It Was All a Lie   According to Danielle Smith, a “Loyalty to a united Canada” was a ‘founding principle’ of the UCP. However, documents from  the Founding General Meeting reveal that while it was among 31 principles considered by the delegates, only 7 were adopted as founding principles and a “Loyalty to a united Canada” was not among them.   Despite her lie that this was a founding principle of the party, she has declared that it was the “reason” that she ran for the leadership of the United Conservative Party and that it was the principle she “used to govern (her) actions as leader”.    In other words, her whole Premiership was based upon a fabrication, a lie. Is this what conservatives understood as who they were electing as the Leader of the UCP and, in turn, the Premier of the province?   With her mindset of a “Loyalty to a united Canada”, her “actions” or inactions as Premier now become understandable. She centered her election campaign on the Free Alberta Strategy document, co-authored by her current chief of staff and fellow floor crosser, Rob Anderson. However, while promising an Alberta Sovereignty Act during the election campaign, upon becoming Premier, she gave us instead the Sovereign Alberta within a United Canada Act, and nothing else that “must be implemented”. We were sold a bill of goods!   Noteworthy, 7 years ago Danielle Smith told Jason Kenney as Premier to “act quickly” to “resurrect the ‘firewall’ proposals’”, akin to what was in the Free Alberta Strategy document, in order “to stem the tide of Alberta separatism”. She didn’t tell him to create a panel to find out what needs to be done. So by her doing nothing in that regard, understandable in light of her devotion to a united Canada, choosing instead to be Canada’s doormat, she did nothing to stem the tide of Alberta separatism. Instead, as CW Alexander @alberta_cw has recently pointed out, “In fact, what we want in return (as an overture to the supporters of Alberta independence to keep them loyal to the party) is exactly what lit a fuse under the army of Albertans to petition for a referendum”.

Insightful “Canada is being pushed toward centralized power, diminished freedoms, and increasingly powerless citizens. Call it globalism. Call it the political ruling class. Call it whatever you want. Look what’s happening. Mass immigration is transforming Canada, while election laws don’t require voters to produce documentary proof of citizenship.” Think of the recent Alberta referendum with a massive amount of special (mail-in) ballots heavily skewed to Option 1. 🤔 “Globalists advance their agenda. Government promises to reverse it, but doesn’t. Elections come and go, but the same insiders, lobbyists, and powerful interests remain.” Remember Danielle Smith campaigned to strengthen Alberta’s sovereignty, but once elected only gave us a Sovereign Alberta within a United Canada Act. Continued to embrace globalist Mark Carney’s climate change agenda. “Keep them divided, distracted, and fighting each other instead of questioning who’s directing the herd.” Albertans, sound familiar? “How many broken promises? Political betrayals? Conservative governments that conserve absolutely nothing?” xitter.cf/anthonyrussobc/status/…

All Based Upon a Lie It’s quite incredible that the so-called founding principle, namely, a “Loyalty to a united Canada”, which we now know was the reason that prompted Danielle Smith to run for the UCP, which governs her actions as Premier to this very day, and which has been used by her elected MLAs to guide how they “govern”, was simply not adopted at the Founding General Meeting in 2018! Was this the understanding of those UCP members when she was elected as Leader and subsequently elected as our Premier? With that understanding can anybody still say, for example, ‘don’t forget that without Daniele Smith there would be no referendum’ or even to, some extent, that she ‘facilitated’ us getting a question? Interesting her comment that the unadopted founding principle was supposedly affirmed by those choosing Option 1 in her referendum, which presumably included a wide swath of NDP voters, who are now presumably determining UCP policy. 🤔

