This is truly scary

Remember: Remain in Canada + No to everything else

  • Swordgeek@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    I don’t believe it.

    I know the questions are deliberately worded to be ambiguous and leading, but every single one is clearly a racist dogwhistle. For all of the redneck shitheads emboldened by our government of bigots and traitors, I don’t think the majority of Albertans are that bad.

    Guess we’ll see.

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      I don’t think the majority of Albertans are that bad.

      Alberta is difficult to underestimate.

      The last Federal election was about sovereignty. 92% of Alberta ridings elected a pro MAGA party.

      • Jamie@lemmy.mlOP
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        2 months ago

        There’s definitely a divide between Edmonton (at least the city center & university area & few other ridings) and the rest of Alberta, which is unfortunate. Edmonton has genuinely good urban policies but the you see pee is making it harder to live here every day…

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          1 month ago

          Even the smaller cities have good people in them, but they mostly have these rural-urban mixed ridings to make them appear to ride or die conservative.

          I think that alternate mapping that was recently proposed had a ton of them.

  • Jamie@lemmy.mlOP
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    2 months ago

    Also, just to be clear: I do not support these questions. I’m voting remain and no on everything else

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    2 months ago

    I do believe provinces should have more control over immigration ( from outside Canada, not interprovincial). Every thing else on that referendum is junk. Then again the way even immigration control question is, it could mean interprovincial migration or simply a province to say we will only allow certain race in.

    SO NO to everything on that referendum.

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      2 months ago

      That doesn’t even make sense. Once you’re immigrated to Canada you can just change provinces.

      What if Newfoundland said “fuck it, we need people, everyone in” then they’re just Canadian immigrants who can live anywhere in Canada completely undermining more restrictive provinces and making a mockery of the system. Unless you’re suggesting immigrants should be second class citizens bound to their province of arrival like medieval serfs?!?!?

      And provinces do have power to shape immigration programs, like Quebec has a special fast pass for French speakers. But nothing keeps you there.

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        2 months ago

        That’s what I meant by it’s ambiguous. There is no policy or clarification and I am not suggesting a policy. Everything you said is perfectly valid and no immigrants should not be bound to.province of arrival, maybe for certain number of years if it comes down to that.