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Retired Albertan who is a bit of a political junkie. Very sarcastic. Love of travel has taken me all around the world, and opened my eyes and my heart. No DMs.

[MichHow ❤️AB first @MichelleHo59549]

@DVanLangenhove Looks like AI changed her face. It looks weird

[MichHow ❤️AB first @MichelleHo59549]

@echipiuk Ellis Ross (MP) in BC and Shane Gettson (MLA) in Alberta

[MichHow ❤️AB first @MichelleHo59549]

@JeffreyRWRath @ABDanielleSmith STOP!! You are turning supporters off!

[MichHow ❤️AB first @MichelleHo59549]

@Bratt_world @FrancesWiddows1 So you admit there is no evidence.

[MichHow ❤️AB first @MichelleHo59549]

@CoryBMorgan Nope, still want out.

[MichHow ❤️AB first @MichelleHo59549]

@elie_mcn @elevatereport @JasminLaine_ @unfilteredwkels I now lump her in with Tucker, Candice and Meygen Kelly. They've been flipped.

[MichHow ❤️AB first @MichelleHo59549]

@TWilsonOttawa @MarkJCarney Too late. That money is gone. The trust is gone. The integrity is gone. There is no longer any positives only negatives left. You can try, but that train left the station.

[MichHow ❤️AB first @MichelleHo59549]

@thesovereignceo 💯💥

[MichHow ❤️AB first @MichelleHo59549]

@TRobinsonNewEra Labour sent their people to the USA to campaign against Trump, and that was ok??

[MichHow ❤️AB first @MichelleHo59549]

@JohnRustad4BC Anyone else find it Kinda ironic the school calls CPS for someone's disapproval of the land acknowledgement when this all started with government taking kids away from parents to put into residential schools.

[MichHow ❤️AB first @MichelleHo59549]

@JeffreyRWRath Yup, bots and trolls coming hot!

[MichHow ❤️AB first @MichelleHo59549]

@B_boytm @TheOfficerTatum So people are not satisfied with maligning Trump. Now they go after Melania. Classy. Whats next, picking on the children of the administration? Where's the line?

[MichHow ❤️AB first @MichelleHo59549]

@liz_churchill10 Same MO as the Canadian govt used for the Freedom Convoy.

[Melanie In Saskatchewan @saskatchewan_in]

Cross the Floor. End Your Career.

Dear Members of Parliament Allegedly Considering Crossing the Floor...

Recently it was revealed that there are up to another ten MPs thinking about crossing the floor to @MarkJCarney's Liberals.

If floor crossing is so principled, why are you afraid to ask the people who elected you first?

There is a moment before a decision like this where everything slows down. Not publicly. Out there, it’s noise, talking points, strategic leaks, careful denials. “Rumours.” Up to ten of you, apparently. Unconfirmed. Unproven.

And yet, specific enough that it feels less like speculation and more like a test balloon.

But internally, it’s different. Quiet. Focused. Because before you act, you already know what this is, and more importantly, you know how it will be seen.

Strip Away the Language...

You were not elected as a free agent drifting between ideologies. You were elected under a banner, a platform, a set of commitments that voters used to make a decision. They did not vote for you in theory. They voted for you in context.

Remove that context and you are not evolving. You are overriding.

You are taking tens of thousands of votes and retroactively rewriting them without consent. You can call it pragmatism. You can call it stability. You can call it doing what’s necessary.

Your constituents will not use any of those words. They will use one, maybe two…

Betrayal. Traitor.

The Voice You’re Trying Not to Hear...

That hesitation you feel right now is not indecision. It’s recognition. Because somewhere beneath the strategy, beneath the conversations and the pressure, there is a very simple understanding pressing in on you.

This crosses a line.

You can rationalize it. You can bury it under language about national interest. You can tell yourself this is bigger than your riding. But if that were true, you wouldn’t be avoiding the one step that would make it legitimate.

Asking them.

The Question You Refuse to Put to Your Voters...

If this is so defensible, so necessary, so clearly the right move, why won’t you ask your constituents first? Why not resign, sit as an independent, and run again under the banner you now claim reflects your beliefs?

Is it because you already know the answer?
Is it because the people who elected you would not follow you?
Or is it because the idea of hearing “no” is so corrosive to your sense of self that you’d rather rewrite their vote than risk your ego?

If this is leadership, why does it require this much avoidance to function?

What You Think You’re Securing...

You may believe this is a move toward relevance, toward influence, toward a longer career orbiting power. It isn’t.

It is a branding decision.

You will become known, permanently, as the one who crossed. The one who asked for trust and then treated it like something they stepped in and couldn’t scrape off their shoe fast enough. The one who decided that proximity to power mattered more than fidelity to the people who put you there.

That reputation does not fade. It hardens.

It follows you into nomination meetings where hands don’t go up. Into interviews where questions linger a second longer than they should. Into rooms where your name is met with a pause instead of support.

And you’ll feel it.

