THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT?!
I don’t understand how they consider this “parents’ rights,” it doesn’t have any provision for parents to consent to their kids receiving GAC.
I’m so incredibly mad about this.
Alberta seems to have all the time to whine, pass anti trans laws, and generally try to fuck up the rest of Canada, meanwhile they can’t take care of their own people and healthcare system?
I hate the notwithstanding clause, and it should be a death sentence for any political party to use in all but the most dire situations. And I mean wartime do or die type situations.
The fact we’ve normalized and accepted it means the dream of a free Canada or any perception of freedom is dead.
This is disgusting. And the abuse of power for really no good reason except to harass vulnerable children is gross. If Daniel smith and apparently the whole UCP think they’re smarter than doctors, they should maybe try to fix their healthcare system.
Trans rights are human rights. You can’t take away trans rights without trampling the others. These people hurt nobody. And their advice from their doctors in their own circumstances trumps every politicians feelings every time.
Fuck off Alberta you brainwashed shit stain of a province.
Quebec’s used it for decades. Provinces could use it to ‘notwithstanding’ PP anti-trans legislation at a federal level if the conservatives get in next time around.
I don’t think your issue is with the mechanism, you’re just not in favour of how Alberta’s using it on this particular social issue.
I’m not entirely convinced the problem is the notwithstanding clause. I think the problem is that anti-trans fearmongering has found a political foothold. I mean honestly at the end of the day, you need a certain threshold of the population to support these kinds of policies for them to get enacted. And once too many people are bigots in a democracy, nothing can protect minorities. Bigotry is the thing we should have prevented.
First-past-the-post fails to protect marginalized communities as bigoted minority governments in terms of vote share can get all the power with only 39% of the vote. Look at Modi for example.
Well, I certainly agree with that, we can improve our electoral system a bit. There are limits on this of course, given there are mathematical proofs that there can’t be any perfect voting scheme (with more than 2 parties).
Still though, 40% of voters being bigots is already an incredibly massive problem, trying to save minorities by changing the voting system, reducing provincial powers (removing the notwithstanding clause), or otherwise carefully balancing things, it all seems like a bandaid at this point.
that there can’t be any perfect voting scheme (with more than 2 parties).
I agree that no electoral system is perfect however there are countries functioning fine with 10 parties in their parliaments like Denmark and they tend to perform better on issues than we do.
True, though they are better educated, more socialist, and import less American politics. I daresay this causes them to elect better leaders.
That is thanks to having fairer rules in their democracy. Did you know Quebec caps political donations to $50 a year.
Is that bad somehow?
Smith acting like a bigot like usual.
