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Alberta increases citizen initiative petition fee from $500 to $25,000 (www.cbc.ca)
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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's government is increasing how much it costs to apply for a citizen-initiated referendum by 5,000 per cent, saying it's about making sure applicants are serious.

It's the latest in a series of rule changes that one petitioner — country singer Corb Lund — characterizes as exhausting.

A cabinet order released late Wednesday afternoon upped the fee to $25,000 from $500.

Lund, in an interview, said it's disturbing to see Smith's government make sudden rule changes for what he views as "random, self-serving reasons."

"The chaos and confusion and exhaustion is very similar to the same confusion, chaos and exhaustion that we've seen from the government on how they've been handling the coal situation for the last six years," Lund said.

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[–] Threeskittiesinatrenchcoat@lemmy.ca 14 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

One important take away that confirms one thing I always believed about the separatist movement in Alberta, it's more money than it is people, but money can move people if you pay to have a megaphone blasting in their face 24/7. These are also incredibly lazy people, they have no shame plastering AI generated banners in small towns, and posting AI generated videos to curated Facebook groups trying to fool your granny.

I don't know why people would ever believe Smiths dog and pony show about her not being a separatist, everything else has been a lie. She's changing her own laws to appease them, at that point you're doing mental gymnastics to try and explain her actions. If she loses her leadership she'll take a nice fancy new gig in one of Sam's healthcare ventures. Just like Kenney took a seat at the ATCO board after he lost the leadership. These folks only fail up, at least until we nip this corruption problem in the butt. We still don't know who funded TBA, because grassroots Albertans it was not, and while the RCMP announced an investigation, it seems their treating it with the same zeal they did with Kenney's kamikaze campaign against Brian Jean.

They announce an investigation, do absolutely nothing for years, then by the time they start collecting evidence, oh darn, it seems we can't find it anymore! Almost like giving politicians a few years to deal with evidence before you start collecting it, might have something to do with that, but this is from a crazy cat lady, emphasis on the crazy, and not a former cop or something.

[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

I disagree with some of your thoughts here.

I don't see the separatists (meaning the separatist organizers) as lazy - they're disciplined, extremist, and quiet. Coinciding with Trump's victory last year, we've seen a huge upswell of hard-right conservative movements around the world, simultaneously attacking immigration and women's rights in relatively coordinated action.

It seems like they've been working in the dark for decades, and now are stepping out into the open for an all-out assault on the progress we've made.

Also, Kenney didn't lose the leadership. He said he'd stay on if he got a single vote above 50%, but then jumped ship with a 51.4% approval rating. He steered the party in the direction he wanted, and then handed the wheel to Smith to take the blame.

But you're absolutely right about money. There's a LOT of it feeding the separatist fuckwits, and I want to know where it's coming from. Is it the US government directly, or Musk for some twisted reason? Is it another government trying to destabilize the country? Oil executives? It's not primarily coming from Alberta, that's for sure.

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 hours ago

*nip it in the bud. Sorry.