This seems like a significant drop off (10 points overall) largely driven by what appears collapsing support everywhere. Shocking to see Calgary the most against separation now; but our business leaders have all been against this for ages. Finally Smith recently took a stand against the Separatists and their magic beans and she’s just the person to deliver a reality check to a lot of „mushy middle“ types.
Dualintrinsic on
Because when you put more than 2 minutes of thought into the whole thing you realize it’s a really fucking stupid idea.
wet_suit_one on
Good.
Keep on pounding away at this and strangle this extraordinarily bad idea (and funded and supported by hostile foreign influences) in the cradle.
Punish those who brought this to the fore instead of dealing with real issues in our province.
Temaharay on
The UCP (and Smith in particular) should be forced to wear the referendum cost and all the distracting chaos of this past year. Not a single quiet month without a national scale constitutional crisis.
dermanus on
Not surprising, as soon as you start adding conditions to it it loses popularity. There’s a not insignificant contingent who don’t *actually want* separation, they just think threatening it will get them more attention like Quebec. (they’re wrong IMO, but that’s another question). Then start adding stuff like: you lose your passport, or you don’t use CAD, or BC doesn’t let oil through and it falls through the floor.
Fasterwalking on
This is why seperatists should make political parties to further their goals in a democracy and not rely on criminal populists and foreign interference. At least Quebec separatists had the guts and ability to get elected by the people before screwing them over.
Rene Levesque stared down Pierre Trudeau time and again in pursuit of his dream. Danielle Smith can’t even admit it publicly.
spinosaurs70 on
The whole thing was clearly Danielle Smith trying to extract concessions from Ottawa and pander to a portion of the UCP base.
She is going to run against it and then it will be dead as an issue after the referendum.
jello_sweaters on
The separatists‘ goal has never been to win the vote, they know they’re a fringe minority.
Regardless of whether they lose 51-49 or 91-9, they’ll claim the vote was rigged, position themselves as an oppressed minority, and demand outside assistance.
CrankyGeek1976 on
I don’t like stories like this. Stories like this make people feel comfortable with skipping the vote and then bad shit happens.
reggiesdiner on
Hope this doesn’t lead to voter complacency. People need to push their friends, family, and work colleagues to get out and vote to send a strong message to the separatist hacks!
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This seems like a significant drop off (10 points overall) largely driven by what appears collapsing support everywhere. Shocking to see Calgary the most against separation now; but our business leaders have all been against this for ages. Finally Smith recently took a stand against the Separatists and their magic beans and she’s just the person to deliver a reality check to a lot of „mushy middle“ types.
Because when you put more than 2 minutes of thought into the whole thing you realize it’s a really fucking stupid idea.
Good.
Keep on pounding away at this and strangle this extraordinarily bad idea (and funded and supported by hostile foreign influences) in the cradle.
Punish those who brought this to the fore instead of dealing with real issues in our province.
The UCP (and Smith in particular) should be forced to wear the referendum cost and all the distracting chaos of this past year. Not a single quiet month without a national scale constitutional crisis.
Not surprising, as soon as you start adding conditions to it it loses popularity. There’s a not insignificant contingent who don’t *actually want* separation, they just think threatening it will get them more attention like Quebec. (they’re wrong IMO, but that’s another question). Then start adding stuff like: you lose your passport, or you don’t use CAD, or BC doesn’t let oil through and it falls through the floor.
This is why seperatists should make political parties to further their goals in a democracy and not rely on criminal populists and foreign interference. At least Quebec separatists had the guts and ability to get elected by the people before screwing them over.
Rene Levesque stared down Pierre Trudeau time and again in pursuit of his dream. Danielle Smith can’t even admit it publicly.
The whole thing was clearly Danielle Smith trying to extract concessions from Ottawa and pander to a portion of the UCP base.
She is going to run against it and then it will be dead as an issue after the referendum.
The separatists‘ goal has never been to win the vote, they know they’re a fringe minority.
Regardless of whether they lose 51-49 or 91-9, they’ll claim the vote was rigged, position themselves as an oppressed minority, and demand outside assistance.
I don’t like stories like this. Stories like this make people feel comfortable with skipping the vote and then bad shit happens.
Hope this doesn’t lead to voter complacency. People need to push their friends, family, and work colleagues to get out and vote to send a strong message to the separatist hacks!