Recall efforts highlight impatience of Alberta NDP
By Lethbridge Herald on December 10, 2025.
Editor,
Did Ryan Tanner (Nov. 26) ever attempt to contact Nathan Neudorf’s constituency office, or visit in person, before filing a recall petition?
I myself made a point of visiting to ask. I was told Ryan Tanner’s name is not recognized.
As far as they know, he had not been in touch, and did not try to resolve any issue in person. Instead, he resorted unawares to a nuclear option that couldn’t possibly have connection with the thirteen other petitions filed that same week.
This manipulation becomes especially odious in the case of Airdrie-East MLA Angela Pitt. At the end of October, she made a decision to discontinue her in-person town hall meetings. She cited threats, a “hostile atmosphere,” and safety concerns.
Maybe these tough guys weren’t aware of how menacing behavior can affect a woman. Or maybe they were aware: an air of menace could be used as pretext.
Airdrie resident Derek Keenan, a school principle (no ATA connection, of course), filed a recall petition against Pitt because she no longer holds town hall meetings.
Exploiting Pitt’s concerns to punish her. Thinking themselves so clever, they didn’t consider how it actually looks.
That Naheed Nenshi couldn’t refrain from commenting just makes the ploy more obvious: an abuse of process to undo the seat count and simply throw power to the NDP. The Alberta left has become impatient, and they’re not pretty.
Tom Yeoman
Lethbridge
12-11
It remains to be seen if ‘Ryan Tanner’s name was not recognized’ by the MLA constituency office. Nathan Neudorf has stated that he is “not actively involved in [his] own recall petition” A strange turn of phrase: ‘actively’. Only Ryan Tanner will be able to disperse the smog.
Who cares who Ryan Tanner is all the true conservatives in my world want all these Reform Party idiots kicked out, or hasn’t Tom seen enough of the damage they have done?
Can he explain where our children are going to find the money to pay for the massive debts they have created, or doesn’t he care?
Maybe he better wake up and get himself educated. If he thinks their privatization of healthcare isn’t going to be a problem he’s a damn fool.
Those of us from the world of finance aren’t dumb enough to believe their lies that the costs will come from the public money when they are already running a $89 billion debt and a multi billion oil well clean up mess, or hasn’t he noticed?
Agreed. These are other examples of the UCP’s big mistakes.
Red Deer County among many left hanging by bankrupt oil company – Red Deer Advocate https://share.google/HKPopdAWA9GnN2AUN
Alberta wasted over a $100M in lab privatization: Auditor general | Edmonton Journal https://share.google/AdvGibgwkkwlntzJM
Letter: The Wyant Report – What the UCP tried to bury | Shootin’ the Breeze https://share.google/ZBWROTNcnYv03BdrF
So while the majority of true conservatives desperately try to stop these Reformers from completely destroying this province and our children and grandchildren’s future we have senior fools like Tom Yeoman making up idiotic excuses to protect them, while completely ignoring all the damage they have done. Where is the intelligence in that?
Has he talked to any lawyers, accountants, economists, bankers, oilmen or former conservative MLAs like we have, including some of our relatives who are disgusted as we are with these ignorant fools who continue to support them, aren’t you?
Your username speaks volumes, because it shows that you are a true Conservative. Also, what you say, reflects that.There are very few Conservatives from the Peter Lougheed cabinet and government left, because many have passed away. The youngest cabinet minister from Peter Lougheed’s Alberta PC government is likely David King, who is 80, next year. Allan Warrick is in his late 70s, and is maybe another younger one. He is approaching 80 years of age. Jim Foster is 95, I believe. Do you know them? Jim Foster and David King have both said that the UCP and Danielle Smith are bad. I certainly agree with them.
