Joel Eden

I'm currently writing to you from Conservative occupied Alberta. I am a hostage of @ABDanielleSmith and her fascist government. This morning I woke up in my recently constructed townhome for which I pay an affordable rent. For the first time in my life I've been able to save enough money for a downpayment on a home that I will be purchasing later this year in the neighborhood where I currently live. I'm comfortable letting my children play outside without supervision because I know my neighbors and my community has a near zero crime rate (if it weren't for the teenagers spraypainting penises on everything it would be a complete zero). I was kidnapped from the socialist utopia in BC and brought here in 2022. I am not used to streets free from dirty needles and homeless encampments. I do not know how to live purely for survival and nothing more. My salary in Alberta is 30% higher than my salary in BC for doing almost the exact same job. My children have more than enough food to eat and with the extra money we've saved I've been able to buy them little treats every now and then. My wife and I are also planning on taking our first vacation together since we got married due to the low cost of living and higher salaries. I'm also additionally concerned with Smith's pledge to never mask children, close schools, or lock us down ever again. Her stance on bodily autonomy in regards to vaccine mandates is frightening as well. If nobody's forcing me to inject poison, how will I get it into my body? We desperately need the authoritarians to step in. All this freedom has troubled me deeply. Thank you Maclean's for reporting on the plight of Albertans. Please send help, and Justin Trudeau himself if he has time between surfing and saluting Nazis. SOS

Here's the tactic: Introduce carbon taxes that increase the cost of farming, fuel, transportation, electricity, etc, which in turn raises the cost of food. Print more money and hand it out to the population, which devalues the currency and further increases prices. Place blame on the farmers and grocers for being "greedy". Demand farmers and grocers come up with a plan to curb the cost of food when no plan can really exist without government lowering taxes and turning off the printing press. When farmers and grocers cannot provide a solution, nationalize the farming and grocer industries, thus putting the government in control of what we eat, who gets it, and how much. That's communism. That's the way you control a population. Obey or die. That's the scheme.