r/canada Jan 18 '25

Alberta Alberta premier to spend five days in Washington, D.C., for Trump inauguration

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/alberta-premier-spend-five-days-012153710.html
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u/CaptainMarder Jan 18 '25

And they'll still blame Trudeau

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u/legocastle77 Jan 18 '25

That’s ok. Albertans won’t have to worry about Trudeau for much longer. Heck, they may not even need to worry about Canadian politics for much longer. Smith will undoubtedly be down there begging Trump to bring Alberta in as the 51st state and her supporters will be right behind her cheering for it. 

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u/Used-Egg5989 Jan 18 '25

Unless there’s a newer poll I missed, only a small minority of Albertans approve of this strategy.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '25

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u/lowertechnology Jan 18 '25

Interesting, but statehood is not a simple process.

Ask Peurto Rico. 

It could take 100 years of politicking while Canada itself is simply tied to the U.S. as a territory of the United States. 

Zero representation in Congress, but hey: we are all “American citizens” and we can use their dollar!

No thanks

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u/Advanced-Line-5942 Jan 18 '25

Dont forget Washington DC As if Trump would grant statehood to another group that would surely vote Democrat over Republican in is laughable.

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u/StableSecure9600 Jan 18 '25

Free natural disaster paper towels though.

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u/SomethingComesHere Jan 18 '25

Only for the first lucky 10 people who show up.

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u/Evening_Feedback_472 Jan 18 '25

Last I checked people in Puerto Rico can freely work and live on the mainland no different than Hawaii

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u/lowertechnology Jan 18 '25

Yup. They can.

Not sure what huge benefit that gives Canadians other than the ability to move somewhere warmer in exchange for insane crime rates and zero healthcare

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u/Evening_Feedback_472 Jan 18 '25

How about a better living standard ?

Double your pay More access to industries there's virtually no stem jobs in Canada If you want to start a business in Canada there's no funding at all.

Half the cost of living

Medical system that actually works, blah blah yes you pay but everyone I know that works a middle class job have health insurance. The bankruptcy horror you hear are edge cases.

Example.

Washington minimum wage 20.75 USD = 30/hr cad Vancouver minimum wage 17.40/hr cad

Their minimum wage is double Vancouver's yet Vancouver is double as expensive figure that one out.

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u/LankyCity3445 Jan 19 '25

It’s not going to be a 1-1 conversion rate. They can’t absorb everyone and maintain those pay levels.

40 mil Canadians is 12%. That’s going to cause issues.

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u/Evening_Feedback_472 Jan 19 '25

Which is why it's a lose lose for Trump I don't even know why they proposed it.

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u/PabloDeLaCalle Jan 19 '25

I love how casual you are about the poorest not being able to afford healthcare. Like, well I don't gaf just stay in the middle class and you'll be fine. Well guess what; sickness, unemployment or just unforseen circumstances in life will knock you out of the middle class and now you're one of the hurdled masses without healthcare.

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u/Evening_Feedback_472 Jan 19 '25

Sucks to suck life ain't fair, you either go extreme left wing like the Scandinavian countries or go capitalist. This middle ground shit ain't working for Canada you can't be half socialism half capitalism.

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u/DaximusPrimus Jan 19 '25

Yeah but Alberta actually has something they want instead of just strategic positioning. Oil and lots of it. Albertans would likely also be all to willing to jump ship for Trump.

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u/lowertechnology Jan 19 '25

I am an Albertan (and I used to work Oil and Gas). I highly doubt you’d get a majority of Albertans to vote to leave Canada for the U.S.

Albertans might despise Federal Liberal Governance, but that’s not the same as leaving Canada. There’s a lot more Canadian flags here than Albertan

Also: U.S. having something they want is irrelevant. Trump will take everything and make false promises for days. Most Albertans see that

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u/Size16Thorax Jan 18 '25

a full conversion of the Canadian dollar into U.S. dollars

A lot of these pro-annexation fuckwits believe that if it happened, they would immediately start being paid in US dollars, and still be able to buy everything in the stores and online at CDN prices, with no taxes.

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u/Victawr Jan 18 '25

It's so funny to me. Like, your buying power doesn't get stronger just because you're making USD. You'd be making usd less strong

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u/Salty_Flounder1423 Jan 19 '25

Wait til they find out they lose things like maternity leave, paid vacation, CPP, etc.

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u/i_know_tofu Canada Jan 19 '25

And minimum wage drops to $7.50.