Not loudly.
Quietly.
Consistently.

And Here Is the Part You’re Ignoring...

Your new allies will never fully trust you. They will welcome you, yes. They will use your vote. They will count you, quote you, parade you as proof of momentum.

But they will always know what you did.

You crossed once.
Which means you can cross again.

So what exactly are you to them? A trusted colleague, or a convenient number that comes with an expiry date?

Because you don’t become indispensable this way. You become temporary.

Not a partner.
A placeholder.

What You Are Actually Participating In...

Let’s remove the last layer of insulation.

This is not about thoughtful realignment. It is not about evolving political identity. This is about manufacturing a majority that voters did not grant, using individual ambition as the mechanism to bypass collective consent.

You are not stabilizing governance.

You are short-circuiting it.

If this is democracy, why does it need to be done around the voters instead of through them?

There Is an Honest Path. You’re Avoiding It...

If you truly believe your position has changed, there is a clean, defensible, democratic way to proceed. Resign. Sit as an independent. Run again under your new banner. Let your constituents decide whether they endorse your shift.

Anything less is not courage.
It is convenience, wearing a borrowed moral argument.

The Ending You Haven’t Considered...

You are likely telling yourself this will settle, that voters will move on, that memory is short and cycles reset. That this becomes a footnote.

It won’t.

Because this is not a policy disagreement. This is a character decision made in full view. And voters do not forget those.

So ask yourself one final question before you take the step you are clearly being encouraged to take. And do it with a semblance os self respect for who you were when you were elected, instead of settling to be "that guy."

If you cannot defend this decision directly to the people who elected you, what exactly are you defending it for?

And when this moment is over, when the noise fades and the next election arrives, do you really believe they will forget what you showed them about who you are?

Or are you betting your entire career that they won’t care enough to remember?

Final Word...

You knew what you were asking for when you ran. You knew what that vote meant, and you accepted it anyway. So don’t stand there now and pretend the rules changed or the stakes shifted. They didn’t. You did.

And if you follow through on this, don’t dress it up as anything noble. It’s not complicated. It’s the same logic as an unfaithful spouse who thinks they’ve found something better and convinces themselves the original commitment no longer matters.

You made a promise, and you’re breaking it because something else caught your eye. That’s not politics. That’s character. And once people see that clearly, they don’t forget it, they don’t forgive it, and they certainly don’t reward it.

Melanie in Saskatchewan

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[Melanie In Saskatchewan @saskatchewan_in]

Just going to leave this little 'Fun Fact' here for all the High Speed Rail enthusiasts. This was brought to my attention, so therefore I must bring it to yours if you didnt already know...

Liberals serve themselves first and foremost.
This is another case in point.

Anne-Marie Gaudet, is the
spouse of François-Philippe Champagne

She holds a senior executive role as Vice President, Environment at Alto and works within the organization responsible for advancing Canada’s proposed high-speed rail project (Quebec City to Toronto corridor)

Under her:
• Environmental strategy and compliance
• Regulatory approvals and impact assessments
• Sustainability frameworks tied to the rail project

Gaudet is positioned inside an entity that is:
• Federally backed
• Dependent on government policy, approvals, and funding

Her role is directly connected to this major national infrastructure initiative currently being shaped and eventually financed at the federal level.

So maybe when Liberals, their friends and families stop personally benefitting off the backs of hard working Canadians who keep falling behind then conservatives might not be so upset and against this.

Because from where I sit, this whole thing reads like a closed-loop favour factory. The Liberals want to expropriate land to serve a narrow slice of the country in one corridor, then hand the bill to everyone else, including millions who will never set foot on that train. Meanwhile, the government’s financing brain is tied at home to the environmental arm of Alto, and it all conveniently lines up with the climate sermonizing of Green Jesus Mark Carney.

Call it policy if you like. From here, it looks a lot more like insiders taking care of their own while the rest of the country gets the invoice..

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[MichHow ❤️AB first @MichelleHo59549]

@Gab_Hardy Who'd have thought Canada would be a recipient of the "Belt and Road" system that China uses on 3rd world countries to own them.

[MichHow ❤️AB first @MichelleHo59549]

@JeffreyRWRath Mental illness is everywhere!!

[MichHow ❤️AB first @MichelleHo59549]

@TRobinsonNewEra @nayibbukele El Salvador is a deeply religious country. LGBTQ community defends Hamas and other Muslim extremist groups regularly. Why go after a Christian country for having the same belief (except they dont throw you off buildings in El Salvador)

[MichHow ❤️AB first @MichelleHo59549]

@acoyne Do you mean how Ukraine 🇺🇦 voted itself out of Russia?? I see you still have their flag in your tag line. Maybe they should be returned to Russia since you "can't help yourself to something that isn't yours"? The hypocrisy is so thick in your tiny little brain!

[MichHow ❤️AB first @MichelleHo59549]

@freedomfig66457 @brianlilley @mario4thenorth @Ranchmans Great idea!