As Smith Goes Into Election Mode, Deception and Corruption Appear to Be the Call of Today

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With an election a year off, the UCP Government has gone into full election mode. Social Media, Facebook and YouTube are running ads touting the accomplishments of the Smith Government as she is trying to remove herself and her party from the referendum debate, which has the voters of this province wound up like tops as we move ever closer to the October vote, which could hold up to nine questions in total.
The separatists that Smith has courted for all this time are now dumbfounded because the person who started all this and wound them up abandoned them by declaring herself now for Canada. If this were not such a serious matter, I might find this laughable. However, once the spark is lit win or lose, and I’m assuming that most Albertans will favour Canada as I do the argument from the separatist cause will only intensify in magnitude. Creating even more chaos than what we see today.
Every poll indicates that if the election were called today, because of the rural-urban split in voter intentions, Smith would lose and Nenshi would form a small majority government. This scenario has Smith on the defensive, and the solution and direction she is about to embark on comes right out of the Donald Trump playbook on Gerrymandering and trying to rig the outcome in her favour. This is not only a dangerous precedent; it is the textbook's definition of cheating.
Last year, the electoral boundaries commission proposed changes to the existing boundaries. In a democracy based on representation by population, it is reasonable to expect that new ridings would be concentrated in urban areas as rural populations continue to decline. Smith quickly rejected those recommendations and dismissed the commission's members, many of whom were conservative supporters, including the former mayor of Sylvan Lake, who has been among the most outspoken critics of what Smith appears to be planning.
With her new commission now in place, it appears that urban ridings in the belt will have large rural areas added to them to give the UCP an advantage and a path to a majority.
So yes, this is not laughable; this is a direct hit on our democratic system and the Watergate of the twentieth century in Canada. There is a reason why you see urban and rural seats mostly separate, and it’s not so the socialists can win. There are fundamental differences in the demographic issues that affect those who live there.
Maybe if Smith had paid attention to the needs of the voters, both urban and rural, by keeping health, education, and municipal funding in place, rather than getting into issues of book banning, stomping on the rights of LGBTQ individuals. or whipping up support for something she doesn't support herself, the political spectrum might look quite different for her and the UCP.
As for the new ads and other propaganda the UCP is putting out, they amount to little more than a soapbox and pork-barrel politics, with little, if any, truth in the numbers being promoted. My only question is: who is paying for this barrage? The UCP or the taxpayer? #edmonton #calgary #alberta #AlbertaPolitics #politicsnews #canada #Elections #ElectionIntegrity #lethbridge #reddeer #medicinehat #cdnpoli #writers

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