed to hang traitors?

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