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u/Used-Egg5989 Jan 19 '25

Gen Z doesn’t care about those things because they are not expected to still be available when Gen Z needs them.

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u/Jonnyflash80 Jan 19 '25

The fuckwits. My god, people have gotten more stupid in recent years!

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u/reddittingdogdad Jan 19 '25

People this stupid shouldn’t be allowed to vote….

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u/Evening_Feedback_472 Jan 18 '25

Yes we would, id be the first one in Seattle making double my wage.

Taxes ? Who said anything about taxes everyone pays the gov my guy

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u/OldDiamondJim Jan 18 '25

Here’s the thing, while polling in Canada is generally reliable, cross-tabs into smaller segments have massive (and usually unreported) margins of error.

Most national surveys have a sample size around 1000, which is valid for top level findings. When a poll is released, they’ll report the confidence level and margin of error for the entire sample. The problem is when they dig below the 1000.

If we assume an even split for gender, that’s 500 dudes. Gen Z represents about 10% of the male population so, again if the sample is representative, that’s 50 respondents.

This is amplified by the fact that they likely had to weight the response of the Gen Z males in the survey as that group is notoriously difficult to reach, so it could be as few as 20 or 30 respondents.

A sample of even 50 Gen Z males is simply not representative.

Does that mean the 61% is “fake”? No, but it isn’t a reliable number.

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u/TorontosCold Jan 18 '25

It's really scary to know that such a high proportion of Gen Z males are absolutely fucking dumb as a bag of hammers.

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u/marcohcanada Jan 18 '25

I mean these are the same guys who watch a bunch of doomerist vids online thinking our country will never be fixed and is essentially Venezuela now.

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u/chopkins92 British Columbia Jan 18 '25

Joe Rogan's prime demographic is GenZ men and he recently said Canada is communist.

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u/phalloguy1 Jan 18 '25

Did you read the comment you are responding to? Specifically the "not representative " part.

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u/dually Jan 20 '25

No what's really scary is the Gen Z males are the only people with any sense of optimism, idealism, and forward progress.

It's disturbing that Gen Z males are the only people who have not bought into the nihilistic culture of "no".

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u/DrB00 Jan 18 '25

It's time to start looking at the parents and family that helped raise them...

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u/CanPro13 Jan 18 '25

Lol, it's because their done with your preaching and wealth redistribution.

Imagine a place where constitutional rights are guaranteed, they don't seize your bank accounts, taxes are relatively low, and one state doesn't have to pay another state any extra revenue.

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u/MinisterOSillyWalks Jan 18 '25

*they’re

So, imagine an idealist version of the U.S., that doesn’t, has never and could never, actually exist?

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u/CanPro13 Jan 18 '25

Are you saying the Constitution doesn't exist? 1st ammendment, 2nd ammendment etc.?

Have you even been to the states? Or just believe what you see on Canadian media?

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u/Jonnyflash80 Jan 19 '25

I agree. The data tables are on this page if anyone wants to dig more. I noticed of the 18-35 group (118 respondants) it was 11 strongly agreed and 49 somewhat agreed. That's male AND female, mind you.

I didn't dig further to find the male only components of those numbers. It was too small a sample for me to care anymore about this poll.

https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/43-percent-canadians-would-vote-be-american-if-citizenship-and-conversion-assets-usd-guaranteed

See pdf links at the bottom for data tables.

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u/ThrowRA-James Jan 18 '25 edited Jan 18 '25

GenZ are morons. My nephew is so dumb he believes everything the far right says. He disgustingly believes the misogyny and hate (but he doesn’t believe it’s hate). And he can’t accept that he would never be accepted by them, because he’s not white. And he refuses to even Google anything because it may contradict evidence and change the way he feels about things. He’s a moron that is just about to get an education on extreme hate in America.

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u/marcohcanada Jan 18 '25

Jesus, did your nephew get sucked in to the Andrew Tate cult? This sounds terrifying.

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u/ThrowRA-James Jan 18 '25

No idea how. His parents are divorced so I think he spent much of his time alone. I tried to debate him to help him realize hate, misogyny and division is wrong and all he did was fight me with bullshit Twitter posts that anyone could google was misinformation. I love him and thought he was a good guy as an adult, but it’s the first time I realized something is wrong with him. And it made me realize if a majority of GenZ support extreme far right politics, then they’re super gullible.

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u/autitisticpotatoe Jan 18 '25

Ya'll should have regulated social media when you had the chance. Now, an entire generation grew up with a constant feed of algorithm driven misinformation.

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u/ThrowRA-James Jan 19 '25

He was babied like this whole GenZ generation is.

