Where are the NDP voices on the Alberta Next panel?
By Lethbridge Herald on July 12, 2025.
Editor:
I’ve actually got no real problem with the panelists that our illustrious Lady Premier has named to the Alberta Next Panel. But, as a card carrying United Conservative Party member, what I have a problem with is that the MLA for Brooks-Medicine Hat has sought to exclude New Democratic
MLAs from the panel. They are only eight seats down in the Assembly
Chamber; they should be represented with two MLAs or exactly half the government contingent. I don’t count the Premier as she is Chairwoman and only votes in a tie so is there as Premier, not in her capacity as an MLA.
This is called the “process of equal time.” What they used to do on PBSTV’s “The McLaughlin Group”, two Democrats, two Republicans as panelists with a moderator and each side got exactly 50 per cent of the broadcast time to air their views respectfully. Where is that now?
Rory J. Koopmans
Edmonton
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Since when has Smith appointed anyone to a panel or board that opposes her policies ? She even fires those she has appointed if it’s to her advantage or to shutdown dissent. Hence the millions it has cost us taxpayers for severance packages.
You have nailed it. Like all true dictators she eliminates anyone she can’t control.
While she continues to harp about how Ottawa is trying to destroy us she hides the fact that Albertans have been screwed out of $1.2 Trillion by destroying Lougheed’s oil royalties and corporate tax structures, and oilmen agree. She refuses to explain how Ottawa is doing it because they aren’t.
All you have to do is look at what all the other oil rich areas in the world have accomplished with their oil wealth to know you are being lied to, yet stupid Albertans aren’t that smart, are they?
Apparently Rory J. Koopmans is another one of these seniors who finds it smart to support Reformers and ignores the fact that there is nothing Conservative about them. Why is that so hard for him to understand, my former conservative friends aren’t that stupid?
As a former Conservative Supporter whose family spent countless hours volunteering for the Lougheed and Getty governments and dad donated around $30,000. to their party, and I am a former 35 year card carrying conservative it doesn’t take much intelligence to know the difference between a true conservative and a reformer deliberately destroying what conservatives created so why is that so hard for Rory to understand?
Does he care that they show no respect for what Lougheed created for the good of the people or our doctors, nurses, teachers, children and grandchildren’s future? Can you think of a better way to waste taxpayers money than creating these phoney panels like their pal Ralph Klein did ? We learned from former conservative MLAs that Klein was paying them $780. a meeting and some were paid even though they hadn’t bothered to attend any meetings, so how much is Smith wasting on them?
Can Rory explain where he thinks our children are going to find the hundreds of billions to pay the debts these Reformers have created and why has he ignored the massive wealth Alaskans and Norwegians have created when we are producing twice as much oil as those two combined as oilmen point out?
It certainly doesn’t make Rory look very smart does it?
Once again we see the stupidity brought on by one of our fellow seniors supporting the word conservative and ignoring the financial disaster these Reformers have created for our children and grandchildren’s future.
It isn’t hard to understand while former conservative supporters say they are “ All mouth and no brains” is it?
You just can’t be any dumber than these mindless fools, they have no problem telling Smith to go right ahead and continue abusing us and destroying what Lougheed created for us, we don’t care what it will do to our children’s future, that’s how stupid they are and you can bet they will re-elect this idiot Pierre Poilievre after the people in Ottawa were smart enough to kick him out? That’s how stupid they are, isn’t it?
The comments below indicate why there is not. Positivity on anything is non existent. Rage and fury is the game.
How is it a game when it’s true facts and all you have to do is get your head out of your ass to see what other oil rich areas around the world have accomplished with their oil wealth to know it.
But that’s too hard for fools like you to understand isn’t it? Still too stupid to understand why no one agrees with anything you say, pretty sad how stupid you are isn’t it?
You are correct.
https://energynow.ca/2020/08/a-575-billion-missed-opportunity-haunts-canadas-oil-heartland/
https://www.reddeeradvocate.com/news/tax-dollars-should-not-be-used-for-well-cleanup-industry-watchdog-group-6799191#:~:text=%E2%80%9CWe're%20against%20any%20public,formed%20non%2Dprofit%20industry%20watchdog.
The true conservatives in our world are fed up with these seniors who are so stupid they don’t get it. They are so stupid they can’t even understand why no one agrees with them or the fact that Alaskans have gotten $52,000. each from their oil wealth since 1982 and still have $80 billion in their Alaska Permanent Fund for their children’s future that’s how stupid they are. They think that denying it will make the truth go away that’s how stupid they are. We know our children’s future has been destroyed by these fools along with that of their own children.
You certainly have it right. So many people are easy to fool, aren’t they?