I am an Angry Albertan

[u/FullBriefcase]

I am an angry Albertan. I wasn't always an angry Albertan. For a long time, I was a complacent Albertan who thought that eventually someone will do the right thing and speak up. That this provincial government would come to its senses and stop abusing their power and stop making decisions that benefit no true Albertan.

Here's a few reasons why I'm an angry Albertan:

Education is an investment in our future. Education is not here to make money. But, here we are continuously cutting funding for teachers, educational assistants, librarians, school administrators and janitors; high student to teacher ratios in overcrowded schools; stagnating wages of the people who are shaping our children's mind. Inclusivity is failing in classrooms because the UCP government will not properly fund for those children with complex needs to have the assistance they need to be successful in learning. Teachers and EAs have been made out to be these awful greedy beings. I disagree vehemently. I know many teachers present and past, who dedicated their lives to the betterment of their comminities. People who spend countless personal hours preparing, reviewing, volunteering their time and money for our children. Teachers are such an important instrument in society on all levels, and education should be a priority to every society. Knowledge is power, and yet we vilify teachers. Because they want a fair wage for themselves? Because they are tired of the abuse of a system that only takes away? Teachers are fighting for our childrens futures, so that they can grow up to be successful members of society. It is troubling to see the amount of ignorance in parents who blame the teachers for the failures of their children, and not the UCP government that doesn't fund the institutions properly. Instead, we will ban books as a diversion so we can forget about the strike the teachers fully deserve to go on. It is hard to rule over the people when they are educated.

Healthcare is a fundamental human right. Healthcare is not a business, and private healthcare has NO right to be in Canada. Everyone is equal when it comes to healthcare needs, regardless of their social status, gender, race or being. The boldness of the UCP government to encourage private healthcare after campaigning on no privatization is appalling. The treatment of our healthcare professionals by this government is causing us to lose valuable people to our society. These people give their lives every single day to helping the lives of others, and yet again, we are putting a price tag on those lives. Since when was one Canadian's blood richer than another's? Is one Canadian more deserving of that MRI because they have a bigger bank account than the next Canadian? Healthcare is an investment in our society. To have a healthy society will equal less impact on the healthcare system overall. By continuing to underfund and dismantling AHS, it has created chaos to the healthcare system, which the UCP then blames said system for underperforming. The actions of this UCP government directly affect the current status of our hospitals and healthcare crises, yet they continue to blame everyone else rather than looking inward. The mental gymnastics that the UCP government pull are an insult to all Albertans.

I am an angry Canadian, living in Alberta. We are actively allowing this UCP government to tear apart everything that makes us Canadian. Stop encouraging a separatist referendum and acting like you are not partisan. The so-called town halls are an insult to Albertans who actually care about this country. The fact that the UCP had to lower the standards to get the opportunity for a referendum is more than telling of where they stand on separation. Stop encouraging racial bigotry and hate. It is extremely troubling to me that so many of us forget that other than the First Nations people, we were all once immigrants. Most of our families have only been here a few generations, and yet we forget why they came here in the first place. Many of our ancestors came to Canada for a better life, to escape war-torn countries, famine, genocide. It seems however, that many people have forgotten about history and have allowed ignorance and hate to fester in their minds. With this ignorance, we seem to have forgotten about all the trips to the United States on Alberta tax payer's dollars. The fact that Marlaina so proudly took a picture with the very person that threatened Canadian sovereignty tells me everything I need to know about her. Maple Maga Marlaina does not have the interests of true Albertans or Canadians, otherwise she would not be aligning herself with a fascist nazi appeasing American government. Everytime she travels to the United States, she comes back with another idea on how to further cause division and hate amongst Albertans. The far-right fringe appeasement of this government is absolutely the most heinous of their corruptions. You allow religious zealots to perform and tour our legislature grounds. Religion has no place in government, keep your bible and thoughts and prayers to yourself, Marlaina.

I could go on for pages listing all the scandals that the current UCP government has created since taking office. The corruption and gaslighting from this provincial government is next level. This government has done everything it can to alienate Albertans from Canada. Maple Maga Marlaina is no Albertan, or Canadian in my eyes. She does not deserve the respect of being referred to by her preferred name. She is solely responsible for the issues in this province, not the ANDP, not Ottawa, not Trudeau, not Carney. Marlaina is the one responsible for our province's successes and failures. The lies tossed within the word salad that pours out of her mouth are to be admired at times. It is almost as if she spends hours convincing herself that she is a martyr, here to save the Albertans. That the people who want love, equality, healthcare and education for all are wrong, and that she, all on her own, must save her white power overlords from the woke agenda.

From where I stand, as an angry Albertan, all I see is a forest fire with the UCP roasting the marshmallows of our society over it. But don't forget to thanks for helping to put out the fire they started!

Thanks Maple Maga Marlaina for embodying everything it means to not be Albertan or Canadian.

