Conservatives like to point to successful integrations of private and public healthcare systems in other nations, nations where access for private options are made available through public programs and insurance. However in Canada, they want more of an American type system, where access is based solely on one’s ability to pay.

It’s a bait and switch being funded by Canadians entrepreneurs who see how profitable the American health insurance industry is, and want to create that same kind of market here.

Life expectancy, socio-economic mobility, rates of poverty or hunger they have to ignore just about every other metric that one could use to measure peoples quality of life to come to this conclusion.

It solves the issue of people who own companies in the field of healthcare being connected to members of the UCP, so when they privatize these services, it’s those same members who benefit. This is the kind of policy that really pairs well with legalizing gifts to MLA’s from private corporations. link

These folks want to make more money, and they have the influence they need to make that money. In 2025, I can’t help but wonder why any company would ever invest in trying to build a good sustainable business when lobbying a corrupt government is a sure thing. Why would anyone with the capital ever risk losing that capital when they don’t have to?

Nothing new here, Alberta is currently under a kleptocracy. So they’ll be repeating this same process with private surgeries. The UCP learned one lesson, their base will allow it, so they might as well do it again.

Always felt it very disturbing that the Alberta Bill of Rights makes more sense under American law than Canadian law. I know it’s more an instance of Alberta conservatives unable to distinguish the two countries legal/political systems due to their reliance on American propaganda to support their positions, but the optics are bad.

I thought there was a source for it, but think I am mistaken, so I deleted just in case.

Pretty much anyone living in Alberta could buy a party membership and attend.

TBA locked down the UCP after they took power, in order to join the UCP now you need to pass a social media screening. TBA did take over the party by essentially buying it out from under Kenney, they don’t want anyone else doing the same thing to them.

Pretty sad the folks going around claiming to be champions of common sense don’t even understand a extremely basic concept like “the dose makes the poison”.

Well funded backers have created a social media campaign that’s impossible to ignore on sites like Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, Youtube, and Canada’s largest traditional media company being bought out by Chatham Asset Management, which set the editorial mandate for every paper under it’s banner to support the party.

Plus, he’s playing by a different set of rules. His supporters won’t punish him for wasting taxpayer money with these by-elections, and the CPC can afford to just run election campaign after election campaign.

End of the day, there is a lot of money going into making sure CPC talking points sound like their speaking truth to power, the fact it’s the powerful funding this campaign seems lost on many. But as long as they have people looking left or right, they’re not looking up, and thats what really matters.

Could be worse, but it’s a gamble. The big companies are just set up to get the rug pulled out from under them by creative young programmers who have a better understanding of this technology. Let’s be real though, I feel like this policy is designed for marketing the LPC to young less crazy conservatives. Instead of the CPC being pulled back into our shared reality, they’ve pulled the LPC into the griftosphere.

The UCP never intended the legislation to be used against them, it was for them to use against left wing city councils. Remember the attempted mayor recall by now UCP backed city councillor? The UCP only govern in bad faith, everything Smith says is simply gaslighting.

100% we have two parties that seem to only serve the lobbyists, but we only end up voting for both these parties which leaves them with no incentive to change their ways.

It’s interesting, but when you google this guy you get a great insight into the conservative echo chamber in Alberta/Canada, he works for multiple conservative organizations & think tanks, he writes for Postmedia, Juno News, and is a huge decimator of pro-GOP misinformation among the CPC base.

He’s a big part of their targeted messaging campaign, when you look at the positions and writing, you see the misinformation that inspired the convoy. It’s clear the CPC has been making the most of this mans tenure and PhD to maximize the impact of their misinformation and messaging campaigns.

Even just a small fine would go a long way, it’s just a very difficult policy to market to the general public.

Smith needs to see a plastic surgeon about getting herself some of that Mar-largo face if she wants Trump to notice her.

It’s all about marketing, thinking Ticketmaster said to themselves, if these scalpers are making so much money, we’re missing out on profit, the crackdown on scalpers is probably more about trying to capture lost revenue. Hi, my first post on this site. :P