Smith accuses PM of undermining Alberta’s attempts to fight climate change: ‘Get with the program’

The premier believes the prime minister is undermining Alberta's attempts to combat climate change, and fired back Tuesday.

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    1. The UCP and Premier Pocahontas built several rural hospitals that sit empty because they never hired staff to operate them!!! Meanwhile, residents in rural areas wait on massive wait lists to see surgeons and specialists in the Big City because Premier Pocahontas failed to open operating rooms and to actually hire the staff necessary because they spent all them billions on empty rural hospitals!!! Why do they continue to brag about building empty hospitals???

  1. Smith ought to hold a sovereignty referendum to see if public opinion is on her side. YES separate from Trudeau or NO join Justin’s program.

    1. Separate from Canada and don’t stop at GO, no CPP, no GIS, no public health care, needing visas to travel in Canada 🇨🇦 and no buying British Columbia vacation homes, non residents tax on properties now owned by Albertans, that she’s a power hungry woman, who would like to be married to her?

    1. The guy makes 6 figures so he doesn’t care about the rest of the country!! That’s why he spends and spends and after tax everyone and then he pretends to care about climate change!! What JT touches turns into curse and disaster!!

  2. Trudeau should transition out of his private jet and limo lifestyle to a bicycle and bus lifestyle. The world is not going to transition away from oil and gas overnight and there’s plenty of evidence from what’s happening in Europe to suggest a more balanced approach will work better.

  3. Smith is investing in climate change, except this station decided not to show clippings of her sustainable goals and remain b_i_ais.

    1. @tobias1959 lol no dummy I don’t. I think it’s clear that I don’t because I don’t post stupid ramblings and conspiracy crap.

  4. “Just transition” is not yet a government program, the poly-sci student is technically correct but he ignores the fact that it is a government sanctioned idea that is being repeated ad-nauseum in an effort to make the opinion popular, just as Goebbels advised.

    1. It’s really shocking to see what Trudeau is doing to our country, lowest unemployment rate in 40 years, over one million jobs not filled across Canada, lower inflation rate then USA, almost all European countries … child care payments to families, dental care for low income, most seniors seeing the largest increase in their pensions, doubling GST payments, climate change payments. I get a $539 Justin Climate cheque coming this month!!! 💪💪💪💪That is certainly way more than I paid in carbon taxes!!! 539 per quarter + 4 GST Cheques!!! 💲💲💲💲💲💲💲💲 That more than offsets the little amount I pay in carbon taxes and the small increase in CPP and EI deducted from my paycheque, at least $1,500 more!!! 💪💪💪💪💪💪And everywhere you go I see industry doing everything they can to reduce their climate footprint!!! He even reduced the deficit, Canada Government debt accounted for 71.3 % of the country’s Nominal GDP in Mar 2022, compared with the ratio of 73.7 % in the previous year. 💪💪💪💪 What a mess our country is in 😂😂😂Seems to me the complainers should get a job, Canada’s economy added 104,000 jobs in December, blowing well past expectations!!! 💪💪💪

    1. It’s really shocking to see what Trudeau is doing to our country, lowest unemployment rate in 40 years, over one million jobs not filled across Canada, lower inflation rate then USA, almost all European countries … child care payments to families, dental care for low income, most seniors seeing the largest increase in their pensions, doubling GST payments, climate change payments. I get a $539 Justin Climate cheque coming this month!!! 💪💪💪💪That is certainly way more than I paid in carbon taxes!!! 539 per quarter + 4 GST Cheques!!! 💲💲💲💲💲💲💲💲 That more than offsets the little amount I pay in carbon taxes and the small increase in CPP and EI deducted from my paycheque, at least $1,500 more!!! 💪💪💪💪💪💪And everywhere you go I see industry doing everything they can to reduce their climate footprint!!! He even reduced the deficit, Canada Government debt accounted for 71.3 % of the country’s Nominal GDP in Mar 2022, compared with the ratio of 73.7 % in the previous year. 💪💪💪💪 What a mess our country is in 😂😂😂Seems to me the complainers should get a job, Canada’s economy added 104,000 jobs in December, blowing well past expectations!!! 💪💪💪

    2. @Halie Louya highest debt in Canadian history, epic homelessness, run away inflation, out of control energy prices, skyrocketing crime rates, shall I go on?

  5. How many countries are Nationilizing resources? Recoupling currencies back onto gold? Farmer’s/Labour party in 🇨🇳, Inflation at 2%. Countries leaving the oil reserve currency for BRICS

  6. Alberta sends billions of dollars to Ottawa in equalization and the feds do what they will with it so technically Alberta has probably contributed the most cash to helping the environment because the feds wouldn’t be able to do anything without the revenue made from Alberta and west in general.

    1. Ppl need to realize these ppl on the screen are only telling you what they want you to hear and are willing to take you uneducated and ignorant minds and use them to their advantage and take advantage of all those who don’t understand or research for themselves.

  7. The provinces and territories are responsible for energy matters relating to economic
    and energy security within their borders. Provinces may impose royalties and taxes on
    energy production.

  8. 😂😂😂 – the ucp has a climate change mitigation program?!
    Does smith live in a place with air conditioning or a air purification/filtration system? I don’t.
    I’m getting real tired of these increasingly brutal “summers” and the ambulance coming to my sweltering apartment building to take another person away.
    Why? So some punks can keep lining their silk pockets.
    st moritz is a long way away but it’s not far enough – it’s on the same tiny Blue dot as everything else.

  9. Liberals seems never likes AB the most & Sask. But, favorate Ontario… not much loves for BC 💔😔👈😃🇨🇦😉

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