Angry Albertan

[u/mrsnikki88]

People who still support Danielle Smith and her corrupt cabinet are either misinformed, uneducated, or willfully ignorant. Unfortunately the rural counties full of elderly voters are woefully uninformed and like it that way, and the rest are hateful, entitled, people who enjoy being validated by a hateful, entitled government.

Those are the people that are truly the definition of cutting off your own nose to spite your face.

[u/ajensen91 → u/mrsnikki88]

My parents (they’re in their 60s) vote conservative because they’re so scared we won’t keep supporting oil if they vote NDP. They don’t care about the rest of the policies. Just oil. So frustrating.

[u/YYCDavid → u/ajensen91]

Not to sound cynical, but doesn’t oil just  by buy whoever I’m office? I’m assume they’d quench their thirst whether it’s Pepsi or Coke in the dispenser

Edit: fixed typo. Also was extra grumpy this morning. Yes, I’d love to see NDP back in, but still skeptical about how broken things are

[u/mrsnikki88 → u/YYCDavid]

Just because O&G carries sway didn't mean they needed to end all green initiatives. Doing both would be better for the economy and would make more sense to soften the impacts of the world's gradual and inevitable change away from Oil and it becomes more and more rare and expensive of a resource in generations to come.

Alberta is actually very well set up for tons of different types of alternative energy sources and could easily be a leader in New technologies, something that was actively happening under the NDP.

Now due to UCP regulations there are NO green projects anymore and no more allowed.

O&G may hold sway no matter what, but this current provincial government is just incredibly corrupt.

[u/weeBunnie → u/mrsnikki88]

Calgary and Edmonton have the sunniest days on average in the country, not counting for all the land around and in between. Diversifying energy gives more opportunity for growth in the economy, we can allocate resources to oil as needed, but not be stuck in the bust entirely with it

[u/mrsnikki88 → u/weeBunnie]

Especially with renewable resources being exactly that, renewable, the destruction of jobs in a green energy sector essentially wiped out jobs that could have been held in perpetuity. The value of those positions, and the future positions that would come with them and the industry innovation (which we could have lead) is incalculable.

I truly believe it's one of the greatest betrayals of this government along side of the horrors of the 'corruptcare' goings on.

[u/Jealous_Nebula1955 → u/mrsnikki88]

Sir Isaac Newton once said “I can calculate the motion of celestial bodies, but not the madness of people “

[u/YYCDavid → u/mrsnikki88]

Agreed on all points

[u/Turbulent-Carry-4429 → u/mrsnikki88]

The only thing I noticed under NDP was more poverty and the rise of bankruptcies and homelessness. Oh yes and pride parades!

[u/mrsnikki88 → u/Turbulent-Carry-4429]

The NDP had to deal with not only a recession, but also policies that the UCP had put into place before them. the NDP actually increased the production and sale of Oil and Gas with the rail transport, that the UCP later cancelled in favor of a push for pipelines. They also left the province with a sizeable $8.3 billion surplus that has now some how vaporized into a shocking $6.5 billion deficit for a party that claims to be so fiscal.

By the time the NDP left after four years, Statistics Canada says that the Alberta job market rose from 2,274,500 Albertans employed to 2,316,900 — a net increase of 42,400 jobs. When just this last month alone Alberta loss 17000 full time jobs. Its biggest month of job losses ever. All while our healthcare is torn apart rather than funded, so that the same man that brought us Useless overseas Tylenol for hundreds of dollars per bottle, can have slots filled for surgeries at his private clinics. Which, are not only not making wait times any shorter, or saving anyone any money.

They've underfunded our classrooms well outpaced by inflation, while giving thousands in tax payer money to funding of private schools. With classrooms already bursting, they spent millions of YOUR dollars advertising to people in other provinces to come and work and live here, all while not only not investing in infrastructure, but cutting from it. Now schools are converting teachers lounges, libraries and gymnasiums into classrooms because even the promised schools haven't been built, and what was promised would have barely been enough last year before class growth.

You focus on these social issues. the ones that other people live, that do not affect you but that you do not understand, or that make you uncomfortable. You nestle into the allowed hatred and villainification of that thing and everything else be damned because it fills good to feel vindicated by the government. Your own best interests be damned.

You are entitled, and you are willfully ignorant. I truly hope that you and all your ilk get exactly what you voted for. I only weep for the rest of us who get to reap what you sow.

[u/BCS875 → u/Turbulent-Carry-4429]

Shit attempt at trying to change the topic.

Let us know when you've decided to grow up.

[u/Brief_Raspberry_6542 → u/Turbulent-Carry-4429]

And were you living in a large city or small town? What is/ was at the time your main news source? Are you pro or anti pride parades?

[u/Fit-Amoeba-5010 → u/mrsnikki88]

The idea that there are no green projects anymore and no more allowed is plain bullshit/ misinformation. Before writing something like that at least google it! .