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
8-7
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.
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?