Arm them with the technical skills to build and repair drones.

For this we need Canadian alternatives, but the tech monopolies having a stranglehold on the supply chain. For all the tough talk, all this American tech was built with Chinese labour, and with chips made in Taiwan.

To get Canadian alternatives we’d probably need a crown corporation, simply because under the current market conditions there isn’t going to be a way for a Canadian tech company to enter the market now and compete with the likes of Apple or Google.

I’m all for this, but it’s going to be a very hard sell in the current political climate.

I live in Calgary, and these laws come down to enforcement, and it will not be enforced evenly by CPS. We already have a Charter that CPS will just ignore on a regular basis because it will protect groups CPS brass doesn’t want to protect.

They never have a problem restricting the actions of groups that threaten the status quo, while refusing to enforce rules on groups they sympathize with.

I don’t think these laws really help because of that disparity with enforcement.

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.

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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.

Skinny Puppy, My Birthday Massacre, Kittie, Billy Talent, Bison, Angelmaker, Fuckedup, buck65, Chixdigit, Actors, Cybertronic Spree

I even make music! Mines just for me to listen to, trust me, if you heard it you’d thank me, but I did want to shout out some more fantastic Canadian acts.

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.

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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.

Life expectancy, socio-economic mobility, rates of poverty or hunger they have to ignore just about every other metric that one could use to measure peoples quality of life to come to this conclusion.

It solves the issue of people who own companies in the field of healthcare being connected to members of the UCP, so when they privatize these services, it’s those same members who benefit. This is the kind of policy that really pairs well with legalizing gifts to MLA’s from private corporations. link

These folks want to make more money, and they have the influence they need to make that money. In 2025, I can’t help but wonder why any company would ever invest in trying to build a good sustainable business when lobbying a corrupt government is a sure thing. Why would anyone with the capital ever risk losing that capital when they don’t have to?

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.

Always felt it very disturbing that the Alberta Bill of Rights makes more sense under American law than Canadian law. I know it’s more an instance of Alberta conservatives unable to distinguish the two countries legal/political systems due to their reliance on American propaganda to support their positions, but the optics are bad.

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