Read on Twitter
The Fair Deal Panel report has an interesting little paragraph in it here
If this is who I think it is — and I wager it is — her "hobbies" and therefore her concerns about standard of living, were that her family struggled to go quadding and boating and whatnot and now all they really had was a roof over their heads and money for food.
It was one of the single most interesting moments in the town hall that I was at. The issue wasn't abject poverty, crippling unemployment, etc., it was about how awful it was to not afford very expensive hobbies.
My point isn't to downplay her misery. But this is emblematic, broadly, of what many Albertans perceive as being a really rough go of things: the loss of luxuries for regular people that are unimaginable for all but the super-rich elsewhere in the country/world.
Here are my four or so tweets from when she was speaking at the fair deal panel town hall in Edmonton
And, in case you feel like reading 200-odd tweets instead of the fair deal panel's report, here's the whole-ass thing: https://twitter.com/tylerrdawson/status/1202039495752867840?s=20
For the record, I was only at one of the 10 or so meetings, so I can't comment on some of the other anecdotes in here. I don't think they're deliberately misleading, but I think it's important to try to understand how wildly different Alberta is from the ROC.
And, also, I think it's probably worth pointing out yet again that if I'm remembering rightly, the pro-Canada people far outnumbered the separatists and truly outraged speakers. (Though, Edmonton is a very different place than Red Deer or Calgary.)
