Fall Fashion Update: Alberta
Fall has arrived in Alberta. The air is crisp, there’s a chance of snow, and the legislature is back in session.
The must-have fashion item for this season? Jackboots!
This remarkably versatile footwear can take you from a day of trampling on workers’ rights into an evening of dancing on the bedraggled remnants of the Charter.
Pesky Auditor-General poking his nose into your business? A jackboot is just the right shoe to convey your authority not to renew his contract.
Purple-haired lefties trying to use your recall legislation to cause trouble? Let your shiny jackboots kick the chair out from under them by defunding the elections office.
There’s no limit to where jackboots will take you in Fall 2025! They say “I don’t care about your lousy democratic guardrails. I’m entitled to govern however I please.” And they let folks know that if they get in your way, there’s a jackboot coming at them next.
With every day passing in Alberta, I see more and more parallels between the UCP abuses of power and the blatant Presidential/GOP abuses we see happening south of the 49th. The administrative details and systems are different, and so far, Alberta does not have law enforcement involvement (that's possibly coming), but the entitlement, intolerance of dissent and harnessing of corrupt practices is eerily similar.
Chief medical officer, elections commissioner, ethics commissioner, now auditor general...anyone who gets in the way of their agenda and tries to do right by Albertans gets the boot.