Liang: Danielle Smith

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Thanks to Prime Minister Danielle Smith, Alberta is about to learn.

In an interview with CTV News last week, she made it clear that she’s her strategy to address Alberta’s anxiety about the province’s federal status, which is not…not what you think.

You might expect her to say something about improving Alberta while helping Canada.

But in a moment of candidness that was welcomed and clarified, she said that all the plot to make the referendum that separates Alberta easier is to maintain unity of the United Conservative Party.

“If there is no socket, it will create a new party,” she said.

Earlier last week, during a live speech, she said she wanted to help Alberta flourish within Canada’s unification.

In the Legislature, she said she did not believe that having her own version of Québébecois would help Alberta.

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However, by injecting some partisan hints into the debate on national solidarity, she makes herself an unacceptable cheerleader.

For those who are keen to think that Canada cannot be fixed, Alberta would be better as its own country or as part of the United States, and Smith’s conditional recognition of the alliance may also be too much for them, even if she and her party are fleeing the door to vote for separation.

For those who firmly believe that Alberta’s troubles can still be resolved in Canada’s strong and united Canada, Smith’s unwillingness to embrace the alliance without qualifications and ambiguity does not help confidence in her messaging.

The potential vote on separation initiated by citizens is a cynical attempt to keep it clean politically, which is undoubtedly a messy debate that will give up control of the document to anyone even if she says she doesn’t want to do so.

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Maybe Smith should call former British Prime Minister David Cameron.

Simplified simply: The Brexit fiasco was partly the result of Cameron’s poor fate attempt to unify conservatives and thwart political alternatives.

Brexit has not yet lived up to expectations of many of its supporters. Meanwhile, Cameron’s Gambit led to his own downfall and slowly disbanded his party’s power over power.

(Newly elected Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney must help with the remaining Brexit when he was the governor of the Central Bank of England. Maybe Smith should talk to him too.)

Smith couldn’t defend Canada’s unified unity, while also saying that all kinds of things basically incited and invited a referendum on Alberta’s separation.

If the Prime Minister can’t decide his position, I’d be fine and hope her MLAS can.

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When legislation on the citizens-sponsored referendum reached an agreement, we will all understand whether they put the state above the party or the other way around.

If they find the idea of ​​Alberta separation not even too early, offensive or offensive, they should defend their beliefs by sending the lower threshold of a citizen-initiated referendum to the nearest bin.

If they don’t, it will mark a huge bait and switch, and even during the 2023 election, the UCP becomes a de facto separatist party.

In a speech last week, Smith said that action is better than words and that she is right to ask Ottawa to take action in support of the freshly elected Carney administration’s good words about making Alberta and Canada an energy superpower.

Similarly, Alberta has the right to demand its prime minister and the government she leads, that is, if you can even use leadership terms to describe what the UCP and its members do for national solidarity.

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