Former Red Deer PC Attorney General Jim Foster takes issue with Smith’s ethics violation | Red Deer Advocate https://share.google/JXtD7fjgWB6cV1kze
Opinion: Alberta undermining public education — and democracy | Edmonton Journal https://share.google/LOgpKd2Ujw58aO2gr
I just came from getting my fu shot at a local drug store and the pharmacist was as furious with these Reformers as I am. I also booked my Covid shot for next week with them. As she pointed out no other province in Canada has treated their citizens like these idiots in Alberta have. It’s going to cost me $136. but I can afford it and know a lot of others can’t and won’t bother to get it creating a nightmare in our hospitals.
Danielle Smith isn’t known for being honest. When she was the Wildrose Party leader, she said that promises aren’t meant to be kept, they’re meant to get you elected. This is what she campaigned on, before the 2023 provincial election in Alberta.
Public Health Care Guarantee – United Conservative Party of Alberta https://share.google/lpey7fmEndZpaZM9j
All these recalls reflect the impatience of Albertans. We can’t wait til the next election while Smith destroys our province with each passing day. As for Neudorf’s tongue in check denial of not being directly involved I thought I read that one of his staffers met with individuals regarding the recall process. As for Tanner I’m beginning to wonder whether he’s hiding in Neudorf’s basement.
If the UCP can spends tens of $millions to keep secret coal deals out of the courts, surely they could set poor, gullible Ryan up for a poolside room in Texarkana?
So whataboutism. 2 billion pay out on coal contracts that the NDP didn’t read. You must be so proud.
Stick to the meds, bucky.
When it comes to wasting and losing money, the UCP do that best, as I explained.
Like The Alberta PCs did ever since Peter Lougheed was no longer premier of Alberta, the UCP have done so many very costly debacles and mistakes. Not some exaggerated thing that another political party didn’t do.
For starters, Ralph Klein did the well over $30 billion electricity deregulation debacle, and the $10 billion Power Purchase Agreements debacle, which shot up power prices in Alberta.
The UCP lost Alberta around $15 billion, from corporate tax cuts, which didn’t produce a single new hire. The UCP blew well over $7 billion on a pipeline bet gone bad, including the still missing billions of dollars on loan guarantees. The UCP lost $4 billion on a pension fund debacle. The UCP lost nearly $2 billion from the Heritage Savings Trust Fund, and lost even more money from that fund. The UCP lost $1.6 billion on an “accounting error”. The UCP borrowed $25 billion, without asking Albertans about it, and the UCP have never revealed what they have used the money for. The UCP blew billions of dollars trying to prop up the Alberta PCs $35 billion bitumen upgrader debacle. The UCP lost $4 billion, without any paper trail.
The UCP blew billions of dollars on various voter bribery schemes, including making Albertans pay $1.3 billion for the new hockey arena for Calgary, which Danielle Smith originally opposed, when she was the Wildrose Party leader, and as a radio talk show host, because she said it didn’t make any economic sense. The UCP blew $20 billion on the R-Star debacle. The UCP blew $80 million on Turkish Tylenol which couldn’t be used, and $49 million of that money is still missing. The UCP blew $11 billion on loan guarantees. The UCP blew around $1.5 billion on an unwanted Alberta Provincial Police Force, which rural municipal leaders in Alberta oppose. The UCP blew around $250,000 on new luxury carpeting. The UCP caused the costs of the Green Line Project in Calgary to swell to an astronomical cost of $20 billion, and will blame someone else for it. The UCP blew well over $600 million on the Corrupt Care scandal, which Danielle Smith is trying to whitewash the investigation. The UCP blew $8.6 billion on new school construction and support, and most of this money is going towards private schools, and other schools that are outside of the public education system in Alberta, where lobbyists who are associated with these schools, were lobbying the UCP for support and funding. The UCP blew $125 million on the DynaLife debacle, which the UCP caused. The UCP did a $1.3 billion debacle, which is connected to AIMCo. The UCP cost Albertans well over $150 billion, since June of 2022, with their economic withholding, power price gouging debacle.
The UCP did many other very costly debacles than these.