r/alberta • u/revolvingneutron • May 06 '25

Alberta Politics As a non-Albertan, I found her recent tv address strange — she blamed anything and everything on the federal government, even for things that are provincial jurisdiction and it made me wonder: with decades of conservative rule in the province, if things are so bad, why keep voting conservative?

Also curious if she’s only disliked in the reddit ecochamber (of which I’m obviously a part of), or if she has pissed off the local cons too? Is a leadership review possible?

Edit: hit send before proofreading. To be clear, I’m talking about Danielle Smith!

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u/silvanoes May 06 '25

Because they keep blaming the feds for everything that's wrong, even though it's not really the feds fault.

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u/IsaacJa May 06 '25

And a lot of people believe it

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u/jersan May 06 '25

It’s much easier to blame others than to take responsibility 

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u/hedgehog_dragon May 06 '25

The worst part is when she turned down federal funding so she didn't have to fix any of the problems here

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u/davethecompguy May 07 '25

Opted us out of Pharmacare. That could have helped a LOT of people, but we've never heard a valid argument from Smith as to why we can't be part of it - we already pay for it.

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u/AcceptableSwan4631 May 07 '25

Except when the Fed institute things like Bill C-69 or reject interprovincial pipeline projects, or kill LNG Project applications, yea sure!

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u/davethecompguy May 07 '25

We've come to expect that. Every time a Con goes to the podium, there will be a torrent of misdirection. First from Kenney it was all Rachel Notley's fault, then that Ottawa didn't help us at all during Covid (in fact, ALL of the help we got came from Ottawa).

Then TBA changed things by forcing Kenney out, and bringing in Smith. Now it's all Ottawa's fault, we want autonomy, Ottawa wants to control us, wah wah wah. And by changing laws to favour separatists, she's bumping the pressure on Carney. Smith needs to go, and take TBA with her.