Alberta Premier Danielle Smith wants to strategize on provincial sovereignty with Quebec's premier

[applegrove]

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith wants to strategize on provincial sovereignty with Quebec's premier

Smith supports some ideas proposed in recent Quebec panel report on autonomy

Janet French - CBC News

Posted: April 01, 2025

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7499599

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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith would like to have a tête-à-tête with Quebec Premier François Legault about asserting their provincial sovereignty, according to a letter Smith wrote last month.

"I see an opportunity before us, as the democratically elected leaders of Alberta and Quebec, to chart a path toward a new era in Canadian federalism," Smith said in a March 21 letter penned to her Quebec counterpart, in which she asked for a meeting.

Smith was responding to recommendations contained in a report prepared last year for the Quebec government suggesting ways that province could assert its provincial authority.

The six-person panel made 42 recommendations last November, including the adoption of a Quebec constitution, creation of Quebec citizenship, and passing a law to defend against federal interference into provincial jurisdiction.

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[Spazito]

1. She needs to pack her bags and move into Mar a Lago....

it would make it easier for her to kiss trump's ass.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. I don't know a whole lot about this

so excuse my asking, is this oil money trying to piggyback on French culture sovereignty? Sorry if that's broad brushed.

[applegrove]

5. Yes. Oil money, and US oil money, has been agitating

Alberta for generations. When the Chicago School of economics was born, years later a Calgary School, espousing the same stuff, was started in Oil rich Calgary. There has been an attempt to have Alberta politicians mirror 'cultural trends' in the Republican Party since. No surprise Danielle Smith, premier of Alberta, went to Mar A Lago and asked Trump to hold off on tariffs until after the Canadian election because Pierre Poilievre, Conservative leader, was more in sync with Trump. Then it got out.

Mark Carney, Liberal leader, is ahead in the election partially because he is doing well in Quebec even though he doesn't speak french well. Quebecers know Trump would savage them for their electricity if US annexed Canada, with or without quebec. They are nobody's fools. Plus they get net transfer payments from Canada. They don't seem to mind Carney's french language skills which are anything but flawless. I guess Danielle thinks by doing this she can get Quebecers to vote for independence as there is an Quebec independance party in the federal election. Bad form: you are correct on that.

Danielle Smith's eyes light up and she smiles when doing the worst things to Canada. She's that type of person. She ran in an Alberta independence party for years. Then they merged with the Conservatives. 65+%% of Albertans want to stay in Canada. 33% are basically Republicans. The problem right now is that those 33% are loud and they vote. So Danielle Smith won the last election. She's tried to pull Alberta out of the Canada Pension Plan.

Her opposition is Naheed Nenshi. He is a gay, Muslim, man and he's amazing. If anyone can bring Alberta back into the fold it is him.

Here he is from Christmas. He won the leadership of the NDP, New Democratic Party, provincially in Alberta last year. You'll be a fan if you watch. He is a former Calgary mayor who was named best mayor in the world at one point (he was a Liberal, but Liberals have a hard time in Alberta so when he ran provincially he ran as an NDPer).

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[bucolic_frolic]

7. Thanks for fleshing out the details

Jives with my superficial understanding. It's always about oil money. And those tar sands.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. To add to applegrove, Alberta went NDP, then CONservative. The Cons kicked out their own leader and put in Smith

Then Smith ran an election and beat the NDP to get the Cons re-elected. Then Nenshi was elected leader of the NDP. He had been a popular mayor of Calgary, largest Alberta city.

[applegrove]

8. Thanks for adding to my post. I did not know

Danielle Smith got rid of the previous Conservative leader. Somehow I missed that.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Hmm I didn't realize I did? I thought I was extending, adding to your great post. . . . nt

[applegrove]

11. I just assumed i was wrong. Turns out i was just vague enough

to skirt around what I did not know. Being vague has its privileges......

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. "Vague" is more accurate than "wrong". I recommend vague when unsure. No worries.

[applegrove]

13. Thank you.

[bucolic_frolic]

10. Thanks for explaining the machinations.

Makes my head spin.

[Bev54]

3. We in Alberta need to find a way

To get rid of this self absorbed, arrogant, conspiracy theorist who is bought and paid for by oil and gas and big corporations. She is, by far, the most corrupt politician in Canada.

[Spazito]

4. Totally agree!

[applegrove]

14. And here is her opposition in Alberta: Naheed Nenshi

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