I can never quite decide if #DanielleSmith is too dumb to understand the problems with most of her policy ideas, or if she's playing 5D chess. #abpoli

Either way, it's bad for Alberta and ultimately bad for #Canada too. #cdnpoli

https://albertapolitics.ca/2022/12/danielle-smith-runs-the-idea-of-an-alberta-pension-plan-referendum-in-may-up-the-flagpole-then-yanks-it-halfway-down-again/

I don't normally post much about #uspoli, but Brynne Tannehill does a very good job of drawing out the goals of what I will broadly call Christofascist politics in the US.

It's well worth a read, and we should also recognize that the same forces are gathering in #cdnpoli at various levels.

https://twitter.com/BrynnTannehill/status/1601565161885532160

We knew that foreign propaganda played a role in whipping the so-called “Freedom Convoy” into a lather, but this thread really spells out the role of Russia Today (widely seen as a propaganda site) in the process, and then a pivot to Fox News.

The pivot is most interesting to me, as it suggests a level of coordination that we should be concerned about. #propaganda #cdnpoli

https://twitter.com/rvawonk/status/1595766016436736001

So far the #POECommission in #cdnpoli has turned up one very interesting bit of information: #CSIS thinks that the definitions of “threat to national security” in the guiding legislation are too narrow for the kind of threats we are seeing today.

Given that this is now ~20+ yr old legislation, I’m not surprised - a lot has changed since 2000.

We have Canadian Government witnesses on the stand at #POECommission now, and the perspective coming out is very interesting.

As I had expected, there is a lot of focus on the impact of the border blockades in the policy decisions.

This will be reinforced consistently as the witnesses become closer to the political decision making circles.

#cdnpoli

This comes out of #ukpoli, but the MP is saying on loudspeaker what the actions of conservatives in both #uspoli and #cdnpoli speak to so often.

… and yes, they’re all singing from the same songbook for a reason.

https://youtu.be/iXlDwxjmZks

This thread from Twitter is #uspoli, but those of us in #cdnpoli should pay close attention to it given the strong alignment between the GOP and the CPC.

The word ‘dystopia’ comes to mind.

https://twitter.com/brynntannehill/status/1587793900948885504