Premier Smith says Alberta preparing Sovereignty Act motion over federal emissions plans (www.cbc.ca)

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Hours after the operators of the province's power grid warned that new federal electricity regulations could lead to blackouts, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said her government is preparing for the possibility of enacting her signature legislation in an effort to push back against Ottawa's planned emissions reductions.

"We're preparing a Sovereignty Act motion, and I'm hoping we don't have to use it. That's why we're at the table having these negotiations," Smith said, referring to a recently formed Alberta-Ottawa working group focused on emissions reductions.

"But we are going to defend our constitutional jurisdiction to make sure that we develop our oil and gas industry at our own pace, and that we develop our electricity system so that it achieves the goal of reliability and affordability."

When asked at what point she would potentially invoke the act, Smith said she has continually said she would do so if Ottawa "comes through with emissions caps that are unconstitutional."

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[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Good education for most is a fairly modern thing (tons of boomers never finished highschool), Alberta is middle of the pack when it comes to post secondary education %.

You're jumping to a weird conclusion (and I know you don't believe it yourself and that you know I never said that, you're just trying to be a contrarian), that more education = less vote when it's the contrary, although it might happen depending on the options being offered (see Ontario reelecting Ford with an abysmal vote attendance). Today's tendency is more about people that didn't use to vote now going because of polarization and having parties that "speak to them" and it works because...

The most educated also tend to live in urban locations, since they're not spread out over the territory and the FPTP system not being proportional it means that cities lean left but rural/suburban districts (leaning right/more right than cities [see Toronto vs its suburbs]) represent a majority of the seats (see... well there's tons of elections where the party that wins a majority of the seats didn't get a majority of the votes or similar aberrations, like the Alberta conservatives losing 11 seats with 2% less votes but the NDP winning 15 seats with 11% more votes compared to the previous election).

There's also more options left of the conservatives than there are right of the conservatives in Canada, so the vote on the left gets divided more.

https://www.narcity.com/least-educated-provinces-territories-canada

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2016/04/26/a-wider-ideological-gap-between-more-and-less-educated-adults/

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11162-022-09717-4

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S074301671831307X#:~:text=Rural%20residents%20obtain%20lower%20levels,employment%20opportunities%20and%20higher%20wages.