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& #39;t abject poverty, crippling unemployment, etc., it was about how awful it was to not afford very expensive hobbies.
My point isn& #39;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& #39;s report, here& #39;s the whole-ass thing: https://twitter.com/tylerrdawson/status/1202039495752867840?s=20">https://twitter.com/tylerrdaw...
For the record, I was only at one of the 10 or so meetings, so I can& #39;t comment on some of the other anecdotes in here. I don& #39;t think they& #39;re deliberately misleading, but I think it& #39;s important to try to understand how wildly different Alberta is from the ROC.
And, also, I think it& #39;s probably worth pointing out yet again that if I& #39;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.)
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