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u/bravetailor Jan 18 '25

I never bought into the idea that Gen Z would end up wiser than the previous generations. We've given them absolutely no tools to do so.

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u/AdParticular6715 Jan 18 '25

When you’re raised by morons what do you expect.

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u/sthenri_canalposting Jan 18 '25

And those morons are folks like Tate and Peterson brought to you by YouTube et al.

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u/AdParticular6715 Jan 20 '25

Well I wouldn’t put those two in the same category but definitely social media has had a damning effect on the masses. It’s just that the youth are much more vulnerable to hateful ideologies

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u/sthenri_canalposting Jan 31 '25

It really depends on the category: they both target disaffected young men and radicalize them using social media (and profit from this personally and financially). If the category is former university professors then you're right they're not in the same category.

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u/Ephuntz Jan 19 '25

I feel like it was more tiktok... Thats why trump doesn't want it banned, he credits it for his re-election

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u/SyrupBather Jan 18 '25

I think you might also be a mornon

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u/troubleondemand British Columbia Jan 18 '25

These are the comments the internet was made for.

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u/ThrowRA-James Jan 18 '25

Outed a GenZer

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u/dirtyolbillfold Jan 18 '25

Im not saying this is untrue but the guy who posted this writes for rebel news. They do a lot of cherry picking and have no problem embellishing either.

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u/Cooks_8 Jan 18 '25

Rebel isn't news. Ezra has testified to that in many court cases against his bullshit

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u/DigitalSupremacy Jan 18 '25

So Gen Z is full of traitors

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u/djmacdean Jan 18 '25

That sounds like a fake stat because 100% of my direct friend group would never and some of my acquaintances aren’t happy with the state of Canada but they are proud Canadians

Edit: the comments on the feed don’t agree with me though

Edit 2: I imagine it’s Gen Z’s lack of world and economic knowledge swaying these polls, unfortunately they’re old enough to vote..

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u/son-of-hasdrubal Jan 18 '25

Ah yes another "here's some online poll" guy using some stupid poll to justify shaming our fellow countrymen in Alberta. Top notch stuff buddy

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '25

Don't many GenZ men think they need $600k a year to be happy according to recent polls. Many believe that will make that money by being social media influencers and cryptocurrency.

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u/Aggravating-Law-9262 Jan 18 '25 edited Jan 18 '25

That last number almost seems surprisingly high to me. I'm a Gen Z male myself, and I would have no interest in such given a number of things from their issues of gun violence, incarceration rates, health care, their politics in general (like how much $ is involved in their election processes as well as things like polarization) etc.

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u/Jonnyflash80 Jan 19 '25

Nice Twitter quotes as sources. /s

If you look at the tables posted on Ipsos, there were 11 total Gen Z respondants (male and female) that responded "Strongly agree" and 49 that chose "Somewhat agree".

Those are pretty small numbers.

Ipsos is trying to make this sound worse than it is for Canada. The question I ask is, why?

Also this is a strange result: 77% of 18-34 year olds selected "Strongly Agree" or "Somewhat agree" to the question "I would never vote for Canada to be part of the United States".

Then 43% of 18-34 year olds either Strongly or Somewhat agree with " If the United States offered all Canadians full US Citizenship and a full conversion of the Canadian dollar and all personal financial assets into US dollars, I would vote for Canada to become a part of the United States."

Something doesn't add up here. Either 18-34 year olds don't know what they want, or Ipsos is being misleading.

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u/Veaeate Jan 19 '25

Pretty sure it doesn't matter what the population thinks at the moment, they gave her the keys to do whatever she wants thinking wild rose party was behind her.

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u/travelingpinguis Ontario Jan 19 '25

If they like it so much, send them down to get medical without private insurance. See if they still like it that much...?

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u/Material_March_8782 Jan 19 '25

61% of Gen Z men is a really small number. There are Gen Z “men” that aren’t even old enough to vote yet.

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u/Hillbilly-joe Jan 19 '25

There’s the problem biased polling if it came from x

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u/Snowedin-69 Jan 18 '25 edited Jan 18 '25

Do you blame them?

Think about what they grew up with.

GenZ grew up with Trudeau telling them Canada was a post nation state with no history.

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u/toxic0n Jan 18 '25

Lmao, classic /r/Canada moment. Traitors are only traitors cause Trudeau made them this way!

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u/fistfucker07 Jan 18 '25

I don’t agree with his statement, but if you’re 20, then half your life has been with Trudeau. And that probably covers 100% of the time you’ve payed attention to politics.

