🇨🇦 Moderate Mike 🇨🇦

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[🇨🇦 Moderate Mike 🇨🇦 @CanadianModera1]

Alberta’s current Premier projects a brand so toxic domestically and globally that it has become deleterious to current and future capital investment.

By prioritizing political survival over generational prosperity, she compromises our future.

Never forget, Alberta. #abpoli

[🇨🇦 Moderate Mike 🇨🇦 @CanadianModera1]

@MrKapitalist Not retired. Still consult and teach at the post-secondary level.

The kind of economic collapse that separatism would bring is not in anyone's interest.

[🇨🇦 Moderate Mike 🇨🇦 @CanadianModera1]

Any referendum must unequivocally reinforce Alberta’s position within Canada. Sovereignty risks an economic exodus, triggering capital flight from volatile markets and a skilled workforce that will paralyse industry, culminating in collapsed property values for working Albertans.

[🇨🇦 Moderate Mike 🇨🇦 @CanadianModera1]

@RyanGassn Incorrect. Oil and gas production and exports from Alberta are at record levels at the moment. Canada is key to continued growth and development in this area.

[Brian Lilley @brianlilley]

This morning, Pete Hoekstra, @USAmbCanada, used his official account to push the 51st state idea.
He's downplayed that in the past, now he's pushing it.
If this is what he believes, perhaps it's time for the Carney government to ask him to leave.

https://t.co/GcykBL08Ut

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

Very well put, @menard_ray.

None of these enormous complexities have been seriously addressed, or even acknowledged, by the separatists, 141 days before a referendum that could plunge us into years of political, legal and social turmoil.

[🇨🇦 Moderate Mike 🇨🇦 @CanadianModera1]

@NR1BM269 @erik_thorvalds Conflating transient commodity-driven surpluses with structural autarky is economically naive. Secession introduces debilitating transaction costs, landlocks the province, & destroys risk-sharing mechanisms like the CPP. Sovereignty won't fix volatile resource dependency.

[CityNews Calgary @citynewscalgary]

Alberta country music singer Corb Lund says he is getting tired, but won’t stop working to collect signatures as the deadline looms on his petition to fight coal-mining. https://t.co/zSDtHr0rYX

[Jason Scott 🇨🇦 @JasonOnTheDrums]

#ableg

On May 30, Smith posted warm photos from a private event at the Ockey home

Ryan Ockey is CEO of Cardel Homes a $550M/yr homebuilder

He & Shauna founded and run Tanbridge Academy, a private school.

In 2025, Shauna donated $2,875 to the UCP

Smith left a few things out…

[Jason Scott 🇨🇦 @JasonOnTheDrums]

#ableg

One of Smith’s most BRAZEN conflicts of interest

The Ockeys’ private school foundation already got ~$2M from taxpayers this year

Now they’re lobbying her directly for millions MORE for a new school and rec centre.

This isn’t just “great convo”
It’s a MAJOR conflict 😳

[🇨🇦 Moderate Mike 🇨🇦 @CanadianModera1]

As this unfolds we see an Alberta separatism movement that mirrors MAGA populism: grievance politics, anti-immigration rhetoric, conspiratorial distrust of institutions, and open admiration for Trump. Simply a reactionary movement feed by resentment and disinformation. #abpoli

[🇨🇦 Moderate Mike 🇨🇦 @CanadianModera1]

Objectively, Alberta separation would trigger capital flight, tariff & currency uncertainty, pension instability, loss of federal transfers, & investor distrust.

An export economy reliant on inter-provincial trade & global confidence cannot prosper through economic isolation.

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

On issue after issue, separatists just wave their magic wand to wish away serious problems with secession.

Myth: “Federal lands and federal building (sic) don’t add up to much”

Fact:

- Wood Buffalo National Park
- Jasper National Park
- Banff National Park
- Waterton National Park
- Elk Island National Park

Together encompass 53,860 sq KM, or 8.2% of Alberta’s land mass

- CFB Cold Lake
- CFB Suffield
- CFB Wainwright
- CFB Edmonton

Together encompass ~12,000 sq KM, or 1.9% of Alberta’s land mass

- 138 Indian Reserves encompassing 6,556 sq KM, or 1% of Alberta’s land mass

- YEG and YYC airport lands, encompassing 49 sq KM

Plus hundreds of other parcels of land, buildings, etc, much of it prime downtown property (eg armouries, RCMP facilities.)

So ~12% of Alberta’s land mass, including some of the most valuable and strategically important in the province. The total value would be in the tens of billions of dollars.

But don’t worry, the separatists say. No biggie. We’ll just keep saying “Canada sucks” and stuff, cause facts are hard.

[🇨🇦 Moderate Mike 🇨🇦 @CanadianModera1]

Smith can claim she supports Canada all day long and we won't believe her.

Words are cheap. Her actions offer us the truth.

#abpoli

[Real Talk Ryan Jespersen @RealTalkRJ]

Has the #UCP become a full-blown separatist party?

Danielle Smith insists it hasn't. But Senator @charlesadler says if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...

UCP members: how do you feel about all this?

👀 FULL: https://t.co/mUtsO21OAL

🎧 FULL: https://t.co/8pLy3oIKmF

[Greg Carabine @GCarabine]

Democracy is participatory!
#WeAreATA

[Todd Babiak @babiak]

Wab Kinew is being attacked by Alberta conservatives for saying stuff Ralph Klein would have said. You have lost your minds on here.

[Shannon Phillips 🇨🇦 @SPhillipsAB]

@DonBraid Horseshit, Don. You and I both know there’s been seppies in this province since the early 80s. I ran against one in 2019 - before SG was EnviroMin.

We’ve always had these kooks around, they just haven’t been given care and feeding until now. Including by you.

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

Clown show. 🤡

One nutty separatist leader (Rath) says that I’m a Canadian patriot because I want to draft young Albertans “to die in the Ukraine war.”

Another nutty separatist leader (Sylvester) says that his Republic of Alberta would actually impose a military draft on young Albertans.

To fight in what war? 🧐

Albertans thinking of voting for separation to “send a message” or “get a new deal:” this is the kind of whackiness you would be enabling.

[🇨🇦 Moderate Mike 🇨🇦 @CanadianModera1]

@Paulbm8s @UCPCaucus Then you need to get out more and expand your sample set.

[🇨🇦 Moderate Mike 🇨🇦 @CanadianModera1]

If members of the @UCPCaucus are as loyal to Canada as they claim, time to step up.

Demand that your party distance itself from the separatist movement.

Demand that your leader drop her wasteful and divisive referendum designed to protect her political skin.

Time to step up.