We must start seeing the immigration referendum questions posed by the Smith-UCP government for what they are: bigoted, somewhat racist and mean-spirited.
All of us reading articles like this, need to take that information and try to do some educating of people in our orbit who are not as tuned in to all of Smith's games she has been playing. My partner and I were at a book club gathering yesterday. We spoke up about a few things. Some knew what we we talking about, others had never heard about it. These are educated retirees. Erna is correct. Majority control of Postmedia is held by an American hedge fund Chatham Asset Management. They must align with conservative political perspective. Period. Point. Blank. You can thank Stephen Harper for that. Until he allowed foreign interests to take over some media assets we were Canadian owned. That is why you can never find anything about the NDP in the major papers in Alberta. Grrrr....
The separatist seem to need new things to hate and "Dani" is trying to ensure they don't turn on her. There is no reasoning with many Albertans on immigration althought most would admit they are unwilling to do the low paying jobs that immigrants hold. Also, unfortunately her stance has let to those non-white service workers being subjected to abuse from customers who seem to think it is acceptable behaviour.
Her fangs emerge in hostility against immigrants when two years ago she was asking for more to come to Alberta ! She has now included immigrants in her ever increasing marginalized populations in Alberta ‼️
Formulating good immigration policy is a complex undertaking, particularly when a dwindling and ageing population, falling birthrate and fertility, a problematic housing economy and the unknown impact of AI need to be considered. I frankly doubt that our premier can be trusted to examine and understand all of the angles. There are also ethics involved when life for much of the world is and will no doubt continue to be so very harsh compared to ours.
All of us reading articles like this, need to take that information and try to do some educating of people in our orbit who are not as tuned in to all of Smith's games she has been playing. My partner and I were at a book club gathering yesterday. We spoke up about a few things. Some knew what we we talking about, others had never heard about it. These are educated retirees. Erna is correct. Majority control of Postmedia is held by an American hedge fund Chatham Asset Management. They must align with conservative political perspective. Period. Point. Blank. You can thank Stephen Harper for that. Until he allowed foreign interests to take over some media assets we were Canadian owned. That is why you can never find anything about the NDP in the major papers in Alberta. Grrrr....
Educate ourselves,
Educate our friends,
Speak up,
Speak out.
Canada Strong!!!
The separatist seem to need new things to hate and "Dani" is trying to ensure they don't turn on her. There is no reasoning with many Albertans on immigration althought most would admit they are unwilling to do the low paying jobs that immigrants hold. Also, unfortunately her stance has let to those non-white service workers being subjected to abuse from customers who seem to think it is acceptable behaviour.
Her fangs emerge in hostility against immigrants when two years ago she was asking for more to come to Alberta ! She has now included immigrants in her ever increasing marginalized populations in Alberta ‼️
Formulating good immigration policy is a complex undertaking, particularly when a dwindling and ageing population, falling birthrate and fertility, a problematic housing economy and the unknown impact of AI need to be considered. I frankly doubt that our premier can be trusted to examine and understand all of the angles. There are also ethics involved when life for much of the world is and will no doubt continue to be so very harsh compared to ours.
Not surprising, coming from abuse ground zero of the TFW Program.
To her credit, she has not undertaking drunken midnight soirees of homeless shelters, like a previous premier did.
If she did, in this climate, it wouldn't get reported. Post media rules.