The heat death of Earth is paved by stupidity.
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The heat death of Earth is paved by stupidity. This is Alberta today.
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@chad I'm a bit grey on how Canada works. Does Alberta have a provincial legislature separate from Ottawa? If so, does that have two chambers? I'm hoping this is confined to AB and that it doesn't pass even there. cc @Paulatics
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@lopta @chad Provinces in Canada are unicameral. They each have their own provincial legislature, separate from Ottawa. But they don't have senates or upper houses. I am an Alberta senator - but I don't work for the provincial government. I work in the federal domain - so I work for Albertans, and not for the premier. I am a proud champion of trans rights - and will always continue to be so.
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@lopta @chad @Paulatics this specifically is just a party resolution from their AGM and is not a legislative bill. It's not binding on the party or the government.
Conservative party AGMs in Canada are pretty much always full of these ridiculous hard right policy resolutions, including at the federal level. Very few of them make it to a legislature. Which is not to say they aren't scary or couldn't, just that they aren't themselves laws.
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@megmac @chad @Paulatics That's some comfort, anyway.
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@Paulatics @megmac @chad It must be a challenge to represent people with a wide range of perspectives and opinions.
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@lopta @megmac @chad Oh, it is. Luckily, there are six of us, from different parts of the province, and with different political perspectives, so that helps us to reflect that diversity. I certainly do a "better" job of reflecting my home community of Edmonton, the provincial capital and a university city, which elected only social democrat NDP members of the legislature in the last provincial election.
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@lopta @megmac @chad But as deputy chair of the Senate agriculture and forestry committee, I also spend significant time in rural Alberta, meeting with farmers and ranchers - which helps me, a senator from the city, to connect to their issues too. It's such a big province - the entire UK is less than half the size of Alberta - so representing the whole thing is no easy task!
