[TAS]

Well someone from here NEEDs to send her excerpt to local media! Imagine tomorrow on Global, CTV and CBC when they play her saying that?

I saw Edmonton Journal columnist/reporter Keith Gerein's twitter account yesterday. He highlighted the part of Braid's column about favoritism for Red Deer but he didn't highlight or acknowledge the appalling comment that Southside residents can maybe go to Red Deer.

 

[David A]

Its pretty bad when even a long time Calgary columnist brings up favoritism. But Smith has always been very tone deaf and ignorant about Edmonton issues.

I recall years ago when she led her previous party her stupid comments about the downtown airport and the arena here cost her support just at a time when she could have gained support here.

She is the Premier for the whole province and should not be so small minded and petty, but I think that's just who she is.

 

[MacLac]

When you’re the absolute worst person on the planet…..that’s what happens?

 

[Glenco]

Its pretty bad when even a long time Calgary columnist brings up favoritism. But Smith has always been very tone deaf and ignorant about Edmonton issues.

I recall years ago when she led her previous party her stupid comments about the downtown airport and the arena here cost her support just at a time when she could have gained support here.

She is the Premier for the whole province and should not be so small minded and petty, but I think that's just who she is.

She also campaigned against building the new museum

 

[crisp]

It's ok everyone, we'll get the Hyperloop / HSR built with the Edmonton station where the South Hospital was supposed to be, and a Red Deer station right at the steps of their new hospital.... WIN WIN!!

.... I'll see myself out

 

[supplanter]

Red Deer is a growing city,” the premier said.

“They absolutely do need to have a full-service hospital in central Alberta

And yet the city that has been growing by an entire Red Deer’s worth of people every few years doesn’t need any additional full-service hospitals.

 

[Glenco]

And yet the city that has been growing by an entire Red Deer’s worth of people every few years doesn’t need any additional full-service hospitals.

Edmonton’s population has almost doubled since the last hospital was built. That is about 7 or 8 Red Deers

 

[Airboy]

This has to be a joke at this point. A City of close to over a million and she's telling those of us on the southside that Red Deer is an option.

She defines the use of the word idiot.

Ft Sask may get a full expansion before we do.

 

[MacLac]

Her supporters are in-bred "Billies" of central AB. I had a conversation the other day with one of her staunch supporters who hails from Drayton Valley - "Hillbilly" capital of the province. Me, "why do you support her?" Him, "Cause she is way hotter than Notley. Notley tried to kill the oil business." Which subsequently is Drayton's ONLY source of employment.

 

[Whatup]

Her supporters are in-bred "Billies" of central AB. I had a conversation the other day with one of her staunch supporters who hails from Drayton Valley - "Hillbilly" capital of the province. Me, "why do you support her?" Him, "Cause she is way hotter than Notley. Notley tried to kill the oil business." Which subsequently is Drayton's ONLY source of employment.

So all of Danielle Smith supporters and people who voted for the UCP are "in-bred Billies of central AB"? I know many people who voted UCP and they have legitimate reasons for doing so - they are hard working, generous and kind people who have concerns about their communities and voted UCP. I guess they are not educated tolerant "progressive" urbanites like you are.

 

[Whatup]

This makes me think about the old saying about a village is missing its idiot. And the only reason it isn't true in this case is because High River isn't a village.

Do her supporters actually not realize how stupid she is?

And .... do the supposedly "educated" and "progressive" professional (and usually unionized) people who went to echo chamber universities and think there is an endless money tap to fund endless government programs to ram their belief systems down everyone's throats realize how stupid they are?

 

[Garneau2Go]

Yeah look, ideology doesn’t really change the fact we are in dire need for a new general hospital to keep up with growth and aren’t getting one.

There’s nobody really else to blame except the UCP because it’s their constitutional responsibility to build them and they have a majority government. If they moved the location because they found it unsuitable we’d have a different conversation, but that’s not what happened.

 

[Glenco]

So, Oil & Gas and Industrial Services worker here... If you're concerned with people reducing the UCP supporters to uneducated hillbilies, you shouldn't be doing the same thing to everyone who supported Notley and NDP. I have an "I love Oil & Gas" sticker right next to my Notley sticker in my car, and being on the finance side of the industry, I understand quite well how much the Notley government did for the industry, rather than destroying it.

Realistically, we all know not all UCP supporters fall into that category, and you're right, a lot of people, especially in rural AB, have reasons to vote UCP. Most of these people are voting UCP because they want their subsidies kept, don't want to see money go to the major cities or to policies that they feel are "too progressive", etc (and some of this is largely due to a lack of education on how a lot of these policies could actually benefit them).

The major issue is that these people have a disproportionate amount of representative power in the provincial government. We have rural MLAs that represent only a fraction of the amount of people an MLA in Calgary or Edmonton does, and this ends up skewing the balance of power towards the UCP and, more specifically, towards the fringe, nutjob side of the party (the Danielle Smith's of the world).

It is called gerrymandering the vote or the erosion of democracy.

 

[rmp]

So, Oil & Gas and Industrial Services worker here... If you're concerned with people reducing the UCP supporters to uneducated hillbilies, you shouldn't be doing the same thing to everyone who supported Notley and NDP. I have an "I love Oil & Gas" sticker right next to my Notley sticker in my car, and being on the finance side of the industry, I understand quite well how much the Notley government did for the industry, rather than destroying it.

Realistically, we all know not all UCP supporters fall into that category, and you're right, a lot of people, especially in rural AB, have reasons to vote UCP. Most of these people are voting UCP because they want their subsidies kept, don't want to see money go to the major cities or to policies that they feel are "too progressive", etc (and some of this is largely due to a lack of education on how a lot of these policies could actually benefit them).

The major issue is that these people have a disproportionate amount of representative power in the provincial government. We have rural MLAs that represent only a fraction of the amount of people an MLA in Calgary or Edmonton does, and this ends up skewing the balance of power towards the UCP and, more specifically, towards the fringe, nutjob side of the party (the Danielle Smith's of the world).

Well said

 

[David A]

So my comment about Smith's stupid response stands. It is politically logical, but still dumb. And btw that comment did not call her supporters stupid, so attacking urban educated people in response was uncalled for.

However, I suppose it creates a handy distraction as the question about them realizing how stupid she is, was actually not answered, which educated people may notice.