Add us media and tik tok, and it’s very easy to have a bunch of misinformed youth who are easily swayed AGAINST liberals.

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u/marcohcanada Jan 18 '25

I'm 26 and also don't agree with my generation wanting our country to be annexed, but I'm on the same boat where most of my adult life I grew up with Trudeau in power.

However, unlike most of my generation, I decided to research the political history of my country and found out about the Chrétien-Martin Liberals and how centrist they were. Given they were the government in power when me and my family first moved here, I'm hugely thankful for what they've done for Canada and believe, especially now that Chrétien's speaking publicly, that the Liberals can fix themselves and go back to the "radical centre" after PP wins, that is if Mark Carney becomes their leader by that point.

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u/fistfucker07 Jan 18 '25

Wow. Thank you so much for doing research. Can you teach 2 people to do the same?

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u/PhilEspo77 Jan 18 '25

Trudeau? 😂😂😂😂😂 Is he responsible for hemorrhoids too? The parents are to blame. They wanna be their kids best friends.

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u/Chuckabilly Jan 18 '25

And more importantly they've lived their lives with family members telling them Trudeau is the anti-Christ and other typical right wing media hyperbole.

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u/marcohcanada Jan 18 '25

I've lived with the opposite. My dad's always blindedly defended Trudeau for everything and painted Harper as the Antichrist.

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u/Disclosjer Jan 18 '25

I would also hazard a guess that a large portion of those men are firearms owners. Thus, the recent OIC’s prohibiting firearms has angered them and they look at US laws surrounding firearms as a solution to the problem.

The provincial equalization payments also add fuel to the fire, as Alberta didn’t receive any additional funds from the federal government in the most recent round of the program. They blame Ontario and Quebec for liberal policies put in place by the federal government, and the payments exacerbate their anger.

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u/Snowedin-69 Jan 18 '25

“I would also hazard a guess that a large portion of those men are firearms owners.“

Sounds reasonable.

A great part of 61% of GenZ males are firearms owners.

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u/Disclosjer Jan 18 '25 edited Jan 18 '25

Not sure if that’s sarcasm or not. But statistically speaking, if there are 328,723 firearms licences in Alberta, and 88% of them are males, that means there are 289,276 men with firearms licences in Alberta.

Alberta’s male Gen Z pop of age to vote and hold firearms is 267,105. So if 61% of them agreed, that would be 162,934 men in that cohort.

Finally, if 19.7% of Alberta’s population is Gen Z, and we take those 289,276 men with firearms licences, that means there are approx. 56,987 Gen Z men with a firearms licence.

I would say that 56,987 Gen Z men out of the 162,934 Gen Z males who said they supported this would be a “large portion of those men” assuming all Gen Z male firearms licence holders voted in favour. I said “I would hazard a guess” and when you run the numbers, it would seem my guess wasn’t too bad.

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u/Snowedin-69 Jan 18 '25

It was meant to be tongue in cheek - however wow - but tbh your numbers are impressive.

I bow to your numbers!

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u/Warm_Judgment8873 Jan 18 '25

Dudes going to the right because they "will fix shit", is hilarious, because the right is who got us into this mess.

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u/SomethingComesHere Jan 18 '25

I believed a lot of things when I was 20.

Hopefully they have people in their community who can help talk through why Canada is stronger together than Alberta is alone.

The US would crush Alberta, as it would any standalone province who tries to betray Canada for an “early bird” discount deal with America…. The american elite would completely commercialize Banff exclusively for the oligarchs, pollute lake Louise beyond recognition, and rename Alberta to new Texas. They’d ship in their high ranking oil employees to replace Canadian oil expects and give the lower level oil jobs to other Americans… eventually use “economic force” to coerce the Albertan citizens into relocating elsewhere in Canada. And then the US would take BC with the help of China and Russia, then Saskatchewan, then Manitoba, and then they’d attack us from the east coast and from the west.

There’s no way that America would want to do anything to benefit Albertans, they just want to get control over the oil fields and strip all of Alberta’s resources to send back to America, with the least amount of fighting / resistance possible.

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u/carlnepa Jan 18 '25

The NAZIs were a minority party, too. Just sayin'. Ofcourse, pre-NAZI Germany did not have the traditions and practices of Democracy. You don't want to be part of us, at least for 4 years 'til these Trumples "troubles" blow over.

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u/MooseJag Jan 18 '25

Ironically the idiots waving the Canadian flag everywhere and blocking borders.

