Danielle Smith's Plan to Control Alberta's Cities
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- čas přidán 24. 04. 2024
- Are you better off with partisan politics at the local level? Will Alberta benefit from its provincial government inserting itself into funding agreements between municipalities and the feds? As Premier Danielle Smith's UCP government rolls out Bill 18 - the Provincial Priorities Act - and opens the door for municipal political parties, we ask, "What does it all mean for YOU?"
3:05 | Alberta Municipalities president Tyler Gandam and past presidents Cathy Heron and Lisa Holmes discuss how Alberta's most prominent new legislation will impact everyday service delivery and infrastructure development in communities across the province.
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39:15 | Lisa Holmes responds to Grande Prairie Mayor Jackie Clayton's assessment of (Lisa's boss) Edmonton Mayor Amarjeet Sohi's "defiant and aggressive" Twitter posts aimed at Premier Smith. Lisa and Cathy go on to discuss Andre Corbould's seemingly sudden departure as Edmonton city manager, security threats facing politicians and public figures, and the upcoming wildfire season.
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If this was a non conservative government we would be losing our minds. We have to stop treating political parties like sports teams in Alberta. If a conservative government is off side we have to call them.out.
Yes, its time to start holding ALL political parties to account.
You're probably onto something there. I think parties serve to ensure we remain disenfranchised as we go from back and forth from one false majority to another, just to give the illusion of choice.
I have been saying this since I was around 20 years old. Every party have good and bad none are perfect. What you are saying tho is not an alberta problem it’s a Canada problem, most people vote what there parents voted and will not ever call out the party they think they belong too.
Political parties should be outlawed. Period. Each candidate stands as an independent.
Here's a little tidbit for those of you following the events in Chestermere, as well as the proposed changes to the Municipal Governance Act.
Municipalities DO NOT exists under the Canadian Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land.
The Provincial government is responsible for ALL matters that Municipal Governments deal with. The Government created the Ministry of Municipalities to oversee local matters.
The Provincial Government, with the support of a majority of the legislature created the Ministry of Municipalities on December 20, 1911, 6 years after entering into confederation.
Since then, ALL matters of municipal affairs are under the direction of the Minister of Municipalities. Municipalities ONLY EXIST as an act of the legislature and therefore an act of the legislature comprised of duly elected officials, with a majority vote can alter, amend, strike, dissolve, or otherwise change the Municipal Governance Act at any time, by any government. This is not corruption, it is the law as set forth through exercise of democracy.
There are people out there, (let's call them Victim Hunters,) who are trying to not only elevate themselves by using the tribulations of others but also convince you of two very dangerous falsehoods:
1- They are trying to convince you that by "interfering" with municipal affairs the current government is trying to "take power" from the municipalities. This is FALSE- the Ministry of Municipalities ALREADY holds ALL power over municipalities. Remember that municipalities ONLY EXIST AS AN ACT of the legislature.
2- They claim that the government is corrupt due to them "taking power," or "interfering" with municipalities is justification for people to not be civically engaged in a constructive manner with the current government. If you want to make change to the way the Province interacts with your municipality, (the MGA,) then you MUST be involved and do the work to make the change.
I'm growing very tired of watching this occur all around me. It seems that more often than not there are a few people "rage farming" by only telling part of the story and they are causing really, really potentially terrible problems for the rest of us. Even worse, people are hyper-sensitive about government and are willing to readily accept only one-side of the story because it confirms their notion that "everyone is corrupt, all government and politicians are evil".
We have problems, for sure. I hope people will open their eyes very, very soon and notice that certain people are using our problems as a method to elevate themselves and act on a deep-seated hatred towards a particular party. What I'm seeing is not conducive to positive change and will hurt us all in the end.
Anyhow, I'll just get back to the kitchen, where I belong.
-Chris
PS- I will point out, again, that this issue along with these problems could be dealt with swiftly and fully. Would you like your county or city to have sovereign discretion in matters of elections etc? All paths lead to Alberta Independence. An independent and sovereign Alberta could, through Constitutionally enshrined law, acknowledge municipalities as jurisdictions that are sovereign in the area of self-government.
All paths lead to Alberta Independence.
Nothing says "small government" like sticking your nose in everyone's business
(Provincial or Municipal) There is only one tax payer. Maybe governments should set some priorites
If you're so sure Smith that Albertans want this then put it to a plebiscite.
LIke Ive said, ANY Albertan can force a referendum by getting signatures. Alberta has Citizens Initiatives.
@@mikearchibald744 I doubt that Danielle Smith follows that.
