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topicnews · July 17, 2025

Danielle Smith is criticized, anger on the 2nd Alberta in the next town hall in Edmonton

Danielle Smith is criticized, anger on the 2nd Alberta in the next town hall in Edmonton


After Alberta Premier Danielle Smith received a warm welcome and widespread support, she faced a more tax-critical and frustrated audience when she and her handmade panel members in Edmonton gathered for the second time in a series of summer cities.

“We sound like Bratty children,” said Roberta Stasyk, a resident of Fort Saskatchewan, Alta.

Smith started the committee to pronounce public concerns about the election victory of Prime Minister Mark Carney – concerns that some have pushed to separate Alberta from the Confederation.

The Prime Minister's employees said that around 500 people visited the Edmonton town hall on Wednesday.

Unlike in Red Deer the night before, there was at least a third of the amount of Edmonton to challenge Smith and the other 15 panel members on topics such as the creation of a provincial police, the change in the constitution and a greater control over the immigration.

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The next committee of Alberta organized on Tuesday evening on Tuesday evening in Red Deer. On Wednesday, the committee was in Edmonton to find out what the residents want from the government. Emma Zhao was there.

The creation of a pension plan in the province was a hot button problem in which most of those who started to share their opinion said Smith had to drop the idea once and for all.

Stasyk called it a “terrible idea”, while others questioned the advantages in a video produced by the government that was played before the topic.

“A much smaller jurisdiction … on the one hand it would do much more for the ups and downs of the market,” said Hans Smit, an emeritus professor from the University of Calgary, who also asked the committee for the guarantee that a pension plan from the province would not be used for ideological means.

Another spokesman who only identified himself as a dead man told the panel that he only wanted a pension at the end of the day, but he did not trust Smith's government.

“I can stick to that [Canadian Pension Plan]This is one of the most effective things in the world, or I can play idiots with them. “

“Albertas complaints”

While the majority of the spokesmen who acted to discuss pension plans, said they wanted to keep the status quo, a hands exhibition showed that the majority of the crowd was in favor.

The same thing happened when the idea of a provincial police appeared – many spoke against it, but a hands exhibition had a clear majority in favor of a clear majority.

“We really have to have a police who lives in our community, work with our employees and grow and work with the communities,” said a supporter, Brian.

The gap in the room was clear, and the participants competed on every opportunity to ensure that their boos or cheers are in front.

While it appeared less regularly than the town hall on Tuesday in Red Deer, some speakers in Edmonton took the opportunity to push for a separation.

“Alberta's complaints with Ottawa are in front of our province,” said a spokesman Cathy.

“Simply let us progress with a referendum about independence, force this constitution and see where these conversations are going.”

The one in cowboy hat speaks in microphone with the question of equalizing on the video screen.
A man speaks against the dollars of the Alberta taxpayers who go to the other provinces in the Alberta Next Town Hall in Red Deer on July 15th. (Monty Kruger/CBC)

Other supporters of Alberta Independence gathered outside and searched for those who visited, a great “sovereignty in Alberta now” when they went to their cars.

There were also two demonstrators in the parking lot, one with a sign with the inscription “I love [U.S. President Donald] Trump “and a large paper heading head that was a caricature from Smith.

“Stop down”

Back in the Edmonton Hotel Ballroom, where the town hall took place, Smith was temporarily forced to defend the topics that her panel was gathered to discuss.

A proposal that Alberta is creating its own immigration system and cuts immigrants who had not approved it from health care and other provinced services led a speaker to ask why the Premier “Immigrants entering immigrants”.

Smith quickly spoke together to say that this was not the case and added that her government only tried to find a solution to high housing costs and “increasing pressure on our social programs”.

“There must be a reasonable number of newcomers who can come here, fit into the economy, can be self -supporting,” said Smith.

“That means I think a bit high at the moment.”

The panel member Sumita Anand, who also acts as co-chair of the Smith Council for Multiculturalism, agreed with the Prime Minister and pleaded for support for the proposal at a point.

“Please indicate to us to put appropriate checks stops,” said Anand, a manager in a non -profit organization based in Calgary who supports those with disabilities.

“All we ask for is chicken stops so that we can make a better future for our children and our grandchildren.”

Jennifer Long, professor of anthropology at Macewan University in Edmonton, asked the premier and the committee and said that they had more “food” for problems that the Albertans already share.

“If we are worried about having affordable apartments, why do we no longer set guidelines to make landlords that have empty houses so that they come on the market?” Long said.

The opposition -OndP leader near Nenshi reporters in Red Deer said that the panel of the Prime Minister conjured up unreliable data in order to support things that their government already wants to do.

“What a debacle. This thing is such a appearance,” said Nenshi.

Smith's panel will return to Edmonton for the third time next month. Later in August for Fort McMurray and Lloydminster.