Edmonton, Alberta
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I’m so mad.
There is something profoundly irresponsible about spending $125 million on a referendum that should never have been necessary in the first place.
Think about what $125 million could have done for Alberta.
It could have supported our overstretched health-care system, helped address classroom overcrowding, strengthened public education, supported vulnerable Albertans, or invested in the public services that families rely on every single day.
Instead, we have spent an extraordinary amount of public money and countless hours of political attention entertaining a separatist agenda that threatens our economic stability, our national unity, and our future as Canadians.
And for what?
@ABDanielleSmith cannot wash her hands of this. Leadership means making decisions that serve Albertans, not indulging political movements that divide us, create uncertainty, and distract us from the very real challenges facing our province. When our schools, hospitals, and essential services need support, we should expect our government to focus on solutions, not political theatre.
The separatist movement needs to be condemned for what it is: a divisive distraction that offers grand rhetoric instead of meaningful answers to the problems Albertans actually face.
We deserve better than this.
We deserve a government that understands the value of a dollar, respects the public's time, and recognizes that public money comes from taxpayers who work hard for it.
$125 million is not an abstract number. It represents opportunities lost, services left wanting, and priorities misplaced.
Imagine what Alberta could have accomplished if that money had been invested in people instead of political posturing.
That is the real cost of this referendum. And Albertans have every right to be angry about it.
It’s time for @ABDanielleSmith to step down.
#AlbertaPolitics #Alberta #Canada #abpoli
“No to the nine” is crazy
They were the most reasonable questions I’ve ever read in my life
And these people are like “no”
“Give my money to whoever gets off a boat today. All of it.”
And what portion of the 14.5% did NOT want to leave, but voted to "send Ottawa a message?"
I'd estimate about 8% of Albertans TRULY want to separate.
This was a colossal waste of money and time.
VOTE as if Canada’s future depends on it, because it does.
If you’re hoping to send a message to Ottawa, your message was already heard. Please, don’t send a message to investors that Alberta is in turmoil till another $130,000,000 referendum.
Now is time to focus on solutions.
Go vote. Option 1 and no to the nine. Don't give some of the worst people in our province the leverage they want. They aren't looking for it in order to benefit you.
🚨 ABOUT TIME!!
A 45-year-old Brampton man, Amandeep Singh Waring, has been charged after OPP responded to reports of gunfire near a family cabin in Muskoka.
Officers found people firing handguns and rifles and operating a skeet thrower in a sand and gravel pit close to a cabin. One of the rifles had been classified as prohibited under federal rules since 2024.
Waring was charged with possession of a prohibited or restricted firearm with ammunition and improper firearm storage. He was released and is scheduled to appear in Bracebridge court in November.
The OPP issued a reminder that firearm owners must follow federal laws and the Public Lands Act when using firearms on public land.
#cdnpoli #Ontario
Rod retweeted
Someone in the audience yells “bullshit!” When mark carney starts fantasizing about D&D again…
Then, in an incredibly off-putting response, he wags his finger at the citizen and tells them to “open your eyes”. Then starts talking about how China is trying to take advantage of Canada so they can own us.
Rod retweeted
This is Jason Kenney, the guy who spends his days calling people dumb on the internet.
@jkenney
Mark Carney: "I grew up in Edmonton, grew up an Albertan. I consider myself an Albertan. We're stronger together. Alberta, at the heart of Canada, is stronger. Canada is stronger because of Alberta. We're moving forward as a country."
Rod retweeted
I was born in Calgary. I've spent my whole life in Toronto.
Over the past two years, filming the documentary Broken Country, I've spent more time in Alberta than I have since I moved east. And I've come away seeing the separation debate very differently than I did going in.
I met a lot of separatists. Almost none of them were who I expected. They weren't angry cranks with a flag. They were farmers, nurses, oil workers, small-business owners, grandparents. And the thing that surprised me most: most of them want nothing more than to remain in Canada. They just can't see another choice.
Think about what they've lived through. The National Energy Program. Pipelines approved, then cancelled, then litigated into the ground. A tanker ban on one coast. Hundreds of billions sent east through equalization, returned as lectures about how the industry that pays for Canada's infrastructure and provincial shortfalls is something to be ashamed of. A federal government that has gone to court to argue Alberta's own resources aren't Alberta's business. And through all of it, a Parliament where their votes are a rounding error.
You can disagree with every policy position Albertans hold and still see the pattern: a province that built one of the most productive economies on Earth, asked over and over to apologize for it.
The people pushing for a referendum aren't traitors. They're patriots. They are standing up for what they believe in and fighting for a better future for their kids, a future their own federal government keeps telling them they don't deserve. That's not a tantrum. That's what citizens are supposed to do when nobody in power is listening.
I'll say it plainly: I want nothing more than for Alberta to stay in Canada. This country is not whole without it. If Alberta leaves the country I love and am fighting for will cease to exist.
But maybe a referendum vote is exactly the wake-up call the rest of us need. Not because Alberta should leave, but because the rest of Canada has to finally decide whether it wants to be a partner or a landlord.
‼️JUST IN: Quebec’s premier-elect is moving to BAN the King’s representative from his government's swearing in ceremony - refuses to take oath to the King.
Paul St-Pierre Plamondon said he is seeking legal advice so the lieutenant-governor does not take part in the swearing-in of MNAs.
He refuses the oath to the King, calling it a lie as his first act in the legislature.
“There is something abnormal about a foreign king coming to tell us what to do,” he said.
I love this. Get these foreign kings out of here.
The power belongs to the PEOPLE.
Finally, someone has the courage to just ACT. No more asking, just DO IT.
Leading figures in the push for Alberta independence feel the Party Quebecois victory could change the political dynamic of Canada — especially since the premier-designate has shown willingness to support Alberta's separatist movement.
globalnews.ca/news/12090140/…
