Jeffrey Rath blasts agreement with Mark Carney and urges supporters to take over the UCP.
Over the weekend leading up to our national celebration of Victorian rectitude, imperialism and class inequality, prominent Alberta separatist Jeffrey Rath took to the internet appearing to advocate an internal United Conservative Party coup to remove Premier Danielle Smith.
Her sin, in Rath’s estimation, is that she’s been working too closely with Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney and playing both sides of Independence Avenue in her efforts to keep the party’s fraying coalition of outright separatists and traditional Canadian Conservatives in one piece.
His solution: The separatist cadres who now clearly control the UCP, but not quite yet either the government caucus or the provincial government, should dump her and replace her with a more ideologically acceptable leader and declare the party to be a separatist entity in the manner of the Parti Québécois.
Arguably, this could either be a sign of Smith’s increasing strength thanks to her latest deal with Carney, or of the separatists’ increasing strength as the holders of most of the internal power positions in the UCP party bureaucracy.
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Over the weekend leading up to our national celebration of Victorian rectitude, imperialism and class inequality, prominent Alberta separatist Jeffrey Rath took to the internet appearing to advocate an internal United Conservative Party coup to remove Premier Danielle Smith.
Her sin, in Rath’s estimation, is that she’s been working too closely with Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney and playing both sides of Independence Avenue in her efforts to keep the party’s fraying coalition of outright separatists and traditional Canadian Conservatives in one piece.
His solution: The separatist cadres who now clearly control the UCP, but not quite yet either the government caucus or the provincial government, should dump her and replace her with a more ideologically acceptable leader and declare the party to be a separatist entity in the manner of the Parti Québécois.
Arguably, this could either be a sign of Smith’s increasing strength thanks to her latest deal with Carney, or of the separatists’ increasing strength as the holders of most of the internal power positions in the UCP party bureaucracy.
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