I had to Google GTFO….& now I know.
Watched the short video also. What created an environment where Danielle Smith could be the Premier of a province? Maybe that’s the question that should be asked.
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/kelly-mcparland-how-decades-of-liberal-indifference-created-danielle-smith Well... not entirely wrong that's for sure. It is probably true that albertans demand more respect than they SHOULD get, and get less respect than they deserve. Many think the feds make...
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It took Alberta Premier Danielle Smith about a heartbeat to transmit this message to Monday’s victor. “Albertans are proud Canadians that want this nation to be strong, prosperous, and united, but we will no longer tolerate having our industries threatened and our resources landlocked by Ottawa,” she said after offering Carney the required congratulations.
Why on Earth would Alberta be frustrated?
Canadian oil and gas executives are looking to find common ground with Carney to expand the sector, grow the economy and build new projects
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“A large majority of Albertans are deeply frustrated that the same government that overtly attacked our provincial economy almost unabated for the past 10 years has been returned to government.”
So, maybe Alberta should start paying its own way then? Stop freeloading off of the rest of Canada? Is that what would make Alberta’s Premier “Alberta’s Cunt?”
Eastern Canadians tend to discount western alienation in a way they’d never treat Quebec’s ceaseless complaints…
…perhaps because many have no memory of the surge in anger caused by assaults from Ottawa in the 1970s and 1980s, or the rise of Reform and steady sense of estrangement in its wake.
It may be comforting to view Smith as some sort of MAGA-ist crank (like above); it’s more pertinent to ask why Albertans would put a crank in power unless their patience with Liberal indifference, and Canadians’ complicity in it, was at an end?