🚨 WATCH: Premier Danielle Smith comments on equalization. 5 years after 62% of Albertans voted to remove equalization from the constitution… The premier is now defending the principle of equalization while suggesting technical changes to the formula.

An admission that Canada cannot be fixed.

On October 18, 2021, the following question was posed to Albertans: “Should Section 36[2] of the Constitution Act 1982 — Parliament and the Government of Canada’s commitment to the principle of making equalization payments, be removed from the constitution?” 62% of Albertans voted yes. 38% voted no.

@Kimrobe29140016 Danielle Smith needs to go. She’s been fully bought off… she can’t turn back after these last couple performances. If UCP keeps her on, we will need an alternative to vote for in the next election.

She sold Alberta out. Remove the Switch Bitch

I wonder what they promised her?

100% @ABDanielleSmith needs to resign. I detest 2 faced pos polictians

She sold out to carney. She has a sweet deal or one coming from carney..

I didn't vote for this Danielle Smith. I voted for the one they New World Ordered apparently.

Not good enough. Equalization needs to be ABOLISHED

I wonder what Carney has on her...or what he promised her... 😖

Start collecting our own taxes, we'll decide where the money goes. We will never get a deal from socialist canada.

DS needs to go! She's a liar and a Carney bootlicker. We all voted on a referendum to open the equalization formula, instead of doing something about that she chooses to be a bootlicker!

Sadly, Danielle has lost her way! She is bowing to Ottawa after all.

Why are politicians useful shelf lives so short?? Why?? It's painfully clear what's going on. Smith is becoming a huge liability for the good of Alberta!

The sooner you realize that every single politician is a lying, corrupt, patronizing, power hungry POS, the sooner we can get the FUCK out of this insane asylum.

The AGM is going to be 🔥🔥🔥

Here we go again, we always get these shitty Premiers who promise the world and end up in bed with the Feds. Every single one ends the same way. Alberta Independence is our only hope.

And she knows full well that “technical” changes to the formula will NEVER happen. She’s a sellout.

Are we ready to get rid of this women at the UCP AGM yet?

@ABDanielleSmith needs to be replaced. Equalization needs to be abolished, not amended.

November 27. Calgary. BMO Centre. I bought my membership. Tick tok, tick tok...

She is fading into a liberal clone

Why does Queerbec get equalization payment year after year…cause they can…they don’t make money there? They have been playing us 500 billion worth since its inception…Smith disappoints more and more every day

She’s useless. Another talking media fool with no technical or business experience.

Danielle Smith is absolutely awesome. I can't recall any other Alberta Premier in the last 50 years who has fought so hard for 'bertans while getting her message across is a professional manner. She gets stuff done too.

Just more proof of who she really is, and maybe the question we should all be asking, is what was she promised as she's done a complete flip. Or then again maybe this was just all theatrics for her base.

Smith do you wear knee pads when your servicing Carney? You screwed over your party once and crossed the floor, I guess your doing the same thing to the people that elected you... Or did Carney offer you something, maybe a seat with the Liberals???

Fellow Albertans, On October 19 we finally get a real say. For the first time in our history, we get to vote on whether Alberta should remain a province of Canada or whether our government should start the legal process toward a binding referendum on separation. This is not just another election. This is the first time we can stand up as a province and tell Ottawa — and the rest of the country — that we are done being treated as the milch cow. We have paid the bills for decades. We have sent hundreds of billions in net contributions while receiving almost nothing back in equalization. We have watched our energy industry get regulated, taxed, delayed, and blocked while other regions benefit from the wealth we produce. We are told to be “team players” while our costs go up and our opportunities get constrained. This didn’t start yesterday. My grandmother told the stories of the Dirty Thirties, of how the West was treated during the wars, of how Confederation itself was sold to us so the railroad could be built and our resources could flow east. The pattern has been the same for generations: Alberta and Saskatchewan produce, the East decides, and we are expected to stay quiet and keep paying. October 19 is our chance to change that message. A strong vote — even if it is not a majority for starting the separation process — will show that a large number of Albertans are fed up with being punished for being successful. High turnout and clear numbers force Ottawa to take notice. Silence has never worked. Hoping for better treatment has never worked. We are not asking for special favours. We are asking for basic fairness and respect. We are asking to stop being the province that only exists to serve, supply, and subsidize the rest of the country. This is our moment to be heard. Vote on October 19. Tell them we’re done accepting the status quo. Alberta first.

Now we have our Premier & Poilievre & the Liberal Gov, supporting Alberta paying welfare to the rest of this failing country!

Another mou,,,,?? How about another referendum,,,,,FFS!!

Big Daddy sure has a plethora of facial expressions to this.

I wonder if there's a senators post coming for Danielle soon from captain megadebt? She's certainly lost her shine for the separation movement?

Premier Danielle Smith has been very critical of this government but now seems to support them and their agenda, what’s in it for you to make this change of course?

Too bad for Albertans that Danielle has turned on them and joined the New Worl Order cult.

Just get rid of it altogether and each province can take care of itself. We’ve been flipping the bill for everybody else all these years its Alberta‘s turn to thrive and their people to thrive.