Power is more important to the UCP than peoples lives, it's that simple.
Oil companies win on both sides of the border.
The UCP are desperate to hang onto the name conservative since they've given up on conservative values entirely and fallen to Christian Nationalism instead. But they are absolutely reliant on the portion of Albertans who consider themselves tribal conservatives, people who outsource their decision making to those whom they see as tribal authorities.
Christian nationalism always turns into a purity contest. I feel like this would be true with any religious based political movement, but my knowledge of these structures in other parts of world is limited.
It always seems to start with purging outsiders, but once the outsiders are not soliciting the right reactions anymore they need to turn inward, they need start eating their own. They need an enemy to point to, they need to convince their followers that they are victims, and that they need to take extraordinary actions in order to take revenge on this perceived enemy.
That collective "enemy" is one of the core principles that unites these scattered political groups, and keeps them working together. Because MAGA isn't just one group, it's a collective of right wing groups united under the banner of defeating the "enemy of the nation" which they've been convinced is this imaginary idea of the left. A group apparently so powerful its influence touches every scientific institution, regulatory body, school and university in the US, but also completely helpless to pass any government policy that might benefit the working class.
Their labeling trans identity an ideology, will go down into the history books along with Geocentrism and Darwinism. As just another example of scientific method coming under attack for going against church doctrine.
I grew up in rural Alberta, and this is absolutely it.
I also think though it's important to point out that many conservatives in Alberta are not Christian nationalists, even though they support Christian nationalism due to outsourcing their decision making. There are lots of those in Alberta that have bought into this "conservative identity" as portrayed by the oil industry, and when presented with Christian nationalism from the onset, it helped fuel the vote split that brought the ANDP into power.
The UCP was corrupt from the onset, but when the TBA bought out the UCP and made Smith the leader, there was concentrated effort from the conservative media in Alberta to paint her as a moderate. A pretence that was quickly dropped after being elected, but I think it adds some nuance to a point I agree with.
Not exactly, the CPC was all in with trying to undermine NATO with Trump, I hate what the LPC is doing right now, but as one small example if the CPC was in power right now, PP would be backing Trump's attempts to make Ukraine capitulate to Putin.
That said, the LPC can pretty much drop the L at this point. I think they're taking advantage of the fact CPC policy is just vague assertions and thinly veiled revenge plots on democratic institutions. They know full well anyone voting for policy isn't going to end up voting for the CPC, which they see as their only threat right now.
Conservatives like to point to successful integrations of private and public healthcare systems in other nations, nations where access for private options are made available through public programs and insurance. However in Canada, they want more of an American type system, where access is based solely on one's ability to pay.
It's a bait and switch being funded by Canadians entrepreneurs who see how profitable the American health insurance industry is, and want to create that same kind of market here.
Nothing new here, Alberta is currently under a kleptocracy. So they'll be repeating this same process with private surgeries. The UCP learned one lesson, their base will allow it, so they might as well do it again.
100% we have two parties that seem to only serve the lobbyists, but we only end up voting for both these parties which leaves them with no incentive to change their ways.
It's all about marketing, thinking Ticketmaster said to themselves, if these scalpers are making so much money, we're missing out on profit, the crackdown on scalpers is probably more about trying to capture lost revenue. Hi, my first post on this site. :P
Considering Trump just relaunched Monroe 2.0, this is the correct answer.
We're in what the American administration considers their sphere of influence. This is going to be true no matter what our relationship with the US is, friend or foe.