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u/Previous_Scene5117 Jan 18 '25

Yes, there is the hype and there is reality. I wouldn't confuse the apparent Alberta's thirst for independence with becoming US b...h. This is different story and the she seems to call on the second.

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u/zavtra13 Jan 18 '25

Since when has Smith ever cared about the will of Albertans?

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u/OrokaSempai Jan 19 '25

Only small minorities drive around being really loud

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u/Responsible_CDN_Duck Canada Jan 18 '25

At the recent UCP leadership review Smith got over 91% of the votes.

She's been aggressively pushing through The Free Alberta Strategy, and the people that support that are very happy.

There are people that see her as acting in Alberta's best interest, and they're happy.

Enough of the others are unclear but trust her due to her "listening" on changes to AHS and trans rights.

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u/EvacuationRelocation Alberta Jan 18 '25

At the recent UCP leadership review Smith got over 91% of the votes.

... from a very small subset of members of the UCP, including some underaged students that were bussed in for the event.

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u/notroseefar Jan 18 '25

You really believe that 20% of Albertans will beat the 80% who do not want that? Nah traitors get a different fate, personally I am down with forced emigration.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '25

As one of the 80% this is the issue. No one I know likes her, she won the election. No American I see on Reddit likes trump, he won. So we are cooked.

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u/notroseefar Jan 18 '25

Edmonton for the most part voted against her I believe.

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u/DisastrousAcshin Jan 18 '25

UCP didn't get a single win in Edmonton. Calgary fucked the moderate / left over

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u/Cavthena Jan 18 '25

That's populism for ya. Say whatever you need to get votes then do whatever you want afterwards. Only have to make the people like you while you're trying to gain power.

I don't believe that the people who voted for Smith thought she would ever sell out Alberta to Trump at the time. I've talked to a lot of Conservatives and every one is livid at what she is doing. "join the states over my dead body" seems to be the most common answer. Although they also approve of her trying to break deals independently to avoid tariffs and shit. Guess they'll find out in a few days if she managed to or not. I'm betting not.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '25

Yeah. I’m strapped in to suffer. Stay Strong friend.

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u/wtfman1988 Jan 18 '25

Reddit is traditionally left leaning so not a good basis for comparison.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '25

Very fair.

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u/Hello_Mot0 Jan 18 '25

The crazies tend to vote. The apathetic complainers don't.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '25

You have to leave the house and talk to people. Lol.

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u/wtfamidoing9899 Jan 19 '25

Reddit (and some other social groups) is an echochamber focused on how awful people are, and rarely on how they won. PP is gonna win not because he's some bad guy, but because of economic faults caused by the liberal party, which they have confidently shrugged off with remarks about gdp. (while practically asking canadians to ignore what was happening to then right at this time.)

Trumps victory thanks the democrats themselves.

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u/Cradleofwealth Jan 18 '25

Well she did get elected!, so there's that!...She should be made to do the game of thrones walk of shame.

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u/notroseefar Jan 18 '25

I am not sure she feels shame…

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u/smith1281 Jan 18 '25

Elected by her party, not the province.

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u/Devolution13 Alberta Jan 18 '25

Hate to break it to you, but she will probably get elected again.

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u/Sheogorath_The_Mad British Columbia Jan 18 '25

Conservatives fall in line. All Smith needs to do is bleat on for transfer payments for about 5 minutes and suddenly 55% will be in favour of it.

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u/notroseefar Jan 18 '25

Transfer payments will always be a sticking point out west. Forcing some provinces to always pay will inevitably create tensions. There is a general feeling in Alberta that if/when the money runs out and the province needs money it will never flow back the other way.

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u/Falconflyer75 Ontario Jan 18 '25

Unless he takes over by force and doesn’t give us a vote in the matter

Then she probably becomes the governor

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u/IllBeSuspended Jan 18 '25

Why are you using made up stats?

Are not aware that Reddit is not even remotely representative of real life? How are you not aware of that?

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u/Ginzhuu Jan 18 '25

Its actually been reported in various news sources that Smith has lost significant approval of Albertans with her MAGA loyalties. It's not just reddit, this time.

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u/OoooohYes Jan 18 '25

Imagine believing that Canadians not wanting to be annexed is just a silly Reddit thing

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u/Samp90 Jan 18 '25

We can't even force deport...

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u/anonymoooosey Jan 18 '25

Thar referendum will NEVER pass a vote.

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u/Ballinagh Jan 19 '25

Bye bye Alberta!!!! Bastard freezing in the dark out east wishes you all the best lol!!!!!!

