Albertans need to suck it up and stop thinking they’re better than the rest of the country.
It happens every time a progressive party wins an election.
The moment a progressive candidate is given power in the country or province, Alberta decides the democratic process is wrong.
As if it wasn’t enough that Alberta is the most consistently blue province in the entire country, it is also the province that seemingly advocates the most for fascism and totalitarianism.
Albertans will only be happy when the prime minister is a dictatorial despot that cares more about private business than providing services to citizens.
It’s easy to tell Alberta cares less about the person that they’re voting for and more about the perceived policies the party believes in.
Electing homophobes and bigots to leadership positions and not denouncing candidates that make disparaging comments are just some of the ways the centre-right parties show their true colours.
According to Macleans, Mark Smith, the United Conservative Party’s education critic and a shoo-in for education minister posted a “rambling, borderline incoherent memo” suggesting Christian schools should “be able to fire homosexual teachers for doctrinal reasons.”
Jason Kenney himself has, in his career, continuously voted against the LGBTQ+ community, including overturning an ordinance that would have allowed gay partners to visit each other in hospice when the AIDS epidemic was at its height in the ‘80s.
Not a single LGBTQ+ candidate has made it past the nomination process in the UCP.
There is also a tendency among these parties to run campaigns based on disparaging the other parties and demonizing immigrants, specifically those from the Arab world.
Maxime Bernier’s entire campaign seemed to be focused on stopping immigration, especially immigration from the Middle East.
Wexit is the newest in a line of Alberta separatist movements resulting from the federal election.
Stephen Harper’s government played a huge part in the shift towards the western independence movement.
Conservative propaganda is also a major part of inducing separatist beliefs.
Of course, what Albertans seem to forget is that Canada exports the vast majority of oil and the refinement process doesn’t happen in Alberta.
If Alberta were to separate, the price of oil-based goods would skyrocket and consumers would pay the price – trade would wither and die.
The Wexit Alberta founder, Peter Downing, is nowhere to be seen on the organization’s website.
According to the site, they want to end public investment in what they call “unreliable energy technology, such as wind and solar.”
The name Wexit is just ridiculous as well.
Naming yourself after a blatant failure of separation, not even from a country, but an economic supergroup is amusing and shows just how much thought is really being put into the separatist movement.
Canada offers the freedom of expression; people are allowed to have issues with the government, it’s up to us to keep them accountable after all.
You can be mad about the outcome of the election, but it’s sad and childish to want to become a separate sovereign nation because you didn’t get your way.
