Premier’s Address to the Province: Lies & Gaslighting   “The question of whether Alberta should remain a province within Canada was put on the ballot because of Alberta's citizen-initiated referendum process. Two petitions were put forward by the people and received hundreds of thousands of signatures from Albertans. Out of respect for that democratic process, that question was added to the referendum.”:  A Lie. Option 1, “that question”, do you want to remain in Canada, Thomas Lukaszuk’s policy petition, came via the Citizen Initiative Act process. The second of the “two petitions”, Mitch Sylvestre’s petition for a referendum on independence got stopped in the court and is still tied up in the court.  Option 2, a referendum on a referendum, is totally of Danielle Smith’s making.   “Albertans have turned the tide of this nation and reset the relationship with our federal government in a positive direction…I acknowledge the legitimate frustrations you felt, most especially during the Justin Trudeau Liberal/NDP Coalition years…I believe it's working better than ever every day… We are reversing course away from a lost decade and towards a bright future with Alberta's prosperity at its center. Canada has changed significantly over the past 18 months.”: Gaslighting We are constantly being told not to believe our lying eyes. Under Mark Carney (the Puppet Master), we are told, “things are a world of difference better”, the federal government is now “working with us to address those grievances”, etc. Failing to acknowledge that during the final 5 years of the so-called ‘terrible’ decade under the Trudeau regime it was actually the Carney/Trudeau regime as Mark Carmney served as an official adviser (Puppet Master) to Justin Trudeau.   “We will continue pursuing the mandate Albertans previously gave our government to seek fundamental reform of the federal equalization program.” A Lie. A lie in setting up false expectations. Although 62% of Albertans called for the removal of the equalization program in a referendum 5 years ago in 2021, nothing has happened as a result. Thereby, it is essentially a testimony to the futility of constitutional changes, including Smith’s constitutional questions 6 to 9, especially, #7, abolishment of the Senate, which is a special case requiring unanimous consent of all 10 provinces, plus approval of the House of commons. In fact, the Premier laughed off the possibility of ever achieving such a constitutional change while participating in a Preston Manning event.   “Pipelines that were once declared impossible are now being built as national priorities.”  A Lie. The “Pacific Link” pipeline, announced through the MOU is still very much a pipe-dream of performative announcements, requiring public financing despite the Premier having said that such financing would be a “mistake”, and burdened by all kinds of sacrifices to the climate change gods, such as carbon capture and storage, industrial carbon taxes and carbon credits, not to mention the province of B.C. demanding royalties.   “The destructive federal net zero electricity regulations are gone.”  A Lie. As per the Government of Canada web site, “Canada’s Clean Electricity Regulations were finalized in December 2024…to set the country (which includes the Province of Alberta) on a path to net-zero by 2050”. Noteworthy that Rachel Notley set Alberta on a pathway to get rid of the economical coal-fired power plants in Alberta by 2030, and the Smith government, once in power, boasted about having achieved that far earlier in 2024.   “And there is so much more that unites us than divides us…our sacred national anthem, our beloved national sport, our shared heritage and history…That is the Canada I believe in…A Canada that develops its resources for the benefit of our people…A Canada that respects its constitution. A Canada that develops its resources for the benefit of our people.”:  A Lie. That Canada no longer exists!   xitter.cf/ABDanielleSmith/status…

Be afraid. Be very afraid. Lookey, lookey, if it isn’t Danielle Smith’s personal stenographer and propagandist being told to ramp it up! After all his salvo from 4 days ago, “Danielle Smith’s message for Alberta separatists on eve of the referendum”, especially with the big lie that a “Loyalty to a united Canada” was a founding principle of the UCP, along with that supporting appearance by her new-found buddy, Jason Kenney, saying to ‘just throw the bums out’, doesn’t seem to be terrifying enough for Smith. So, now he dishes up “Danielle Smith appears ready to lay it on the line with UCP separatists”, after all she has said “I am the party”. While the “rumours swirl”, and, of course, her stenographer hopes that they are “true”, we can only sit cowering in the corner waiting for the next scary salvo. xitter.cf/rickbellwrites/status/…