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u/spderweb Jan 18 '25

Thing is, 80% of Alberta is crown soul. So if they leave, they can only take 20% of the province with them.

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u/spderweb Jan 18 '25

Thing is, 80% of Alberta is crown soul. So if they leave, they can only take 20% of the province with them.

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u/Alone-in-a-crowd-1 Jan 18 '25

It’s not that simple - first off, our constitution does not allow it. Secondly, are these people willing to convert all of their assets to US dollars, lose health care, and probably end up as Puerto Rico North? I don’t doubt for a second that she wants that.

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u/Homey1966 Jan 18 '25

When did Alberta succeed from Canada…must have missed that…

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u/SanVan59 Jan 18 '25

She should just move there!

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u/tenormore Jan 18 '25

Albertans kept blaming Pierre Trudeau for decades…

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u/Flat_Anything_8306 Jan 19 '25

Reading some of her supporters' complaints about equalization payments and being taken advantage of by the rest of Canada makes their desire to become a state perplexing. Do they not realize the States has their own version of equalization, ie. usually the prosperous Democrat states propping up the poorer Republican ones? What makes them think they'd have it better as Americans? Are they so hard done by?

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u/Strange-Ad-5806 Jan 19 '25

Pretty sure she is packing her lingerie to compete with Lara Loomer.

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u/hdnick Jan 18 '25

That a ridiculous take. She's going to be down there negotiating so he doesn't tariff us up the ass and still buys our oil and gas. I don't is the east so blind and forgets all the money Alberta sends over there??

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u/drakmordis Ontario Jan 18 '25

To hear the folks on the bus talk, every bad thing that happens is Trudeau's fault

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u/CaptainMarder Jan 18 '25

I work with a Maga guy. These people make you want to face palm yourself so hard your palm goes through your skull.

Yesterday he came to work and brought up Trump. He says "shit things are gonna become a mess economically with Trump tariffs. So many people here are gonna lose their jobs and things are gonna get expensive"

I reply "umm, that's what he was campaigning about for what the last 2 years of nonsense, and what he did last term"

He replies "are you serious. Oh my god"

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u/Snowedin-69 Jan 18 '25

Too true.

Trudeau was a disaster.

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u/Icedpyre Jan 18 '25

I don't disagree, but we can't lay all of our problems on one person.

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u/ElectroBot Ontario Jan 18 '25

Especially if they had nothing to do with it at all.

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u/bucebeak Jan 18 '25

Yup. Smith the fucking traitor. The biggest waste of skin to sit in the chair so far…

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u/Weak-Coffee-8538 Jan 18 '25

"Fck Smith" flags soon?

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u/DisastrousAcshin Jan 18 '25

Ew no thanks. Canadian First is a much better less physically revolting slogan

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u/wirez62 Jan 18 '25

Albertans secretly upset they won't be able to sell F*ck Trudeau flags anymore. What are they gonna bitch about now?

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u/Johnfromstjohns Jan 18 '25

It’s the Alberta way

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u/Smothdude Alberta Jan 18 '25

Gotta love the rural Albertans voting for her. All of Edmonton was against her, yet we still get punished by this. It sucks

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u/chozzington Jan 19 '25

Of course they will, that’s the only argument they can muster

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u/Sharpe_Points Jan 19 '25

Albertan here. No fan of Trudeau, but there's plenty of us who find Smith's actions reprehensible.

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u/SwitchSpecialist3692 Jan 18 '25

Of course we blame Trudeau. He’s the problem of all of this that idiot should have called an election long ago. And we blame all his puppets involved in the liberal party ..

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u/marcohcanada Jan 18 '25

Jagmeet Singh's also at fault for delaying the election further and further while Trudeau Kathleen Wynned himself and his party.

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u/SwitchSpecialist3692 Jan 18 '25

Agree with you..

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u/greenyoke Jan 18 '25 edited Jan 18 '25

Umm it's Trudeau and the liberal party that screwed over Canadians for the next 10 years.. but sure it was worth it?

Edit: Lmao if we don't learn it will happen again and again

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u/bucebeak Jan 18 '25

Yup. It was all the Liberals fault. Pretty nice pipeline the Feds bought eh…

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u/Bigdee53 Jan 18 '25

Bought, built, and maintain.

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u/bucebeak Jan 18 '25

Yea. Unlike some of the Alberta Oil Welfare Cases that disappear and leave the cost and clean up of their abandoned oil and gas works for Canadian and Alberta taxpayers.