Albertan here, and thank you for highlighting our cartoonish provincial government at the moment. Securing conservative governments in Alberta is never that hard, but this bunch did so with little more than shit-talking the Trudeau government, half-hearted identity politics, and batshit conspiracy theories. Very low bar.
I think the pending federal election will be a fair indicator of how much right-wing bullshit we’ve had enough of, both in Canada overall and in Alberta specifically. Trump’s full-court press into authoritarianism has been an obvious game-changer in Canada, and I think most appreciate that the stakes are much higher this time around. Flirting with the neo-nazis on the right will no longer be an option for folks like PP and DS - they have to either go all-in with Trump or make a clean break to stand a chance with most folks this time around.
Unfortunately in Alberta, there won’t be an election call until 2027, so while I would love to “expel Danielle Smith and her ilk”, short of torches and pitchforks, we will have to keep building support and bide our time.
Albertan here, and thank you for highlighting our cartoonish provincial government at the moment. Securing conservative governments in Alberta is never that hard, but this bunch did so with little more than shit-talking the Trudeau government, half-hearted identity politics, and batshit conspiracy theories. Very low bar.
I think the pending federal election will be a fair indicator of how much right-wing bullshit we’ve had enough of, both in Canada overall and in Alberta specifically. Trump’s full-court press into authoritarianism has been an obvious game-changer in Canada, and I think most appreciate that the stakes are much higher this time around. Flirting with the neo-nazis on the right will no longer be an option for folks like PP and DS - they have to either go all-in with Trump or make a clean break to stand a chance with most folks this time around.
Unfortunately in Alberta, there won’t be an election call until 2027, so while I would love to “expel Danielle Smith and her ilk”, short of torches and pitchforks, we will have to keep building support and bide our time.