She constantly talks out of both sides of her mouth, according to what she thinks the one listening to her wants to hear.
In reality, I'm sure she's like Jason Kenney, seeing her stint as premier of Alberta as the stepping stone needed to get into federal politics. This idiotic, demented sociopath sees herself as Prime Ministerial material (if you feel like throwing up, read her FB feed where hundreds of her loyalists tell her this multiple times a day, every day).
But if she can't be Prime Minister of Canada, she'll settle for being Queen of Alberta (if we separate there wouldn't be any more connection to the monarchy and she can make herself queen if she wants) or Governor of Alberta (if we become the 51st state). Or she'd also be happy with president of an independent Alberta and she's delusional enough to think any other country in the world would recognize us.
Honestly, it wouldn't upset me if Carney called in the military if it gets that far. There's a reason why her nicknames include "Trumpette", "Trump in Heels", "Yankie-Doodle Dani", and "Smitler". No sane Albertan trusts her.
Even before she became premier, there's this backroom organization called Take Back Alberta, where their members were pushing to get themselves elected to school boards (gotta get that science and inclusiveness stuff out of the schools, get religion into the schools, and get those book bans going). One of them slithered onto our local city council over a year ago in a byelection and was re-elected in the fall. They strut around and say that they're the "Election Police" because they could get positions as scrutineers and could therefore decide whose vote would and wouldn't be counted (because the votes were counted by hand).
I've been a Deputy Returning Officer enough times to know what scrutineers are and are not allowed to do. They can object to a ballot being either accepted or rejected, but only within reason. They can't object to all the ballots for a specific candidate, for example. And they aren't allowed to physically touch the ballots.
Or just doesn't care. Poilievre is widely reviled too, yet he still clings to leadership.
American exceptionalism is a hell of a drug.
This administration pulls this kind of thing with us all the time.
US: Puts a bunch of tariffs on us under some flimsy national security excuse to circumvent CUSMA
Canada: In retaliation to those unjustified tariffs, several provinces remove US alcohol from their shelves
US: "How f***ing DARE you do this to us!!"
She's certainly given enough assists to the separatists. Her words may say one thing, but her actions say another.
I mean, the separatists are already bleating about how they're going to work to depose her as UCP leader because her referendum question about having a referendum wasn't sufficiently pro-separatist enough.
Personally, I'd like this to be the rift that ends up tearing the UCP apart, and they can split back into two separate parties again, one for the PCs, and another for the crazies. Of course, I'd like to see the same thing happen federally, too. Still waiting.
The PCs are dead in Alberta. Any PC loyalists were purged during Jason Kenney's first year, and at some point either early this year or late last year, Smitler made it illegal for any other political party to use "Progressive" in its name. So anyone trying to revive the Progressive Conservatives wouldn't be able to.
