Danielle Smith, Prime Minister Alberta

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says it could be time for the prime minister to hold another constitutional convention.

At the first meeting of the province in Alberta in the next panel town hall in Red Deer on Tuesday evening of the Premier measure the appetite of the crowd to bring other premiers together in a room in order to discuss the reopening of the constitution.

“There is a real appetite to fix some of these things that are only fundamental,” said Smith towards the end of the meeting.

Canada has not participated in any formal constitutional negotiations since 1992 when the Prime Minister and the then Prime Minister Brian Mulroney Quebec did not cause the 1982 constitution to be signed in Charlottetown.

The risk of reopening the constitution is that other provinces could try to involve changes that Albertans may not want.

In a conference hall in Red Deer's Westerner Park, a committee of 16 politicians, business leaders, medical specialists and others in front of six flags in Alberta heard ideas, questions and comments from the crowd.

On Wednesday, the government announced that more than 450 people visited the town hall and had put more than 30,000 people into the live stream.

In the town halls, the potential merits and disadvantages of creating a provincial police service, a pension plan in the province and the assumption of more responsibility for tax collection discuss.

The organizers showed a number of videos in which the participants asked questions, e.g. B. changes to the federal transfer agreements – including compensation – changes in constitutional powers and possibly reserve the social advantages of some immigrants.

Smith said the number of sheriffs who work in the police function for a new police service in the province could double in the near future.

Bruce McAllister, the employees of Event Emcee and Premier's Office, also had spontaneous straw surveys and asked the participants to raise their hands and hold them if they supported the creation of a pension plan in Alberta or a police service in Alberta.

About 80 percent of the participants who were present raised their hands to support both.

Several residents who said they came from Red Deer, Trochu, Sylvan Lake, Stettler and beyond, turned chosen civil servants to act on the suggestions, and added that the government did not have to hold a referenda in order to make a decision.

Alberta's law would require the government to prevent a referendum before taking out the termination from the Canada Pension Plan (CPP).

A minority of participants complained about the videos and online surveys of the committee and said that the information was encouraged to comply with the proposals, accuses Ottawa for provincial problems and does not take into account the costs of such decisions.

Some participants hope for a separation

Wade Collinge from Sylvan Lake was among the speakers who campaigned for the separation of Alberta von Canada in front of the committee.

The reopening of the constitution to make changes is not a solution, since the support of Ontario or Quebec has to be granted to support Ontario or Quebec, he said in an interview before the event.

“The West will never be the same in Canada, as far as I know, unless we can open the constitution, and the constitution is pretty iron,” said Colligne, who was wearing a tank top of the Alberta Prosperity Project, and the “Commonwealth of Alberta”.

The Alberta Prosperity Project is a separatist advocacy.

Bill Tompkins drove an hour from Rocky Mountain House to take part in the meeting to hear ideas about the future of the province, he said.

Tompkins, a separation lawyer, likes the idea of a provincial police service and Alberta's own pension plan. He said that the Federal Government interferes too much in Alberta and forced it by issuing the conditions of federal funds.

“I believe that the federal government has managed the money of taxpayers badly – not only the Albertans, but all of them,” he said.

The participants asked the committee to limit the money by compensation according to Quebec, but also suggested that the guidelines for the quebec be imitated, including a referendum on independence, so that the rest of Canada takes Alberta's symptoms seriously.

Smith said quebec seats on a cache of natural gas, which it does not extract, and that unused income in Quebec's proportion of equalization should be taken into account.

Some speakers have pushed back against separatist atmosphere and told the committee that the Albertans should be ready to support their canadians.

After the event, Dave Travers, who comes from Red Deer, said that it has a large, right -wing wing element for the crowd, and that he does not believe that her feelings reflect the perspectives of most Albertans, as shown from public surveys.

“Danielle Smith has a hard time making her bed. And the house looks terribly dirty,” he said, referring to the fighting health system, allegations of mismanagement of health contracts and procurement and the rapid spread of measles in the province.

Some demonstrators gathered outside the event location, including Cassidy Simone, who said that the speech of separation ignores the rights of indigenous people.

“I am really concerned that we were the indigenous peoples and the entire reconciliation that we worked towards last year and tried to try to forget,” said Simone.

Heather Plaizier, who lives near Sundre, stood in front of the event location and held a sign with the inscription: “UCP guidelines violate water, wild animals, people.” She said she couldn't get a ticket to get into the event.

According to Plaizier, the committee shared biased surveys and information. She does not have the feeling that the members listen to the public.

“I have the feeling that there is a kind of specified agenda and it doesn't matter what we say,” she said. “I hate to make a consultation with this expectation, but I would like to see that the actual advice takes place.”

A second city degree panel for the Edmonton area is planned for the Edmonton area on Wednesday evening.

Future meetings are planned for Fort McMurray, Lloydminster, Medicine Hut, Lethbridge, Airdrie, Grande Prairie and Calgary.