That faction of Albertan politics has been raised to blame everything wrong on Trudeau Elder and Younger alike, among other targeted people across Canada.
The first generation raised in this way were my classmates in the mid-1970s. Thank goodness we had a Grade 7 social studies teacher who decided that 11-12 year-olds weren't too young to learn how the political system works. We had a provincial election that year, so what he had us do was watch the news every night (only 2 Canadian channels for that available here, so it wasn't a hardship), read and clip newspaper articles about the election, write an essay about it, and stay up on election night to watch the returns (and we had to do this - there would be a test the next day). My normal bed time went out the window, when I informed my grandparents that "Mr. Lemke said we HAVE to watch all of it."
That was 50 years ago. "Mr. Lemke" is still alive and active in politics, or at least he was during the last municipal election, when someone who was running for public school board told me that he was one of his campaign workers. I said, "Please let him know that there are students from my class who remember him well and some of us ended up getting involved with politics and working for Elections Canada (I was a Deputy Returning Officer)."
Oh, and as for my own political leanings in the 1970s? My grandparents voted Liberal, at least as long as Pierre Trudeau was PM. We didn't think much of John Turner, so made the switch to NDP. I've voted for a variety of parties over the years, but not once have I ever voted for any variety of Conservative, either provincially or federally.
like going on about the transfer payments ignoring the fact they there one's set as when favourite sun harper was p.m leading a govt that included both poilievre and form alberta premier jason kenney.
and speaking of poilievre. he had no problems when there was massive number of candidates on ballots for a couple of bi-elections that saw the liberals loose seats - he's not so keen to be on the recieving end.
also the feds introduced a $200 Canada disability payment as an adjunct to the programs like ODSP. the idea was that recipients wouldn't have any offset from current programs. all the provinces agreed with one exception - alberta.
The hoops the UCP are making us jump through are insane. It's gotten to the point where, if Danielle Smith drops dead tomorrow for ANY reason, I will metaphorically dance on her grave. It is my sincere wish that something horrible happens to her, to give her a lifelong disability that affects her motor function, her eyes, and at least half a dozen other issues, and that she goes through absolute hell to get treatment for it. I wish her every indignity the rest of us have had to endure.
Of course she's rich enough to scamper down to the U.S. to have it treated, but I'm still wondering why she's so gung-ho to steal this $200 from us.
Could it really be so simple as making as many of us homeless as she possibly can, because one of her cabinet buddies is part of a family that runs the Mustard Seed chain of homeless shelters?
