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A Referendum She Doesn't Want to Win
Read more . . . →Two weeks from now Alberta votes on whether to begin the legal process of leaving Canada. The latest polls have separation at 22%. Danielle Smith, the premier who called the referendum, publicly said that number is “still too high for my comfort.” She doesn’t want it to pass. Sixty percent of Albertans will vote no. Half the province says the question is confusing. And yet here we are, burning public money on a vote whose entire purpose is to let Smith tell the loudest 22% of her caucus she tried. This is what happens when a politician runs out of...
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Pierre Poilievre, Unity Guy
Read more . . . →The same guy who spent years farming western alienation for votes is now flying to Alberta to ask everyone to calm down. Pierre Poilievre, who built his brand on “Ottawa doesn’t care about you,” is campaigning for Canadian unity ahead of an October referendum on whether the province should pursue separation. He didn’t see the irony. Or he did and is counting on you not to. This is what grievance manufacturing produces. You tell people for a decade that the federal government is the enemy, that climate policy is a personal attack, that elites on Bay Street and in Ottawa...
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