My parents operated 3 different small businesses and 2 were located into same town. The ppl who were in charge of town council were dead set against my father no matter what the issue or whenever he confronted town officials about their shady tax measures and building codes and regulations. I swear they enjoyed creating a problem just to cause aggravation. Example: 1 property that operated a restaurant and dining room on main floor and second story having 5 rental units. When town was replacing aged infrastructure water and sewer lines my father requested having a second water line installed going into our property. We were charged with 7 water supply taxes and 7 sewer line taxes while having only 1 waterline into the building. Wasn’t an unreasonable request and it caused such an uproar from town officials. Yet business couple buildings from ours on other side of road was automatically provided multiple water lines into their property without any problems whatsoever.
"What kind of debate do you get when everybody agrees?" Cathy nailed it, unfortunately that's also what we see with this panel. It would've been great to have someone on that thinks this is a good idea.
Do you live in Edm or Calgary. Current leaders are useless. How could it get worse.
You can’t tell me that the voters don’t already know how their councillors vote federally. When Edmonton has a Mayor that was a Liberal Minister, you know what the thought process is. Basically what I am saying is it’s already there.
Each election there is about 15 people running for mayor. People do not study issues. They just vote for the person with the best funded media campaign. And this is the problem. Special Interest groups are funding their puppets, and voters do not understand this.
Smith won't be happy until Alberta is Florida of the north.
She actually really likes DeSantis 🤮 Can't wait for that authoritarian B to be ousted!!!
That would be awesome balance budget great economy zero state tax can’t go wrong with that
God we can only hope
@@peterbutz642 Exactly
The same Florida that lets PragerU get taught in schools?
Lets talk facts about this new legislation: It applies to Edmonton and Calgary only. The Provincial parties are not eligible to be part of any civic party. Joining a Party is just an Option!! It is not required!! The reason political parties in Edm and Calgary are being considered is because the Unions are backing many candidates with tons of money, and NO voter gets to see this. As a voter myself, I see 15 options for mayor at election time. What do
they believe in and what is their platform?? Fact is I have no Idea. Well if there are 4 parties, I can study their platform and then I know what they stand for. Sadly, the current Calgary City politicians are useless. They were voted into office because they received the most financial support from Unions and they had the most signs, and the most media adds. So, these incompetent leaders are running Calgary. And the same is True for Edmonton.
Montreal has municpal parties and its a disaster. all it does is consolidate more power to a single leader... and you end up with miles and miles of bike lanes and reduced parking spaces. they draw the lines right through the bloody potholes.
If Quebec did not get its fair share of money, everyone in the country would hear about it, so I would question the validity of the Liberal minister saying that Quebec is losing all kinds of money.
Not really, EVERY province makes that complaint CONSTANTLY. But frankly who cares if they are.
@@mikearchibald744 You should care its your money . Quebec will receive in the order of $ 12 BILLION in equalization payment from the federal government. A lot of the money coming from Alberta.
@@theowoytowich9959 MOST of what quebec contributes to federal taxes is what is returned in equalization. ANd NO province has received anything like what is now approaching FORTY BILLION for a pipeline that will print money.
And Albertans pay the same federal taxes as everybody else. Christ, the province has the lowest income taxes, no sales tax, and STILL all we hear is gripes about taxes.
@@mikearchibald744 I guess you do not understand how the equalization payment works. Quebec gets an additional $12 billion from taxes collected in other provinces and the people of Alberta are the biggest contributors.
Regarding the pipeline to the west coast, Kinder Morgan (Private owner) were the owners of this line and had applied to expand it. They were prepared to pay the cost of expansion without any tax payer money. The Trudeau government put in so many roadblocks, conditions etc; that made it impossible for Kinder Morgan to build the pipeline as a profitable venture. The Trudeau government bought the pipe line from Kinder Morgan and proceeded with the expansion. The original estimate for the pipeline expansion was $7.4 Billion. Another Trudeau Liberal boondoggle with the pipeline being over two years late costing close to $40 billion at the tax payers expense when it could have been done at $0 cost to the tax payers
@@theowoytowich9959 Quebec gets 14 billion in equalization. It pays about 33 billion in federal taxes.
Federal taxes are paid by individuals, not provinces, and Alberta doesn't have the population of Quebec, ontario, or BC.
Name me what these roadblocks and conditions were. Its well known that its overdue because of the court cases against it from BC. The pipeline wouldn't get finished because the company had knowingly lied on its EIA and it would take forever to satisfy a court, so the feds bought it.
The regulations brought in were to stop the unending number of court cases. The courts were no longer accepting the rubber stamps that the NEB were putting on every project.
