Informed opinion columnist. Acerbic UofC Alum, Schrodinger’s politics; may piss everyone off at some point. WomenOfABpoli on Substack. Biased against false statements & equivalencies. Canadian-Albertan political commentator.
Deirdre Mitchell-MacLean
Carney: Canada is a mosaic, not a melting pot. And this is the distinction that matters. Because a mosaic doesn't dissolve or blend its pieces. Each is stitched to each and all the pieces hold all. And the beauty is in the arrangement, not in the blending.
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Scott Robertson
“The reason Conservatives aren’t stepping up to defend democracy <on gerrymandering> is because they don’t think a situation where a non-conservative government can never win is a bad thing.”
I hate it but I think Deirdre is right. This is how deep those conservatives “feelings” run in Alberta.
Carney: Canada, to its great credit, did something unusual with those who came. It didn't require them to become something unrecognizable to themselves in order to belong. And it's the same bargain that we in Canada strike with every immigrant population.
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Love it when someone sums up my thoughts much better than I can. This is a great if disturbing read
UCP board members at an independence rally, committee members campaigning for Leave groups: my look at the senior United Conservatives who don’t believe in a united Canada like Danielle Smith says the party does. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Scott Robertson
Holly Hoye 🇨🇦
Splashing cold sea water on a favourite separatist talking point. #cdnpoli #abpoli #Alberta #Canada #BC
A UCP appointees to the weird Round 2 riding boundary panel lobbied the actual boundary commission to impose a hyper-ruralized seat map for Calgary with more hybrid ridings than the widely criticized minority report.
Darwin Durnie's submission, page 65-262: www.elections.ab.ca/uploads/EBC-...
It's actually a false distiction. We live in a parliamentary democracy where all laws must be passed by government. Even governments that have received advice from the public in a "binding" referendum can (and have) decided not to pass the results into law.