Throw Out the Separatists?   Columnist Rick Bell, who I regard as Danielle Smith’s personal stenographer, got together with her for a chat and wrote a piece, “Danielle Smith’s message for Alberta separatists on eve of the referendum”, to help her get her message out as to what she wants “to say to the separatists if they do not win in the referendum vote”, and, in particular, to those who are part of the UCP’s members base.   In that article a video of a segment of his chat with Danielle Smith was provided wherein she cites what she declares to be a principle of the party, a “Loyalty to a united Canada”, and that she, accordingly, expects those UCP members supporting Alberta independence to fall into line. She also pointed out that she regards that supposed principle as being so important that it “has been (her) guiding principle” and what she “campaigned on”. To make her message to the members more forceful, her personal stenographer decided to include a clip of Jason Kenney declaring that “the UCP needs to lay down the law” that if members don’t go along with that “core principle…to support a united Canada”, then they “should go somewhere else”.   The big problem with all this talk about a supposed “Loyalty to a united Canada” principle having been adopted at the UCP’s Founding General Meeting, is that, like much that we hear from the Premier, it’s a big, fat LIE. xitter.cf/ronvoss5/status/211168…

Keep Continuing the Discussions With respect to “how we move forward”, I would agree with Keith Wilson and others that it is important to “keep the discussion going”. However, I would suggest that the most important and effective place to keep that discussion going is in the Alberta Legislature. However, as long as Danielle Smith with her declared loyalty and commitment to the unadopted UCP principle, “Loyalty to a united Canada”, is the UCP leader, I would suggest there will be no such discussion in the Legislature. xitter.cf/johnrbolton01/status/2…

Just “Give Her a Chance” Supposedly wise council as to “What now Alberta?” Give Danielle Smith, who has declared her colours, a “Loyalty to a united Canada” and has successfully done everything she could to prevent Alberta independence, “a chance”. In essence he, and I presume others like Cory Morgan and Keith Wilson, believe as well that removing Danielle Smith as leader is “stupid” and, accordingly, “have decided Alberta will not become independent”. 🥲 xitter.cf/dfildebrandt/status/21…

Alberta Government Head Office Staffed by Floor Crossers Along with floor crosser Danielle Smith, we have her fellow floor crosser, Rob Anderson, now her Chief of Staff, along with her fellow floor crosser Bruce McAllister who serves as the Executive Director of Smith's office.

Status Quo or Hope and Change A large majority (63.5%) of Albertans in the last federal election (April 2025) voted for the Conservative Party of Canada winning 34 of the 37 seats, with the Liberals receiving 27.9% (2 seats) and the NDP receiving 6.3% (1 seat) of the vote. Thereby, Albertans were predominantly sending Conservative Party MPs to Ottawa in the hope of bringing about a change in the disastrous direction that the country was heading, especially the disastrous policies being imposed on Alberta by the Liberals. Accordingly, it would make no sense that those 63.5% of the voters would now choose to vote for Option 1 and not Option 2, which would be tantamount to saying they are satisfied with no change, the status quo, satisfied with how Canada is being run (into the ground) by Mark Carney with his globalist agenda.

Closer to the Truth, But Still a Lie Danielle Smith’s fireside chat with Rick Bell, columnist with the Calgary Herald and Calgary Sun, at the Canada Strong and Free conference in Calgary was intended to share her message “to the separatists if they do not win in the referendum vote”. Noteworthy in that interview (see clip below), with respect to a principle of the UCP party, reading from a script, Smith read:“Loyalty to a united Canada and a commitment for Alberta to be a leader in the Canadian Federation that constructively defends the best interests of the province and its constitutional sovereignty”, and summarized “That was the founding principle of our party, loyalty to a united Canada…That is what has been my guiding principle. That is what I campaigned on.” Included is a clip of Jason Kenney declaring that any UCP members who are not committed to that “core principle of the party”, should be shown the door. Danielle Smith has repeatedly told us in the past that the founding principle was a “sovereign Alberta within a united Canada” and, likewise, that claim has repeatedly been disputed as having been adopted at the UCP’s founding AGM. With this new version, she is getting a little closer to the truth, but to say that it “was the founding principle of our party”, it is still a lie. What Smith read off in that clip was draft principle #26, one of 36 principles that had been proposed for the members’ consideration. In a document, “Policy Declaration 2018”, which summarized what resolutions that were “adopted by the membership” at the Founding Annual General meeting, noteworthy that principle #26 is nowhere to be found and still not to be found in the party’s “Statement of Principles” found at its web site. This should bring her lies to a close. youtube.com/watch?v=alMpHsuN…

A blustery day, but neither rain, nor sleet, nor wind, gusting up to 81 km/hour, can stop the determined Alberta patriots in Cochrane.

Was a beautiful day to be out flying the Alberta flag and exhilarating hearing the honks in support. Thanks Shane. Vote Option 2. xitter.cf/smstevens1979/status/2…