All over but the report in Alberta Next town halls
All over but the report in Alberta Next town halls
It’s all over but the recommendations for Premier Danielle Smith’s Alberta Next panel, a touring summer town hall that saw Smith lionized and criticized amid straw polls, finger pointing, separation anxiety, and references to idiots, brats and spanking.
“It has been a real great exercise in democracy,” Smith said at the final town hall, an online discussion, Wednesday night.
“We’ve obviously heard from the whole spectrum who have given us their feedback and it’s important to have that robust exchange of ideas.”
The panel of politicians, experts and other leaders was designed by Smith as her government, with a burgeoning provincial population now at five million, looks to leverage its strength to carve a path separate from the federal government.
It featured 10 in-person town halls and the online session, bouncing from one corner of the province to another, from Fort McMurray to Medicine Hat as summer turned to fall.
The discussion was limited to the six topics put on offer by the panel: immigration, pension, police, equalization, taxes and the Constitution.
Many at the town halls voiced support for Alberta going its own way and ditching the Canada Pension Plan.
“The federal government is not trustworthy anymore and I don’t think I’m paying a whole bunch of money out there for them to throw it around to wherever they want to get their votes or whatever,” said a man in Grande Prairie.
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