Premier’s Address to the Province: Lies & Gaslighting   “The question of whether Alberta should remain a province within Canada was put on the ballot because of Alberta's citizen-initiated referendum process. Two petitions were put forward by the people and received hundreds of thousands of signatures from Albertans. Out of respect for that democratic process, that question was added to the referendum.”:  A Lie. Option 1, “that question”, do you want to remain in Canada, Thomas Lukaszuk’s policy petition, came via the Citizen Initiative Act process. The second of the “two petitions”, Mitch Sylvestre’s petition for a referendum on independence got stopped in the court and is still tied up in the court.  Option 2, a referendum on a referendum, is totally of Danielle Smith’s making.   “Albertans have turned the tide of this nation and reset the relationship with our federal government in a positive direction…I acknowledge the legitimate frustrations you felt, most especially during the Justin Trudeau Liberal/NDP Coalition years…I believe it's working better than ever every day… We are reversing course away from a lost decade and towards a bright future with Alberta's prosperity at its center. Canada has changed significantly over the past 18 months.”: Gaslighting We are constantly being told not to believe our lying eyes. Under Mark Carney (the Puppet Master), we are told, “things are a world of difference better”, the federal government is now “working with us to address those grievances”, etc. Failing to acknowledge that during the final 5 years of the so-called ‘terrible’ decade under the Trudeau regime it was actually the Carney/Trudeau regime as Mark Carmney served as an official adviser (Puppet Master) to Justin Trudeau.   “We will continue pursuing the mandate Albertans previously gave our government to seek fundamental reform of the federal equalization program.” A Lie. A lie in setting up false expectations. Although 62% of Albertans called for the removal of the equalization program in a referendum 5 years ago in 2021, nothing has happened as a result. Thereby, it is essentially a testimony to the futility of constitutional changes, including Smith’s constitutional questions 6 to 9, especially, #7, abolishment of the Senate, which is a special case requiring unanimous consent of all 10 provinces, plus approval of the House of commons. In fact, the Premier laughed off the possibility of ever achieving such a constitutional change while participating in a Preston Manning event.   “Pipelines that were once declared impossible are now being built as national priorities.”  A Lie. The “Pacific Link” pipeline, announced through the MOU is still very much a pipe-dream of performative announcements, requiring public financing despite the Premier having said that such financing would be a “mistake”, and burdened by all kinds of sacrifices to the climate change gods, such as carbon capture and storage, industrial carbon taxes and carbon credits, not to mention the province of B.C. demanding royalties.   “The destructive federal net zero electricity regulations are gone.”  A Lie. As per the Government of Canada web site, “Canada’s Clean Electricity Regulations were finalized in December 2024…to set the country (which includes the Province of Alberta) on a path to net-zero by 2050”. Noteworthy that Rachel Notley set Alberta on a pathway to get rid of the economical coal-fired power plants in Alberta by 2030, and the Smith government, once in power, boasted about having achieved that far earlier in 2024.   “And there is so much more that unites us than divides us…our sacred national anthem, our beloved national sport, our shared heritage and history…That is the Canada I believe in…A Canada that develops its resources for the benefit of our people…A Canada that respects its constitution. A Canada that develops its resources for the benefit of our people.”:  A Lie. That Canada no longer exists!   xitter.cf/ABDanielleSmith/status…

Be afraid. Be very afraid. Lookey, lookey, if it isn’t Danielle Smith’s personal stenographer and propagandist being told to ramp it up! After all his salvo from 4 days ago, “Danielle Smith’s message for Alberta separatists on eve of the referendum”, especially with the big lie that a “Loyalty to a united Canada” was a founding principle of the UCP, along with that supporting appearance by her new-found buddy, Jason Kenney, saying to ‘just throw the bums out’, doesn’t seem to be terrifying enough for Smith. So, now he dishes up “Danielle Smith appears ready to lay it on the line with UCP separatists”, after all she has said “I am the party”. While the “rumours swirl”, and, of course, her stenographer hopes that they are “true”, we can only sit cowering in the corner waiting for the next scary salvo. xitter.cf/rickbellwrites/status/…

Throw Out the Separatists?   Columnist Rick Bell, who I regard as Danielle Smith’s personal stenographer, got together with her for a chat and wrote a piece, “Danielle Smith’s message for Alberta separatists on eve of the referendum”, to help her get her message out as to what she wants “to say to the separatists if they do not win in the referendum vote”, and, in particular, to those who are part of the UCP’s members base.   In that article a video of a segment of his chat with Danielle Smith was provided wherein she cites what she declares to be a principle of the party, a “Loyalty to a united Canada”, and that she, accordingly, expects those UCP members supporting Alberta independence to fall into line. She also pointed out that she regards that supposed principle as being so important that it “has been (her) guiding principle” and what she “campaigned on”. To make her message to the members more forceful, her personal stenographer decided to include a clip of Jason Kenney declaring that “the UCP needs to lay down the law” that if members don’t go along with that “core principle…to support a united Canada”, then they “should go somewhere else”.   The big problem with all this talk about a supposed “Loyalty to a united Canada” principle having been adopted at the UCP’s Founding General Meeting, is that, like much that we hear from the Premier, it’s a big, fat LIE. xitter.cf/ronvoss5/status/211168…

Keep Continuing the Discussions With respect to “how we move forward”, I would agree with Keith Wilson and others that it is important to “keep the discussion going”. However, I would suggest that the most important and effective place to keep that discussion going is in the Alberta Legislature. However, as long as Danielle Smith with her declared loyalty and commitment to the unadopted UCP principle, “Loyalty to a united Canada”, is the UCP leader, I would suggest there will be no such discussion in the Legislature. xitter.cf/johnrbolton01/status/2…

Just “Give Her a Chance” Supposedly wise council as to “What now Alberta?” Give Danielle Smith, who has declared her colours, a “Loyalty to a united Canada” and has successfully done everything she could to prevent Alberta independence, “a chance”. In essence he, and I presume others like Cory Morgan and Keith Wilson, believe as well that removing Danielle Smith as leader is “stupid” and, accordingly, “have decided Alberta will not become independent”. 🥲 xitter.cf/dfildebrandt/status/21…

Alberta Government Head Office Staffed by Floor Crossers Along with floor crosser Danielle Smith, we have her fellow floor crosser, Rob Anderson, now her Chief of Staff, along with her fellow floor crosser Bruce McAllister who serves as the Executive Director of Smith's office.