Canada

Alberta for generations. When the Chicago School of economics was born, years later a Calgary School, espousing the same stuff, was started in Oil rich Calgary. There has been an attempt to have Alberta politicians mirror 'cultural trends' in the Republican Party since. No surprise Danielle Smith, premier of Alberta, went to Mar A Lago and asked Trump to hold off on tariffs until after the Canadian election because Pierre Poilievre, Conservative leader, was more in sync with Trump. Then it got out.

Mark Carney, Liberal leader, is ahead in the election partially because he is doing well in Quebec even though he doesn't speak french well. Quebecers know Trump would savage them for their electricity if US annexed Canada, with or without quebec. They are nobody's fools. Plus they get net transfer payments from Canada. They don't seem to mind Carney's french language skills which are anything but flawless. I guess Danielle thinks by doing this she can get Quebecers to vote for independence as there is an Quebec independance party in the federal election. Bad form: you are correct on that.

Danielle Smith's eyes light up and she smiles when doing the worst things to Canada. She's that type of person. She ran in an Alberta independence party for years. Then they merged with the Conservatives. 65+%% of Albertans want to stay in Canada. 33% are basically Republicans. The problem right now is that those 33% are loud and they vote. So Danielle Smith won the last election. She's tried to pull Alberta out of the Canada Pension Plan.

Her opposition is Naheed Nenshi. He is a gay, Muslim, man and he's amazing. If anyone can bring Alberta back into the fold it is him.

Here he is from Christmas. He won the leadership of the NDP, New Democratic Party, provincially in Alberta last year. You'll be a fan if you watch. He is a former Calgary mayor who was named best mayor in the world at one point (he was a Liberal, but Liberals have a hard time in Alberta so when he ran provincially he ran as an NDPer).

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