"No not democracy against us"

Because the Forever Canadian initiative has been so successful more people see this as a way to resist the UCP. For example Corb Lund's attempt to get a referendum vote on the disastrous coal mine leases. This is what has the UCP scrambling. But they can only stop future citizen initiatives. The Forever Canadian question "Do you agree that Alberta should remain in Canada?" has been approved. By law, it must lead either to a vote in the Legislature or a referendum and there's nothing the UCP can to stop it. Well, there is one thing: a general election. When the writ is dropped, the referendum question dies, and so do all the recall campaigns. This is why it is extremely likely that we will go to an election soon.

My bet is the next petition that she thinks benefits her, she'll say Oops my bad, $500 was right, $25k was too much, and then a week later when someone goes to file something she dislikes, Oops my bad, 500 was too little, we should have kept it at 25k

Repeat as necessary.

Remember, you're only a citizen if you're wealthy!

/s from me, but I suspect Danielle Smith means it.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's government is increasing how much it costs to apply for a citizen-initiated referendum by 5,000 per cent, saying it's about making sure applicants are upper class instead of annoying street urchins.

There; fixed it for ya, Danielle.

She seems concerned....

I find the article tedious to read. One phrase, one paragraph that’s sure seems written for people that don’t read.

One important take away that confirms one thing I always believed about the separatist movement in Alberta, it's more money than it is people, but money can move people if you pay to have a megaphone blasting in their face 24/7. These are also incredibly lazy people, they have no shame plastering AI generated banners in small towns, and posting AI generated videos to curated Facebook groups trying to fool your granny.

I don't know why people would ever believe Smiths dog and pony show about her not being a separatist, everything else has been a lie. She's changing her own laws to appease them, at that point you're doing mental gymnastics to try and explain her actions. If she loses her leadership she'll take a nice fancy new gig in one of Sam's healthcare ventures. Just like Kenney took a seat at the ATCO board after he lost the leadership. These folks only fail up, at least until we nip this corruption problem in the butt. We still don't know who funded TBA, because grassroots Albertans it was not, and while the RCMP announced an investigation, it seems their treating it with the same zeal they did with Kenney's kamikaze campaign against Brian Jean.

They announce an investigation, do absolutely nothing for years, then by the time they start collecting evidence, oh darn, it seems we can't find it anymore! Almost like giving politicians a few years to deal with evidence before you start collecting it, might have something to do with that, but this is from a crazy cat lady, emphasis on the crazy, and not a former cop or something.

@HellsBelle i guess she prefers open revolt.