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Danielle Smith falsely claims Canada has ‘the lowest living standards in the world’ (rabble.ca)

submitted 10 months ago by xc2215x@lemmy.world to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 71 points 10 months ago

Maybe she should move to South Sudan or Somalia if we’re so much worse off than them.

[-] voracitude@lemmy.world 37 points 10 months ago

Really don't have to go as far as all that, the US is a pretty glaring example of poor living standards. Going to the doctor won't bankrupt your citizens, for one thing.

[-] cyborganism@piefed.ca 27 points 10 months ago

LOL the U.S. is her prime example of paradise

[-] datavoid@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago

Will no one think of the freedoms?!?!

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[-] mintiefresh@lemmy.ca 60 points 10 months ago

Her constant need to create division and outrage is exhausting.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 50 points 10 months ago

Just gotta love how lying is the bread and butter for Christians and conservatives

[-] gtownjim@piefed.ca 49 points 10 months ago

Alberta politicians have some of the lowest IQ in the 🌎

[-] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca 23 points 10 months ago

No, that would be the people that vote for them every single election.

[-] Carvex@lemmy.world 45 points 10 months ago

Someone’s never left her ivory tower.

[-] TheBloodFarts@lemmy.ca 36 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Ironic seeing as she's the one actively lowering Albertans' living standards

[-] droopy4096@lemmy.ca 9 points 10 months ago

Here's the pattern as practiced by POTUS47, PP, Putin and Smith: describe all of your shortcomings and failures but pin it on the opposite side and you're golden as nobody can blame you back in that same sh#t. Or so the thinking goes

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 33 points 10 months ago

It may be a lie now but Conservatives are working hard to bring it closer to truth.

[-] MyMotherIsAHamster@lemmy.ca 26 points 10 months ago

I would so fucking love to send her to the country that actually has the lowest standard of living in the world, and leave her there.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 12 points 10 months ago

It's easy to get to Mogadishu too -- parachute, clown cannon, cruise ship. Sorted.

We could make a sport of it.

[-] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 25 points 10 months ago

The second most developed country in North America behind Denmark says otherwise.

[-] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 12 points 10 months ago

Third, also France.

[-] cyborganism@piefed.ca 10 points 10 months ago

Everybody always forgets St-Pierre et Miquelon.

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

The CBC show St Pierre is pretty good, worth a watch!

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[-] bufalo1973@europe.pub 23 points 10 months ago

I don't know who she is but let me guess: far-right.

I think that because we have the same problem in Spain. According to the far-right Spain is worst than Somalia.

[-] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 11 points 10 months ago

Someone replied to you using her legal name Marliana Smith. If you curious as to why, she brought forward a law designed to hurt transgendered children, to require parental consent for schools to call them anything but their first name. Since she doesn't even go by her first name, some people now refuse to call her by her middle name, which she prefers.

She's financed by oil companies, a hypocrite, a liar, and rallies her voters by creating imaginary enemies out of "the other",. A very prototypical far-right politician.

[-] Pilferjinx@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

She's a competent MapleMaga a secessionist. She's demanding that her land locked province gain pipeline access across Canada or they're leaving the federation.

[-] ieGod@lemmy.zip 11 points 10 months ago

I'd hardly call her competent. Her base is simply stupid.

[-] Pilferjinx@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Her base is stupid for sure. It's her oratorial skills that are competent. She says all the right things but her actions are in direct conflict with them.

[-] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

Danielle Smith, telling lies, reeking of treason.

[-] SirMaple__@lemmy.ca 18 points 10 months ago

I really wish this scum would shut up and leave politics.

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

In the WORLD?

WTF lol.

[-] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 6 points 10 months ago

I get that these people lie and people believe it. But these completely outrageous statements just doesn't make sense to me. Is anyone looking at canada thinking: wow, it's crazy to believe to no one has it worse than them

[-] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

She probably doesn't include "shithole countries" in her world view

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 16 points 10 months ago

I love how the argument for who is worst between her, Moe, and Ford is just the last one to open their mouth

[-] zebidiah@lemmy.ca 16 points 10 months ago

This. This is why we all think Alberta is full of fucking morons...

You want us to stop treating you like inbred maga morons, stop fucking acting like it!

[-] Sdes01@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago

You can't argue with stupid.

Just ignore them.

That REALLY makes them angry.

[-] LostWon@lemmy.ca 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Well you see, she's really talking about millionaire and billionaire comforts in Canada as compared to rich people in other parts of the world. They have it so, so much worse here, it's downright barbaric! Hopefully that clears things up.
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[-] Trihilis@ani.social 11 points 10 months ago

As opposed to the US where poverty doesnt exist and people just "stop being poor" because trump said so.

[-] Routhinator@startrek.website 10 points 10 months ago

Go to the US and enjoy those living standards, ya twat. Danielle is a useless waste of flesh.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 10 months ago

It's cool when the lies aren't even the slightest bit plausible.

[-] xzot746@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

She gets that from her hero TACO.

[-] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

I'm sure nobody noticed she wall lying.

[-] Darkonion@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

She does realize she has a majority government and is fully responsible for the current status (whatever that may be)? If she is so incapable in doing her job that the relative quality of life has dropped to such a degree, perhaps she should deport herself into the sun.

[-] Kaput@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Don't correct her.

[-] Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

It doesn't matter what she says as she is a trump level liar.

[-] isekaihero@ani.social 3 points 10 months ago

Canada has it pretty bad if they're worse off than Somalia or North Korea. Canada should really consider joining the USA so we can improve their quality of life.