Now that the Alberta elections are over and the United Conservative Party (UCP) under Danielle Smith’s leadership has won, we are still arguing about divisiveness in the province. The divide now is not just policy but geography. The large cities are NDP while rural Alberta is UCP. The question is why we have arrived at this point when Alberta used to be seen as a bastion of conservatism.
The socialist NDP has made massive inroads in the two largest cities of Calgary and Edmonton. The provincial capital has always been a bastion of socialism because of the large public sector union. Calgary on the other hand, the oil and gas head quarters was always seen as a strong conservative City. However, over the years, ethnic enclaves and the election of leftist Mayors have made it difficult for conservatives to find electoral success.
The divisiveness quoted by the media during this electoral campaign, has all been about Danielle Smith and her views over the past twenty years. Her stance against the mandates forced upon us during the Covid pandemic, and her conversation with a convicted pastor was used to portray her as a divisive leader. It seems that in today’s world of politics, personalities trump policies. Attack on Smith were made by the same media and people who supported Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister based on his hair. The media which is supported by millions from the Liberal government is no longer the institution that used to hold politicians’ feet to fire. Instead, today, most of the media tends to be the left’s propaganda machine; so much so that they now mirror the days of the Pravda of the old Soviet Union. I don’t know whether it is jealousy or envy, that one of their own has come back from the political grave and become a political force, but it seems that the media has taken upon itself to try and crucify one of their former colleagues. The vitriol in some columns was thrown at her and her policies during the campaign and even during the evening as the results came in, one CTV reporter on air even said: “we are not seeing the NDP make the gains we were hoping for.”
Division in politics is at the root of the democratic system. Politicians differ on political ideology and therefore policies. This is what makes democracy so endearing. In autocratic states there is no division because there is only one point of view. The issue is that in our democracy today, the left wants compromise when they lose and yet never compromise when they win. The first salvo from the left after the UCP win, is Danielle Smith must work with the two socialist lead cities because she does not have a strong representation. What they mean is that we must accept their views, or we shall oppose you.
Danielle Smith views did not divide the province, the media and academics created the division. In fact I venture to say that her move to the centre help her win. During the campaign much of the lefts attack was about virtue signalling. The day after the election we can still hear the words of Calgary’s Mayor:“There is no room for hate in a city or province that is slowly recovering from an economic recession that stood to cripple us,” she said, adding homophobic, misogynistic, transphobic and racist views cannot be tolerated” As if the election was about social issue and not about the bigger picture of economics, provincial sovereignty and leadership. The word racism came up several times in the campaign. The UCP because of a perceived relationship with a group called ‘Take Back Alberta’ has raised some concerns. But what is forgotten in this province seemingly racist in the view of the socialist left is that Calgary had a Muslim Mayor, and an Open Bisexual Councilor who ran for Mayor, Edmonton and Calgary elected two Sikh ethnic minority leaders. The division in politics is straight from Trudeau’s book. He perfected the art of virtue signaling and won two elections, and the media helped him do it, and so they tried but fortunately, in the end it failed in Alberta.
The bigger issue of division is from within the conservative movement. It is unfortunate that too many so-called conservatives decide to shift their votes to the NDP. As a result, many seats were lost or won by very small margins, despite the UCP’s win in popular votes. What is worrying is that even some past conservative leaders like Lee Richardson decided and urged people to vote for the NDP. The idea that Progressive Conservatives were conservatives is quickly being proved to be an oxymoron. Conservatives continue to prove that they can never be as united as the left; they have a cannibalistic culture that is difficult to abandon. This is the main reason for Canada to gradually become a socialist/ communist country. Conservatives are not united as they claim, and we can see the left make inroads in every aspect of our lives: healthcare, education, and most all the economy through their climate change agenda.
What Canadians should be happy is that Danielle Smith and the UCP were winners on May 29th, 2023, because it will show that there is still a remnant of conservatism that can be built upon to defend the country from Trudeau’s agenda. The media is the enemy of conservatism, citizens are being fed the leftist agenda and cannot make independent decisions because they are no longer exposed to the facts. They just get opinions and political views. The shift to the left in Calgary may have been a matter of trust in the leader, but it was based on misinformation and lack of unbiased reporting.
This Alberta provincial election was a watershed and should be a call to action by conservative leaders across the country. The next federal election will see the same divisive role played by the media and the so-called academics. Divisiveness will come from three fronts, the media, the left with virtue signaling, and most of all from within. Be afraid, be very afraid of the snakes who call themselves conservatives.
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