Just wondering, was anyone from the UPC invited to this talk?
Commenting is back? That one on Gaza must have gotten some really doozy comments:)
Whats amazing about this is the cognitive dissonance that some people have when they call Trudeau authoritarian for any program that even AFFECTS a province, but if the Alberta premieris OPENLY authoritarian then its just "well thats just fine, she'd doing a great job".
Which I think is the NUMBER ONE reason people should fear a conservative federal government. "Its fine for us to be totally authoritarian, but not for anybody else to even do it a tiny bit".
Probably trying to limit the HUNDREDS of bots putting this channel on the radar. AI-level spamming isn’t welcome for any real channel on YT.
PROTECT REAL PEOPLE. PROTECT REAL TALK. 😅
@@IdrisFashan Well, theres LOTS of people with opinions on that that aren't bots. Its a mighty small map this channel is on.
@@mikearchibald744 I don't know why. I also post comments, and they disappear.
@@dwaynewladyka577 I notice it on facebook recentlly too. The war on Tiktok is having casualties all over. A facebook comment disappeared over and over again.And I've noticed a lot more commercials on various videos. I suppose this will be blamed on Trudeau as well.
uniparty system.Two sides of the same coin.
Ha ha .. superb .. heads up the Jasper @!! 😄😄🤣🤣
Danielle Smith's Plan to Control Alberta's Cities how can she do that if they are all NDP
With policies that target Urban centers. This is a punishment, not governing.
@@JonathanSicoli Really how is it a punishment we only have RT opinion on how its going to be laid out
@@7thpilot If where we live is subject to one person in a government deciding what gets done, how is that free, or small government?
@@JonathanSicoli Oh really only one person deciding everything hmmm really thought she had the majority of MLAs and a cabinet that all have input but hey you go with your narrative makes it sound so much better to support that.
@@7thpilot if I hire a bunch of toadies, and tell them how to vote, is that still technically them voting?
Just saying, you wouldn't care for this if it was Trudeau strongarming people into schoolboards. Why is it fine that Smith does it?
Voter do need to do the work to KNOW the candidates. ..that is the problem in AB ..voters are lazy and go for click bait lies..that how we got Czar Dani...
And czar gondek and czar sohi, it works equally to screw all taxpayers.
Corrupted Unions and special interest will have less power, and political parties, organized by citizens will have more power.
Ya Ryan you are so corrupted.
Great show
i get it,...
sry
The UCP have only carried on with the fiscal ineptitude and poor planning that the Alberta PCs did, ever since Don Getty was premier of Alberta. So far the UCP have made well over $80 billion in very costly debacles and mistakes, and the UCP have also given Alberta a mammoth debt that is now nearly $140 billion. Part of the UCP's well over $80 billion in very costly debacles and mistakes is where the UCP lost Alberta hundreds of millions of dollars by forsaking collecting property taxes from the oil companies in Alberta, and this is why municipalities in Alberta must charge increased municipal property taxes. Bill 18 and Bill 20 by the UCP, further prove that they don't support democracy.
Lol
@peterbutz642 There is nothing funny about the facts. The UCP are the worst provincial government Alberta ever had. Even former Conservative politicians in Alberta know that the UCP aren't good.
@@dwaynewladyka577 Are you for really NDP run 60 billion of debt in four years killed hundreds of thousands of jobs Name one thing Rachel and her gong show did for Alberta The best thing she did for Alberta was alienate the rural voters to make sure that clown show never gets elected again
@@AstroBear11 Fitting words for someone who would vote in a drama teacher.
@@dwaynewladyka577who gave Alberta the massive debt?? Believe the NDP took on a large portion of any of the debt that we are now in.
🎉Great stuff
The Edmonton mayor can wear this one!
Smith is to blame for her own bad behavior here, can't shove this one under the carpet. Typical of this bunch!
Brian Mulroney's wife, Mila, passed long before him. They were happily married.
Surely you don't mean "passed" as in "passed away", right...? Mila Mulroney is still alive.
@@mark_p300 No, that's not her. 100%. His wife passed away before him and they were happily married.
@@CatherineElizabethCharlesworth you're sorely misinformed or completely out of your gourd if you think Mila Mulroney died before her husband. She's still alive at age 73; she was front and centre at his recent funeral for Christ's sake...
@@mark_p300 That's not her. Brian Mulroney absolved before he went to bed. That's not his wife. She passed long before him. They were happily married.
@@CatherineElizabethCharlesworth "Completely out of your gourd" it is, then. 🤣 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mila_Mulroney
Great episode 👍🏻