„Völlig klar“, dass Premier Smith „die Separatisten unterstützt“: Organisator der Forever Canadian-Petition

It’s always been abundantly clear to people paying attention to internal UCP messaging, they’ve been trying to push their base in the direction of separation from the moment Smith became leader. They even used their own bad faith negotiations with Ottawa as justification to support separatist talking points. They used the Alberta Next panel to campaign „Alberta should separate and here is why“, paying themselves to go around the province selling separatism to their base. When locals tried to say anything contrary to the government message they’d be removed.

I guess we have to give people the benefit of the doubt, our system was just never built to deal with this level of corruption and dishonestly. We’re in uncharted territory.