🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 Just maybe it was his inability or his goal all along to NOT get a trade deal with 🇺🇸 and his retaliatory tariffs and his industrial carbon tax that killed the Stelco jobs.🤔 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

@ElectionsAB please tell us how we can trust a vote if your process allows for people to cast votes without being confirmed as eligible voters? @ABDanielleSmith please address this publicly. Can Albertans trust this process? Does the Elections Alberta process ensure that only eligible voters participate in the referendum?

I never wanted to be a politician. For years, I had been watching helplessly as the province that I loved and wanted for my children steadily slipped away. It was one man’s courage that drew me in. John Rustad had taken a principled stand and refused to remove a tweet on X that his then-leader of the BC Liberal Party, Kevin Falcon, had wanted erased. It was only after his third request that John persuaded me to put my name forward. The energy behind the grassroots conservative movement in the lead-up to the last election was unmistakable. The BC Conservatives went from dormancy to within a few hundred votes of forming government. I won my riding by a large margin. But there were warning signs that began even before the election. John and the party executive began shutting down riding associations and removing candidates. MLAs who were fleeing the crumbling BC United Party were ushered in, and it became increasingly clear that the “big tent” did not have much room for outspoken conservatives. It was several acts of cowardice that drove me away. Within a few months after the election, John was himself demanding that my colleague remove her own public statements. Weeks later, we saw busloads shipped in to rig the outcome of the party’s AGM. I left the party but I didn’t leave my constituents. With the support of a few brave souls, we tackled hundreds of local case files. Nor did I leave our movement. We fought in the Legislature for the changes needed to restore hope to this beautiful province, with bills covering everything from lowering the cost of housing to the closure of drug consumption sites, and to ending irreversible child gender transitions. I watched as many of my colleagues bit their tongues or looked the other way. I saw the cancer spread. I warned Kerry Lynne that she would never be welcomed by that caucus. Immediately after a shocking leadership race outcome by the 27,000 party members who voted, she was assaulted by warring liberal factions who, from the earliest days, began sabotaging her for their own ends. Threats. Recordings. Leaks. Lies. Even blackmail. The BC Conservative Party has become the party of blackmail. It is fully captured by the corrupt political establishment that it was always intended to replace. I cannot support it. How could we? A party that will so brazenly betray its members can only become a government that betrays British Columbian voters. It would do no more than change the names of the existing crises. They would just replace DRIPA with a new law to give away your land. SOGI by another name. Their friends instead of Eby’s friends into cushy positions, growing our ever-bloating bureaucracy. To the many supporters who have called, messaged and flooded my inbox in recent days, thank you for your love and your trust. For your resolve. We will not give up hope. There is too much at stake. I believe in our movement. It is not bound to any one party or to any single individual. It is greater than any one of us. And it is all of us together that give it such great potential. Keep your hearts open. There are good and principled people in this province. The change we bring is inevitable, like the rain finding its way to the sea. One river has been blocked. We will find a new channel.

Judges aren't above criticism. If your career was activism and your rulings look like activism, don't be shocked when people connect the dots. Well said @sarkonakj

Mark Carney’s appointment of Omar Alghabra—a former minister and documented supporter of Firas Al-Najim—who has praised Hamas, Hezbollah, and protested outside Jewish institutions terrorist activists—to an antisemitism council is pure farce. This is the same man Poilievre just eviscerated for his record. Canada now looks like a pathetic international joke, where ideology trumps basic decency and security. Embarrassing. ⬇️⬇️